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What are some overlooked masterpieces of literature?
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>>15789575

>> No.15816252

>>15816015
God tier book, and the best example of perfect for /lit/ but off the /lit/canon because the author is too personally dull and wrote too many dull books earlier on. Also low key radical in structure, mostly for those brutal omissions, time jumps and between chapter deaths by illness.

>> No.15816672

>>15816015
Great book. Don't agree with former poster that much of her earlier stuff is dull. The Beginning of Spring I feel's fantastic as well, for instance, as is her biography of her four uncles.

>> No.15816701

>>15816672
Oh, I meant her first few. BoS and Gate of Angels are both good, but the Bookclub and Offshore are boring

>> No.15816775
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15816775

*cough*

>> No.15816924

>>15816701
Yeah, so is At Freddie's, but her stories are fantastic. If you haven't yet check out her bios of her uncles, the Knox brothers.

>> No.15816932

>>15816924
*bio

>> No.15817001

>>15816775
Hard book. Read a biography of Marx once that put me in mind of it; also you could just read The Netherworld. Gissing's a strange, uncomfortable writer, a very dark Dickens.

>> No.15818287

Bump

>> No.15819419

>>15816015
I like Peacock's silly novels, especially Headlong Hall and Crotchet Castle- he's the original of Wodehouse, really-

>> No.15819468

>>15816015
My writings on squid's implications by the light of Roman Jakobson's work

>> No.15819496

>>15819468
Location?
Also, was Squidworth meant?