Thread: The Best CLASSIC novel of ALL TIME!
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Old 10-04-2010, 04:09 AM   #11
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But I guess I'm showing my age a bit. Having checked the publication dates (1954, 1961 and 1965), I can see how people born after (say) 1980 might well consider them classics.
And (sorry to comment on my own post), perhaps everyone thinks of "classics" as "something published a decade or more before I was born".
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