i can certainy tell that when i go round peoples houses their bookshelves tend to have your classics, dickens, tolstoy, hardy etc in full view for visitors. invariably this is pretentious snobbery as they have never usually read them and are trying to project a false vision of academia and worldy knowledge. i find most people who rattle on about the 'great works' they have read are bores, what do they want? a biscuit?
so even though i do have these books, i hide them behind them behind my beano annuals and tom sharpe collection. i am a pretentious snob, but i don;t want everyone else to know.
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