Curiosities of Literature : A Book-lover's Anthology of Literary Erudition

ISBN-13: 9780099519294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str.

John Sutherland

Opis

How much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes first make an appearance in English literature? And, while we're about it, who wrote the first Western? In this book, the author contemplates questions such as these.

O autorze

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.