The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

Ranging from Chaucer to the present day, a selection of anecdotes furnishes characteristic glimpses of literary men and women and their literary preoccupations and activities, drawn from more than a thousand years of English literature and covering such diverse figures as Milton, Margaret Atwood, George Eliot, Bob Dylan, Cinua Achebe, and Walter Scott. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.