Fascinating article by Paul Anthony Jones listing ten literary works that, more than likely, have been lost forever:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-anthony-jones/long-lost-works_b_6271482.html

For some of these works it is quite clear they are indeed lost for all times as we know the only copy(s) of them were destroyed…and we know who destroyed them and have a good idea as to why!

There are others, though, that one might have some hope of eventually finding, like Homer’s Margites and, perhaps, Shakespeare’s Cordenio.

There are also those that frustrate as they are likely lost for silly reasons, like the near complete early works of Ernest Hemingway which, unwisely, were all stored in a suitcase which was either lost or stolen from a train station back in 1922.

Where’s the cloud when you need it!?!