Classic Books are traditional books which were written long ago. Classic books have a lot of importance because most of them are written to point out some extraordinary event which turns out to be a turning point in history. The extraordinary event can be philosophical or social. Many of the classic books have lost their copyright and are in public hands. Most of the classic books are obtainable online. According to Mark Twain Classic book were written for praising and not for reading. Though old, these books still thrill the adults. Classic books are just not for entertaining the readers but also to inform the readers some important events of the past.
Some classic book writers
- Goethe
- Niccolò Machiavelli,
- Henrik Ibsen,
- August Strindberg,
- Boleslaw Prus,
- Ignacy Krasicki,
- Anton Chekhov
- Leo Tolstoy
- William Shakespeare
- Geoffrey Chaucer,
- Miguel Cervantes,
- Voltaire,
- Denis Diderot
- Johann Wolfgang
- Mark Twain,
- Ambrose Bierce,
- Joseph Conrad,
- Lewis Carroll,
- Jonathan Swift
Some classic books under Bantam Classic Book Series
It has some excellent collection of classics put together
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Some classic books under the Harvard Classics
Earlier Harvard Classics was popular by the name Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf . It had fifty one volumes. It was a collection of stories by Charles W. Eliot
- Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
- The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Classic books are in demand all over the world.
