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1949737 No.1949737 [Reply] [Original]

Hi /lit/. Give me some good authors to read who have great prose, so in turn, I can improve my prose. Thanks.

>> No.1949743

Hemingway, bro. He was the greatest.

>> No.1949745

late Henry James (Wings of the Dove, Sacred Fount)
Sir Thomas Browne
Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
Lyly's Euphues
Amanda McKittrick Ros
Marie Corelli

>> No.1949751

Nathaniel Hawthorne

>> No.1949757

chabon

>> No.1949758

Read a lot of different authors. You'll instinctively pick up on the stylistic techniques that appeal to you. To start out with, I would suggest Katherine Mansfield (the most sensitive of stylists) and the translations of Constance Garnett.

>> No.1949803

Evelyn Waugh

>> No.1949811

>>1949745

Are you trolling with the last two? Why is Eye of Argon mentioned Ros's page?