Howard Jacobson - If we doubt the power of lit...

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

Howard Jacobson

British Novelist

Born: Aug 25, 1942

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