Classic literature is always popular. People love books that maybe as old as grand grandpa. So called classic, it has literature significance and value in it. It is the great achievement to humanity.
Parramatta City Library has recently renewed its classic literature section by new purchasing. Here are some titles
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark
The age of innocence by Edith. Wharton
Animal Farm: a fairy story by George Orwell
Big sleep by Raymond Chandler
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
The brothers Karamazov : a novel in four parts and an epilogue by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter
The castle by Kafka, Franz
The chimney sweeper’s boy by Vine, Barbara, pseud
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess ; with an introduction by Blake Morrison
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, 1810-1865
Crime and punishment by F. Dostoevsky ; translated from the Russian by C. Garnett
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak ; translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari
Dubliners by James Joyce
Everything is illuminated : a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy
A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961
Fathers and sons by Ivan Turgenev
The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders & c…. by Daniel Defoe ; edited by David Blewett
The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
Great expectations by Charles Dickens
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver’s travels by Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745
A handful of dust by Evelyn Waugh
Hard times: for these times by Charles Dickens
The harp in the south novels by Ruth Park
Hero of our time by Mikhail Lermontov
The hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The importance of being earnest and other plays by Oscar Wilde ; introduction by Terrence McNally ; notes by Michael F. Davis
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford
Innocent traitor by by Alison Weir
Intruder in the dust by William Faulkner
Lady Chatterley’s lover by D.H. Lawrence ; with an introduction by Richard Hoggart
Light in August by W. Faulkner
Love in a cold climate by Nancy Freeman Mitford
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928- translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
The mayor of Casterbridge : an authoritative text, backgrounds criticism by Thomas Hardy ; edited by James K. Robinson
Middlemarch by George Eliot ; edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemary Ashton
Les miserables by Victor-Marie Hugo, 1802 -1885
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction and notes by Geoffrey Wall ; preface by Michèle Roberts
Moby Dick by Herman Melville ; with an introduction by Patrick McGrath
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; with an introduction and notes by Elaine Showalter ; text edited by Stella McNichol
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Of mice and men by John Steinbeck
On the road by Jack Kerouac ; introduction by Ann Charters
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey ; text and criticism edited by John Clark Pratt
One hundred years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1928-
A passage to India by E.M. Forster
Perfume : the story of a murderer Patrick Suskind
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The plague by Albert Camus
The portrait of a lady by Henry James ; editd and with an introduction by Geoffrey Moore and notes by Patricia Crick
The quiet American by Graham Greene ; with an introduction by Zadie Smit
Rabbit, run by John Updike, 1932 -2009
The red badge of courage by Stephen Crane ; edited with an introduction and notes by Gary Scharnhorst
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1661-1731
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders by John Mortimer, 1923-
The secret book of Grazia dei Rossi : a novel by Jacqueline Park
Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
Sons and lovers by by D.H. Lawrence
The sound and the fury by William Faulkner
A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens
Tales of the unexpected by Roald Dahl
Tender is the night by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald, 1896-1940
The three musketeers by Alexander Dumas ; translated and with an introduction by Lord Sudley
To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee, 1926-
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The trial by Franz Kafka, 1883-1924
Uncle Tom’s cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jean Fagan Yellin
Vanity fair: a novel without a hero by William Makepeace Thackeray
Victory by Joseph Conrad
War and peace by Leo Tolstoy, translation by Anthony Briggs
Washington’s lady : a novel by Nancy Moser
The way by Swann’s by Marcel Proust ; translated and with an introduction and notes by Lydia Davis ; general editor Christopher Prendergast
The woman in white by Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction and notes by Matthew Sweet
Women in love by D.H. Lawrence, edited with an introduction and notes by David Bradshaw