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  2. List of best-selling fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature, Mr. Men: British Robin Cook: 100 million [142] 100 million [143] English Medical thriller Coma: 27 American Wilbur Smith: 80 million [144] 100 million [145] English African adventure 32 South African/British Erskine Caldwell: 80 million [146] 100 million [147] English Literature 25 American Judith Krantz: 80 million [148 ...

  3. The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein was praised by the critic Camille Paglia, who wrote in Salon that "Lauritsen assembles an overwhelming case that Mary Shelley, as a badly educated teenager, could not possibly have written the soaring prose of 'Frankenstein' ... and that the so-called manuscript in her hand is simply one example of the clerical ...

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    Not counting the tetralogies of Rikki Ducornet (#35) and Gene Wolfe (#78), the most cited author is James Joyce, who has written four works on the list: Ulysses (#2), Finnegans Wake (#10), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (#21), and Dubliners (#63).

  5. List of 21st-century writers - Wikipedia

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    This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters").

  6. Five writers on the five books they’d give for Christmas - AOL

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    The one snag with William Boyd’s Cold War spy novel, Gabriel’s Moon, is that it is almost too seductive; it made me read too hungrily, too fast. Its crafted prose deserves savouring as much as ...

  7. Belles-lettres - Wikipedia

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    Literally, belles-lettres is a French phrase meaning 'beautiful' or 'fine' writing. In this sense, therefore, it includes all literary works—especially fiction, poetry, drama, or essays—valued for their aesthetic qualities and originality of style and tone. The term thus can be used to refer to literature generally.

  8. Finnegans Wake - Wikipedia

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    [141] The section of the book to have received the most praise throughout its critical history has been "Anna Livia Plurabelle" (I.8), which Parrinder describes as being "widely recognized as one of the most beautiful prose-poems in English." [211]

  9. List of Nobel laureates in Literature - Wikipedia

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    "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West" [20] poetry, novel, drama, short story, essay, translation 1914: Not awarded: 1915: Romain Rolland (1866–1944) France: French