So, I recently saw a post on here talking about classics that people don’t like and most of the ones listed are ones I’ve enjoyed. So, I thought it might be just as fun to talk about books we love.
For example, some of my favorite classics include Mansfield Park (Austen’s most different work, where no character is fully good or fully bad, leading to the reader questioning who is the real hero and who is the real villain), The Count of Monte Cristo (beyond brilliant writing, levels upon levels of planning, real consequences, and ending with hope for the future), Les Miserables (a novel surrounded by essays on humanity, history lessons about Waterloo and Paris, and depths upon depths concerning characters, all of whom matter in some small way to the overarching story), and Dracula (the epistolary form works really well with the story, making into a slow burn that makes the horror and suspense creep up on you)
by steampunkunicorn01
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I also really liked The Count of Monte Cristo. I read it not too long after Hamlet, and I enjoyed getting to see the whole revenge plot actually work out. And now I’ve named several animals Max as a direct consequence as well!