Lost Books

The NY Times has a review of Stuart Kelly's 'The Book of Lost Books', which sounds good, on books lost to posteirty: 'Homer's "Margites," a humorous epic about a fool, who, in Plato's words, "knew many things, but all badly"; the Arthurian epics contemplated by both Dryden and Milton but never written; Laurence Sterne's never completed "Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy," which concludes with one of the most famous unfinished sentences in literary history ("So that when I stretch'd out my hand, I caught hold of the Fille de Chambre's —") ; Lord Byron's supposedly explosive "Memoirs," which his publisher, executor and biographer had burned because, as one critic put it, they were "fit only for the brothel and would have damned" the poet "to everlasting infamy"; the novel, provisionally titled "Double Exposure" or "Double Take," that Sylvia Plath was reportedly working on before her suicide in 1963.'

It's at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/books/05book.html?ex=1147492800&en=13837b24e08b9a0e&ei=5070&emc=eta1%22