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LITERARY CLASSICS STILL A GAS FOR '90S READERS, SAYS PROF.(AT HOME)

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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 19971227
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Byline: Bob Hoover Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

With the U.S. book market awash in new titles every year - 1997's total should hit 48,000 - why should anybody outside an English class feel compelled to read Theodore Dreiser or Stephen Crane?

For the pleasure of it, argues Andrew Delbanco, who teaches the American classics at Columbia University.

Delbanco makes his case in ''Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now'' (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, $24), a series of essays on writers ranging from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston. Most of the pieces ...

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