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Originally Posted by astra
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Usually, a classic is a book that receives the approval of more than a single generation. Hence,
Moby Dick is a classic--multiple generations look at that white whale of a book and say, "Yeah, that's a freakin' novel!"--whereas "A High Handed Outrage in Utica" was popular in its time but not afterwards.
The fuzziness and confusion comes in with the fact that classics fall along a spectrum from "THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT WORKS EVAR!!1!" down to "Meh, kinda important."