Radio 4xhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010txvb/Paul_Collins_Banvards_Folly_Banvards_Folly/
An anthology of once-famous, once-infamous, or never famous men (with one exception) who were hot stuff at the time but now are obscure or entirely forgotten. Collins (the author of Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of Autism which I reviewed here) has chosen an interesting as...
It just wasn't working for me, although I've loved other books by Collins.
This was a fun little book, and one of the first that I was reading for fun once I moved on to library school. Here is part of what I wrote back when I read it in 2002: >>All the stories were interesting to read, and in some instances, shed further light on the late 19th century and the American lit...
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