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The Canon as set by Authors Cards
Last night, when moving boxes in the basement, I came across a true
find. My set of authors cards from the 1950s, purchased by my mother for me for the price of 15 cents. Curiously, though, even before they were found, I have been ruminating on the effect of such games on our perception of both the importance of literature and what constitutes the central body of literature - the canon as the term is now used. For me, the game was truly educational. In part from those cards, I learned to appreciate good literature. But that also came in part from the fact that my mother read to me and taught me to read at an early age and brought me to the public library to take out books. I lived on Albert Payson Terhune books for a year or so. The cards did direct you to consider that these writers were the best. In fact, I came to read some works because they were "in the cards". And I wonder now if we were to re-create the game once more, what authors would make the list. The list, I should note, while not all children's oriented books, are books that are at least accessible to children, mostly, perhaps. Hamlet? The Scarlet Letter? Idylls of the King? I note that while I acquired this set of cards in the 1950s, there is not one 20th century author in the group. Anyway, here are the authors and the works selected for the game I had: Shakespeare Julius Caesar Romeo and Juliet The Tempest Hamlet Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe Kenilworth The Lady of the Lake The Talisman Nathaniel Hawthorne House of Seven Gables The Wonder Book Twice-Told Tales The Scarlet Letter Louisa May Alcott Little Women Little Men An Old-Fashioned Girl Eight Cousins James Fenimore Cooper The Deerslayer The Pathfinder The Last of the Mohicans The Spy Washington Irving Tales of a Traveler Rip Van Winkle Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Alhambra Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Courtship of Miles Standish The Village Blacksmith Evangeline Song of Hiawatha Charles Dickens David Copperfield Oliver Twist A Christmas Carol The Pickwick Papers Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Brook Crossing the Bar Idylls of the King Charge of the Light Brigade Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn The Prince and the Pauper The Mysterious Stranger Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Kidnapped Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde A Child's Garden of Verses Francis A. Miniter |
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