The Book of Lost Books
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The Book of Lost Books

An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

  1. 460 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Book of Lost Books

An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

About this book

A " clever and highly entertaining" look at books through history that were stolen, went missing, or just never got written ( The New York Times).
 
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it's sobering to realize that some of the world's great prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature's what-ifs and never-weres.
 
In compulsively readable fashion, this book reveals details about tantalizing vanished works by the famous, acclaimed, and influential, from the time of cave drawings to the late twentieth century. Here are 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, pinched from his publisher's car), interrupted by the author's death (Robert Louis Stevenson's Weir of Hermiston), or simply never begun (Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, America, a second volume of his memoirs), these missing links create a history of literature for a parallel world. Civilized, satirical, erudite yet accessible, The Book of Lost Books is a real find.

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Index

Aeschylus ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Agathon ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Alcibiades ref1, ref2, ref3
Aldhelm ref1, ref2
Alexander ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Aphrodite ref1
Apollonius of Rhodes ref1, ref2
Archilochus ref1, ref2
Archimedes ref1
Ariosto, Ludovico ref1, ref2, ref3
Aristophanes ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Aristophanes of Byzantium ref1, ref2, ref3
Aristotle ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20
Augustine, Saint ref1, ref2
Augustus Caesar ref1, ref2, ref3
Austen, Jane ref1, ref2
Barbour, John ref1
Bede, the Venerable ref1
Belinsky, Vossarion ref1, ref2, ref3
Bentley, Richard ref1, ref2
Bible ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Bible, Authors of ref1
Boccaccio, Giovanni ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Boethius ref1, ref2
Borges, Jorge Luis ref1
Boyce, Sam, hidden dedication to ref1
Brontë, Emily, and family ref1
Burroughs, William S. ref1,
Burton, Sir Richard ref1, ref2
Byron, George Gordon, Lord ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
CĂŠdmon ref1
Caligula Caesar ref1, ref2
Callimachus ref1, ref2
CamÔes, Luis Vaz de (Camoens) ref1, ref2
Carlyle, Thomas ref1, ref2, ref3, ref...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Anonymous
  10. Homer
  11. Hesiod
  12. The Yahwist, the Elohist, the Deuteronomist, the Priestly Author and the Redactor
  13. Sappho
  14. K’ung Fu-tzu
  15. Aeschylus
  16. Sophocles
  17. Euripides
  18. Agathon
  19. Aristophanes
  20. Xenocles and Others
  21. Menander
  22. Callimachus
  23. The Caesars
  24. Gallus
  25. Ovid
  26. Longinus
  27. Saint Paul (Saul of Tarsus)
  28. Origen
  29. Faltonia Betitia Proba
  30. Kālidāsa
  31. Fulgentius
  32. Widsith the Wide-travelled
  33. The Venerable Bede
  34. Muhammad Ibn Ishaq
  35. Ahmad ad-Daqiqi
  36. Dante Alighieri
  37. Geoffrey Chaucer
  38. François Villon
  39. John Skelton
  40. Camillo Querno
  41. Luis Vaz de CamÔes (Camoens)
  42. Torquato Tasso
  43. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  44. Edmund Spenser
  45. William Shakespeare
  46. John Donne
  47. Ben Jonson
  48. John Milton
  49. Sir Thomas Urquhart
  50. Abraham Cowley
  51. MoliĂšre (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
  52. Jean Racine
  53. Ihara Saikaku
  54. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
  55. Alexander Pope
  56. Dr Samuel Johnson
  57. The Rev. Laurence Sterne
  58. Edward Gibbon
  59. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  60. Robert Fergusson
  61. James Hogg
  62. Sir Walter Scott
  63. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  64. Jane Austen
  65. George Gordon, Lord Byron
  66. Thomas Carlyle
  67. Heinrich Heine
  68. Joseph Smith Jnr
  69. Nikolai Gogol
  70. Charles Dickens
  71. Herman Melville
  72. Gustave Flaubert
  73. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  74. Sir Richard Burton
  75. Algernon Charles Swinburne
  76. Emile Zola
  77. Arthur Rimbaud
  78. Frank Norris
  79. Franz Kafka
  80. Ezra Loomis Pound
  81. Thomas Stearns Eliot
  82. Thomas Edward Lawrence
  83. Bruno Schulz
  84. Ernest Hemingway
  85. Dylan Marlais Thomas
  86. William S. Burroughs
  87. Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV
  88. Sylvia Plath
  89. Georges Perec
  90. Conclusion
  91. Another Introduction
  92. Hypereides
  93. Mani
  94. Gunādhya
  95. The Yongle Encyclopaedia
  96. The Makers
  97. Henslowe’s Diary
  98. Pierre de Fermat
  99. Emily Brontë
  100. Daniel Paul Schreber
  101. Philip K. Dick
  102. The Book of Lost Books
  103. Index