Best Classics
14 stories
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. by The_Ssssilent_Bang
The_Ssssilent_Bang
  • WpView
    Reads 5,928
  • WpVote
    Votes 190
  • WpPart
    Parts 1
This is one of my favorite Poem. I am just putting it on here so that other's might read it and enjoy this Hauntingly Great Poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The poem show's the human need to self torture. In “The Raven,” Poe exploits several themes that are found throughout his creative works, including the tragic death of a beautiful woman at a young age, and the grief of the bereft young man whose affection for his lost love transcends the physical boundaries of death and life. The motif of the “devil-beast” as the harbinger of misery and sorrow, found here in the form of the raven, is another theme common to the creative works of Poe. I repeat this is not my work but a work of a genius by the name Edgar Allan Poe.
A Little Princess by ayeolnation
ayeolnation
  • WpView
    Reads 57,722
  • WpVote
    Votes 2,372
  • WpPart
    Parts 19
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women (1880) by LouisaMayAlcott
LouisaMayAlcott
  • WpView
    Reads 681,665
  • WpVote
    Votes 16,002
  • WpPart
    Parts 47
"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by WilliamShakespeare
WilliamShakespeare
  • WpView
    Reads 157,020
  • WpVote
    Votes 3,437
  • WpPart
    Parts 10
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
Oliver Twist (1837) by CharlesDickens
CharlesDickens
  • WpView
    Reads 339,976
  • WpVote
    Votes 6,000
  • WpPart
    Parts 52
The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin.
Anne of Green Gables (1908) by LMMontgomery
LMMontgomery
  • WpView
    Reads 574,889
  • WpVote
    Votes 17,794
  • WpPart
    Parts 38
Anne of Green Gables recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince Edward Island and who had intended to adopt a boy to help them.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by LewisCarroll
LewisCarroll
  • WpView
    Reads 1,239,707
  • WpVote
    Votes 13,054
  • WpPart
    Parts 12
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.
Great Expectations (1861) by CharlesDickens
CharlesDickens
  • WpView
    Reads 1,401,386
  • WpVote
    Votes 12,095
  • WpPart
    Parts 60
On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...
Jane Eyre (1847) by CharlotteBronte
CharlotteBronte
  • WpView
    Reads 1,870,877
  • WpVote
    Votes 25,040
  • WpPart
    Parts 41
"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.
Romeo and Juliet by WilliamShakespeare
WilliamShakespeare
  • WpView
    Reads 4,194,726
  • WpVote
    Votes 52,606
  • WpPart
    Parts 27
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Cover done by @zuko_42