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33%OFFJon Sutherland - Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature - 9781848311640 - V9781848311640
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Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature

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Description for Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature Hardback. Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. This title focuses on the curious artefacts that literature has to offer. It lets you find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce. Num Pages: 496 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 46. Weight in Grams: 844.
Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Stephen Fender and John Sutherland turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising or curious artefacts that literature has to offer. Find out why 16 June 1904 mattered so much to Joyce, which great literary love affair was brought to a tragic end on 11 February 1963 and why Roy Campbell punched Stephen Spender on the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Icon Books
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848311640
SKU
V9781848311640
Shipping Time
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About Jon Sutherland
John Sutherland was the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL and a past Chairman of the Booker Prize panel, and is the author of one of the standard texts on Victorian fiction. Stephen Fender has taught Literature in the US, in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, and in England at London and Sussex, where he was ... Read more

Reviews for Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature
This book (co-authored with an old pal, Stephen Fender; Sutherland excels in the Victoriana, while Fender is the Americanist) should bring delight to many, sell tons and keep as many ex-wives as any of us could wish for in scones and jam... It's a smart idea, well executed. Its prime virtue is the dense agglomeration of trivia around even well-known ... Read more

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