>Austen
>Dickens
>Flaubert
>Joyce
>Kafka
>Proust
>Stevenson
Stevenson? Did Nabokov really think he was in the same class as the others?

Stevenson got more of right to be there than Flaubert imo

>>24536044 (OP)
Stevenson is fucking awesome, you stupid faggot. If that Kafka pedo is there with his overrated bug boy fantasy I don't see why Jekyll & Hyde wouldn't be there.

Where is Thomas Mann

>>24536044 (OP)
His reverence for 'pleb' genre writers like Stevenson, Poe and HG Wells is really endearing to me because it shows his actual tastes and that he's not just parroting what he's told to like. I really love that about him, same with him taking down the greats (if you can call idiots like Faulkner or Mann greats that is).

>>24536402
>'pleb' genre writers like Stevenson, Poe and HG Wells
kys

>>24536406
I put pleb in brackets for a reason in that many like OP for example view them as pleb

>>24536413
sorry

>>24536406
Stevenson wrote pirate novels, Poe wrote bad poetry and crime fiction and Wells wrote sci-fi
>>24536413
You shouldn't have put pleb in brackets.

I haven't read any English literature in 2 years
I'm going to read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde now

>>24536682
- Stevenson wrote exactly one (1) pirate novel, not "novels". His prose is excellent. Admired by the likes of Borges.
- Poe is one of the masters of the short story. Profoundly influential writer.
- Wells was a great artist. Praised by Nabokov as "A writer for whom I have the deepest admiration."

These are not pleb writers.

>>24536682
- Stevenson wrote exactly one (1) pirate novel, not "novels". His prose is excellent. Admired by Borges.
- Poe is one of the masters of the short story. Profoundly influential writer. Praised and translated by Baudelaire.
- Wells was a great artist. Praised by Nabokov as "A writer for whom I have the deepest admiration."

These are not pleb writers.

>>24536402
Faulkner and Mann are great. Definitely more deserving of the title than fucking Tolstoy. I really don't get the dicksucking for the guy, he's even more boring than Eliot.

>>24536707
>more boring than Eliot.
TS or George?

>>24536710
George. Waste Land is fun, I should read more of the guy.

>>24536720
Try Prufrock.

>>24536044 (OP)
>kino adventure stories are bad actually
Read master of ballantrae

>>24536067
The discussions between Settembrini and Naphta in Der Zauberberg are goated

>>24536044 (OP)
What does he think of them?

>>24536687
It's pretty good..enjoy anon