Imitation

Ok readers, let's test your literary knowledge (or not). Which famous author's style have I imitated (or tried to imitate), in the following paragraph:

"I surveyed closely the bare features of the vista before me. The stark contrast between the brilliant sky and the monotonous earth seemed almost as if someone had taken pieces of two different jigsaw puzzles and pressed them together. Twisted clumps of plants grew up from cracks between the jutting rocks. Past the foremost perspective of barrenness the small plants bore an almost abnormal look of vitality and strength. The idiosyncrasy of the life among the dirt and dust struck me as being almost as odd as the sharp dissimilarity between earth and sky. Yet the pieces of the puzzle still seemed to fit together in a peculiar expression of fatality. Above I saw the harsh beams of sunlight engulfing the heavens. In the earth I saw wilting and burning foliage, killed by the glare of the sun. Nothing in the desert moved, but as the ruthless light of the sun reflected off the dry sands, one could all but see the leaves of the plants bursting into flame as the beams of the sun struck down upon them. "

~Manwathiel