This Could Be a Fun Parlor Game, Too

Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily for the link to this Chronicle of Higher Education report on Hesperus Press, which focuses its attention on the minor works of major writers. If you go to the publisher's website itself, they seem to frame it more as shorter, significant works that could serve as introductions to these authors, but would you introduce somebody to Mark Twain via Diary of Adam and Eve rather than Huckleberry Finn? Not that Diary isn't great, because it is, just that it's more like a way to discover a facet of Twain rather than Twain himself. (They also have Tom Sawyer, Detective, which gets a bad rap, though I seem to recall liking well enough when I was 10.)

Still, just a quick browse through the catalog reveals a lot of stuff I'd like to check out--hell, I'd never even heard of Machiavelli's Life of Castruccio Castracani before--so all in all I suspect Hesperus is on the right track. Let's see if I can get on their review list!

UPDATE: Bookslut raises an excellent point: how about a little attention for Persephone? How you can not love a press that brings back a cookbook like Good Food on the Aga?