Not the obvious ones like King Lear or Gone With the Wind but a little more obscure!. Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Can someone recommend some little known classics to read?Question: Can someone recommend some little known classics to read!? Not the obvious ones like King Lear or Gone With the Wind but a little more obscure!. Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Erik Larsen--The Devil in the White City Peter Godwin--When a Crocodile Eats the Sun Karen Armstrong--The Great Transformation Frank McCourt--Angela's Ashes Malcolm Lowry--Under the Volcano Garbriel Garcia Marquez--Love in the Time of Cholera Georges Bataille--Story of the Eye Erica Jong--Fear of Flying Marguerite Duras--The Lover Nikos Kazantzakis--Zorba the Greek Hermann Hesse--Siddartha W!. Somerset Maugham--Of Human Bondage Isabella Allende--Stories of Eva Luna Sandra Cisneros--The House on Mango Street Laurence Durrell--Justine D!.H!.Lawrence--The Rainbow; Women in Love Gertrude Stein--The Autobiography of Alice B!. Tolkas H!.D!.--Collected Poems Margaret Atwood--Surfacing Ursula LeGuin--The Left Hand of Darkness Saul Bellow--The Adventures of Augie March Yukio Mishima--The Sailor Who fell from Grace With the Sea Www@QuestionHome@Com here are some random ones, though i'm not sure what you consider a 'classic'!. gwtw may be considered a classic movie but i don't think it's thought much of one way or the other as a novel, but then again, 'little-known classic' is pretty much an oxymoron to begin with, so i'll just shut up and give you some books to read: Tales Grotesque and Curious by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Lost Horizon by James Hilton Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad The Turning of the Screw by Henry James Quin's Shanghai Circus by Edward Whittemore A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendahl The Tempest by William Shakespeare The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers Dead Souls by Nikolai GogolWww@QuestionHome@Com Here you go Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding The Professor and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D H Lawrence Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald 1984 and Animal Farm – George Orwell Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Wolfe I Claudius - Robert Graves Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh Women in Love - D H Lawrence Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves Shirley - Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Brave New World - Aldais Huxley Anna Karnina - Tolstoy The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson Burning Bright - John Steinbeck Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh War and Peace - Tolstoy Women in Love - D H Lawrence Brighten Rock - Graham Greene The Portrait of A Lady - Henry James Daisy Miller – Henry James The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe The Black Joke - J M Scott The Catcher in the Rye - J D Solinger The French Lieutenants Woman - John Fowles A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan The Last Tycoon - Scot Fitzgerald The Trail - Franz Kataka Villette – Charlotte Bronte Robin Hood - Henry Gilbert Chien/Cheri The last of - Collette The Mill on the Floss - George Elliott Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Close Quarters - William Golding Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Agnes - Anne Bronte The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte Three Men in A Boat - Jerome K Jerome The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington 20,000 Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne Tom Sawyer/Hunkleberry Finn – Mark Twain Around the World in 80 days – Jules Verne Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis Beowulf Billy Budd – Herman Melville The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson Bleak House – Charles Dickens The Blue Zone – Andrew Gross The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling The Chouans – Honore de Balzac A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Common Sense – Thomas Paine A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court – Mark Twain The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky Dacid Copperfield – Charles Dickens Don Juan – George Byron Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Emma – Jane Austen English Lord, Ordinary Lady – Fiona Harrrper Theee Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Alan Poe Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Great Expectations – Charles Dickens Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne The Iliad of Homer The Importance of being Earnest – Oscar Wilde A Journey to the interior of the Earth – Jules Verne The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson The Last of The Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper Letters on England – Voltaire The Man who would be King – Rudyard Kipling Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Middlemarch – George Elliot Moby Dick – Herman Melville The odyssey of Homer Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens On the Origin of Species – Charles Darwin Paradise Lost – John Milton Paz/Pierrette/The Purse – Honore de Balzac Persuasion – Jane Austen Poison Study – Maria V Snyder The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen The Prince – Nicolo Machavelli The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane The Republic – Plato Rhoda Fleming/Sandra Belloni – George Meredith The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleride Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen The Sentimentalists – George Meredith Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas Uncle Vanya – Anton Checkov Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray Walden or life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreau The Wicked Earl Margaret McPhee The Wife and other stories – Anton Chekov The Works of Aristotle The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte Www@QuestionHome@Com Yikes! Lost Illusions -- Balzac History of the Thirteen -- Balzac Three Tales -- Flaubert Spring Snow -- Yukio Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion -- Yukio Mishima The Silent Cry -- Kenzaburo Oe Works of Haruki Murakami Works of Yasunari Kawabata The Makioka Sisters -- Junichiro Tanizaki Mercier and Camier (novel) -- Samuel Beckett Endgame (play) -- Samuel Beckett The Longest Journey -- E!. M!. Forster The Good Soldier -- Ford Madox Ford The Man Who Loved Children -- Christina Stead Major Barbara (play) -- George Bernard Shaw An Enemy of the People (play) -- Henrik Ibsen The Bostonians -- Henry James What Maisie Knew -- Henry James Short stories of Henry James (Lots of the other novels of James that aren't generally known!.!.!.) Eugene Onegin (novel in poetry) -- Pushkin (get James E!. Falen translation; no other comes close) Redburn -- Herman Melville The Blithedale Romance -- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Edgar Allan Poe A Fool's Errand -- Albion Tourgee The Sleepwalkers -- Hermann Broch The Unknown Quantity -- H!. Broch The Spell -- H!. Broch Under Western Eyes -- Joseph Conrad White Noise -- Don DeLillo Under the Volcano -- Malcolm Lowry Elective Affinities -- Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (aka Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years) -- Goethe Egmont (play) -- Goethe Plays of Friedrich Schiller Poems of Rumi Aurora Leigh (book-length poem) -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning St!. Leon -- William Godwin Romola -- George Eliot American Pastoral -- Philip Roth The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K!. Dick Ubik -- Philip K!. Dick The Gods Themselves -- Isaac Asimov I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov Stories of Harlan Ellison Stories of Donald Barthelme Works of Carson McCullers All the lesser-known works of Dickens All fiction of Nikolai Gogol Amerika -- Franz Kafka The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Anne Radcliffe Melmoth the Wanderer -- Charles Maturin Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker -- Charles Brockden Brown The Monk -- Matthew Lewis Maldoror -- Lautreamont The Moonstone -- Wilkie Collins The Woman in White -- Wilkie Collins Anthony Trollope's novels Novels of Patrick White Works of Arthur Schnitzler The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- Rilke The Counterfeiters -- Andre Gide The Immoralist -- Andre Gide Lafcadio's Adventures (aka The Vatican Cellars) -- Andre Gide Jude the Obscure -- Thomas Hardy Science Fiction of Thomas Disch (all novels and stories) Kokoro -- Natsume Soseki (could be under "n" or "s") Works of B!. Traven The Gods Will Have Blood -- Anatole France The Iron Heel -- Jack London White Dog -- Romain Gary Independent People -- Halldor Laxness Novels of Sigrid Undset Testament of Youth -- Vera Brittain Petersburg (or St!. Petersburg) -- Andrei Biely The Years -- Virginia Woolf The Waves -- V!. Woolf Philosophical Dictionary -- Voltaire Memoirs of a Public Baby -- Philip O'Connor Babbitt -- Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith -- Sinclair Lewis Against Nature, aka Against the Grain (A Rebours)-- J!.-K!. Huysmans Down There (La-Bas) -- J!.-K!. Huysmans Marius the Epicurean -- Walter Pater Sartor Resartus -- Thomas Carlyle Wise Blood -- Flannery O'Connor The Razor's Edge -- W!. Somerset Maugham Memoirs of Hadrian -- Marguerite Yourcenar The Riddle of the Sands -- Erskine Childers Works of Graham Greene The Siege of Krishnapur -- J!. G!. Farrell Le Grand Meaulnes -- Alain-Fournier Works of Bruno Schulz Tristram Shandy -- Laurence Sterne Works of Tobias Smollett Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut Exemplary Novels (aka Exemplary Stories) -- Cervantes Works of Miguel de Unamuno Fiction of Italo Calvino The Island of Dr!. Moreau -- H!. G!. Wells Works of John Fowles Works of Julio Cortazar Works of Primo Levi The Diviners -- Margaret Laurence Works of Raymond Radiguet Poetry of Cesar Vallejo Poetry of Paul Celan The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon Works of Evelyn Waugh Non-fiction of George Orwell Autobiography of Alice B!. Toklas -- Gertrude Stein Romance of the Three Kingdoms -- author's name has various spellings (Chinese) Roxana -- Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders -- Daniel Defoe La Regenta -- Clarin Season of Migration to the North -- Tayeb Salih The Outsider -- Richard Wright Free Fall -- William Golding The Plague -- Albert Camus The Fall -- Albert Camus The Mandarins -- Simone de Beauvoir Works of Heinrich von Kleist Henry von Ofterdingen -- Novalis Wolf Soylent -- John Cowper Powys Neuromancer Trilogy -- William Gibson Young Torless (aka The Sorrows of Young Torless) -- Robert Musil (be sure to get an unabridged edition, e!.g, the German Library edition) Www@QuestionHome@Com "Barnaby Rudge" is my favorite work by Dickens "The Man Who Died" by DH Lawrence "Titus Andronicus" by Shakespeare Www@QuestionHome@Com like water for chocolate the book or balzac the book very interesting reads Www@QuestionHome@Com Dickens, try his whole works!. Added!.!.!. Brighton Rock, The Catcher in the Rye, Of mice and men!.Www@QuestionHome@Com To kill a mockingbird Little women :)Www@QuestionHome@Com try pomeiiWww@QuestionHome@Com |