Speaking of John Steinbeck
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List with just some notable works. All had other notable works
<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Thinking back mainly to my youth these are the ten most prominient classic authors I read or in some case tried to read (some of this stuff is rather deep).. These days I have lost the required patience and have gone over to the enemy in the form of Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Stephen King, Fredrick Forsyth, the legal guys, Steve Martini and John Grisham etc..
However for classics who can argue with these in no particular order except how I remembered them.
1. John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath - Of Mice and Men.
2. Grahame Green, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana
3. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
5. William Golding, Lord of The Flies
6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime & Punishment, The Brothers Karamozov
7. Herman Melville, Moby Dick (not easy to get through).
8. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
9. Washington Irving, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
10. Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea, A farewell to Arms, For whom the Bell Tolls.
Special mention must go to Mario Puzo for his classic "The Godfather" - my all time favorite book - bar none.
wil.
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