The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure by C. D. Rose
English | November 4, 2014 | ISBN: 1612193781 | 192 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | November 4, 2014 | ISBN: 1612193781 | 192 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
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.