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Sto caricando le informazioni... Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction (1997)di John Sutherland
  
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   ) Nickelini | Mar 14, 2013 |  Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives? (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) How many pianos has Amelia Sedley? (Vanity Fair) Is Black Beauty gelded? (Black Beauty) What cure for the madwoman in the attic? (The Yellow Wallpaper) Wanted deaf-and-dumb dog feeder (The Hound of the Baskervilles) After the publication of his earlier book, "Is Heathcliff a Murderer?" (which I haven't read), the author was inundated with letters from readers eager to tell him their thoughts about the puzzles he had included and suggest other mysteries for him to investigate, so he had plenty of material for a second book. I've read about a third of the books featured, but the author makes it interesting even for those books that I hadn't read. ( )1  isabelx | Apr 24, 2011 | Have you ever wondered what is in Heathcliff's will? Or what the Prynnes were doing in Boston? Neither have I. Nevertheless, I enjoyed Sutherland's attempts to answer these and other literary conundrums. He has a fine sense of humor, taking none of this too seriously. His disquisition on the question, "What is Elfride's rope made of?" (Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, had me in stitches. It's not even necessary to have read the books (does anyone, not a college English major, actually read Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier these days), you'll find plenty of diversion, anyway. 2 lilithcat | Aug 30, 2009 |  ) mari_reads | Feb 2, 2009 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The exciting sequel to the enormously successful Is Heathcliff A Murderer?, John Sutherland's latest collection of literary puzzles, Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? turns up unexpected and brain-teasing aspects of the range of canonical British and American fiction represented in the World's Classics list. With bold imaginative speculation he investigates thirty-four literary conundrums, ranging from Daniel Defoe to Virginia Woolf. Covering issues well beyond the strict confines of Victorian fiction, Sutherland explores the questions readers often ask but critics rarely discuss: Why does Robinson Crusoe find only one footprint? How does Magwitch swim to shore with a great iron on his leg? Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives? Whose side is Hawkeye on? And how does Clarissa Dalloway get home so quickly? As in its universally well received predecessor, the questions and answers in Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? are ingenious and convincing, and return the reader with new respect to the great novels they celebrate. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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