7 CLASSIC BOOKS that are Worth Reading

In this video we will take a look at the 7 great classic books that we read in our Patreon community. I will briefly outline the synopsis for each classic book, mention some of the classic book themes, and read excerpts from some of the books.
I can happily offer these classic book recommendations as worthy of your time. They may not be your immediate choices but each classic novel has value in developing your appreciation of the classics themselves or the time period of the classic literature that is often read.
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0:00 - intro
0:35 - Great Expectationa
5:24 - Old Goriot
11:17 - Mary Barton & Sybil
19:56 - A Room With A View
27:02 - A Month in the Country & The Great Gatsby

[@kimberly5411]

For anyone curious about the Patreon group, it is worth every penny. It’s not a very expensive charge for the studies we do and the lectures we receive. If you love this channel then you’ll love the book group just as much!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you, Kimberly 😀 It's a joy having you with us. ❤️

[@mollyfarrell.]

How much ,out of interest?

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

@mollyfarrell. Hi Molly, my Patreon is only £5.99 a month. Hope this helps.

[@lindawine3593]

How do I become part of the book club. I already belong to Patreon?

[@janebaily3758]

There are a ton of booktubers out there and Tristan is head and shoulders above all of them!

[@VideogamesWorld93]

Exactly, he’s the only who seems to be more focused on the books he’s talking about rather than the aesthetics about reading. It just shows how unfair KZbin is for creators!

[@prilljazzatlanta5070]

Glad i came across him recently. Totally agree. Only Benjamin McEvoy compares. Besides them, there’s only one other i really enjoy but his name slips my mind since he (refreshingly enough) rarely posts

[@wheelz1325]

I agree it seems like there's a lot of booktubers out there who only like to read books with specific agendas behind them and not for the love of reading

[@zoenorman9846]

Hi Tristan!! I could listen to you speak for hours on literature. Your enthusiasm for the classics is truly contagious, so much so I've gotten myself many of the texts you've spoken of on your channel and looking forward to read.(thankfully fairly inexpensively on kindle) Thank you for introduction to so many authors, many of who are not so widely discussed these days. So pleased to see you back on Booktube. Looking forward to listening to future videos.😃

[@janebaily3758]

I agree a million percent!!

[@zoenorman9846]

Thanks, Jane. Yes, Tristan's great!!!😊

[@HazelSill]

Hi Tristan and other fellow readers, These videos are like stepping into the libraries of my youth (long since past) browsing all the books on the old shelving and not knowing which to choose. At least with these books I am given a good insight into them before picking the one that is going to be next. Love your videos Tristan keep up the good work.

[@ChrisHunt4497]

My very next book is going to be A Month In The Country. I have bought it on your recommendation and I am practically tingling with excitement. all the others I have put on my (now very long) reading list. Thank you Tristan, once more, from the bottom of my heart. ❤

[@davebonello1944]

(Melanie here) Mary Barton and North and South are wonderful. I love Wives and Daughters also which you didn't mention. Thanks for your videos. They are great. -From Michigan USA

[@sjmsutherland]

A Month in The Country is currently on my TBR shelf, I am looimg forward to reading this book!! Great description and reading of this book, I can't wait to read it!!

[@MrSyntheticSmile]

Old Goriot was one of the 10 all time greatest books in Somerset Maugham’s list of greatest books.

[@lowman621]

I'm starting to think A Month in the Country is your all-time favorite book...lol. You always light up when discussing it and talk about it with such passion. That said, I would agree with you, what a lovely novella it is. I thank you (again) for recommending it! 📚😊

[@Kite562bookishreviews]

I'm really glad I discovered this channel! There are so many classic works I havent read or classic authors I havent ever heard of! 😊❤📚

[@rogerevans9666]

Supposedly, the inspiration for Ms. Havisham was a wealthy bachelor who went insane when he learned his bride-to-be had died just before the wedding. The wedding cake simply stayed on the table and gradually rotted. He closed the shutters of his townhouse. and lived alone. He would not even clean his hands. He said, "Why wash them when they will simply get dirty again?"

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Fascinating! Thanks for this.

[@captainnolan5062]

Yes, people have not changed, though some inexperienced people alive today think we are much more advanced than prior generations. It is not so, people are the same, only the technology changes.

[@maryforster1417]

You are the best! ❤

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Awww, thank you, Mary. 😊 You are wonderful ❤️

[@johnford6967]

Yes,his enthusiasm is catching and he knows where as he speaks...

[@isabelenau3934]

LOVE your enthusiasm, it’s contagious! ❤ I would give Di Caprio’s Gatsby a miss, and watch Robert Redford’s 1974 performance instead.

[@patriciadeane7250]

A Room With A View……is one of my favorites! E.M. Forster motivates life in his works! Love your video’s and I thank you from Southern Ontario, Canada.

[@suzannebousquet2710]

I am so glad that I found your channel! I think I am going to be hooked!!

[@terileekline]

A Month in the Country is in my top ten books of all time. You describe it beautifully and accurately. Thank you, Tristan. I love your channel. You and Ben McEvoy are everything good about BookTube 😊

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

It may be in my top ten also. Every time I read it, the more it moves me.

[@cozycomfy589]

Always learn from you. Thank you.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thanks, that's so lovely of you to say 😊

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

I'll be keeping an eye out for A Room with a View at the library or bookshop to add to my TBR. I love your lectures about literature. You are so passionate and help me understand the classics that I struggle with.

