Recommendations
Each one of these shells
is unique as is each one of the artistic works I have recommended here.
Some will have you laughing 'til it hurts; others will touch your
heart. Though some portions of some of the materials may be slightly questionable, for
the most part all are squeaky clean and give hours of guiltless
pleasure. In addition, the listed literature is very useful to perfecting your
literary skill in both reading and writing. Enjoy!
Classic
Literature:
1. Emma by Jane Austen
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
4. Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane
Austen
6. The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by
Anne Bronte
9. Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord
Tennyson
10. The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Timeless Poetry:
1.'Tis the Last
Rose of Summer
by Thomas Moore
2. Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
3. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
4. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing
Young Charms by Thomas Moore
5. Stanzas on Freedom by James
Russell
Lowell
6. At First I Did Attention Give by
Charlotte Bronte
7. She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
8. Sonnet 138 by William Shakespeare
9. The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
10. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Great
Black-and-White Films:
1. A Night in Casablanca (Marx. Bros.)
2. Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn,
Gregory Peck)
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(James Stewart)
4. Charade (Cary Grant, Audrey
Hepburn)
5. An Affair to Remember (Cary
Grant, Maureen O'Hara)
6. Born Yesterday (Judy Holliday, William
Holden)
7. Sabrina (Humphrey Bogart, Audrey
Hepburn)
8. It Happened One Night (Clark
Gable, Claudette Colbert)
9. Notorious (Ingrid Bergman, Cary
Grant)
10. You Can't Take It With You (James
Stewart)
Other
Classic Films (Some From Novels):
1. Wuthering Heights (Laurence
Olivier)
2. Pride and Prejudice
(Laurence Olivier)
3. War and Peace (Audrey
Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonda)
4. Singin' In the Rain (Gene
Kelly, Debbie Reynolds)
5. The Importance of Being
Earnest (Michael Redgrave)
6. Funny Face (Fred Astaire,
Audrey Hepburn)
7. White Christmas (Bing
Crosby, Rosemary Clooney)
8. Carefree (Fred Astaire,
Ginger Rogers)
9. Cover Girl (Eve Arden, Gene
Kelly)
10. Tammy and the Bachelor
(Debbie Reynolds)