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Secret Lives of Great Authors - What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Robert Schnakenberg is the author of several nonfiction books including Distory: A Treasury of Historical Insults . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.  Klappentext In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling "Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents!" Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers! complete with hundreds of little-known! politically incorrect! and downright bizarre facts. Zusammenfassung The strange-but-true tales of the rumors, idiosyncrasies, and feuds of literary legends—including Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, and more This fascinating—and shocking!—tour through the lives of classic literature icons is the perfect stocking stuffer for book lovers and fans of little-known history.   With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough questions your high school teachers were afraid to ask: What’s the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Salinger drank his own urine? How many women—and men—did Lord Byron actually sleep with? And why was Ayn Rand such a big fan of Charlie’s Angels? Classic literature was never this much fun in school! Authors included: William Shakespeare Lord Byron Honoré de Balzac Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens The Brontë Sisters Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Leo Tolstoy Emily Dickinson Lewis Carroll Louisa May Alcott Mark Twain Oscar Wilde Arthur Conan Doyle W.B. Yeats H.G. Wells Gertrude Stein Jack London Virginia Woolf James Joyce Franz Kafka T.S. Eliot Agatha Christie J.R.R. Tolkien F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway Ayn Rand Jean-Paul Sartre Richard Wright William Burroughs Carson McCullers J.D. Salinger Jack Kerouac Kurt Vonnegut Toni Morrison Sylvia Plath Thomas Pynchon...

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Authors Robert Schnakenberg, Mario Zucca
Assisted by Mario Zucca (Illustration)
Publisher Quirk Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 01.02.2008
 
EAN 9781594742118
ISBN 978-1-59474-211-8
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 133 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
Series QUIRK BOOKS
Secret Lives
Secret Lives
Subject Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy

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