TOP 5 // Classics I want to read the most

Hello beautiful people!

Lately, I've been in a huge mood to read English classics, which couldn't make me happier, as classics used to be a big part of my reading life. Because I have so many of them on my wishlist - I'm going to London soon and I'll buy tons of them - I thought I would share the five of them I want to read the most lately. 

Emma by Jane Austen

I still have three of Jane Austen novels to read and because of the YouTube channels I've been watching lately or my craving for period drama, I'm so excited to continue to read them. Emma is the one I'm the most excited to get to because many of my friends told me it was either their favourite or second favourite Jane Austen. That's all I need to be excited. After Emma, I'll also have to get to Mansfield Park and Persuasion, then to move on to her youthful writings.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

When it comes to the Brontë sisters, I read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights six years ago, but as Anne Brontë isn't well-known in France, I never got around to read one of her novels. I'm really curious to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and I've heard it was considered scandalous when it was published, but quite a sucess and that it was very mysterious and feminist. 

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Ever since I read Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee, I've been eager to read more of Tolstoy's novels. I read Anna Karenina while I was still in high school and had absolutely loved it. I think I'll reread it in the future, because I don't remember it that well, but for now, I really want to read War and Peace, because I've had the 2016 mini-series on my laptop for a year, but also because I'm very curious about the way he wrote it, considering how huge it is (more than a thousand pages).

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Last year, I read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and really enjoyed it. I wanted to read more of her novels, but I didn't know where to head next, until I watched Ellie Dashwood's most helpful video. I really want to read all the books she mentioned, but I think I will to start with Wives and Daughters, because it sounded absolutely amazing when she talked about it. Besides, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a biography about Charlotte Brontë and I need to read it.

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I don't know anything about this one, except that it's one of the first mystery and "sensation" novels and that some people consider it to be the first example of detective novels. Besides, this novel was written during the Victorian era (that's my thing) and Wilkie Collins was a close friend of Charles Dickens, one of my favourite writers!

Have you read any of these books? What classics do you really want to read?

Lots of love,

Lucie