#Anthony Rolfe Johnson

[necarion]

Posting separately because it isn't quite on the main point about high notes. But here is Anthony Rolfe Johnson performing "Down by the Salley Gardens" by Ivor Gurney. This is lesser known setting, but I find it much more beautiful. And Johnson sings it like he's floating.

This is one recording I cannot hear enough.

One of the most difficult vocal techniques is the ability to hit the high notes cleanly and without blowing out the tone. Even harder is the ability to hit those notes delicately. Here are three fantastic opera performances that show off different ways of hitting the high notes:

First, a classic: 1966 Covent Garden performance of Luciano Pavarotti singing "Ah! Mes amis!" from Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment. Skip to 4:42 if you want the famous bit, where he sings 9 high Cs. The piece was originally written for those high notes to be sorta yodeled, but it quickly became a showpiece for tenors.

Here, Pavarotti absolutely nails the notes with clarity, and while they're a Big Sound, they don't sound overdone.

For something much lighter, we have Michael Spyres singing "A tanto duol" from Bellini's Bianca e Fernando. This piece was written for Rubini, a friend of Bellini's, who had an absurdly range and technique. (This piece is so absurd that it was clearly in the canon of "written for this one dude".)

Listen to how effortlessly Spyres moves through notes like A4, which are normally "high notes" for a lot of tenors. Then he sings a C5 at 4:17 where he just moves through the damn thing like it's nothing. Which makes sense because he hits an F5 later, a note that's high in the alto range.

And then there's the hardest thing of all, which is singing the high notes quietly. Nicolai Gedda's performance of Magische Töne, from Die Königin von Saba by Karl Goldmark, is one of the most remarkable recordings I've ever heard.

The piece isn't a "showstopper", given its slow pace and delicacy, but it's one of the hardest pieces written for tenor. Its instructions are for it to be sung "very tenderly" ("sehr zart"), and Gedda sings it like the music is floating. I've never heard a tenor hit a high C with such delicacy. It's a bit hard to articulate what makes the sound different from an alto singing those notes, but it's there. *

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* @jadagul talks about how Jean Valjean's arias sound "better" when baritones sing them (as opposed to tenors), because the high notes sound hard, even when they're performed with perfection.

For comparison, here is Andreas Scholl, a legendary countertenor, singing "Down by the Salley Gardens" by Benjamin Britten. His range is considerably higher and easier than any of the tenors above, and his notes are even more graceful. But they sound fundamentally different and easier coming from him, because they aren't challenging and are entirely within his tessitura.

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JUST WRAPPED UP this entire album tonight, on this RAINY Christmas Eve here in my part of the Philippines. This is the second recording of BWV 248 I listened in full; the 1997 Philip Pickett one (in which a countertenor - Michael Chance - is used in place of a female alto, with Anne-Sofie Von Otter being John Eliot Gardiner’s case in his 1987 account) I dispersed the cantatas over the course of this year’s Ber Months was my first.

Maligayang Pasko!

[shiveringsoldier]

5, 6, 18, 21, and 23 for frodo!! <3

Thank you

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

"Whither Must I Wander?" from Ralph Vaughan Williams' song cycle Songs of Travel. (I like this recording by Anthony Rolfe Johnson.) The opening lines are "Home no more home to me / Whither must I wander?" and the sense of leaving home never to return almost makes it feel like it was written specifically for Frodo.

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

I definitely share his vulnerability to thoughts of despair. Right now I feel like I don't share any positive traits with him.

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Honestly, I like his relationship with Boromir and feel like it is overlooked. The scene when Boromir says to him "You carry a heavy burden, Frodo. Don't carry the weight of the dead" makes my heart hurt, but it's a beautiful moment. I'm sure Frodo needed to hear that in his time of fresh grief, and in that moment Boromir is the only character to show him kindness or acknowledge him at all. Everyone else in the Fellowship, even Sam, looks away from him. I also love when Boromir says something like "I know why you seek solitude. You suffer; I see it day by day." Even as the Ring is about to take him, Boromir shows true sympathy and compassion for him.

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

I've pretty much stopped writing fics at this point; I seem stuck in a permanent state of writer's block, and I can't get motivated to do anything. With the fics I have written about him, I like writing from his point of view. I've tended to prioritize post-Quest fics, and the post-Quest passages from the books aren't written from his POV, so it's nice to write from his perspective. I don't like writing dialogue, not just for him but in general. I feel like I'm terrible at writing dialogue.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

I don't have a single favorite, but this is one of my favorites. I generally love images of him looking down. I've also previously used this picture as a profile pic.

[steinwayandhissons]

classical pieces with the car energy (shamelessly stealing this wonderful idea from @depressedraisin)

and yes these will the most gut-wrenching, heart-breaking pieces of music so brace yourselves

gustav mahler - symphony no.3: finale (berlin philharmoniker, orchestra) -> (this literally makes me cry every time i listen to it without fail)

gabriel fauré - piano trio in d minor op.120: mvmt 1 (beaux arts trio, piano, violin, cello)

edvard grieg - piano sonata in e minor op.7: mvmt 2 (mikhail pletnev, piano)

maurice ravel - sonata for violin and cello: mvmt 3 (nigel kennedy, lynn harrell, violin, cello)

amy woodeford-finden - 4 indian love lyrics no.4: till i wake (ben johnson, voice, piano)

arnold schoenberg - verklärte nacht op.4 (ensemble intercontemporain, string sextet)

frank bridge - cello sonata: mvmt 1 (actually just the whole thing) (steven isserlis, connie shih, cello, piano)

ralph vaughan williams - on wenlock edge: clun (anthony rolfe johnson - tenor, graham johnson - piano, duke quartet - string quartet) -> (literally part of the lyrics - ‘tis sure small matter for wonder if sorrow is with one still. and if as a lad grows older the troubles he bears are more, he carries his griefs on a shoulder that handselled them long before. )

ignacy jan paderewski - miscellanea op.16 no.4: nocturne in b flat major (stephen hough, piano)

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Review: The Cup and the Lip - Elizabeth Ferrars

Title: The Cup and the Lip Author: Elizabeth Ferrars Series: N/A Release Date: 1975 Publisher: HarperCollins Rating: 4 stars

Favourite character: Peter Least favourite character: Kate

Mini-Review: Okay so this was amazing as usual. I love Elizabeth Ferrars books, her writing is just… ugh, I love it. My reason for it not being 5 stars is because of the ending. Not the reveal of the whodunnit, that shocked me. No the romance subplot that was never followed through on. I feel cheated.

Fan Cast: Peter Harkness - Harry Lloyd Gina Marston - Ellie Bamber Max Rowley - Tom Burke Kate Rowley - Olivia Colman Juliet Weldon - Laura Carmichael Walter Weldon - Martin Freeman Helen Braile - Clare Holman Anna Weinstock - Celia Imrie Adrian Rolfe - Aaron Taylor-Johnson Daniel Braile - Bill Nighy Arthur - Harry Holland Cliff Paton - Anthony Boyle Rosie Paton - Simona Brown Detective Superintendent Crabtree - Alex Price

[elmartillosinmetre]

"Fundé I Gemelli para cantar el papel de Orfeo"

[Emiliano González Toro (Ginebra, 1976) / MICHAL NOVÁK]

Como solista principal y al frente de I Gemelli, el tenor Emiliano González Toro publica en libro-disco 'Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria' de Monteverdi

De origen chileno, el tenor Emiliano González Toro (Ginebra, 1976) se ha hecho en los últimos veinte años un nombre cantando con todos los grandes conjuntos y maestros del barroco europeo.

–En un momento decide que no es suficiente y decide formar su grupo...

–Exacto. Nuestro primer concierto fue en mayo de 2019. Después de veinte años de carrera (debuté en 1998) cantando la mayor parte del gran repertorio barroco, sentí que me faltaba algo. No es que me aburriera, pero sí necesitaba algo más. Y además a veces no estaba demasiado de acuerdo con la forma en que se hacía la música. Eso coincidió con el hecho de que con mi mujer, Mathilde Etienne, habíamos hecho ya un espectáculo titulado Te recuerdo. Necesitaba hacer un proceso de reflexión sobre mis orígenes. Lo hice con mi familia. Pero entonces me di cuenta de que podíamos producir cosas a más alto nivel, colaborando con mucha gente, y que esas cosas funcionaran. Yo llevaba tiempo aspirando a hacer un papel que creía que para mí era perfecto, el Orfeo de Monteverdi, papel que estudio desde que era muy joven, y que finalmente nadie me proponía, así que decidimos empezar por ahí. Fundé I Gemelli para cantar el papel de Orfeo y reunir un elenco ideal en torno a él. Hicimos un concierto en París, y como resultó un éxito, nos animamos a seguir un poco más allá.

–Aquel Orfeo lo grabaron en Naïve, pero antes hicieron otro disco dedicado a Chiara Margarita Cozzolani...

–Sí, fue el primero, porque nunca había dirigido la grabación de un disco barroco, y hacer un primer disco con 70 personas podía ser complicado, porque era un tipo de trabajo y de organización que yo no conocía, así que hicimos dos discos antes. El primero fue el de Cozzolani, unas Vísperas muy parecidas a las de Monteverdi, de gran calidad. Y luego hicimos Soleil noir, muy relacionado con Orfeo porque estaba dedicado a Francesco Rasi, el primer tenor que hizo el papel de Orfeo. Era una forma de aprender el trabajo de productor, de organizador.

–Durante mucho tiempo el papel de Orfeo lo cantaban los barítonos...

