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A Little History Of Literature (2013)

by John Sutherland(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0300186851 (ISBN13: 9780300186857)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Yale University Press

review 1: Very enjoyable overview of literature just as the title indicates. I've read many of the authors he mentioned but not all, so it was nice to be introduced to a couple that I'll now give a try. It was also interesting to be given a kind of timeline of how literary styles have changed and developed over the centuries. I try to read what are considered classics, but there isn't time for everything. This kind of made me want to be more discerning in my choices since there really is lots of great stuff out there to be read.
review 2: Author John Sutherland glides through 3,000 years of "the classics" in 40 short chapters. He writes in an easy, non-stuffy, way about why the great authors and works of literature are important. A few chapters are excurses into relate... mored areas like the development of publishing and copyright, children's literature, censorship, racism, adaptations, literary prizes and reading groups. There is even a chapter "Bestsellers and Potboilers" where he discusses guilty pleasures -- so it isn't all upper crust stuff. A good, non-technical review of books from "lit." classes gone by as well as an opportunity to stoke up one's resolve to tackle a few that still have the "someday" label attached. less

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