Comments on: Top 10 Literary One Hit Wonders

By: jo

jo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:54:55 +0000

I do love the list. But “A Confederacy of Dunces” is missing. I’ve read most of these books. Studied literature at school. I’m from the caribbean so it just goes to show the international applicability of some of these books. Good stuff.

By: honkster

honkster — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:02:17 +0000

A Hitler – Mein Kampf

By: carson

carson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:19:04 +0000

I have slept with The Bell Jar on my nightstand since I was nine years old.

By: jfrater

jfrater — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:54:28 +0000

Acire: “In Search of Lost Time” is the same as “Remembrance of Things Past” – the first is a better translation of the ACTUAL title: “À la recherche du temps perdu” (even Proust didn’t like the translation of the phrase as “remembrance”).

And yes – Wilde wrote the Importance of Being Earnest – which is a play not a novel – and this list is a reference to novels. As it says in the opening paragraph: “This is a list of ten great writers that are famous for one novel and one novel alone.”

By: Acire

Acire — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:46:59 +0000

Proust and Wilde are not “one-hit wonders.” Proust wrote “Remembrance of Things Past,” which is possibly more famous than the work listed above, and Wilde also wrote “The Importance of Being Earnest,” among other works. So I would hesitate before terming them as such…

By: AshleyR

AshleyR — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:22:11 +0000

i had to read to kill a mockingbird in english in january-febuary. i liked the first half of the book…but then the second half was being forced on me (i was out sick for 2 weeks and got behind…which was around the time i found this site!! haha) and i didnt have time to enjoy it sadly. i bet if i read it again id enjoy it more then last time =]

By: Andyb123

Andyb123 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:04:58 +0000

A Confederacy of Dunces should be numero 1. And where is the Master and Marguerita ? Also, by one hit wonders, I’d like to suggest writers who have produced many books, but only within a certain field/world/reality. I’m talking about people like Tolkien, Conan Doyle, and Rowling. They are forever connected to just one thing. In Doyle’s case, it became a prison. A subject for a new list, perhaps ?

By: Hayley

Hayley — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:38:20 +0000

Harper lee actually said she doesn’t plan to publish any other novels because she knows she can’t top mockingbird

By: greg

greg — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:08:58 +0000

“the bell jar” “the picture of Dorian Gray” and ‘Wuthering Heights” are not really one hit wonders.

Sylvia Plath also wrote “three women” which is considered a classic

Oscar Wilde wrote “The importance of being ernest” “The ballad of reading Gaul” and “Lady Werdermer’s fan” is becoming a movie.

And ‘Wuthering Heights” was her only book, so that’s debateable.

By: djalicat

djalicat — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:50:55 +0000

black beauty was written as propaganda for the RSPCA in england. to get the public’s attention about how badly horses were treated.

bram stoker also wrote ‘lair of the white worm’ (made into a film by ken russell starring hugh grant) and ‘dracula’s guest’ (kind of a prequel to dracula) but they aren’t as good and not well recieved.