–En realidad en este período hay tres tipos de voces: castrati, sopranos y tenores. Algunas veces hay también bajos. El concepto de barítono no existía. El tenor no subía demasiado alto y llegaba a una tesitura que hoy puede ser de barítono.

–Hubo cierta polémica cuando Gardiner le dio el papel al tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Ulises también solían afrontarlo entonces voces más graves. Usted piensa en cambio que es ideal para su voz…

–Absolutamente. En realidad los tenores de todo el período barroco, incluidos los que piden Vivaldi y Haendel, no son muy agudos. Te tienes que ir por la parte francesa, a los haute-contre, que cantan especialmente en el agudo, en voz mixta. Pero la música italiana y española de los siglos XVII y XVIII son partes en general muy graves. De vez en cuando hay algunos agudos, pero son episódicos. Y de hecho el papel de Ulises es bastante más agudo que el de Orfeo, que no sube más allá del fa. Ahora somos muchos los tenores que estamos desarrollando nuestro registro más grave; a estas voces se le suele llamar de baritenor: tenemos agudos pero podemos cantar bien en el grave. No somos muchos, pero está llegando la onda a otros muchos cantantes. Funciona muy bien para esta música. La voz de los barítonos en estos papeles suena fantástica, pero a ellos les provoca algunas tensiones en los agudos. Hay que tener en cuenta que la técnica belcantista no existe todavía en el siglo XVII.

–Llegado un punto decide también crear su propio sello…

–Hace dos años hablé con Naïve para decirles que quería hacer un proyecto XL con el Ulisse, algo que nunca se hizo y tal vez no se vuelva a hacer. Quería hacer un producto que no fuera solo la grabación publicada en discos convencionales, sino un libro, con textos, fotos, que pudiera recoger el trabajo que hicimos a lo largo de más de tres años. A ellos les pareció genial, pero consideraron que no era viable económicamente, que tendrían que vender el producto a más de 300 €, y eso es imposible. Entonces decidimos poner todo lo que teníamos para sacar esto adelante, y por eso montamos un sello. Así somos absolutamente independientes para hacer lo que queremos y como lo queremos. En este caso es un libro con un largo ensayo que ha escrito mi esposa Mathilde, que es casi una tesis doctoral, un trabajo increíble. Yo tenía en mente además poder ayudar a jóvenes músicos y cantantes que querían hacer discos personales, a los que les hemos ofrecido la vía de nuestro sello, por ejemplo el de Juan Sancho con música de José Marín, que es delicioso.

[Una sesión de grabación de la música / MICHAL NOVÁK]

–El proceso de grabación se ha extendido a lo largo de más de dos años...

–Es que el elenco es extensísimo. Hicimos sesiones de ensayo con todos los cantantes para que todos tuvieran un mínimo de información antes de empezar a trabajar. Luego yo grabé antes de todos mi parte, porque la gira de 2021 era larga y no quería estar cansado a la hora de hacerlo. Después hicimos los conciertos. Entre medias y después programamos varias sesiones de grabación. Pero nos faltaban todavía unos 45 minutos de música, que grabamos en mayo de este año. Hay que tener en cuenta que hemos añadido música para las partes que faltaban en la partitura que se ha conservado en Viena. El trabajo lo ha hecho Josué Meléndez y ha sido un trabajo de contrafactum, no exactamente de escribir música nueva, sino de adaptar otras músicas de Monteverdi a esos textos en los que la música se había perdido. Así tenemos coros nuevos y una gran escena de Mercurio cuya música se perdió. Hicimos como 23 días de grabación. Decidimos que a esta ópera le íbamos a dar todo el espacio que necesitáramos. En mi opinión hay un par de versiones de referencia de esta ópera, la de Harnoncourt y la de Jacobs, pero están un poco viejitas ya. No existía una versión reciente con un elenco de cinco estrellas desde cualquier punto de vista y con una visión moderna. Pensamos que valía la pena tomarnos este tiempo de trabajo, y poner la energía y el dinero necesarios para esta obra. No hacemos muchas grabaciones, pero siempre nos tomamos el tiempo necesario. Ojalá pueda convertirse en una referencia que ayude a los cantantes a entender cómo se hace esta música en 2023.

–Una decisión fundamental a la hora de montar esta obra es la de la instrumentación…

–El Orfeo y el Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda están llenos de información sobre instrumentación y sobre cómo quería Monteverdi que se hiciera la música, en qué momento tenía que entrar cada instrumento. En el Ulisse no hay nada de eso. Estudiamos en profundidad la partitura. Nos dimos cuenta de que viajó mucho, porque tuvo mucho éxito. Eso significa que nunca se hizo dos veces de la misma forma. Orfeo lo pagó el duque de Mantua, no había límites para Monteverdi. El Ulisse se hizo para un teatro privado y tenía que ser rentable. La taquilla tenía que pagar a todos. Nosotros nos hemos puesto en el lugar de un productor con muchos medios y hemos invitado a muchos músicos. Por ejemplo, usamos sacabuches para acompañar a Neptuno, lo que obviamente es un lujo, porque Neptuno canta tres minutos en toda la ópera, pero es para dar el color específico a sus intervenciones. También uno de nuestros músicos construyó una tromba marina que toca apenas 30 segundos, pero la hizo para darle el toque exacto a la llegada de Neptuno; para acompañar a los dioses como Júpiter y Mercurio están las cornetas; los bajones para acompañar a Iro, que es el bufón... Cada personaje tiene su instrumentación adaptada para que cada cual tenga su color específico. Pensamos en esta grabación como si fuera una grabación para la radio.

–Estilísticamente hablando hay un salto de Orfeo a Ulisse…

–Orfeo casi no es una ópera. Es más como un oratorio. Y es una tragedia. Ulisse es una tragicomedia y la Poppea es en realidad una comedia: hay mucha gente que piensa que es una obra muy sangrienta, llena de sexo, pero en realidad es una comedia satírica, es como si fuera una película de los Monty Python. Orfeo fue escrita para una Academia de gente muy cultivada y erudita. Ulisse está dedicada a todos los públicos.

–¿Van a hacer Poppea?

–En disco de momento, no. Si algún día tenemos dinero y sponsors, nos encantaría, pero de momento eso está lejano.

–El grupo acaba de debutar en España y traen el Ulises dentro de poco…

–Acabamos de estar en septiembre en los Festivales de Logroño y Estella, y en noviembre y diciembre hacemos el Ulisse en el Teatro Colón de La Coruña y en el Real de Madrid… Tenemos nueve fechas para esta gira de Ulises, empezamos en Burdeos…

–En su carrera discográfica hay un par de discos dedicados a Violeta Parra y Víctor Jara, ¿el origen tira?

–Forman parte de mi cultura. Mis padres cantaban esta música. A los 23 años tuvieron que abandonar Chile por el golpe de estado. Yo pensaba en esto a mis 23 años, y me daba cuenta de que era muy joven, un niño, y ellos a mi edad tuvieron que irse de Chile para salvar su vida; sentí que yo tenía que abrazar esta cultura y hacerla mía. La estudié y quise grabar la voz de mi padre, porque canta muy lindo y era importante para mí que su voz quedase grabada. Entonces surgió este proyecto de Víctor Jara, que se llama Te recuerdo, obviamente por su canción Te recuerdo, Amanda. Invité a Rolando Villazón que es muy amigo, y le agradeceré siempre mucho el impulso que le dio al proyecto con su presencia. Luego, en 2017 eran los aniversarios del nacimiento (100 años) y la muerte (50 años) de Violeta Parra. Mi padre quiso organizar un evento especial para conmemorarlo y me pidió que tomara la dirección artística del proyecto e invité a algunos músicos muy talentosos, como el pianista Thomas Enhco, que combina el jazz con la clásica y es ya una gran figura en Francia. El disco tuvo que haber salido en 2020 acompañado por una gran gira, pero todos sabemos lo que pasó ese año: la pandemia se lo llevó por delante, así que el disco acabó saliendo el año pasado, pero la gira ya no tenía sentido.

[Una imagen promocional de I Gemelli / MICHAL NOVÁK]

–¿Y qué proyectos de disco maneja ahora?

–Grabamos las Vespro de Monteverdi en enero. Lo hicimos después del concierto con la obra que ofrecimos en Ginebra. Yo soy ginebrino y me gusta que nuestros proyectos arranquen siempre de Ginebra. Hemos grabado también hace muy poquito un disco con la Misa criolla de Ariel Ramírez con una big band de jazz y un cantante de salsa muy famoso. Eso saldrá el año que viene para una gran gira. Y tenemos también en proyecto grabar La liberación de Ruggiero de la isla de Alcina de Francesca Caccini, la primera ópera compuesta por una mujer. Lo haremos en concierto varias veces el año que viene. Para 2026 tenemos también un proyecto de grabar una gran ópera francesa en el formato de disco-libro del mismo tipo que este Ulisse, pero de eso no puedo decir mucho más por ahora.

–Se mueven básicamente en el mundo del Seicento…

–Bueno, esto que le voy a decir es un scoop, esa ópera francesa es del XVIII. Pero además hemos firmado a la soprano Lauranne Oliva, que acaba de ganar importantes premios en las Nuits Lyriques y en Voix Nouvelles, dos de los concursos de canto lírico más importantes de Europa, y haremos con ella un disco con música de Mozart.

