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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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 We covered it in the late 70s / early 80s.
Probably at least, I certainly read it about then and assume it was because of school, it's possible I ran out of books and read it myself though.
At the least it must have been either assigned reading or popular though