Why Not Catch-21?: The Stories Behind the Titles
Based on the author's long-running column in London's Sunday Telegraph, this diverting book offers literary history in bite sizes, presenting surprising details on each of 50 classic work's genesis and composition. Emphasizing books that are literally inexplicable without this background...
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Based on the author's long-running column in London's Sunday Telegraph, this diverting book offers literary history in bite sizes, presenting surprising details on each of 50 classic work's genesis and composition. Emphasizing books that are literally inexplicable without this background knowledge, the book covers iconic works from Thomas Moore's Utopia to Joyce's Ulysses. Along the way readers learn what Wordsworth's Prelude was a prelude to, the identity of the original Jeeves, why A Clockwork Orange wasn't A Robotic Banana, and much more.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780711229259 (0711229252)
Publish date: October 1st 2008
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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