EASY CLASSICS FOR BEGINNERS | Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein & MORE!
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- I talk about the classics that I would recommend for people who are scared about reading classics or don't know where to begin!
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Broke: Frankenstein is the monster.
Woke: Frankenstein is the name of the man who created the monster.
Enlightened: Victor Frankenstein IS the monster.
I just finished the book and you are so right.
But the creature that was created is also a monster, as he loves murdering everyone that is tied to Frankenstein, at the end of the story he lays the blame of the death 💀 of every Frankenstein on the man that made him, just because he is a sad beast that has a broken mind and an ugly face.
What should we learn from this story. Don’t become aloof of what you know. Man mustn’t become a god in his own mind, or else he will start making himself some devils, and angels.
I think both of them are both the monster and the victim of the story...
I SO AGREE! Victor Frankenstein is the true monster.
DID YOU JUST SPOIL THE BOOK
About Darcy not being handsome - he is actually called handsome by JA in chapter 3 "...Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circulation ... of his having ten thousand a year." Nice video!
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and 1984 by George Orwell are also easy reads.
I would disagree on 1984, at some points it's so heavily political and philosophical it gets boring/hard to get through. At least in my experience
@@annai1992 The Political and Philosophical questions in 1984 are one of the things that made me love it. Some of the questions it asked actually kept me up contemplating them. (idk why)
Are they classic novels?
@@jacksoquacko2669 1984 is a modern classic dorian gray is a classic
I started with those two as well
Because English isn't my first language (heck, it isn't even my second language), reading classics is really hard for me. I started reading Pride and Prejudice (twice) but never finished it. Instead, I decided to try modern classics like Animal Farm and some Shirley Jackson as well as children classics like Anne of Green Gables. I'm easing myself into classics and next I'll try Pride and Prejudice again!
Same for me! I was really confused reading Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby.
Your English writing is even better than native speakers. Amazed.
English isn’t my 1st language either (I’m French), and I sometimes have trouble reading such complex books too but I always try to find editions with the English text and the translation of all the text or just of key words/difficult words
elepop Good on you!
you can read them translated, no big deal, it still counts!!
I really enjoyed reading "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton. It was published in 1967 when the author was 18 yrs old. It's very readable, has a good message, and is short (224 pgs).
+Luna Long Thank you for the recommendation! I do have a copy so maybe I'll give it a try soon.
S.E Hinton is my absolute favorite author because of how she writes and just how amazing I think all of her books are. I’m reading Taming the Star Runner and it’s really good. I’ve read quite a few others of hers and they all are so easy to read. I was actually going to comment try reading the outsiders😂😂
17!!?? Wow, you are so mature and brilliant for your age. Bravo! !
Yeah, she looks much older than 17. Bitch must have had a rough life.
I know, right? WTF was I doing with my life when I was 17?!🤣
Randy Richardson Seems to me like the not-so-clever asswipe who has nothing better to do than attempt to cyber bully a teenager who probably doesn’t give two flying fucks about his comment because she’s busy kicking ass and building an empire is the one with a rough life, but okay whatevs.
Hello stranger that is so cool!!! Did you get to meet her?
@@randyrichardson6953 God bless you!
Whoever asks what to read, always, always recommend Sherlock Holmes series. So simple yet so interesting. After 1 story you will be amazed and want to read more and more. But don't try to finish quick, stop yourself and finish 1 story or half of that story and wait for next day to continue, I guarantee it, you can't wait.
Love when you talk about classics! It makes me want to pick up each one and devour them like candy!
Me too :-)
I agreed indeed.
Wow, I'm sorry but I didn't know you were 17. I thought you were at least 20.
Poor old dear!
She's gained wisdom from good books.
Nooooo way..I thought she was older than me (I am 28) 😳 wise beyond her years for sure.
Don't be intimidated by Dracula. It reads SO FAST. I forget how long it actually is because I read it so fast.
