The BBC News website asked many foreign literary critics to vote for their favourite British novels of all time, and here are the results. Some of the books we've studied in lessons (Regeneration, A Passage to India) are in there, as well as books that the Book Club reading committee has read. Sometimes, it's a whole sequence of books, which isn't very fair. Either way, there are plenty of reading suggestions, not least for me. I don't mind admitting that I haven't read half of them, but would certainly like to read most of them. For the record, my favourite (so far) would probably be "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray (author of "Barry Lyndon"), although Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia" had a massive impact on me as a teenager. I have also loved all the Jane Austen novels I've read, to say nothing for the three novels I've read by the Brontë sisters. Have you read any of these? Give your opinion of them, and tell us who you'd have voted for (on or off the list). Happy reading!
Mr Leah
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151204-the-100-greatest-british-novels
PS Note that the top three were women, because, yes, George Eliot (see below) was a woman
Interesting books to read.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit that book knowledge isn't one of my strong point, but I do recommand all the books from Alan Moore.
Alan Moore is one of the greatest (to me it's the greatest) comics scenarist and a great anarchist. He's the mind behind monuments like "V for Vendetta" (the anarchy at its best), Watchmen (one of the best book that criticizes super heros) or From Hell (an authopsy of Jack the Ripper, a masterpiece to me).
Even though his comics aren't nice to see (the drawing is purpously bad), the story and the infinite reflexion behind his work of arts make them quite worth reading.