Where to start with classic literature - Beginner Guide

This requested video is created for beginners in classic literature. The books that I will be recommending are rather easy to get through. I hope this is helpful.

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0:00 - Children's Classics
1:03 - Big Books
2:30 - Middle-length
5:55 - Short stories

[ToReadersItMayConcern]

This is such a pleasant invitation to curious, young, and intimidated readers to enter the world of classics. I watched the video you mention at the end, and it goes hand-in-hand with this one nicely. Great job, Emmelie!

[CiprianHanga]

The three books which set me on my classics journey were Little Women, followed by Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate I think it’s in English), and after that it was Father Goriot. They are all wonderful, and not very long. I got completely hooked. Father Goriot made me order a complete set of Balzac works but it’s Le Grand Meaulnes that I still think about quite often. That little book is amazing.

[JohnnyThomas-pyjv]

One of my favorite up and coming channels

[ReadingIDEAS.-uzxk]

Just finished reading the Count of Monte Cristo for the first time earlier this year. A great book. A different experience to be with a book for such a long time. Best wishes with what you choose to read and to your channel.

[davidmccalip]

Hello Emmelie! I hope you are doing well. I enjoyed your video. Regarding your Big Books and Mid-length books, I have read almost all of your recommendations and enjoyed them all, especially The Lion of French Literature 😉. I think this was a good list for people to be aware when starting out on classics. I have not delved very much into short stories, not that I don't want to do so; I have just focused more on your other two categories of books. I look forward to your next video! Have a great week! 😀

[Heartonmysleeve-gjkp]

Excellent list of classics to which I would add Silas Marner by George Eliot, 1984 by George Orwell, Dracula by Bram Stoker and Hard Times by Charles Dickens, all wonderfully accessible novels!

[nudge]

Excellent list. Very similar to the first novels I read back in the day! Would also add the Jules Verne novels in there. Very accessible for new readers.

[jenniferanderson]

I cannot recommend HG Wells, Mary Shelley, and Jules Verne enough. All three were fantastic. I'm a sci fi geek, though. I also enjoyed under classic horror: Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, MR James, Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit, Clark Ashton Smith, Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allen Poe. Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

[codercharles]

I love George Macdonald! I go back and reread parts of Phantastes all the time. I don't know many people who have read him.

I still need to try Madame Bovary again - I've tried it a few times but I struggle to get into it; however, I do want to try to finish it and see how it progresses as you have spoken highly of it a few times.

I'd just like to throw Anne of Green Gables in there too for children's novels to read as an adult 😁

[TriumphalReads]

I haven't seen George Macdonald in forever, haven't read that one but did read Phantastes. If I ever really give classics a go Zola is on my list, when I had to read Germinal I thought it was terrific. Great vid Emmelie!

[binglamb]

Your collection of Penguin Classics is enviable! Your selections were all excellent choices. How did you first discover that you liked reading classic literature? Most people tend toward the currently popular novels and short stories so it is refreshing to see someone who appreciates this classic literature.

[denisefreitas]

Perfect sellection! Love your beautiful editions!

[malachibryson]

Thanks for the recommendations! Also can we get a room tour? I love your place and aesthetic!

[ArthurKain]

Fine choices to recommend! Some others that would be great for beginners are: Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

[mildrumpus]

I discovered your channel through this video. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍

[karlalikestoread]

Great recommendations! You have so many beautiful editions! I personally enjoyed My Cousin Rachel a lot more than Rebecca. I would add The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, and The Metamorphosis by Kafka!

[sigridpoel]

I would recommend: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is short and had a great meaning/toppic. I really want to read, the picture of Dorian Grey.

[Coffeetable_bookstax]

Im gearing up to take on the Count of Monte Cristo

[aloishager]

anna karenina would be my no1 on your list...i love the story😃

[Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales]

Great list, Emmile. Have you looked into the life of Alexander Dumas? It was exciting and tragic as one of his books.