Some classics are best suited to young minds. This isn’t to say older readers can’t enjoy them, but a younger mind is often a prerequisite for full immersion. A younger reader will fall in step more readily with Sybylla Melvin from My Brilliant Career or Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and experience life as they do, which is to say, for the first time. The new is new for the protagonists and the reader alike. And I suppose this is the key. These special classics below actually reward naivete. No wonder they have all been set texts at high school at some point in their lives. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Reading The Hobbit was my first experience of not being able to put a book down. I had read engrossing books before, books I had stayed up late reading, but I had never read a book like The Hobbit. I would read it obsessively even while walking along the street. I once loitered under a narrow awning for an hour while it rained heavily standing on barely a foot of dry ground because I couldn’t bear to close the book for as long as...
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