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06-06-2010, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by avicus View Post

However, it is true that F.Scott Fitzgerald is a difficult author to understand, even to native English speakers. This is because of his writing style which uses long sentences with convoluted sentence structure.

If you're looking for other 20th century English novelists who may be slightly easier to understand, I suggest Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.
I agree to that statement, Ernest Hemingway is a lot easier to understand, Jane Austen is also quite a good author too, and her writing style is also effective for studying purposes.
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