Britain by the Book
A Curious Tour of Our Literary Landscape
$30.91
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2018
Summary
What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent?
How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world?
Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales?
A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473666030 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473666031 |
| Author: | Oliver Tearle |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Oliver Tearle
Oliver Tearle is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University and the founder of the popular blog Interesting Literature: A Library of Literary Interestingness. He is the author of two academic books, Bewilderments of Vision: Hallucination and Literature, 1880-1914 and T. E. Hulme and Modernism, as well as the co-editor of Crrritic!. His proudest achievement is coining the word ‘bibliosmia’ to describe the smell of old books, although his suggested neologism for writer’s block, ‘colygraphia’, is yet to take the world by storm.
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