Ciuraru, Carmela

Nom de plume: a (secret) history of pseudonyms / Carmela Ciuraru

New York: Harper 2011. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description; xxiv. 343 p.; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-343). Contents; The Brontes and Currer. Acton. and Ellis Bell (1816-1855) -- George Sand and Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) -- George Eliot and Marian Evans (1819-1880) -- Lewis Carroll and Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) -- Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) -- O. Henry and William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) -- Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms (1888-1935) -- George Orwell and Eric Blair (1903-1950) -- Isak Dinesen and Karen Blixen (1885-1962) -- Sylvia Plath and Victoria Lucas (1932-1963) -- Henry Green and Henry Yorke (1905-1973) -- Romain Gary and Emile Ajar (1914-1980) -- James Tiptree. Jr. and Alice Sheldon (1915-1987) -- Georges Simenon and Christian Brulls. et al. (1903-1989) -- Patricia Highsmith and Claire Morgan (1921-1995) -- Pauline Reage and Anne Desclos (1907-1998). Subjects; Anonyms and pseudonyms--History. LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

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