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50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Reference | 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
How To Be Well Read by John Sutherland
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation by John Sutherland
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first comprehensive 'biography' of one of the first celebrity animals who gave us one of our favourite words. Jumbo, Victorian England's favourite elephant, was born in 1861 in French Sudan, imported to a Parisian zoo and later sold on to London, where - for seventeen years - he dutifully gave child ...Show more
Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation by John Sutherland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first comprehensive 'biography' of one of the first celebrity animals who gave us one of our favourite words. Jumbo, Victorian England's favourite elephant, was born in 1861 in French Sudan, imported to a Parisian zoo and later sold on to London, where - for seventeen years - he dutifully gave child ...Show more
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.
The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist by John Sutherland
$22.99 AUD
Category: Younger 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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