hello everybody!
who is you favourite english writer? or if you don't have a favourite one, which english writers to you prefere to read?
hello everybody!
who is you favourite english writer? or if you don't have a favourite one, which english writers to you prefere to read?
Are you looking for a particular period or is being English the only requirement? As far as Victorian writers, I would have to go with John Galsworthy and Anthony Trollope. More modern favorites are JRR Tolkien, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, all fantasy writers...I really need to broaden my horizons.
William Shakespeare / Rudyard Kipling
or contemporary authors: Wayne Sharrocks / James Herbert
Only Angels fear to tread...
Henry Rider Haggard! He wrote Allan Quatermain and King Soloman's Mines (and many others for that matter) I love his stories because they are all adventure and in exotic places...so what if when he wrote them they were intended for men and boys. I also like Tolkien.
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I find it impossible to narrow my choices to one, but some authors that come to my mind: William Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, William Golding, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and the Brontë sisters (especially Emily Brontë).
My favorite is probably Daniel Defoe, although right now I am appreciating George Eliot a great deal.
Mono, or anyone else, tell me why you like Virginia Woolf. I have a few friends with whom I share similar literary tastes who just rave about Woolf, but I cannot get into her at all. While reading Woolf I feel exhausted because it takes her forever to get to the point. I keep waiting for her to stop beating around the bush and just say it. Am I just missing something?
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Indeed, Virginia Woolf can seem slightly difficult to understand, and her literature can get somewhat verbose. I cannot describe what interests me of her (besides her biography), but mainly her very odd and original creativity - no one has written like her, in my opinion, and I have yet to encounter anyone else who has such unique talent. I would have to call A Room Of One's Own one of the most intelligent essays I have encountered; especially for her era, and as a female author, I find that work particularly worth admiration. Mrs. Dalloway, I think, seems her essence of literature - her peak of creativity, twists of plot, deep psychology of each character, and originality of storyline.Originally Posted by Psycheinaboat
Though I fully accept others' opinions who do not particularly enjoy her literature, as with any author, but I find Woolf amazing!
To the Lighthouse is on my ever-growing reading list so I am willing to give Woolf another chance. It is mostly her short stories that tire me. I also have Flush, and I think her life was incredible, but I think that her writing may reflect some of her lack of emotional health. While many authors are simultaneously gifted and plagued by their eccentricities and uniqueness, it seems, at least from Woolf’s short stories, that it did not help her work. This is just my limited opinion.
Another thing I find is that I rarely agree with Woolf's criticisms of other authors, so I think perhaps there are differences between Woolf and I that could be almost personal. That sounds funny, but you know what I mean.
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Nope, you are not missing much! She is one of the most overrated authors, I think!
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I think one of my all time favourite british authors (I'm not entirely sure he can be counted as english though) is Rober Barr. wonderfully witty! Pitty he isn't more well read.
Other english authors I very much enjoy reading is, among others,
Dickens (of course), Tolkien, C S Lewis, Arthur Conan Doyle and Terry Pratchett.
Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen
Jonathan Swift
Wilde, Shakespeare
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