This miniature book reached me quite by accident, and I approached it purely out of literary curiosity.

The contents of these works are in themselves a literary curiosity.

Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity.

Clicking on the link I was immediately transported to a virtual cabinet of literary curiosities.

And you have to wonder why it would spend its resources on a work whose primary value is as a literary curiosity.

The curiosity of the lover became, so to speak, a psychological and literary curiosity.

He was responsible for some striking literary curiosities.

Starting with the book's own preface, it has been classified as a "literary curiosity".

But his enthusiasm for guns, it turns out, owes more to moral conviction than literary curiosity.

But the present book will remain a literary curiosity.