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James Runcieman Sutherland


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in Aberdeen, Scotland, The United Kingdom
April 26, 1900

Died
February 24, 1996

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James Runcieman Sutherland, English scholar and teacher: Senior Lecturer, University College London 1930-36; Professor of English Literature, Birkbeck College 1936-44; Editor, Review of English Studies 1940-47; Professor of English Language and Literature, Queen Mary College 1944-51; Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London 1951-67 (Emeritus); FBA 1953; Public Orator, London University 1957-62; Knighted 1992.

He will be remembered also by many thousands of people who have little academic interest in literature but who enjoy and keep returning to The Oxford Book of English Talk (1953) and The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (1975) which he compiled. Some other works include Defoe (1937), A Preface t
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The Oxford Book of Literary...

3.63 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1975 — 20 editions
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دنیل دفو (نسل قلم 20)

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English Satire

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1962 — 11 editions
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The Oxford Book of English ...

4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions
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English Literature of the L...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1969 — 12 editions
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On English Prose

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1966 — 5 editions
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Background for Queen Anne

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1976 — 3 editions
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Preface to Eighteenth Centu...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1963 — 2 editions
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The medium of poetry

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Shakespeare's World

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