Who wrote the finest NON-fiction prose?

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  1. Elgaisma

    Elgaisma Contributor Contributor

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    For history I love Michael Hicks, David Starkey and Antonia Fraser.

    19th Century then George Gordon and Hugh Miller

    I also enjoy Pliny the Younger and Plato
     
    Elgaisma, Sep 1, 2010
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  2. art

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    Samuel Johnson or perhaps Edward Gibbon, if you like that sort of thing. Orwell or maybe Bertrand Russell if you don't.
     
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