Favorite \"Classic\" Author(s)

[oppie]

Besides Shakespeare, Who's your favorite Classic author. I have two. William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. I love the South and reading Faulkner I see the South thru his eyes. The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway is simply a work of genius.

 

[igloo]

Mark Twain , Homer ,Alexandre Dumas , Three feels like a good number , better read your Twain first as it has already been removed from most schools .

 

[dudleydipstick]

Camus, Hugo, Boccaccio, O. Henry, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane, if he counts.

 

[unclearthur]

Mark Twain, Poe, Hawthorn

 

[pstlpkr]

Homer, Sophocles: the usuals

Michael de Montaigne: Essay; Of Cannibals Very odd work, but makes you think.

 

[unclearthur]

Being odd I like odd. I will have to look into that book!

 

[unclearthur]

A nice short piece is this one by Charles Lamb http://www.angelfire.com/nv/mf/elia1/pig.htm

 

[cortezattic]

One of my favorites from the classics is Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment.

 

[oppie]

Shameful but true. Twain has become an endangered species.

 

[bullwinkle]

Ian Fleming and Ernest Hemingway

 

[pstlpkr]

Thanks Arthur,

I put that in my faves.

I love that kind of stuff.

 

[pipemaker]

the complete works of John Stienbeck. Especially once there was a war , the pearl, east of eden.