Acknowledgments
MANY FRIENDS AND colleagues have endured incessant questions about their own specialties; many of them have also regularly sent me details about lost books they encountered in their own work. I would like especially to thank Gavin Bowd, Seán Bradley, Peter Burnett, Angus Calder, Andrew Crumey, Lucy Ellmann, Todd McEwen, Richard Price, and James Robertson. Peter Straus, Leo Hollis, Kate Barker, David Ebershoff, David Watson, and Sam Kelly were all unstintingly helpful in terms of the actual writing; and, of course, thanks to my parents, who started, and endured, my whole obsession with reading.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STUART KELLY studied English language and literature at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a firstclass degree. He is a frequent reviewer for
Scotland on Sunday
and lives with his wife in Edinburgh.
Copyright © 2005 by Stuart Kelly
Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Andrzej Krauze
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of
The Random House Publishing Group, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York.
This work was originally published in the United Kingdom in 2005
by Viking, a division of the Penguin Group, London.
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trade-
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kelly, Stuart.
The book of lost books: an incomplete history of all the great books
you'll never read / Stuart Kelly.
p. cm.
1. Lost booksâHistory. 2. Lost literature. I. Title.
Z1024.K45 2006
002â².09âdc22 2005051653
eISBN: 978-0-307-43200-1
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