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Under The Covers And Between The Sheets: Facts And Trivia About The World's Greatest Books (2009)

by C. Alan Joyce(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1606520342 (ISBN13: 9781606520345)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Readers Digest

review 1: The title sounds RACY, but the book really isn't. ;-) It's a collection of the behind the scenes information about books and authors that you might not know. Backstories, biographical surprises, trivia.It's a quick read, something you can pick up and put down after reading a bit here or there. Recommended for people who, like me, read a lot and wonder about the "WHY???" And fans of famous authors, too. :)
review 2: This is a delightful, small book about oddities of writers and their work--little known facts or bits of information. I enjoy dipping into it every now and then and getting a more rounded view of writers from Emily Dickinson to Vladimir Nabokov. One entry includes a few cliches from Shakespeare, including one that has an entirely different meaning ... morefrom the one we now attribute to it (sweets to the sweet). There's a paragraph on the origins of the verb bowdlerize and a section on literary hoaxes. There's a section on writers' diaries, and another on writers who were known for their letters. less

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