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Which are the best classic novels and why?

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Moby Dick By Herman Melville

“They call me Ishmael” We’ve seen some movies where this is a line often read.

 I remember reading this as a child. Watching the obsession of Captain’s Ahab’s drive to kill the whale. Showing us the dangers of relentlessly driving out after the madness of things which overtakes us in our pursuit of living. The obsession, the madness, what we are willing to give up in striving to go after something we are so stuck on.

 

The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

“There’s no place like home”

This will forever be a childhood classic of mine. From childhood thoughts of being able to not think there is a greater place than home.

To the grown-up ideas of the world itself from this novel. Of being able to find the strength, courage, and love within us. It’s always there, you just have to look pretty deep and never give up on yourself.

Some have even gone as far as saying there is representation of the government, farmers, little people, Indians.

All in which there is no wrong answer.

 

Little Women by Lousia May Alcott

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go.”

Another near and dear one to my heart. This has always been a favorite of mine. Watching the family grow up and chase after their hopes and dreams to what they want in their life during the hardships during the Civil War era. It was my hopes and dreams that the family I was born with we could have had relationships like this. Though I found it in the most unexpected places, in the people I call my family.