[@adrienne4028]

I so very much enjoy your book reviews and the way you always describe them with great enthusiasm. I’m definitely going to read Sybil, Old Goriot and A Month in the Country. I have already read the other novels mentioned. I always learn new insights about great literature from your reviews. Thanks Tristan.😊

[@maryfilippou6667]

Thank you so much again Tristan, for your thoughtful explications, especially A Room with a View. All these decades, I never considered the title as a metaphor! Of course! So beautiful your opening the windows for me!

[@dqan7372]

A Room With a View has definitely moved up my TBR. And I swear I'll get to a Month in the Country eventually. Might be time for a Gatsby reading as well. I was thinking about giving Great Expectations another try until you mentioned the spiders. 🕷🕷🕷🕸🕸🎂

[@hyacinthh6900]

My first Charles Dickens was Great Expectations. A wonderful story. I hope to never forget Joe. ❤️ Enjoyed video. 🌻

[@apollonia6656]

My favourite Dckens nove!,too. Infact, it is my all time favourite novel of all time. Re-read GE about 3 or 4 times.

[@user-sf3fe4bh2q]

Yes, Russian wrighters loved Dickens, moreove we, Russian readers still love him very much!😊

[@ludd7929]

Hello. Read "Mary Barton" last month. Felt bored in the second part (Murder...) which I found too predictable but really enjoyed the beginning of the book, with its great description of the Working class way of life. "Ruth" is my favourite Gaskell's so far. I think it's quite underrated. Merci for this video

[@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

These are all in my list to get to in the next year🎉🎉🎉

[@Kisstamasdr]

Dear Tristan! Thank you very much, again, for your thoughts. At your suggestion, I started re-reading the Room with a view. I read it with completely different eyes and agree with you. This is a fantastic novel with deep content. I recommend everyone to listen the Beethoven's sonata, which is included in the book. (piano sonata 32. c minor.) Lucy's swirling feelings are perfectly displayed in Beethoven's work.

[@mackdmara]

I have read most of those, but I will need a revisit on some. Those I haven't read sound like some interesting books. Thanks.

[@Whatever_Happy_People]

Hullo Tristan I have just finished the hunch back of Notre Dame. Loved it. Is there some hidden meaning with the poet and the goat? Thought is strange the connection the poet had.

[@yorkshirerose6334]

I love A Month in the Country. It is a beautiful pastoral and a book I’ve read several times.

[@amyofhearthridge]

Fascinating! I have Ursula Mirouet on my shelves. I have never tried Balzac!

[@susprime7018]

Finally getting to The Children of the Abbey. Yes, Great Expectations is where to start. I enjoyed Mary Barton, but I found the crime far fetched and the thinking more in line with an anarchist.😅 I tried to reread Goriot, but my old book was too large and clumsy, but I placed on Kindle this morning for free. Read Room With A View, loved it. I'll keep A Month in the Country on the radar.

[@gs547]

Years ago, when I read A Room with a View, it was not highly regarded. I did like it a lot and was excited to see the movie when it came out. Must read it again sometime but I want to first read a few more books by Hilary Mantel and Marylynne Robinson. I read Wolf Hall and Gilead and was very impressed.

[@janetsmith8566]

This is such an important video! Listen, listen, listen listen listen, especially you very young people!

[@stevenpace1849]

I'm going to read Old Goriot next. Can you recommend a translation ?

[@marthacanady9441]

Tristan is great, I agree. Have you checked out Benjamin McEvoy? He’s fantastic.

[@Hiddel]

absolutely adore great gatsby. I was forced to learn it in school and completely disliked it, I actually sparknoted it for the test. But after rereading it two years ago i loved it. Should read more fitzgerald, going to check out a month in the country

[@samdryden7944]

Gatsby perplexed me. I don't understand why it seems to be so popular, and the over the top ending was reminiscent of Ethan Frome.

[@hanichay1163]

I love Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë.

[@GetExercised]

These are some of my most favorite books! I'm adding Old Goriot and Sybil to my tbr.

[@gloriaa3652]

Someone should do a talk on he number of coincidences that are allowed in some of the classics. Dickens is a real user of coincidences to advance his story. I cringe a little at times but accept that this was acceptable then. I think a writer would never get away with it today. That said, of course, I love Dickens.

[@user-sf3fe4bh2q]

I have already advised to you to read the book by E.L. Voinich " The Gadfly"- a very good victorian novel.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you. I will order it 😀👍

[@Jimbodisfan]

Good morning! Here in New Jersey I've binged on your videos and downloaded some Ebooks of some of the books in your 6 lesser known classics video, namely House of Ulloa, Time Will Darken It, and The Old Wives' Tale. I will download Mary Barton, and, as I have Sybil, will read both in preparation to read more Dickens. I have a Kindle collection of all of Dickens' novels.

[@user-sf3fe4bh2q]

@@Jimbodisfan 👍👍👍🥰❤️

[@user-sf3fe4bh2q]

@@Jimbodisfan Happy New Year, best wishes from Moscow!

[@Jimbodisfan]

@@user-sf3fe4bh2q Happy New Year and best wishes from New Jersey!

[@PoetlaureateNFDL]

Thanks for the videos! 😊

[@cristianmicu]

i have to say, i cannot pass this, i saw the sections of the video with OLD Goriot, and i knew for a very long time the original is pere goriot, which translates father goriot, word for word. this is your first missgiving, for what i watched and i love your content and watched quite a few of the lectures,but you shouldn't rely 100% on how the publisher translates, especially since we are speaking of a title of a novel, and an important one at that...'im quite sure, because i learned french as a study class in school when i was young, that the french will never take 'pere'' 'goriot' as old goriot semantically, NEVER, i couldf even go as far as to say french people would smile if they would see this cover of balzac's novel and this choice of title translation of this novel was unfortunate for this publisher