Haunted by Books

by Mark Valentine

In Haunted by Books Mark Valentine explores the more curious byways of literature. He presents the author who was always being told he had nearly written a masterpiece, and the genius of the short story who brewed his own cider and lived in a railway carriage.Then there's the figure of the 1890s, praised by Max Beerbohm, who liked to wander around London wearing horns and chewing railings, and the young man in the 1930s who tried to sell his poetry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1717959415
• ISBN13: 9781717959416
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"