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  • av John Sutherland
    139 - 198,-

  • av John Sutherland
    145,-

    The overwhelming majority of novels come, enjoy their brief moment, and go into oblivion never to return, but not The Great Gatsby: as this book shows it is one of the greatest of American novels.

  • - Lessons From a Life on Duty
    av John Sutherland
    134,-

    A thought-provoking look at the biggest challenges facing society through the unique lens of an experienced police officer and hostage negotiator

  • av John Sutherland
    463,-

    Explore the rich history and culture of South Africa with John Sutherland's Memoir Respecting the Kaffers, Hottentots, and Bosjemans of South Africa. This detailed historical account is perfect for academics and anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating region of the world.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

  • av John Sutherland
    135,-

    In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works. From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen , 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important literary concepts in history.

  • av John Sutherland
    205,-

    In this characteristically nuanced and calmly objective study, the witty literary critic guides us through the increasingly rocky terrain of triggering. His advice rings clear: literature matters, to us and what we make of our world, and it must be handled with critical care.

  • av John Sutherland
    135 - 275,-

    From Sunday Times bestselling author of Blue and Crossing the Line comes the second novel from ex-hostage negotiator John Sutherland.

  • av John Sutherland
    195,-

    ARE YOU READY TO SAVE A LIFE?WHY HER? Becca Palmer has just lost her job as assistant to Simon Jones MP - the highly-regarded Policing Minister, tipped as a future Prime Minister. But Becca claims that Simon was more than her boss, that she is in love with him. WHY HERE? When a heartbroken Becca leaves the Home Office, she heads to Westminster Bridge, intending to take her own life. Which is where hostage negotiator Alex Lewis meets her for the first time. It is his job to try to talk her back from the edge.WHY NOW? In the negotiation that follows, Becca suggests that she may know something about the Policing Minister that she shouldn't. Something that could prompt a serious fall from grace were it to come out.But can Alex save Becca - and get to the bottom of an alleged conspiracy that goes deep inside the highest levels of government - before it's too late?***Praise for The Fallen:'Fascinating and unputdownable' - Jeffrey Archer'The plot is intricate, frighteningly plausible and superbly paced; I raced through it in two sittings. Recommended.' - M W Craven'An incredible blend of gripping characters, fabulous plot and chillingly authentic political corruption' - Graham Bartlett

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    156,-

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    189,-

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    146 - 184,-

  • - a History in Aspects
    av John Sutherland
    1 016,-

    This new book is concerned with Professor Sutherland's principal area of interest - the Victorian Novel and the complex machineries surrounding it.

  • av John Sutherland
    297,-

  • - Anthony Trollope Uncovered
    av John Sutherland
    532 - 1 244,-

  • - A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces
    av John Sutherland
    134,-

    A searingly honest memoir of the uplifting highs and crushing lows of a life spent policing on the front line

  • av John Sutherland
    165,-

    John Sutherland examines the intergenerational conflict as a new kind of 'war' in which institutional neglect and universal indifference to the old has reached aggressive, and routinely lethal, levels.

  • - A Pathological Biography
    av John Sutherland
    195,-

    Orwell's Nose is John Sutherland's original and imaginative account of the life and work of George Orwell, exploring the 'scent narratives' that abound in Orwell's fiction and non-fiction. Orwell covered his tracks well; this illuminating and irreverent book provides a new understanding of one of our most iconic and influential writers.

