Hi peoples! I've started to continue reading some of the world's classics. Right now I'm reading Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (not a classic, I know), The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (normally two separate books, I got them together in one book), and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I also started reading The Arabian Nights a while ago.
Will someone give me a list of classics? I think I have a lot of them, but I never know which ones are real classics and which ones are just really old, good stories. I own the books mentioned in the previous paragraph, as well as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.
There's this website, http://www.forgottenbooks.org/, that has hundreds of online, free copies of books from writers like Shakespeare and Plato, as well as well-know stories like Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll and Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, legends and fables like Aesop's Fables, and books I've never even heard of (though I'm sure at least one of you have) like Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by A.M. Sellar and Keep a True Lent by Charles Fillmore. I bought a bound copy of The Arabian Nights that was published by Forgotten Books. Entire books can be found on this website. The only bad thing is that you have to remember to scroll down. :)
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