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Main Title:
How Oscar became Wilde - and other literary lives you never learned about in school / Elliot Engel.
Author:
Engel, Elliot, 1948-
Imprint:
London : Robson, 2005.
Collation:
xvi, 272 p. : ports. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: as A dab of Dickens, a twist of Twain. New York: Pocket, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
The biographical profiles, anecdotes and behind-the-scenes tales will reveal why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle blamed his wife's death on Sherlock Holmes, how Charles Dickens' pet launched Edgar Allan Poe on his way to literary immortality and the strange connection between Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway.
ISBN:
9781861058232 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
820.9
A820.9WIL
Local Class:
820.9
Language:
English
Added Title:
Dab of Dickens, a twist of Twain
Subject:
Authors, English -- Biography
Authors, American -- Biography
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BRN:
97615
Bookmark Link:
https://rochdale.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/MASK/BIBENQ?BRN=97615

Holdings:

LocationCollectionCall NumberStatus/Desc
Rochdale Central Library
Maskew Collection
820.9
Maskew Collection - Adult Non-Fiction / Maskew Bequest item
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