Recommend me some classic fiction!

[Noblesse]

Well I'm about to finish the greatest series of all time (Harry Potter duh!) for the 20^09th time, and I am in need of some recommendations for my next adventure I've recently discovered the many libraries at Melbourne University, so most books are easily available.

So anyway, I would love recommendations of books concerning:
Gothic fiction/romance
Victorian literature
Classic fiction

I've read most of the standards, eg. Pride and Prejudice, Vanity Fair etc. etc. but does anyone have any *less* well known classics, eg. Wuthering Heights they could recommend me? Thanks 

[Eriny]

If you haven't read these already:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
the 'real' classics: e.g. The Odyssey, Oedipus Rex
Jane Eyre
Orlando (20th century I'm pretty sure, but it kind of critiques the Victorian era)

ummm... that's all I can think of at the moment...

[Noblesse]

Thanks Eriny I will definitely loan some of them from the library

I'm not picky about the time period really, I just love the delicious writing style which was fairly abundant in those times. As opposed to the more 'to-the-point' writing style which is rather popular nowdays, eg. Twilght; which in my opinion insults the intelligence of the reader.

[Eriny]

Oh yeah, I understand what you mean. Although there are some really great newish books. I like Cloudstreet and Fight Club, for instance, I think they're both well written.

[Hielly]

jane eyre is next in my list . im reading 1984 by george orwell at the moment, and its really good. i love it, could anyone else recommend any good reads such as dickens etc..

[username]

North and South

The movie is awesome too. So sad.

[Flaming_Arrow]

ewww books, id rather watch the movie

[Hielly]

North and South

The movie is awesome too. So sad.

The author is ? Might consider reading it soon, i heard this book is pretty good

[username]

North and South

The movie is awesome too. So sad.

The author is ? Might consider reading it soon, i heard this book is pretty good

Sorry, it is Elizabeth Gaskell. You wont regret it.

[Hielly]

wow thanks username i searched it up and read the plot. Sounds very interesting!

[transgression]

My accumulated list of classics: (haven't gone through the whole list but it's slowly getting there)

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Villete - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Huckleberry Fin - Mark Twain
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Lolita - Nabokov
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
A Passage to India - E.M. Forester
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

[username]

My accumulated list of classics: (haven't gone through the whole list but it's slowly getting there)

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Villete - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Huckleberry Fin - Mark Twain
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Lolita - Nabokov
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
A Passage to India - E.M. Forester
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

Definitely To Kill a Mockingbird and Lolita. Those are great. (and of course North and South, as previously stated).

[kurrymuncher]

My accumulated list of classics: (haven't gone through the whole list but it's slowly getting there)

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Villete - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Huckleberry Fin - Mark Twain
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Lolita - Nabokov
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
A Passage to India - E.M. Forester
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

Definitely To Kill a Mockingbird and Lolita. Those are great. (and of course North and South, as previously stated).

[Hielly]

wowow transgresion that is a nice list you got there, i've read 10 books out of your list and ill try to read the ones you mentioned

[ninwa]

My accumulated list of classics: (haven't gone through the whole list but it's slowly getting there)

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Villete - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Huckleberry Fin - Mark Twain
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Lolita - Nabokov
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
A Passage to India - E.M. Forester
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen