- Anglický jazyk
Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?
Autor: Jenny Bond
The captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations
Before Who the Hell is Pansy O?Hara ?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest...
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The captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations
Before Who the Hell is Pansy O?Hara ?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate all lovers of language and literature, it reveals in short, pithy chapters, the lives, loves, motivations, and quirky, fascinating details involving fifty of the best-loved books of the Western world.
? When stacked up, the original manuscript of Gone With the Wind stood taller than Margaret Mitchell, its 4' 9 1/2" author
? Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, was part of the Allied team that cracked the Nazi?s Enigma code
? Leo Tolstoy?s wife copied War and Peace by hand . . . seven times
From The Great Gatsby to Harper Lee, from Jaws to J. K . Rowling, Who the Hell Is Pansy O?Hara? offers an entertaining and informative journey through the minds of writers and the life experiences that took these amazing works from notion to novel.
- Vydavateľstvo: Penguin Publishing Group
- Rok vydania: 2008
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 197 x 129 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780143113645