In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes by Giorgio van Straten, Simon Carnell (Translation) Read Storm in a Teacup

Read Storm in a Teacup and you will see and understand the world as you never did before

Lawrence)·         It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin)·         Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes)·         Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev)·         Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari)·         The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa)·         Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho)·         Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde)·         The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus·         The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville)·         The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky·         Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio)·         My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart)·         The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë)·         The nightingales are drunk (Hafez)·         The Nose (Nikolay Gogol)·         Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson)·         The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu)

The reflection we are faced with

Penrose cautions that the fashionable nature of a theory can cloud our judgment of its plausibility

she suspects that someone knows

In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes by Giorgio van Straten, Simon Carnell (Translation) Read Storm in a Teacup'Brilliant a little masterpiece' GuardianThe gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances. They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them. This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books. Taking us