Lost, stolen, eaten or burned, these are the words that the world will never read.
Thomas Carlyle: The French Revolution
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade: The most impure tale ever written
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: His First Novel (lost)
Nikolai Vasilievic Gogol: Dead Souls (the rest of the sentence, maybe)
William Golding: A paralysing prologue
Ivan Grozny (better known as “The Terrible”: The Tsar Book (not actually lost, turns out)
Ernest Hemingway: All his early writings
Shirley Jackson: The magic box
Franz Kafka: Max Brod’s suitcase
Franz Kafka: Dora Diamant’s letters
Jack Kerouac: The ending of On The Road
Philip Larkin: A notebook
TE Lawrence: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Harper Lee: Her first attempt to kill a mockingbird
Herman: The missing pages of the world’s largest medieval manuscript
Malcolm Lowry: In Ballast to the White Sea (not Ultramarine)
Thomas Nickerson: The Loss of the Ship “Essex” Sunk by a Whale and the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats
Sylvia Plath: A second novel?
Miss Prism: An untitled three-volume novel (of more than usually revolting sentimentality)
Theodore Reinking: From the Danes to the world on the treachery of the Swedes
Bernhard Riemann: A potential proof of his own hypothesis
Olaus Rudbeck: Atlantica
José Saramago: Skylight (Clarabóia) — the novel “lost and found in time”
WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman: 1066 and All That in the back of a taxi
Dr Seuss: What Pet Should I Get?
Will. Shakespear: A Play (and more than 50 others by lesser-known playwrights)
Robert Louis Stevenson: The first draft of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Jim Theis: Page 49 of The Eye of Argon
Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
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