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Curiosities of Literature
- Author: Sutherland, John
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2009
- ISBN-13: 9781602393714
- ISBN-10: 1602393710
When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature?Which author's heart was purportedly eaten by a cat? One of ourbest-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to themore bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia.Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984?Who made the first bouillon soup? What do 12 percent of all winners ofthe Booker Prize have in common? What didn't happen on Thomas Carlyle'sfamous wedding night? And, while we're at it, who wrote the firstWestern, and is there any link between asthma and literary genius?Sutherland's irreverent literary masterpiece illuminates every topicimaginable from author advances to Civil War literature to Victoriansex to odd things eaten by literary characters (think Patrick Bateman'sgirlfriend in American Psycho). Other fascinating insights include the fact that the number one title among American Civil War soldiers was Les Miserables. This is the ideal anthology of fascinating information and trivia for all book lovers.
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