Curiosities of Literature
How much heavier was Thackeray''s brain than Walt Whitman''s? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we''re about it, who wrote the first Western, is there any link between asthma and literary genius, and what really happened on Dorothea''s wedding night in Middlemarch?
In Curiosities of Literature, John Sutherland co...
How much heavier was Thackeray''s brain than Walt Whitman''s? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we''re about it, who wrote the first Western, is there any link between asthma and literary genius, and what really happened on Dorothea''s wedding night in Middlemarch?
In Curiosities of Literature, John Sutherland co...
