A 'classic' is a piece of poem, drama or novel which defies time and finds expression in the hearts of readers from all over the world in every era. Here I provide a list of such classics which interest me a lot. You can download most of them from my online collection for FREE! CLICK HERE!
BRITISH NOVELS
- Laurence Sterne - Tristam Shandy
- John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
- Jamuel Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
- S. Richardson -Pamela
- Henry Fielding - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicer Of Wakefield
- Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion
- Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe, Waverley, The Bride of Lammermoor
- Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
- Charles Dickens - The Picwic Papers, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, A Tale Of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Stories
- W. M. Thackeray -Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
- Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
- Emliy Bronte -Wuthering Heights
- George Eliot - Adem Bede, The Mill On The Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda
- George Meredith - The Egoist
- Samuel Butler - The Way Of All Flesh
- Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd, The Mayor Of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Jude The Obscure
- R. L. Stevenson - Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Stories
- Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Books, Kim, Stories
- H. G. Wells - The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The First Men on Moon, The War of the Worlds, Stories
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Novels and Stories
- G. K. Chesterton - 'Father Brown' Stories, The Man Who was Thursday, The Napoleon of the Notting Hill
- Joseph Conrad - The Niggar Of The Narcissus, Lord Jim, Heart Of Darkness, Nostromo, Stories
- Henry James - The Portrait Of A Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of A Dove, The Turn of the Screw, Stories
- Saki (Hector Hugo Monroe) - Stories
- W. W. Jacobs - Stories
- Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
- Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives' Tale
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Stories
- Wilkie Collins - The Lady in White, The Moonstone
- E. M. Forster - A Passage To India, Howards End, Stories
- Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando
- James Joyce - The Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Ulysses, Stories
- D. H. Lawrence - Sons And Lovers, The Rainbow, Women In Love, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Stories
- Katherine Mansfield - Stories
- Lewis Carol - Alice In Wonderland
- Bram Stoker - Dracula
- Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon And Sixpence, Of Human Bondage, Razor’s Edge, Cakes and Ale, Stories
- Aldus Huxley- Brave New World
- Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, Stories
- William Golding – The Lord of the Flies
- George Orwell - The Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty Four
- Kinsley Amis - Lucky Jim
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
AMERICAN NOVELS
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick, Billy Budd
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter, Stories
- Edgar Allan Poe – Stories
- Louisa Mary Alcott - Little Woman
- O. Henry - Stories
- Ambrose Bierce - Stories
- Washington Irving - Stories
- Kate Chopin - Stories
- John Cheever - Stories
- Jack London - The Call Of The Wild, The White Fang, Stories
- Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Stories
- Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man And The Sea, Stories
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Stories
- William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Stories
- Stephen Crane - Stories
- Robert Steinbeck- The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men
- Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith, Babbit, Dodsworth, It Cannot Happen Here
- Dorothy Parker - Stories
- Flannery O'Connor - Stories
- J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye, Stories
RUSSIAN NOVELS
- Nicolai Googol - Stories
- Anton Chekov - Stories
- Maxim Gorky - Mother, Stories
- Ivan Turgenev - Stories
- Leo Tolstoy - Anna Keranina, War And Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, Stories
- Feodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov, Crime And Punishment, Notes form the Underground, Stories
- Mikhail Sholokhov - And Quiet Flows The Don
- Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
FRENCH NOVELS
- Alessandro Manzoni- The Betrothed
- Gustave Flaubert- Madame Bovary
- Honore de Balzac - The Human Comedy, Stories
- Alexander Dumas - The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Black Tulip
- Victor Hugo - The Hunchback At Notre Dame, The Miserable
- Jules Verne - Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Around The World In Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, The Mysterious Island
- Guy de Maupassant – The Ball of Fat, Stories
- Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
- Emile Zola - L’Assommoir, Nana, Germinal, Stories
- Albert Camus - The Plague, The Outsider, The Fall
OTHER NOVELS
- Miguel De Cervantes - Don Quixote
- Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis, The Castle, The Trial, Stories
- Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain, Death In Venice
- Herman Hesse - Siddhartha, The Steppenwoolf
ENGLISH DRAMAS
- William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Much Ado about Nothing, King Henry IV
- Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour, The Alchemist, Volpone or The Fox
- Christopher Marlowe - Dr. Faustus, Edward II, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine
- John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
- William Congreve - The Way of the World
- Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
- Richard Brinsle Sheridan - The Rivals, The School for Scandal
- George Bernard Shaw - Saint Joan, Man and Superman, Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra, Back to Methuselah, The Apple Cart
- J. M. Synge - The Playboy of the Western World, Riders to the Sea
- Sean O’Casey - The Silver Tessie, Juno and the Paycock
- John Galsworthy - Justice, The Strife, The Silver Box, Escape
- John Osborne - Look Back in Anger
AMERICAN DRAMAS
- Eugene O’Neill - Mourning Becomes Electra, The Emperor Jones, Desire under the Elms, The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Strange Interlude
- Arthur Miller - Death of A Salesman, The Crucible
- Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie
OTHER DRAMAS
- Henrick Ibsen - A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabbler
- Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
- Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children
- Rabindranath Tagore - The Post-Office, Mukta-Dhara, Chitra
- Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Venya, The Three Sisters, The Seagull
