
The Five Nations, Rudyard Kipling - selected by Karen Connelly.Fishes, Url Lanham - selected by Erin Mouré.The Fish Can Sing, Halldor Laxness - selected by Murray Bail.Down and Out in the Woods: An Airman’s Guide to Survival in the Bush, - selected by Sarah Sheard.Doctor Glas, Hjalmar Soderberg - selected by Margaret Atwood.The Dead Seagull, George Barker - selected by Cassandra Pybus.The Cruise of the Cachalot, Frank Bullen - selected by Derek Lundy.Confessions of an Un-common Attorney, Reginald Hine - selected by Dougles Fetherling.Codex Seraphinus, Luigi Serafini - selected by Christian Bok.Classics Revisited, Kenneth Rexroth - selected by Brian Brett.Capital of Pain, Paul Eluard - selected by Natalee Caple.By the Sound, Edward Dorn - selected by Sharon Thesen.Beyond the Pawpaw Trees, Palmer Brown - selected by Sarah Ellis.Bernadette, French girl’s annual - selected by Carole Corbeil.The Bells of Russia, Alexander Moskoyov - selected by Michael Turner.The Amateur Poacher, Richard Jeffries - selected by Sean Virgo.Address Unknown, Kressmann Taylor - selected by Nancy Huston.

When he looked for it a fourth time, his mother “told me my father took it with him when she kicked him out.

Michael Turner, for example, writes of The Bells of Russia, “I have never read the book–nor has anyone else in my family.” The three times he tried to read it, his mother grabbed it away from him. Not all the titles were selected based on their merit. This material was later expanded into this book.

Lost Classics, edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, and Linda Spalding Anchor Books, 2000īrick, a Canadian literary journal invited some of its longtime contributions to tell their stories of books they loved and lost or that they considered overlooked and underread for a special issue on “Lost Classics” (number 61) in 1998.
