Kate's Book Blog asks: which authors dominate your shelves? Kate defines "dominates" as five books or more, but since that would make my list a little too long, I'm going to bump it up to a minimum of ten and stick to the novelists (including autobiographies, collections of letters, etc.):
Peter Ackroyd, Deborah Alcock, Honore de Balzac, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, William Faulkner, George MacDonald Fraser, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Reginald Hill, Emily Sarah Holt, Henry James, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Emma Leslie, Capt. Marryat, Emma Marshall, George Meredith, Margaret Oliphant, Charles Reade, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Smith, W. M. Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Charlotte Yonge, Emile Zola.
(Via Terry Teachout.)
Interesting list. Do you actually read Bulwer-Lytton? I must confess that I haven't, I swallowed the "dark and stormy hype" without verifying it (in my defence, he's not commonly found in German libraries).
I like your blog, and will be back. (Here via Brad de Jong commenting on your CoHE post.)
Posted by: udge | July 28, 2006 at 03:34 AM
I have actually read some Bulwer-Lytton, yes.
"The Haunted and the Haunters" is a painless introduction to B-L.
Posted by: Miriam | July 28, 2006 at 10:40 AM