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Post by hi224 on May 1, 2020 15:59:17 GMT
anyone?.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 1, 2020 16:19:33 GMT
Victorian era is the best era for British literature.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 1, 2020 16:43:39 GMT
Big fan of Evelyn Waugh. Graham Greene is worth a read too.
Don’t forget PG Wodehouse.
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Post by hi224 on May 1, 2020 21:15:54 GMT
Wordsworth anyone? robert burns?.
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Post by needysboy on May 1, 2020 21:20:04 GMT
I'm fond of the gothic lit.
Dracula, Carmilla, and Varney.
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Post by hi224 on May 1, 2020 22:04:27 GMT
Victorian era is the best era for British literature. ah favorite writers and why.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 2, 2020 9:27:06 GMT
Victorian era is the best era for British literature. ah favorite writers and why. Charles Dickens, The Bronte Sisters, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, George Eliiot and Elizabeth Gaskell are some of the authors from that era i like. I like how they wrote stories and the characters they created.
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Post by sadsaak on May 2, 2020 10:30:43 GMT
ah favorite writers and why. Charles Dickens, The Bronte Sisters, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, George Eliiot and Elizabeth Gaskell are some of the authors from that era i like. I like how they wrote stories and the characters they created. I could never get into Hardy. All his characters seemed so endlessly glum. Even poor Bathsheba ended up with "The most private, secret, plainest wedding that it is possible to have." And George Elliot drowned the lovers at the end of The Mill on the Floss. I liked Anthony Trollope, who clearly liked all his characters even Mrs Proudie and the Bishop. And G A Henty, Talbot Baines Reed and Conan Doyle's (although I admit that by dying in 1930, it was a bit of a stretch to call the latter a Victorian) seemed to get up and do, rather than sitting on their arses and waiting on events.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on May 3, 2020 15:07:00 GMT
ah favorite writers and why. Charles Dickens, The Bronte Sisters, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, George Eliiot and Elizabeth Gaskell are some of the authors from that era i like. I like how they wrote stories and the characters they created. I went through a Wilkie Collins phase while in high school. He wrote some good chilling stuff. "A Terribly Strange Bed" still haunts me!
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Post by mmexis on May 10, 2020 5:31:13 GMT
Didn't like Hardy until I read Jude the Obscure. We had done 2 novels in school (Mayor and Tess)and didn't really like either of them. But Jude!!! Also on my fave list: far from the madding crowd, the "creepy" well-beloved. When I have time I'll re-read the others although I have read most of his work.
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Post by rudeboy on May 13, 2020 1:41:01 GMT
Didn't like Hardy until I read Jude the Obscure. We had done 2 novels in school (Mayor and Tess)and didn't really like either of them. But Jude!!! Also on my fave list: far from the madding crowd, the "creepy" well-beloved. When I have time I'll re-read the others although I have read most of his work. I just finished Jude the Obscure a couple of days ago... beautiful book. It's the first from Hardy I have read but I have Far from the Madding Crowd on my Kindle and will tackle it soon. My favourite British novelist? Possibly Graham Greene although I have so far only read a few of his books. Among more contemporary British writers I particularly love Sebastian Faulks... and Terry Pratchett! 
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Post by Morgana on May 13, 2020 15:34:39 GMT
Some of my favourites:
Dickens
Austen
George Elliot
Somerset Maugham
Greene
Edit:
P.D. James
Agatha Christie
Shakespeare
John Clare
Byron
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on May 13, 2020 19:57:10 GMT
Why is John Fowles no longer popular? 50 years ago he would be the first writer mentioned in a topic like this. Three of his novels made into films. His works spawned controversy andthe debate but no longer. Was his style just of the times? A fashion icon which has moved on to the latest one?
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Post by hi224 on May 13, 2020 22:26:28 GMT
Why is John Fowles no longer popular? 50 years ago he would be the first writer mentioned in a topic like this. Three of his novels made into films. His works spawned controversy andthe debate but no longer. Was his style just of the times? A fashion icon which has moved on to the latest one? perhaps because people love discussing where it started more?.
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on May 14, 2020 5:17:44 GMT
Why is John Fowles no longer popular? 50 years ago he would be the first writer mentioned in a topic like this. Three of his novels made into films. His works spawned controversy andthe debate but no longer. Was his style just of the times? A fashion icon which has moved on to the latest one? perhaps because people love discussing where it started more?.
Chaucer?
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Post by hi224 on May 28, 2020 14:45:08 GMT
So favorite poets?.
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Post by Morgana on May 28, 2020 15:18:28 GMT
Why is John Fowles no longer popular? 50 years ago he would be the first writer mentioned in a topic like this. Three of his novels made into films. His works spawned controversy andthe debate but no longer. Was his style just of the times? A fashion icon which has moved on to the latest one? He seems to have gone out of fashion. I loved The French Lieutenant's Wife, and the film with Meryl Streep was good. The Magus was also an interesting read.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on May 31, 2020 17:27:54 GMT
One of my favorite authors is British, she's a modern author and writes the Ruth Galloway series and the Magic Men series and some stand alone. I know she is not considered a "great" author but I enjoy her books. Oops! Her pen name is Elly Griffiths, she has written a few books under her real name of Domenica De Rosa.
I also loved the cozy mysteries by the late M.C. Beaton, I was very sad when she died last year. Her last Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisen books will still be published, I have them on pre order from Amazon UK.
I must not forget J.K. Rowlings.
I like many of the authors mentioned above but the ones I have just mentioned are the ones I read over and over again because they relax me and bring a smile to my face. I no longer want to read the "heavy" stuff, my brain is getting too old.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jun 1, 2020 8:38:44 GMT
I haven't read Alexander McCall Smith's books but I am aware of them, maybe I'll try to buy some from Thrift books - I love that quote " Too many books, too little time" that's me, there is so much I want to read but time is running out.
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