Under-Read Classics

[Anonymous No.8718130]

Hey /lit/, I'm going to the bookstore in a couple hours and I'd like to pick up a classic. Anything less known or under read out there that you can recommend? Preferably something in Penguin form so I can easily find it, because the classic section is mainly that.

Also, somewhat unrelated--Has anyone read medieval lyrics? Last time I was at the bookstore I had my eye on a book of medieval lyrics and it just intrigues me, but I don't want to get memed.

[Anonymous No.8718185]

>>8718130
On Human Bondage
Wise Blood
The Red and The Black
Orlando

[Anonymous No.8718191]

If you are interested in Medieval literature, I recommend Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I own the Norton Critical edition with Borroff's translation and I like it very much.

As for your request, perhaps Hamsun's Hunger or Thomas Browne's writings will interest you. Melville's Pierre is alsp excellent and under-read.

[Anonymous No.8718197]

>>8718185
>not listing author

Thanks though I'll Google them.

>>8718191
Thanks

[Anonymous No.8718200]

>>8718185
Seconding Orlando Furioso, it's a fun read

Peer Gynt is also a fun read, most people have heard tunes from its famous suite but never read the book. And also Idyll's of the King is very good for more medieval stuff

[Anonymous No.8718214]

>>8718200
pretty sure anon meant Virginia Woolf

[Anonymous No.8719620]

>>8718130
Yesterday Will Make You Cry by Chester Himes
The Wig by Charles Wright
Negrophobia by Darius James
The Freelance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed

[Anonymous No.8719642]

>>8718130

>Siddhartha
It should be up there with Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow and these other greats as among the best of all time, and anyone who has actually read it can confirm this.

>Infinite Jest
While it's widely read, it is still "under read" in the sense that every single person on the planet should read this.