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Did you know that Jonathan Swift, author of "Gulliver's Travels", refused to talk to anyone for an entire year? That Arnold Bennett died of typhoid after drinking Paris tapwater to prove it was safe? That Voltaire got rid of boring guests by pretending to faint? That Balzac's hobby was hypnotism (in a list of 60 author's hobbies). That "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" and "Ulysses" feature in a list of great books that were originally rejected by publishers? It's all here and more in over 300 curious literary lists: authors who wrote standing up, authors' famous last words, writers who couldn't spell, unusual habits, sexual peccadilloes, unintended double entendres in the classics, bad reviews of future classics, writers who were spies, writers who stammered, and more.
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Aubrey Malone lives in Dublin and has written the Cynic's Dictionary. The Sayings of Brendan Behan, The Guinness Book of Humorous Irish Anecdotes and Literary Trivia.
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- PublisherPrion Books Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1853754749
- ISBN 13 9781853754746
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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LITERARY TRIVIA Over 300 Curious Lists for Bookworms
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