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Literary Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature (Books of Miscellany) book cover by Alex Palmer
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Literary Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature (Books of Miscellany)

by Alex Palmer

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Hardcover · 184 pages Skyhorse · 2010

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Literary Miscellany

Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers. Among the questions asked and answered:

     • When Did Literature Finally Get Sexy?
     • Is Coffee or Opium Better for Literary Creativity?
     • Why Are the Best Autobiographies so Embarrassing?
     • Why Do Some Detectives Use Their Minds and Others Their Fists?

Who knew that bestseller lists and children’s books could be the source of intense controversy? Or that even the biggest writers had to scrape by, with odd jobs and inventions like the Mark Twain Self-Pasting Scrapbook? In Literary Miscellany, examine the trend of “fake memoirs,” with a list of who lied about what, and a rogues’ gallery of hoaxers dating back centuries. From epic poetry and Homer to pulp fiction and Harry Potter, Literary Miscellany is a breezy tour through the literature of today and yesterday, packed with enough interesting facts to entertain both the erudite professor and pleasure reader.

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Publisher
Skyhorse
Author
Alex Palmer
Format
Hardcover
Published
Oct 27, 2010
ISBN-13
9781616080952
ISBN-10
1616080957
Pages
184
Carton quantity
24 copies
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