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Also by Gary Dexter:

Why Not Catch 21?, October 2008
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WHY NOT CATCH 21?
By: Gary Dexter

The Stories Behind the Titles

Frances Lincoln Publishers
October 2008
On Sale: September 23, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0711229252
EAN: 9780711229259
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Literature and Fiction

Based on the author's long-running column in London's Sunday Telegraph, this diverting book offers literary history in bite sizes, presenting surprising details on each of 50 classic work's genesis and composition. Emphasizing books that are literally inexplicable without this background knowledge, the book covers iconic works from Thomas Moore's Utopia to Joyce's Ulysses. Along the way readers learn what Wordsworth's Prelude was a prelude to, the identity of the original Jeeves, why A Clockwork Orange wasn't A Robotic Banana, and much more

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