TY - GEN AU - Hulle, Dirk Van AU - Nixon, Mark TI - Write cut rewrite: the cutting room floor of modern literature SN - 9781851246182 U1 - 808.02 HUL PY - 2024/// CY - Oxford PB - Bodleian Library Publishing KW - Authorship KW - Literary Studies KW - Manuscripts Editing KW - Censorship & Self Sensorship KW - Revising Others Work KW - Vestigial Notes N1 - Includes Notes, Further Reading, Picture and Text Credits & Index N2 - Write, Cut, Rewrite will feature abandoned works, such as Jane Austen’s The Watsons, and cases of censorship, such as Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It also touches on the revisions and rewritings of famous books, offering visitors a unique chance to look over the shoulder of literary greats at the moment of creation. Highlights include discarded ideas, fundamental changes, deletions, additions, notes and scribbles from great authors such as Mary and Percy Shelley, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Raymond Chandler, Ian Fleming, Samuel Beckett, and John le Carré. Other insights from the cutting room floor will include the original ending to Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, George Eliot’s reading notes, Franz Kafka’s cuts in the manuscript of his novel The Castle and the description in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein extracted from Percy Shelley’s journal. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/write-cut-rewrite ER -