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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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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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 …