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the writer's book of blunders

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A slip of the pen

the writer's book of blunders

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Here at last is a side-splitting collection of all those authors errors, publishers' boobs, printers' devils, terrible titles, horrendous howlers, comical clangers and all manner of slips committed to paper almost since the invention of the printing press.
Painstakingly researched and tapping into the general public's fascination with the written word, each chapter is wittily introduced and reflects changes in tastes, styles, even printing technology. From Montaigne through Dickens to Kafka and on to the present day, there are curious opening lines, fantastic fictions whose titles are too bad to be true and some of the most suggestive double entendres committed by those who really should have known better!

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Publisher
Robson
Language
English
Pages
203

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A slip of the pen: the writer's book of blunders
2004, Robson
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A Slip of the Pen
October 28, 2004, Robson Books Ltd
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.8
Library of Congress
PN6231.B8

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 203 p. :
Number of pages
203

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22606877M
Internet Archive
slipofpenwriters0000hain
ISBN 10
1861057938
Library Thing
2019963
Goodreads
1049262

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