Classics fictions

Classics fictions by year of their 1st publication, with my brief notes (contain spoilers), books info & etc.

• 1603 Hamlet by William Shakespeare ★★★★★ If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes? READ MORE →

• 1605 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes ★★★★☆ It is better for the valiant man to touch on and climb to the heights of temerity than to touch on and fall to the depths of cowardice. READ MORE →

• 1815 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ★★★☆☆ So they couldn’t understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than before—perhaps his ears had become used to the sound. READ MORE →

• 1851 Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale by Herman Melville ★★★★☆ Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare’s? READ MORE →

• 1859 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens ★★★★★ It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. READ MORE →

• 1866 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★★★ Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men, I think, must feel great sorrow in this world. READ MORE →

• 1879 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★★☆ There are souls that in their narrowness blame the whole world. But overwhelm such a soul with mercy, give it love, and it will curse what it has done, for there are so many germs of good in it. READ MORE →

• 1903 The Call of the Wild by Jack London ★★★★☆ Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed. READ MORE →

• 1914 Kokoro by Natsume Soseki ★★☆☆☆ You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egoistical selves. READ MORE →

• 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell ★★★★☆ Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. READ MORE →

• 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger ★★★☆☆ I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. READ MORE →

• 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ★★★☆☆ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. READ MORE →

• 1961 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller ★★★★☆ When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy. READ MORE →

• 1966 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov ★★★★★ But would you kindly ponder this question: what would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? READ MORE →

• 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez ★★★★☆ The history of the family was a machine with unavoidable repetitions, a turning wheel that would have gone on spilling into eternity were it not for the progressive and irremediable wearing of the axle. READ MORE →