https://www.isegoria.net/2004/11/the-classics-in-the-slums/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2004/11/the-classics-in-the-slums/comment-page-1/#comment-3007656 Bruce Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:45:22 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/2004/11/the-classics-in-the-slums/#comment-3007656 Hugh Kenner’s A Sinking Island details the shift in Everyman’s Library, and the effects on its readers, when Brit copyright law changed a hundred years ago. I don’t know if longer copyright still helps the classics gain readers more than it hurts writers just old enough to be pricing themselves out.

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