The question comes from pure curiosity. I don't believe my kids (now in mid fifties) have ever spent much time reading the Classics, and so I wonder if this is a sign of the times, or just a matter of personal interest.
(for purposes of any discussion, a purely arbitrary definition of Classics to mean Authors before the TV age... 1950's)
Names like Dickens, Tolstoy, Homer, Orwell, Rand, Huxley, Hawthorne, Dostoyevski, Shakespeare, Twain, Marx, Doyle, Melville... and any of the thousands of authors generally acknowledged to have had a lasting impact on literature.
A matter of? early education, social upbringing, neighborhood, intellect, family tradition... or just the way it happened....the list goes on forever.
So, either way... Whether you read older literature, (the main question), current literature, or read very little... Why? or Why not?
(for purposes of any discussion, a purely arbitrary definition of Classics to mean Authors before the TV age... 1950's)
Names like Dickens, Tolstoy, Homer, Orwell, Rand, Huxley, Hawthorne, Dostoyevski, Shakespeare, Twain, Marx, Doyle, Melville... and any of the thousands of authors generally acknowledged to have had a lasting impact on literature.
A matter of? early education, social upbringing, neighborhood, intellect, family tradition... or just the way it happened....the list goes on forever.
So, either way... Whether you read older literature, (the main question), current literature, or read very little... Why? or Why not?