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50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Curiosities of Literature by John Sutherland
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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: NZ non-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
$55.00 NZD
Category: No Category
As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it's a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of over 500 wittily informative pieces he gives us his own very pers ...Show more
How to Read a Novel by John Sutherland
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
People of all ages, classes and nationalities read novels for much the same variety of reasons - to escape pain or danger, to discover the past or experience the future, to look into the intimate details of other people's lives. Since classical times readers have been sharing their experiences of litera ...Show more
How to Read a Novel : A User's Guide by John Sutherland
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
We assume reading is like riding a bicycle - you can do it or you can't. But reading well is almost as difficult as writing well. This book is a guide to how to do it. It shows how novels work, what they're about, what makes them good or bad, and how to talk about them with kindred spirits.John Sutherla ...Show more
JOHN BARLEYCORN by JACK LONDON JOHN SUTHERLAND
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the b ...Show more
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is a complete history of fiction in English, it provides the lives of some 282 novelists writing in English, from the genre's 17th-century origins to the present.
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me - Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'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 Brontesaurus: An A-Z of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte (and Branwell) by John Sutherland
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
Was Rochester a murderer? Did the Reverend Bronte carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'Wuthering' mean? Did the Brontes all have tiny feet? To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth, eminent Victorian scholar John Sutherland takes us on an A to Z ramble through the world of Charl ...Show more
The Concise Guide to Self-Sufficiency by John Seymour & Will Sutherland
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Start living the 'Good Life'. Pick up this handy compact favourite from 'the grand master of self-sufficiency' ("Kitchen Garden") and discover how to enjoy a sustainable lifestyle. Easy-to-follow, this guide not only tells you what to do, but shows you how to do it. Follow practical know-how: from creat ...Show more
The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist by John Sutherland
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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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