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Authors Known for >3 Books Anonymous Fri May 7 19:39:05 2021 No.18198296 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any authors who are known for more than three distinct works among non-specialists? Counting series/cycles as single works, I can't name a single one that makes it to four in any period.

>Hard mode: No Ancient Greeks

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 19:40:37 2021 No.18198309 >>18198296 Dostoevsky >Crime and Punishment >The Idiot >The Brothers Karamazov >Notes from Underground

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 19:41:30 2021 No.18198311 >>18198296 Literally most famous writers I can think about have over 3 books they are know for, you are just mentally disabled.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 19:44:00 2021 No.18198325 >>18198296 But he wrote 46-48 books

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 19:59:09 2021 No.18198409 >>18198309 This is good, but sadly fewer know Idiot than should >>18198311 like?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:00:55 2021 No.18198420 >>18198296 Flaubert >Madame Bovary >Sentimental Education >Temptation of St. Anthony >Bouvard and Petuchet.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:02:30 2021 No.18198430 Dickens >Great Expectations >Oliver Twist >Christmas Carol >Bleak House >Pickwick Papers >Tale of Two Cities >David Copperfield >Hard Times >Little Doritt

Anonymous Fri May 7 20:04:31 2021 No.18198438
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>>18198296
Shakespeare is kind of cheating.
Ernest Hemingway
>Sun Also Rises
>Farewell to Arms
>For Whom the Bell Tolls
>The Old Man and the Sea
And all of the 6 Austen novels are iconic.
>>18198409
Why yes, I know about The Idiot from the Kurosawa film and it is currently on my to-read list.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:08:25 2021 No.18198448 >>18198296 Nietzsche >Zarathustra >Ecce Homo >The Antichrist >Beyond Good and Evil >The Birth of Tragedy

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:19:53 2021 No.18198516 >>18198296 Faulkner >The Sound and the Fury >Absalom Absalom >As I Lay Dying >A Light in August H.G. Wells (Write sci-fi but his books are still classics) >The War of the Worlds >The Invisible Man >The Time Machine >The Island of Doctor Moreau

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:21:08 2021 No.18198523 >>18198296 Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:21:42 2021 No.18198528 >>18198296 >>Hard mode: No Ancient Greeks Why would that be hard mode? Literally no Greek is known for that many works either, even the tragedians are not read much beyond their 2-3 notable plays.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:24:10 2021 No.18198541 >>18198528 Aristotle's got NE, Pol, Poe, Organon (6 works), Metaphysics ... pretty influential!

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:29:04 2021 No.18198576 >>18198296 Camus? >The Stranger >The Myth of Sisyphus >The Plague >The Fall

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:31:35 2021 No.18198593 >>18198296 Pynchon V. GR L49

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:35:33 2021 No.18198626 >>18198541 Ok, I was thinking of artistic literature.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:39:04 2021 No.18198652 >>18198626 Got you covered for that too Rupi Kaur: Milk and Honey, The Sun and her Flowers, Home Body, One NRI Girl

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:39:51 2021 No.18198664 >>18198652 Who

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:40:26 2021 No.18198666 >>18198296 Like it or not its Stephen King.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:43:47 2021 No.18198684 >>18198296 JK Rowling >harry potter >fantastic beasts >her fucking mummy milkers

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 20:44:27 2021 No.18198687 >>18198626 Does poetry count? I can't think of any one who wrote 4 different complete epic poems right now, but for instance Keats wrote some iconic normal poems: Ode to a Nightingale The Eve of St Agnes To Autumn Endymion

Anonymous Fri May 7 20:46:01 2021 No.18198694
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>>18198296
James Joyce
>Dubliners
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Ulysses
>Finnegans Wake
Franz Kafka
>Metamorphosis
>In the Penal Colony
>The Trial
>The Castle
>Amerika
Robert Heinlein
>Stranger in a Strange Land
>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
>Starship Troopers
>Future History

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 21:08:09 2021 No.18198804 Pynchon: >V. >Gravity's Rainbow >The Crying of Lot 49 >Mason&Dixon >Inherent Vice

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 21:12:02 2021 No.18198824 F Gardner

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 22:07:17 2021 No.18199084 >>18198296 Steinbeck >The Grapes of Wrath >Of Mice and Men >East of Eden >The Pearl >Cannery Row >Tortilla Flat Jules Verne >Journey to the Center of the Earth >The Mysterious Island >20,000 Leagues Under the Sea >Around the World in Eighty Days

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 22:07:29 2021 No.18199085 >>18198296 Samuel Beckett

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 22:18:52 2021 No.18199131 >>18199084 most people only know Steinbeck for Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, and East of Eden

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 22:20:35 2021 No.18199139 >>18198420 I love Flaubert, but I'll have to say he is only known for Madame Bovary

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 22:23:28 2021 No.18199147 >>18199084 The Pearl was garbage

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 22:54:56 2021 No.18199294 >>18199147 Regardless of how you feel about it, it is a widely recognized and highly-regarded work.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 22:56:33 2021 No.18199304 >>18198666 I opened this thread to post exactly this

>>	Anonymous Fri May 7 22:57:52 2021 No.18199313 >>18198652 only women read Rupi Kaur and even then only Milk and Honey

>>	Anonymous Sat May 8 03:11:07 2021 No.18200458 Tolkien Fellow ship of the ring Two towers Return of the king

>>	Anonymous Sat May 8 03:20:05 2021 No.18200497 Lovecraft

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