how to start reading classics in 2021 | 5 tips to read more classic literature

Would you like to read more classic literature? Then this is the video for you! Today I chat about why classic literature is intimidating, give you 5 tips for reading more of it, and lots of classics reading recommendations!
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Timestamps
00:37 Why is there so much pressure to enjoy classics?
01:17 Breaking down what classic literature actually is
02:15 It's ok not to love every classic
02:36 5 tips to read more classics
02:45 Tip #1
03:12 Tip #2
03:44 Tip #3
04:18 Tip #4
05:03 Tip #5
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📚 Recent/modern classics recommendations:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978151...
1984 by George Orwell uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978178...
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978014...
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978186...
📚 Short classics recommendations:
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978098...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978151...
The Time Machine by HG Wells uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978938...
Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978193...
📚 Classics that have movies:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978172...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978178...
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978155...
📚 Classic literature recommendations for book clubs:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978024...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978178...
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978178...
📚 Audiobook classic literature recommendations:
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978009...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978036...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy uk.bookshop.org/a/5047/978178...
I got my info about the origins of classic literature from Jan M Ziolkowski's "The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity, Volume 1: The Middle Ages."
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Thank you for your video. So the term 'classics' is subjective, from what I understand. To me it has always meant 'the works of the greatest writers from the early 17th century to the middle of last century', hasn't it? It is good to see you back 😍

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YOUR BACK this made my morning