Please suggest me some books from past decades and centuries that are not widely known classics but you value and would like people to discover
For me, Up the Down Staircase is a charming, funny epistolary novel about a school teacher in the city that I love. Advise and Consent is tragic because its gay character faces legal...
For me, Up the Down Staircase is a charming, funny epistolary novel about a school teacher in the city that I love.
Advise and Consent is tragic because its gay character faces legal discrimination but it is the best portrayal of the US Congress I have seen in print.
Dorothy Sayers murder mysteries feature brilliant sleuth Harriet Vane who has an egalitarian love story and is very much an early feminist without making it the focus of her identity. It also sets its mysteries within work place and other mundane settings providing great cultural history.
Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser fantasies are sexist but they are vivid ground breaking entertaining stories that shaped dungeons and dragons the game and fantasy as a genre.
Patrick OBrian Master and Commander and sequels about two friends in the British navy during the age of sail