Once Again to Zelda
Fifty Great Dedications and Their Stories
 
Marlene Wagman-Geller
Price  399.00
A beautiful gift-edition 'behind-the-scenes' for all book lovers
Charlotte Brontë dedicated Jane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray, setting literary London ablaze with gossip. Ayn Rand dedicated Atlas Shrugged to both her husband and her lover. Sylvia Plath dedicated The Bell Jar to her friends. And F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated The Great Gatsby to his wife, Zelda, the tumultuous love of his life. The dedication of a novel is the most personal and public of gestures, and yet we don’t often stop to consider how it came to be inspired. This charming ‘behind the scenes’ book traces the relationships immortalized in the dedications to fifty novels that are an intrinsic part of literary and pop culture. Sometimes tragic, often romantic, and always engaging, these are intimate glimpses into the lives of the writers we admire and the people they loved.
ISBN 9780330511353Category Non-fictionSubcategory Anthology
Publisher Pan Macmillan UKImprint PicadorPublished 02/10/2009
Format 198 x 126Binding HardbackPage extent 320