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THE FABULOUS ORIGINALS. Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction by Wallace, Irving
- Bookseller: Alta-Glamour Inc.
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 47590
- Book condition: Boards in torn dust jacket. Very good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: "Longmans, Green and Co."
- Place: London and New York
- Date published: 1956
Description
London and New York: "Longmans, Green and Co.". 1956. Boards in torn dust jacket. Very good. "xv+296pp., index, plates. Few people are aware to the extent to which novelists have based some of their most memorable characters on real people. Wallace weaves an intriguing mix of detection and biography in this account of some of the world's greatest writers and rogues, adventurers, courtesans, men of science and women of society. Here are Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe; Deacon Brodie, the original of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Leigh Hunt, Bleak House's Harold Skimpole; Claire Clairmont, Henry James's model for The Aspern Papers; plus the real life Sherlock Holmes, Captain Ahab, Uncle Tom, Emma Bovary, Manon Lescaut, and a bevy more."
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
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