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I Used to Know That: Literature: Inisde Stories of Famous Authors, Classic Characters, Unforgettable Phrases, and Unanticipated Endings Hardcover - 2012
by C. Joyce
Bibliophiles, grab your glasses! Here is a compendium of interesting-and often scandalous-facts and quips about the literary world. Featuring authors and tomes of yesteryear and yesterday, from Tolkien's Middle-earth to Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, I Used to Knew That: Literature includes sections such as:
- You Don't Say: Commonly-used words and phrases that were coined or popularized in classic words of fiction-sometimes with very different meanings.
- Gruesomely Ever After: The original endings of some of the world's most cherished fairy tales-Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and more.
- Hip to be Square: Banned works of fiction and the controversy surrounding them.
- Anthropomorphized Characters: The real-life stories and inspirations behind beloved "leading creatures."
- Time to Make the Doughnuts: Odd jobs of famous authors.
- Parental Guidance Suggested: Dahl's short stories, Seuss's political cartoons; the lesser-known, and sometimes shocking, adult writings of beloved children's authors.
- The Long Con: Shocking (and sometimes shockingly long-lived) literary hoaxes: Frey, JT Leroy, The Education of Little Tree, The Day After Roswell, etc.
- Science Fiction, Science Fact: If alien monoliths are ever found on the moon, the safer bet is that they would be translucent crystal; Sir Arthur C. Clarke is celebrated for making accurate predictions of various technologies, years ahead of their time. A look at which of his predictions held true and the same feats of other authors.
- Screen Test: The truth about great works of fiction and the odd challenges that had to be surmounted to bring them to the silver screen.
- The Secret Life of Kilgore Trout: True facts about fake characters (and the writers who created them).
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- Title I Used to Know That: Literature: Inisde Stories of Famous Authors, Classic Characters, Unforgettable Phrases, and Unanticipated Endings
- Author C. Joyce
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 174
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Reader's Digest Association
- Date 2012-03-01
- ISBN 9781606524152 / 1606524151
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.3 x 0.73 in (20.40 x 13.46 x 1.85 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Literature, Literary curiosa
- Dewey Decimal Code 802
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