Sunday 22 June 2014

Classic books

I read a lot of books. More specifically I read a lot of young adult and new adult books. Sometimes I venture out into the mysterious world of adult fiction. However, I haven't read many classics. This is something that I get frustrated with myself about. I want to read more classics but there is always that new Y/A or N/A book that just sounds SO interesting that I push the classics to the bottom of my TBR pile. 
so I thought i'd share a few classics that I'm really interesting in reading and will hopefully get to sometime this year!



 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his

    distress...




Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin











"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.








Animal Farm by George Orwell

Tired of their servitude to man, a group of farm animals revolt and establish their own society, only to be betrayed into worse servitude by their leaders, the pigs, whose slogan becomes: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." This 1945 satire addresses the socialist/ communist philosophy of Stalin in the Soviet Union.


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