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    At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
    During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
    The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.

    To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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    There seems to be some confusion about whether the voting is closed or not - but here is goes anyway.

    1) Jack London
    2) John Steinbeck
    3) Herman Hesse
    4) Charles Dickens
    5) Saul Bellow
    "Are all these tales such cobwebs and moon-talk?"
    -The Jungle Book

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    Fictions and classics are dominating the vote.

    -Thomas Hardy
    - C.S. Lewis
    - Umberto Eco
    - Oscar Wilde
    - Thorton Wilder

    My nominations is now closed!
    Last edited by subterranean; 03-08-2009 at 07:23 AM. Reason: adding nominee

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    C.S. Lewis or G.K. Chesterton. Both are incredible--I can't believe how many genres they excelled in.
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    I'll vote for Faulkner

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    I can't go past Henrik Ibsen and, at the risk of seeming parochial, Patrick White. Followed by Dostoevsky, Emily Bronte and Shakespeare.

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    Camus
    Dostoevsky
    Tolstoy
    Nabokov
    Gogol

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    1. Dostoevksy
    2. Turgenev
    3. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
    4. Kurt Vonnegut
    5. J.D Salinger (So what if he hardly published anything.)

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    Virginia Woolf
    Thomas Hardy
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    George Orwell
    James Joyce

    Cliche I know, but I guess you could say that the bigger writers are the most effective and influential ones and thus the better ones?

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    I will nominate the authors whose works I can read without any complaint:

    Shaw
    Faulkner
    Steinbeck
    Wilde
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    I will nominate the authors whose works I can read without any complaint:

    Wilde



    Has anyone nominate Kafka?

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    My favourite 5 authors from all around world

    Hello! Friends This is Shruti From India

    1.Shakespeare (both for his sonnets and dramas)
    2.Jane Austen
    3.Bamkinchandra chatterjee(Bengali writer)
    4.John keats
    5.Amarnath (Maithili writer) Maithili is my regional language.



    Being a lover of literature I very well know that literature is so must vast and varied that its creators cannot be confounded in a list.Here I am writings the name of those artists who have touched me beyond my soul.In English only from spenser ,shakespeare to shelly and wordsworth,from swift and pope to austen and eliot there is neverending series of writers . It is very difficult to judge and decide the best among them.I am here only giving name of those with whom I feel linked.
    I am from India and in India there are a large number of language.And every language has its own literature.But most of the good works remains hidden.I feel that these writings are nice .They are interesting
    and present the life and culture with beautiful craftmanship.But unfortunately most of the lovers of literature are unable to relish its taste .Anyway it is very nice writing to u guys.I feel u should also write me and advice me.
    Last edited by Shruti Amar; 03-08-2009 at 09:40 AM. Reason: mistakes

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    I vote for my personal beloved ones authors:

    Brontes (I know I am cheating here , but if I had to choose Charlotte is my all time favorite author)
    Steinbeck
    Austen
    Hardy
    Marques
    "Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not match the expectation." - Charlotte Bronte (Villette)

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    Quote Originally Posted by subterranean View Post
    Has anyone nominate Kafka?
    Ah! He slipped my mind.

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    Yes, Kafka is nominated.
    At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
    During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
    The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.

    To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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