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You're not a philistine for not reading them, but I think they repay the effort.
My favourite George Orwell is A Homage to Catalonia, which we did not read in school.
Ditto Laurie Lee's As I walked Out One Midsummer's Morning (we read Cider with Rosie.)
No doubt you've read some Australian classics I've never heard of.
Aussies and Kiwis have some outstanding children's authors - Margaret Mahy for example.
I read Picnic at Hanging Rock recently. Okay it's not highbrow, but I was embarrassed to have missed it all these years. Tim Winton is anothor author I'm late discovering, as is Thomas Keneally.
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