Ramblings on Everything and Nothing in Particular

world-shaker:

Here’s a full list:

1. 1984
2. Animal Farm
3. Brave New World
4. Frankenstein
5. Heart of Darkness
6. Romeo and Juliet
7. MacBeth
8. Hamlet
9. Julius Caesar
10. Pride & Prejudice
11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12. The Call of the Wild
13. The Crucible
14. The Grapes of Wrath
15. The Great Gatsby
16. The Odyssey
17. The Old Man and the Sea
18. The Red Badge of Courage
19. The Scarlet Letter
20. To Kill a Mockingbird

And here are three, for an example:

Animal Farm by George Orwell: Free eBook – Free Audio Book – Free Animated Movie
Orwell’s 1945 allegorical novella took aim at the corruption of the Soviet Union and its totalitarian rule. The short book, which almost never saw the light of day, appears on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: eText – Free Radio Dramatization (by Huxley himself) – Free Audio Book by Audible
Little known fact. Huxley once taught George Orwell French at Eton. And, years later his 1931 classic, Brave New World, is often mentioned in the same breath with 1984 when it comes to great books that describe a dystopian future.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Free ebook – Free Audio Book (MP3) – Radio Drama version (1938) – Movie
Mary Shelley started writing the great monster novel when she was only 18 and completed it when she was 21. The 1823 gothic novel is arguably one of your first works of science fiction.

Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us. I think we’re living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English language, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant?

—Ralph Fiennes Says Twitter is Destroying English (via world-shaker)

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