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Nom de Plume - A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms (Paperback) Loot Price: R354
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Nom de Plume - A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms (Paperback)

Carmela Ciuraru

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Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame.

Only through the protective guise of Lewis Carroll could a shy, half-deaf Victorian mathematician at Oxford feel free to let his imagination run wild. The "three weird sisters" from Yorkshire--the Brontes--produced instant bestsellers that transformed them into literary icons, yet they wrote under the cloak of male authorship. Bored by her aristocratic milieu, a cigar-smoking, cross-dressing baroness rejected the rules of propriety by having sexual liaisons with men and women alike, publishing novels and plays under the name George Sand. Highly accessible and engaging, these provocative stories reveal the complex motives of writers who harbored secret identities--sometimes playfully, sometimes with terrible anguish and tragic consequences. Part detective story, part expose, part literary history, Nom de Plume is an absorbing psychological meditation on identity and creativity.

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Imprint: HarperPerennial
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2012
First published: May 2012
Authors: Carmela Ciuraru
Dimensions: 203 x 135 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-173527-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history
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LSN: 0-06-173527-2
Barcode: 9780061735271

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