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Ever wondered how some people seem to have an opinion on every book ever published? Nowadays, there are so many books: how can anyone be well read anymore? Well, help is at hand. Let Henry Hitchings educate you in the invaluable skill of literary bluffing in this survivor's guide to talking about books you haven't read. With tips on how to bluff with confidence using quotable insights and invaluable trivia, Henry Hitchings covers all the great books you ought to have read but haven't got round to yet. If you want to be able to hold your own in a debate about Stephen Hawking or Philip Roth or perhaps you find Shakespeare or Dostoevsky intimidating, then look no further. Including literary heavyweights such as Ulysses, Bleak House and War and Peace this guide will equip you with all the bookish information you need to bluff your way through any scenario, be it a vital exam, an in-depth conversation at the pub or chatting up the potential love of your life. Contents includes, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Henry James, James Joyce, Proust, Homer, Virgil, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Dickens, various contemporary writers, the Bible, the Koran, fairy tales, select bestsellers and some poetry.

1. First things first: why to talk about books you haven't read?

2. Would you invite Jane Austen to your dinner party?

3. Speaking with the dead: Virgil arid Homer, Latin and Greek

4. What's the point of Ulysses?

5.  Would you really want to join the Dante Club?

6. Do you need to bother with poetry?

7. Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing?

8. What's actually in the Bible?

9.  How do you talk about the Qur'an?

10. Can Proust change your life?

11. Why the l~ussians? Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

12. Why do people keep on about the nineteenth- century novel?

13. Who on earth is Henry James?

14.  Two 'unreadables': Don Quixote and The Tale of Genii

15. The other old tales: Aesop, Chaucer and the Arabian Nights

16. How do you get a philosopher offyour doorstep?I i

17. A short history of rather less than everything: science and the big ideas

18. Who matters now? The Great American Novel and its thin British cousin

19. Popular books: is there any excuse?

20. And so, with one eye on the exit...

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