Neglected Books

Somebody should create a web page to share information about books once highly regarded (or popular, etc.) and now neglected, except somebody already did. Check out The Neglected Books Page. I bumped across recently (for a reason I can't recall) and again this morning looking for information on (the now-defunct) Prion Lost Classics. I'm reading their reissue of Winston Churchill's early history of the 19th century war in the Sudan (or Soudan), The River War. See my recent post on Byron Farwell's book, Prisoners of the Mahdi.

You can read Churchill's book free at Project Gutenburg: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4943

or here: http://www.archive.org/details/riverwarhistoric00chur

***

One of the Prion Lost Classics reissues was Burgo Partridge's A History of Orgies. This caught my eye for more than the obvious reason. Burgo was the son of Bloomsbury Group leading lights Frances and Ralph Partridge. See Frances obits from The Times and the Independent.The obits give good background on the Bloomsbury troop of nonconformist artists, writers, and hangers-on.

Frances wrote A Pacifist's War: Diaries 1939-1945: Volume 1, which I reviewed here.