Try www.classicreader.com for free online classics. I really enjoy reading plays, and two of my favorites include Wilde's
An Ideal Husband, and I always liked
A Streetcar Named Desire. The best play written in the last 20 years is
Angels in America. As far as novels go,
Slaughterhouse 5, because it makes the horrible comical. Vonnegut writes like he's at a poetry slam. I'm also a fan of the darkness-and-salvation theme of
The Count of Monte Cristo and the very accurate representation of Peruvian Colonial society (suprisingy tender) in Thornton Wilder's
Bridge over San Luis Rey. I also have to confess to having read Alcott's
Little Women in three languages, and that sh[Black][/Black]it never gets old.
For more modern novels, I just love
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Chinua Achebe's
Things Fall Apart, not to mention Gabriel Garcia Márquez's
100 Years of Solitude, which, IMHO, kicks
Love in the Time of Cholera's ***.
Márquez, in his bestest work ever, wrote:
At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.
Edited, Wed May 3 10:21:50 2006 by Atomicflea