HOW TO BE WELL READ: A GUIDE TO 412 GREAT NOVELS, 61 GUILTY PLEAS-URES, AND A HANDFUL OF THE UNFAIRLY NEGLECTED
Book ID/图书代码： 11320014B67852
English Summary/英文概要： How to be Well Read is a guide to 412 great novels, 61 guilty pleasures and a handful of the unfairly neglected. It is to be published 8th May this year hardcover with an extent of 576pp and priced at ￡20.
We are aware that this is quite a long book so to be very clear we would be happy for contracted publishers to take out certain entries if necessary to make it more manageable for translation.
John Sutherland, author of the well-known Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, offers his very personal guide to the best books ever written, along with a compelling defence of why they matter.
As the annual tide of published novels grows ever greater, it’s a hard job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately John Sutherland, editor of The Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction and Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, is on hand to do precisely that for you. In over 500 wittily informative essays he introduces you to the very best of the world’s fiction, both canonical and modern. His taste is impressively catholic: an appreciation of Candide is followed by a consideration of Carry On, Jeeves. War and Peace, Portnoy’s Complaint and Tarzan of the Apes all make an appearance. There are imposing Victorian novels, entertaining contemporary thrillers and everything in between, from spy novels to romance. In each case a sense of the flavour of the novel is brilliantly evoked and a forceful case made for why it should be a candidate for the bookshelf or bedside table. The end result is both a wonderful dip-in book and a virtual history of the novel.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书有大约576页，非常长，因此如果有签约出版商想要删除其中的部分内容以使之更容易翻译，我们会同意的。
John Sutherland曾著有出名的《Is Heathcliff a Murderer?》，包括了非常有他个性的名著导读以及一系列为什么这些书值得一读的很让人信服的理由。
每年出版的小说越来越多，想要分清其中优劣相当困难。好在伦敦大学学院现代英语文学教授、牛津通俗小说评论杂志《The Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction》编辑John Sutherland能够很精确地提供这样的信息。本书中有超过500篇精妙的随笔，都是他写来介绍那些全球最好的小说的，包括权威作品，也有现代小说。他的品味是很有包容性的，书中收录了Candide的作品，此后也有《Carry On, Jeeves》；有《战争与和平》，也同样有《人猿泰山》。他评价了气势恢宏的维多利亚时期小说，也有娱乐为主的当代恐怖作品；有间谍小说，也有罗曼司。但无论有关什么话题，他的文字都是那么睿智和充满力量，绝对值得收藏在书架上或者作为床头读物。(LYR)
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About the Author/作者介绍： John Sutherland在很多高校担任过文学教授。目前，他是伦敦大学学院的荣休教授，还在加州技术研究所教书。
他曾发表过多部作品，包括《Is Heathcliff a Murderer?》（大概真的是）以及朗文的维多利亚时期小说百科等等。近年来，他就一系列文学以及非文学的话题在《卫报》以及《金融时报》发表了多篇随笔。
John Sutherland has been a professor of literature for a long time and in many places. Currently he teaches at the California Institute of Technology and is the emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor at UCL.
He is the author of numerous books, including the puzzle-collection Is Heathcliff a Murderer? (probably, yes) and the encyclopedic Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. In recent yeras he has written voluminously on a variety of literary and non-literary topics in, principally, the Guardian and the Financial Times.
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