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Oscar Wilde: To Read or Not to Read (1886) (online-literature.com)
1 point by sherilm on Feb 7, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



>Indeed, it is one that is eminently needed in this age of ours, an age that reads so much, that it has no time to admire, and writes so much, that it has no time to think. Whoever will select out of the chaos of our modern curricula 'The Worst Hundred Books,' and publish a list of them, will confer on the rising generation a real and lasting benefit.




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