Machine generated contents note: Chapter One A Desire for Singularity 12 -- Scottish Overture I 16 The Milkmaid's Iliad 18 -- Knowledge and Power 20 Literature and Dogma 29 -- Conservative Authors and Radical Readers 39 -- The Craftsman's Tools 48 -- Chapter Two Mutual Improvement 58 -- Scottish Overture II 59 Self-Culture 62 -- Proletarian Science 70 How They Got On 73 -- Chekhov in Canning Town 79 A Common Culture? 83 -- Chapter Three The Difference Between Fact and Fiction 92 -- Cinderella as Documentary 93 Audience Participation 98 -- Blood, Iron, and Scripture 102 New Crusoes 106 -- Pickwickian Realism 111 -- Chapter Four A Conservative Canon 116 -- A General Theory of Rubbish 120 The People's Bard 122 -- The Hundred Best Books 125 Everyman's Library 131 -- Catching Up 136 -- Chapter Five Willingly to School 146 -- A Better-Than-Nothing Institute 151 -- Possibilities of Infinitude 156 Strict but Just 168 -- Parental Support 172 Unmanly Education 177 -- Regrets and Discontents 182 -- Chapter Six Cultural Literacy in the Classic Slum 187 -- Sheffield 1918 190 Wagner and Hoot Gibson 196 -- Aristotle and Dr. Stopes 206 Current Affairs 220 -- The Right to Language 223 -- The Most Unlikely People Buy Books Now 230 -- Chapter Seven The Welsh Miners' Libraries 237 -- An Underground University 238 -- Marx, Jane Eyre, Tarzan 244 -- Decline and Fall 253 -- Chapter Eight The Whole Contention Concerning the Workers' -- Educational Association 256 -- The Ruskin Rebellion 258 The Diffi