Dimensions
140 x 218 x 48mm
'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 endlessly engaging tour of literature from the pre-historic to Marvel Comics. 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.
