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'... punctuated by little asides, pert, personal and peppery, seasoning for a warmed-over olla podrida of literary anecdote and authorial arcana.'
--The Times, 30 August 2008
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One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? Whose manuscript was inadvertently used to light a fire? What was the original title of 1984? This is the ideal anthology of useless information for all literary devotees.
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'... punctuated by little asides, pert, personal and peppery, seasoning for a warmed-over olla podrida of literary anecdote and authorial arcana.'
--The Times, 30 August 2008
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One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? Whose manuscript was inadvertently used to light a fire? What was the original title of 1984? This is the ideal anthology of useless information for all literary devotees.
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