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288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
" Readers rejoice! From Mental Floss, an online destination for more than a billion curious minds since its founding in 2001, comes the ultimate book for lovers of literature. From Americanah to War and Peace, from Chinua Achebe and Jane Austen to Jesmyn Ward and George R.R. Martin, learn surprising facts about the world's most famous novels and novelists. The Curious Reader will delight bookworms everywhere. This literary compendium from Mental Floss reveals fascinating facts about the world's most famous authors and their literary works. Readers will learn about George Orwell's near-death experience during the writing of 1984; meet the real man who may have inspired Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy; discover which famous author kept her husband's heart after he passed away; and learn about the influence of psychedelics on Dune. The Curious Reader also contains the most-loved book-related articles from 20 years of Mental Floss, including "Cat-Loving Writers," "Famous Authors' Unfinished Manuscripts," "Literary Characters Based on Real People," and "Books You Didn't Know Were Self-Published." This literary miscellany is certain to inspire book lovers, aspiring writers, students, and teachers alike to discover a diverse selection of curated literary works--leading to an expansion of their library!"--Amazon. |
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Reveals fascinating facts about the world's most famous authors and their literary works. Readers will learn about George Orwell's near-death experience during the writing of 1984; meet the real man who may have inspired Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy; discover which famous author kept her husband's heart after he passed away; and learn about the influence of psychedelics on Dune. Also contains the most-loved book-related articles from 20 years of Mental Floss. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Erin McCarthy -- 1984 / George Orwell -- A Game of Thrones / George R.R. Martin -- A Prayer for Owen Meany / John Irving -- Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes -- Dune / Frank Herbert -- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- Giovanni's Room / James Baldwin -- House Made of Dawn / N. Scott Momaday -- In Search of Lost Time / Marcel Proust -- Infinite Jest / David Foster Wallace -- Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë -- Kindred / Octavia Butler -- Little Women / Louisa May Alcott -- Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov -- Lord of the Flies / William Golding -- Midnight's Children / Salman Rushdie -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie -- My Brilliant Friend / Elena Ferrante -- Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro -- On the Road / Jack Kerouac -- One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel García Márquez -- Outlander / Diana Gabaldon -- Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen -- Salvage the Bones / Jesmyn Ward -- Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut -- Sons and Lovers / D.H. Lawrence -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Alchemist / Paulo Coelho -- The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath -- The Call of the Wild / Jack London -- The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger -- The Color Purple / Alice Walker -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson -- The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy -- The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck -- The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood -- The Haunting of Hill House / Shirley Jackson -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams -- The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan -- The Jungle / Upton Sinclair -- The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini -- The Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Lowland / Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- The Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway -- The Road / Cormac McCarthy -- The Stand / Stephen King -- Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe -- To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee -- To the Lighthouse / Virginia Woolf -- Ulysses / James Joyce -- Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Waiting / Ha Jin -- War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy -- Our favorite novels that didn't make the cut. |
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Books and reading -- Miscellanea.
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Fiction -- Miscellanea.
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Authors -- Miscellanea.
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Authors. (OCoLC)fst00821688
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Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
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Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
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| Added Author |
McCarthy, Erin A., editor.
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Mental Floss (Firm), editor.
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| ISBN |
168188755X |
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9781681887555 |
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