Bernard Arthur Richards
Autore di The Greatest Books You'll Never Read
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1940-10-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Attività lavorative
- university professor
- Organizzazioni
- University of Oxford (Brasenose College)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 90
- Popolarità
- #205,795
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 8
- Preferito da
- 1
Some of these orphaned works may eventually see the light of day, and others are lost forever. In each case the contributors to this volume ask themselves how likely it would be that the missing parts of the work will be found, or perhaps reconstructed by another writer. In almost every case the answer is: don't hold your breath. This may be a loss for scholars, but not for the reading public as a whole. These days, few readers are clamoring for more stanzas of The Faerie Queene.
Each brief chapter is written by one of several contributors, and is illustrated by an artfully rendered proposed cover for the work in question. I read this book straight through from beginning to end, but it would be a good choice for casual browsing as well.… (altro)