John Sutherland
How to be Well Read : A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of...
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Generous, enjoyable and well informed. Observer500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction. The TimesRanging all the way from Aarons 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, bitesized pieces.Encyclopaedic and entertaining by turns, this is a wonderful dipin 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 SundayA dazzling array of genres, periods, styles and tastes... chatty, insightful, unprejudiced (but not uncritical) and wise. Times Literary Supplement
Binding: Paperback;560 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: DSR; Weight: 514 g; Dimensions: 128 x 195 x 41
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Generous, enjoyable and well informed. Observer500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction. The TimesRanging all the way from Aarons 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, bitesized pieces.Encyclopaedic and entertaining by turns, this is a wonderful dipin 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 SundayA dazzling array of genres, periods, styles and tastes... chatty, insightful, unprejudiced (but not uncritical) and wise. Times Literary Supplement
Binding: Paperback;560 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: DSR; Weight: 514 g; Dimensions: 128 x 195 x 41
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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John Sutherland
How to be Well Read : A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of...
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
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