Lost Classics contains a compendium of glittering, witty, thoughtful, wild and wonderful-to-read short essays by some of the world's finest writers on books that have inspired and influenced them, but are no longer available, or are hard to find, or sadly under-appreciated. In Lost Classics you will find Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Dr Glas,n Russell Banks on the off-beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene; and Helen Garner on the delightfully sinister Australian children's epic, The Journey of the Stamp Animals. Besides the editors themselves, other contributors include Murray Bail, Jeff Eugenides, Siri Hustvedt, John Irving, Wayne Johnston, Philip Levine, Alan Lightman, David Malouf, Javier Marias, W.S. Merwin, Anchee Min, Caryl Phillips, Leon Rooke, Jane Rule, Colm Toibin, Edmund White, and Rudy Wiebe.