![]() ![]() Now, I did have some trouble getting over a pretty serious bout of literary snobbery I used to be all about the classics and the classics only. ![]() And this trait has proven to be what makes a classic just ask any professor of literature. No matter the genre, if there is at least some little bit of emotion, a situation, a theme, or so on, to which a reader can relate, well, that’s the good part. Universality – Encarta says: “relating to, affecting, or including everyone in a group or situation relating to, affecting, or accepted by the whole world” – is what makes me, a twenty-first century American, want to jump cannon-ball-style into Tolstoy’s 187Os Russia in Anna Karenina. For me, and I daresay many others, universality is the most significant standard. People have different ideas of what makes a book good. ![]() “Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.” ![]()
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