I agree. "The Scarlet Letter" is a classic. But in my 290 page copy, 50 pages are devoted to The Custom House, where the "manuscript" is found. A modern editor would red line that right out! Just because something is old, doesn't make it good.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lavolta Press Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:39 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Historical Films > And some of us still see it as entertainment--I found The Pickwick > Papers to be one of the funniest books I ever read, and Sam Weller is > quite possibly my favorite book character of all time. There are parts > of that book that made me positively roar with laughter, and others that > made me cry. Sometimes, the entertainment of previous days survives as > entertainment as well as art, just because it's GOOD. Absolutely. But some stuff gets canonized that probably never was very good, either because it's early, or because it's "art." And other stuff that's perfectly good, at least as entertainment, gets "lost," at least for a long time, because it goes out of style, or becauze it's by a minority author, or because it's an early work that was destroyed. Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
