i have never been able to read classics because the text was very hard for me to get through, but recently i have read a few stories by H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe and enjoyed them a lot. i then went on to read Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and enjoyed them as well. i also read a few stories by Ray Bradbury and loved them A LOT, probably my favourite of them all. i want to read either Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Dracula by Bram Stoker next, but im afraid i wont be able to get through them and would go back into a reading slump. do you think its a good idea to go ahead with them, or should i explore some other classic books first? also, please give me recommendations on easy to get through classics that i can read before moving onto thicker texts.
by uwu_carrots
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I read Dracula for a book club years ago. Thought I would hate it, but couldn’t put it down. Even pulled it out of my desk drawer at work a couple of times to sneak a page
Dracula is my fav, thanks for reminding me, I need to re-read it again.
I would continue with Jane Austen, R.L.Stevenson (Treasure Island), maybe Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Remarque, Wilde, Daphne Du Maurier, Maupassant.
I probably shouldn’t have started with russian big hitters like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, but Gogol´s The Inspector General might be easy to read.
Dracula is an epistolary novel, taking the form of letters, diary entries, etc. It’s great. You could also try:
* The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, which is a novelette
* I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, which is also short
* The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Jane Austen is the best!