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any language?
Hard to pick only three but if I had to than I would have to say
Edgar Allan Poe
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Margaret Atwood
The third was hard because there are several I could have chosen for that spot. I was really torn and thought I ought to have a woman on there because I do love her work.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Thomas Hardy
Robert Louis Stevenson
Charlotte Bronte joint third with Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell and Arthur Conan Doyle ( ha ha, got a sneaky six in there !)
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Shakespeare
George ELiot
Robert Louis Stevenson
George MacDonald Fraser
George Orwell
David Lodge
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cormac McCarthy
Flannery O'Connor
These are just the three I can think of right now
William Shakespeare
Dante Alighieri
Tie: William Blake & J.L. Borges
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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Favorite American authors, stlukesguild?
Favorite American Authors:
-Walt Whitman
-R.W. Emerson
-Herman Melville
runners up:
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
-Emily Dickinson
-T.S. Eliot
-Vladimir Nabokov
Favorite British Authors:
-William Shakespeare
-Edmund Spenser
-William Blake
runners up:
-John Milton
-John Keats
-Lawrence Sterne
-Jonathan Swift
-Thomas Traherne
-Robert Herrick
-Oscar Wilde
-Lewis Carroll
Favorite French Authors:
-Charles Baudelaire
-Victor Hugo
-Michel de Montaigne
runners up:
-Gustave Flaubert
-Paul Verlaine
-Marcel Proust
Favorite German Authors:
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Hermann Hesse
-Ranier Maria Rilke
runners up:
-Thomas Mann
-Franz Kafka
-Friedrich Hölderlin
Favorite Italian Authors:
-Dante Alighieri
-Eugenio Montale
-Italo Calvino
runners up:
-Giacomo Leopardi
-Carlo Goldini
-Ludovico Ariosto
Favorite Spanish Authors:
-Miguel de Cervantes
-Federico Garcia Lorca
-Rafael Alberti
runners up:
-Pedro Calderon de la Barca
-Fernando de Rojas
-San Juan de la Cruz
Favorite Russian Authors:
-Leo Tolstoy
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Anton Chekhov
runners up:
-Boris Pasternak
-Nikolai Gogol
-Mikhail Bulgakov
Favorite Greek Authors:
-Homer
-Aeschylus
-Sophocles
-Euripides
Favorite Latin Authors:
-Virgil
-Ovid
-Horace
Favorite Other European Authors:
-Fernando Pessoa
-Henrik Ibsen
-Pär Lagerkvist
-Jaroslaw Siefert
-Czesław Miłosz
-August Strindberg
-Jose Saramago
South-American/Mexican Authors:
-J.L. Borges
-Pablo Neruda
-Octavio Paz
-Gabriel García Márquez
-Alejo Carpentier
-Julio Cortazar
-César Vallejo
-Mario Vargas Llosa
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
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Conrad
George Eliot
W. Shakespeare
plus 4th: Chekhov
Interesting stlukesguild. Thanks for the list.
How is Victor Hugo better than Flaubert and Proust (all three being great canonical masters)? I'm interested. I love Hugo's Les Miserablee and long to read his other novels and his poetic work soon.
Wow, there are so many books I have waiting to be read, that I can only preface this by saying that these are placeholders:
1. Tolstoy
2. George Bernard shaw
3. Shakespeare/Homer
For me, number one is perfectly stable in his place at the top spot, the other two may vary. But currently,
1. Henry David Thoreau
2. Euripides
3. W. Somerset Maugham
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
1. Thomas Pynchon
2. Virginia Woolf/Vladimir Nabokov
3. William Shakespeare/William Faulkner
Picking only three was physically painful; even breaking the rules and including five was gut-wrenching
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
-Virginia Woolf