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50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
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Category: Fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of ...Show more
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works. From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen, 50 Literatu ...Show more
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Little Histories Ser.
This 'little history' tackles a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task, having researched, taught and written on every area of literature. His infectious passion for ...Show more
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Little Histories Ser.
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infecti ...Show more
How Good Is Your Grammar? by Sutherland, John
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
John Sutherland, one of Britain's most celebrated professors of English literature, is here to test, stretch, amuse and instruct you with his definitive quiz on all things grammatical.Why do purists insist that 'television' is wrong while telephone is correct?Was Bill Clinton taking risks with language ...Show more
How To Be Well Read by John Sutherland
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it's a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of over 500 wittily informative pieces he gives us his own very pers ...Show more
How to be Well Read by John Sutherland
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
A guide to the best novels ever written, and why they matter In the course of over 500 wittily informative pieces, John Sutherland gives us his own take on the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. It is the perfect reading list for e ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover by John Sutherland (Introduction by); D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics
In the bleak aftermath of World War I, Constance, Lady Chatterley, is a young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralysed. With her husband's encouragement, she enters into a liaison with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on their country estate in No ...Show more
Literary Landscapes: Charting the Topography of Classic Literature by JOHN SUTHERLAND (ed)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere or any time - often the scenery , landscape or era is as central to the tale as any character- and just as easily recognised. Wh at adventures would Heidi have had without her mountain neighbours? W ould Jim Hawkins have experienced such an adventure had he not ...Show more
Lives of the Novelists by SUTHERLAND JOHN (UNIVERSITY C
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's "Lives of the Poets, " acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whos ...Show more
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland
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Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a complete history of fiction in English, it provides the lives of some 282 novelists writing in English, from the genre's 17th-century origins to the present.