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Hi, I'm new to this forum. Do you have any lesser known, niche, or obscure genres that you take a particular interest in? I myself am really into 19th & early 20th century boys' boarding school novels, such as The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's. I'm interested in seeing if anyone else out there in cyberspace is interested in lesser known genres too, especially ones containing many older works.

 

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Firstly, welcome to BFC, Asphodelus 🙂

I've been reading a lot of vintage fiction lately. I particularly like books set in WW2 but also cosy mysteries in the English countryside.

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On 7/22/2024 at 2:17 AM, Asphodelus said:

Hi, I'm new to this forum. Do you have any lesser known, niche, or obscure genres that you take a particular interest in? I myself am really into 19th & early 20th century boys' boarding school novels, such as The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's. I'm interested in seeing if anyone else out there in cyberspace is interested in lesser known genres too, especially ones containing many older works.

 

I have read Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes. I found it quite an odd book. The reason I read it was that I had read all George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books. He was a character invented by Thomas Hughes. He was a bully who was expelled from Rugby Public School.

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I am into Victorian novels about misers, but it is a very small subgenre. The only ones I have found so far are A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Silas Marner by George Eliot.

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On 7/22/2024 at 2:17 AM, Asphodelus said:

Hi, I'm new to this forum. Do you have any lesser known, niche, or obscure genres that you take a particular interest in? I myself am really into 19th & early 20th century boys' boarding school novels, such as The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's. I'm interested in seeing if anyone else out there in cyberspace is interested in lesser known genres too, especially ones containing many older works.

 

I feel sure that somebody else here was interested in boarding school novels but I can’t remember who! My niche interest is dream portrayals in literature, especially in the nineteenth century :) 

 

3 hours ago, KEV67 said:

I am into Victorian novels about misers, but it is a very small subgenre. The only ones I have found so far are A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Silas Marner by George Eliot.

There’s a good one (when I say good, I mean he’s utterly detestable) in Nicholas Nickleby too!

 

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