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Who decides that a book becomes a classic and how much of it comes down to the syllabus Why does the nineteenth century still supply most of what we call timeless I have started Middlemarch four times and never got past chapter twenty The footnotes in a Penguin edition tell you which jokes you were supposed to laugh at Abridged editions of the great novels and what the abridgement quietly decides for you Is there a classic that everybody praises and almost nobody finishes Why does every translation of the Odyssey sound like a different poet wrote it Old novels carry assumptions about race and empire and the preface rarely mentions it The books that were bestsellers in their own century and are homework now Reading a classic in the original is a different book from reading it in translation

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