>>7441606
Genius and love.

Possibly towards little girls.

He began learning English from his governess as a young child.

>>7441606
He started with the Greeks.

English was the first language he could read and write in, then French, and, finally, Russian. He had read the majority of the English language canon before he was 15. He's by no means a "non-native speaker".

>>7441606
>Is it written in flawless English?
There's a spelling error on p77.

>>7441606
He is a native speaker. He's "native" in English, French, and Russian.

>>7441606
he was a lolicon, he is founding father of /a/ and so 4chan

>what are editors
The first few editions were loaded with spelling errors.

English was his first language you mongoloid. Even so, he comes nowhere near the best English language prose stylists.

>>7444089
Who are the best English language prose stylists?

>>7441606
I've been reading it the past few mornings and I've fallen in love with his prose. It feels delicate (like the young body of Dolores) but it reads through the mind of a madman.

>>7445145
>It feels delicate (like the young body of Dolores)
G'day chum :^)

>>7444089
Yes who in your mind are these best prose stylists that blow Nabakov away? It's easy to make an empty claim.

>>>>7444089
Who are the best English prose stylists?

>>7445145
Once you get about halfway in and you realize what he's doing it's far less desirable.

Prose is still A1 though.

>>7444089
Who are the best English prose stylists?

>>7445110
>>7445150
>>7445161
>>7446766
Cabell, Macaulay, Johnson, Hawthorne, Joyce, Bierce

>>7447980
Who are the best English prose stylists?

>>7447986
>Who are the best English prose stylists?

>>7441606
I recall him using "which" in the place of "whose" a few times to refer to inanimate objects, which struck me as odd

>>7447995
give me an example family

>>7448033
Sorry, but I don't care enough about being right to actually hunt through the book to find one.

>>7448044
No, I just want you to write a sentence in that way tbqh
Is it like this: The man which book is old

>>7448052
Yes. Except he used it with inanimate objects ("the book which cover was torn"), which might actually be correct as far as I know, but I don't recall ever seeing anyone else do it.

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>>7448073
what's wrong with the list desu

>>7441612
>>7441736
>>7444089

These. Although I'd not see he's "nowhere near". But his prose is certainly much much more straight forward even in comparison to Woolf.

But then again perhaps that's not a fair comparison, The Waves is practically poetic in style.

>>7448117
>thinks woolf was a good stylist
Lol(loving every laugh)