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1 author picked Don't, Mr. Disraeli! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A comic novel from 1940, ostensibly a reworking of Romeo and Juliet set in the 19th century. Don’t Mister Disraeli is in fact a wild rampage through Victorian fiction and history. The only book I know of that’s influenced by both the Marx Brothers and JW Dunne’s An Experiment In Time, this is Alice In Wonderland as a history lesson and it’s brilliant.
From David's list on The best books for expanding the mind through pleasure and strangeness.
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