Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
dunno
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
dunno
Previously JonathanB
The more I read, the more I shall covet to read. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy Partion3, Section 1, Member 1, Subsection 1
Thomas Hardy?Originally Posted by JonathanB
For me...
Faulkner
Greene
Fitzgerald
I will also throw in Henry James a bonus!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. William Shakespeare
2 O. Henry
3 Leo Tolstoy
William Shakespeare
Sjón
Milan Kundera
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
Richard Compton.
Ian Fleming.
John Le Carre.
William Manchester.
Grahame Greene.
Evelyn Waugh
Hemingway, Shakespeare, Ovid
"So-Crates: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing." "That's us, dude!"- Bill and Ted
"This ain't over."- Charles Bronson
Feed the Hungry!
1. William Shakespeare.
2. Vladimir Nabokov.
3. James Joyce.
Their work exudes je ne sais quoi. Nothing compares. Well, arguably Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
1. Evelyn Waugh
2. Aldous Huxley
3. Anthony Burgess
hmmm
1. Dostoyevsky
2. Albert Camus
3. jean paul sartre
Can I say three more??
Modern (my holy literary trinity): Timothy Findley, Vikram Seth, Yann Martel
Classic: E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte
1. Rafael Sabatini
2. Sir Henry Rider Haggard
3. Adam Hall (Quiller series)
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