Classics you have never read

[Gemini]

At the moment I am reading Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. I know the story well of course having seen film versions, including the newest Netflix version.
I had never read it before though.

It got me to thinking of other stories we know well and may have seen plays and films based on them, but have never read the book.

Wuthering Heights is another I haven't read, although I think it may be on my Kindle.

Are there any classics you haven't never read but intend to?

[Daisy]

Gem, I'm ashamed to say I haven't read many classics since I left school at 16! Those I did read are but a distant memory, even Jane Austin. I remember reading Jamaica Inn after visiting the pub many years ago - before I'd even met OH! But I've never read Rebecca. I read The Children of the New Forest not long after we moved here, but should read it again because I know the area so much better now. I tried reading Jane Austin a couple of years ago, but found Emma so boring I gave up!

I have read Wuthering Heights, but can't remember the story. Jane Eyre is the only book by any of the Brontes that I can remember fairly clearly.

I'd love to introduce my book worm GD1 to some of the children's classics, but not sure where to start. Does your GD read a lot?

[Gemini]

Daisy she does read a lot. She has read all the Harry Potters now she's more or less old enough to cope with the later ones.
She reads a lot, but to be honest I couldn't tell you which of the Children's Classics apart from that that she has read, I will ask.

I loved Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass as a child, Little Women, What Katy Did (and Did Next) and Peter Pan. I read the Narnia books as a young adult and loved those.
I think GD has read them.
I devoured Enid Blyton books too!

Jane Eyre and David Copperfield are two of my favourite books, but there are many Dickens books I haven't read.

Perhaps I will set myself a Classics Challenge? To read one Classic a month which I haven't read before.

[Daisy]

I loved Alice in Wonderland and Little Women. I'm sure I read at least one of the Katy books, but can't remember them. I read The Water Babies, but don't think I enjoyed it much. I cried my way through Black Beauty.

By the way, Alice Liddell is buried in Lyndhurst - just up the road from us.

I've read quite a few by Dickens. I did Great Expectations for O Level, so remember that well. My favourite was Tale of Two Cities.

I didn't read the Narnia books until I was helping with reading in one of DS1's schools and I read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe with various children.

I think I read pretty much everything Enid Blyton wrote (apart from Noddy - he came to late for me). I loved Malory Towers and have even watched the modern version on iPlayer. I also loved The Chalet School series by Elinor Brent Dyer. I read all the earlier ones (they went on into the late 60s, I think)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0872dbq/malory-towers

I do wonder how our GCs would view most of these books, as they were of their time and familiar to us but very different for today's generation of young reader.