In a fun variation on the best-books-of-the-year compilations, Stuart Kelly looks (in some depth) at 'what The Scotsman said about books of a century ago', in 100 years on: The best books of 1911.
Lots of fun titbits (and a surprising number of books that are still read).
But Kelly notes:
But Kelly notes:
Perhaps the most glaring omission from our literary coverage in 1911 is the absence -- except for an advert -- of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome.Meanwhile Gaston Leroux's The Phantom Of The Opera was found to be: "weird, ingenious and thrilling".