Originally Posted by
dfloyd
It must stay in print and it must be taught in American literature classes so a new generation of lit professors are exposed to the work. Those who read Owen Wister's The Virginian and Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, felt these two would become classics. Now no one reads Wister's novel and, to my knowledge, GWTW is not taught in lit classes. While Lonesome Dove may be a good book, I don't think it will ever attain the status of "a classic". It just doen't have the universal appeal of The Great Gatsby and The Sun also Rises.
The whole world doesn't live in Texas.
