The best book ever is "Middlemarch", by George Eliot. You can look this book up by looking up the classics section of www.oup.co.uk
...While the best painting is by George Seurat, La Grande Jatte. You can see another such pointilliste painting, by Signac, in the Irish National Gallery. To find out about the national gallery, go to www.nationalgallery.ie
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While that comment was rather whimsical, I make up for it below - to understand how see my essay on "Bronte and the Law: Puzzles in Wuthering Heights". See below.