I wrote this a few years ago at my personal blog, which I am now decommissioning. I thought I’d save this piece to share here with fellow Wodehouse lovers. This week, I enjoyed a piece called ‘Judging a Book by Its Cover: A 6-year-old guesses what classic novels are all about. It inspired me to conduct a similar exercise of my own. I showed the covers of 7 classic novels – one from each category of  ‘The Guardian’s list of 1000 novels everyone must read) – to five people, of different ages, who had not read these books. I asked … Continue reading Cover Story: 5 people share their ideas about Classic Novels they’ve never read