Everybody suggest one book they love that was published before 1923.
The Education of Henry Adams
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
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Ginger - Dec 06, 2005 6:41:25 pm PST #8182 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
beth b - Dec 06, 2005 6:43:38 pm PST #8183 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Woman in White
one of the first ( if not the first mystery)
sj - Dec 06, 2005 6:44:46 pm PST #8184 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Middlemarch by George Eliot.
ChiKat - Dec 06, 2005 6:46:03 pm PST #8185 of 10003
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Little Women
beth b - Dec 06, 2005 6:46:23 pm PST #8186 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
The Moonstone
Also by Wilkie Collins was pretty good. In fact, I think I liked it better.
Steph L. - Dec 06, 2005 6:49:19 pm PST #8187 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I second Little Women.
Gris - Dec 06, 2005 6:49:24 pm PST #8188 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Hee, beth, I had already grabbed that one. EW reviewed it this week, actually.
Others, all grabbed, other than Little Women which I read years ago. Loved it, but am in a mood for new things at the mo'.
Ginger - Dec 06, 2005 6:50:20 pm PST #8189 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Sherlock Holmes
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn, Puddn'head Wilson, Letters from the Earth
The Blithedale Romance by Nathanial Hawthorne
Moby Dick!
(And of course Little Women , which is my great comfort food book. Alcott's i An Old-Fashioned Girl and Work are good too. I'm a kind of obsessive Alcott fan, but she's not for everyone.
tommyrot - Dec 06, 2005 6:55:39 pm PST #8190 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
brenda m - Dec 06, 2005 6:56:22 pm PST #8191 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Plunkett of Tammany Hall. Although now I come to think about it, I'm not sure when it was published.
ETA - especially with you being newly in New York, I highly recommend this. A fabulous look at NY machine politics, and funny as hell.
Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, a Mexican nun, wrote some incredible stuff in the 1600s, but I don't think it was available in English until recently, so I don't know what that means in terms of copyright.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by the unknown Bronte, Anne, is also excellent.
Seconding Connie on Wilkie Collins. Also fun sometimes to pick up things like Ivanhoe that everyone knows but nobody's actually read.