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Favorite work of classic literature? (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Was inspired to ask because a new Anne of Green Gables anime has dropped. I can't help but strongly connect to it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Epic poem Os Lusíadas by great Portuguese writer Luís Vaz de Camões, about the travels of Vasco da Gama

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

The Count of Monte Cristo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, and all of his books. Such a different way of writing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I read 100 Years of Solitude and it stuck with me unlike any book I've read.

[–] besselj 2 points 11 hours ago

The poem "No man is an island" by John Donne

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

For me it's a toss up between The Idiot by Dostoyevsky and The Monk by Matthew Lewis. Totally different stories and styles but I've read both of them multiple times and I find them unforgettable.