[Diario de Sevilla. 22-10-2023]

IL RITORNO D'ULISSE IN PATRIA EN SPOTIFY

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C minor, K 427. John Eliot Gardiner, director Barbara Bonney, soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzosoprano Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor Alastair Miles, bajo 

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Celebrity Deaths 2020

JANUARY Lexii Alijai - Jan. 1 (Rapper) Nick Gordon - Jan. 1 (Reality Star) Carlos De Leon - Jan. 1 (Boxer) Don Larsen - Jan. 1 (Baseball Player) Sam Wyche - Jan. 2 (Football Coach) John Baldessari - Jan. 2 (Conceptual Artist) Derek Acorah - Jan. 3 (TV Show Host) Gene Reynolds - Jan. 3 (Director) Andrea Arruti - Jan. 3 (Voice Actress) Walter Learning - Jan. 5 (Director) Ria Irawan - Jan. 6 (Movie Actress) Neil Peart - Jan. 7 (Drummer) Silvio Horta - Jan. 7 (Screenwriter) Elizabeth Wurtzel - Jan. 7 (Novelist) Harry Hains - Jan. 7 (TV Actor) *Edd Byrnes - Jan. 8 (TV Actor) Buck Henry - Jan. 8 (Screenwriter) Maxie - Jan. 8 (YouTube Star) Alexis Eddy - Jan. 9 (Reality Star) Brian James - Jan. 10 (Rugby Player) Stan Kirsch - Jan. 11 (TV Actor) La Parka - Jan. 12 (Wrestler) Rocky Johnson - Jan. 15 (Wrestler) *Dwayne Johnson's Dad* Christopher Tolkien - Jan. 16 (Novelist) David Olney - Jan. 18 (Folk Singer) Bubby Jones - Jan. 18 (Race Car Driver) Joe Shishido - Jan. 18 (Movie Actor) Jimmy Heath - Jan. 19 (Saxophonist) Terry Jones - Jan. 21 (Comedian) Jim Lehrer - Jan. 2(Journalist) Gudrun Pausewang - Jan. 23 (Young Adult Author) Jim Lehrer - Jan. 23 (Journalist) Clayton Christensen - Jan. 23 (Non-Fiction Author) Sean Reinert - Jan. 24 (Drummer) Rob Rensenbrink - Jan. 24 (Soccer Player) **Kobe Bryant - Jan. 26 (Basketball Player) *Gianna Bryant - Jan. 26 (Family Member) *Kobe's Daughter* Bob Shane - Jan. 26 (Rock Singer) John Altobelli - Jan. 26 (Baseball Manager) Keri Altobelli - Jan. 26 (Family Member) Jack Burns - Jan. 27 (Comedian) Harriet Frank Jr. - Jan. 28 (Screenwriter) Nicholas Parsons - Jan. 28 (TV Show Host) Tofig Gasimov - Jan. 29 (Politician) John Andretti - Jan. 30 (Race Car Driver) Fred Silverman - Jan. 30 (TV Producer) Mary Higgins Clark - Jan. 31 (Novelist) Anne Cox Chambers - Jan. 31 (Entrepreneur) 

FEBRUARY Gene Reynolds - Feb. 3 (Director) Nadia Lutfi - Feb. 4 (Movie Actress) Kamau Brathwaite - Feb. 4 (Poet) Kirk Douglas - Feb. 5 (Movie Actor) Beverly Pepper - Feb. 5 (Sculptor) *Raphael Coleman - Feb. 6 (Movie Actor) Jhon Jairo Velásquez - Feb. 6 (Criminal) Orson Bean - Feb. 7 (Movie Actor) Paula Kelly - Feb. 8 (Stage Actress) Robert Conrad - Feb. 8 (TV Actor) Qing Han - Feb. 8 (Illustrator) Keelin Shanley - Feb. 8 (Journalist) Mirella Freni - Feb. 9 (Opera Singer) Abam Bocey - Feb. 10 (Comedian) Lyle Mays - Feb. 10 (Planist) Louis-Edmond Hamelin - Feb. 11 (Non-Fiction Author) Jamie Gilson - Feb. 11 (Children's Author) Hamish Milne - Feb. 12 (Pianist) Jimmy Thunder - Feb. 13 (Boxer) Lynn Cohen - Feb. 14 (Movie Actress) Esther Scott - Feb. 14 (Voice Actress) John Shrapnel - Feb. 14 (Movie Actor) Caroline Flack - Feb. 15 (TV Show Host) Amie Harwick - Feb. 15 (Doctor) Vatroslav Mimica - Feb. 15 (Director) Jason Davis - Feb. 16 (Voice Actor) Zoe Caldwell - Feb. 16 (Stage Actress) Tony Fernandez - Feb. 16 (Baseball Player) Frances Cuka - Feb. 16 (TV Actress) Harry Gregg - Feb. 16 (Soccer Player) Ja'net Dubois - Feb. 17 (TV Actress) Owen Bieber - Feb. 17 (Activist) Charles Portis - Feb. 17 (Novelist) Lindsey Lagestee - Feb. 18 (Country Singer) Ashraf Sinclair - Feb. 18 (Movie Actor) Pop Smoke - Feb. 19 (Rapper) Jose Mojica Marins - Feb. 19 (Director) Gust Graas - Feb. 19 (Painter) Lisel Mueller - Feb. 21 (Poet) Tao Porchon-Lynch - Feb. 21 (Fitness Instructor) Katherine Johnson - Feb. 24 (Mathematician) Clive Cussler - Feb. 24 (Oceanographer) David Roback - Feb. 24 (Guitarist) Ben Cooper - Feb. 24 (Movie Actor) Mario Bunge - Feb. 24 (Philosopher) Jahn Teigen - Feb. 24 (Pop Singer) Dieter Laser - Feb. 29 (Movie Actor)

MARCH Jack Welch - March 1 (Entrepreneur) James Lipton - March 2 (TV Producer) Roscoe Born - March 3 (Soap Opera Actor) Nicholas Tucci - March 3 (Movie Actor) Roscoe Born - March 3 (Soap Opera Actor) Javier Perez De Cuellar - March 4 (Politician) Marnie the Dog  - March 5 (Dog) Danny Tidwell - March 6 (Dancer) McCoy Tyner - March 6 (Pianist) Henri Richard - March 6 (Hockey Player) Mart Crowley - March 7 (Playwright) Max Von Sydow - March 8 (Movie Actor) **Cookie Pansino - March 8 (Dog) Josie Harris - March 9 (Reality Star) Lorenzo Brino - March 9 (TV Actor) Eric Taylor - March 9 (Country Singer) Beba Selimovic - March 10 (Folk Singer) Josie Harris - March 10 (Reality Star) Michel Roux - March 11 (Chef) Charles Wuorinen - March 11 (Composer) Genesis P-Orridge - March 14 (Rock Singer) Roy Hudd - March 15 (Comedian) Wolf Kahn - March 15 (Painter) Stuart Whitman - March 16 (TV Actor) Roger Mayweather - March 17 (Boxer) Lyle Waggoner - March 17 (TV Actor) Alfred Worden - March 18 (Astronaut) Peter Whittingham - March 19 (Soccer Player) Kenny Rogers - March 20 (Country Singer) Pradip Kumar Banerjee - March 20 (Soccer Player) Mike Longo - March 21 (Pianist) Sol Kerzner - March 21 (Entrepreneur) Carmen De Mairena - March 22 (TV Actress) Serena Liu - March 22 (TV Actress) Stuart Gordon - March 24 (Screenwriter) Terrence McNally - March 24 (Playwright) Manu Dibango - March 24 (Saxophonist) Bill Rieflin - March 24 (Drummer) Floyd Cardoz - March 25 (Chef) Fred "Curly" Neal - March 26 (Basketball Player) Jimmy Wynn - March 26 (Baseball Player) Mark Blum - March 26 (Movie Actor) John Callahan - March 28 (Soap Opera Actor) Jan Howard - March 28 (Country Singer) Tom Coburn - March 28 (Politician) Linda Roper - March 28 (TikTok Star) Alan Merrill - March 29 (Rock Singer) Joe Diffie - March 29 (Country Singer) Krzysztof Penderecki - March 29 (Composer) Bill Withers - March 30 (Soul Singer) Tomie dePaola - March 30 (Children's Author) Andrew Jack - March 31 (Voice Actor) Smokinhottballz - March 31 (TikTok Star) Wallace Roney - March 31 (Trumpet Player)

APRIL Bucky Pizzarelli - April 1 (Guitarist) Ellis Marsalis Jr. - April 1 (Piantist) Adam Schlesinger - April 1 (Bassist) Eddie Large - April 2 (Comedian) Logan Williams - April 2 (TV Actor) Tom Dempsey - April 4 (Football Player) Shirley Douglas - April 5 (TV Actress) Honor Blackman - April 5 (Movie Actress) James Drury - April 6 (Movie Actor) Mac P Dawg - April 6 (Rapper) Earl G. Graves Sr. - April 6 (Entrepreneur) Al Kaline - April 6 (Baseball Player) Ital Samson - April 6 (Rapper) John Prine - April 7 (Country Singer) Hal Willner - April 7 (Music Producer) Allen Garfield - April 7 (Movie Actor) Mort Drucker - April 8 (Cartoonist) Chynna Rogers - April 8 (Rapper) Linda Tripp - April 8 (Politician) Glenn Fredly - April 8 (R&B Singer) Tarvaris Jackson - April 12 (Football Player) Tim Brooke-Taylor - April 12 (Comedian) Stirling Moss - April 12 (Race Car Driver) Luminor - April 12 (Rock Singer) Rick May - April 13 (Voice Actor) Brian Dennehy - April 15 (Stage Actor) Lee Konitz - April 15 (Saxophonist) Adam Alsing - April 15 (TV Show Host) Henry Grimes - April 15 (Bassist) Howard Finkel - April 16 (Sportscaster) Steve Cash - April 16 (YouTube Star) Jane Dee Hull - April 16 (Politician) Norman Hunter - April 17 (Soccer Player) Peter Beard - April 19 (Photographer) Tom Lester - April 20 (TV Actor) Derek Jones - April 21 (Guitarist) Jerry Bishop - April 21 (Radio Host) Laisenia Qarase - April 21 (Politician) Shirley Knight - April 22 (Movie Actress) Fred the Godson - April 23 (Rapper) Jace Prescott - April 23 (Family Member) *Dak Prescott's Brother* Harold Reid - April 24 (Country Singer) Per Olov Enquist - April 25 (Playwright) Aarón Hernán - April 26 (Soap Opera Actor) Ashley Ross - April 27 (Reality Star) Troy Sneed - April 27 (Gospel Singer) Nur Yerlitas - April 27 (Fashion Designer) Eavan Boland - April 27 (Poet) Mark Beech - April 27 (Non-Fiction Author) Jill Gascoine - April 28 (TV Actress) Yahya Hassan - April 29 (Poet) Irrfan Khan - April 29 (Movie Actor) Sam Lloyd - April 30 (TV Actor) Rishi Kapoor - April 30 (Movie Actor) Chuni Goswami - April 30 (Cricket Player)

