The 100 most important books - all squashed up into neat little afternoon reads. There's a certain set of books which you're just supposed to know about, at least if you live in The West and fancy the idea of being thought 'educated'. The polite world expects its members to have at least a rough working relationship with the Holy Books, and Shakespeare, of course, to be able to spot Brobdingnag on a map, to know that Gaul is divided into three parts, that a line has no width and to be at least on nodding terms with Dr Jekyll, Tiny Tim, Starbuck, Socrates, Mr. Scrooge, Leopold Bloom,...
The 100 most important books - all squashed up into neat little afternoon reads. There's a certain set of books which you're just supposed to know abo...
