A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. - Italo Calvino Although written several centuries ago, classic books continue to allure the readers even in the modern world. They are termed as timeless, as the authors followed certain structural guidelines while writing them. Most of these books depict the period in which they were written. Here are a few classics that are all-time favorite books of the bibliophiles. Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen It is Jane Austen's second novel which was published in 1813. It's a tale about the misunderstandings and prejudices that arise between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, and is set in the backdrop of Victorian England. This novel is among the most popular novels of Jane Austen and has been adapted into several films. Madame Bovary ~ Gustave Flaubert It is a classic tale of a young married woman, Emma, whose romantic expectations about love are not fulfilled by her husband. Due to this, she commits adultery which finally leads to her destruction. To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee Racial inequality is the central theme of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' which was published in 1960. The story is told through the eyes of Scout Finch, who is a 6-year-old girl, and is set in backdrop of Great Depression in America. A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens It is a book where Charles Dickens, through his principal characters, portrays the oppressive nature of the French aristocracy towards the peasant class. Paradise Lost ~ John Milton It is an epic poem which was written in 12 books, and published in 1674. In this poem, Milton tells the story of the fall of man from the grace of God by using a variety of poetic devices. Anna Karenina ~ Leo Tolstoy It is a majestic novel, divided into 8 parts, which was published in the periodical 'The Russian Messenger' between 1873 to 1877. The main character of the novel is Anna Karenina, and the book deals with a variety of themes like marriage, fidelity, hypocrisy, society, family, desire, etc. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ~ William Shakespeare It is the longest, and most popular, play written by the great playwright, William Shakespeare. This play depicts the conflict of Prince Hamlet who faces a dilemma, where he has to choose between personal revenge and moral values. Ulysses ~ James Joyce It was published, in the year 1922, in Paris. This great saga consists of 18 episodes, and approximately 265,000 words. Joyce structured it with the help of stream of consciousness technique. Though the book garnered a lot of criticism when it was published, it is now considered to be the greatest work of modernist literature. Gone With the Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell The novel depicts the period of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction, and has a lot of social and historical references. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1937, and was also made into a movie. Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Brontë It was published in the year 1847. The novel depicts the tale of Jane Eyre, an orphan girl, and how she finds true love after going through various trials and difficult situations in life. In addition to these, there are some more books that are a part of the rich literature and have stolen the hearts of many readers. The following is a list of classic books that everyone should read.

Lady Chatterley's Lover ~ D. H. Lawrence	Rebecca ~ Daphne du Maurier
Animal Farm ~ George Orwell	The Moonstone ~ Wilkie Collins
The Catcher in the Rye ~ J. D. Salinger	Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller
Oedipus the King ~ Sophocles	A Farewell to Arms ~ Ernest Hemingway
Gulliver's Travels ~ Jonathan Swift	Utopia ~ Thomas More
David Copperfield ~ Charles Dickens	No Exit ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel García Márquez	Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Way of the World ~ William Congreve	War and Peace ~ Leo Tolstoy
Frankenstein ~ Mary Shelley	Don Quixote ~ Miguel de Cervantes
Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott	Wuthering Heights ~ Emily Brontë
Vanity Fair ~ William Makepeace Thackeray	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Lolita ~ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	The Scarlet Letter ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Canterbury Tales ~ Geoffrey Chaucer	The Dangerous Liaisons ~ Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Beloved ~ Toni Morrison	The Color Purple ~ Alice Walker
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale ~ Herman Melville	Oliver Twist ~ Charles Dickens
Robinson Crusoe ~ Daniel Defoe	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ Mark Twain
The Trial ~ Franz Kafka	Far from the Madding Crowd ~ Thomas Hardy
The Lord of the Rings ~ J. R. R. Tolkien	The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Prince ~ Niccolò Machiavelli	The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce	The Mill on the Floss ~ George Eliot
Silas Marner ~ George Eliot	The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll	Les Misérables ~ Victor Hugo
Black Beauty ~ Anna Sewell	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ~ Mark Twain
Great Expectations ~ Charles Dickens	Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady ~ Samuel Richardson
A Doll's House ~ Henrik Ibsen	Romeo and Juliet ~ William Shakespeare
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ~ Robert Louis Stevenson	Mrs Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ~ Jules Verne	The Metamorphosis ~ Franz Kafka
The Wind in the Willows ~ Kenneth Grahame	A Journey to the Centre of the Earth ~ Jules Verne
Dracula ~ Bram Stoker	Treasure Island ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Each of these classics is distinct from the others and many readers have mentioned that every time they read a book again, they came across something that they had not noticed earlier. Pick up some of these books to enjoy reading timeless classics.