MAY Matt Keough - May 1 (Baseball Player) Cady Groves - May 2 (Country Singer) Erwin Prasetya - May 2 (Bassist) Dave Greenfield - May 3 (Pianist) Don Shula - May 4 (Football Coach) Michael McClure - May 4 (Poet) Millie Small - May 5 (World Music Singer) Didi Kempot - May 5 (Pop Singer) Brian Howe - May 6 (Rock Singer) Florian Schneider - May 6 (Flute Player) Ben Chijioke - May 7 (Rapper) Andre Harrell - May 7 (Entrepreneur) *Roy Horn - May 8 (Magician) Percy Inglis - May 8 (Facebook Star) **Little Richard - May 9 (Rock Singer) Kristina Lugn - May 9 (Poet) **Corey La Barrie - May 10 (YouTube Star) Nick Blixky - May 10 (Rapper) Betty Wright - May 10 (R&B Singer) Jerry Stiller - May 11 (Movie Actor) Hutton Gibson - May 11 (Family Member) *Mel Gibson's Father* Michel Piccoli - May 12 (Movie Actor) *Gregory Tyree Boyce - May 13 (Movie Actor) Beckett Cypher - May 13 (Family Member) *Melissa Etheridge's Son* Rolf Hochhuth - May 13 (Playwright) Phyllis George - May 14 (Sportscaster) Fred Willard - May 15 (Movie Actor) Jorge Santana - May 15 (Guitarist) Lynn Shelton - May 15 (Screenwriter) El Chino Antrax - May 16 (Criminal) Shad Gaspard - May 17 (Wrestler) Ken Osmond - May 18 (TV Actor) Ravi Zacharias - May 19 (Religious Leader) Hagen Mills - May 19 (TV Actor) Jerry Sloan - May 22 (Basketball Coach) Mory Kante - May 22 (World Music Singer) Zara Abid - May 22 (Model) Eddie Sutton - May 23 (Basketball Coach) Hana Kimura - May 23 (Wrestler) Mota Jr - May 23 (Rapper) Jimmy Cobb - May 24 (Drummer) Anthony James - May 26 (TV Actor) Richard Herd - May 26 (TV Actor) Stanley Ho - May 26 (Entrepreneur) Larry Kramer - May 27 (Screenwriter) Houdini - May 27 (Rapper) Sam Johnson - May 27 (Politician) Bob Kulick - May 29 (Guitarist) Hassan Hosny - May 30 (Movie Actor) Blake Fly - May 30 (Instagram Star) Christo - May 31 (Painter)

JUNE Joey Image - June 1 (Drummer) Kailum O'Connor - June 1 (Snapchat Star) Chris Trousdale - June 2 (Pop Singer) Wes Unseld - June 2 (Basketball Player) Héctor Suárez - June 2 (Movie Actor) Mary Pat Gleason - June 2 (TV Actress) Bruce Jay Friedman - June 3 (Novelist) Steve Priest - June 4 (Bassist) Ybc Bam - June 4 (TikTok Star) Basu Chatterjee - June 4 (Director) Reche Caldwell - June 6 (Football Player) Chirru Sarja - June 7 (Movie Actor) Bonnie Pointer - June 8 (Rock Singer) Pierre Nkurunziza - June 8 (Politician) Ain Kaalep - June 9 (Poet) Paul Chapman - June 9 (Guitarist) Pau Donés - June 9 (Pop Singer) Jas Waters - June 9 (Screenwriter) George Canseco - June 12 (TikTok Star) Grandma Daisy - June 13 (Instagram Star) Sabiha Khanum - June 13 (Movie Actress) Sushant Singh Rajput - June 14 (Movie Actor) Yohan - June 16 (Pop Singer) Charles Webb - June 16 (Novelist) Eden Pastora - June 16 (Politician) Vera Lynn - June 18 (Pop Singer) John Bredenkamp - June 18 (Entrepreneur) Ian Holm - June 19 (Movie Actor) Tray Savage - June 19 (Rapper) Carlos Ruiz Zafon - June 19 (Young Adult Author) Pedro Lima - June 20 (Soap Opera Actor) Jim Kiick - June 20 (Football Player) Nastya Tropicelle - June 21 (YouTube Star) Steve Bing - June 22 (Film Producer) Joel Schumacher - June 22 (Director) Siya Kakkar - June 24 (TikTok Star) Huey - June 25 (Rapper) Kelly Asbury - June 26 (Director) Ramon Revilla Sr. - June 26 (Movie Actor) Linda Cristal - June 27 (Movie Actress) Pete Carr - June 27 (Guitarist) Rudolfo Anaya - June 28 (Novelist) Carl Reiner - June 29 (TV Actor) Johnny Mandel - June 29 (Composer) Benny Nardones - June 29 (Pop Singer) Young Curt - June 29 (Rapper) Willie Wright - June 29 (Soul Singer) Ida Haendel - June 30 (Violinist)

JULY Hugh Downs - July 1 (TV Show Host) Reckful - July 2 (Twitch Star) Earl Cameron - July 3 (Movie Actor) Saroj Khan - July 3 (Dancer) Sebastián Athié - July 4 (TV Actor) Bhakti Charu Swami - July 4 (Religious Leader) Nick Cordero - July 5 (Stage Actor) Charlie Daniels - July 6 (Country Singer) Ennio Morricone - July 6 (Composer) **Naya Rivera - July 8 (TV Actress) Flossie Wong-Staal - July 8 (Biologist) Jack Charlton - July 10 (Socccer Player) Morris Cerullo - July 10 (Religious Leader) Marlo - July 11 (Rapper) Nicole Thea - July 11 (Dancer) **Kelly Preston - July 12 (Movie Actress) Joanna Cole - July 12 (Children's Author) Benjamin Keough - July 12 (Family Member) *Elvis Presley's Grandson* Grant Imahara - July 13 (Reality Star) Zindzi Mandela - July 13 (Politician) Galyn Gorg - July 14 (TV Actress) John Lewis - July 17 (Politician) Zizi Jeanmaire - July 17 (Dancer) Miura Haruma - July 18 (TV Actor) El Dany - July 18 (Rapper) Kansai Yamamoto - July 21 (Fashion Designer) Demitra Roche - July 22 (Reality Star) *Regis Philbin - July 24 (TV Show Host) John Saxon - July 25 (Movie Actor) Peter Green - 25 (Guitarist) Olivia De Havilland - July 26 (Movie Actress) Malik B - July 29 (Rapper) Herman Cain - July 30 (Politician) Karen Berg - July 30 (Self-Help Author) Alan Parker - July 31 (Director)

AUGUST Wilford Brimley - Aug. 1 (TV Actor) Ryan Breaux - Aug. 2 (Family Member) *Frank Ocean's Brother* Leon Fleisher - Aug. 2 (Pianist) John Hume - Aug. 3 (Politician) Dick Goddard - Aug. 4 (TV Show Host) FBG Duck - Aug. 4 (Rapper) Horace Clarke Aug. 5 (Baseball Player) Isidora Bjelica - Aug. 5 (Playwright) James Drury - Aug. 6 (Movie Actor) Kurt Luedtke - Aug. 9 (Screenwriter) Tetsuya Watari - Aug. 10 (Movie Actor) Trini Lopez - Aug. 11 (World Music Singer) Ash Christian - Aug. 13 (TV Actor) Linda Manz - Aug. 14 (Movie Actress) Julian Bream - Aug. 14 (Guitarist) Shwikar - Aug. 14 (Movie Actress) Robert Trump - Aug. 15 (Family Memeber) *Donald Trump's Brother Emman Nimedez - Aug. 16 (Director) Kobe Nunez - Aug. 17 (YouTube Star) Gary Cowling - Aug. 17 (Stage Actor) Dale Hawerchuk - Aug. 18 (Hockey Player) Ben Cross - Aug. 18 (Movie Actor) Jack Sherman - Aug. 18 (Guitarist) Landon Clifford - Aug. 19 (YouTube Star) Chi Chi DeVayne - Aug. 20 (Reality Star) Frankie Banali - Aug. 20 (Drummer) Allan Rich - Aug. 22 (Movie Actor) Lori Nelson - Aug. 23 (Movie Actress) Benny Chan - Aug. 23 (TV Actor) Riley Gale - Aug. 24 (Rock Singer) Gail Sheehy - Aug. 24 (Non-Fiction Author) Lute Olson - Aug. 27 (Basketball Coach) **Chadwick Boseman - Aug. 28 (Movie Actor) El Loco Valdés - Aug. 28 (Comedian) Cliff Robinson - Aug. 29 (Basketball Player) John Thompson - Aug. 30 (Basketball Coach) Tom Seaver - Aug. 31 (Baseball Player) Pranab Mukherjee - Aug. 31 (Politician)

