| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
John Sutherland
new books, used books, rare books by John Sutherland
› Find all books by 'John Sutherland' and compare prices› Find signed collectible books by 'John Sutherland'
-
Armadaleby Wilkie Collins, John SutherlandISBN 0140434119 (0-14-043411-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Armadale'Book summary:An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins' "Armadale" was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the best of [his] romances'. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the plot of this gripping melodrama: a tale of confused identities, inherited curses, romantic rivalries, espionage, money - and murder. The character of Lydia Gwilt horrified contemporary critics, with one reviewer describing her as 'One of the most hardened female villains whose devices and desires have ever blackened fiction'. She remains among the most enigmatic and fascinating women in nineteenth-century literature and the dark heart of this most sensational of Victorian 'sensation novels'. John Sutherland's introduction illustrated how Wilkie Collins drew on scandalous newspaper headlines and on new technology particularly the penny post and the telegraph - to lend extra pace and veracity to his tale. This edition also contains notes, further reading and an appendix on stage dramatisations of "Armadale". Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter William Collins. In 1846 he was entered to read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he gained the knowledge that was to give him much of the material for his writing. From the early 1850s he was a friend of Charles Dickens, who produced and acted in two melodramas written by Collins, "The Lighthouse" and "The Frozen Deep". Of his novels, Collins is best remembered for "The Woman in White" (1859), "No Name" (1862), "Armadale" (1866) and "The Moonstone" (1868). If you enjoyed "Armadale", you might like Collins' "No Name", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
More editions of Armadale:
-
The Eustace Diamondsby Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland , Stephen GillISBN 0141441208 (0-14-144120-8)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eustace Diamonds'Book summary:The central plot of "The Eustace Diamonds" (1872) involves the theft and ultimate discovery of a diamond necklace - the Eustace family heirloom. A splendid sense of the absurd permeates the novel and allows Trollope to examine "truth" in may contexts and at many levels of seriousness. Lizzie's unscrupulous lies do not prevent her final exposure, and it is, as Stephen Gill says in his Introduction, "this honesty, this clarity of vision that places Trollope with the greatest social novelists of the nineteenth century, with Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot." [via]
-
He Knew He Was Rightby Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland , Frank KermodeISBN 0140433910 (0-14-043391-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'He Knew He Was Right'Book summary:The central theme of the novel is the sexual jealousy of Louis Trevelyan who unjustly accuses his wife Emily of a liaison with a friend of her father's. As his suspicion deepens into madness, Trollope gives us a profound psychological study in which Louis' obsessive delirium is comparable to the tormented figure of Othello, tragically flawed by self-deception. Against the disintegration of the Trevelyans' marriage, a lively cast of characters explore the ideas of female emancipation and how to distinguish between obedience and subjection. Although himself no supporter of women's rights, in this novel some of Trollope's most spirited characters are single women.[via]Published in 1869, the same year as John Stuart Mills' The Subjection of Women and while the Divorce Act was a relative novelty, He Knew He Was Right was a timely novel, drawing a fine line between the obedience of women within marriage and their total possession by men.
More editions of He Knew He Was Right:
Heroes David Beckmanby John SutherlandISBN 0002188236 (0-00-218823-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Heroes David Beckman'More editions of Heroes David Beckman:
History of Henry Esmondby William Makepeace Thackeray, John Sutherland , Michael GreenfieldISBN 0141439165 (0-14-143916-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Henry Esmond'More editions of History of Henry Esmond:
-
The History of Mr Pollyby H. G. Wells, Simon J. James, John SutherlandISBN 0141441070 (0-14-144107-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Mr Polly'Book summary:Fans of H.G. Wells's famous, genre-spawning science fiction novels may be startled to read his less-remembered but once bestselling The History of Mr. Polly. Its comically romping narrative voice is worlds away from the stern, melancholy tone of The Time Machine. Wells won fame for his apocalyptic, preachy books about the history of the future, but this history is strictly, as Mr. Polly would put it in his creatively cracked version of English, a series of "little accidentulous misadventures."
Mr. Alfred Polly is a dyspeptic, miserably married shopkeeper in what he terms that "Beastly Silly Wheeze of a hole!"--Fishbourne, England. He is inclined to spark arguments and slapstick calamity wherever he goes. Education was lost on him: when he left school at 14, "his mind was in much the same state that you would be in, dear reader, if you were operated upon for appendicitis by a well-meaning, boldly enterprising, but rather overworked and underpaid butcher boy, who was superseded towards the climax of the operation by a left-handed clerk of high principles but intemperate habits& the operators had left, so to speak, all their sponges and ligatures in the mangled confusion." Still, Polly's mind burns with eccentric genius, and his thwarted romantic heart beats him senseless. His despair results in the most amusing suicide attempt this side of Lisa Alther's novel Kinflicks. We won't spoil the surprise by saying precisely how his scheme misfires--and beware: the introduction gives it away. Note that you can't expect Polly to do anything right, and of course he'll become an inadvertent hero to the whole town. Then he promptly vanishes for further misadventure.
Many critics compare Mr. Polly's broad social satire to Dickens, but it smacks of Mark Twain and the dialect humor of Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley too. "I think it is one of my good books," Wells opined. What makes it so is Polly's heroic incompetence, his subversion of Edwardian propriety, and his bewildered unawareness that he is a revolutionary. --Tim Appelo [via]
More editions of The History of Mr Polly:
-
Phineas Finnby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0140430857 (0-14-043085-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Phineas Finn'Book summary:The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women. [via]
More editions of Phineas Finn:
-
Rachel Rayby Anthony Trollope, John SutherlandISBN 0140434100 (0-14-043410-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rachel Ray'Book summary:The heroine of the novel, Rachel Ray, meets and falls in love with dashing Luke Rowan, who is striving to make his fortune in the Devon brewery trade. However, their love affair is not destined to be straightforward, and there is the forceful clergyman, Mr Prong, to contend with. [via]
The Shooting Partyby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Wilks, John SutherlandISBN 0140448985 (0-14-044898-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shooting Party'More editions of The Shooting Party:
Statistical Methods for Quality Design and Controlby Richard DeVor, T.S. Chang, John SutherlandISBN 0029463564 (0-02-946356-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistical Methods for Quality Design and Control'More editions of Statistical Methods for Quality Design and Control:
Stephen Spender : The Authorized Biographyby John SutherlandISBN 0140278893 (0-14-027889-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen Spender : The Authorized Biography'More editions of Stephen Spender : The Authorized Biography:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}