Classics

[close] Welcome to the Literary Society, a book club focusing on literary fiction, modern classics and Classics ☕️ - August : Four Winds

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[close] The world is made up of two kinds of people, first are those who love classics, the second are those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as we tackle the classics, New & Old Classics, Long & Short Classics and some that just exhibit potential to become a classic. If you are part of the second group of people, the classic you can love for a lifetime is just pages away. Here in this group you will find members from around the world that are interested and supportive about reading classics, so don’t delay, join today.

[close] Here's a place to discuss out-of-print, forgotten, obscure, and beloved juvenile literature which you would like to see republished or digitized. There are so many forgotten works of quality that are extremely hard to come by on the secondhand market, and which are not yet available as e-books. A Renaissance is Required! Girls Gone By Publishers is one such small-scale operation trying to resurrect rare titles for today's market. As far as I know, they only do hardcopy (paperback), and stick mostly to 'girl's school stories', with the odd 'girl's adventure' thrown in. It's but a drop in the bucket... but a welcome one. And their success should encourage others! But what of the Boy's School and Adventure stories? And digitized versions for ebooks? What of authors such as Nicholas Stuart Gray? Meta Mayne Reid? Steven Mogridge? Or even more recent authors, like Penelope Lively and Lucy M. Boston, who may be better known, but whose excellent books are already sliding into obscurity? There are so many excellent, imaginative, timeless classics that have fallen by the wayside. It's tragic. This is a group to try to share these titles with other readers, in the hopes that publishers will take note and will reprint them for another generation All books discussed here should have been written and originally published well prior to the year 2000 (and preferrably well before that - pre-1980s especially!). Anything published in the USA in 1922, or 1962 in the UK, or earlier may already have lapsed copyrights and be available on Project Gutenberg. If it isn't but should be, feel free to discuss that title here!