SEPTEMBER Erick Morillo - Sept. 1 (DJ) Ian Mitchell - Sept. 2 (Guitarist) Annie Cordy - Sept. 4 (Movie Actress) Lloyd Cadena - Sept. 4 (YouTube Star) Lucille Starr - Sept. 4 (Country Singer) Ethan Peters - Sept. 5 (Instagram Star) Kevin Dobson - Sept. 6 (Soap Opera Actor) Lou Brock - Sept. 6 (Baseball Player) Xavier Ortiz - Sept. 7 (TV Actor) Stevie Lee - Sept. 9 (Movie Actor) Diana Rigg - Sept. 10 (Movie Actress) Barbara Jefford - Sept. 12 (Stage Actress) Anthony Woodle - Sept. 13 (Director) Alien Huang - Sept. 16 (TV Show Host) Winston Groom - Sept. 17 (Novelist) Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Sept. 18 (Supreme Court Justice) Destiny Riekeberg - Sept. 19 (TikTok Star) Jackie Stallone - Sept. 21 (Family Member) *Sylvester Stallone's Mother* Michael Lonsdale - Sept. 21 (Movie Actor) Tommy DeVito - Sept. 21 (Guitarist) Zaywoah - Sept. 22 (Instagram Star) Joe Laurinaitis - Sept. 22 (Wrestler) Archie Lyndhurst - Sept. 22 (TV Actor) Juliette Greco - Sept. 23 (Movie Actress) Gale Sayers - Sept. 23 (Football Player) Dean Jones - Sept. 24 (Cricket Player) Yuko Takeuchi - Sept. 27 (TV Actress) Mac Davis - Sept. 29 (Country Singer) Helen Reddy - Sept. 29 (Pop Singer) Archie Lyndhurst - Sept. 30 (TV Actor) Quino - Sept. 30 (Cartoonist)

OCTOBER Derek Mahon - Oct. 1 (Poet) Murray Schisgal - Oct. 1 (Screenwriter) Bob Gibson - Oct. 2 (Baseball Player) Thomas Jefferson Byrd - Oct. 3 (Movie Actor) Kenzo Takada - Oct. 4 (Fashion Designer) Armelia McQueen - Oct. 4 (Stage Actress) Johhny Nash - Oct. 6 (Pop Singer) Eddie Van Halen - Oct. 6 (Guitarist) Tommy Rall - Oct. 6 (Dancer) Mario Molina - Oct. 7 (Chemist) Whitey Ford - Oct. 8 (Baseball Player) María García Galisteo - Oct. 9 (TV Actress) Joe Morgan - Oct. 11 (Baseball Player) Conchata Ferrell - Oct. 12 (TV Actress) Saint Dog - Oct. 13 (Rapper) Rhonda Fleming - Oct. 14 (Movie Actress) Fred Dean - Oct. 14 (Football Player) Johnny Bush - Oct. 16 (Country Singer) Doreen Montalvo - Oct. 17 (Stage Actress) Pinky Curvy - Oct. 17 (Instagram Star) James Redford - Oct. 17 (Director) Sid Hartman - Oct. 18 (Journalist) Spencer Davis - Oct. 19 (Guitarist) Marge Champion - Oct. 21 (Dancer) Frank Bough Oct. 21 (TV Show Host) Matt Blair - Oct. 22 (Football Player) Kastiop - Oct. 23 (YouTube Star) Jerry Jeff Walker - Oct. 23 (Country Singer) Diane DiPrima - Oct. 25 (Poet) Lee Kun-hee - Oct. 25 (Entrepreneur) DeOndra Dixon - Oct. 26 (Family Member) *Jamie Foxx's Sister* Billy Joe Shaver - Oct. 28 (Country Singer) Tracy Smothers - Oct. 28 (Wrestler) Bobby Ball - Oct. 28 (Comedian) Leanza Cornett - Oct. 28 (Pageant Contestant) Travis Roy - Oct. 29 (Memoirist) Nobby Stiles - Oct. 30 (Soccer Player) Herb Adderley - Oct. 30 (Football Player) *Sean Connery - Oct. 31 (Movie Actor) Rance Allen - Oct. 31 (Religious Leader) Betty Dodson - Oct. 31 (Novelist) MF Doom - Oct. 31 (Rapper)

NOVEMBER Eddie Hassell - Nov. 1 (TV Actor) Nikki McKibbin - Nov. 1 (Pop Singer) Magda Rodríguez - Nov. 1 (TV Producer) John Sessions - Nov. 2 (Comedian) Max Ward - Nov. 2 (Entrepreneur) Elsa Raven - Nov. 3 (Movie Actress) Ken Hensley - Nov. 4 (Rock Singer) Geoffrey Palmer - Nov. 5 (Movie Actor) BraxAttacks - Nov. 5 (Rapper) King Von - Nov. 6 (Rapper) SauxePaxk TB - Nov. 6 (Rapper) **Alex Trebek - Nov. 8 (Game Show Host) Bert Belasco - Nov. 8 (TV Actor) Tom Heinsohn - Nov. 10 (Basketball Player) Phyllis McGuire - Nov. 11 (Football Player) Mo3 - Nov. 11 (Rapper) Asif Basra - Nov. 12 (Movie Actor) Doug Supernaw - Nov. 13 (Country Singer) Paul Hornung - Nov. 13 (Football Player) Des O'Connor - Nov. 14 (TV Show Host) Soumitra Chatterjee - Nov. 15 (Movie Actor) Ray Clemence - Nov. 15 (Soccer Player) Kirby Morrow Nov. 18 (Voice Actor) Bobby Brown Jr - Nov. 18 (Family Member) *Bobby Brown's Son* Jake Scott - Nov. 19 (Football Player) Jan Morris - Nov. 20 (Non-Fiction Author) Mustafa Nadarevic - Nov. 22 (TV Actor) Hal Ketchum - Nov. 23 (Country Singer) David Dinkins - Nov. 23 (Politician) Abby Dalton - Nov. 23 (TV Actress) i_o - Nov. 23 (DJ) Joe Luna - Nov. 23 (Comedian) Bob Ryder - Nov. 24 (Journalist) Aaron Melzer - Nov. 24 (Rock Singer) Flor Silvestre - Nov. 25 (World Music Singer) Ahmad Mukhtar - Nov. 25 (Politician) Heavy D - Nov. 25 (Reality Star) Diego Maradona - Nov. 25 (Soccer Player) Markus Paul - Nov. 25 (Football Coach) Sadiq Al-Mahdi - Nov. 26 (Politician) Tony Hsieh - Nov. 27 (Entrepreneur) David Prowse - Nov. 28 (Bodybuilder) Lil Yase Nov. 28 (Rapper) Ben Bova - Nov. 29 (Non-Fiction Author) Papa Bouba Diop - Nov. 29 (Soccer Player) Jerry Demara - Nov. 30 (World Music Singer) Paid Will - Nov. 30 (Rapper) Nobby Stiles - Nov. 30 (Soccer Player)

DECEMBER Hugh Keays-Byrne - Dec. 1 (Movie Actor) Alexis Sharkey - Dec. 1 (Instagram Star) Michael Marion - Dec. 1 (Family Member) *Bobbie Thomas's Husband* Pamela Tiffin - Dec. 2 (Movie Actress) DC Fontana - Dec. 2 (Screenwriter) Pat Patterson - Dec. 2 (Wrestler) Alison Lurie - Dec. 3 (Novelist) Whitney Collings - Dec. 3 (Reality Star) David Lander - Dec. 4 (TV Actor) Sara Carreira - Dec. 5 (Instagram Star) Tabaré Vázquez - Dec. 6 (Politician) Natalie Desselle-Reid - Dec. 7 (TV Actress) Dick Allen - Dec. 7 (Baseball Player) Joselyn Cano - Dec. 7 (Instagram Star) Alejandro Sabella - Dec. 8 (Soccer Coach) Paolo Rossi - Dec. 9 (Soccer Player) V.J. Chitra - Dec. 9 (TV Actress) Phil Linz - Dec. 9 (Baseball Player) Barbara Windsor - Dec. 10 (Soap Opera Actress) Tommy Lister - Dec. 10 (Movie Actor) Carol Sutton - Dec. 10 (Movie Actress) Kim Ki-duk - Dec. 11 (Director) John Le Carre - Dec. 12 (Novelist) Ann Reinking - Dec. 12 (Stage Actress) Terry Kay - Dec. 12 (Novelist) Charley Pride - Dec. 12 (Country Singer) Gérard Houllier - Dec. 14 (Soccer Coach) *Jeremy Bulloch - Dec. 17 (Movie Actor) Rosalind Knight - Dec. 19 (TV Actress) K.T. Oslin - Dec. 21 (Country Singer) PlasmaMasterDon - Dec. 21 (YouTube Star) Stella Tennant - Dec. 22 (Model) Rika Zarai - Dec. 23 (World Music Singer) Rebecca Luker - Dec. 23 (Stage Actress) Leslie West - Dec. 23 (Guitarist) Kay Purcell - Dec. 23 (TV Actress) Danny Hodge - Dec. 24 (Wrestler) Genevieve Musci - Dec. 25 (YouTube Star) KC Jones - Dec. 25 (Basketball Player) Tony Rice - Dec. 25 (Guitarist) Lin Qi - Dec. 25 (Entrepreneur) Brodie Lee - Dec. 26 (Wrestler) Phil Niekro - Dec. 26 (Baseball Player) Tito Rojas - Dec. 26 (Folk Singer) Ty Jordan - Dec. 26 (Football Player) Nick McGlashan - Dec. 27 (Reality Star) William Link - Dec. 27 (Screenwriter) Fou Ts'ong - Dec. 28 (Pianist) Armando Manzanero - Dec. 28 (Composer) Jessica Campbell - Dec. 29 (Movie Actress) Pierre Cardin - Dec. 29 (Entrepreneur) Luke Letlow - Dec. 29 (Politician) Shabba Doo - Dec. 30 (Movie Actor) Frank Kimbrough - Dec. 30 (Pianist) Phyllis McGuire - Dec. 31 (Pop Singer) Alexi Laiho - Dec. ?? (Guitarist) 

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The 100 best novels written in English: the full list

After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list.

