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Debtors’ prisons inflicted untold misery in the 18th-19th centuries, with people facing unlimited imprisonment if they could not pay off their debts

Difficult and challenging they may be, but this list of the best daunting books is well worth a read.

I turned on the TV late last night, just in time to catch the closing moments of Truffaut’s “Fahrenheit 451.” You remember the scene. In a world where the printed word has been forbidden, a little colony of book lovers lives by the side of a lake in the woods. Each one has dedicated his life to memorizing the contents of one book. They walk slowly back and forth on paths through the snow, reciting the words over and over, and their voices form a litany of familiar passages. “Little Dorrit” is like a film made in the same spirit. It is a six-hour epic in two parts, with 242 speaking r...

Last modified on Thu 8 Jul 2021 11.30 EDT The terrible loneliness of success is the subject of this absorbing movie, equal in some strange way to the loneliness of failure; it’s also about the secret and shameful feeling that failure is the one truthful state of being, which the successful person has had to renounce. Martin Eden is also about capitalism and enterprise and the great 20th-century promise that hard work and an audacious gamble on a certain career path at the start of one’s life can carry anyone, however lowly born, on to riches. And more importantly, it is about the di...