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How to be Well Read - A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities (Paperback)
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How to be Well Read - A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities (Paperback)
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'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer '500 expertly
potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and
proper prose fiction.' The Times
___________________________________________________________ Ranging
all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides
Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John
Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding,
most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works
of fiction ever written. He brilliantly captures the flavour of
each work and assesses its relative merits and demerits. He shows
how it fits into a broader context and he offers endless snippets
of intriguing information: did you know, for example, that the
Nazis banned Bambi or that William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying on
an upturned wheelbarrow; that Voltaire completed Candide in three
days, or that Anna Sewell was paid GBP20 for Black Beauty? It is
also effectively a history of the novel in 500 or so wittily
informative, bite-sized pieces. Encyclopaedic and entertaining by
turns, this is a wonderful dip-in book, whose opinions will inform
and on occasion, no doubt, infuriate.
__________________________________________________ 'Anyone hooked
on fiction should be warned: this book will feed your addiction.'
Mail on Sunday 'A dazzling array of genres, periods, styles and
tastes... chatty, insightful, unprejudiced (but not uncritical) and
wise.' Times Literary Supplement
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