It was in the news the other day. Apparently it is being made a 'required reading book', which I think is something that is part of the core syllabus, rather than optional. I notice in the same article they talked about why they did not stick to quality books, which were regarded as challenging. A professor of English cited the Jane Eyre classic as a good example of a book that was on the A level curriculum.
I was about to agree with him but then I recalled reading that book at school about two years before doing my O levels and I did not even take the literature one, it was on the standard English O level list. I didn't find it challenging then, indeed it was about the only book I actually appreciated since we has some really dire ones to read like the book 'Of Mice and Men' and I hated all the slang and dumbing down in that. I was not good at English at all either, it was one of my weakest subjects and mainly because the reading material was so awful that the only thing I used to read were technical books. The Jane Eyre one inspired me though, it was the only one that did.
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