- Gebundene Ausgabe: 832 Seiten
- Verlag: Yale Univ Pr (27. März 2012)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 9780300179477
- ISBN-13: 978-0300179477
- ASIN: 0300179472
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 26 x 18,7 x 5,2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 761.173 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's "Lives of the Poets, " acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction--from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann.Written for all lovers of fiction, "Lives of the Novelists" succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.
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Rife With Errors
26. Mai 2012
Von Corey
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Factual errors in nonfiction call into question the authority of a work. I checked this book out from my local library hoping to gain insight about favorite novelists and to discover authors unknown to me. A colleague who thumbed through the book for a few minutes discovered an error in the Margaret Atwood entry: she did not win the Booker Prize for Alias Grace. When I began to read the book in earnest, I found many other errors. I couldn't believe how easy they were to find, and was glad I didn't buy this book. Apparently, I'm not alone in my discovery. Reviewing the book for The Wall Street Journal, Allan Massie writes, "In the acknowledgments, Mr. Sutherland notes the 'support, encouragement, assistance and (all too often) corrections' of four editors and adds that 'the mistakes which remain are, alas, all mine.' There are a good many of them. I spotted 50 before I stopped counting--four in the entry on Norman Douglas alone...." Part of the joy of reading a work like this is talking with friends about interesting facts I learned. But after spotting dozens of errors, and with imperfect knowledge myself, how can I trust what the author is telling me?
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Endlessly fascinating!
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It's an 800-page collection of 294 short biographies, 2 and 3 pages each on average, of as eclectic a bunch of authors as you'll ever encounter, many of whom I'm sure modern readers have never even
heard of or know little or nothing about, such as Aphra Benn, Olaudah Equiano, James Hogg, Harrison Ainsworth, Sylvanus Cobb Jr., Richard Aldington,to name a handful.
Along with those, you'll also find a host of people you have heard of, both those considered highly literary, like J. D. Salinger and D. H. Lawrence and John Steinbeck and Evelyn Waugh, and those considered to be beneath serious critical notice, such as Zane Grey and Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sax Rohmer and Robert Jordan and
Stephen King and Jacqueline Susann, from whose entry one learns the reason for her most famous title and where the actual Valley was --- and it's not in California, folks.
The book is full of jewels of information: Isaac Asimov died of AIDS, which was only admitted 10 years after his death; Richard Pryor, the comedian, acknowledged Mark Twain as his inspiration, a connection I'd never have made; Dennis Wheatley referred to his diary as his `fornicator's game book'; Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta was originally a male named Joe Constable --- I could go on and on: the book is endlessly fascinating.
That one man could have this much knowledge about so many so varied writers is mind-boggling!
There is one error I've noticed: contrary to the opening sentence in his entry, Robert E. Howard DID write a novel.
heard of or know little or nothing about, such as Aphra Benn, Olaudah Equiano, James Hogg, Harrison Ainsworth, Sylvanus Cobb Jr., Richard Aldington,to name a handful.
Along with those, you'll also find a host of people you have heard of, both those considered highly literary, like J. D. Salinger and D. H. Lawrence and John Steinbeck and Evelyn Waugh, and those considered to be beneath serious critical notice, such as Zane Grey and Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sax Rohmer and Robert Jordan and
Stephen King and Jacqueline Susann, from whose entry one learns the reason for her most famous title and where the actual Valley was --- and it's not in California, folks.
The book is full of jewels of information: Isaac Asimov died of AIDS, which was only admitted 10 years after his death; Richard Pryor, the comedian, acknowledged Mark Twain as his inspiration, a connection I'd never have made; Dennis Wheatley referred to his diary as his `fornicator's game book'; Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta was originally a male named Joe Constable --- I could go on and on: the book is endlessly fascinating.
That one man could have this much knowledge about so many so varied writers is mind-boggling!
There is one error I've noticed: contrary to the opening sentence in his entry, Robert E. Howard DID write a novel.
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Fun, fun, fun
27. Mai 2012
Von Michael A. Willhoite
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Even though some readers find errors in this book, it's still highly entertaining. Reading a book like this on Kindle is the only way to go, as the original hardcover would be hard to carry everywhere you'll want to read it. Sutherland also produced The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, which is one of the last books I'd ever get rid of. It has led me to any number of unknown masterpieces. I'm a huge admirer of the Victorian novel, and Sutherland makes a wonderful Virgil to my Dante. In the new book he goes into even juicier detail.
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