The term “classical” is used for the literature of any language in a period notable for the excellent quality of its writers’ works. It is also a term used to note that something is pure, genuine and ...

Tolstoy, Austen and Dickens. The legends of literature like F. Scott Fitzgerald, who could convey stories with immaculate detail and clarity, seem to have been forgotten in the 21st century. In the ...

This post was updated Feb. 1 at 8:19 p.m. Your AP Lit summer reading is coming to a theater near you. In October 2025, director Guillermo del Toro retold the tale of Frankenstein and his startlingly ...

You know what drives me crazy? When everyone agrees on something in literature that's just plain wrong. We've all heard the ...

I START from a patent fact,—the widespread ignorance of classical literature on the part of persons who have received a classical education. It is not the scholarship of scholars that is here impugned ...

Teachers at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington, voted in February to remove "To Kill a Mockingbird" from required reading material for ninth graders, while still allowing teachers to teach the ...

Classic books stand the test of time by capturing readers’ attention generation after generation. They focus on themes that people across continents, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic circumstances ...

The stunning poetry, prose, history and philosophy of classical Indian literature. Emerging in a huge new collection. We’ll dip in. The Hindu god Krishna and Gopis in the forest. (WikiCommons) Talk of ...

The classics are making a comeback. The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are suddenly reentering the zeitgeist. Guillermo del ...

Ava Morris keeps a sizable collection of classical literature at her Post Falls home – with Shakespeare, Dante, Austen and T.S. Eliot among her favorite authors. Graduating June 13 from the Oaks ...