Celia Blue Johnson

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Every great writer has a unique way of setting a story to paper. And, it turns out, many of these writers used methods that were just as inventive as the works they produced. Odd Type Writers explores the quirky writing habits of renowned authors, including Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and Alexandre Dumas, among many others. * To meet his deadline for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo placed himself under strict house arrest, locking up all of his clothes and wearing nothing but a large gray shawl until he finished the book. * Virginia Woolf used purple ink for love letters, diary entries, and to pen her acclaimed novel Mrs. Dalloway. Also, in her twenties, she preferred to write while standing up. * Friedrich Schiller kept a drawer full of rotten apples in his study. According to his wife, he couldn’t work without that pungent odor wafting into his nose. * Eudora Welty evaluated her work with scissors handy. If anything needed to be moved, she cut it right out of the page. Then she’d use pins to put the section in its new place. In Odd Type Writers, you’ll find out why James Joyce wrote in crayon, what Edgar Allan Poe’s cat was doing on his shoulder, why Vladimir Nabokov had to keep his feet wet, and the other peculiar tools and eccentric methods used to compose some of the greatest works of all time.

From Joyce and Dickens to Wharton and Welty, the Obsessive Habits and Quirky Tec hniques of Great Authors

Odd Type Writers

Presents the inspiration and stories behind classic works of fiction, including "Treasure Island," "The Hobbit," and "Jane Eyre."

Stories of the Inspiration Behind Great Works of Literature

Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway

A volta ao mundo em 80 dias, Alice no País das Maravilhas, Moby Dick, Crime e castigo, Orgulho e preconceito, E o vento levou. Todos esses livros resultaram de uma intrincada trama de imaginação, experiência e, muitas vezes, mero acaso. Mas o que os autores desses títulos de fato têm em comum é um intenso desejo de capturar a inspiração no momento em que ela se manifesta. São essas inspirações que Celia Blue Johnson apresenta neste livro. As histórias por trás de cinquenta clássicos, entre eles O fantasma da ópera, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein e O ursinho Pooh, revelam os motivos que levaram nossos heróis literários a pôr a pena no pergaminho, a caneta no papel ou o dedo no teclado da máquina para escrever alguns dos livros mais queridos que conhecemos.

A inspiração por trás dos grandes livros de todos os tempos

Conversando com Mrs. Dalloway

Every great book begins with an idea, whether it comes to a writer's mind with lightning speed or tugs at the imagination over time. Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway offers stories of the inspiration behind fifty classic works, from The Sound and the Fury, Jane Eyre, and Frankenstein to Anna Karenina, The Bell Jar, and Winnie-the-Pooh. Gabriel García Márquez was driving to Acapulco with his family when he slammed on the brakes, turned the car around, and insisted they abandon their trip so he could return home to write. He had good reason to cut the trip short-a childhood memory of touching ice had suddenly sparked the first line to a novel that would become his most famous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude. C. S. Lewis, on the other hand, spent decades pondering the scene that inspired The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. When Lewis was sixteen, he had a peculiar daydream: a faun carried a bundle of parcels and an umbrella through snow-covered woods. Lewis was almost forty when he decided to write a novel that grew around the vision. In Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway, you'll discover who Edgar Allan Poe's raven really belonged to, whether Jane Austen's heartthrob Mr. Darcy actually existed, who got into mischief with a young Mark Twain, and what the real Sherlock Holmes did for a living. These delightful stories reveal the often unknown reasons our literary heroes put quill to parchment, pen to paper, or finger to keyboard to write some of the world's best-loved books.

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