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Favorite work of classic literature? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee to c/ask@lemm.ee
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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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[–] peaches@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Certainnarrator3@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Certainnarrator3@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

The Count of Monte Cristo.

[–] theblips@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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