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If you could summon any author from the dead , which author would it be ??? plz comment .............
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we've all read at least one book (or more) by an author who is now dead - be it shakespeare , dickens, enid blyton , stratemayer (creator of hardy boys & nancy drew) or even munshi premchand . this was just a gist of such legendary authors !! so, my question is this : if you got a chance to interview any author (now dead ) , who would it be ????
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Hmmm that is a difficult choice but I suppose if I had to choose I would pick Socrates. I would love to hear his opinions on the modern world.
Cliche but Shakspear and Alexander Dumas
All excellent choices. I guess I am a bit more current because I would like Steig Larsson to finish the "Girl" series. He had another book in the works after the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
It's reslly difficult to choose only one... Maybe Bécquer, but I agree with Deeptanshu, Socrates would be interesting.
I'd like to have a drink with Jack London
probably the authors of the nancy drew and the hardy boys books. i liked the crossover books about them.
My choice would be Edgar Allan Poe. I'd love to hear him explain what made him tick. (I would, however, be dying to hear about Gertt's conversations with Austen and Bronte, and Magha's conversation with Shakespeare.)
This is a very good question? Hmmmm... I would have to pick Poe and Shakespeare. Why? I think Poe would have been the modern day King and see what would make him tick. Shakespeare because I would like to see his reaction to how his writing has influenced modern books, movies, plays, and life even today!
I would have to say Jane Austen hands down! Her's books and characters are so amazing, I wish she was around to write more!lol
J.R.R. Tolkin i mean how cool would that be he wrote his own language!
I had reason to remember Sidney Sheldon recently and although not one of the real 'heavyweights' in the literary world, he would have to be one of my choices as I can relate to his modern world view.
Is it so much harder to type you than it is to type u? Why don't you save u for texting and twitter...we don't have to limit ourselves to 140 characters here.
Angela Carter definitely. Miss her beautiful writing so much, remember the excitement of her latest novels being published and waiting for it to be in the shops! Such a simpler time.
Henry Miller, I think he would have been a brilliant person to have a dinner conversation with. He may have been quite controversial in his day but I think he was a most interesting character.
I have always ALWAYS wanted to have a conversation with Shakespeare. It would be quite interesting to clear up the conflict of who actually wrote his works :)Lewis Carroll would surely be fascinating!
Besides that, maybe the Brothers Grimm of Hans Christian Andersen.
Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoevski and Virginia Woolf...that would be great ^___^
ERICH SEGAL...he wrote so well..and it would be a pleasure to know if his "Love Story" is based on real characters and how he wrote so poignantly,especially in "Doctors"
Great question, hmmmm, I think for me it would have to be Charlotte Bronte or Edgar Allan Poe
Jules Verne. He was so much ahead of his time, it would be interesting to see what he would think of today's world and what he would imagine of the future...
Edgar Allan Poe or Charles Dickens.
Margaret Mitchell because I would like "Her" sequel to Gone With The Wind. I thought Scarlett, while good, did not have a satisfactory finish.
Hard to choose one---so I will choose two very different men but both, I think, very wise for all time, not just their own. They would be C.S. Lewis and Oscar Wilde.
Outside of the classic Dickens, I would love to converse with William Faulkner on his understanding of the southern character and Shelby Foote for his brilliant and insightful Civil War series.
I'd like to summon Alexander Dumas pere, Balzac or Maupassant. Dumas because of the extraordinary number of books he has written. I'd like to ask how he could manage to do this. Balzac because I think he had a lot to tell about the French society and culture. I also often wonder how you can drink an amount of 20 cups of coffee every day. And Maupassant because he could reveal the moral of French men. It's an interesting topic.
Hemingway. that guy is seriously BA.. aso i think he could sue the dos echies people.
That would have to be Jane Austen, as i love her characters - she was a woman with ideas ahead of her time.Shakespeare....to finnaly know who the man was, after all and to see what he would make of today´s authors and the influence he had on them.
Thackeray, and his really sarcástic insight in to the world, as he did on the 1800´s.
Cliché, i know....
Edgar Alan Poe! Such a dark person would be fun to explore. I agree with the Margaret Mitchell finishing Scarlett.
Definitely J.R.R.Tolkien, Oscar Wilde or Jane Austen 'cause I'd love for them to answer my questions about their books. (Of course, I have tons for them.)
I would choose Anne Frank, because the way she went was terrible and her 'book' was just her journal--and it was amazing, one of my all time favorite books! I would like to see what novels and short stories she would come up with and read more of her essays and just pick her wonderful brain.
I agree with Sanilou about Jules Verne. I don't want any mopey, misanthropic people around me. Jules Verne had an excitement about the future.
Cool question! :D I think it would just be MINDBLOWING to get to talk to Oscar Wilde. I mean come on. The man's a fabulous genius who happens to also be hilarious. I'd also love to meet Emily Bronte. I mean man, Wuthering Heights. I'd like to meet the author of that crazy ride of a book.
I second Emily Bronte!
I think Agatha Christie. and most of the people i like are already alive.
Henry James and John Steinbeck
I love all of these choices! I must go with Shakespeare. O' for the plays he might write.
Jane Austen and Benjamin Franklin. I would love to see them react to the world today.
Either Shakespeare (because he is my life) or James Joyce (so I could hit him over the head with a hardcover copy of Ulysses).
St. Faustina, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, St. Theresa of Avila, St. Dominic, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway to name a few...lots of questions to ask them...
Tough question. Mine would be Harold Lamb, E. E. Doc Smith, or maybe Edgar Rice Buroughs.
Emma wrote: "Either Shakespeare (because he is my life) or James Joyce (so I could hit him over the head with a hardcover copy of Ulysses)."I would like to do that to Leo Tolstoy with Anna Karenina.
Jane Austen, because she seems such an interesting character. I'd like to meet her sister, Cassandra too, as their relationship was so close it would be interesting to see how they interacted and the influence Cassandra had on Jane.
Jane Austen and Emily Bronte, totally!
it's a hard choice to make, but i i would definetly summon Emile Zola :) there is also Jane Austen and maybe Victor Hugo.
Thomas Hardy, absolutely! Audacious for his time (think of Jude the Obscure and Two on a Tower), private and prolific. His works reflect a master story-teller with the descriptive heart of a poet; and, while his poetry rarely stands up to modern criticism, his sensory depictions in his fiction are outstanding. He depicts the internal struggles of his characters - societal, emotional, psychological, sexual - with the deft hand of a literary craftsman.Edit: Like others I must add more - Maryann Evans (George Eliot), John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, and Walter Van Tilburg Clark - all for much the same reasons as Hardy. Yes, the list COULD go on.
Anarchic wrote: "Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoevski and Virginia Woolf...that would be great ^___^"Agreed, :)!
Richard Matheson and Edgar Allen Poe..also Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin, and Emily Dickinson.
oooh...I like val's idea also! (message 49)
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