Hello everyone!Ii am Reesha and this is
for the love of classics.
Welcome back to another video! Today i'm
going to recommend some classics
for beginners. Many of you people have
asked me to recommend some classics for
new readers or people who are trying to
get into classics,
i don't feel very comfortable
recommending books to others because i'm
not sure what kind of books you guys
like,
whether my recommendations would be
helpful to anyone,
because i don't know your reading tastes
and i don't want to be the person who
recommends the wrong books
but today the books i'm going to
recommend in this video
are some of the classics which i would
recommend to a younger me.
If a younger me was watching this video
10 years ago,
these would be the books that would have
helped her out, so keeping that in mind
i'm going to be recommending some books
to you as well.
i hope you guys find this video helpful
and i hope you guys
find these books fun and entertaining. So
the first classic which i would like to
recommend
is Animal Farm by George Orwell.
This is such a fantastic book! it is one
of my favorite books of all time!
it's a short book; less than 100 pages
long but is extremely
well written. It's a satire about the
corruption of power.
It's funny. It's witty; it makes sense.
George Orwell wrote it as an
allegory of the Russian soviet union and
its fall.
It's called the Animal Farm because in
this short book,
the animals in the farm rebel against
the man who owns the farm
and once the animals are in power, they
get greedy and get corrupted by this
power.
It's an allegory about revolution and
how chaotic the consequences of a
revolution can be, it can go
terribly, terribly wrong. This book is so
relevant
to the society we live in today, as we
see similar things happening
around us. I think everyone should read
this book, i have recommended this book
to my brother, to my husband and the
reason why i do that is because this
book has a very universal theme; anybody
can connect to it because we see similar
things happening around us.
It also comes with simple language
because it is a modern classic and it's
very easy to read. So this is the first
book which i would like to recommend,
to someone who wants to read classics.
The second classic which i would like to
recommend
is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
unfortunately i do not have a physical
copy of that book with me right now.
I love Pride and Prejudice so much and
it is one of those books which started
the classics journey for me.
so i would definitely recommend this
book to anybody who wants to get into
classics.
the book was originally published in the
year 1813
and Jane Austen was a British writer. She
wrote six complete novels but her
best known work is Pride and Prejudice.
For years people have enjoyed
reading Pride and Prejudice and you may
already know the story of the book
because the book has so many
film adaptations but even if you have
watched the film,
i would recommend you pick the book and
read it because the book is
such an excellent piece of literature. At
the beginning of the story, we are
introduced to Mr Bennett and Mrs Bennett
and their five daughters.
The sole purpose of Mrs Bennett's
existence is to get her daughters
married off.
The protagonist of the story is
Elizabeth Bennett; she is such a vibrant
and powerful character.
She learns to understand the difference
between superficial goodness and actual
goodness.
It is a comedy of manners and you will
find this book very amusing,
very engaging and very, very entertaining.
Even if you find the language a bit
tough, you can always listen to an
audio-book
but please don't give up on it, it's such
a good book, you will absolutely
love it! i vouch for it a hundred percent!
if you have read Pride and Prejudice and
love it, then the second Jane Austen book
which i would like to recommend
is Persuasion by Jane Austen. The reason
why i would like to recommend
Persuasion is because i absolutely loved
it!
it was not a very long book but the
story in this book was so sweet and
heart-wrenching,
it is a story about Anne Elliott, who
falls in love
with a young man at an early age but is
persuaded to decline the proposal
because the guy is not equal in rank to
their family.
This love story is so entertaining and
the social commentary in the background,
just keeps the pace of the book
going. i loved the character of Anne
Elliott and Captain Wentworth,
how they overcome all the obstacles in
their path
and learned to make their own decisions
in life. So these are the two books which
i would recommend,
to people who want to start reading
classics definitely start with pride and
prejudice and then come to persuasion, if
you love the first one.
The next book which i would like to
recommend is Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley.
i'm sure you all have heard about
Frankenstein already but do you really
know what the book is about?
For some reason everybody assumes that
Frankenstein is the monster
but that is not the case. Frankenstein is
actually the name of the scientist who
created the monster.
i was very hesitant in picking up this
book but i definitely think
it's a book which everybody should read.
