LITTLE HISTORY OF LITERATURE

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I have already written feedback information at least twice for this item, and I do not feel like repeating myself yet again, except to say that something is seriously wrong with your organisation. I recently tried to order some DVD copies of Downton Abbey but was told by Amazon that accepting my orders was not possible, so I left it at that. Imagine my surprise when Amazon started sending me confirmation orders, though I had been firmly told before that my orders were not valid. Meanwhile, John Sutherland's book is marvellous, the wrapping superb, the price magnificent, and the sun still shines. All I want from Amazon is books and DVDs - not all this feedback garbage. Thank you. Jeremy Taylor in the Canary Islands.

Ich hab mir das Buch als Hilfe für das Überblickswissen für mein Englisch-Staatsexamen bestellt. Durch den netten Schreibstil wurde (die für mich) trockene Literaturgeschichte sogar unterhaltsam. Der Autor hat es geschafft, sich auf die wichtigsten Infos zu konzentrieren, so dass die Kapitel eine angenehme Länge haben und man einen guten Überblick über das jeweilige Thema bekommt. Die kleinen Zeichnungen jedem Kapitel sind außerdem eine nette Ergänzung :)

This book strongly resembles Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker cover of New York City, but instead of New York streets writ large we have British authors with all the writers from other countries scattered haphazardly in the background.This necessarily gives a biased history of literature. Given these limitations this is a well-written, enlightening but very superficial literary history, aimed at the high schooler or college Freshman. It takes us only until the 5th chapter to get to Chaucer and we pretty much stay mainly on the British islands for the next 35. Sutherland, an expert in 19th Century British literature, pulls out interesting facts from all ages of writing and writes with a very light hand. But we get a full chapter on Hardy and Tennyson, but only a paragraph or two on Proust and Joyce and Kafka. He covers topics such as censorship, best sellers, screen adaptations and book prizes in their own chapters as well. A chapter on Virginia Woolf is typical: covered are a short bio, a survey of her works, feminist criticism and the Bloomsbury Group. All in seven pages. But this is a "little" history so there is truth in advertising and when moving at this pace, there are no longeurs. The book is continually entertaining, informative and very basic. It is like those tour buses that introduce you to a new city: showing you places that you may care to return to at some future time in order to linger.