Inspired by this thread ... http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=85785 ... and not able to remember who is living and dead I came up with this novel (heh heh) idea ...
... your 'three best' novelists of the 20th century! Judged on the artistic merit of their novel output in the 20th century (even if they wrote some stuff in the 19th or 21st) ... written in English, even if English wasn't their first language ... Polish sailors who also learned Russian growing up, and then learned French as a sailor, and then finally learnd English and wrote novels in English are allowed.
This is a list of the "best" not "most popular", so spare us the equivalent of "McDonalds is good food ... they sell so much of it" talk of how popular Harry Potter is.
I'll get us started:
1. James Joyce. (Even if Finnegan's Wake isn't English or anything else ... )
2. Joseph Conrad.
3. P.G. Wodehouse ... I would have said Graham Greene, but Wodehouse is just so darn funny.
... your 'three best' novelists of the 20th century! Judged on the artistic merit of their novel output in the 20th century (even if they wrote some stuff in the 19th or 21st) ... written in English, even if English wasn't their first language ... Polish sailors who also learned Russian growing up, and then learned French as a sailor, and then finally learnd English and wrote novels in English are allowed.
This is a list of the "best" not "most popular", so spare us the equivalent of "McDonalds is good food ... they sell so much of it" talk of how popular Harry Potter is.
I'll get us started:
1. James Joyce. (Even if Finnegan's Wake isn't English or anything else ... )
2. Joseph Conrad.
3. P.G. Wodehouse ... I would have said Graham Greene, but Wodehouse is just so darn funny.