Thank you! This is very reassuring.
Really? I thought it was crazy slow...
Thankkk youu. I’ve had it on my shelf for so long coz I’m so intimidated
Its a drag in some chapters
My favourite classics: (I am not a native English speaker)
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Rebecca
- Animal Farm
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Brave New World
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne also
- Anne of Green Gables
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- The Phantom of the Opera
- A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes)
- Peter Pan
I love Rebecca, Jules Verne's books and Anne of the Green Gables books, too. :)
Thanks
I've just started reading classics and done the exact same thing you recommended for Pride and Prejudice!! For someone new to classics and starting to love them, I've never been so quick to click on a video in my life. Would love to see more videos like this! 💛
The enthusiasm flying out of you during your videos is unreal.
Hope your keeping well over the last few months. Keep up the good work!!
Some other ideas: Lord of the flies, a clockwork orange, to kill a mockingbird, the secret garden.
Kayla im reading a clockwork orange now and altho its really short im finding it hard to read because it has so much slang in it im like ahhhhh what r u on about
A clockwork orange is defs what i WOULDNT recommend as classics
I think pride and prejudice is in general one of most famous classics. I have read it at least a few times, tbh don't even remember anymore. But planning to reread it together with all Austen novels while reading Jane Austen a Secret Radical book :) Nice video, I love classics and wish people were not so scared of them most of the time
+P.S. I love that book! I hope you enjoy your re-reads! Let me know if you like Jane Austen: A Secret Radical because I'm not sure if I should read it or not!
lucythereader I will!
Thank you for your recommendations AND a brief description of each! Other videos with recommendations don’t always do this so you’re not sure what it’s about, they just list in mass all their favs. Much appreciated!
Your video has inspired me to return to Hardy.
One of the best things about Classics (or any good book) is that a subsequent reading, decades later, is effectively a different book since one's own experience has changed, along with neural connections.
As a late starter, I have too many novels (and factual books) to read, so there are few Classics that I've read twice; 1984, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Madding Crowd, Monte Cristo, Les Miserables, Hunchback, Ivan Denisovich, New Testament, Gatsby, Christmas Carol come to mind.
So, if you're young, start now, with these recommendations!
And remember, it's not "old English" - it's _correct_ English, with good grammar and sentence structure!
Thank you for making this, I've been meaning to read more classics for quite a while so this list will be very helpful!! I think another great place to start would be To Kill A Mockingbird, because it's such an easy read and could be read just for pleasure!
I got an A in A level English Literature a few years ago and I have such a devotion to classics (the Brontës specifically) so your channel is magical. Thinking of doing English Literature and the history of art in a few years at uni! ❤
Pride & Prejudice was my first one as well. Love it!
Great recommendations!
I love Agnes Grey
Oh please don’t let the page count of Middlemarch put you off! I did that for decades and I missed out on one of my most beloved books of my 58 years. This book will actually leave you wanting more! My daughter’s book club also fell in love with it and they’re in their 20’s.
The film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson is also superb.
I started with Jane Eyre❤️ It’s so good. I think is my favourite classic😂
Sameeee I read the summary and then gave it a chance after that I completely got hooked with this wonderful classic cause it's such a great book it is definitely one of my favorites 😍🤗
Love all the Bronte Sister's books
@@ashleyphoenix633 I've just finished reading The Brontes by Julie Barker, now I'm about to start "Jane Eyre". I'm looking forward to this challenge.
miss havisham Jane Eyre is my favorite classic! It was my first classic and I understood it so well.
@@alynguz.6164 I'm looking forward to it as I know the area that inspired her to write it & the graveyard with graves of the Eyre family. I also think the name is coded, spelt backwards "Erye" erie!
This is such a helpful video! I really want to read more classics and branch out with my reading so this was perfect! I love Pride and Prejudice! Every time I hear you talk about the Brontes I just want to read all of their work! I've been wanting to read Frankenstein for the longest time! Fun fact, Mary Shelley is buried in my town so I really ought to have read Frankenstein by now! Carmilla sounds fascinating!
