During the summer of 1951 books, like many other things, will be very much on display all over the British Isles.

Preface.

The idea of getting each country in the world to make a list of the hundred most worthy classics in its literature came from Unesco.

Part I. One hundred writers representative of the varied achievement of our time.

This century of books is the choice of two people of fairly similar tastes.

Part II. One hundred books chosen to illustrate the renascence of book design in Great Britain.