HOW TO BE WELL READ
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.
'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer
'Anyone hooked on fiction should be warned: this book will feed your addiction.' Mail on Sunday
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
SUTHERLAND JOHN ANDREW
John Sutherland es profesor emérito Lord Northcliffe de Literatura Inglesa Moderna en el University College de Londres y anteriormente impartió clases en el Instituto Tecnológico de California. Escribe regularmente para The Guardian, The Times y The New York Times, y es autor de numerosos libros, entre ellos "Curiosidades de la literatura", "¿Es Enrique V un criminal de guerra?" con Cedric Watts , biografías de Walter Scott, Stephen Spender y el elefante victoriano Jumbo, y "El niño que amaba los libros", sus memorias.