I totally agree Pride and Prejudice is a great place to start. I just haven't read anything classic since! I think I should go back and re-read and get into classics again!
If you have trouble reading classics (I can have trouble with the language and miss a lot of the humour with english as my 2nd language) I recommend listening to them as audio dramas. They nearly always have a full cast and manage to portray the scenery and feeling of the book. It's like listening to a really, really good adaptation.
do you have the link where i can listen to the audios? :)
Pride and Prejudice is the first classic I read. It's a great read! Thanks for the recommendations!
Hi, Lucy, Thanks for sharing your favorite classics. I've shared your presentation with my students on our Facebook site.
Agnes Grey is one of the first classics I read (not that I've read that many) and it was so so easy as well as pleasurable to read, and I completely fell for it
Love this series! And really great to hear more people mentioning Anne - such a shame she is not really known! Read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for my literary studies BA-exam and it ended up being one of my favourite books. Can't wait to read Agnes Grey :)
Good choices! English teacher in training here, I would definitely add Animal Farm and Jekyll and Hyde to that list. If you like ideas, try More's Utopia (loads of modern translations out there). Waiting for Godot also very readable, but you'll have to think a lot about exactly what's going on onstage 😄
Catcher in the Rye is my fav book everrr. I read it when i was 15, but i could relate so much to holden. I needed him in my life at that moment!
Don't give up on Middlemarch . It's a beautiful book and great when you get going. Reading A Christmas Carol for the first time. Why have I waited so long? It's glorious!!
I like classics… particularly Austen; “Lady Susan” is also a favorite of mine. I came to this video hoping to find some comfortable and new-to-me classics. You absolutely delivered. I picked up “Agnes Grey” for a pittance on Kindle awhile back and started reading it immediately after your video. I am now staring Chapter 5 and am hooked. Thank you!
I saw this was about classics and instantly murdered the button to click on the video. 😂💗👏🏽
+Lisa Witcher Hope you enjoyed it!
Loved it! Gonna give some of them a try!
Yassssss! Collin Firth!! That’s the best version for sure.
I love Mansfield Park. I wrote a paper at the end of last semester on the connections to be perceived between Mansfield Park and the life and writings of Rousseau. Some of them are almost uncanny. Pride and Prejudice was also a very good read, though I think it was very helpful for me to have some professor instruction as I read, at least at the beginning, so that I would notice how much satire Austen is utilizing. It’s certainly an easy enough read in and of itself though.
Loved this video. Thanks for the recommendation.
Great video :) Jane Austen is definitely a great place to start. I get what you mean with Wuthering heights though, like it's one of my favourites but I found it hard the first time to get past the dialects
Super late at this, but I'm loving your channel and this series in particular! Thank you for the awesome videos (:
i can totally agree with the fact that the Penguin Little Black Classics books are perfect for classic starter readers, even if i have only read a couple of them. also, i have read The Catcher In The Rye and loved it, it is truly a book that needs to be read more, moreover a book that some of us today can really relate to, more than to other classics
Lord of the Flies and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are also good ones, I've studied both of these at GCSE now and I enjoyed both. They both were easy to understand, paticularly Lord of the Flies
Loved it! I really love so many of these :)
My husband and I read Dracula last year and LOVED it! One of my favorite!
Thank you!! It is also one of my pet hates when people confuse the monster by calling him Frankenstein! It’s my favourite book of all time, I love Mary Shelley. 🖤🦇
Good video! I’ve been trying to read more classics this year. I find it easier to listen to them on audiobook because I have a hard time understanding the way they’re written. I’ve listened to Anne Of Green Gables, Les Miserables, Middlemarch, The Age Of Innocence, The Wizard Of Oz, Lord Of The Flies, The Catcher In The Rye. I’m still a beginner at reading classics so I feel like The Wizard Of Oz, Anne Of Green Gables, Lord Of The Flies and The Catcher In The Rye were good ones for me to listen to because I felt like it was easy to understand what was going on. I didn’t get anything out of listening to Les Miserables but I still liked the story and I plan to reread it in the physical format one day. Middlemarch and The Age Of Innocence were good but I wouldn’t want to listen to them again.
