2014 How to be Well Read: A Guide to 500 Great Novels and a Handful of Literary Curiosities

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. A collection of five hundred wittily informative pieces of personal writing on the most remarkable and, on some occasions, the most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. From Apuleius's The Golden Ass to Ian Fleming's Goldfinger, and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Written by John Andrew Sutherland, a British academic, newspaper columnist and author. He is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London.