Hidden Classics

Descrição
Great books that don't get the attention they deserve
1
680 membros
42 críticas
3.8
3 Members
inge87, thorold, merrystar
Explicações
thorold: Thirkell was very popular in her day, but now gets overlooked. Great comic writing, especially the dialogues, but stone-age political opinions.
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18,743 membros
412 críticas
4.2
3 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963, Rdra1962,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
lewbs : hidden classic??
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262 membros
6 críticas
4
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1,741 membros
27 críticas
3.8
2 Members
thorold, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
thorold: It did get a BBC dramatisation, but it still seems to be unfairly neglected
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859 membros
33 críticas
3.8
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1,690 membros
23 críticas
4.1
Member
gbelik
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946 membros
33 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
kbroenkow
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770 membros
33 críticas
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
ManWithAnAgenda: I arbitrarily went by the book having to be over 50 years old and has less than 1,000 members cataloging. I thumbed down everything over 5,000.
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255 membros
5 críticas
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: A marvellous book that in Georgia is considered the most precious jewel in national literature. It gets no attention to speak of in Anglophone world, though, and possibly none in any countries other than Caucasian ones.
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73 membros
3 críticas
4.1
Member
inge87
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59 membros
2 críticas
5
12
44 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.4
Member
eromsted
13
1,973 membros
42 críticas
4
Member
gbelik
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1,655 membros
23 críticas
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
15
194 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
ManWithAnAgenda: Even counting the revised edition, still well under 1,000 members cataloging.
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159 membros
10 críticas
4
Member
merrystar
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152 membros
½ 4.3
Member
eromsted
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83 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: It gets the attention it deserves in Croatia, where's it's assigned reading in school, but it doesn't get much at all here. I don't know whether it's 'great', but it's bloody good.
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6,297 membros
164 críticas
3.9
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4,722 membros
122 críticas
3.9
Member
ahef1963
21
2,498 membros
57 críticas
4.1
22
925 membros
18 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
23
698 membros
24 críticas
3.9
Member
kbroenkow
24
503 membros
5 críticas
3.8
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Quirkily subversive novel by a suburban secretary who also happened to be a great poet
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448 membros
10 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
merrystar
26
338 membros
9 críticas
3.8
27
por Lu Xun
308 membros
4 críticas
3.9
Member
eromsted
28
3,950 membros
145 críticas
3.8
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1,262 membros
37 críticas
4
Member
lewbs
30
1,093 membros
26 críticas
4
Member
lewbs
31
958 membros
11 críticas
½ 4.5
Member
lewbs
32
756 membros
21 críticas
4
Member
lewbs
33
753 membros
12 críticas
3.9
Member
lewbs
34
699 membros
20 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
kbroenkow
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613 membros
9 críticas
4
Member
lewbs
36
543 membros
16 críticas
3.8
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Couperus is unfairly neglected outside Holland
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533 membros
14 críticas
4.1
Member
lewbs
38
459 membros
20 críticas
4
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316 membros
7 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
40
4,742 membros
125 críticas
4
41
845 membros
15 críticas
3.9
Member
eromsted
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424 membros
4 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Great comic novel that gets overlooked because it's a European pretending to be a Persian
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75 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.5
44
851 membros
32 críticas
½ 3.3
Member
kbroenkow
45
668 membros
11 críticas
3.9
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501 membros
4 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Andersch gets a bit overshadowed by the other German writers of that generation, but this is a great little book.
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488 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.5
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440 membros
6 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
49
1,394 membros
47 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Great coming-of-age novel, included because I had never heard of it until I started learning Spanish
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495 membros
11 críticas
4
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185 membros
6 críticas
3.8
Member
kbroenkow
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5,081 membros
99 críticas
4.2
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: maybe not all that neglected, but a brilliant anti-novel
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1,289 membros
45 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
kbroenkow
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808 membros
13 críticas
½ 3.7
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1,595 membros
40 críticas
4
Member
thorold
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714 membros
12 críticas
4.2
Member
kbroenkow
57
191 membros
2 críticas
3.8
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1,202 membros
19 críticas
3.9
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Cary's best novel, one of the classic literary accounts of visual art. But not much known outside Britain.
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314 membros
15 críticas
½ 3.7
60
516 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.5
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113 membros
4 críticas
4
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Great mid-century British roman-fleuve, unfairly overshadowed by Anthony Powell
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915 membros
14 críticas
3.8
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52 membros
3 críticas
3.8
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: hard-hitting antiwar satire from 1920s Vienna
64
746 membros
21 críticas
3.9
65
8,050 membros
422 críticas
4.1
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5,745 membros
222 críticas
4
67
927 membros
40 críticas
4.1
Member
thorold,merrystar
Explicações
thorold: You already know about this if you're from Yorkshire or a Virago fan, but everyone should read it
merrystar : I was disappointed by this one, and did not enjoy it.
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13,537 membros
284 críticas
3.9
2 Members
kbroenkow, Rdra1962,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
lewbs : hidden classic??
69
5,890 membros
146 críticas
4
70
6,666 membros
349 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
kbroenkow,thorold ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
thorold : It might have been unfairly neglected until a couple of years ago, but nowadays it's more in the "overhyped" category
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4,525 membros
132 críticas
3.8
Member
ahef1963,thorold ,merrystar
Explicações
thorold : A great book, but surely not a neglected one
72
13,811 membros
299 críticas
4
Member
kbroenkow,merrystar ,lewbs ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
lewbs : hidden classic??