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Originally Posted by pynch
No mention of Virginia Woolf yet? How come?
Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves are fantastic books (in order of ascending difficulty).
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Depends what you want to read.
Authors like Dickens, Eliot, and Trollope were the "mass entertainment" of their day. They wrote for ordinary people as popular entertainment. Authors like Joyce and Woolf were writing as "art" and their books are a lot more work.
I'm not saying there anything wrong with "literature as art" rather than as entertainment, but you do need to be aware of it before deciding what you want to read.