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Lives of the Novelists

Name: Lives of the Novelists
Author: John Sutherland

A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

John Sutherland

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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews

Beschreibung

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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A modern take on a reassuringly ancient format... neatly interweaves stories of the lives of writers with quirky insights into their work... highly readable

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

Sutherland is perfect for this job - all pith and wit... He has made a tricky job look easy

s hands are, above all, lively company
The funniest book I've read all year ... it's a riot ... Novelists in Professor Sutherland'

s writing is just plain delightful.
Sutherland'

Engaging

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

A big hearted book

Warmly readable ... the best of the pieces - and there are plenty - are both satisfyingly acute and nicely rounded, like the most waspish of obituaries.

Illuminating and entertaining

Hugely enjoyable... For those modern women of today whose preferred drug is fiction, I heartily endorse the prescriptions of Professor Sutherland.

Tremendously exhilarating... it reads like one of those unputdownable blockbusters you take to the beach.

Pithy quotes and witty moments

Delightful for dipping and discovery.

A starting point for many hours of literary discussions.

erudite and entertaining, informative and provoking.

Enjoyable... It is a pleasure to watch Sutherland at work and to leaf through the pages is to circumnavigate the archives of English literature in the company of its most distinguished librarian; erudite, perspicacious and warm-hearted.

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

s just for pleasure.
A great work of scholarship that rarely feels like it. It'

A collection of wise, witty biographical essays... healthily, sanely irreverent

Witty and humane... a wonderful book that it makes you want to slink off and ransack a well-stocked library.

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