Books and Writers

Initial Reaction

100

John Ronald Reuel, English adventure/fantasy author 

J. R. R. Tolkien

200

Herbert George, English science fiction author

H.G. Wells

300

Alan Alexander, English children’s author

A. A. Milne

400

Thomas Stearns, American-born poet, author of The Wasteland

T. S. Eliot

500

Jerome David, reclusive American author 

J. D. Salinger

Writers and their books

100

Hemingway’s first and best novel makes an escape to 1920s Spain to explore courage, cowardice and manly authenticity.

The Sun also Rises

200

William Thackeray’s masterpiece, set in Regency England, is a bravura performance by a writer at the top of his game

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Vanity Fair

300

Wilkie Collins’s masterpiece, hailed by many as the greatest English detective novel, is a brilliant marriage of the sensational and the realistic.

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The Moonstone

400

Jerome K Jerome’s accidental classic about messing about on the Thames remains a comic gem.

Three Men in a Boat

500

In Kipling’s classic boy’s own spy story, an orphan in British India must make a choice between east and west.

Kim