John Sutherland Knihy

Nine hostages. Ten hours. One chance to save them all.

Huxleyho satirická antiutopie Konec civilizace (1932) je spolu se Zamjatinovou novelou My a Orwellovým románem 1984 jednou z prvních vizí budoucnosti, která domýšlí důsledky formujících se diktátorských režimů meziválečné Evropy. K napsání knihy vedly Huxleyho vlastní zkušenosti s Mussoliniho Itálií a zprávy ze Sovětského svazu. Jeho vize budoucnosti se složitě a pevně strukturovanou společností, v níž je geneticky a psychologicky předem určeno postavení každého jedince, je sice velmi hořká a pesimistická, nicméně realita, zosobněná Hitlerem a Stalinem, byla ještě mnohem horší. Jak sám později přiznal: „Diktatura budoucnosti v mé představivosti byla mnohem méně brutální nežli budoucí diktatura výborně popsaná Orwellem." O stálé aktuálnosti této knihy svědčí to, že snahy o naplnění Huxleyho vizí – manipulace jedincem od samého jeho početí především – je možné vysledovat ve výrocích mnoha novodobých „inženýrů lidských duší" – jak u politiků s diktátorskými sklony, tak i u vědců, bádajících v podmínkách demokratických společností.

A thought-provoking look at the biggest challenges facing society through the unique lens of an experienced police officer and hostage negotiator

Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written

The story of Philip Larkin's long-term partner Monica Jones based on her never-before-seen letters to the poet.

The Way We Live Now is both a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. Trollope is described as the quintessential Victorian novelist.

The beautiful but manipulative Lizzie Greystock, having entrapped Sir Florian Eustace in marriage, finds herself widowed and wealthy. Unperturbed by her loss, she is determined to keep the Eustace heirlooms, despite the legal opposition. These cassettes contain the complete and unabridged story.

Arranged in chronological order, the novelist's lives are opinionated, informative, frequently funny and often shocking. Professor Sutherland's authors come from all over the world; their writings illustrate every kind of fiction from gothic, penny dreadfuls and pornography to fantasy, romance and high literature. The book shows the changing forms of the genre, and how the aspirations of authors to divert and sometimes to educate their readers, has in some respects radically changed over the centuries, and in others - such as their interest in sex and relationships - remained remarkably constant.

Detektivní román známeho anglického autora popisuje osudy vzácného drahokamu, ukradeného ze svatyně indického božstva.

How well do you really know your favorite author? In this new book, ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre Le Faye challenge you to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you remember a novel and its characters, the quizprogresses to a level of greater difficulty, demanding close reading and interpretative deduction. What really motivates the characters, and what is going on beneath the surface of the story? Designed to amuse and divert, the questions and answers take the reader on an imaginative journey into theworld of Jane Austen, where hypothesis and speculation produce fascinating and unexpected insights. The questions are ingenious and fun, and the answers (located in the back of the book), in Sutherland's inimitable style, are fascinating. Completing the book guarantees a hugely improved knowledgeand appreciation of Austen. Whether you are an expert or enthusiast, So You Think You Know Jane Austen? guarantees you will know her much better after reading it.