Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction
by John Sutherland
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"In Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? John Sutherland unravels 34 literary puzzles in a sequel to his works Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? As well as exploring new conundrums, Professor Sutherland revisits some previous puzzles with the help of readers who offer their own ingenious solutions and set fresh posers for investigation." "Victorian drug habits, railway systems, sanitation, and dentistry are only a few of the areas that shed light on the motives and circumstances show more of some of literature's most famous characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Betsey Trotwood, Count Dracula, Anna Karenina, Alice, and many more come under the spotlight in John Sutherland's entertaining collection"--Jacket. show lessTags
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PuddinTame These are both readable, intelligent readings into the text of works, asking questions that I am sometimes embarrassed to admit never occurred to me. Both authors have other books along the same lines.
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Amusing analysis of plot holes, problems and inconsistencies in well known literature.
In his intriguing series of Puzzles in classic literature Sutherland explores such intriguing questions as “Can Jane Eyre be happy?”, “How good an oarswoman is Maggie Tulliver?”, “Is Daniel Deronda circumcised?” and “Does Bottom cuckold Oberon?”.
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John Sutherland was born on October 9, 1938. After graduating from the University of Leicester in 1964, he began his academic career as an assistant lecturer in Edinburgh. He specializes in Victorian fiction, 20th century literature, and the history of publishing. He is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at University show more College, London and is currently teaching at the California Institute of Technology. He writes for The Guardian and is a well-known literary reviewer. He is the author of more than 20 books including Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography, How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide, The Boy Who Loved Books, Curiosities of Literature, 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know, Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives, and Magic Moments: Life-Changing Encounters with Books, Film, Music. He is also the co-author, with Stephen Fender, of Love, Sex, Death and Words: Tales from a Year in Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Elizabeth Bennet
- First words
- As Ian Watt notes in The Rise of the Novel, the attentive reader will find an "inordinate number of cracks" in the plot of "Moll Flanders".
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You can kill them, but the UnDead will never die.
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