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发表于2025-02-07
The Book of Lost Books pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
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 exposé, 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 (Vladimir Nabokov’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.
斯圖爾特·凱利,生於1972年,長期擔任《蘇格蘭周日》(Scotland on Sunday)和《詩歌評論》(Poetry Review)雜誌書評人。
目前與妻子一起居住在愛丁堡,這是他的的一本書。
对西方文学了解不够,本书中除了一部分作者在过去有所耳闻或者看过他们的代表作(仅仅是代表作),大部分名字对我来说非常陌生,而对那些带有一丝熟悉感的作者们,本书所列的皆是他们的全名,不禁让我怀疑:这是我以为的那个人吗?不管怎么说,以上种种在我和这本书产生共...
評分 評分似乎这本书的起源,来自作者的完美主义,对此我及我的朋友们深有同感。那种对某个作者的全集的渴望或者立志搜罗某系列的全部书籍的执念,都可以归结为那不可抑制的收集癖。 人类的贪念促使我们得到了一部分,就渴望更多。不能得到满足时那股意念就会化为深深的执着和不懈的追...
評分老早买了这书,最近才开始看。 此前总被书中密密麻麻的引用吓坏,心想该不会又是书目索引学吧,仔细一看,完全不是那回事。作者斯图尔特·凯利不愧是写书评的,他在兼顾专业的同时,也注重了文章的可读性。本书亮点就是作者英式幽默吐槽,读起来让你不会觉得太闷。尤其关于古...
The Book of Lost Books pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025