1.
Jane Eyre
2.
Dracula
3.
A Tale of Two Cities
4.
Smiling Man
5.
Golden Pavilion
6.
Arsene Lupin
7.
The Phantom of the Opera
8.
The Three Musketeers

★ We are all under the influence of the classics.
★ Classic plots that form the basis of popular culture such as movies, musicals, and games
★ He who knows the workings of human nature wins the heart of the world.
★ This is why you have to go through the trouble of buying it, or rather, why you have to buy it and read the classics.

I am the person in charge of the publishing company that produced this classic review cartoon, and I am one of those people who has read very few classics, so I am destined for the hell of classics after my death.
By chance, I was put in charge of a classic review cartoon, and I came across books in the form of cartoons that I had only known the titles of but had never read.
And soon I realized (I'm easily persuaded...).

“There’s a reason why classics are classics!”

I've heard it so many times in my life that I'm sick of it.
“You can gain wisdom from the classics.”
Is this still true in an era where you can ask AI anything and get an immediate answer?

right.
Any book contains some lessons or food for thought.
But books don't provide information directly and only in summary form like AI.
You have to flip through hundreds of pages of paper to get a rough idea of ​​what you're getting at.
The classics are speechless.
Five hundred, a thousand pages is a commonplace! Readers must memorize the names and positions of people in an unfamiliar era and country, create character relationships more complex than a soap opera, and endure turbulent times that are difficult to grasp. They must figure it out on their own.
Ah~ This is a pain to buy!

Here, author Kidunist did not stop at reading the classics.
Because organizing book reviews is not enough, I am serializing them into a comic book.
The author, who loved thick and difficult books since childhood and was never able to become popular, is still alive today as the author of the only comic book review collection in Korea.
However, the author said that while introducing the classics, he realized that there were many people who liked the classics like him.
Is there such a thing as a 'league of people who like to suffer by buying'?

Surely~ I thought that reading classics was a hobby of a very small minority, so I wrote the book half-believing the author's words and half-doubting them. Eventually, I felt the urge to visit the association's official website and fill out an application for membership.
I even wanted to persuade people around me to join the group!

I could write about how it came to be so that you would want to join right away, but I don't plan on doing so.
If you do that, it's no different from a clean answer sheet given by AI.
Dear, read this book yourself, watch the movies based on the works in this book, watch the dramas, and watch the musicals.
Discover where the character designs and conflict structures of the content we enjoy come from! Follow the source of water into the mountains, climb rocks, trip over tree roots, encounter bears, and even run away, until you finally reach the spring! Then, scoop up the water with your own two hands! Even from the same spring, the taste of the water we drink is unique to each of us!

What's important here is that, as a classics fan, if I had just read the original work, I would have given up right away, but because I started with a review toon full of humor, witty banter, and humanity, I was able to approach the classics 'a bit more easily.'
And after reading the original works, I became a classic expert and wanted to share high-level jokes that only veterans can relate to.
With a proud shrug!

But that day will actually be quite a while away, so I won't be greedy and will just follow Kidunist's review toons as a newbie for a while to be introduced to classics.
Then one day I will send a message to the writer.
I read all of the original 000!
Who wants to join?

★ Review Work Introduction

Jane Eyre
Written by Charlotte Brontë, approximately 500 pages
After a difficult childhood, orphan Jane Eyre begins working as a governess and falls in love with her employer, Rochester.
But conflict arises as Rochester's dark secret is revealed.

Dracula
Bram Stoker, about 400 pages
Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh, Scotland. The story begins with Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, visiting Count Dracula's castle.
As Count Dracula moves to London and attempts to carry out his vampire plan, a struggle ensues between characters to stop him.

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, about 350 pages
The story unfolds between London and Paris, set during the French Revolution.
It depicts Lucie Manette, her family, and friends struggling to survive in the chaos of the revolution.

The Man Who Laughs
Victor Hugo, about 500 pages
A novel about the life of Gwynplaine, a man with a torn face and a hideous grin.
Gwynplaine becomes a successful acrobat, but his fate is tragic when the secret of his birth and social status is revealed.

The Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima, about 300 pages
Mizoguchi, a crippled boy, enters the Kinkaku-ji Temple and is captivated by its beauty, but this beauty gradually leads him to his downfall.
A novel depicting the aesthetic gaze toward the Golden Pavilion and its inner conflict.

Arsene Lupin, the Gentleman Thief
Maurice Leblanc, about 300 pages (short story collection)
Pierre Lafitte et Cie, a collection of short stories about the adventures of a gentleman thief named Arsène Lupin in Paris, France.
He is a brilliant mind and a master of disguise, and solves many cases while clashing with the police.

The Phantom of the Opera
Pierre Lafitte et Cie, Paris, France
Mysterious events taking place at the Paris Opera House.
The story unfolds when Eric, a hideous ghost, takes over the opera house and falls in love with the young soprano Christine Daae.

The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, about 700 pages
D'Artagnan, a young country boy, comes to Paris and befriends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and embarks on an adventure.
Together they fight and defeat a conspiracy that threatens King Louis XIII of France and Queen Anne of Austria.