Hi Lucy, I only just found your channel and I'm already absolutely loving it! ^^ I'm studying literature, theatre and film at university and have just had my first exam on 19th C. literature. We had to read Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and Frankenstein (among a few others) and I just wanted to say that after having analysed and discussed these books I really love them! The anti-heroine is a very typical character in Jane Austen novels, because she wanted them to kind of serve as a moral compass for people at the time, through the mistakes that the character makes, the reader gets offered different options as to how to behave in certain situations. We also watched Love & Friendship in class and it is hilarious! I really want to read Lady Susan now. About the gothic; sexuality is a pretty important characteristic in the gothic novel. If you search "the gothic John Bowen" on RUclips, there is a short video explaining the main characteristics of the gothic, I used it when studying for my exam and it's really interesting! Might explain a bit more about Frankenstein and Carmilla for you :) I've tried reading The Catcher in the Rye, but I guess I'm one of those people who absolutely hates it, because I just couldn't get passed the annoying main character and the writing style, but I'm glad that you liked it. ;) Have a lovely weekend! ^^ x
I really enjoyed this video☺️I'll definitely have to add these books to my list! I'd recommend Lady Audley's Secret,I just studied this for my A Levels and it's actually really good xx
Proposed EM Forster's "Room With A View" to my book club last night. Looking forward to it.
Ah so many recommendations! love it.
Pride and Prejudice is one of my favs! As is Wuthering Heights. Have you read Little Women? I think Jo and Lizzie Bennet are two of my favourite classic female characters :) xxxx
My first ever classic read is Wuthering Heights. I finished it just yesterday.
Planning on reading Pride and Prejudice next.
I think you would love Catherine Cookson's novels. I don't believe they are yet deemed as "Classic" but they are going to be one day, I feel. They are phenomenal. About the impoverished folk of England in the late 1800's - early 1900's. Very similar to some of Dickens tales with splashes of similarities to the Brontes' and Austen's writings.
I’ve just been reading up on her life and she sounded like an incredible lady! To sell over 100 million copies of her books is astonishing.Thank you for the recommendation! Is there a particular book you’d recommend I start with?
I love all of her books; however, one of my favorite's is The Dwelling Place. The heroine of the tale is so inspiring, the struggles she goes through and overcomes is just amazing! Also, the historical aspects of the tale and how women were treated in those days is quite eye-opening. You will also be very shocked (in a good way) by the wonderful ending! I won't give you any spoilers! :) All of her books are truly amazing, but I'd say give The Dwelling Place a read and see how you like her style.
I haven't read a classic in YEARS, but now I really want to check these out :)
I read almost each one of these (except Wuthering heights and Carmilla) and I enjoyed your video (as always)
its great to watch your video, it really helps me to start reading classsic literature :)
YES to the 1995 mini-series of Pride and Prejudice. Colin Firth all the way. P&P and Frankenstein are definitely good ones to start with classics wise. I have The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye but have yet to read them. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a good short one to read, especially during Christmas time.
Hi! I agree with you, Pride and Prejudice is a good way to star to read classics, and it really worked for me.
Well, I have to confess that I haven't read any of the books that Anne Brontë wrote; however, I really like the first paragraph of Agness Grey. Finally, it seems to me that you would love Tolstoy.
Best regards!
Read Middlemarch!! 💗
I love George Elliot. I'm reading it right now. The book i bought has about 800 pgs. Not bad. The story is good from the very beginning. It will keep you engaged. 🙂
very well read at your age thanks will consider this books.
have you seen the carmilla adaption on youtube?? it's like a modern take on it but it's so good!
