I want to get into the world of reading, classic literature, everything. However, I am not used to reading and my attention span as of now is pretty bad. So, I have decided to start w small reads. I don’t have a preference but i would like a read which moves you in a way, maybe changes your perspective, if you get what i mean.
Considering that, can you recommend me a book from the ones below to start with? These short read books are available in the book store near my place:
1. Aesop - The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - White Nights
3. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Wife of Bath
4. Katherine Mansfield - Miss Brill
5. Mary Kingsley - A Hippo Banquet
6. Hans Christian Andersen - The Tinder Box
7. Thomas Nashe - The Terrors of the Night
8. Anon - Three Tang Dynasty Poets
9. Elizabeth Gaskell - The Old Nurse’s Story
10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - White Nights (Multiple copies appear)
11. Robert Louis Stevenson - Olalla
12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - White Nights (Additional copy)
13. Richard Hakluyt - The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe
14. Herman Melville - The Maldive Shark
15. Henry Mayhew - Of Street Piemen
16. Johann Peter Hebel - How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light
17. Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
18. Pu Songling - Wailing Ghosts
19. John Ruskin - Traffic
20. Anon - The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins - As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Or any other apart from the ones above
by Naive_Negotiation568
2 Comments
I think if you aren’t used to reading, you should start with popular fiction that is meant to be an easy read, not Dostoevsky. Hit up a library’s best seller section.
Perhaps start with a graphic novel. It can help with the visualization.