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Local Description2007, First edition, first printing. A near fine copy only marked by a previous owners bookplate on the front pastedown. The d/w is unclipped and also near fine. Description"Why Not Catch 21?" is an expansion on Gary Dexter's long-running "Sunday Telegraph" column. Each of its fifty 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. Do you know: What was Wordsworth's Prelude a prelude to? Who was the original Jeeves? Why A Clockwork Orange and not A Robot Banana? Read "Why Not Catch 21?" and find out. ReviewsA splendid and enjoyable piece of work. This Christmas... if no one buys this book for you, buy it for yourself. No literary lavatory will be complete without a copy. Spectator These are fascinating, pithy chunks of literary history. Good Book Guide This is one literary curio that's worth having... A brilliantly unique buy. Easy Living Author descriptionGary Dexter is the writer of a long-running column for the Sunday Telegraph. Table of contentsIncludes the following Titles for example:; 1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; 2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; 3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl; 4. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault; 5. Fanny Hill by John Cleland; 6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; 7. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov; 8. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; 9. My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse; 10. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell; 11. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald; 12. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis; 13. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain; 14. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss; 15. Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry; 16. Ulysses by James Joyce; 17. Utopia by Thomas More; 18. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett; 19. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee; 20. Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne; 21. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Heminway. |