By C. Alan Joyce
ISBN-10: 1606520342
ISBN-13: 9781606520345
Bibliophiles, seize your glasses! here's a compendium of interesting--and usually scandalous--facts and quips concerning the literary global. that includes authors and tomes of yesteryear and the previous day, from Tolkien's center- earth to Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, you are going to sections akin to: you do not Say?: Commonly-used phrases and words that have been coined or popularized in vintage phrases of fiction--sometimes with very various meanings. Gruesomely Ever After: the unique endings of a few of the world's so much adored fairy tales--"Snow White," "The Little Mermaid," "Cinderella," and extra. Parental assistance recommended: Banned works of fiction and the talk surrounding them. Lions and Tigers and Bears (Oh My!): The real-life tales and inspirations at the back of loved "leading creatures." Time to Make the Doughnuts: strange jobs of recognized authors. inform Me a narrative: Dahl's brief tales, Seuss's political cartoons; the lesser-known, and infrequently stunning, grownup writings of cherished kid's authors. The lengthy Con: stunning (and occasionally shockingly long-lived) literary hoaxes: Frey, JT Leroy, The schooling of Little Tree, The Day After Roswell, and so on. technology Fiction, technology truth: If alien monoliths are ever chanced on at the moon, the more secure guess is they will be translucent crystal; Sir Arthur C. Clarke is well known for making actual predictions of assorted applied sciences, years prior to their time. a glance at which of his predictions held actual and a similar feats of different authors. convinced, yet is it Art?: The most eldritch books ever written: books with no verbs, with out punctuation...or with out the letter "e". Make this and all the Blackboard Books(tm) an everlasting fixture in your shelf, and you will have speedy entry to a breadth of information. even if you wish homework aid or are looking to win that trivialities video game, this sequence is the depended on resource for enjoyable evidence.
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And you never know what you’ll find inside someone’s diary…especially if it belonged to Albert Einstein’s last girlfriend, who documented his relatively curious treatment for avian depression (page 123). And when you’ve grown tired of all the curious facts that lie under the covers, there’s even more to be found off the page entirely—from the revered poet who once worked as a “prostitute manager” to pay the bills (page 146), to the less-than-successful investment strategies of Mark Twain (page 152), to a 1940s precursor to TV’s Big Brother, where a gaggle of oversexed authors and artists (and one legendary stripper) set up house together in Brooklyn (pages 158-59).
If only to spare the jury from the possibility of being murdered in their sleep). At least four films and dozens of theatrical versions have run the story out to various conclusions, and a 1985 Broadway musical gave audience members the chance to vote on the identity of the murderer. And Drood-mania shows no sign of subsiding: As recently as 2009, two new novels (Dan Simmons’s Drood and Matthew Pearl’s The Last Dickens) used the unfinished manuscript as a jumping-off point for murder mysteries of their own.
James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake (1939): Joyce said that this opaque and multilayered text was meant “to keep the critics busy for three hundred years” (so check back with us in 2239, when all its secrets will presumably have been uncovered). The text draws inspiration from the historical theories of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico; forms a closed narrative loop, with the first sentence of the book completing the final sentence; and makes liberal use of invented words, derived from dozens of languages.
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