Classic+Literature

=Classic Literature=

Have you read a great piece of classic literature lately? Tell about it below and add a picture of the novel if you'd like. Be sure to tell us what you thought of the book and that you added it.

//1984// by George Orwell 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny this novel's power, its hold on the imagination of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions - a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Added by Jennifer Barnett

Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut

This is a very popular book. One of his (Kurt Vonnegut) most popular works and widely regarded as a [|classic], it combines [|science fiction] elements with an analysis of the [|human condition] from an uncommon perspective, using [|time travel] as a plot device. The [|bombing of Dresden in World War II], the aftermath of which Vonnegut witnessed, is the starting point. It is a very strange book until you get into it. There are these things that are called tralfamadores, they are the wierdest things that i have ever heard of. They look like upsidedown toilet plungers with hands. Go ahead and think im weird. Until you read the mbook, you will not understand.