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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found all the Dickens I was forced to read was excruciatingly long. That's when I found out his stories were not written as novels. They were written as serials that were published monthly. It's nothing more than Victorian soap opera. The stories aren't bad, they just go on for twice the length as necessary to promote magazine sales. [/quote]

In my experience a lot of "great literature" is literature that survived because it was popular in its day and wasn't necessarily written with literary merit in mind.  A lot of it was the Harry Potter and Twilight of its day.

Although a priceless piece of history, Beowulf written today would probably be considered some B-grade pulp monster tale, a few steps below the two popular (and widely scorned) series mentioned above.  I'm not arguing that they are literary masterpieces, but it wouldn't surprise terribly if in a few centuries schoolchildren were asked to read them and write about the themes the author was trying to convey.

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You make a good point but I wouldn't call the Harry Potter books "widely scorned". Many prominent literary critics actually praised them.[/quote]

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