
One book on the list:
The Saddest StoryRead about the top two titles on Mullan's list.
What Ford Madox Ford had wanted to call his 1915 masterpiece; he had offered an alternative, The Good Soldier, to his publisher as a joke. The publisher, however, rejected his preference, worried that it would render the novel "unsaleable" in wartime.
The Page 99 Test: The Good Soldier.
--Marshal Zeringue