How to be Well Read av John Sutherland

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<p><b>''Generous, enjoyable and well informed.'' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b><i>''</i>500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.'' <i>The Times</i></b><br>___________________________________________________________<br>Ranging all the way from <i>Aaron''s Rod</i> to <i>Zuleika Dobson</i>, via <i>The Devil Rides Out</i> and <i>Middlemarch</i>, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written.<br><br>He brilliantly captures the flavour of each work and assesses its relative merits and demerits. He shows how it fits into a broader context and he offers endless snippets of intriguing information: did you know, for example, that the Nazis banned <i>Bambi</i> or that William Faulkner wrote <i>As I Lay Dying</i> on an upturned wheelbarrow; that Voltaire completed <i>Candide</i> in three days, or t