Your Favorite Novel by a Dead Person

[cathschaffstump]

I don't have anything to report today, as I did the sick thing in earnest last night.

Sleep=Yummy.

However, I do have a question: who is your favorite dead writer? I personally love Alexandre Dumas and Jane Austen. It's fashionable to emulate both of these writers in current fiction. I've yet to find anyone to pull off more than a surface level Dumas (witty repartee and sword waving do not a Dumas make!), but I found a good emulation of Austen in Sorcery and Cecelia, by 1crowdedhour and Patricia Wrede, who if she is on live journal, I do not know the user name of.

At any rate, I thought I would pose the musical questions: Who is your favorite dead author, and which novel of their do you like the best.

For me:

Alexandre Dumas Twenty Years After (Count of Monte Cristo is a better book. I know it!)

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (it's the most spritely. However, I think there's a lot of good in Persuasion as well, which speaks to me more at this stage of life.)

Your own answers I await with eagerness. Remember, dead.

Comments

[dedbutdrmng.livejournal.com]

William Hope Hodgeson. He was killed in WW1. I'm not big on his novels but he wrote a series of short stories called Carnacki the Ghostfinder and ,for me, they rival anything Lovecraft ever did. The Carnacki shorts remain the only things I've ever read where I had to sleep with the light on afterwards.

I think they can be read for free online now. 'The Hog' is quite wonderful/awful.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

they're on project-gutenberg-of-australia. (something like www.gutenberg.au.net) adn i have them and i was freaked out by one mere lovecraft story so thanks *gulp*

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Today, right this moment, I'm going with Kurt Vonnegut & Slaughterhouse-Five.

Tomorrow the answer will probably be different.

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

Bram Stoker Dracula:)

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

i feel i shoud lbe disqualified since when it comes to dead authors i only reada handful and one each is as far as i got. except jane austen. but it's been too longto remember which is better. i am looking forward to the day when I'm raving about some dickens book or trying to pick a favourite.
once i'm donedonedone! with hp (and new library books distracted me from that-one) i'll plunge into the sea of books and go for some ghosts first. wattill i finis hdracula. or little women. but dont' hesitate to scold me now. either for being so behind or for the fact that i'm feeling liek i'm behind on things.

[kurtoons.livejournal.com]

Jules Verne, of course!