{"product_id":"how-to-be-well-read-9781529157291b","title":"How to be Well Read","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe brilliantly captures the flavour of each work and assesses its relative merits and demerits. He shows how each novel fits into a broader context. And he offers endless snippets of intriguing information: did you know, for example, that the Nazis banned \u003ci\u003eBambi\u003c\/i\u003e or that William Faulkner wrote \u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e on an upturned wheelbarrow; that Voltaire completed \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e in three days, or that Anna Sewell was paid 20 pounds for \u003ci\u003eBlack Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Be Well Read\u003c\/i\u003e offers a  history of the novel in 500 or so wittily informative, bite-sized pieces. Encyclopaedic and entertaining by turns, this is a wonderful dip-in book, whose opinions will inform and on occasion, no doubt, infuriate.","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42819933175888,"sku":"9781529157291B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781529157291-l.jpg?v=1785877885","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/how-to-be-well-read-9781529157291b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}