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Stewart, thanks. I think it can be interesting for me.
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Your country's writers.
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Inkheart
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I'm from Ireland. 
Choose from:
James Joyce
(1882 – 1941)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
Francis Ledwidge (a relative of mine)
(1887 – 1917)
Songs of peace
To a Distant One
The Place
May
To Eilish of the Fair Hair
C. S. Lewis
(1898 – 1963)
The Screwtape Letters
The Chronicles of Narnia
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950)
Pygmalion
Commonsense about the War
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
The Black Girl in Search of God
Bram Stoker
(1847–1912)
Dracula
The Jewel of Seven Stars
Jonathan Swift
(1667 – 1745)
Gulliver's Travels
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Happy Prince
William Butler Yeats
(1865 – 1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Choose from:
James Joyce
(1882 – 1941)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
Francis Ledwidge (a relative of mine)
(1887 – 1917)
Songs of peace
To a Distant One
The Place
May
To Eilish of the Fair Hair
C. S. Lewis
(1898 – 1963)
The Screwtape Letters
The Chronicles of Narnia
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950)
Pygmalion
Commonsense about the War
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
The Black Girl in Search of God
Bram Stoker
(1847–1912)
Dracula
The Jewel of Seven Stars
Jonathan Swift
(1667 – 1745)
Gulliver's Travels
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Happy Prince
William Butler Yeats
(1865 – 1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
A.F.R.
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I am Finnish and to get an idea about classic Finnish literature try this:
Mika Waltari: The Egyptian
The Egyptian (in Finnish Sinuhe egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949.
The Egyptian is the first, and the most successful, of Waltari's great historical novels. It is set in a fascinating period of Egyptian history, mostly during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty, whom some have claimed to be the first monotheistic ruler in the world.
The hero of the novel is not Akhenaten, however, but the fictional character Sinuhe, the royal physician, who tells the story in exile after Akhenaten's fall and death. Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then-Egyptian dominated Syria (Levant), Mitanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, and among the Hittites.
Although Waltari employed some poetic license in combining the biographies of Sinuhe and Akhenaten, he was otherwise much concerned about the historical accuracy of his detailed description of ancient Egyptian life and carried out considerable research into the subject. The result has been praised not only by readers but also by egyptologists.
Waltari had long been interested in Akhenaten and wrote a play about him which was staged in Helsinki in 1938. World War II provided the final impulse for exploring the subject in a novel which, although depicting events that took place over 3000 years ago, in fact reflects the contemporary feelings of disillusionment and war-weariness and carries a pessimistic message of the essential sameness of human nature throughout the ages.
Waltari's message evoked a wide response in readers in the aftermath of the World War, and the book became an international bestseller, topping the bestseller lists in the USA in 1949. It remained the most sold foreign novel in the US before its place was taken over by The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco. The Egyptian has been translated into 40 languages.
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Mika Waltari: The Egyptian
The Egyptian (in Finnish Sinuhe egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949.
The Egyptian is the first, and the most successful, of Waltari's great historical novels. It is set in a fascinating period of Egyptian history, mostly during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty, whom some have claimed to be the first monotheistic ruler in the world.
The hero of the novel is not Akhenaten, however, but the fictional character Sinuhe, the royal physician, who tells the story in exile after Akhenaten's fall and death. Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then-Egyptian dominated Syria (Levant), Mitanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, and among the Hittites.
Although Waltari employed some poetic license in combining the biographies of Sinuhe and Akhenaten, he was otherwise much concerned about the historical accuracy of his detailed description of ancient Egyptian life and carried out considerable research into the subject. The result has been praised not only by readers but also by egyptologists.
Waltari had long been interested in Akhenaten and wrote a play about him which was staged in Helsinki in 1938. World War II provided the final impulse for exploring the subject in a novel which, although depicting events that took place over 3000 years ago, in fact reflects the contemporary feelings of disillusionment and war-weariness and carries a pessimistic message of the essential sameness of human nature throughout the ages.
Waltari's message evoked a wide response in readers in the aftermath of the World War, and the book became an international bestseller, topping the bestseller lists in the USA in 1949. It remained the most sold foreign novel in the US before its place was taken over by The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco. The Egyptian has been translated into 40 languages.
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