The Hundred Books

There's a 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'. There's the Bible Shakespeare James Joyce Walter Scott and Machiavelli. Dr Jekyll Tiny Tim Starbuck Socrates Mr. Scrooge Raskolnikov Einstein and Enkidu. The Brontes and Boswell Wordsworth Newton Confucius and Don Quixote. Here they all are. 100 of the most quoted most known works of all time in the original author's own words but squashed up into nice little abridgements you can read in an hour or so. Little versions which smell and sound just like the originals. And ... with The Hundred Books it becomes possible to read the whole thing as a single narrative to discover a Pisgah View of the written history of the great grand thing of how We got where We are now in way that's just impossible for ordinary mortals. Read the lot you'll love it and you'll never ever be bored in an airport again.