Want to be well-read in the classics? This list is your guide to the best classic books to read before you die.

Something reading builds a world up around you as you continue sentence to sentence – plunging further into the depths of the literary world. Some may call this a ‘journey’ with each book bringing you another step of the way acting as one more city or sight to see. If this were the case then the

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Whether you already love classic literature, or have made it a bucket list goal, this list of must read classic books includes 30 titles that our readers voted the best of the best.

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Spark Notes has boiled down the history of literary movements to a collection of one line quips. The problem with literature is that there’s so much of it. Books go back a long time (like at least ten or fifteen years, I’m thinking), and if you’re a student taking an English class, you’re supposed to be familiar with…

14 Literary quotes about life 1. “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” 2. “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” 3. “There is nothing like looking if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”

Amazon.com: Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics): 9780141439556: Emily Brontë, Pauline Nestor, Lucasta Miller: Books