EAN: 9781529157291

HOW TO BE WELL READ - JOHN SUTHERLAND TASCHENBUCH

'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 £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.
__________________________________________________ '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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