“The Greatest Books You’ll Never Read” is a new survey of books that are “unfinished, unbegun or lost, and today exist as only suggestive fragments or not at all.” Despite the title, not all of these works sound particularly great. Take, for example, Karl Marx’s “Scorpion and Felix,” a comic novel he wrote when he was 19 and under the influence of “Tristram Shandy.” According to the Marx biographer Francis Wheen, it’s “a nonsensical torrent of whimsy and persiflage.”
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