Bout classical fiction

[cafemancer]

Looking for retro or classic fiction

 

[Deleted member 206441]

Looking for retro or classic fiction

What is it about?

 

[Arkus86]

Bram Stoker's Dracula
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

 

[cafemancer]

What is it about?

As "Where the Forest Meets the Stars"

 

[Corty]

• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
• Utopia by Thomas More
• Candide by Voltaire
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
• Arabian Nights / The Thousand and One Nights
• Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

 

[RepresentingCaution]

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
You can listen to it and other public domain stuff here:

The Picture of Dorian Gray | LibriVox

LibriVox

librivox.org

 

[cafemancer]

• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
• Utopia by Thomas More
• Candide by Voltaire
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
• Arabian Nights / The Thousand and One Nights
• Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

quite impressive

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
You can listen to it and other public domain stuff here:

The Picture of Dorian Gray | LibriVox

LibriVox

librivox.org

ty... :D?

 

[Representing_Tromba]

fahrenheit 451

Les Miserables

The three musketeers

Don Quixote

 

[CharlesEBrown]

The three musketeers

Note that The Three Musketeers is actually a series - in chronological event order:

1. The Three Musketeers
2. The Red Sphinx (which I never heard of before and may have to track down - apparently it was the first Three Musketeers story he started writing, then set aside to write their first meeting ... and never got back to. Later editors added an ending and combined it with a novella called "The Dove" - the adventures of Cardinal Richelieu and Comte Moret, the latter apparently kind of a fifth Musketeer)
3. The Queen's Necklace (short story often included in with either Twenty Years After or, how I read it, a "preface" to a combined Louise de La Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask)
4. Twenty Years After
5. Louise de La Vallière
6. The Man in the Iron Mask
7. The Vicomte de Bragelonne
8. Ten Years Later
9. Blood Royal (which I had also never heard of before - and, on research, this is a slightly expanded version of one of the stories in Ten Years Later, from a translator who found unpublished notes amongst Dumas's surviving papers and fleshed it out farther ... in 2020)

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Note that The Three Musketeers is actually a series - in chronological event order:

1. The Three Musketeers
2. The Red Sphinx (which I never heard of before and may have to track down - apparently it was the first Three Musketeers story he started writing, then set aside to write their first meeting ... and never got back to. Later editors added an ending and combined it with a novella called "The Dove" - the adventures of Cardinal Richelieu and Comte Moret, the latter apparently kind of a fifth Musketeer)
3. The Queen's Necklace (short story often included in with either Twenty Years After or, how I read it, a "preface" to a combined Louise de La Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask)
4. Twenty Years After
5. Louise de La Vallière
6. The Man in the Iron Mask
7. The Vicomte de Bragelonne
8. Ten Years Later
9. Blood Royal (which I had also never heard of before - and, on research, this is a slightly expanded version of one of the stories in Ten Years Later, from a translator who found unpublished notes amongst Dumas's surviving papers and fleshed it out farther ... in 2020)

I did not know this. I have only read the first so I need to read this.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I did not know this. I have only read the first so I need to read this.

As an aside - the final arc in Ten Years Later has one of the best heroic deaths (and a death the character probably appreciated, even if it felt kind of pointless at the time). And the arc expanded into Blood Royal (pretty much the middle of the book IIRC, or maybe it was the first half; been 15 years since I read it, give or take) is some of the best writing and most "Three Musketeers" adventure in the series.

 

[lambenttyto]

Looking for retro or classic fiction

The Epic Sword & Sorcery Entertainments of Ashahnai

Often referenced simply as the The Great Book or The Epic, these are the stories of grand figures, princesses and adventurers, sorcerers, jinni and lesser men. These oral traditions and penned works have and continue to emanate from the greatest empire the world has ever seen; these are the...

www.scribblehub.com

 

[HungrySheep]

Carmilla.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

Get some epistolary novels in your diet:

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Door of the Unreal by Gerald Biss
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Other classic fiction:

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe
Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories by Bram Stoker
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Ah, some more obscure stuff that inspired better-known works:

The Monk by Mathew Gregory Lewis
Anything by A(braham) Merritt- The Moon Pool, The Metal Monsters, etc.
Though I personally don't like them (his style is a little too dense and unfocused for me), they are important - the works of Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegana, The Book of Wonder
House on the Borderlands, The Boats of Glen Carrig, and the Karnacki short stories by William Hope Hodgeson