this is what took me a long time to realise, and was really in part due to schooling. All the classics are about gritty human life, about the pain and joys of l

this is what took me a long time to realise, and was really in part due to schooling. All the classics are about gritty human life, about the pain and joys of life and death. One teacher managed to bring that over, the rest transformed these great works of literature in dull grinding and rote learning.