
Lost Classics
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published on 5. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7475-6175-0 (ISBN)
Description
The editors of BRICK magazine had the idea of celebrating the new century by asking their contributors for short essays about their favourite 'lost classics': books they treasured and would love to pass on to friends, but that are, for all intents and purposes, forgotten. The next issue contained 32 such essays - pithy, witty, passionate, surprising - which led to the idea of soliciting more, and celebrating again with a book. In LOST CLASSICS you will find Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous DR GLAS, first published in Sweden in 1905 and Helen Garner on the delightfully sinister Australian children's epic, THE JOURNEY OF THE STAMP ANIMALS. You will also find David Malouf on Stendhal's LIFE OF ROSSINI; Jeffrey Eugenides on THE PILGRIM HAWK by Glenway Westcott; John Irving on THE HEADMASTER'S PAPERS by Richard A Hawley; Edmund White on THE STORY OF HAROLD by Terry Andrews; Bill Richardson on a children's book for adults by Russell Hoban, and much, much more.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7475-6175-0 (9780747561750)
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The editors: Midhael Ondaatje's most recent book is the novel Anil's Ghost; Michael Redhill's first novel is Martin Sloane; Esta Spalding's latest book is Lost August, a collection of poems; Linda Spalding is the author of The Follow.