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Originally Posted by HarryT
Shakespeare and Dickens were the mainstay of English Lit classes in my long-ago schooldays. I remember for sure reading "David Copperfield", "Great Expectations"," Julius Caesar", "Macbeth", and "Romeo and Juliet". The only other author I remember reading in school was William Golding's "Lord of the Flies".
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I don't know how I forgot Dickens! I had to read
A Tale of Two Cities and
David Copperfield, but
Great Expectations is actually one of my favorite books.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
I have (well I listened to it).  We read it for the MR book club one month... |
I guess I need to pick a different book that nobody finishes.
Atlas Shrugged maybe? I suppose it should be a book that people actually start, though.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
British schools tend not to read translations as set books, so we stuck to British authors. If you read a translation of a book like "Anna Karenina", how much of Tolstoy are you reading, and how much the interpretation of the translator?
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In college, a German lit class required reading
Effi Briest and
Faust in both German and English. I don't think I would have done something like that on my own, but found it absolutely fascinating.