My Favorite Literature

I adore and worship books, and I will never get enough. What I love about literature it invites you into another world and one that is beyond your everyday conception. I agree that old literature can be stuffy, stiff, and overly polite. On the other hand, literature is beautiful, sophisticated, and well-crafted; readers can learn from the masterpieces of another period’s ideas and use of ornate language. The books below are some of my favorites, and it is hard and painful to choose just four pieces of literature to tell you about. I have added one poet who is always worthy of appreciation for the masterful and simplistic verses of Robert Frost. I will explain the important of each of these pieces of literature.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“The More I See Of The World, The More I Am Dissatified With It.”

~Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

One of Jane Austen’s humorous romantic novels. The characters of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy makes for a passionate and witty couple. Even though each detests the idea of romantic love between them, fate has its way, and they fall in love. Each character is too honest with the others about their faults and weakness. Also, both characters know the division between their social circles, social standing, and family connections. Also, Mr. Darcy, with good reason, knows why they should never be together with her prejudice against him, her ill-bred family, and her over-friendliness with others of the lower classes. Elizbeth is aware of his coldness and pride in his superior position and his pride in his wealth. Both detest the others pride.

Neither, at first, seems willing to have an understanding and compassion for the difference of the other in temperament or social standing. Yet the situation changes as they begin to understand and sympathize with the goodness of the other through the drama of Bennet’s family and the direct action of Mr. Darcy. In the end, Mr.Darcy comes to the rescue and saves the Bennet family from losing their respective social standings. The characters understand the other temperament and differences better and find that they respect and love each other more than they ever could imagine. It ends with both characters confessing their blindness to the goodness of the other and their true feelings for each other.

All Creatures, great and small

by James Herriot

“If Having A Soul Means Being Able To Love And Loyality And Graditude, Then Animals Are Better Off Than A Lot of Humans,”

~All Creatures, Great And Small by James Herriot

James Herriot’s writing displays his dry wit and talent for storytelling. The tales of an English country veterinarian. Herriot vividly and engagingly tells his memories of being a Yorkshire country veterinarian. The hilarious and witty voice comes through in the storytelling. He takes the real everyday life of a country veterinarian and adds humor to it. The stories of country Veterinarian practice are relatable as he draws you into the world of Seidfred and Tristan; James is hilarious and draws you into his world and perspective on the local farmers, his personal life, and close friends. He vividly drawn characters, his special and memorable characters. Such as; Mrs. Pumphrey, her extremely spoiled Tricky Woo (dog), and the eccentric and vulgar farmers and over-demanding clients. James Herriot talks a lot about the innovation of veterinarian medicine and global changes in the UK and the World War II. James sees the world around him change in the Scottish countryside goes through effect of modernation. The books contain a good deal of personal reflection and observations.

Little Dorrit

By Charles Dickens

“One Always Begins To Forgive A Place As Soon As It’s Left Behind.”

~Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

One of Charles Dickens longest and most complex novels. I love this novel because it touches on justice, mercy, and love while also dealing with the darker elements of abuse, neglect and greed. Little Dorrit, the main character Amy Dorrit the youngest Dorrit, deals with her father’s neglect and her siblings outright rudeness. She takes care of her family by sewing and doing housework, and so supports the ungrateful family. The idea of her father that debtors prison is the best place for him and his family and that he is a man of importance. Rather, he is, agreed and lazy nobody. Their fortune changes when the Dorrit’s mysteriously gain family wealth and societal position. The days of the debtor’s prison disappear, and the Dorrit lives in style abroad. Amy Dorrit struggles to adapt new lifestyle and notices that they are chance of a dangerous man. The story leads you through lots of family conflict and misunderstanding about the origin of the wealth they have inherited until the truth comes out in the end about the Dorrit family. It is a challenging and long read, but worth the patience.

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

“But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. ”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

Margaret Hale that daughter of a clergyman and a lady lives a peaceful life in the small village in the south. Until, her father decides him to leave the south and his Parrish to the north to teach. This through the whole family off their tracks into a whole new world. Margaret Hale must take care of her ill mother and absent mind father as they weather the cold and tougher northern England culture. Margaret Hale struggles to find community and identity in a world she sees as so cruel and unreasonable. There arises in the novel a tense between Mr. Thornton, a man she sees the embodies the ideals she so much hate of the culture of north. However, as the plotline progress she comes to help Mr. Thornton and save him from his own desire for an industry that almost destroy himself and his business. Margaret deals with her own doubts and insecurities as she tries to create a place in this industrial town. Later in the novel, we observe Margaret developing a voice as she moves away from her family and previous ideas about the world. North and South is a fictional work that deals with social/cultural conflict on the time period. While dealing with the characters’ personal lives through lifestyle changes, economic changes, grief and romance.

Robert Frost

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”

~Robert Frost

I enjoy reading Robert Frost poetry. I find his simple and straight talking poems on morality, meaning of life, nature, concrete concepts. One of my favorite Robert Frost poems is ” Sound of the Trees.” I like it because it tells about the longing and miss opportunities like the sounds of mournful trees. The temporality of life happens. The voices are the past sing through the trees and growth and maturity of the person in the poem. How the tree symbolises the development of the character and as it gets older and wiser in development. I find that Robert Frost has the ability of using language and nature to tell us truths about ourselves. The weight of patients in challenges and choices we make impact the direction of our lives. Many have probably read Robert Frost in high school classes or in the a English literature class in college. Even though, he is well known, Frost still speaks truths to the heart of the people.