Great video! Personally though I wouldn't recommend Frankenstein for a beginner.
I may be a bit bias, I found it to be very tedious and repetitive. To me it felt like, "I am sad, woe is me" was rephrased a thousand different times in a thousand different ways, and that made up the majority as repetitive filler.
great video!!! i'd also recommend the three musketeers by alexandre dumas which is a bit long but it's very fast-paced & quite easy to understand! i'm currently reading lady susan & loving it!
I would personally not recommend starting with Pride and Prejudice. At least, to those that don't have the habit of reading. The humor, the complicated sentences might not be for everyone. But its much easier if the 2005 movie was preaviously seen, since its, in a way, very similar to the books.
It is, without a doubt, very funny and enjoyable read.
I read it in my language (spanish), so maybe its different for english readers.
Hi thanks for recommending Agnes Grey. It was very good.
I started with Crime and Punishment :"v. I just found out that it's about murder, and i love murder stories so i kind of read it blindfolded without regarding others who say that it's a heavy book to read, but i managed to finish it in about 3 weeks. Since then i became interested in classics and now i'm on a classics marathon. Thanks Dostoevsky
Also frankenstein is one of my most favorite classics! I think Shelley's writing style is really poetic therefore i find it very enjoyable i can feel the emotions that the characters went through
Many great recommendations here :) I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on Mansfield Park too - it's my second favourite Austen after Pride and Prejudice. I really like Carmilla - it's way better than Dracula! And yes, Lady Susan - so, so underrated and so, so brilliant!
I absolutely love classic novels 😍
Great video Lucy 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Just read The Yellow Wallpaper- it’s brilliant!
Abbie isn't that a short story though?
wuthering heights was one of the first classics i read and i was not ready for it, if i could go back i'd definitely read through her sister's books before i read it
i bought agnes grey on kindle and got a free link to the audio and i really enjoyed it
I would definitely recommend Little Women as a first classic to read, because it's very simple, yet fun. I'm reading it right now and have enjoyed it very much so far.
Great recommendations. 😊👍🏻
Love your videos Lucy 💕🌷😊 I'm a huge P&P fan and the brontes too. The 🐧 mini penguins are definitely great place to start ☺️🌸
+LizziebelleXOX thank you!! Yay for a fellow Austen and Brontë fan!
so happy I discovered your channel, it sounds like we're around the same age (I'm 19) and there are so many classic books I want to read it's overwhelming!! but a lot of these I've already read, so made me feel like less of a beginner at least haha, SUBSCRIBED
Hi!! I get what you mean about it being overwhelming -- it's so difficult to choose what to read next when there are so many to choose from!
What's your favourite classic you've read so far?
lucythereader HAS to be Gatsby, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Jane Eyre! (I can't pick just one 😭😂) what are your favourites??:)
also, are you planning to study english at university after your a levels? would love to see a video about ur reading list there if u are !
Yes! I too started with pride and prejudice ❤️ and it's still my ever favorite.... I would eat it if I could 😁
I have listened to the audio version of The Great Gatsby and I actually enjoyed it. The narrator was really good at holding my attention. I did try to read the print edition, but I couldn't get into the writing. Maybe I will see if I can find an audio book of A Catcher in the Rye. I had to read A Catcher in the Rye in High School and I absolutely hated the book. Holden Caufield really annoyed me so much that I don't remember if I finished the book. Since it has been 20+ years, maybe I will give it another try. I love Anne Bronte, and I recently started rereading Agnes Grey. I have only read Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. I loved Dracula and have reread it many times. I will have to look into reading Carmilla in the future. Just what my bloated TBR needs is more books, oh well. Have a wonderful day.
