Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives - Rilegato

John Sutherland

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 184668157X ISBN 13: 9781846681578

Casa editrice: Profile Books, 2011

Riassunto

Arranged in chronological order the novelist's lives are opinionated, informative, frequently funny and often shocking. Professor Sutherland's authors come from all over the world; their writings illustrate every kind of fiction from gothic, penny dreadfuls and pornography to fantasy, romance and high literature. The book shows the changing forms of the genre, and how the aspirations of authors to divert and sometimes to educate their readers, has in some respects, radically changed over the centuries, and in others - such as their interest in sex and relationships - remained remarkably constant.

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Recensione:

`The funniest book I've read all year... Novelists in Professor Sutherland's hands are, above all, lively company.' --Evening Standard

'Sutherland is good value: provocative, polymathic and well practised in the art of literary criticism' --Times

'Pithy quotes and witty moments' --Sunday Telegraph

'A modern take on a reassuringly ancient format' --New Statesman

'FT Books of the Year: The fruit of decades of reading and research... A witty, and enjoyably wide-ranging book.' --FT

'(Sutherland has) magnificent and infectious enthusiasm for the books he reads... It is enthusiasm, indeed, that informs the book.' --Spectator

'A bumper treat for fiction fanatics... drawn with incision and wit to make (for) exhilarating reading' --Daily Mail

A tremendously exhilarating book, John Sutherland s history of fiction in English ... is less a work of scholarship than it is a catalogue of pleasures ... There s something for every taste and, implicitly, an invitation to try some new or exotic items from fiction s smorgasbord. --Washington Post

Descrizione del libro:

This is the most complete history of fiction in English ever published. The world's greatest authority - arguably the only person who could have written it, John Sutherland - provides the lives of some 294 novelists writing in English, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day.

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• Editore: Profile Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 184668157X
• ISBN 13: 9781846681578
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 816