John Sutherland's very personal guide to the best novels ever written, and why they matter.
John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at University College London and previously taught at the California Institute of Technology. He writes regularly for the Guardian, The Times and the New York Times, and is the author of many books including Curiosities of Literature, Is Henry V a War Criminal? (with Cedric Watts), biographies of Walter Scott, Stephen Spender and the Victorian elephant Jumbo, and The Boy Who Loved Books, a memoir.
Generous, enjoyable and well informed.
*Observer*
A dazzling array of genres, periods, styles and tastes . . .
chatty, insightful, unprejudiced (but not uncritical) and wise.
*Times Literary Supplement*
500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of
pop and proper prose fiction.
*The Times*
John Sutherland has been teaching English literature to university
students for half a century. Now he's put the 'common reader' in
the classroom in this capacious, witty guide to all the books you
should read to claim the epithet 'well-read'. . . Each book gets a
potted plot summary and a lively squirt of literary analysis, plus
intriguing nuggets about the way reading tastes have changed
through time, all told in Sutherland's breezy, intelligent
voice.
*The Times*
Anyone hooked on fiction should be warned: this book will feed your
addiction.
*Mail on Sunday*
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