Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1910

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke	4
Howards End by E.M. Forster	3
Psmith In The City by P.G. Wodehouse	3
A Gentleman Of Leisure by P.G. Wodehouse	1
The Blue Peril by Maurice Renard	0
The Secret Of Wilhelm Storitz by Jules Verne	0
Pelle The Conqueror by Martin Anderson Nexo	0
The Vagabond by Colette	0
Klimeny Of The Orchard by Lucy Maud Montgomerey	0
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Hanns Heinz Ewers	0
Der Wehrwolf by Hermann Lons	0
Gertrud by Herman Hesse	0
The Black City by Kálmán Mikszáth	0
Xin Zhongguo by Lu Shi'e	0
The Village by Ivan Bunin	0
Toil Of Men by Israel Querido	0
Silvery Wind by Fráňa Šrámek	0
The Death Of The Earth by J.H. Rosny aîné	0
Impure Blood by Borisav Stanković	0
The Gate by Natsume Soseki	0
Deoraíocht by Pádraic Ó Conaire	0
When The Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells	0
Queen Sheba's Ring by H. Rider Haggard	0
A Maid Of The Silver Sea by John Oxenham	0
A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra May Harris	0
The Emerald City Of Oz by L. Frank Baum	0
The Man Higher Up by Henry Russel Miller	0
A Modern Chronicle by Winston Churchill (not that one)	0
The Getting Of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson	0
At The Villa Rose by A.E.W. Mason	0
The Broad Highway by Jeffrey Farnol	0
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett	0
Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society by L. Frank Baum	0
The Great Gay Road by Tom Gallon	0
Helen With A High Hand by Arnold Bennett	0
The History Of Mr.Polly by H.G. Wells	0
The Magic City by E. Nesbit	0
Morning Star by H. Rider Haggard	0
The Nine Bears by Edgar Wallace	0
Petticoat Government by Baroness Orczy	0
Prester John by John Buchan	0
Burning Daylight by Jack London	0

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 1 October 2020 11:01 (five years ago)

Went for the Forster of course.

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 1 October 2020 11:02 (five years ago)

Rilke and Soseki are all I've read. The former is just one of the best reads, the latter is solid. I ought to get round to the Colette (a writer I've started reading this year), and Wodehouse's Psmith (again, only started recently).

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 October 2020 11:08 (five years ago)

The Rilke is one of my favourite things ever written in any genre. 'Tis a no-brainer.

― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 12:43 (five years ago)

Absolutely. If you're that talented yet only write one novel, it better be one as good as this.

― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 October 2020 12:51 (five years ago)

Part of what I love about it, aside from the fact that it is clearly a poet's novel, is how it loses the thread without ever losing its way. The shift from 'objective' descriptions of the visible in an urban setting to a proto-existential reframing of the gothic (the Chamberlain's portrait) to a repurposed version of the Parable of the Prodigal Son is everything I want, compositionally speaking, from a novel (fuck plot imo).

― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:04 (five years ago)

I'm going to rule at these polls in about 50 threads' time. I'd probably be doing better if I'd ever found the prospect of Forster appealing - I know he's supposed to be wonderful but eh, it's just never seemed like it'd be my thing.

I own a couple of Colettes that I have yet to read but possibly not that one, and intrigued by the Rilke - didn't know he did a novel tbh.

― emil.y, Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:04 (five years ago)

He's sad and kind, is what I like about Forster. ymmv of course.

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:08 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 4 October 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 5 October 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

This seems like the first time in a while that the top spot was actually contested!

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 5 October 2020 12:34 (five years ago)

Still, poetic justice was meted out in the end.

― pomenitul, Monday, 5 October 2020 12:36 (five years ago)

In the 2015 UK election the failure of Miliband who had been polling much better than the result, was described as the shy Tory vote.

― calzino, Monday, 5 October 2020 12:41 (five years ago)

Oops obv meant for US pol thread!

― calzino, Monday, 5 October 2020 12:42 (five years ago)

loool at Forster as Miliband and Rilke as Cameron

― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 12:48 (five years ago)

maybe Wodehouse and Forster is the Con-Dem coalition

― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 12:50 (five years ago)

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