Classics for Pleasure

[CasualDebris]

Does any novel in the world begin better than Dickens's Great Expectations? — nor does the rest fail to live up to that opening.

Dickens was a master of opening sentences. Thinking also of "The Chimes" and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

 

[AE35Unit]

Fantastic music, and a fairly new discovery for me. Back when the conductor used to bang a stick on the floor rather than wave a baton. Which came to be this composer's downfall .

 

[AE35Unit]

Dickens was a master of opening sentences. Thinking also of "The Chimes" and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

It was the best of the times, it was the worst of times etc. That does go on a bit much

 

[Orcadian]

Fantastic music, and a fairly new discovery for me. Back when the conductor used to bang a stick on the floor rather than wave a baton. Which came to be this composer's downfall .

Lully's music is instantly recognisable. I have the soundtrack from the film Tous Les Matins Du Monde, which includes this fabulous (too-short) track:

The players here are a real orchestra, Les Vingt-Quatre Violons du Roi, who play on period instruments. They got dressed up in all this kit for the film. I just wish we saw more of them, and from closer up.

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[AE35Unit]

I need that film

 

[chongjasmine]

I like Dracula.

 

[Vince W]

I just came across my copy of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. Now I need to reread it.

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

Two classics I want to read, are Bleak House & Nicholas Nickleby.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I just came across my copy of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. Now I need to reread it.

It's not unusual to want to reread the classics.

 

[Vince W]

It's not unusual to want to reread the classics.

We so much need a groaning like image.

 

[Orcadian]

Yes, we need a groan face!
And we'd like to dilute the love heart face. :groan face:
And we'd like a less-hysterical laughing face.
Christmas is coming.