Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists - Henry Eliot

A sparkling miscellany of literary trivia. "I loved this so much. Lists for bookish folk, filled with things I had not known or dreamed." --Neil Gaiman
'If there was a list of books about lists, Eliot's Book of Bookish Listswould be top.' --Philip Pullman Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compiling hundreds of bookish lists. This eclectic gallimaufry showcases his favorites: we witness the tragic ends of the Ancient Greek tragedians, learn the name of George Orwell's pet cockerel and rummage through Joan Didion's traveling bag; we consider the history of literary fart jokes, orbit the
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