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Cargando... The Literary Detective: 100 Puzzles in Classic Fictionpor John Sutherland
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A fanstastic book that is sure to be a favourite of readers of classic fiction. Sutherland follows up the incosistencies and loose ends that have always bugged you (what was the book Anna Karenina was reading on the train? Go on, admit that it kept you awake at night thinking about it). An added incentive (or maybe disincentive if you have a huge book-list already) is that this book is sure to make you search out and read books Sutherland talks about but you haven't gotten around to yet. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The Literary Detective is an omnibus edition of John Sutherland's three best-selling collections of literary puzzles, Is Heathcliffe a Murderer?, Can Jane Eyre be Happy?, and Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Investigating a variety of anomalies, enigmas, and conundrums such as 'Why does RobinsonCrusoe find only one footprint?' and 'Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives?', Professor Sutherland explores the questions readers often ask and critics rarely discuss. His forensic skills focus on authors from Defoe and Fielding to Wells and Woolf, relishing in particular thenineteenth-century novelists, Austen, Collins, Dickens, and the Brontes. By addressing 'real world' questions John Sutherland has brought lit. crit. Down from the rarefied heights of academe and into the everyday discourse of ordinary readers, who bring their own expertise to bear on these novels. In his introduction he quotes from some of the many letters he hasreceived, which demonstrate that we can all be astute and entertaining critics. The 'Sherlock Holmes of Literature', as he has been called, John Sutherland reminds us of the sheer pleasure and excitement that good books inspire, and of their endless ability to surprise and delight us. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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