As you can see from the cover, William Boyd (no less) rates 'The Polyglots' (1925) as: "The most influential English novel of the Twentieth Century." I would be inclined to award that prize to 'Ulysses', perhaps, or else 'To the Lighthouse'. Those are both great literary masterpieces, while this, emphatically, is not. The narrative, such … Continue reading The Polyglots – William Gerhardie →