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Curiosities of Literature - Free Medical Books

Description: When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? Which author's heart was purportedly eaten by a cat? 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? What was the original title of 1984? Who made the first bouillon soup? What do 12 percent of all winners of the Booker Prize have in common? What didn't happen on Thomas Carlyle's famous wedding night? And, while we're at it, who wrote the first Western, and is there any link between asthma and literary genius? Sutherland's irreverent literary masterpiece illuminates every topic imaginable from author advances to Civil War literature to Victorian sex to odd things eaten by li...
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Author(s): John Sutherland
Publisher(s): Skyhorse
Publish Date: 2011-01-01
Book Pages: 288
Industry Identifier: ISBN_10: 1626365970
Subjects: Reference / Trivia • Humor / Form / Trivia • Reference / Curiosities & Wonders • History / Reference • Nature / Reference • Games & Activities / Trivia
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