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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly not. Literature is being written today, but I think that time is the only factor which will tell us which literature is sufficiently culturally important to be worthy of being taught in schools. Doesn't need to be 100 years, but a few decades, certainly.
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I guess literature classes in the US are different from literature classes in Great Britain, then. All of the books I mentioned in my other post are books that are being taught in US schools right now. Along with Dickens, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Mark Twain and many others.
Shari