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The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
C. D. Rose
出版
Melville House
, 2014-11-04
主題
Humor / Form / Pictorial
Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies
Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes
ISBN
1612193781
9781612193786
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hWKQEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon
A signal event of literary scholarship,
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject.
Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin.
The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency.
It is, in short, a treasure.