Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
Description |
xxii, 310 p. ; 21 cm. |
Note |
Originally published: Great Britain : Macmillan, 1999?. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction, or preface -- Titles -- Pseudonums, aka, Noms de plume -- Heteronyms -- Blurbs, authorial and otherwise -- Dedications -- Epigraphs -- Prefaces, introductions, forewords, and acknowledgements -- First lines -- Footnotes -- Marginalia -- Stage directions -- Lectures : a lecture -- Follies -- Imaginary books, imaginary authors -- I.D. : homage to Isaac D'Israeli -- Last words, famous and otherwise -- Appendix -- Bibliography & selected bibliography -- Afterword -- Indexes -- Index nominum. |
Subject |
Literary curiosa.
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Literature -- Miscellanea.
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Added Title |
Guide to literary curiosities |
ISBN |
0312266065 |
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9780312266066 |
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