✨my classics tbr ✨

Hiya everyone...

Long time, no see! I honestly do not know where this month has gone. It's nearly the end of July already and I've barely had time to notice it go by.

However, I have now left my job and have the next 6 ish weeks to prepare for university. I have a biggg list of books to read and a chance to enjoy time with my family. With plenty of time for blogging thrown in too! 

I am a huge classics fan and from the reading list I've already received for the first term of my degree, university is going to fuel my passion even more. There are some great books on my shelf to read before September, including The Great Gatsby and Dracula!! 

With that being said. Here is my 

Classics TBR...

📚David Copperfield - Charles Dickens📚

This is Dickens' most famous bildungsroman novel and has some of his better known characters including Uriah Heep and Betsey Trotwood. The novel is all about coming of age and the journey through Copperfield's dramatic life. 

This novel is without a doubt a semi-autobiographical account of Dickens' own life including work, education and family relationships. All this lead to Dickens' claiming this book as his "favourite child".

I became keen to read this after studying and falling in love with Great Expectations and the bildungsroman genre. I learnt lots of context about Dickens during this time and this book was very prevalent during the research. 

📚Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy📚

This is a story that follows Bathsheba Everdene and her life as a farmer on a large estate in Wessex. 

Into her life come 3 different suitors - a farmer, a soldier and a shepherd. They all impact her decisions and affect her life in different ways. 

This book focuses on rural life whilst also discussing honest sexual relationships.

I want to read this because I haven't read any Hardy before and the description of this novel caught my eye. That and oh my, how gorgeous is the bee cover!!!

📚The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas📚

For me this sounds like a really thrilling read. It follows the story of Edmond Dantes who has been wrongly imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, and is confined to a grim cell.

Her becomes determined to escape and avenge the three men who imprisoned him after he learns about treasure of the Isle of Monte Cristo.

I am going to be participating in a group read for this book throughout August with a huge group of other book instagrammers and I'm excited to be ticking a book off my Tbr in such an interactive way. 

📚 Mansfield Park - Jane Austen📚

I am a big fan of Jane Austen and her novels. I absolutely fell in love with Pride and Prejudice as soon as I read it and I have watched so many TV and movie adaptions of her novels but I am still yet to read my last 1 or 2. 

This story follows the outcomes of two sisters - one marries for wealth, the other for love. 

Fanny Price grows up a poor, largely ignored girl in a rich household of her uncles. She only has her cousin Edmund as a friend and ally in her position.

Things are then rocked by the arrival of the glamourous and mischievous siblings Mr and Miss Crawford. 

📚 Middlemarch - George Eliot📚

This novel is a delicate and moving connected web of lives. 

The novel follows Dorothea Brooke (a young idealist), Dr Lydgate (a medical pioneer), and Bullstrode (a religious hypocrite with a past to hide). 

The reason I am fascinated by and drawn to this book comes back to my experience of reading Great Expectations. I adore books in which the characters are connected and play key roles in each other later fortunes and therefore I think I will enjoy this book a lot. 

📚Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte📚

This is a really important book of its time as it follows a young woman who strives to be more than the patriarchy says she should be.

Jane has a poor start in life, enduring cruel education and the reality of being an orphan. However, she is headstrong and determined and takes up a position as a governess, falls in love and is continually searching for a life richer than traditional gender norms allow.

I feel terrible that I have not yet read this book and it has been on my long running tbr for years and years. Hopefully, I will get round to it soon!

So there we have it! Just a small insight into my classics tbr (maybe I'll do a part two at some stage).

Have you read any of these?

Are any of these classics on your tbr?

Until next time

xxx