What to read from the classics?
If you decide to do self-education andto fill your own gaps in the literature, then you should turn to reading the masterpieces of world classical literature. What to consider masterpieces, and what not? Everyone will answer this question himself. Many people are lost in a huge number of books and do not know how to choose something really worthwhile. They come to the library or to the bookstore with the question: what to read interesting from the classics? We will facilitate your choice and in the article we will present a list of recognized works that have passed the test of time and have won the readers' love all over the world. In the list you will see the names of both domestic writers and foreign ones. Read these books, and before you open the magical world of literature.
What to read from the classics: a list of works
You can start reading in chronological order,that is, beginning with ancient literature, mythology, works of ancient authors. But keep in mind that this literature is quite difficult to comprehend, and without a certain preparation it is difficult to read and understand it. Therefore, you can start with later works that are closer to our time and easier for understanding the modern reader. The list includes both poetry and prose. Works of various genres: tragedies, comedies, historical, philosophical, romance novels, etc. In a word, there will be works for the most demanding taste.
- Mythological poems and epics: Elder and Younger Edda, Beowulf, The Lay of Igor's Host, Kalevala, a song about the Nibelungs, Epic of Gilgamesh
- Antique literature: Homer Odyssey and Illyada, Esfil Agamemnon, Sophocles Myth about Epidus, Euripides Medea, Aristophanes Birds, Aristotle Poetics, Herodotus Stories
- Bible
- Tales of the peoples of the world: Russian folk tales, Tales of a thousand and one nights, etc.
- Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron
- William Shakespeare: Sonnets, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Richard III
- Thomas More: Utopia
- Nikolo Machiavelli: The Emperor
- Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
- Jean Baptiste Moliere: The healer involuntarily, Misanthrope, Tartuffe, Don Juan
- Victor Hugo: Notre Dame Cathedral
- Gustav Flaubert: Madame Bovary
- Johann Goethe: Faust
- Miguel Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Honore de Balzac: The Shagreen Skin, The Human Comedy
- Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
- Fedor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
- Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin: Eugene Onegin, Fairy Tales, Poems
- Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: Fathers and children
- Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov: Hero of Our Time, Mtsyri, poems
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Haeckelbury Finn
- Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, War and Peace
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: Dead Souls, Examiner
- Oskar Ould: Portrait of Dorian Gray
- Mikhail Bulgakov: Master and Margarita
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince
- Erich M. Remarque: Three Comrades
- Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Alexander Green: Scarlet Sails
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Here is an approximate list of what to read fromclassics. Of course, many more wonderful works and talented authors are not included in this short list, but nevertheless, you can start your education today, choosing from the list you liked the work. We wish you a pleasant reading!
