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Originally Posted by Superlucky
"A classic is something everyone wants to have read and no one wants to read."
~ Mark Twain
There are far greater numbers of literate people today, so its not a fair comparison. Dan Brown's novels are loved by the bourgeoisie, who couldn't even read a hundred years ago. Of course literary standards have fallen.
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I think you mean the proletariat (or working-classes), most of the bourgeoisie (middle-classes) would have been able to read in the Victorian era, I presume.
It also depends on what you mean by 'literate'.
I wonder how many people who pirate the book will actually read it or would buy it if it wasn't available to be pirated.