Recommended Authors

These special authors / works have stayed
with me and I recommend them to you.
Please remember that any of these authors
may have an additional supply of other reading
that's just as good as the titles chosen here.

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Fiction:

David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus
T. H. White, The Once and Future King
C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
Joan Clark, Eriksdottir
John Crowley, Little, Big; Engine Summer

George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind; Phantastes; Lilth

Herman Hess, Magister Ludi: The Glass-Bead Game
Robert Graves, I, Claudius
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker; Last and First Men

Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere; American Gods

Walter M. Miller Jr.: A Canticle
for Leibowitz

Short Story Authors:

Eds. Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks, "American Short Story Masterpieces"
David Arnason: The Dragon and the Dry Goods Princess; The Happiest Man in the World

 

 

 

Favorite Shakespeare Play:

The Winter's Tale

Non-fiction:

Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination; The Well-Tempered Critic

R. G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art; The New Leviathan (philosopy)

Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis; The Advancement of Learning
Cicero, On Duties
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Favorite Books of the Bible
(King James translation):

The Book of Proverbs
Epistles in the New Testament

Video

Kenneth Branagh (director)
    - Much Ado About Nothing
    - Henry V
    - Hamlet

Poetry

Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost: Collected Poems
Robert Graves, Selected Poems
William Butler Yeats, Selected Poems
Judith Wright, A Human Pattern
Jay Macpherson, Poems Twice Told

Music

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