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Namekuseijin · 06-09-2011, 12:04 PM

BTW, this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics

is an incredibly outdated list. Just take a look at Modern English Drama. Not a hint of most 19th century novels anywhere, because they, well, were basically sitcoms of the day and did not deserve such praise as to appear in student classes back in 1910 when the collection was first published. Thus, they were no classics.

I prefer to just browse the huge gutenberg collection and read at will...

06-09-2011, 12:04 PM	#53
Namekuseijin affordable chipmunk Posts: 1,290 Karma: 9863855 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Brazil Device: Sony XPeria ZL, Kindle Paperwhite	BTW, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics is an incredibly outdated list. Just take a look at Modern English Drama. Not a hint of most 19th century novels anywhere, because they, well, were basically sitcoms of the day and did not deserve such praise as to appear in student classes back in 1910 when the collection was first published. Thus, they were no classics. I prefer to just browse the huge gutenberg collection and read at will...