I wonder if, in addition to those three reasons (which I think are likely true), it may also be that in the case of these works, they were deliberately aiming for "literature", which in its written form nowadays tends towards the vicious in its humour and the bleak or unhappy in its subjects.
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Date: 2010-05-23 21:35 (UTC)