Hidden Classics

thorold (13): Thirkell was very popular in her day, but now gets overlooked. Great comic writing, especially the dialogues, but stone-age political opinions.

lewbs (0): hidden classic??

thorold (1): It did get a BBC dramatisation, but it still seems to be unfairly neglected

bluepiano (1): 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.… (more)

thorold (2): You already know about this if you're from Yorkshire or a Virago fan, but everyone should read it

bluepiano (2): 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.… (more)

lewbs (0): hidden classic??

thorold (3): Quirkily subversive novel by a suburban secretary who also happened to be a great poet

thorold (4): Couperus is unfairly neglected outside Holland

thorold (5): Great comic novel that gets overlooked because it's a European pretending to be a Persian

thorold (6): Andersch gets a bit overshadowed by the other German writers of that generation, but this is a great little book.

thorold (7): Great coming-of-age novel, included because I had never heard of it until I started learning Spanish

thorold (8): maybe not all that neglected, but a brilliant anti-novel

thorold (10): Cary's best novel, one of the classic literary accounts of visual art. But not much known outside Britain.

thorold (11): Great mid-century British roman-fleuve, unfairly overshadowed by Anthony Powell

thorold (12): hard-hitting antiwar satire from 1920s Vienna

thorold (0): It might have been unfairly neglected until a couple of years ago, but nowadays it's more in the "overhyped" category

thorold (0): A great book, but surely not a neglected one

lewbs (0): hidden classic??