A The New York Review of Ideas article looks at the controversy surrounding the history of the textbook that “set the reading lists for British Literature courses throughout the world—its impossibly thin pages introducing Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to generation after generation of college students” since the release of its first edition in 1962. The book is one of the references in our western literary heritage class. ■
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Karlo: I too had this text book. The information in the article wasn’t too surprising. The entire text book system is a RACKET. Pathetic but still a racket.
complex post. simply one decimal where I bicker with it. I am emailing you in detail.