When you read Tolstoy in English, you are reading someone else's interpretation. Translators make thousands of invisible ...

It has been a century since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal classic “The Great Gatsby.” Since then, it has become a staple in classrooms around the United States, a definitive member ...

When we think about classic literature, we generally think about high school English. Or dusty, leather bound volumes on a shelf. Or films starring Keira Knightley. We generally don't think about ...

Classics are not the best books ever written. They are the books that survived a flawed selection process., Books, Times Now ...

Deakin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Should Australians be as familiar with David Williamson as with Shakespeare? Should we measure our Jane Austen with sufficient ...

For the purposes of this article, classics are defined as literary works that “meet some common high standards for quality, appeal, longevity, and influence.” “Classics are still important to read and ...