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Informationen zum Autor John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at University College, London. His books include Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Puzzles in Nineteenth-century Fiction (Oxford University Press, 1996); Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction (OUP, 1997); Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction (OUP, 1999); Henry V, War Criminal? & Other Shakespeare Puzzles, with Cedric Watts (OUP, 2000); Last Drink to LA (Faber & Faber, 2001); The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (2nd edition, Routledge, 2009); The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir (John Murray, 2007); Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives (Profile Books, 2011), A Little History of Literature (Yale University Press, 2013), and George Orwell (Reaktion Books, 2016). Klappentext Lively and immensely readable, this masterful account is a work of major biographical scholarship. John Sutherland examines the darker areas of Scott's life in a skeptical, yet sympathetic, manner creating an illuminating chronicle of his life. Sutherland justifies Scott as a writer to be read and understood today as much as in his heyday in the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung 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.
