Because the past is a foreign country, the classics are an excellent guide to that country, and foreign time travel broadens your perspective, making you a cultural and chronological cosmopolitan instead of a hick with the stifling horizons of your own local spacetime. They embiggen us.
Plus a lot of them are fun as heck to read, page turners, not at all difficult, e.g. Pride and Prejudice or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Count of Monte Cristo and so many others.
Plus a lot of them are fun as heck to read, page turners, not at all difficult, e.g. Pride and Prejudice or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Count of Monte Cristo and so many others.