Why Not Catch-21?: The Stories Behind the Titles
Each of its 50 chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenting a bite-sized piece of literary history, with fascinating details of the work's genesis and composition. The emphasis is on titles that are literally inexplicable without this background...
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Each of its 50 chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenting a bite-sized piece of literary history, with fascinating details of the work's genesis and composition. The emphasis is on titles that are literally inexplicable without this background knowledge. The origins of 50 great titles in world literature – fascinating bite-size pieces of literary history.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780711227965 (0711227969)
Publish date: October 15th 2007
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
This book takes a number of famous titles and discuss the reasons behind the title. Kinda comforting to know that several books that are quite iconic went through a number of name changes before becoming the titles we know. Sometimes it more goes into the background of the novel rather than the ti...
It seems that the essays here were originally published as installments in Dexter's column about books. It shows, mostly in just how short and to the point the essays are. This is the sort of book that can be read in tiny chunks, or read all at once, as I did. The best essays for me were, of course,...
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