[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

My ninth grade english teacher had us read Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.......if I ever run across her I'll slap her silly.

You should kiss her. She could have made you read Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles...*shudder*

Thank God I can choose what I teach in Brit Lit! Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare, Paradise Lost, etc. That's real literature!

[Borges]

Do you just dislike Victorian Lit? Tess is one of the greatest prose tragedies in English.