The result is that a confused total of nearly 350 titles are nominated, with Graham Swift getting more titles chosen than Jonathan Swift, and Salman Rushdie more than George Eliot or Thomas Hardy.Ī mere two votes were enough to put a book in the survey's top 20 titles. However, many of the respondents took for granted that these works were accepted as classics and chose titles from this century, and, in some cases, from the last 25 years. The poll's question left it open to voters to nominate novels from earlier centuries. However, Joyce's story of a single day in the life of Dublin is beloved to 11 of the poll contributors - five more than the Proust or Fitzgerald novels. In his contribution to the survey, Mr de Botton declares: 'Writers could help their readers by writing short books - nothing you couldn't finish on a London-Edinburgh shuttle flight'. This makes it rather unreadable and very difficult'. Last night the British author Alain de Botton said that, while he did not want to knock Ulysses, 'it is over-long and there are parts which are boring. In 1997 it did well in a more popular test by reaching fourth place in a Waterstone's poll of 25,000 British readers.
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Ulysses has already topped a poll held in 1996 of the editorial board of the American publishers Random House. This appeared to be the result of muddle in the way questions were put to and answered by the 47 authors, critics and media personalities who voted in the poll. But the poll, by the bookshop chain Waterstone's, will cause shock and some controversy in the literary world not only by placing Kingsley Amis's comic novel Lucky Jim equal in sixth place with Tolstoy's War and Peace but by putting his son Martin's novel Money equal seventh with Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and D H Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.
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These were followed in the top five by George Orwell's 1984 and Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby came equal second with another allegedly unread work, Marcel Proust's Remembrance Of Things Past.
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James Joyce's Ulysses today outlives its stubborn image as an admired but unread - and in some views unreadable - tome to be confirmed as the twentieth century's most respected prose fiction classic.Īfter scoring high in other surveys, it emerges easily as top of a poll of British literary folk held to find '10 essential classic novels for the next 100 years'.