London - James Joyce's Ulysses emerges easily as top of a poll of British literary folk held to find "10 essential classic novels for the next 100 years". Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby came equal second with Marcel Proust's Remembrance Of Things Past. These were followed in the top five by George Orwell's 1984 and Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse.
But the poll, by the book shop chain Waterstone's, will cause shock and some controversy in the literary world not only by placing Kingsley Amis's comic novel Lucky Jim equal in sixth place with Tolstoy's War and Peace but by putting his son Martin's novel Money equal seventh with books including Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.