Please share reading recomendations for foreign languages.English:>The Art of the Novel by Henry James>Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell>On Writing by Stephen King>The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger>On the Yard by Malcolm Braly>Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis>Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis >Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis>An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre>Androcles and the Lion by Bernard Shaw>The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark>The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson>Paradise Lost by John Milton>Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes>A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul>Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben
>>24779813What, exactly, is your selection criteria here?And why would you pick Tinker Tailor when Spy from the Cold and Looking Glass War are miles superior?
>>24779819I picked books that I read, that were half-way decent, and were originally written in English.
>>24779845Books don't need to be originally written in English. Dostoevsky, Homer, Montaigne, Dante are all better in English.
>>24779813would really like to see one for French. I've been learning it for about a month
>>24779813What pleb made this list?
For French authors:>Gregory of Tours>Turold>Chretien de Troyes>Pleiade poets>Rabelais>Montaigne>Moliere>La Rochefoucauld>La Fontaine>Rousseau>Balzac>Baudelaire>Mallarme>CelineAnd you'll have seen most of what French lit has to offer. Every French writer greatly takes from somebody on this list. Maybe Bossuet could be added to that list too for his prose alone. And I guess Sade too to some extent.If somebody has any question or insults I won't be here to respond because I'm going out now.
>>24779813Wakefield PressDedalus Books Those two should keep you occupied for a long time. Read Gustav Meyrink from Dedalus and Marcel Schwob from Wakefield.
>>24779900Thank you. This is the purpose of this thread.
