Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Notices and Anecdotes
Author: Notices and Anecdotes Illustrative of the Incidents, Characters, and Scenery Described in the Novels and Romances of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: Illustrations of the author of Waverley: being notices and anecdotes of real characters, scenes, and incidents, supposed to be described in his works
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Illustrations of the Author of Waverley: Being Notices and Anecdotes of Real Characters, Scenes, and Incidents, Supposed to be Described in His Works ... Second Edition
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Notices and Anecdotes Illustrative of the Incidents, Characters and Scenery Described in the Novels and Romances of Sir Walter Scott, with a Complete Glossary for All His Works
Author: ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Notices and anecdotes illustrative of the incidents, characters and scenery described in the novels and romances of Sir Walter Scott ... With a complete glossary for all his works
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Biographical memoirs, literary anecdotes, and characters. Topographical notices
Author: John WalkerPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
Author: Andre BernardPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0446931268
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Author: John GrossPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199543410
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
Author: Clifton FadimanPublisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316084727
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.
