The National Year of Reading celebrates the ‘joy’ of books. But let’s not forget they can also be deeply troubling, too | Charlotte Higgins Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into ‘reading for pleasure’, asks Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

#NationalReadingYear www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I worry about The Youth' not reading. Maybe this is an explanation. They're disturbed by encountering 'diffficult' material. Currently re-reading #WilkieCollins' #TheMoonstone and #JamesCurtis' W.C. Fields: A Biography.

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Classics Illustrated #30, The Moonstone, Gilbertson Publishing, 1968

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Couverture du roman No Name de Wilkie Collins dans l'édition poche de Vintage Classics.

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#NoName est, après #TheWomaninWhite et #TheMoonstone le 3ème roman de #WilkieCollins que je lis. À chaque fois je suis frappée par la fluidité de son style et sa capacité à me tenir en haleine sans effets tapageurs. Plongée ds les tréfonds de l'âme humaine. Du grand art ! 😍🥰📚