Bel-ami
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I'll go for.... Bobby Moore Geoff Hurst Stanley Matthews Kevin Keegan Paul Gascoigne
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Exactly my favourites too! I've just finished The Distant Horns of Summer - one of his more 'psychological' novels, but brimming with those sumptuous descriptions of the English countryside, as you describe.
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I'm a middle-class Englishman who has dropped out of university in the decade before WW1 and who likes to idle his days away in country pursuits and spend his allowance, rather than think about a career.
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Oops, sorry for not reading the thread more thoroughly. I'm a great HE Bates fan, but have yet to read Love for Lydia.........it's now firmly on the list. Thanks.
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I haven't read most of the famous romances, but may I propose "Fair Stood The Wind for France" by H.E. Bates. Possibly a 'romance for boys'. I wonder, do readers identify more with novels by writers of their own gender when reading romances?
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I've hardly scratched the surface so far, but these get my vote, so far: Bel-ami - Guy de Maupassant Silas Marner - George Elliot Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (top twenty?)
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Hello everybody - Bel-ami from the south of England. Never find enough time to get through my reading wish-list. Like most genres, but to pigeon-hole, it has to be Classics, Historical, Thrillers and Mysteries/Crime. Looking forward to participating in the BCF
