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You seem to have gone to extremely literature-heavy schools... Legolas Send a noteboard - 10/05/2010 09:36:27 PM
George Eliot's Silas Marner tended to be around for younger classes, and for each English classes in Uni - but she was generally mentioned, and known. If by the time you were fifteen an English teacher hadn't assigned it, or told you to read it in general, you were not in a decent school for English-teaching.

Or so I would say.

As for the ending, <points at site address>.


I mean, obviously since my native language isn't English, I can't compare much. But if I had to count the amount of classics - whether originally Dutch-language or translated - I'd been assigned by the time I was fifteen, the list would be extremely short, leaving out the texts in the classical languages (and those were only fragments anyway).
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