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Most Read This Week In Classics

A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.

A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Classics"

1984
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Romeo and Juliet
The Outsiders
Matilda
Holes (Holes, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Life of Pi
Hard Times
The Grapes of Wrath
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Lord of the Rings
The Crucible
Othello
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
Gone With the Wind
A Christmas Carol
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Witches
The Sun Also Rises
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Bluest Eye
Northanger Abbey
해리 포터와 마법사의 돌 1 (Harry Potter #1, part 1 of 2)
The Lorax
Gulliver’s Travels
Death of a Salesman
Inferno
Stoner
A Streetcar Named Desire
War and Peace
Animal Farm / 1984
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
The Remains of the Day
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
The Things They Carried
Madame Bovary
Mere Christianity
Peter Pan
Cat’s Cradle
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Velveteen Rabbit
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Prophet
Waiting for Godot
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Great Divorce
The Lottery
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
As I Lay Dying
Letters to a Young Poet
The Awakening
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Gambler
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Like Water for Chocolate
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Separate Peace
A Raisin in the Sun
The Fall of the House of Usher
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
The Martian Chronicles
Go Ask Alice
Sherlock Holmes: Perunding Detektif Pertama Dunia
Sophie’s World
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Passing
Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
The Age of Innocence
Corduroy
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
The Fountainhead
Starship Troopers
Tender Is the Night
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Jungle
Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A Grief Observed
شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة
The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)

Edmond Rostand
A great nose may be an index Of a great soul
Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

William Shakespeare
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. ...more
William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

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