The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes -

James Sutherland

Oxford University Press

1976

485 páginas

16h 10m

ISBN-10: 0671819674

SECRET HISTORIES . . . were the stuff of anecdotes when Johnson's Dictionary was published in 1755.
Now, two hundred years later, the definition has been expanded to include the amusing and amazing along with the undisclosed-hence one can read about garbled diction on the occasion of Sir Walter Raleigh's earliest tryst, William Shakespeare's "coronation," a printer's error in a Bible that read "Thou shalt commit adultery"," James Joyce's collaboration and friendship with Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas' bouts with sunsets and strong drink, and well over a hundred similar incidents selected for this invaluable collection by James Sutherland.