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(More customer reviews)My wife brought back from UK. It's such a lot of fun on every page. Did you know that Jonathan Swift perfectly described the two moons of Mars and their rotation 150 years before they were discovered? Or that some of Britain's roadways are surfaced with pulped romance novels? Factoids, lists, discoveries, surprises abounding.
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If you've ever picked up a novel and settled down in a nice comfy chair, rummaged though a secondhand bookshop, or spent hours in the library thumbing through the volumes you mean to read one day, then this is the book for you. Within these pages are hundreds of facts, figures, stories, and trivia about reading and writing, from the earliest printed books to today's bestsellers. You will find out whether you are a sponge, a sandglass, a strain-bag, or a mogul diamond; why Lewis Carroll was once accused of being Jack the Ripper; the working title of Lady Chatterley's Lover; and which bestselling classic was rejected 22 times, once with the note: "garbage passing itself off as literature." It's the only book about books that you'll ever need.
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