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What happened before the writing of our favorite novels – from The Wizard of Oz to The Great Gatsby? Every great book starts with an idea...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was driving towards Acapulco with his family when he hit the brakes, turned around, and insisted on returning home so he could write. He had a great reason – his childhood memory of touching ice suddenly sparked the first line of a novel that would become his most significant work, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
On the other hand, C. S. Lewis spent decades pondering the scene that inspired The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. When he was sixteen, he dreamt of a faun carrying a bunch of packages and an umbrella through the snowy forest. Lewis was almost forty when he decided to write a novel based on that vision.
In Dancing with Miss Dalloway, you will discover to whom Edgar Allan Poe's crow actually belonged, whether there was indeed the romantic Mr. Darcy of Jane Austen, who made mischief alongside Mark Twain, and what the profession of the real Sherlock Holmes was.
The stories behind fifty classic works, including Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, The Glass Bell, and Winnie the Pooh, reveal the reasons why our literary idols wrote some of the most popular books in the world. No author has been spared from the question: "Where did you draw the inspiration for your book?"
Johnson does not theorize about literary inspiration. She lets the creation stories speak for themselves, making her book an interesting read suitable for everyone.
- Lamprini Kouzelis, To Vima
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- Author
- Celia Blue Johnson
- Publisher
- Polytropon
- Publishers
- Versatile
- Type
- Historical Novel
- Subtitle
- Stories of inspiration behind great literary works
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 292
- Publication Date
- 2015
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789606840562
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- Series
- Sherlock Holmes
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