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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (3152)	1/1/2002 1:51:43 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Here are the writers on your list. I find it hard to believe there isn't room for at least one American. Except Eliot of course, but he doesn't count. I think we can drop at least one or two of these guys. Why is HG Wells on the list? His only value seems to have been as a debating foil for Chesterton and Belloc. His magnum oopus, A History of the World, is seen today as a rather banal exercise. A couple other ones are interesting and cool to college stoners, like Hesse and Huxley, but were they lions...?? 26. T.S. Eliot 27. D.H. Lawrence 28. James Joyce 29. G.B. Shaw 29. Albert Camus 30. Franz Kafka 31. Herman Hesse 32. Thomas Mann 33. Samuel Becket 38. C.S. Lewis 39. G.K. Chesterton 65. H. G. Wells 66. Aldous Huxley