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Originally Posted by HarryT
Thank you - that's very interesting to know. I wonder if it's perhaps gained in popularity in the UK in the last 40 or so years? It certainly didn't feature in my schooldays in the 1970s.
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With a publication date of 1960,
Mockingbird in the 70s might have been too old to be current, but not old enough to be considered a classic. I think most books have that trajectory; the issue is if they emerge as a classic after being considered stale.
I think in any case and quite reasonably, school curricula are slow to incorporate fresh-minted classics. Somewhat less so now, as they're afraid not to be relevant.