[Westopher]

I need a British author, or more exactly a good book by a British author, so that I can have an intresting enough topic for my senior paper. It HAS to be British, the title of the class is Survey of British Lit. I think Irish may also fly, but British primarily.
I've come up with A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

[slickguy55]

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

[Westopher]

First of all, The Christmas Carol is more of a novela, kinda short. Dickens is a very boring author, I've read a few things by him (not many, but a few). I'd also prefer one a tad more compelling...

[APerfectCircle]

J.R.R TOLKIEN. Look no further. Best author ever, and hes british.

[snipe99X]

JK Rowling

[Westopher]

SENIOR paper, not a speech to my fellow graduating class of Northeast Elementry School.

[snipe99X]

Originally posted by Westopher
SENIOR paper, not a speech to my fellow graduating class of Northeast Elementry School.

I have no idea what you're talking about...

[Westopher]

I'm not ****ing explaining this to you

[dysfuncti0n]

Hitchhikers Guide, Douglas Adams

[IchBinKaseBrot]

T.H. White
T.S. Elliot (fairly sure he wrote a novel)

[shokadiznog]

The british never did anything good.

[tesilential]

J.R.R TOLKIEN. Look no further. Best author ever, and hes british.

JK Rowling

I have no idea what you're talking about...

He is implying that he needs a book of literary merit--not a 500+ page version of See Spot Run. That goes for the both of you.


My contribution: 1984, by George Orwell. Its a negative-utopian novel, and one of the best ever written.

[Gunslinger_Tiny]

The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Books of King Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
The Masacre at Paris - Christopher Marlowe
MacBeth - Shakespeare
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Religio Medici - Sir Thomas Browne
Gulliver's Travels - John Swift
A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling
The invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Man Who Knew Too Much - G.K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton
Howard's End - E.M. Forster
A Room With A View - E.M. Forster
Finnigan's Wake - James Joyce
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
The Silmarillion - JRR Toliken
The Hobbit - JRR Toliken
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis
The African Queen - C.S. Forester
Horatio Hornblower - C.S. Forester
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell
Godot - Sameul Becket
Endgame - Samuel Becket
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
A Clock Work Orange - Anthony Burgess
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Necroscope (any of the five books) - Brian Lumley

These are all of the books I have in my library that are good by British Authors.

[elTwitcho]

Originally posted by Gunslinger_Tiny
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Books of King Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
The Masacre at Paris - Christopher Marlowe
MacBeth - Shakespeare
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Religio Medici - Sir Thomas Browne
Gulliver's Travels - John Swift
A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling
The invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Man Who Knew Too Much - G.K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton
Howard's End - E.M. Forster
A Room With A View - E.M. Forster
Finnigan's Wake - James Joyce
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
The Silmarillion - JRR Toliken
The Hobbit - JRR Toliken
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis
The African Queen - C.S. Forester
Horatio Hornblower - C.S. Forester
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell
Godot - Sameul Becket
Endgame - Samuel Becket
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
A Clock Work Orange - Anthony Burgess
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Necroscope (any of the five books) - Brian Lumley

These are all of the books I have in my library that are good by British Authors.

I hate you, I had an author in mind that I had read recently and absolutely loved his work, he was British, had won a few awards or other and as soon as I read a few names off your list I forgot what I was thinking of. Damn you to hell

[Gunslinger_Tiny]

Sorry, I busted out my book database and sorted the books from British Authors by name by year published and that is the list of books I own and obviously have read. Sorry if it disturbed your thinking pattern... Actually I'm not sorry.. **** You!

[elTwitcho]

No no no, **** YOU!


Perdido Street Station - China Meville

Really neat book set in a weird kind of world with steam powered robots, a government that genetically engineers or adds machinery to convicted criminals and these bats that feed on peoples dreams while they sleep and then eat their consciousnesses. Fantastically interesting read and as I said, won a few awards as well.

[p8ntgurl]

any of the Bronte sisters, H.G. Wells, Edward Thomas

[Gunslinger_Tiny]

Originally posted by elTwitcho
No no no, **** YOU!

Hey don't you four asterisk me!!! I will kick your 13 asterisk 3 asterisk... or something, The swear filter is neat but it should add the first letter to make it more imposing!

[elTwitcho]

YOU ASTERISK I'LL ASTERISK THE ASTERISK OUT OF YOUR ASTERISK THEN LEAVE YOUR ASTERISK ASTERISK FOR DEAD ON THE ASTERISK YOU LIVE ON!!!

[p8ntgurl]

go get some coffee, Twitch.

[Gunslinger_Tiny]

Originally posted by elTwitcho
YOU ASTERISK I'LL ASTERISK THE ASTERISK OUT OF YOUR ASTERISK THEN LEAVE YOUR ASTERISK ASTERISK FOR DEAD ON THE ASTERISK YOU LIVE ON!!!

Asterisk me, you are super e-cool, oh wait different thread, asterisk you!