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Originally Posted by Catlady
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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These are all great great reads.
I've read all but The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which I'd love to read since I loved Les Miserables. I have seen the old old (almost a century old now!) 1923 silent film version of Hunchback so I somewhat know the story (who doesn't know the story though? heh) but haven't seen any of the other many adaptations of it.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
A Tale of Two Cities and especially Nicholas Nickleby.
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I've never read either of those two Dickens and would love to read both.
A Tale of Two Cities is one it seems everyone has read or at least had to read in school but somehow it escaped me. I don't know even the most general plot abstract for it (besides the 'two cities' aspect) which I like in a way; since I already know I want to eventually read it, I savour the idea of being able to go into a book so blindly.
I do somewhat know the story of Nicholas Nickleby, at least the parts I remember, from watching the enjoyable 2002 film adaptation, and I'd be happy to read the book.