While many famous writers – Balzac, Proust, Oscar Wilde – are buried at Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery, “there are also writers, many more of them in fact, buried there who have been completely forgotten, not necessarily because they were not good but because cultural memory is necessarily limited.”

In eight chapters, the inimitable Anthony Daniels dilates on some forgotten writers of Père Lachaise, exploring their literary merit and the amusing byways of history,  aiming “to entertain while illustrating the inexhaustible depth of our past.”

"Since there are many famous writers - for example, Balzac, Proust Oscar Wilde - buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Anthony Daniels reasoned that there must be many more forgotten ones, and so it turned out. They are not forgotten because they were bad or uninteresting writers, and when the author disinterred their writings he found a literary and historical treasure trove"--