The New Leader, December 14th, 1992
THE NEW YORK TIMES reported recently that Silas Marner, the third most frequently assigned book in American high schools 30 years ago, had disappeared completely from reading lists by the late 1980s. That bit of scholastic trivia struck a personal chord. In 1971, I was suspended indefinitely from junior-year English for refusing to read George Eliot's classic.
My nonnegotiable opposition to the book did not arise from any research. Anticipating the tactics of the self-appointed censors who have sought to expel Mark Twain and Anne Frank from high school libraries, I condemned Marner without ...
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