The Book of Gnats
The literary world abounds with tales of lost books; These are manuscripts which have been mislaid and masterpieces which never made it to the press. Since they are gone forever you will never be able to read them; and because of their unavailability they are automatically the most interesting books you are never likely to read.Just search google for “lost manuscripts” for a very long lost of famous novelists and their missing works.
This week, the Resonance FM Podcasts site features the story of what is perhaps the most obscure and befuddling tale of lost text. Frank Key will be lecturing us on the origin, supression, recovery and destruction of Maude Glub’s only work of fiction, “The Book of Gnats”.