<p>For my Honors English class, i have to pick an author and read a minimum of 600 pages of literary work by that author and do some writing assignments for it. The author has to be some classical author, and, preferably, written books that are easy to analyze. So, do you have any recommendations?</p>
<p>I’d say Harper Lee, but she hasn’t written 600 pages worth of analysis, really.</p>
<p>John Steinbeck should be easy. He has alot of short books, and a few long ones, the best of both worlds. 
I don’t know what you mean by “classical” though.</p>
<p>Henry James would be fantastic too. His books tend to have similar themes throughout as well, and like Steinbeck writes both novellas and almost epics.</p>
<p>There’s so much out there about Dickens, but I find him a bit of a trudge to get through. George Eliot is fun, but can be a little dense.</p>
<p>my first choice would be samuel clemens (mark twain).
after that, HG Wells would be pretty easy.</p>
<p>[edit] sounds like a cool (while difficult) project. Better than anything my english class does :(</p>
<p>I would read Jane Austen. <3</p>
<p>well, I’m reading Vanity Fair (about 700 pages)…really good…he also explains the hypocrisy of a lot of the character’s actions if you read closely, so if you take notes it would be a good book. Vanity Fair is excellent, btw</p>
<p>Nabokov, if he qualifies. He’s amazing.</p>
<p>I don’t know what you mean by “classical,” but I suggest Orwell, Camus, or Hemingway. But if you’re looking for books that are relatively easy to analyze I’d go with Austen (she also seems like she would classify as “classical”).</p>
<p>By classical authors, I meant authors who have written classical books. Sorry for the unclarity.
And also, I have to do a presentation on what I learned about the author and actually pretend to BE the author.
Thank you so much for your wonderful responses so far.</p>
<p>Classical books are the books written in ancient Greece or Rome.
Are you sure you need classical books now? :)</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>haha, yea, you can definitely do “Lysystrata,” Just Kidding! Don’t think you’d want to act that one out. </p>
<p>Anyways, does classical mean, not modern?
Otherwise you’ve always got George Orwell and John Steinback. </p>
<p>Personally, I chose Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen” for an author project, and it was extremely good. Also, Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” was awesome.</p>
<p>D did Lewis Carroll for hers.</p>
<p>i second camus. but personally, i’d choose a tom wolfe, william burroughs or hunter s. thompson. not sure if they’re “classic” (1960’s) but they’re a hell of an interesting, unusual read.</p>
<p>Ernest Hemingway would be a FUN person to be. He was an adventuring alcoholic manic depressive. His books directly reflect his life, too. To me he epitomises Thoreau’s bit about “sucking the marrow out of life”.</p>
<p>^You don’t happen to like Dead Poets Society do you? </p>
<p>There are plenty of manic-depressive artists/authors/figures. Another is Sylvia Plath. One of the more interesting ones to me is Schuman.</p>
<p>I don’t have any suggestions… just don’t choose one of the Russian authors.</p>
<p>F. Scott Fitzgerld? J. D. Salinger? anyone EXCEPT steinbeck because he stinks</p>
<p>I second J.D. Salinger. I really enjoyed Catcher in the Rye when we had to read it in school, and Franny and Zooey is very good as well.</p>
<p>Hemingway’s a great choice. I’m reading A Farewell to Arms right now!</p>
<p>Basically, all of the ‘classics’ are great because… they’re classics for a reason =)</p>
<p>The only “classic” (although I’m not sure this one’s a classic) that I hated was Native Son. Maybe it was the way my teacher taught it… but I now loathe that book.</p>