The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure

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 [...]
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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."