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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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Celia Blue Johnson is an associate editor at Grand Central Publishing, the co-editior of 100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits, and the co-publisher of the Brooklyn based Slice magazine. Author website: celiablue.com
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"Johnson narrates with wonderment." -- Publishers Weekly
"A quick and interesting read." --Deseret News
"[A] delightful exploration of where inspiration comes from and will be an especially satisfying read to anyone who has read and loved any of the marvelous novels whose nascence Johnson investigated." --bestselling author Nina Sankovitch, ReadallDay.org
"A quick and interesting read." --Deseret News
"[A] delightful exploration of where inspiration comes from and will be an especially satisfying read to anyone who has read and loved any of the marvelous novels whose nascence Johnson investigated." --bestselling author Nina Sankovitch, ReadallDay.org
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- PublisherPerigee Books
- Publication date2011
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- ISBN 13 9780399536922
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