Hmmm - interesting issue. I certainly don't have "a" favourite narrator or style of narration, because so much depends on the actual story. I love Tolkien as the omniscient narrator in LOTR: because of the whole sweep of that story, and the fact that we follow a number of different characters, it probably couldn't have been told from merely one POV. Raymond Feist also does omniscient very well, in his epic 'Magician' series.
I second the mentions of Arthur Ransome and Jane Austen.
One of my favourite historical novels is Rosemary Hawley Jarman's "We Speak No Treason", an interesting example of multiple first person POVs. It's about Richard III, and is in four parts, narrated by three different people who each knew him in different ways and at different times. It's very well done. And the very first 'real' book I can ever remember being given at age four is a first person narrator - 'Black Beauty'. Still a favourite, and I still have that prized illustrated version!
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Date: 2009-01-16 09:03 pm (UTC)I second the mentions of Arthur Ransome and Jane Austen.
One of my favourite historical novels is Rosemary Hawley Jarman's "We Speak No Treason", an interesting example of multiple first person POVs. It's about Richard III, and is in four parts, narrated by three different people who each knew him in different ways and at different times. It's very well done. And the very first 'real' book I can ever remember being given at age four is a first person narrator - 'Black Beauty'. Still a favourite, and I still have that prized illustrated version!