Grayling has distilled the work of hundreds of authors and more than one thousan
d texts using the same techniques...that produced the holy books of the Judeo-Ch
ristian and Islamic religions. Their wit and advice, human stories, tragedies an
d yearnings, love and consolations are shaped into fourteen constituent parts th
at recall the Bible in structure: Genesis, Wisdom, Parables, Concord, Lamentatio
ns, Consolations, Sages, Songs, Histories, Proverbs, The Lawgiver, Acts, Epistle
s, and The Good...For a secular age in which many find that religion no longer s
peaks to them, 'The Good Book' is a literary tour de force.
