The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes by Philip Gooden

The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes by Philip Gooden

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"Who would write who had anything better to do?" queried Lord Byron rhetorically, and in this anthology, Philip Gooden finds hundreds of illuminating anecdotes about writers in support of this pithy remark. The stories tell us about the things writers got up to when not at their typewriters.

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The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes by Philip Gooden

"Who would write who had anything better to do?" queried Lord Byron rhetorically, and in this anthology, Philip Gooden finds hundreds of illuminating anecdotes about writers in support of this pithy remark. The stories tell us about the things writers got up to when not at their typewriters, from how Elizabethan playwright Ben Johnson escaped the gallows after having killed a man, to the first meeting between Anais Nin and Henry Miller.
Philip Gooden is the author of Sleep of Death and Death of Kings, the first two novels in the Nick Revill series. A contributor to various short story anthologies, he also works as an editor, most recently on a new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. He lives in Bath.
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ISBN 13 9781841193045
ISBN 10 1841193046
Titre The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes
Auteur Philip Gooden
Série Mammoth Books
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Little, Brown Book Group
Année de publication 2002-05-23
Nombre de pages 512
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