School classes and literature. You can burn young people so easily and never have them reading a book voluntarily... Keep them interested! At the same time it should allow the teacher to hold up something that can be debated about and can be conmpared, and made a lecture on.
Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles
T. Williams: The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
David Lindsay: The Haunted Woman
Judging by own school experience, I wold generally saY: avoid the "typical old classics", they do more damage for most students than they do good for a few: too boring, leaving students to be too desinterested. Young people interested in classic literature will discover and explore it all by themselves when time is ripe for it. Do never force this old heavy stuff onto the young minds.
And as a special tip for the more exotically interested class or for what in German would be called "Leistungskurs":
Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast 1, and if time and interest allows: 2 (skipping 3 is no loss). Its because of the intense and artistic narration and verbal description of characters and places, both of which is magnificent.
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