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Can that be write? Jane Austen tops list of Britain's greatest authors with JK Rowling in SECOND place... and Shakespeare a lowly FOURTH
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 29, 2022 | Staff

Posted on 11/30/2022 2:46:18 AM PST by C19fan

She has won the good opinion of countless readers with her sparklingly witty prose.

And now – in something of a snub to the Bard – Jane Austen has been voted the greatest British author of all time.

The Georgian-era novelist beat Shakespeare to take top spot, with 44 per cent of the vote.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: books; charlesdickens; cslewis; dickens; georgeeliot; jrrtolkien; kipling; literarture; rudyardkipling; sirwalterscott; tolkien
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To: KingLudd

Although I have read all of his famous works.

James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Mr Fox
Danny, the Champion of the World
George’s Marvellous Medicine
The BFG
The Witches
Matilda


21 posted on 11/30/2022 4:37:47 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Sacajaweau
"Dickens is superb."

I read A LOT of books (the old fashioned way), and Dickens is far and away my favorite.

22 posted on 11/30/2022 4:39:49 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: apillar

Certainly the greatest of modern times.

I remember seeing her DOMINATE the best seller list.

What was it, Book 5 came out, and ALL her works were 1,3,3,4,5 on the Best Seller list.

At one book every two years, that means a ten year old book was STILL dominating current releases


23 posted on 11/30/2022 4:39:58 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: C19fan

In two hundred years no one will know who JK Rowling’s is - but they’ll still be reading Shakespear...


24 posted on 11/30/2022 4:47:24 AM PST by GOPJ (Unsolved crime? Jump to the conclusion the killer is a LGBTQIA2S+ (Turn about's fair play.))
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To: C19fan

If Shakespeare is fourth, who is third?!


25 posted on 11/30/2022 4:50:14 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: KingLudd
I’ve never heard of #3, Roald Dahl.

Interesting man. RAF officer and later did liaison work in DC during the war. Married actress Patricia Neal. Wrote many children's stories which have also been adapted into animated and live action films.

26 posted on 11/30/2022 4:52:10 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Psalm 73
... (and where is Kipling?).

He's a jingo imperialist doncha know? Therefore he's been canceled.

27 posted on 11/30/2022 4:58:07 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: C19fan

Shakespeare?

Conspiracy theorist and purveyor of fake news, unless you actually believe in a trio of witches.


28 posted on 11/30/2022 4:58:40 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: C19fan

What, no Ian Fleming?


29 posted on 11/30/2022 5:02:52 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: C19fan

Who at Amazon, voted? The board of directors? Is the word “voted” being morphed into something else? The article doesn’t say anything about how this outcome originated, other than “voted” and “Amazon”. If this is the result of book sales on Amazon, there are many easier and more informative ways of getting that point across. So far, all we know is that a decision at Amazon was made, and these are the results.


30 posted on 11/30/2022 5:19:19 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: C19fan

Jane Austen would top my list also. I have never much cared for Shakesphere, hard to read honestly.


31 posted on 11/30/2022 5:25:31 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

I love that adage: keeping them engaged. Yup. Forget about learning beyond a Nono second of concentration and analysis.


32 posted on 11/30/2022 5:25:37 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Locomotive Breath
"He's a jingo imperialist doncha know? Therefore he's been canceled."

Yes, I should know better. Now I need to confess my Kipling sins on Twitter and beg for forgiveness....

33 posted on 11/30/2022 5:58:32 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Psalm 73

34 posted on 11/30/2022 6:02:11 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: C19fan

And no mention of Enid Blyton ??? Oh that’s right. She wrote ‘racist’ books for children.


35 posted on 11/30/2022 6:03:27 AM PST by libh8er
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To: C19fan

Jane Austin’s zombie book definitely has its place.


36 posted on 11/30/2022 6:27:29 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: C19fan

As a published fiction author myself, JK Rowling absolutely belongs among the top of the listers.

I am in awe of writers like her, Herbert, Asimov, and Tolkien. They create raw worlds, cultures, and universes from nothing. I can’t do that. My writing has to be grounded in a reality. Writing like they do requires a higher level chess mind, able to keep track not only of what you created, but also to extend that fantasy into a longer term reality.

In the world of literature, these people are giants of mind…


37 posted on 11/30/2022 6:41:33 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: C19fan

No love for Chaucer? I guess technically he wasn’t British. But, then neither was Shakespeare.


38 posted on 11/30/2022 6:42:37 AM PST by Poison Pill
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Dahl also co-wrote screenplays for film, including James Bond You Only Live Twice (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)


39 posted on 11/30/2022 7:01:35 AM PST by Liz (Vox Populi, Vox Dei (voice of the people is the voice of God))
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To: C19fan

No Byron, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, or Wordsworth? Or Dickens?

Preposterous. Sheer philistinism.


40 posted on 11/30/2022 7:34:43 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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