British Literature

[cockandbull]

Not sure where to start...any ideas?

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Animal Farm is my favorite book not written by Michael Lewis.

[Blarg]

Orwell is a pretty good recommendation.

T.S. Eliot, who actually was an American originally, is pretty damn astonishingl good, if you can stomach poetry, as was Philip Larkin, among the somewhat modern guys.

You can also try Lord Jim or P.G. Wodehouse. Then there's Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, the Bronte sisters(I think they were all Brits). Who wrote Daisy Miller? Name slips my mind, probably because I hated his stuff, except for Daisy Miller, actually.

And there's always that Shakespeare dude. And James Joyce, if you want to count the Irish in with the Brits. And Rudyard Kipling.

Ian McEwan(I think his name is) is well-regarded and more recent.

I'm pretty lackluster on my knowledge of the Brits, but those aren't a bad place to start.

I'm not sure if V.S. Naipaul is normally considered a Brit or not.

[M2d]

dubliners

[blatz]

Clockwork Orange and the Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess.

Heart of Darkness by Conrad.

Besides Paddington Bear, thats all the British literature I can think of.

[Blarg]

It came back to me now -- Kingsley Amis is the guy who wrote Lord Jim. His son, Martin Amis, is at the top of British letters these days.

And Thomas Hardy, for Tess of the D'urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, etc.

And Harold Pinter, for a modern playwright. He also did a lot of screenplays, some for Joseph Losey.

If we're counting Joyce, we should count Samuel Beckett of Waiting for Godot fame. That play is actually a very fun, good read.

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Graham Greene.

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And Thomas Hardy, for Tess of the D'urbervilles

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This book sucks as much as anything I've ever read. It just really didn't do it for me.

William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies
Dickens was British as well.
John Milton
Geoffrey Chaucer
Daniel Defoe

[2planka]

Depends what you're looking for.

Shakespeare is the obvious choice.

I like Doyle's Holmes stories. Read Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone and Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue first, though.

Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf is excellent.

Others not yet mentioned: Bronte, Milton (dense), Austen (beautiful language if verbose), Dickens, Woolf...

Tristan and Isult, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight... I could go on and on.

More contemporary/trashy: Nick Hornby (High Fidelity), Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Dashell Hammett (Maltese Falcon)