I'm reading Dorian Gray right now, and I've read just about everything else you mentioned. Poe and Wilde are real geniuses!EvilSporkofDoom wrote:Victorian literature is my favourite genre of fiction
My most beloved novel is definitely The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (who's also my favourite author). My other favourite authors are Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allen Poe.
Mizumi-Kun wrote:I'm reading Dorian Gray right now, and I've read just about everything else you mentioned. Poe and Wilde are real geniuses!
EvilSporkofDoom wrote:Those two are my top favourites I love their stories and their writing style. What's your favourite Poe story? Mine's probably "The Pit and the Pendulum", but there's so many great ones..
After enjoying Dorian Gray as much as I did, I was hoping Wilde had written other novels, but nope.. he's written plays, which are very good (I especially like "The Importance of Being Ernest" - so funny!), but I just prefer literature in novel format.
Sounds like you have similar tastes as mine - do you have any recommendations?
Esoteric wrote:Victorian Literature... Would this be synonimus with the era of Romanticism? Or is that different?
EvilSporkofDoom wrote:and Edgar Allen Poe
EvilSporkofDoom wrote:I was hoping Wilde had written other novels, but nope.. he's written plays,
SwordSkill wrote:Victorian Lit comes after Romanticism, although there are authors that are considered transitory.
Erm, Poe can't be Victorian because he's American (Victorian is specifically British). Poe is actually considered to be an American Romantic (the Americans were always behind the British by one movement in literature, but they caught up during Modernism and equalized). Maybe you are referring to the gothic tradition of Victorian literature as begun by the Romantics of both countries?
Mizumi-Kun wrote:I would recommend H. G. Wells, of a lot. His books are so far ahead of his time, it's miraculous the man came up with what he did. The same goes for Jules Verne. Both are brilliant. And, although not Victorian, I would suggest Anne Rice. Beautiful writing that picks up where Dracula stops: the life, demenor, and education of a young vampire...
As for my favorite Poe story, The Tell Tale Heart. Poe poem, Annabell Lee.
EvilSporkofDoom wrote:I should definitely check out more of H.G. Wells - I've only read The Invisible Man, which is awesome - quite an imagination he has.
I haven't read anything from Jules Verne yet, which is embarrasingly to admit because of how notable his works are - but I'll definitely make a note to read some of his stuff.
I'm a fan of Anne Rice as well ^_^ admittedly, I don't like her recent novels as very much, but her earlier ones were very enjoyable. My favourites from the Vampire Chronicles are Interview with a Vampire and Tale of the Body Thief.
Warrior 4 Jesus wrote:H.G. Wells is great! my favourite scicene-fiction novel is War of the Worlds and the rest are very good also. Jules Verne is also very good and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde is also a very good book. I'm sure there are others I can't remember.
Warrior 4 Jesus wrote:H.G. Wells is great! my favourite scicene-fiction novel is War of the Worlds and the rest are very good also. Jules Verne is also very good and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde is also a very good book. I'm sure there are others I can't remember.
harina wrote:I like Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The Signal Man is also Dickens', it's a ghost story. ^___^
Les Misérales isn't Victorian, is it?
harina wrote:Ok... i just thought that only English stuff can be Victorian.
EvilSporkofDoom wrote:Nope, anything during the Victorian Era was Victorian.
EvilSporkofDoom wrote:By the way, your avatar is adorable
harina wrote:Ok.. i was just thinking about SwordSkill's comment "Victorian is specifically British".
EvilSporkofDoom wrote:Nope, anything during the Victorian Era was Victorian.
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