Decoding selling novel (Wikipedia Liberal Library)(Chinese Edition)

( YING ) YUE HAN SA SE LAN ( Sutherland. J. ) ZHU . SU GENG XIN YI

ISBN 10: 7513565198 / ISBN 13: 9787513565196

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2015-8-1 Pages: 214 Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press decode best-selling novel We live in among the best-selling novel. Various media advertising. according to the novel. film and television. experts reputation reader comments were prompted us to buy a mountain of bookstores ** best-selling novel. But what exactly is the best-selling novel? * What kind of best-selling novels? why? From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to The Da Vinci Code from the Rob.

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• Title: Decoding selling novel (Wikipedia Liberal Library)(Chinese Edition)
• ISBN 10: 7513565198
• ISBN 13: 9787513565196
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it's a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of more than 500 wittily informative pieces he gives us his own very personal take on the most rewarding, most remarkable, and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever writtenthe perfect reading list for the would-be literary expert. His taste is impressively eclectic. An appreciation of Apuleius's The Golden Assarguably the first-ever novelis followed by a consideration of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. The Handmaid's Tale is followed by Hangover Square, Jane Eyre by Jaws. There are imposing Victorian novels, entertaining contemporary thrillers, and everything in between, from dystopian works to romance. The flavor of each is brilliantly evoked and its relative merits or demerits assessed. At the same time, John Sutherland shows how the work fits into a broader contextwhether that of the author's life or of other books from the same genre or period. And he offers endless snippets of intriguing information: did you know, for example, that the Nazis banned Bambi or that William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying on an upturned wheelbarrow; that Voltaire completed Candide in three days, or that Anna Sewell was paid £20 for Black Beauty? Encyclopedic and entertaining by turns, this is a wonderful dip-in book, whose opinions will inform and on occasion, no doubt, infuriate. It is also effectively a history of the novel in 500 or so bite-sized pieces.