Bob Cox writes \”Here\’s a Guardian Story on Jeffrey Archer, aka Prisoner FF8282, who says he read 16 novels and plays – plus uncounted volumes of short stories by five writers – in only 67 days.
In his 67 days at Wayland prison, Norfolk, he read nine Shakespeare plays which he does not name; three Dickens novels including the 1,072-page Bleak House; novels by Hermann Hesse, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, including the 768-page Sword of Honour trilogy; and short story collections by HE Bates, O Henry, Saki, Somerset Maugham and John Mortimer.
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