The World's Wife

That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection The World's Wife. Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the real movers and shakers across history, myth and legend. If you have ever wondered how, exactly, Darwin came up with his theory of evolution, or what, precisely, Frau Freud thought about her husband, then this is the book for you. 'Inventive, subversive and written with great rhythmical and rhyming dash' Sunday Telegraph 'Carol Ann Duffy reveals the foibles of the great, the ghastly and the ordinary bloke, and the sufferings of those closest to them. The result is a melange of history lesson, fairy-tale and modern-day domestic tragedy, with the occasional joke thrown in for good measure' Scotsman

ISBN 033037222X   Pages 96 ISBN13 9780330372220 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 97 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Published in London Imprint Picador   Height (mm) 197 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 130 Publication date 08 Sep 2000   Spine width (mm) 8 Reissue date 01 Jan 2010   Academic level General DEWEY 821.914   Reading age 16 DEWEY edition DC21

		Little Red-Cap		3
		Thetis		5
		Queen Herod		7
		Mrs Midas		11
		from Mrs Tiresias		14
		Pilate's Wife		18
		Mrs Aesop		19
		Mrs Darwin		20
		Mrs Sisyphus		21
		Mrs Faust		23
		Delilah		28
		Anne Hathaway		30
		Queen Kong		31
		Mrs Quasimodo		34
		Medusa		40
		The Devil's Wife		42

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