Another 10 SHORT CLASSICS You Can Read In A Day

[@cafeaulivre]

What are your favorite short classics? Have you read any of these? Let me know down below and we'll talk short reads and novellas some more!

[@maikelvoors9348]

Thank you. This is great. Big books are so intimidating.

[@cafeaulivre]

Sometimes you just can’t go for something big…and that’s totally fine!

[@maryfilippou6667]

I have read The Star Child many times since my wonderful uncle gifted me a beautiful, illustrated Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales on my 2nd or 3rd birthday. What interest it gave me throughout my childhood! What fascination in The Star Child and the Emperor's Nightingale, et al. I still have that beautiful edition, a treasure. Perfect of you to include it! I' ve seen a small paperback of the Fairytales at a large bookstore next block up. Worth it!!

[@cafeaulivre]

That sounds like a gorgeous edition!

[@Summalogicae]

I read Of Mice & Men in 6th grade and loved it then and still do decades later.

[@cafeaulivre]

It does seem to be one of those books teens often seem to love, in my experience.

[@Summalogicae]

Two other classics that I love-combined page count is approximately 400 pages depending on the edition-are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Most know the stories; but the real pleasure of these works is the appreciation of the many logical, semantical, and ontological puns, paradoxes, and puzzles with which Carrol adroitly accosts the reader.

[@cafeaulivre]

Absolutely! I love the ondrous and slightly hallucinogenic world of Alice

[@Summalogicae]

“Less is not more; more is more” Yngwie Malmsteen

[@cafeaulivre]

Havn’t read that one, thanks for the recommendation!

[@2134yanto]

Absolutely love Of Mice And Men, The Stranger, The Pearl, The Death Of Ivan Ilyich & Snow Country. I’d add Old Man And The Sea - Hemingway Silas Marner - George Eliot Bartleby The Scrivener - Herman Melville and Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

[@cafeaulivre]

I did Old Man And the Sea already in a previous video…love that book!

[@2134yanto]

@@cafeaulivre apologies. My memory is awful!

[@cafeaulivre]

No worries…and I’m quite sure I’ll do a dedicated Hemingway video one day!

[@2134yanto]

@@cafeaulivre look forward to that. Have you read the other books I mentioned?

[@cafeaulivre]

I have read Silas Marner, a long time ago. First year of uni, I think.

[@gracerodhouse2695]

so funny you said you hated the stranger in high school, it was one of the few i was FASCINATED by! so strange and odd yet so impactful

[@cafeaulivre]

It was more the fact we had to read it in French 😆

[@chriscw1443]

Thank you

[@cafeaulivre]

Thank you for watching!

[@aiscahill]

Of Mice and Men was one of the first classics I actually enjoyed, so it has a special place in my heart. Love Letters sounds so incredible. How anybody ever thought they were just friends is beyond me 💌

[@cafeaulivre]

The love letters are astonishing, I’m enjoying them enormously…they themselves just thought they’d be just friends as well at first. Vita writes her husband several times that he doesn’t need to worry: she won’t fall in love with Virginia.

[@DaughterOfThoth]

Now i need to know what are those chunkers you show in the beginning?😱 Great video, thank you🌸

[@cafeaulivre]

A Jules Verne collection, War and Peace and Anna Karenina 😉

[@coffeecheetoschicken4900]

Great recommendations! I've been wanting to read more classics but I can only take so many chonky books at a time lol. Another author I really enjoy for classics (for sci-fi) is Ray Bradbury! The Martian Chronicles is one of my favourite classics. I also like Lovecraft's short stories for a little cosmic horror :) Kurt Vonnegut also has some good ones like Harrison Bergeron or Cat's Cradle

[@cafeaulivre]

I love me some Lovecraftian horror 🦑

[@celticwelsh]

I love The Stranger! Second the recommendation for people to read it if they want something shorter.

[@cafeaulivre]

It does pack a punch, despite its’ length, doesn’t it?

[@tyghe_bright]

The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō is an interesting short Japanese classic. It's more a philosophy book about Japanese culture than about the beverage. It was written in 1906, *in English*, directedtoaWesternaudience...and the author definitely throws shade at Western culture. It's a poetic little book that's had influence on several Western thinkers and artists. I enjoyed reading it last year, and will definitely re-read it

[@cafeaulivre]

That sounds really interesting, havn’t read that one yet. Thanks!

[@user-gr5ps6hq2z]

I absolutely love of mice and men, the book is definitely better than the movie by far.

[@cafeaulivre]

I actually never saw the movie 🫣

[@LittleMew133]

I wonder why my fav writers are all the ones that off-ed themselves. Should I be worried?

[@cafeaulivre]

I could say the same things of writers and musicians and I’m doing fine 😉

[@Summalogicae]

Are you a writer who considers your own writing to among your favorites?

[@cafeaulivre]

@@Summalogicae Oh, I would never...when my first fantasy novel came out, there was a journalist who compared me to Tolkien and I was so ashamed by that, I asked him to take it out of the article 😅

[@VTimmoni]

I just can't get into Steinbeck. I love H. G. Wells though I prefer The Time Machine and the Island of Doctor Moreau (book only, avoid the movies).

[@cafeaulivre]

I preferred the Time Machine as well…and yeah: the movies are a letdown (same with War of the Worlds…don’t even get me started on that Tom Cruise one 😡)

[@VTimmoni]

@@cafeaulivre Thank you! I could not agree more.