On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:57:44 -0000 (UTC),
Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article u,
Michael Uplawski wrote:

(I am reading Henry Fielding, so my English will improve before long).

Indeed, it will - most native English speakers avoid that sort of
thing! Which one, incidentally?

Joseph Andrews.

I just finished John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat and could choose between
Essais by Michel de Montaigne (in French), Stories and Poems of
Thomas Hardy and Henry Fielding's novel.

Just peeking in at some random spots is enough to be glued to Fielding.
It always astonishes me, how the English from that epoch is so catchy
and comprehensible while our old german authors often appear to have
written in a “foreign” language, that I find terribly flowery or
stilted. Already the preface (by Fielding) is a joy to read.

Michael


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


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