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Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction
Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction
Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction
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Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction

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'Wonderful...concise, witty, effortlessly learned.' Sunday Times 

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? 

In this new edition sequel to the enormously successful Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, John Sutherland plays literary detective and investigates 32 literary conundrums, ranging from Daniel Defoe to Virginia Woolf. 

As in its universally loved predecessor, the questions and answers are ingenious and convincing, and return the reader with new respect to the great novels that inspire them.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherIcon Books
Release dateNov 2, 2017
ISBN9781785783029
Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction

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    Sutherland is an expert in Victorian literature, and has a ability to write about it in a way that is educational without being pompous, stuffy, or academic. In fact, I wish I would have had his examples of essays before I started on my university career. Anyway, I've enjoyed them now. This is a collection of 32 essays on conundrums you may or may not have noticed while reading the classics. He extends his time period on either side of 19th century, and finishes with an excellent essay on Mrs Dalloway titled "Clarissa's Invisible Taxi."
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    including: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.

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