Stranger Than Fiction: A Book of Literary Lists
Did you know that Jonathan Swift once refused to speack to anyone for an entire year? That Arnold Bennett died of typhoid after drinking a glass of Paris tapwater to show that it was safe? That Dr Johnson was a big fan of bondage and flagellation? That Voltaire would get rid of boring house guests by pretending to faint? Than Moliere died while playing a hyperchondriac? Or that Raymond Chandler was always inspired to write by watching his wife do the housework in the nude?
314 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 1999 by Prion · ISBN 9781853753275
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- Stranger Than Fiction: A Book of Literary Lists · Prion · 1999 · ISBN 9781853753275 This page
- Stranger Than Fiction: Book of Literary Lists · Contemporary Books · 2000 · ISBN 9780809299041
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