Mary Shelley predates Doyle and the victorians, but her prose is finely crafted. She's best known for /Frankenstein?, a good read that holds up well for even a modern audience. Among the Victorian novels, I love Emily Bronte's /Wuthering Heights/, a dark and compelling tragedy. Another fine example of Victorian prose is Thomas Hardy's /Jude the Obscure/. It's a tragedy as well. I bellieve much of it is set in Cotty's neighborhood. I enjoyed it. The recent motion picture version didn't do it justice. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Good day, > > Out of boredom I am reading the Sherlock Holmes stories as of lately. > Although nearly devoid of any actual content, I admit that it very much > attracts me with the language of the narrative ;-). > > Here is the question for you. Is there any interesting, probably modern > literature such as science fiction for example, that uses good old > British English that you can recommend to me? > > Thanks a whole lot in advance. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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