Opis: How to be Well Read - John Sutherland

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 ?20 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.

Szczegóły: How to be Well Read - John Sutherland

Tytuł: How to be Well Read
Podtytuł: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities
Autor: John Sutherland
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9781529157291
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 538
Format: 12.6x19.6cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.39 kg

Recenzje: How to be Well Read - John Sutherland