Books with Fantastic Prose.

[Anonymous No.13280653]

ITT: Books with excellent writing

[Anonymous No.13280661]

Yes Richard Pevear is a great prose stylist

[Anonymous No.13280679]

>>13280653
ulysses
moby dick

[Anonymous No.13280790]

>>13280661
I would say Richard Pevear has great prosaic style.

[Anonymous No.13280812]

>>13280653

[Anonymous No.13280816]

>>13280653

[Anonymous No.13280824]

Joyce
Nabokov
Melville
McCarthy (some)

[Anonymous No.13281131]

>>13280816
Stop

[Anonymous No.13281141]

>>13281131
Stay mad faggot

[Anonymous No.13281210]

You guys always spam the same 20 books

[Anonymous No.13281217]

Any isekai LN, the newer the better.

[Anonymous No.13281467]

>>13280653
>Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
No thank you.

[Anonymous No.13281504]

>>13281467
Why?

[Anonymous No.13281576]

>>13281504
Most of their translations of books into English are subpar, especially the ones they did for Tolstoy's books. Read Louise and Aylmer Maude's translation from the 1920's or Amy Mandelker's revision of the Maude's translation instead.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600

[Anonymous No.13281600]

>>13281576
I've actually been looking for those translations but I can never find them anywhere

[Anonymous No.13281654]

Ivan Bunin
Andrei Platonov

[Anonymous No.13281796]

>>13281504
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-pevearsion-of-russian-literature/

[Anonymous No.13281929]

>>13281600
Everyman's Library Hardcover (three-volume boxed set)
https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=&lang=en&isbn=0679405739&new_used=*&destination=us&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

Norton Critical Edition Paperback (annotated, includes twenty essays)
https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=&lang=en&isbn=039396647X&new_used=*&destination=us&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

Oxford World's Classics Paperback (Amy Mandelker's revision)
https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=&lang=en&isbn=0199232768&new_used=*&destination=us&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

Oxford World's Classics Hardback (Same text as Oxford's Paperback in Hardcover)
https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=&lang=en&isbn=0198800541&new_used=*&destination=us&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

[Anonymous No.13283719]

>>13281210
that's because they are the best

[Anonymous No.13283722]

>>13281600
nigga, wordsworth classics have that translation on karenina and war and peace, they are literally everywhere and cost about 3 bucks

[OP No.13283727]

>>13283719
which 20 books are those?

[Anonymous No.13283741]

>>13280790
Hehe

[Anonymous No.13283805]

Dostoe is a pretty bad prose stylist.

[Anonymous No.13283855]

>>13283805
I’m not sure of the original, but Dostoevsky in translation can have great prose
>Early in the morning, at six o’clock, he went off to work on the river bank, where they used to pound alabaster and where there was a kiln for baking it in a shed. There were only three of them sent. One of the convicts went with the guard to the fortress to fetch a tool; the other began getting the wood ready and laying it in the kiln. Raskolnikov came out of the shed on to the river bank, sat down on a heap of logs by the shed and began gazing at the wide deserted river. From the high bank a broad landscape opened before him, the sound of singing floated faintly audible from the other bank. In the vast steppe, bathed in sunshine, he could just see, like black specks, the nomads’ tents. There there was freedom, there other men were living, utterly unlike those here; there time itself seemed to stand still, as though the age of Abraham and his flocks had not passed. Raskolnikov sat gazing, his thoughts passed into day-dreams, into contemplation; he thought of nothing, but a vague restlessness excited and troubled him. Suddenly he found Sonia beside him; she had come up noiselessly and sat down at his side. It was still quite early; the morning chill was still keen. She wore her poor old burnous and the green shawl; her face still showed signs of illness, it was thinner and paler. She gave him a joyful smile of welcome, but held out her hand with her usual timidity. She was always timid of holding out her hand to him and sometimes did not offer it at all, as though afraid he would repel it. He always took her hand as though with repugnance, always seemed vexed to meet her and was sometimes obstinately silent throughout her visit. Sometimes she trembled before him and went away deeply grieved. But now their hands did not part.

[Anonymous No.13283858]

>>13281210
I’d say it’s even less than that.

[Anonymous No.13283870]

>>13283727
Billy Budd
Moby-Dick
Heart of Darkness
Portrait of a Lady
Ulysses
Portrait of the Artist
The Sound and the Fury
Absalom, Absalom!
Light in August
A Farewell to Arms
In Search of Lost Time
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Lolita
Pale Fire
Gravity’s Rainbow
Mason & Dixon
Suttree
Blood Meridian
Tender is the Night

[Anonymous No.13283939]

>>13283722
There is a single Barnes and Noble within 100 miles of me

[Anonymous No.13284124]

>>13283870
Oh man. I never got over how good Tender is the night is. Ironically, i never read Fitzgerald again. Recommendation?

[Anonymous No.13284277]

>>13281796
>typos in their biased article
Yep, not reading that crap anymore.

[Anonymous No.13285846]

Nabokov
Mulisch
Calvino
De Lillo

[Anonymous No.13285899]

>>13284124
The Beautiful and Damned is also good

[Anonymous No.13285921]

The man who was Thursday

[Anonymous No.13286332]

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

[Anonymous No.13286398]

>>13281576
>tfw I was lucky enough to inherit a Maude&Maude translation of War and Peace from my Grandad before I knew a thing about the differences in quality of translations

[Anonymous No.13286953]

>>13280653
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
The Times of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
All the Strange Hours by Loren Eiseley
The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley

Lots of the best fiction suggestions have been made so I thought I'd throw in some nonfiction.

[Anonymous No.13286995]

Lord Jim

[Anonymous No.13286996]

unironically Bronze Age Mindset

[Anonymous No.13287035]

>using "prose" to as a catchall term describe beautiful and stylized writing
The best "prose" writers are verse writers you fucking retards

[Anonymous No.13287535]

>>13280653
is this bait? love brothers k but would never accuse it of having good prose, and i only read pevear and volokhonsky for dosto