It's an older dialect than Victorian, but Patrick O'Brian's superb Aubrey & Maturin series is beautifully written. Start off with 'Master & Commander'. The series is loosely based on the life of Lord Cochrane, suitably toned down to make believable fiction.
-Adam On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
