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50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
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 ...Show more
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
25.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works. From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen, 50 Literatu ...Show more
Curiosities of Literature by John Sutherland
25.00 NZD
40.00 (37% off)
Category: Non-fiction
One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? Whose manuscript was inadvertently used to light a fire? What was the original title of 1984? This is the ideal an ...Show more
Curiosities of Literature: A Book-lover's Anthology of Literary Erudition by John Sutherland
29.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
How much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we're at it, who wrote the first Western, is there any link between asthma and literary genius, and what really happe ...Show more
How to be Well Read by John Sutherland
30.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
A guide to the best novels ever written, and why they matter In the course of over 500 wittily informative pieces, John Sutherland gives us his own take on the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. It is the perfect reading list for e ...Show more
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me - Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin'I couldn't put it down. Vivid and penetrating, it's a brilliant portrait of a confounding, complex woman.' Cressida ConnollyMonica Jones was Philip Larkin's partner for more than four decades, and ...Show more
The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist by John Sutherland
20.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', created a riotous fictional world that still lives and breathes for thousands of readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination tha ...Show more
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