Daily Telegraph’s 100 best novels of 1899 vs the “books of the century” in 1999 Interestingly I had only heard of 24 of the 1899 authors and had only read of their 12 books. Even when I knew the authors some of the book choices were very eccentric. Of all of Trollope’s output who would choose “Orley Farm”? Of all of Conan Doyle’s why “The Firm of Girdlestone”?
Looking with my French girlfriend at the “top 100 of this century” it was very apparent that the core curriculum of literature is very different between countries. She knew of 43 of the authors and had read about 16 of the books while I recognised 49 and had read 19 – but she gets ten bonus marks for reading all of Proust! Some of these “greats” seem a little eccentricly chosen, but I suspect that some were chosen deliberately to “epater les bourgeois” – like Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s Van Loon’s Lives.sanyo 8100 phone ringtone free cell6340i ringtone nokia free free nokiaringtones thugs bone alland alltel ringtones wallpaperscomposable ringtone 3310 freeringtone free nokia 5160ringtones 2wayrd 8 mile ringtones Map
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18 February 2001
