Book description
Ranging in time from Caedmon to Agatha Christie, The Wordsworth Book of Literary Anecdotes is one of the most extensive collections of its kind ever published. Including over 1500 anecdotes, the book offers invaluable insights into the lives and works of the most celebrated critics, dramatists, editors, novelists, poets and publishers. Informative and entertaining, the book uses anecdotes, legends and bon mots about leading literary figures to provide depth and a human dimension to the otherwise sometimes colourless historical details of theie lives.
Alphabetically arranged and fully indexed, The Wordsworth Book of Literary Anecdotes is a treasure-trove of intriguing stories which will be a source of great enjoyment and value for writers, speech makers, journalists and all those who love the written word.
