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Gary Dexter WHY NOT CATCH-21? First edition hardback 2007
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- Condition
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Publisher
- Frances Lincoln Publishers LTD
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780711227965
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Why Not Catch-21?: the Stories Behind the Titles
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Topic
- Literature
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Why Not Catch 21? is an expansion on Gary Dexter's long-running Sunday Telegraph column. Each of its 50 chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenting a bite-sized piece of literary history, with fascinating details of the work's genesis and composition. The emphasis is on titles that are literally inexplicable without this background knowledge. Includes these titles, among others: 1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 3. Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault 4. Fanny Hill by John Cleland 5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 8. My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse 9. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 11. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 12. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 13. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss 14. Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry 15. Ulysses by James Joyce 16. Utopia by Thomas More 17. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 18. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee 19. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne 20.The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Frances Lincoln Publishers LTD
ISBN-13
9780711227965
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Book Title
Why Not Catch-21?: the Stories Behind the Titles
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2007
Number of Pages
240 Pages
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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
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United Kingdom
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