The Book Of Lost Books
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The Book Of Lost Things
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Author : John Connolly
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-11-07
The Book Of Lost Things written by John Connolly and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-07 with Fiction categories.
A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.
Lost Books
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Author : Flavia Bruni
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Lost Books written by Flavia Bruni and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with History categories.
Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different strategies for recovering this lost world of print.
In Search Of Lost Books
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Author : Giorgio van Straten
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2017-11-02
In Search Of Lost Books written by Giorgio van Straten and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with Literary Collections categories.
The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction. Yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them. This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books. Taking us from Florence to Regency London, the Russian Steppe to British Columbia, Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy and tragedy, glimmers of hope and bitter twists of fate. There are, among others, the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare de Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron, burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz, disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become reality. As gripping as a detective novel, as moving as an elegy, this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible, of the things that slip away from us but which, sometimes, live again in the stories we tell. Giorgio van Straten is director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and one of the editors of the literature review Nuovi Argomenti. He is the author of several novels, including the prize-winning My Name a Living Memory, along with two collections of short stories. He has translated the works of authors such as Kipling, London and Stevenson and has edited several works of non-fiction.
The Book Of Lost Names
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Author : Kristin Harmel
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-05-25
The Book Of Lost Names written by Kristin Harmel and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Fiction categories.
Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II--an experience Eva remembers all too well. As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in the Book of Last Names will become even more vital when the Resistance cell they work with is betrayed and Rémy disappears. As the Germans close in, Eva records a last, vital message in the book. Decades later, does she have the strength to seek out its answer--and help reunite those lost during the war?
The Book Of Lost Books
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Author : Stuart Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2012-11-05
The Book Of Lost Books written by Stuart Kelly and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Book of Lost Books is a book of stories involving kings, heretics, untimely interruptions and back room deals, falling tortoises and fairy princesses, train crashes and war atrocities, bravery, cowardice, rent boys, chamber maids, love, quests, puzzles and a crocodile. From Homer to Jane Austen, Shakespeare to Ernest Hemingway, this is an account of books destroyed, misplaced, never finished, or never even begun. With academic shaggy dog stories, swashbuckling historical fables, wry ironies and imaginative fantasia, The Book of Lost Books is the perfect read for all bibliophiles. Hilarious, insightful, endlessly fascinating, sometimes shocking - The Book of Lost Books is a wonderfully quirky but utterly romantic saga of our love affair with books.
The Book Of Lost Books
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Author : Stuart Kelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Book Of Lost Books written by Stuart Kelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Books categories.
In an age when out - takes from Big Brother 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 book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part expose, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature's what - ifs and never weres. Here Stuart Kelly reveals the tantalizingly absent works of the famous, the acclaimed and the influential. Was Shakespeare's Love's Labours Won a sequel to Love's Labours Lost - or just an alternative title for The Taming of the Shrew? And what was the monstrous secret contained in Lord Byron's Memoirs that caused his publisher to burn the manuscript . . . Civilized and satirical, erudite yet accessible, The Book of Lost Books tells the fascinating true stories behind the books that can exist only in our imagination.
The Lost Books Of The Odyssey
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Author : Zachary Mason
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-01
The Lost Books Of The Odyssey written by Zachary Mason and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Fiction categories.
After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time and he watches his family age and die in front of him; he walks into an empty house in ruins; he returns but is so bored he sets sail again to repeat his voyage; he comes back to find Penelope is dead. In these forty-four retellings of passages from Homer's Odyssey, Zachary Mason uses Homer's linear narrative and explodes it: presenting alternative and contradictory fragments of familiar stories - the Trojan Horse, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens - allowing us to see Homer's masterpiece afresh. Elegant, provocative and utterly fascinating, The Lost Books of the Odyssey seems destined to become a modern classic.
The Book Of Lost And Found
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Author : Lucy Foley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-08-25
The Book Of Lost And Found written by Lucy Foley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Fiction categories.
From London to Corsica to Paris -- as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl in this captivating novel from the author of The Guest List. Kate Darling's enigmatic mother -- a once-famous ballerina -- has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her grandmother falls ill and bequeaths to Kate a small portrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Kate's mother, Kate uncovers a mystery that may upend everything she thought she knew. Kate's journey to find the true identity of the woman in the portrait takes her to some of the world's most iconic and indulgent locales, revealing a love story that began in the wild 1920s and was disrupted by war and could now spark new love for Kate. Alternating between Kate's present-day hunt and voices from the past, The Book of Lost and Found casts light on family secrets and love -- both lost and found.
The Sea Of Lost Books
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Author : Michael Dahl
language : en
Publisher: Raintree
Release Date : 2011
The Sea Of Lost Books written by Michael Dahl and has been published by Raintree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Part of the series "The Library of Doom," this title includes a collection of deadly and dangerous books.
The Book Of Lost Friends
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Author : Lisa Wingate
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2020-04-07
The Book Of Lost Friends written by Lisa Wingate and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives. “An absorbing historical . . . enthralling.”—Library Journal Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.