| Author | Message | ||
     Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.28.207 |
Some salutary lists. How many of these books and their authors are forgotten now! http://www.arthursclassicnovels.com/ | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
Most are indeed forgotten, but good to see Robert Hichens, Robert W Chambers, Edith Wharton... Very interesting link. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
That's an invaluable link! Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention, Ramsey. Endless hours of research await.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.95.140 |
I often get glum perusing pub libraries, all those unknown names. It's like a graveyard. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Let's see... Top Ten selling authors of 1900-1919 that I've read at least a short story by: 1900 - None 1901 - None 1902 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Booth Tarkington 1903 - None 1904 - None 1905 - Robert Hichens, Edith Wharton 1906 - Robert W. Chambers, Upton Sinclair, Edith Wharton 1907 - Frances H. Burnett, Robert W. Chambers 1908 - Frances H. Burnett 1909 - Mary Roberts Rinehart 1910 - Mary Roberts Rinehart 1911 - Jeffrey Farnol, Robert W. Chambers 1912 - None 1913 - Jeffrey Farnol, Frances H. Burnett 1914 - Frances H. Burnett, Booth Tarkington 1915 - Booth Tarkington, Mary Roberts Rinehart 1916 - Booth Tarkington, H.G. Wells 1917 - H.G. Wells, Zane Grey, Robert Hichens, Jeffrey Farnol 1918 - Zane Grey, May Sinclair, Mary Roberts Rinehart, E. Phillips Oppenheim 1919 - Joseph Conrad, Zane Grey, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Robert W. Chambers Of all the books listed I have read only one; 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles'. Interesting to note no Conrad or Wells in the first ten years when they were at their writing peak, and, for all Frances H. Burnett's appearances, no 'The Secret Garden' (1911). No accounting for public taste, is there... IMHO, it's statistics like this that prove the good sense of my 20 Year Rule! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.95.140 |
Zane Grey? I thought he was later. Anyone here read any westerns? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I read and very much enjoyed some Zane Grey when I was very young and long to read Robert E. Howard's western stories. The only one I have read was a western ghost story in one of the Fontana books called 'The Man On The Ground' - short, sweet and brilliantly authentic, like all Howard's writing. Like you, Tony, I'd also describe the second half of 'A Study In Scarlet' as a western and agree that the Coens would be naturals to do an faithful adaptation (for the first time), with Holmes & Watson as almost incidental characters. It would suit their perverse sense of humour. |