1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678)

A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and beauty of Bunyan’s prose make this the ultimate English classic.

2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)

By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-offs and translations. Crusoe’s world-famous novel is a complex literary confection, and it’s irresistible.

3. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)

A satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English

4. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)

Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as “the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart.”

5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)

Tom Jones is a classic English novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters have come to represent Augustan society in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic variety.

6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)

Laurence Sterne’s vivid novel caused delight and consternation when it first appeared and has lost little of its original bite.

7. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)

Jane Austen’s Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility.

8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)

Mary Shelley’s first novel has been hailed as a masterpiece of horror and the macabre.

9. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock (1818)

The great pleasure of Nightmare Abbey, which was inspired by Thomas Love Peacock’s friendship with Shelley, lies in the delight the author takes in poking fun at the romantic movement.

10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)

Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel – a classic adventure story with supernatural elements – has fascinated and influenced generations of writers.

11. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845)

The future prime minister displayed flashes of brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian novelists.

12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)

Charlotte Brontë’s erotic, gothic masterpiece became the sensation of Victorian England. Its great breakthrough was its intimate dialogue with the reader.

13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)

Emily Brontë’s windswept masterpiece is notable not just for its wild beauty but for its daring reinvention of the novel form itself.

14. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848)

William Thackeray’s masterpiece, set in Regency England, is a bravura performance by a writer at the top of his game.

15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)

David Copperfield marked the point at which Dickens became the great entertainer and also laid the foundations for his later, darker masterpieces.

16. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s astounding book is full of intense symbolism and as haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe.

17. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

Wise, funny and gripping, Melville’s epic work continues to cast a long shadow over American literature.

18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)

Lewis Carroll’s brilliant nonsense tale is one of the most influential and best loved in the English canon.

19. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)

Wilkie Collins’s masterpiece, hailed by many as the greatest English detective novel, is a brilliant marriage of the sensational and the realistic.

20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-9)

Louisa May Alcott’s highly original tale aimed at a young female market has iconic status in America and never been out of print.

21. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-2)

This cathedral of words stands today as perhaps the greatest of the great Victorian fictions.

22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875)

Inspired by the author’s fury at the corrupt state of England, and dismissed by critics at the time, The Way We Live Now is recognised as Trollope’s masterpiece.

23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884/5)

Mark Twain’s tale of a rebel boy and a runaway slave seeking liberation upon the waters of the Mississippi remains a defining classic of American literature.

24. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

A thrilling adventure story, gripping history and fascinating study of the Scottish character, Kidnapped has lost none of its power.

25. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889)

Jerome K Jerome’s accidental classic about messing about on the Thames remains a comic gem.

26. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)

Sherlock Holmes’s second outing sees Conan Doyle’s brilliant sleuth – and his bluff sidekick Watson – come into their own.

27. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891)

Wilde’s brilliantly allusive moral tale of youth, beauty and corruption was greeted with howls of protest on publication.

28. New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891)

George Gissing’s portrayal of the hard facts of a literary life remains as relevant today as it was in the late 19th century.

29. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)

Hardy exposed his deepest feelings in this bleak, angry novel and, stung by the hostile response, he never wrote another.

30. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)

Stephen Crane’s account of a young man’s passage to manhood through soldiery is a blueprint for the great American war novel.

31. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

Bram Stoker’s classic vampire story was very much of its time but still resonates more than a century later.

32. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)

Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece about a life-changing journey in search of Mr Kurtz has the simplicity of great myth.

33. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900)

Theodore Dreiser was no stylist, but there’s a terrific momentum to his unflinching novel about a country girl’s American dream.

34. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)

In Kipling’s classic boy’s own spy story, an orphan in British India must make a choice between east and west.

35. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)

Jack London’s vivid adventures of a pet dog that goes back to nature reveal an extraordinary style and consummate storytelling.

36. The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904)

American literature contains nothing else quite like Henry James’s amazing, labyrinthine and claustrophobic novel.

37. Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904)

This entertaining if contrived story of a hack writer and priest who becomes pope sheds vivid light on its eccentric author – described by DH Lawrence as a “man-demon”.

38. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

The evergreen tale from the riverbank and a powerful contribution to the mythology of Edwardian England.

39. The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells (1910)

The choice is great, but Wells’s ironic portrait of a man very like himself is the novel that stands out.

40. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911)

The passage of time has conferred a dark power upon Beerbohm’s ostensibly light and witty Edwardian satire.

41. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)

Ford’s masterpiece is a searing study of moral dissolution behind the facade of an English gentleman – and its stylistic influence lingers to this day.

42. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)

John Buchan’s espionage thriller, with its sparse, contemporary prose, is hard to put down.

43. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (1915)

The Rainbow is perhaps DH Lawrence’s finest work, showing him for the radical, protean, thoroughly modern writer he was.

44. Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915)

Somerset Maugham’s semi-autobiographical novel shows the author’s savage honesty and gift for storytelling at their best.

45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)

The story of a blighted New York marriage stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture.

46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

This portrait of a day in the lives of three Dubliners remains a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare.

47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)

What it lacks in structure and guile, this enthralling take on 20s America makes up for in vivid satire and characterisation.

48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924)

EM Forster’s most successful work is eerily prescient on the subject of empire.

49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)

A guilty pleasure it may be, but it is impossible to overlook the enduring influence of a tale that helped to define the jazz age.

50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

Woolf’s great novel makes a day of party preparations the canvas for themes of lost love, life choices and mental illness.

51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

Fitzgerald’s jazz age masterpiece has become a tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art.

52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926)

A young woman escapes convention by becoming a witch in this original satire about England after the first world war.

53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

Hemingway’s first and best novel makes an escape to 1920s Spain to explore courage, cowardice and manly authenticity.

54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929)

Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré.

55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)

The influence of William Faulkner’s immersive tale of raw Mississippi rural life can be felt to this day.

56. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)

Aldous Huxley’s vision of a future human race controlled by global capitalism is every bit as prescient as Orwell’s more famous dystopia.

57. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932)

The book for which Gibbons is best remembered was a satire of late-Victorian pastoral fiction but went on to influence many subsequent generations.

58. Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932)

The middle volume of John Dos Passos’s USA trilogy is revolutionary in its intent, techniques and lasting impact.

59. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)

The US novelist’s debut revelled in a Paris underworld of seedy sex and changed the course of the novel – though not without a fight with the censors.

60. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938)

Evelyn Waugh’s Fleet Street satire remains sharp, pertinent and memorable.

61. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938)

Samuel Beckett’s first published novel is an absurdist masterpiece, a showcase for his uniquely comic voice.

62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)

Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled debut brings to life the seedy LA underworld – and Philip Marlowe, the archetypal fictional detective.

63. Party Going by Henry Green (1939)

Set on the eve of war, this neglected modernist masterpiece centres on a group of bright young revellers delayed by fog.

64. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939)

Labyrinthine and multilayered, Flann O’Brien’s humorous debut is both a reflection on, and an exemplar of, the Irish novel.

65. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

One of the greatest of great American novels, this study of a family torn apart by poverty and desperation in the Great Depression shocked US society.

66. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse (1946)

PG Wodehouse’s elegiac Jeeves novel, written during his disastrous years in wartime Germany, remains his masterpiece.

67. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)

A compelling story of personal and political corruption, set in the 1930s in the American south.

68. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947)

Malcolm Lowry’s masterpiece about the last hours of an alcoholic ex-diplomat in Mexico is set to the drumbeat of coming conflict.

69. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)

Elizabeth Bowen’s 1948 novel perfectly captures the atmosphere of London during the blitz while providing brilliant insights into the human heart.

70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

George Orwell’s dystopian classic cost its author dear but is arguably the best-known novel in English of the 20th century.

71. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)

Graham Greene’s moving tale of adultery and its aftermath ties together several vital strands in his work.

72. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)

JD Salinger’s study of teenage rebellion remains one of the most controversial and best-loved American novels of the 20th century.

73. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)

In the long-running hunt to identify the great American novel, Saul Bellow’s picaresque third book frequently hits the mark.

74. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)

Dismissed at first as “rubbish & dull”, Golding’s brilliantly observed dystopian desert island tale has since become a classic.

75. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Nabokov’s tragicomic tour de force crosses the boundaries of good taste with glee.

76. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)

The creative history of Kerouac’s beat-generation classic, fuelled by pea soup and benzedrine, has become as famous as the novel itself.

77. Voss by Patrick White (1957)

A love story set against the disappearance of an explorer in the outback, Voss paved the way for a generation of Australian writers to shrug off the colonial past.

