The new Oxford book of literary anecdotes /
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. This hugely entertaining anthology ranges from Chaucer to the present day, with anecdotes that are hilarious, touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, and downright weird. - ;An unrivalled collection o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Oxford Books of Prose & Verse.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. This hugely entertaining anthology ranges from Chaucer to the present day, with anecdotes that are hilarious, touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, and downright weird. - ;An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often explosively so. Others. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 385 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780191516979 019151697X 9780192804686 0192804685 1281146803 9781281146809 9786611146801 6611146806 |