There is a certain pleasure that is derived from reading the classics that cannot be experienced by reading contemporary literature. That is not to assert a kind of chronological snobbery that says older literature is automatically better literature. There is plenty of older literature that has been forgotten or ignored because it lacked the peculiar qu…
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