Fans of How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read will enjoy this illuminating and witty account of famous books that were destroyed, misplaced, not finished … or never even begun.
Dubbed “an absolute joy” by The New York Times, The Book Of Lost Books covers a diverse range of missing-in-action books, including those from ancient Greek and Arabic masters through Shakespeare, Dante and Hemingway right up to the present-day writers.
In author Stuart Kelly’s hands, the saga of literature’s lost treasures are presented via clever anecdotes that are sometimes heart-warming (how Kafka’s novels escaped destruction), but usually heart-rending (how most of Sophocles’ plays did not).