A thousand novels might sound like an awful lot of pages and a dizzying number of words, but the idea behind this series was always to come up with a list that was, in its own way, realistic.

• 一千本小说，可能听起来是一个好像是有非常多的书页和令人眼花缭乱的语句数，但在这一系列漫长的书页和语句数背后的思想观念通常也会提出一张清单。