78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

Her second novel finally arrived this summer, but Harper Lee’s first did enough alone to secure her lasting fame, and remains a truly popular classic.

79. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1960)

Short and bittersweet, Muriel Spark’s tale of the downfall of a Scottish schoolmistress is a masterpiece of narrative fiction.

80. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

This acerbic anti-war novel was slow to fire the public imagination, but is rightly regarded as a groundbreaking critique of military madness.

81. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)

Hailed as one of the key texts of the women’s movement of the 1960s, this study of a divorced single mother’s search for personal and political identity remains a defiant, ambitious tour de force.

82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)

Anthony Burgess’s dystopian classic still continues to startle and provoke, refusing to be outshone by Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant film adaptation.

83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)

Christopher Isherwood’s story of a gay Englishman struggling with bereavement in LA is a work of compressed brilliance.

84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)

Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel, a true story of bloody murder in rural Kansas, opens a window on the dark underbelly of postwar America.

85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966)

Sylvia Plath’s painfully graphic roman à clef, in which a woman struggles with her identity in the face of social pressure, is a key text of Anglo-American feminism.

86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969)

This wickedly funny novel about a young Jewish American’s obsession with masturbation caused outrage on publication, but remains his most dazzling work.

87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)

Elizabeth Taylor’s exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s.

88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971)

Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, Updike’s lovably mediocre alter ego, is one of America’s great literary protoganists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby.

89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)

The novel with which the Nobel prize-winning author established her name is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the African-American experience in the 20th century.

90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979)

VS Naipaul’s hellish vision of an African nation’s path to independence saw him accused of racism, but remains his masterpiece.

91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

The personal and the historical merge in Salman Rushdie’s dazzling, game-changing Indian English novel of a young man born at the very moment of Indian independence.

92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981)

Marilynne Robinson’s tale of orphaned sisters and their oddball aunt in a remote Idaho town is admired by everyone from Barack Obama to Bret Easton Ellis.

93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis (1984)

Martin Amis’s era-defining ode to excess unleashed one of literature’s greatest modern monsters in self-destructive antihero John Self.

94. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a retired artist in postwar Japan, reflecting on his career during the country’s dark years, is a tour de force of unreliable narration.

95. The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald (1988)

Fitzgerald’s story, set in Russia just before the Bolshevik revolution, is her masterpiece: a brilliant miniature whose peculiar magic almost defies analysis.

96. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1988)

Anne Tyler’s portrayal of a middle-aged, mid-American marriage displays her narrative clarity, comic timing and ear for American speech to perfection.

97. Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990)

This modern Irish masterpiece is both a study of the faultlines of Irish patriarchy and an elegy for a lost world.

98. Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)

A writer of “frightening perception”, Don DeLillo guides the reader in an epic journey through America’s history and popular culture.

99. Disgrace by JM Coetzee (1999)

In his Booker-winning masterpiece, Coetzee’s intensely human vision infuses a fictional world that both invites and confounds political interpretation.

100. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2000)

Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining the life and times of Australia’s infamous antihero, Ned Kelly.

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Duke Reviews Xtra: Alice In Wonderland (1985) Part 1

Hello, I'm Andrew Leduc And Welcome To Duke Reviews Xtra As We Continue Our Look At The Movies Of Disney...

And On The Next 3 Shows We'll Be Looking At 2 Of My Favorite Adaptations Of The Alice In Wonderland Story, Starting With The 1985 Version Which Was Made By Irwin Allen, Who Created Both Land Of The Giants And Of Course, Lost In Space...

Let's Start With Part 1...

The Movie Starts With Alice (Played By Jenny From Oliver And Company) Helping Her Mother Set The Table For Tea Time, But Despite Asking Her Mother If She Could Join Them For Tea, She Unfortunately Tells Alice No...

This Leads Alice To Go Outside And Talk With Her Sister (Who Is Actually Played By The Actress Plays Alice's Real Life Sister)..

I Know, This Is My 2nd Favorite Version Of The Tale And Even I Didn't Know That...

But Gets Bored Reading A Book With No Pictures, Which Leads Her Sister To Tell Her That Understand More When She Grows Up, Despite Alice Thinking She's Already Grown Up As She's Seven And A Half...

Playing With Her Cat, Dinah, Alice Spots The White Rabbit (Played By Hoagie From Pete's Dragon) And Follows Him To A Rabbit Hole That She Falls Down...

Ok, She Doesn't Fall Like That, But Close Enough..

Eventually Landing, Alice Follows The Rabbit To A Door Which Opens To Another Door And Another And Another Until It Finally Opens To A Hall Of Doors Which Leads To The Scene We All Know...

With Alice Finding A Tiny Door She's Too Big For So She Drinks A Bottle Marked Drink Me Which Her Shrink But She Leaves The Key On The Table Which Leads To Her Eating A Cake Marked Eat Me Which Causes Her To Grow Too Big So She Starts To Cry...

But Unlike The Animated Version, The White Rabbit Appears As She Cries And Accidentally Scares Him Into Dropping His Fan And Gloves Which She Uses To Shrink Again To A Size Small Enough To Fit Through A Crack That Leads Her Outside Into A River Of Her Own Tears...

While Swimming, Alice Briefly Meets The Dodo Bird (Played By Mrs. Gogan From Pete's Dragon) The Lory Bird (Played By Cosmo Brown From Singin' In The Rain) And The Mouse (Played By Mr. Jefferson) Who Takes Us Into Our First Song As He Tells Alice Why He Hates Dogs And Cats...

Leaving Shortly After That Song, Alice Catches Up With The White Rabbit Only To Lead Us To The Scene Where He Mistakes Her For His Housemaid And Sends Her Off To His House To Get A New Fan And Glove Set For Him...

Only To Find Another Bottle Marked Drink Me Which Causes Her To Grow Once Again...

But Unlike The Animated Version, The Dodo Doesn't Show Up, But Instead The Rabbit's Butler Named Pat The Pig (Played By Donald Trump's Number One Supporter, Scott Baio, Who I Think Fits The Role Perfectly With His New Status) Shows Up..

As We Get The Scene With Bill The Lizard Who Goes To Pull Alice Out Of The Chimney Only To Get Kicked Out Of The Chimney By Alice...

This Leads To Pat And The Rabbit To Throw Berries That Turn Into Cakes That Allow Alice To Shrink To Normal Size Again As She Gets Away From The Rabbit And Pat Who Are Still Throwing Berries At Her..

Eventually Losing Them, Alice Soon Meets The Caterpillar (Played By The Candy Man Himself, Sammy Davis Jr.) Who Takes Us Into Our Next Song Called You Are Old Father William...

But Like The Animated Version, Alice Insults The Caterpillar By Saying That 3 Inches High Is Such A Wretched Height And He Disappears Instead Of Becoming A Butterfly...

Walking Toward A House That Is Visited By A Delivery Man For The Queen Of Hearts Who Gives A Frog Footmen With A Familiar Voice An Invitation From The Queen For The Duchess (Who We'll Meet In A Few Minutes) To Play Croquet...

And By Familiar Voice I Think You May Recognize The Voice Actor For Playing This Guy...

That's Right, It's Robert Axelrod Otherwise Known As Lord Zedd (He Also Voiced Finster Too But He's Most Remembered For Zedd RIP)

Visiting The House, The Frog Footman Tells Alice That It's Useless Ringing The Bell On The Outside As He's On The Outside Too, But Going Inside Anyway, Alice Meets The Duchess (Played By Benita Bizzare) And Her Maid (Played By Imogene Coca) Who Take Us Into The Next Song...

But Finding The House To Be Too Violent, Alice Takes The Duchess' Baby Away Only For It To Become A Pig..

After This, She Meets The Cheshire Cat (Played By Kojak) Who Leads Us Into Our Next Song After Telling Her That She Won't Be Able To Leave Wonderland...

Thinking That He's A Bad Cat, Alice Attempts To Leave But Before She Does, The Cheshire Cat Points Alice To The Mad Hatter (Played By Anthony Newley) And The March Hare (Played By Roddy McDowell Who Would Later Play The Batman Villain, Jervis Tetch Otherwise Known As The Mad Hatter On Batman The Animated Series) Before He Disappears...

Walking Along The Road, Alice Finds The Mad Hatter And The March Hare Having Tea With The Doormouse (Played By Arte Johnson) And Sits Down To Join Them...

As A Little Tea Time Entertainment, The Mad Hatter Leads Us Into Our Next Song Because He Doesn't Like Alice's Version Of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...

Eventually Upset By All The Rudeness At The Tea Party, Alice Continues Her Search For The White Rabbit As She Meets A Fawn In The Woods Which Leads To Our Next Song...

Finding A Doorway In The Woods, Alice Opens It And Finds Herself At A Beautiful Rose Garden Where She Meets Some Cards Who Are Painting The Roses Red, Only To Be Confronted By The Queen (Played By Jayne Meadows) And King (Played By Robert Morley) Of Hearts...

Who Arrives With Not Only The White Rabbit But A Whole Entourage Of People And Cards....

Introducing Herself To The Queen, She Asks Alice What's Going On Here Only For Alice To Tell Her That She Doesn't Know Much Of Anything As She's Only Been There For A Few Seconds Which Leads The Queen To Yell Off With Her Head.,.

But The King Defends Alice Believing That There's No Reason To Behead Her When She Doesn't Know Much Of Anything, Which Leads To Our Next Song...

Sparring Alice's Head For Now, The Queen Invites Her To Play A Game Of Croquet, Which Unlike The Disney Version Doesn't End With Alice Getting Her Head Nearly Chopped Off...

But Is Instead Just A Game Of Croquet With Flamingos...