The story is so unique
and so different from what we expect it
would be. The whole backstory of
why Mary Shelley wrote this book is so
interesting;
there's a film called Mary Shelley, which
tells the story of
how Mary Shelley actually wrote the book, She was in a relationship with a
famous poet
Percy Shelley. Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley
and Lord Byron, another famous poet of
the time,
had a story writing competition for fun.
that is where
Mary Shelley found the idea about the
whole story. Reading the book
Frankenstein
might be a bit different from reading a
normal novel because of the way the book
is written;
first we hear the narrative of the
scientist and in the second half, we hear
the narrative of the monster himself.
It's so heartwarming and heart-wrenching.
This book is so
atmospheric, it's not just a horror story
or a sci-fi novel, it's so much more than
that.
We see the scientist who is very
ambitious and he wants to achieve
something in life;
he does an unorthodox experiment, which
goes horribly wrong.
He is horrified by the monster he has
created. He is terrified of what he
has done. In the second half of the book,
we hear the narrative of the monster, who
is a very intelligent
being, who has feelings and emotions
because he was created by man.
If you don't want to read Jane Austen or
any kind of romance stories from
classics;
this is the book i would like to
recommend because it has so much meaning
in it. It has so much depth. We hear about
Frankenstein today
on television, it's everywhere, so this is
where it all started and i would highly
suggest you look into it
if you want to read classics. The next
classic which i would like to recommend
is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
This is a Victorian classic, it was
originally published in the year 1854.
The reason why i would like to recommend
this book is because it is
absolutely brilliant! i love this book so
much!
it is a social novel, in which we see
this family who live
in the south of England move to the
north of England.
The north of England was the more
industrial part of England, at the time
this family moves to Milton. Gaskell has
loosely based
this fictional town on Manchester, this
family has just three people in it; it
just has the parents and their daughter,
Margaret Hale.
Margaret Hale is such an excellent
character,
she is this lady who has lived in London
but now she has come to a place which is
absolutely different from what she is
used to
but she makes the most of it. She
befriends some of the workers in these
industries
and we see the difference between these
two different classes of people,
At the core of the social novel is such
a beautiful love story
between Margaret Hale from the south and
John Thornton from the north.
I love this book almost as much as I
loved Pride and Prejudice, it also has an
amazing BBC television adaptation,
they have done such a brilliant job with
the casting with the film,
everything in the adaptation is perfect.
So i would definitely recommend
both the adaptation and the book, north
and south.
The next classic which i would like to
recommend is also
a lesser known classic and it is A
Country Doctor's
Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov who
was a Russian writer. He is famous for
his book Master and Margarita which I
have not
read yet but one of his books which i
absolutely
loved was A Country Doctor's Notebook.
I have also reviewed this book in one of
my previous videos, which i'm going to
link up here.
i would recommend it to beginners, i'm
not sure why i'm using the word
beginners,
because i consider myself a beginner as
well, i would recommend this book because
i absolutely loved it. It was just a
small book; 150 pages long.
The book had 10 short stories in it and
was very easy to read,
this translation is by Michael Glenny.
The story is about
this young doctor, who has recently
graduated from
medical school and as soon as he
graduates the first
job he gets is in a far-flung village,
where he is to be the village doctor.
Being a doctor in a country is very
different from being one in a city
because in a city there are many
hospitals you have a lot of doctors
working there and you can learn a lot
from them
but when you are the only doctor in a
country you have to deal with
all sorts of patients and all sorts of
maladies
and so we see this young doctor
stumbling his way through
his new job. He hasn't practically done
anything
in the field of medicine until now and
now he is supposed to deal with
all sorts of cases, so in one chapter we
see him tackle
a complicated delivery and in these 10
chapters we see different sorts of
characters
pop up. As a doctor one meets different
kinds of people,
the people approach a doctor in a very
vulnerable condition and this
interaction between the doctor and the
patient
when both the doctor and the patient are
feeling vulnerable
was so enlightening and entertaining to
read. The tone in the book was all very
comedic.
Bulgakov was himself a medical doctor,
so he has written this from his own
personal view of the profession.
I'm a doctor myself and i really enjoyed
reading this book,
there is also an excellent television
adaptation for
A Country Doctor's Notebook it is called
A Young Doctor's Notebook
and it has excellent casting; Daniel
Radcliffe
and John Hamm both of those characters
did an excellent job with that series
and i highly recommend the book
and the adaptation. Bulgakov after
graduating from medical school in 1909,
spent his early days of career as a
Venerolologist.
He wanted to be a pediatrician but he
gave up on that because syphilis was
very prevalent at the time.
He made some great discoveries about
syphilis as well, which by the way i just
found out from Wikipedia.
