The promise of literature in the coming days: the best hundred Irish books controversy of 1886

In January 1886 Sir John Lubbock, a Liberal MP and scientist, addressed the members of the London Working Men's College on “Books and Reading,” and recommended a list of a “hundred good books.” The Pall Mall Gazette decided to publicise the list, as “the hundred best books,” a small but signifi...

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Main Author: Clare Hutton
Format: Default Article
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/18903
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