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America
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
Moby Dick -- Herman Melville
The Scarlett Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott
The Raven -- Edgar Allen Poe (poem)
The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye -- JD Salinger
Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
I would have thought Dickens as the second most popular British novelist of all time (after Shakespeare), is Scrooge as well known as Sherlock Holmes?
See, I grew up in the different part of the world, so "Oliver Twist" was widely popular back in my day (and сouple of Dickens other novels,) where Scrooge was mostly unknown. In the US Scrooge is talked about around every Christmas, where Dickens other books are hardly mentioned.
Shakespeare is Shakespeare - everyone knows him no matter what country I think, but as far as the US goes - I don't think Arthur Conan Doyle is well-known, where in Russia Sherlock Holmes was a popular book ( along with the movie.) In fact a Russian actor who played the role of Sherlock Holmes "became an Honorary MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) "for service to the theatre and performing arts".[1]" according to the WIKI.
Sherlock Holmes is a good one, but I'd have to say Shakespeare for the English author. I could nominate any number of books but I'd probably have to go with Romeo and Juliet.
Russia. Tolstoy: War and Peace or Anna Karenina?
America. Maybe JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye? Otherwise possibly Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Russia; it's probably either "War and Peace" or Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment" may be?( Don't think it's "Anna Karenina" though.)
"Tom Sawyer" would be probably top American novel ( in terms of how well-known it is in the world.)
I guess the most famous Swiss book (at least in German speaking countries ) is "Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre" ("Heidi's years of learning and travel" or just "Heidi") by Johanna Spyri published in 1880.
I loved that book when I was a kid. I doubt that it's known abroad, though?
I guess the most famous Swiss book (at least in German speaking countries ) is "Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre" ("Heidi's years of learning and travel" or just "Heidi") by Johanna Spyri published in 1880.
I loved that book when I was a kid. I doubt that it's known abroad, though?
The only Swiss author I can think of is Max Frisch and whatever I've read I remember I liked a great deal, but my g-f who gave me the book disliked it a great deal.
But then again, she was the one reading ( and enjoying) Kafka.
when I think "fiction book" I usually don't think "poetry."
Poetry included. It's anyway kind of fiction.
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) is "Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre" ("Heidi's years of learning and travel" or just "Heidi") by Johanna Spyri published in 1880.
