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The Book of Lost Books- An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

โœ Scribed by Kelly, Stuart

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

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._
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  • 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,...

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