Several Vastly Over-Rated Works of Literature

Discover the most overrated books in literature that don't live up to the hype. See which classic and popular works made our list of vastly over-rated reads.

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The Aeneid

by Virgil

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long …
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes many masterpieces by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
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War and Peace

by graf Leo Tolstoy

Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families
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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any …
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Tom Jones

by Henry Fielding

Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of …
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The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s …
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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses …