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In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian\u2019s 100 best novels list<\/a>, I was determined to get it back<\/p>\n

It is a privilege to be surrounded by books. My parents hail from the literary working class, a subsection of society that believes great works lead to a richer life. Reading for them was an inverted form of class snobbery. My dad could read as well as anyone. He\u2019d prove it on package holidays, sitting on the balcony the entire time, head bowed, cigarette in hand, flicking through the pages of Jane Austen<\/a> or Herman Melville<\/a>. The only difference between my old man and an old Etonian was the drudgery of employment. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: work is the bane of the reading class.<\/p>\n

As for my own reading life, my mum wore me down, shouting \u201cRead a book!\u201d any time I dared say I was bored. I soon capitulated. I was nudged towards the classics, defined by Italo Calvino<\/a> as books people say they should \u201creread\u201d because they\u2019ve either read them or do not want to admit they have not. In my late teens and 20s, I worked my way through the greats. I fell in love with a woman called George and thought Middlemarch was magic<\/a>. I was a smart lad, prone to bad decisions, unsure of my place in the world. It is perhaps no surprise that I identified with Dorothea.<\/p>\n

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