Classics

The books that refused to stay in their century. Whether century-old or decades past, these are the works that kept finding new readers — and new ways to mean something.

On the The Literary Shelf shelf.

Books shelved as Classics

• Anne of the Island — L. M. Montgomery
• La dame aux camélias — Alexandre Dumas fils
• A Harlot High and Low — Rayner Heppenstall / Honoré de Balzac
• Alice in Wonderland - Classics — Lewis Carroll
• Titus Groan — Anthony Burgess
• Foundation (Foundation, #1) — Isaac Asimov
• The Fellowship of the Ring: Lord of the Rings, Book 1 — Unknown author
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
• Bastard Out of Carolina — Dorothy Allison
• The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Graphic Novel — Ian Edginton
• Murder in Mesopotamia — Agatha Christie
• The Elixir Of Life — Honoré de Balzac
• La Parabole des talents — Octavia E. Butler
• Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad — Alice Oswald
• El Cepillo De Dientes, El Velero En La Botella — Jorge Díaz
• The Chouans — Honoré de Balzac
• The Call Of the Wild — Jack London
• Las voces — Muriel Spark
• They Do It With Mirrors — Agatha Christie
• La Isla del Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells
• La Casa de los Siete Tejados — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• El legado de las diosas — Kateřina Tučková
• The Name of the Rose — William Weaver
• Blackwater: The Complete Saga — Michael McDowell

Related genres

• Literary Fiction
• Psychological Fiction
• Contemporary Fiction
• Short Fiction
• Magical Realism
• Philosophical Fiction
• Experimental & Avant-Garde
• Cult Fiction
• Anthology
• Metafiction
• Surrealism
• Epistolary Fiction
• Existential
• Postmodern
• Modernist
• Symbolist
• Hopeful Fiction

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