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Durrington High - posh? Haha!

I agree completely (except for being made to read Hardy!) The comment about Dylan Thomas was that Thomas was a self-confessed communist. I believe that Under Milk Wood is on the list as is Priestley's An Inspector Calls.

Blimey, I do hope you're wrong. The idea that writers are omitted from reading lists for their political views doesn't seem possible in 21st century Britain. And I'd further be surprised because in which case JB Priestley would need to be removed from the list also. George Orwell certainly...

Agree completely. I would have loved to have studied Catch-22 when I was younger (not sure it's on any syllabus though). When I read that in my 20s it changed forever how I thought about literature but saying that 'Catcher In the Rye' another American classic leaves me stone cold. Self-indulgent...

Hmm..'better'. I think it comes down to personal taste. But regardless of that asking British kids to read a couple more British books by the likes of Orwell, Austen, Conrad and Woolf and a couple less of Harper Lee, Fitzgerald or Steinbeck is certainly NOT going to turn well-adjusted children...

Eh? I can assure you that I didn't read any of those books when I was younger but somehow I learned about morals. Are morals only learned from reading those books? Back in the day all English Literature O levels were from British authors. I studied Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens. And I learned...