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Old 06-14-2002, 11:15 AM   #9
Melusine
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Join Date: January 8, 2001
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Age: 45
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Now, as for my list, I'm afraid I really can't single out any books, so I'll just make a list of authors and put my favourite books by them between () [img]smile.gif[/img]
They're in no specific order BTW

1. Will Shakespeare (King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet)
2. Kit Marlowe
3. Iain (M.) Banks (Consider Phlebas, Walking On Glass, Complicity, The Bridge, The Wasp Factory, The Player Of Games)
4. A.S. Byatt (Possession, Angels & Insects, Babel Tower, The Game)
5. Thomas Pynchon (The Crying Of Lot 49)
6. Anthony Burgess (Earthly Powers, A Clockwork Orange, Shakespeare)
7. Emily Brontė
8. J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Ian McEwan (The Comfort of Strangers, Enduring Love)
10. Will Self (Great Apes, My Idea Of Fun)
11. J.W. von Goethe (Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Faust)
12. S. Vestdijk - De Kellner en de Levenden
13. John Milton - Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Lycidas
14. Oscar Wilde
15. W.B. Yeats
16. George Herbert
17. John Donne
18. Ben Jonson
19. John Keats
20. William Blake
21. Geoffrey Chaucer (The General Prologue, The Booke of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowles)
22. Wulf and Eadwacer, the Seafarer, The Wanderer, Beowulf (anonymous OE poems)
23. Sylvia Plath
24. Seamus Heaney
25. Geoffrey Hill
26. P.B. Shelley
27. Tom Stoppard
28. Samuel Beckett
29. Harold Pinter
30. David Hare

[ 06-14-2002, 11:18 AM: Message edited by: Melusine ]
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