Recommendations?

So... my English teacher reckons that my class shouldn't just be reading plain "page turners" all the time and start reading the good old classics. Now, that's all fine with me, but I'd like to read some without horribly depressing endings, thank you very much.

Now, great and noble members of Wattpad, if you wouldn't mind, can you please recommend some classics for me to read? Any genre is fine, but I'd like it better if it were engaging and less than a thousand pages. And please, please, please, may I have no depressing endings?

(Not sure if I'm supposed to be posting here, but it I posted anywhere else, I'm about 99% sure that people are going to ignore my question and post recommendations on other stories that are NOT classics...)

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@Phantasy Anything Orwell and Huxley should be cool, but right now I can't think of a single specific book without depressing ending... I'd also say Joseph Conrad, but, depressing...

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@Phantasy Some really good classics to me is Count of Monte Cristo, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Black Beauty, Call of the Wild and Animal Farm.

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@JohnS_2

Thanks! I'll go look them up

@suzumeofanime

I'm actually reading the Count of Monte Christo right now. I've heard of animal farm, but it doesn't really appeal to me. I'll go look your other recommendations up. Thank you!

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@Phantasy Yes Animal Farm is about the Russian Revolution. The Scarlet Pimpernel is about the French Revolution.

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Well I love Jane Austen- Persuasion is a fun read thats a bit different A Room with a View- sorta sad but its so heartaching and beautiful that you enjoy the story for what it is. There's others that are good but pretty sad though, I sometimes think that's the criteria for classsics...

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@summerintheclouds

Haha. I don't do well with "heartaching and beautiful stories". They just don't really click for me. But yeah- I'll be looking up some Jane Austen books.

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If you want to read classics, go for the Classical. Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Aeschylus, Hesiod, Euripides. These are just a few of my favourite classical authors. Then again, I'm a Classicist, so I'm biased :)

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@Roman_Imperial

I've read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. I'll go look up the others now! Thanks!

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Some more modern classics like Anne of Green Gables, and Goodnight Mr Tom are really great reads, and not at all depressing. The Count of Monte Christo is good. and Wuthering Heights is, I think, the best book ever written. It's hard to find a more depressing book, but it's worth it!

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@Phantasy sorry I did the wrong link. Let me find it

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@BeautifulMoon

My english teacher, while admitting that "Anne of Green Gables" is a classic, thinks that it's too junior for our age :(

I'm not really sure about Goodnight Mr Tom, but it was a compulsory text last year in English for some students in my grade, so she'd probably think the same thing.

Wuthering Heights is very depressing, and while it might be nice, I wouldn't really cope. Plus I already read the Wikipedia synopsis so I kind of already know what happens...

I'm reading the Count of Monte Christo. Thanks for the suggestions!

@Crazy4Cullens

Um, I don't think you read my first post... that's kind of irrelevant.

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@Phantasy It annoys me when people say that. Anne of Green Gables is worth reading, whatever your teacher says. I hate it when people don't read things because they're easy reading. I read the classics, but I'm happy to read a good children's book. It's the quality of the writing that matters, not how complicated it is!

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@BeautifulMoon

Touche, but I'm reading to make my life in english class a bit easier so my teacher's opinion will kind of matter... I will probably read it in my own time, but I've hardly got time for my other books, homework and sleep. Probably will do it in the summer holidays...

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@Phantasy Ha my English teacher's an idiot. I never listen to what she says, she has a weird idea of what makes a good book. If she had her way, all I'd read would be textbooks. As for time, that's easy. If you've got a torch, two in the morning is great for reading!

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@BeautifulMoon

My teacher's the head of the English department, so I really hope she isn't an idiot or else my whole school is basically screwed. As tempting as that is, I need at least 6 hours of sleep to function properly, so no.

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@Phantasy I guess. I don't sleep so much, so that's not a problem for me. And I guess my teacher's not an idiot, but all teacher's annoy me, reading from their textbooks, never exploring the things they teach. They don't care if what they are saying is true or interesting or anything, they just want us to remember dates and statistics for exams. Long lists of facts that mean nothing. Sorry for the long post!

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