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March 15, 1941:
A NEW GAME FOR BOOK LOVERS
Sir
by
Hugh Walpole
the list with Hilaire Belloc, but I consider that because of his great variety and the multi- plicity of his books he is not yet sufficiently realised for the great writer that he is.
Sache verell Sitwell is less
This week, for a change, I'love "the Half Dozen!") Shake- publicly recog- suggest a literary game that speare, Milton, Keats, Words- nised than his may be played anywhere-in worth, Gibbon, Dickens.
brother and sis- ter.. camp, hospital, in a family gathering at home-only, of
That is a conventional ques- writes so much
course, you must be interested tion, and so is the next, in books before you can play it: No. 2. Who are the six great- The origin of this suggestion est living English-novelists?" is a letter that I received recent- ly from two young airmen somewhere in England.
The letter is as follows:
Dear Sir,
He, too,
that the crities
are, as yet be-
wildered. Some
of his poetry is
Wells (the early Wells only), magnificent."
E. N. Forster, Virginia Woolf,
Aldous Huxley, Maugham, Mny
Forrest Reid
delicate and sensitive The me for my taste to be really
Sinclair (May Sinclair is forgot is one of the ten, but she is still alive-a most most excellent novelist, James Joyce novelists alive. Read "Follow ashamed of here is Voitaire! Well, The other avening here we is, in my opinion, a poet rather ing Darkness," "The Bracknels," I can see that "Candide" and "Zadig"
"Apostate." propounded some questions, than a novelist). and all wrote down the an swers according to their in-
are great works. Voltaire is simply
No. 3. What hooks would you N. P. Shiel is the author of not for me, that's all,
Stendhal is my bilad spot. I de- take with you if you must live those strange books "The Purple dividual tastes and fancies. on a desert island for the rest Cloud" and "The Lord of the test his coldness.
Of many others also. Peacock seems to be à tiresome, Afterwards we decided that of your days? Only a small box Sea."
He has a streak of genius with unassuming.
chattering old mon. we would ask you the ques- allowed.
many impossibilities, obscurities, "The Faerie Queen" is lovely and tions, and send you some of our answers-and here you Waverley Novels in one volume,
Shakespeare, the Odyssey, six incredibilities.
unreadable.
are.
England?
★ *
No. 7. Who are the best ving English storytellers?
Here's a jolly question! Most of
There is room for one more ques-
Haslitt (Nonsuch), Keats's Life, Letters, Poems (1 Vol.), The Brothers Karamazo, six Novels No. 5; Whom do you consider the I HAVE answered the ques of Thomas Hardy in 1 Vol., the half-dozen most overrated writers in the best storytellers are dead, but I wunkt name A.E. W. Mason (Jacile tions (all but one). These ques- Bible, Book of Oxford Verse.
This is the question I have left princeps), Robert Hichens, Dorothy tions have nothing to do with Gibbon (in 2 Vols., American general knowledge or especial edition), Proust. I would have unanswered for very obvious rea Sayers. Erle Ambler, C. S. Forrestor
sons. My young air friends, though, erudition. They are only a list everything here that an average have sent their answers, and that is not a bad list to go on with.
literary man could neeil. of personal tastes.
I interesting they are!
friends have used the word some paper as well!
teresting one, and deserves much
No. 8. What three writers would "English" when they mean No. 4. Whom do you con- more space thun I can give it.
you yourself like to be a combina- "British." So have and 1 sider the half-dozen most under-
6. What authors universally con- tion of-leaving out the very great- hope no Scotsman will write to ruted living. English writers?
sidered important are you allogether est? me angrily.
Hilaire Belloc, Sacheverell Sit- unable to read?
I have no doubt as to my own No. 1, Who are the six great- well, Forrest Reid, N. P. Shiel.
MY answer is-Peacock, Edmund personal answer-Balzac, Dumas and Here are some to be going on Spenser, Stendhal, Voltaire. These Keats. est English writers? (I would
What a novelist they would say here that my young friends with. It seems absurd to head will do to be going on with.
I would add that my airmen should like a fountain pen and The next question is a most in-ttun only!
make!
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