Isn't that awesome? the next classic
which i would like to recommend
is Agnes Gray by Anne Bronte. When i was
growing up everyone around me
recommended
Jane Eyre to me and Wuthering Heights,
when i was older and i read Agnes Grey, i
found it
more accessible and more fun so Anne
Elliot is the lesser known of the Bronte
sisters but she was an amazing writer.
This was her first published book, it was
published in the year 1847.
It is also a Victorian classic but is a
very short one,
just 200 pages long and it's very easy
to read.
It is a good book to start from because
it is a coming of age story,
we see the character of Agnes Grey as
she gets her first job as a governess
and we see how cruelly she is treated
there. She is hired to take care of the
children but is not allowed to do her
job;
the children are spoiled and are cruel,
so are their parents.
Agnes is accused of all the mischief's
that the children do
and very soon Agnes is relieved of her
job. She soon finds another job
and the next family, though less cruel,
are still not the best people.
She's considered inferior wherever she
goes but she stays strong
and we see her grow throughout the book.
I finished this book in one day. It was
such an easy read and
so fun and entertaining. i loved the
character of Agnes Grey.
i think it's an excellent book, if you
want a coming of age story, if you want a
quick read
and i think you guys will love it. The
next classic which i would like to
recommend
is another Victorian classic and it is
far from the madding crowd by Thomas
Hardy.
This was Thomas Hardy's fourth book and
it was published in the year 1874.
The reason why i would like to recommend
this book is because it is
absolutely, absolutely stunning. I've read
a lot of books by Thomas Hardy
and this was not the first book by him
which i read
but this was that one book which
absolutely proved to me, that he is the
best writer
ever! The protagonist of the story is
Bashiba Everdeen, she inherits a farm
from her uncle and because of that her
financial position
changes drastically. The reason why i
absolutely loved this book is because
the prose, the writing in the book was
just so beautiful;
the backdrop of the story was so idyllic;
it is the south
west of Britain, it's called hardy's
Wessex, you feel like you are right there
when he is describing these idyllic
places.
The book also has excellent film
adaptations; there was a recent one which
was so stunning as well!
There's absolutely nothing i would like
to change about that book.
You know when you are usually reading a
classic and you feel like oh these
couple of chapters are just boring and
i wish the author had not written them
and just skipped over to the next thing
which happens in the story
but that never happened with this book
once! Every paragraph,
every chapter, was so crucial and so
beautifully written,
that i wanted more of it! Thomas Hardy
grabbed my attention throughout the book
because of the writing. It was so
enchanting! That
is one good word to describe his writing
in this book; it's enchanting! it's
magical!
Another classic which i would like to
recommend is Rebecca by Daphne Du
Maurier.
If you like Gothic literature and spooky
tales, then this is the book i would like
to recommend;
the atmosphere of the book is kind of
similar to Jane Eyre and Wuthering
Heights; it's spooky, it's dark, it's
mysterious.
but the writing in this one is so much
more accessible;
the reason for that is because it is a
modern classic; it was written in the
20th century. There are a couple of
problems with the actual story but the
writing in this book
is so brilliant; it was so easy to read,
it felt like a thriller, it was spooky
without being scary.
it had an atmosphere, a theme and it has
stayed with me
ever since I've read this book. It's an
impactful book, it will make a strong
impression on you. So i would definitely
recommend Rebecca.
So the story is about this young girl
who is a companion to
an older woman, they are living in Monte
Carlo
where she meets an older, widowed man. The
name of this guy is Maxim de Winter ;he's
very rich and well off but also very
mysterious
and he proposes to this young girl. We
never find out the name of this
protagonist,
she is a nobody and then she becomes Mrs
De Winter,
then we find out the story of the first
Mrs de Winter who is
Rebecca, that's the title of the book and
i think it's a very good book to start
with
classics because it is a modern classic,
it has excellent
writing, it is easy to read, the story is
engaging; it has beautiful language
without being stuffy.
i think it's very famous for a reason;
it's absolutely
brilliant. So i think those are all the
classics which i would like to recommend
for now; i think they are a total of
eight or nine. I hope you guys find this
video helpful, i hope these books prove
to be
good recommendations. I know different
people like different books
and that is why i feel very hesitant in
recommending books to others
but i think these books cover the major
chunk of reading types
and i hope you can find at least one
good recommendation from this video.
I'm going to make another video in which
I will recommend specific classics for
specific types of reading tastes, so let
me know what kinds of books you like to
read and i would make
a classic recommendation keeping that in
mind.
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