The top 10 books given in books With the season of gift-giving upon us, literature provides some great examples of the delicate art of parcelling prose
WB Gooderham Wednesday 4 December 2013 12.00

 

The Son of the Wolf by Jack London. From Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov.
Poor Pnin. His life bumps gently along from one small failure to the next. Even the simple act of buying a Jack London novel for his ex-wife's visiting son, Victor, becomes yet another lesson in compromise and disappointment. Wanting a copy of Martin Eden, he is only able to find an old edition of London's lesser work The Son of the Wolf. "'I think I'm going to like this,' said polite Victor."