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Джон Сазерленд - автор 6 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide, So You Think You Know Jane Austen?: A Literary Quizbook, 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
With the literary forest growing by 10,000 novels per year, readers have long needed the kind of map Sutherland provides here. Some of the guidance he offers is cautionary: warnings against the snares in deceptive covers, misleading reviews, and best-selling groupthink. But Sutherland equips readers for the tasks of actually selecting a novel, understanding its text, and tracing the connections li...
How well do you really know your favorite author? In this new book, ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre Le Faye challenge you to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you remember a novel and its characters, the quiz progresses to a level of greater difficulty, demanding close reading and interpretative deduction. What reall...
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of great writers such as William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen? And wha...
Did Charlotte Bronte take opium? Did the Reverend Bronte carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does ?wuthering? mean? Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontes, from the bumps on Charlotte?s head to the nefarious origins of Mr Rochester?s fortune, by way of astral telephony, letter-writing dogs, an exploding peat bog, and much, much...
Один из самых важных и загадочных писателей XX века, прекрасный мастер слова, простого, внимательного, достоверного и точного, Джордж Оруэлл полон загадок и тайн. В 2012 году автор этой книги, Джон Сазерленд, теряет обоняние. Читая романы Оруэлла в этот период, он обнаружил, что "Скотный двор" отныне лишен ароматных сигар Наполеона, а книги, как и весь мир, потеряли важный смысл. Сазерленд вдыхает...
