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His name and image are everywhere, from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh's city center. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott, and, although Stuart Kelly will offer insights into Scott's works and biography, this is emphatically not a conventional literary biography, nor is it a critical study. Partly a surreptitious autobiography, Stuart Kelly was born near Abbotsford,...
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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,...
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