I'm not sure if this edition of Frankenstein is the 1818 one or the Victorian one. There are no major differences in the plot, but the 1818 text is definitely better! Also, if you haven't read Matilda, definite give it a go! It remained unpublished for a little while because of the whole incest thing (even her father saw it as Mary's hidden daddy issues), but I really REALLY enjoyed it. Just like Lady Susan, Penguin published it as part of their little black classics collection, so you should be able to read it in a day. xx
I read Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice and really liked them both. I really felt for the monster when I was reading Frankenstein.
The first classic that I ever read was Anna Karenina. Not exactly the best place to start, but it's a start nonetheless!
We did Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird at school
If there is one book you should read before you die it's "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins written in 1860.It's monumental.
I have such a problem reading classics, but I'm going to give it a try after watching this.
I came here thinking the “classics” where of a higher order. I thought she was going to refer to greco-roman classics of LOEB library.
Aside that, I imagined her with A British accent and was not disappointed. You’re a beautiful women.
Greetings from the golden state. You earned a sub.
I think I’m falling for the classic genre without even beginning
Mr. Rochester actually can be seen to have a big heart! He cares for the little girl, who is not his own, and he prevents his wife from going to mental institutions, which were TERRIBLE and much worse than his attic. At the end, he is also sweet and lovable, whereas Mr. Rivers becomes controlling and demanding.
Agreed. Could not even like St John; forget about “all the forms of love”. 😵💫
English is my second language but I noticed that I found classics from other countries than the UK often easier to read (not necessarily better).
I started when I was like 13 with The Great Gatsby and loved it, I do love Shakespeare and I read a lot of German classics as a teenager. (Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Tomas Mann, Goethe, Max Frisch, Bertold Brecht, Michael Ende, Erich Kästner). Apart from Goethe they're all pretty friendly to their readers.
Than I realized by reading Dostojewsky, Nabokov, Bulgakov and Tolstoi that I love Russian classics. I also loved some Latin American ones (Marquez).
The Catcher in the Rye is an easy classic, American classics are easier than English ones to me.
But I forced myself through Pride and Prejudice, Orwell, Great Expectations, Dorian Gray, Frankstein and Wuthering Heights and didn't get the hype as much.
I love your channel so much. I recently finished Dracula and I really enjoyed it. It is told through a series of letters and diary entries from the perspectives of various characters so it can be a bit hard to follow if you don't pay attention to those details. But I definitely recommend reading it!
The little prince is only 86 pages and one of my favorites
I've only read one of these books and I hated it haha, it was a catcher in the rye. I should probably look into picking some more of these up haha. I have quite a few classics I own that I want to read but I pick them up for the plot mainly. We'll see if I enjoy them!
For books that are in the public domain, do you have a place that you would recommend for the best versions or are all those the same? I heard that some of them are a bit hit or miss with missing punctuation, spelling mistakes, etc.
English isnt my first language yet i read frankenstein on my way to getting into classics.. tbh its really hard for me to understand it especially in how classic the vocabs are... but fortunately i could grab what the story is about
Hi, I have a question to ask you about reading classics. I've just finished watching your video on easy classics for beginners. In fact, I'm a 15 years old French girl who loves reading. I LOVE learning English, I want to become an English teacher 😃 I am between the B1 and B2 level, I have already read three novels in English but no classics. I really want to read one ! Do you think I could read one of the books you have advised ?
I'm passionate about classics so I read many books such as Faust, Paradise Lost, Walden, A Room of One's Own in my native language but as I'm not a native English speaker, I'm having problems with reading books in English. Of course I can read easy books in English like Hobbit, the Catcher in the Rye but the point is, classics are difficult. So, could you recommend me some classic literature for me to read?
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Where did you get those black penguins from ? I've never seen them before ...
I love that you mentioned how amazing teenagers are haha, YES.
I think Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy is a great classic
Pride and prejudice is my favorite book and I think the best adaptation is with Colin Firth, the film was okayish I didn’t like Mr Darcy but Keira was a very suitable Elizabeth
I'm at intermediate level in English, can I start to read Tomas hardy novels?