The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist - Hardcover

John Sutherland is the recently retired Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at University College London: a title that one feels Dickens might have had some fun with. He has taught and published widely, particularly on Victorian fiction. His most recent relevant books are The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Longman, 2009) and Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives (Profile, 2011). He and Stephen Fender published Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature with Icon Books in 2010.

'John Sutherland, sharpest and wittiest of literary commentators, turns his attention to the Inimitable, with lively results.' -- Claire Tomalin * Author of Charles Dickens: A Life * 'Sutherland, as always, wears his erudition lightly, and his love of the quirky and off-beat shines warmly through this enjoyable book, which often made me laugh aloud.' -- Susan Elkin, Independent on Sunday `Step forward John Sutherland, whose crackling little book is a surprise antidote to Dickens ennui.' -- Londonist `Sutherland is clearly a man who knows his subject so well that he's able to play games with it. The result is a joyful dance of a book that even the most jaded Dickens reader will relish.' -- Londonist `An imaginative and witty dictionary.' -- Telegraph `[Sutherland] has written a witty and quirky Dickens Dictionary in handy bite-sized entries ... A delight.' -- Telegraph 'Sutherland, as always, wears his erudition lightly, and his love of the quirky and off-beat shines warmly through this enjoyable book, which often made me laugh aloud' * Independent *