Who are the 5 greatest English language prose stylists of the 20th century? I need to answer this for my homework and if I get it wrong I'll fail my class.

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Anonymous Sun Mar 17 12:59:31 2019 No.12778660 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the 5 greatest English language prose stylists of the 20th century?

I need to answer this for my homework and if I get it wrong I'll fail my class.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 12:59:58 2019 No.12778662 Nabokov

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:06:07 2019 No.12778699
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Mark Twain, Thomas Pynchon, and Ernest Hemingway. I don’t know that seems subjective. Just write anything but Dr Seuss or GRR Martin and you’ll be fine.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:11:40 2019 No.12778729 Objectively correct answer, in order: 1. Virginia Woolf 2. Ford Maddox Ford 3. James Joyce 4. Brian O'Nolan 5. Henry James (his late, and best, work is 20th century)

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:18:04 2019 No.12778776 Evelyn Waugh is one of them

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:33:54 2019 No.12778856 Hemingway

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe Sun Mar 17 13:35:19 2019 No.12778863 >>12778660 This is not the homework board Here is where you ask >>>/hm/

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:54:41 2019 No.12778951 >>12778729 What if his teacher only accepts Flann O'Brien?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:59:43 2019 No.12778989 >>12778951 I'm glad someone around here knows who I'm referencing.

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