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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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