It was never covered in school. Nor was Holmes (well, maybe we read one short bit of him in elementary school). Shakespeare was only Romeo and Juliet, Julius Ceasar, and Hamlet. I think we had read a shortened version of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.
I thankfully took an extra class just on Shakespeare at a summer camp since the way it was taught in school was pretty bad (one teacher had us skip every scene in Ceasar that involved Portia because she didn't care for the character.
As for Austen, I've never been able to get into her work. I got about 50% through Emma before becoming bored with it, barely made it a chapter with Pride and prejudice, and got a chunk of Northanger Abbey done before getting tired of it. Granted I never read anything by Verne, either!
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Date: 2014-03-12 07:07 pm (UTC)I thankfully took an extra class just on Shakespeare at a summer camp since the way it was taught in school was pretty bad (one teacher had us skip every scene in Ceasar that involved Portia because she didn't care for the character.
As for Austen, I've never been able to get into her work. I got about 50% through Emma before becoming bored with it, barely made it a chapter with Pride and prejudice, and got a chunk of Northanger Abbey done before getting tired of it. Granted I never read anything by Verne, either!