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Old 08-28-2012, 07:16 AM   #60
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Personally, I do think that classics can be low-brow, as well as high-brow. Your example, "Gone with the Wind", is a good one. As long as it exhibits a lasting perception of excellence within a class, anything can be a classic.
Totally agree. Nothing "highbrow" about Sir Henry Rider Hagard's "King Solomon's Mines", to give another example - it's a "boys' own adventure story" - but I'd certainly regard it as a classic. To me a classic is a book that's stood the test of time. Any book which has remained constantly in print for over a century is most assuredly a classic, IMHO.
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