Neglected books page

[Charles Albert]

Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz..

love,

cfa

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 6:04 AM Cometman via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> The Neglected Books Page
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> The Neglected Books Page
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> www.NeglectedBooks.com: Where forgotten books are remembered
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> "But every time I go into the university library and wander down the
> aisles of English and American literature, I have to wonder: Does the world
> really need yet another bit of writing about Edith Wharton or D. H.
> Lawrence or F. Scott Fitzgerald? These writers are like those hotels with
> 10,000 reviews on Tripadvisor. Checking today, the current count
> on Goodreads for The Age of Innocence stands at 134,391 ratings and 6,378
> reviews. Stop. Just stop. Will yet one more opinion make any difference?
> I don’t pretend that every book I write about on this site is a
> masterpiece. I hope no one feels obligated to read anything I’ve featured
> here. But I do try to shine a little light on the things that few or none
> have read and written about for years, often decades. That, in its own
> humble way, seems to be adding something original to the world.
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> I want to encourage you to do the same. Go off-piste, as they say in
> skiing. Read and write about something from 1920 that no one else will.
> Maybe it’ll just be ho-hum, no life-changer, maybe too flawed to recommend
> to anyone else. Some books are neglected for good reasons, and you will do
> the reading public the service of warning them off. Maybe it’ll surprise
> you: who knew Elisabeth Sanxay Holding wrote straight fiction before she
> got into writing mysteries? Tell the English reading public about Polish
> novelist Zofja Nakowska’s first major novel, Kobiety (Women). Do you agree
> with Orlo Williams that Storm Jameson’s first novel, The Happy Highways, is
> just full of “Talk, talk, talk”? Is Stephen Hudson the English Marcel
> Proust? Chances are good that you’ll be the first, or at least one of the
> very few, to have traveled down that piste in many, many seasons. Every
> rediscovered masterpiece has to have its first rediscovery.
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> So here are a selection of long-forgotten titles...."
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