With The Queen Pointing Alice In The Direction Of The Mock Turtle, Alice Goes Down The Path The Queen Suggested And Instead Runs Into The Gryphon (Played By Sid Caeser) Who Takes Alice To Meet The Mock Turtle (Played By Ringo Starr) Who Sings The Next And Probably Favorite Song From Part 1 Of This Movie..

Hearing Someone Yell That The Trial Is Beginning, Alice And The Gryphon Leave The Mock Turtle And Return To The Queen's Garden Where The Knave Of Hearts Is On Trial For Stealing One Of The Queen's Tarts, Despite There Being No Proof That He Did...

Bringing In The First Witness Or Should I Say Witnesses As They Bring In The Mad Hatter, The March Hare And The Doormouse, We Get Our Last Song For This Movie...

They Also Bring In The Duchess' Cook As A Witness As Well But Eventually Alice Argues The Ways Of The Queen's Court Which Leads Her To Grow As The Queen And Alice Continue To Argue...

Having Enough Of Alice's BS, The Queen Shouts Off With Her Head And Has Her Guards Chase Giant Alice But She's Not Afraid Of Them As They're Nothing But A Pack Of Cards...

Returning To Her Original Size As She Runs, Alice Eventually Trips And Falls Which Leads Her To Find Herself Back Home...

Now, This Is Where Things Get Interesting...

Entering Her House, She Finds Nobody There But Hearing And Seeing Her Cat Dinah On The Other Side Of The Mirror, Along With Her Parents Who Can't See Or Hear Alice But Their Own Reflections, Alice Can't Figure Out How To Get Through The Mirror...

So, She Sits In The Chair And Reads A Poem Called Jabberwocky Which Is About A Scary Monster But Getting Very Scared As She Reads It The Room Becomes Dark And The Jabberwocky Appears In The House...

You Know, I Once Saw A Video By James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd) And He Said That This Scene Scared Him As A Child To The Point He Was In Tears...

Saying That You Spend The Last Half Hour Looking At These Actors In Goofy Costumes Where This Thing Is Huge And Scary Compared To Alice...

Of Course, He Also Said That No Other Scene With The Jabberwocky Tops This Scene In Part 1 Which I Kindly Disagree With As There Are 2 That Could Possibly Be Scary...

To Be Continued...

Tomorrow...

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19, 21, 30! <3

19. Three songs that are your guilty pleasure

"Fade" - Lewis Capaldi (tbh this is a qualified entry; sometimes I like the song and sometimes I hate it)

"Open Arms" - Journey

"Without You" - Harry Nilsson (also qualified because I think I like it too much for it to be a true guilty pleasure)

21. Three songs of your childhood

"Make It Easier" - Indigo Girls

"Orange Crush" - R.E.M.

"Runaway" - Bonnie Raitt

30. Three songs you want your followers to know (for reasons other than all those above)

I'm going to do songs that remind me of fictional characters

"Apple Tree" - Marika Hackman

"East River Berlin Wall" - the Antlers

"Whither Must I Wander" - composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams; performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson

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L'Orfeo, SV 318 / Act I: "Rosa del ciel" - "Io non dirò qual sia" - "Lasciate i monti" - "Vieni, Imeneo" · Claudio Monteverdi - Anthony Rolfe Johnson - Julianne Baird - English Baroque Soloists - John Eliot Gardiner - The Monteverdi Choir

I found this song with #BeatFind

L'Orfeo, SV 318 / Act I: "Rosa del ciel" - "Io non dirò qual sia" - "Lasciate i monti" - "Vieni, Imeneo" · Claudio Monteverdi - Anthony Rolfe Johnson - Julianne Baird - English Baroque Soloists - John Eliot Gardiner - The Monteverdi Choir

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The Greater Evil

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by Cats_and_Crows

Seven witches and wizards travel back in time to aid younger versions of themselves and their families. This time around Voldemort will face a more powerful and practical septet armed with decades of experience and knowledge of future events.

Words: 1224, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Chronicles of the Coven

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Fleur Delacour, Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Nymphadora Tonks, Aberforth Dumbledore, Adrian Pucey, Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Alecto Carrow, Alice Longbottom, Alicia Spinnet, Amelia Bones, Amos Diggory, Amycus Carrow, Andromeda Black Tonks, Angelina Johnson, Anthony Goldstein, Antonin Dolohov, Apolline Delacour, Arabella Figg, Arcturus Black III | Sirius Black's Grandfather, Argus Filch, Arthur Weasley, Astoria Greengrass, Augusta Longbottom, Augustus Rookwood, Aurora Sinistra, Bane (Harry Potter), Barnabas Cuffe, Bartemius Crouch Jr., Bartemius Crouch Sr., Bathsheda Babbling, Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Bill Weasley, Blaise Zabini, The Bloody Baron (Harry Potter), Cassiopeia Black, Cassius Warrington, Cedric Diggory, Charity Burbage, Charlie Weasley, Cho Chang, Colin Creevey, Corban Yaxley, Cormac McLaggen, Cornelius Fudge, Cuthbert Binns, Cygnus Black, Dan Granger, Daphne Greengrass, Dean Thomas, Dedalus Diggle, Demelza Robins, Dennis Creevey, Dirk Cresswell, Dobby (Harry Potter), Dolores Umbridge, Draco Malfoy, Elphias Doge, Emma Granger, Emmeline Vance, Ernie Macmillan, Ernie Prang, The Fat Friar (Harry Potter), Fay Dunbar, Fenrir Greyback, Filius Flitwick, Firenze (Harry Potter), Flora Carrow, Florean Fortescue, Frank Longbottom, Fred Weasley, Gabrielle Delacour, Garrick Ollivander, Gawain Robards, Gellert Grindelwald, George Weasley, Gilderoy Lockhart, Grawp (Harry Potter), Gregory Goyle, Griphook (Harry Potter), Griselda Marchbanks, Hannah Abbott, Helena Ravenclaw, Hestia Carrow, Hestia Jones, Horace Slughorn, Igor Karkaroff, Irma Pince, James Potter, John Dawlish, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Katie Bell, Kellah (Harry Potter), Kingsley Shacklebolt, Kreacher (Harry Potter), Lavender Brown, Lee Jordan, Lily Evans Potter, Lily Moon, Lisa Turpin, Lucius Malfoy, Lucretia Black Prewett, Magorian (Harry Potter), Mandy Brocklehurst, Marcus Flint, Marietta Edgecombe, Megan Jones (Harry Potter), Michael Corner, Millicent Bulstrode, Miles Bletchley, Minerva McGonagall, Molly Weasley, Monsieur Delacour (Harry Potter), Morag MacDougal, Mundungus Fletcher, Myrtle Warren, Nagini (Harry Potter), Narcissa Black Malfoy, Newt Scamander, Nicolas Flamel (Harry Potter), Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington, Oliver Wood, Olympe Maxime, Pandora Lovegood, Pansy Parkinson, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil, Peeves (Harry Potter), Penelope Clearwater, Percy Weasley, Perenelle Flamel (Harry Potter), Peter Pettigrew, Pius Thicknesse, Pomona Sprout, Poppy Pomfrey, Proudfoot (Harry Potter), Quirinus Quirrell, Rabastan Lestrange, Remus Lupin, Rita Skeeter, Rodolphus Lestrange, Roger Davies, Rolanda Hooch, Rolf Scamander, Romilda Vane, Ron Weasley, Ronan (Harry Potter), Madam Rosmerta (Harry Potter), Rubeus Hagrid, Rufus Scrimgeour, Sally-Anne Perks, Septima Vector, Severus Snape, Silvanus Kettleburn, Sirius Black, Seamus Finnigan, Stan Shunpike, Stephen Cornfoot, Sue Li, Susan Bones, Sybill Trelawney, Ted Tonks, Terry Boot, Theodore Nott, Thorfinn Rowle, Tina Goldstein, Tracey Davis (Harry Potter), Viktor Krum, Vincent Crabbe, Voldemort (Harry Potter), Walburga Black, Walden Macnair, Wayne Hopkins, Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank, Winky (Harry Potter), Xenophilius Lovegood, Zacharias Smith, Aragog (Harry Potter), Buckbeak (Harry Potter), Crookshanks (Harry Potter), Errol (Harry Potter), Fang (Harry Potter), Fawkes (Harry Potter), Fluffy (Harry Potter), Hedwig (Harry Potter), Mrs Norris (Harry Potter), Trevor the Toad (Harry Potter)

Relationships: Fleur Delacour/Ginny Weasley, Fleur Delacour/Harry Potter, Fleur Delacour/Hermione Granger, Fleur Delacour/Luna Lovegood, Fleur Delacour/Neville Longbottom, Fleur Delacour/Nymphadora Tonks, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger/Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom/Ginny Weasley, Nymphadora Tonks/Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger/Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood/Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom/Harry Potter, Harry Potter/Nymphadora Tonks, Hermione Granger/Luna Lovegood, Hermione Granger/Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger/Nymphadora Tonks, Neville Longbottom/Luna Lovegood, Luna Lovegood/Nymphadora Tonks, Neville Longbottom/Nymphadora Tonks, Apolline Delacour/Monsieur Delacour, Arthur Weasley/Molly Weasley, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Dan Granger/Emma Granger, Pandora Lovegood/Xenophilius Lovegood, Alice Longbottom/Frank Longbottom, Andromeda Black Tonks/Ted Tonks

Additional Tags: Minor Dobby Bashing, Minor Flitwick Bashing, Minor Hagrid Bashing, Minor Lupin Bashing, Minor McGonagall Bashing, Minor Slughorn Bashing

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