Resistance to classics often comes from the wrong introductions. These books prove that older literature can be gripping, ...

To Kill a Mockingbird. 1984. Pride & Prejudice. Catch-22. Each of these novels is considered a timeless treasure, a piece of literature that impacted generations with its themes and social commentary.

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 ...

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

In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of ...

They were cheap. They were fun. They made us feel smart. What was not to love? Responding to a column I wrote about “the greatest books you’ve never read,” two readers suggested that, thanks to ...

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