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- ISBN
- 9781400062973
- Book Title
- Book of Lost Books : an Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Référence, History
- Topic
- Bibliographies & Indexes, General, Books & Reading
- Item Width
- 7.8in
- Item Weight
- 21.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it's sobering to realize that some of the world's greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part expose, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature's what-ifs and never-weres. In compulsively readable fashion, Stuart Kelly reveals details about tantalizing vanished works by the famous, the acclaimed, and the influential, from the time of cave drawings to the late twentieth century. Here are the true stories behind stories, poems, and plays that now exist only in imagination: -Aristophanes' Heracles, the Stage Manager was one of the playwright's several spoofs that disappeared." "-Love's Labours Won may have been a sequel to Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost-or was it just an alternative title for The Taming of the Shrew? -Jane Austen's incomplete novel Sanditon, was a critique of hypochondriacs and cures started when the author was fatally ill. -Nikolai Gogol burned the second half of Dead Souls after a religious conversion convinced him that literature was paganism. -Some of the thousand pages of William Burroughs's original Naked Lunch were stolen and sold on the street by Algerian street boys. -Sylvia Plath's widower, Ted Hughes, claimed that the 130 pages of her second novel, perhaps based on their marriage, were lost after her death. Whether destroyed (Socrates' versions of Aesop's Fables), misplaced (Malcolm Lowry's Ultramarine was pinched from his publisher's car), interrupted by the author's death (Robert Louis Stevenson's Weir of Hermiston), or simply never begun (VladimirNabokov's Speak, America, a second volume of his memoirs), these missing links create a history of literature for a parallel world. Civilized and satirical, erudite yet accessible, The Book of Lost Books is itself a find.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400062977
ISBN-13
9781400062973
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48261442
Product Key Features
Book Title
Book of Lost Books : an Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Bibliographies & Indexes, General, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Literary Criticism, Référence, History
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
7.8in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Z1024.K45 2006
Reviews
"[...] und gehört zu den international beachteten und bewunderten Grundlagenwerken, die den hohen Stand der deutschen philologisch-historischen Forschung unterstreichen."Enno Bünz in: Neues Archiv für sächsische Geschichte, 2008 "Die Qualität auch dieser Lieferung steht hinter der der ersten nicht zurück; mit dem Artikel Erasmus von Rotterdam hat das Lexikon seinen ersten schweren Brocken nicht nur bewältigt und auf der Höhe der Forschung präsentiert, sondern den Stand der Forschung selbst neu definiert."Johannes Schilling in: Luther - Zeitschrift der Luther-Gesellschaft, 3/2008 "Der Nutzen für die europäische Humanismusforschung wird immens sein, denn das Werk stellt ein unverzichtbares Hilfsmittel für ein vertieftes Verständnis der zweisprachigen Literatur und Wissenschaft des deutschen Hochhumanismus dar."Jürgen Geiß in: Germanistik 3-4/2007, "Never let it be said that there are too many books in the world when so many great ones got awayall those books we don't have because they were variously left on trains, burned, lost, neglected, abandoned, unstarted, or cruelly cut short by the author's demise. After reading Stuart Kelly's clever and enjoyable book, you will feel positively grateful that any survived at all." Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves "A fascinating story about writing, which should be quite new to most people and certainly deserves to be preserved. Stuart Kelly should be allowed to browse among all the libraries of the world." Muriel Spark, author of The Finishing School, "Never let it be said that there are too many books in the world when so many great ones got awayall those books we don't have because they were variously left on trains, burned, lost, neglected, abandoned, unstarted, or cruelly cut short by the author's demise. After reading Stuart Kelly's clever and enjoyable book, you will feel positively grateful that any survived at all." Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves "A fascinating story about writing, which should be quite new to most people and certainly deserves to be preserved. Stuart Kelly should be allowed to browse among all the libraries of the world." Muriel Spark, author of The Finishing School From the Hardcover edition., "Never let it be said that there are too many books in the world when so many great ones got away-all those books we don't have because they were variously left on trains, burned, lost, neglected, abandoned, unstarted, or cruelly cut short by the author's demise. After reading Stuart Kelly's clever and enjoyable book, you will feel positively grateful that any survived at all." -Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves" ""A fascinating story about writing, which should be quite new to most people and certainly deserves to be preserved. Stuart Kelly should be allowed to browse among all the libraries of the world." -Muriel Spark, author of The Finishing School
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2005-051653
Dewey Decimal
002.09
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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