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Author Sutherland, John, 1938-

Title Curiosities of literature / John Sutherland ; with illustrations by Martin Rowson.

Imprint New York, NY : Skyhorse Pub., c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  809 Su84c 2009    ---  Available
Description xi, 273 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note "A Herman Graf book."
Contents Literary baked meats -- Body of literature: heads, lungs, hearts, and bowels -- Tools of the trade -- Sex and the Victorians -- Better than sex, some say -- Some curious literary records: best, worst, and most -- Literary crimewatch -- Who? Who? Who? -- Name games -- Readers distinguished and less so -- Mammon and the book trade -- Wheels -- Morbid curiosity -- Curious connections: a terminal quiz.
Summary One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? What do 12% of all winners of the Booker prize have in common? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we're at it, who wrote the first Western, and is there any link between asthma and literary genius? Sutherland's irreverent literary masterpiece illuminates every topic imaginable, from author advances to civil war literature to Victorian sex to odd-things-eaten-by-literary characters (think Patrick Bateman's girlfriend in American Psycho). This is the ideal anthology of useless information for all book lovers.--Publisher description.
Subject Literature -- Miscellanea.
Literary curiosa.
Added Author Rowson, Martin.
ISBN 9781602393714
1602393710
Standard No. QBX a 08054409
NZ1 12362818

 
    
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