In the 1865 book "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, this sentence appears in the very first paragraph. Alice would have been delighted to see the popularity of the graphic novels in the twenty-first century, which contain nothing else but pictures & (brief) conversations in bubbles!
These reader-friendly versions of even notoriously difficult "classic" literature like the books of Proust & Virgil, have brought them to a vast new readership. Some like "To Kill A Mockingbird" have added a new primarily visual dimension to the story. These may serve as introductions to the full original versions, if the readers have been gripped by the graphic version.
So instead of bemoaning them as aberrations of the original works, they can be welcomed as a new gateway to the enthralling works of great literature.
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