... on the basis of the cover, one illustration, and a blurb with considerable name-dropping. These books are "classics" put out by the Folio Society and it's blatantly an advertisement for them, sponsored by the Guardian.
But ... it gives a bit of media attention to "nice books" and gets people looking more closely at them, and reminds us of what books can be ... and of some we've always meant to read.
The titles (choose your favourite) are:
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird
Midnight's Children
Great Expectations
On the Road
Metamorphosis and other Kafka stories
The Name of the Rose
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Last of the Mohicans
The Mill on the Floss
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