Along with what you mentioned in the quantity section, when reading classics from the 19th and early 20th century, serialization was a common and popular form of publication. This meant that many authors would release their work in periodical, often monthly, installments. Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Leo Tolstoy (e.g. Anna Karenina), and Fyodor Dostoevsky (e.g. The Brothers Karamazov) wrote some or many works this way. So when considering how reading you can do in a sitting or what’s accessible to you, if you’re reading from this era, you might be able to grasp the plot with to one or two chapters per session more often than not in these cases. It seems that this was popular in the (Victorian era) UK, US, France, German speaking nations, and (Qing Dynasty) China. Thanks for your tips and I hope this helps too! I’m passionate about accessibility and desnobifiction (if you will) of academia, literature, and history, so I really enjoyed getting some genuinely helpful tips which support that.
These are all great tips! You’re especially right about reading in longer chunks vs a few minutes per day. I will keep your tips in mind for all types of reading. Glad your channel was recommended to me! New subscriber 😊 keep up the great work! ❤
This is a brilliant video on reading classics! I’ve been trying to read classics for years but the only classics I’ve enjoyed reading is The Picture of Dorian Grey. Will try these tips out!
Another thing where you can look for free books are free little librairies. :) If you don't know them, they are public bookshelves where people leave their used books and/or take books from. I have actually found several classics in these. :)
On Agatha Christie another movie adaptation also just came out, a Haunting in Venice which was really awesome. Great video btw!! Am immediately gonna start with Hamlet haha, I enjoyed Macbeth in school so :) fingers crossed.
oh hi rory-i think the camera issue gives you a classic soft focus glow! 😊 i hadn't thought about it too much before, but now you bring it up i totally think dark academia/romanticisation is about creating the space to understand and explore our own feelings. like you said, life was a lot slower back when these books were written and therefore we get room to soak in our emotions and daydream instead of feeling endlessly compressed by constant stimulation. 🌌 and as you also brought up, i definitely see the judginess/defensiveness that comes as people try to figure out how hold space for their own feelings and opinions in the current world-but sometimes at the expense of their relationships/environment. 🫤 perhaps that's why we appreciate edith wharton who was advocating so hard for both joyful social connections AND nuanced, autonomous navigation as an individual! 🥰
absolutely love your ability to take my thoughts and put them in an articulate manner lol. That's exactly what I mean when I say classics are 'slower', they give you more time to process in between each event in the book, whereas books today just move from one reveal to the next within like ten pages. I love how you associate reading with 'spaces' of expression, and how everyone wants to feel like their opinions take up space in the world. Such a good analogy!
Portuguese literature is western literature, I’d say in English speaking countries litte is known or talked about classics from other languages besides French. Like I don’t hear much about Spanish, latin american, portuguese classics just to mention a few.
I def should have clarified, I know Portugal is western culture, but I was using it as an example to show that sometimes 'classics' are not very popular transnationally! But yes it is unfortunate that many works written in Spanish/Portuguese are overlooked, even though they are more connected to our culture than say Russian literature which definitely has a prominent spot in the 'classics' category.
@@ArielReads_ I do appreciate you mentioning the issue though, there are wonderful works out there! Found your channel just recently and I’m loving your content so thanks for the work you put into.
