"The Ingoldsby Legends"
Having read various H Rider Haggard books earlier this year, I remembered Allan Quatermain saying that he wasn't a literary man, having only ever read The Bible and The Ingoldsby Legends. A few weeks ago, I just happened to come across an 1882 edition of The Ingoldsby Legends in the bookcase that we'd inherited from my wife's parents, which I am now reading.
Geoff