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I like the opening lines of Dickens' Great Expectations .Their simplicity and naturalness make it a very convincing and impressive start setting the apt narrative tone.Second, I like the typical Dickensian play on words. My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip...

My favorite woman writers Emily Bronte for writing one of the most powerful novels of all times. Then Sylvia Plath in whose writings I percieved a fascinatingly perfect fusion of theme, style and language encapsuling a subsumed sense of agony. Also, Mavis Gallant whose stories I read...

Im reading TWO TALES --- Edo and Enam, Betrothed by S Y Agnon and Theodore Roethke's poems and am greatly impressed bythe poems Dolor and Elegy for Jane.