  • - 'Prince of Puffers': The Life and Works of the Publisher Henry Colburn.
    av John Sutherland & Johanna Marie Melnyk
    886,-

    This is the first-ever book length study of one of the most important and constantly innovative 19th century book and periodical publishers. The mysterious and often elusive but enormously influential Henry Colburn (c.1784 – 16 August 1855) was the pre-eminent publisher of ‘silver-fork’ novels, and of many influential new writers.Colburn’s main claim to rehabilitation are his troop of 'name' authors: Lady Morgan, Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, Captain Marryat, G.P.R James, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, Mrs. Catherine Gore, Mrs. Caroline Norton, Frances Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Richard Cobbold, R. S. Surtees. Many would not have had a start in the careers they later enjoyed were it not for Colburn.This is a lively, and important new work on early 19th-century publishing and the patterns for the century which Colburn set. It sketches intantalizing outlines the Regency, early nineteenth-century and Victorian book trades – and the consequences of Colburn’s impact on those worlds. In addition, the work centres on Colburn’s most celebrated authors. The book – which is well illustrated - contains the first catalogue of Colburn’s publications.Thus far, literary and publishing history have drawn a formidable charge sheet against Henry Colburn. In personal pedigree he is slandered as a ‘guttersnipe’, or a ‘royal bastard’. In Disraeli’s pungent description he was a publishing ‘bawd’, engaged in wholesale literary prostitution. A very bad thing. And yet this publishing Barabbas can be argued to have been innovative and a force for constructive change in the rapidly evolving book trade and---paradoxically---a man of taste.Various rumours circulated that he was either a bastard of the Duke of York or of Lord Landsdowne. Date uncertain. He liked to weave illustrious (typically mendacious) pedigrees for himself as much as for his dubiously aristocratic purveyors of silver forkery.What, precisely, did Colburn do that should raise his reputation and make us see him as a good thing? In the largest sense he demonstrated, by example and practice, the need for consolidation between hitherto dismembered arms of the London book world. Beginning his career at apprentice level in the London West End circulating-library business he went on, having learned at the counter what the customer wanted, to become the undisputed market leader in the publication of three-volume novels and (sub-Murray) travel books.The three-decker went on to become the foundation-stone of the ‘Leviathan’ library system (Mudie’s and Smith’s) and created a seventy-year stability in the publishing, distribution and reception of English fiction. In 1814 Colburn founded the New Monthly Magazine. In 1817, he set up England’s first serious weekly review, the Literary Gazette. In 1828 he helped found the Athenaeum (distant parent of today's New Statesman). His behaviour, as a magazine proprietor and editor at large was typically outrageous. But the link he forged between higher journalism and literature was momentous.

  • - (Probably Better Than You Think)
    av John Sutherland
    126,-

    The ultimate test of grammar rules - the grammar book serialised in the Times feature 'Grammar for Grown-ups'.

  • av John Sutherland
    137,-

    For all her faults, Jane Austen's Emma is one of literature's most fascinating heroines. She is so clever - and funny - that it is almost impossible, as this short guide shows, not to be won over by her.

  • av John Sutherland
    159,-

    Few works of literature are loved more than Great Expectations. This guide shows it is not only an exciting story, but one that raises questions about the nature of Victorian society.

  • - Popular Fiction of the 1970s
    av John Sutherland
    765 - 2 021,-

  • - A Book-lover's Anthology of Literary Erudition
    av John Sutherland
    243,-

    How much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And is there any link between asthma and literary genius? This title contemplates the import of questions such as these, and attempts a few answers in a series of essays.

  • av John Sutherland
    557 - 1 954,-

    With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published.

  • av William Thackeray & John Sutherland
    195,-

    'What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exile? Who is more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune?' When "e;Henry Esmond"e; appeared in 1852, noted writers and critics of the time acclaimed it as the best historical novel ever written. Set in the reign of Queen Anne, the story follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future. This change also entails a very uncomfortable switch in his affections. The love story of Henry Esmond is charged with sombre, unconscious emotions, yet is skilfully embedded into historical events which are convincing but never too prominent.

  • - A Critical Biography
    av John Sutherland
    564,-

    aeo A major account of Scotta s life and work which removes many layers of the myth. aeo Original contribution to our knowledge of Scotta s disastrous business affairs. aeo An accessible yet thorough account of a major cultural figure in the evolution of the novel.

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