Thread: Harry Potter - Popular, but never to be a Classic
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Old 11-02-2020, 02:31 AM   #158
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
And I wager some of the books written in the 19th century were thought to be 'classic' worthy and yet are long forgotten while others disparaged as 'popular' fiction at the time have remained in the public eye.
And vice-versa. Some wildly popular 19th Century fiction is now forgotten. Have you heard of G. M. W. Reynolds? He was more popular than Dickens and Thackeray, described as “the most published man of the 19th century” and “the most popular writer of his time”.
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