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My Top Ten Classics Read After High School -How About You? What would make your top ten?
My Top Ten Classics Read After High School
- Pride and Prejudice-Austen
- Murder on the Orient Express-Christie
- Persuasion-Austen
- North and South-Gaskell
- Under the Greenwood Tree-Hardy
- A Night To Remember-Lord
- Treasure Island-Stevenson
- The Whipping Boy-Fleischman
- Night-Wiesel
- Diary of Anne Frank-Frank
The Pearl by Steinbeck always reminds me to be thankful for what you have.
“For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. John Steinbeck, The Pearl
When life gets you take, take Homer’s advice and chalk it up to just another adventure.
“Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For already have I suffered full much,
and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.
Let this be added to the tale of those.”
― Homer, The Odyssey
Anne Frank always, ALWAYS gives us something to chew on. Advice from a little girl.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Books to read and gather advice-Bronte never fails
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
