{"product_id":"9781594742118","title":"Secret Lives of Great Authors","description":"By: Robert Schnakenberg | Illustrator:  Mario Zucca | Series: Secret Lives \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe strange-but-true tales of the rumors, idiosyncrasies, and feuds of literary legends—including Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, and more\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating—and shocking!—tour through the lives of classic literature icons is the perfect stocking stuffer for book lovers and fans of little-known history. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, \u003ci\u003eSecret Lives of Great Authors\u003c\/i\u003e tackles all the tough questions your high school teachers were afraid to ask: What’s the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Salinger drank his own urine? How many women—and men—did Lord Byron actually sleep with? And why was Ayn Rand such a big fan of Charlie’s Angels? Classic literature was never this much fun in school!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthors included:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e Lord Byron\u003cbr\u003e Honoré de Balzac\u003cbr\u003e Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003e Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e The Brontë Sisters\u003cbr\u003e Henry David Thoreau\u003cbr\u003e Walt Whitman\u003cbr\u003e Leo Tolstoy\u003cbr\u003e Emily Dickinson\u003cbr\u003e Lewis Carroll\u003cbr\u003e Louisa May Alcott\u003cbr\u003e Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e Oscar Wilde\u003cbr\u003e Arthur Conan Doyle\u003cbr\u003e W.B. Yeats\u003cbr\u003e H.G. Wells\u003cbr\u003e Gertrude Stein\u003cbr\u003e Jack London\u003cbr\u003e Virginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003e James Joyce\u003cbr\u003e Franz Kafka\u003cbr\u003e T.S. Eliot\u003cbr\u003e Agatha Christie\u003cbr\u003e J.R.R. Tolkien\u003cbr\u003e F. Scott Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e William Faulkner\u003cbr\u003e Ernest Hemingway\u003cbr\u003e Ayn Rand\u003cbr\u003e Jean-Paul Sartre\u003cbr\u003e Richard Wright\u003cbr\u003e William Burroughs\u003cbr\u003e Carson McCullers\u003cbr\u003e J.D. Salinger\u003cbr\u003e Jack Kerouac\u003cbr\u003e Kurt Vonnegut\u003cbr\u003e Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e Sylvia Plath\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Pynchon","brand":"Quirk Books","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46405060002019,"sku":"DTRSSUS-9781594742118","price":112.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781594742118.jpg?v=1748572265","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781594742118","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}