The book of lost books : an incomplete history of all the great books you'll never read /: an incomplete history of all the great books you'll never read. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stuart Kelly ; illustrations by Andrzej Krauze.
• Other Names: Kelly, Stuart
• Contents: Cover; About the Author; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Anonymous; Homer; Hesiod; The Yahwist, the Elohist, the Deuteronomist, the Priestly Author and the Redactor; Sappho; K'ung Fu-tzu; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Agathon; Aristophanes; Xenocles and Others; Menander; Callimachus; The Caesars; Gallus; Ovid; Longinus; Saint Paul (Saul of Tarsus); Origen; Faltonia Betitia Proba; Kālidāsa; Fulgentius; Widsith the Wide-travelled; The Venerable Bede; Muhammad Ibn Ishaq; Ahmad ad-Daqiqi; Dante Alighieri; Geoffrey Chaucer; François Villon. John SkeltonCamillo Querno; Luis Vaz de Camões (Camoens); Torquato Tasso; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Edmund Spenser; William Shakespeare; John Donne; Ben Jonson; John Milton; Sir Thomas Urquhart; Abraham Cowley; Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin); Jean Racine; Ihara Saikaku; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz; Alexander Pope; Dr Samuel Johnson; The Rev. Laurence Sterne; Edward Gibbon; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Robert Fergusson; James Hogg; Sir Walter Scott; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Jane Austen; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Thomas Carlyle; Heinrich Heine; Joseph Smith Jnr; Nikolai Gogol. Charles DickensHerman Melville; Gustave Flaubert; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Sir Richard Burton; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Emile Zola; Arthur Rimbaud; Frank Norris; Franz Kafka; Ezra Loomis Pound; Thomas Stearns Eliot; Thomas Edward Lawrence; Bruno Schulz; Ernest Hemingway; Dylan Marlais Thomas; William S. Burroughs; Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV; Sylvia Plath; Georges Perec; Conclusion; Another Introduction; Hypereides; Mani; Gunādhya; The Yongle Encyclopaedia; The Makers; Henslowe's Diary; Pierre de Fermat; Emily Brontë; Daniel Paul Schreber; Philip K. Dick; The Book of Lost Books; Index.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Birlinn
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 002.09; Lost books -- History; Books -- History; Lost literature; Literature -- History and criticism; Livres perdus -- Histoire; Livres -- Histoire; Œuvres perdues (Littérature); Littérature -- Histoire et critique; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing; Books; Literature; Lost books; Lost literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857905253; 0857905252
• Related ISBNs: 9781846971235; 1846971233
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.