Wrotten English

A Celebration of Literary Misprints, Mistakes and Mishaps

By: Peter Haining

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Hardcover | 1 January 2011

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Following on from the hilarious collection of typos, gaffes and howlers in Portico's A Steroid Hit the Earth , comes Wrotten English - a fabulously funny collection of literary blunders from classic, and not-so classic, works of literature. This book is an anthology of side-splitting authors' errors, publishers' boobs, printers' devils, terrible titles, comical clangers and all manner of literary lunacy dating back since the invention of the printing press.

Painstakingly researched and tapping in to the public's insatiable general interest with the written word, Wrotten English contains curious opening lines, fantastic fictions whose titles are too terrible to be true and some of the most suggestive double entendres committed by those who really should know better!

About the Author

A former newspaper reporter, magazine editor and publishing executive, Peter Haining was best known as a prolific author and editor, having contributed to more than 170 publications in his lifetime. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction, with a strong focus on horror and fantasy, but also on a variety of subjects from the Second World War to Doctor Who. Peter passed away in 2007.

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Comedy & Humour

One: Strange Whiskers in the Ear - Typos and Other Tragedies	p. 2
Two: It was a Dark and Stormy Night…	p. 25
Three: Amorous Propensities - A Risque Choice of Double Entendres	p. 51
Four: Sods I Have Cut on the Turf - A Library of Weird Titles	p. 73
Five: What's That Noshin' on My Leg?	p. 93
Six: The Penis Mightier Than The Sword - Literary Graffiti from the World's Walls	p.111
Seven: Rambo was a Famous French Poet	p.122
Eight: Thou Shalt Commit Adultery - The Bible and the Printer's Devil	p.137
Nine: English as She Is Wrotten - Very Lost in Translation	p.146
Ten: The Tower of Drivel - A Blacklist of Critics' Clangers	p.154
Eleven: Dying is the Last Thing I Want to Do - A Literary Graveyard of Final Words	p.169
Errata: Publishers' Boobs and Apologies - A Gallimaufry of Book Trade Errors	p.190
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