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Charles Dickens was a very difficult childhood.When his dad was in debtors' prison, young Charlie was sent to work ... no, not a chocolate factory and a factory for the production of polish where it is day and night pasting labels on jars.Dust-free, you say?But Poquelin them from morning till evening, instead of playing football with the boys, and you will understand why the images were obtained unfortunate orphans Dickens so convincing.
In 1857, Dickens came to visit Hans Christian Andersen.This is not an anecdote Harms, it is life itself!Andersen, Dickens met in 1847, came to a complete delight from each other, and now, 10 years later, the Dane has decided to take advantage of this invitation to him.The trouble is that over the years in the life of Dickens's all very complicated and has changed - he was not ready to accept Andersen, who lived with him for nearly five weeks!"He does not speak any language other than their Danish, although there are suspicions that and he does not know" - in this way told friends about his guest Dickens.Poor guy Andersen became a target of ridicule numerous progeny author of "Little Dorrit," and when he left, dad Dickens left in his room recording: "Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks, which seemed to our family for years."And you wonder why Andersen wrote such sad tales?
And Dickens fascinated by hypnosis, or, as they said, mesmerism.
Dickens could not work if the tables and chairs in his office were not wrong.As necessary, but he knew - and every time began to work with the rearrangement of furniture.
Dickens so loved monuments and monuments that will, strictly forbidden to erect them to him.The only bronze statue of Dickens set in Philadelphia.By the way, the statue of the writer's family initially rejected.
one of the favorite entertainment of Dickens were hiking in the Paris morgue, where unidentified bodies were exhibited.My dear, in fact, man!
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American writer O. Henry started writing career in jail, which came for embezzlement.And so well he went thing is that all of the prison soon forgotten.
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Ernest Hemingway was not only an alcoholic and suicide, as everyone knows.Yet he had peyrafobiya (fear of public speaking), besides, he never believed even the most sincere praise his readers and admirers.Even friends - did not believe, and that's it!
Hemingway lived through five wars, four road and two air plane crash.And my mother as a child made him do in the school dance.But over time he began to call himself Pope.
same Hemingway often and willingly talked about how he was being followed by the FBI.The two sides crooked smile, but in the end it turned out that Dad was right - declassified documents confirmed that this was indeed under surveillance, not paranoia.
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first in the history of the word "gay" in the literature used the Gertrude Stein - lesbian writer who hated punctuation, and gave the world the term "lost generation."
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Honore de Balzac adored coffee - a day to drink about 50 cups of strong Turkish.If you do not have a chance to brew some coffee, writer simply grind a handful of beans and chewed them with great pleasure.
Balzac believed that ejaculation - a waste of creative energy, as seed is the brain substance.Once, talking with a friend after a successful communication, the writer bitterly exclaimed: "This morning I lost my novel!ยป
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Edgar Allan Poe whole life afraid of the dark.Perhaps one of the reasons for this fear is that in childhood the future writer studied ... at the cemetery.The school where the boy went, was so poor that textbooks for the children to buy failed.Resourceful math teacher was teaching at a nearby cemetery, among the graves.Each student chose a tombstone and counts how many years the deceased lived, subtracting from the date of death, date of birth.Not surprisingly, By grew up in what he was - the founder of the world literature of horror.
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Lewis Carroll suffered from swamp fever, cystitis, lumbago, eczema, abrasions, arthritis, pleurisy, rheumatism, insomnia and a whole bunch of various illnesses.In addition, it has almost continuously - and very strong - had a headache.
author of "Alice in Wonderland" was a passionate fan of technological progress, and has personally invented a tricycle, a mnemonic system for remembering names and dates, electric pen, and it was he who came up to write the book title on the spine and created a prototype of the beloved game Scrabble.
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Mark Twain adored cats and hated children (even wanted to erect a monument to King Herod).One great writer, said: "If you could cross a man with a cat, the human species will only be won, but the cat - would obviously deteriorated."
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author of the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" John. R. R. Tolkien was exceedingly bad driver, snored so that he had to spend the night in the bathroom so as not to disturb the sleeping wife, and another is creepy Francophobe - hated the French fromwith William the Conqueror.
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Agatha Christie suffered from dysgraphia, that is virtually unable to write by hand.All her famous novels were dictated.
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James Joyce more than anything else was afraid of dogs and thunderstorms hated monuments and was a masochist.
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William Faulkner worked for several years as a postman, I have not yet revealed that he often threw undelivered letters into the dustbin.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes invented was an occultist and believed in the existence of the little winged feechek.
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Jean-Paul Sartre was experimenting with mind-expanding substances and strongly supported the terrorists.Perhaps the first was something to do with the second.
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