'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.
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CONTENTS
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Why the âSingle Print of a Footâ?
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives?
John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) (1749) - Who is Tom Jonesâs Father?
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749) - Slop Slip
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1760â7) - Pug: dog or bitch?
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814) - How vulgar is Mrs Elton?
Jane Austen, Emma (1816) - Whose side is Hawkeye on?
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826) - What does Mr Pickwick retire from?
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1837) - Why is Fagin hanged and why isnât Pip prosecuted?
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838) and Great Expectations (1861) - Who gets what in Heathcliffâs will?
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847) - Can Jane Eyre be happy?
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) - How many pianos has Amelia Sedley?
W.M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848) - Will she ever come back?
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley (1849) - What are the Prynnes doing in Boston?
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) - What happens to Mrs Woodcourt?
Charles Dickens, Bleak House ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Why the âSingle Print of a Footâ?
- Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives?
- Who is Tom Jonesâs father?
- Slop Slip
- Pug: dog or bitch?
- How vulgar is Mrs Elton?
- Whose side is Hawkeye on?
- What does Mr Pickwick retire from?
- Why is Fagin hanged and why isnât Pip prosecuted?
- Who gets what in Heathcliffâs will?
- Can Jane Eyre be happy?
- How many pianos has Amelia Sedley?
- Will she ever come back?
- What are the Prynnes doing in Boston?
- What happens to Mrs Woodcourt?
- The Barchester Towers that never was
- Why doesnât the Reverend Irwine speak up for Hetty?
- How good an oarswoman is Maggie Tulliver?
- How good a swimmer is Magwitch?
- What, precisely, does Miss Gwiltâs purple flask contain?
- Lemon or ladle?
- Why âCaptainâ Newton?
- What is Elfrideâs rope made of?
- Is Daniel Deronda circumcised?
- Is Black Beauty gelded?
- What does Mrs Charmond say to Grace?
- Who will Angel marry next?
- What cure for the Madwoman in the Attic?
- Who is George Leach?
- Wanted: deaf-and-dumb dog feeder
- Whose daughter is Nancy?
- Clarissaâs invisible taxi
- About the Author
- Copyright
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