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Thanks for reading our post! There are definitely a lot of discussions to be had about “classics”; you’re right when you say that the definition must be constantly changing.

Thank you for reading our post! We are glad you found it interesting. The Handmaid’s Tale is a tricky book to place; it was published in 1985, and so, like We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is in between the years that we would usually associate with “classics” and “contemporary novels”. It contains a lot of elements and styles of the books we normally call “classics”, but then Margaret Atwood is still very much a contemporary writer. A sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is even being published this year, which suggests it is not a “classic”. Thanks for raising this question; it is an interesting one to consider.

It is such a tough question! Thanks for reading our post!

We’re glad you enjoyed this post! You make an interesting comparison to cars; it is strange that such different rules apply to books – perhaps it is because books have been around for longer than cars?

Thanks for reading our post! We are so glad you enjoyed it. It’s definitely an issue, particularly because the word “classic” is used so often.