Thread 24600031 - /lit/ [Archived: 57 hours ago]

Anonymous

8/1/2025, 2:47:25 PM No.24600031

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>tfw i feel like my english vocabulary is too impoverished, unrefined and simplistic (I'm ESL)
>want to improve it
What books have the best prose for this? Translations are fine too.

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Anonymous

8/1/2025, 2:50:50 PM No.24600034

>>24600031 (OP)
Borges.

Anonymous

8/1/2025, 2:53:02 PM No.24600036

>>24600031 (OP)
Jane Austen

Anonymous

8/1/2025, 2:54:26 PM No.24600039

simplistic is refined.

Anonymous

8/1/2025, 3:24:37 PM No.24600080

>>24600031 (OP)
lol im sure you english is fine anon
go read some facebook/reddit posts by native speakers

Anonymous

8/1/2025, 3:44:33 PM No.24600108

>>24600031 (OP)
R. Rankin. Scottish, fun books, contain a certain amount of words and phrases you'd rarely meet during participation in reading of other books of the same persuasion.

Anonymous

8/1/2025, 3:59:20 PM No.24600118

>>24600031 (OP)
Alexander Pope