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Classic Literature

  • There is so much more to children’s literature than the staples from the Western world

    There is so much more to children’s literature than the staples from the Western world

    Sheila Cordner, The Conversation
    · Dec 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm
  • Can we use beloved works of literature to predict the future of cities?

    Can we use beloved works of literature to predict the future of cities?

    Alan Marshall, The Conversation
    · Apr 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm
  • How ‘Little Women’ was shaped by the stifling principles of Louisa May Alcott’s father

    How ‘Little Women’ was shaped by the stifling principles of Louisa May Alcott’s father

    Ryna Ordynat, The Conversation
    · Nov 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • The first English novel was about talking cats and its author had to keep it hidden for 10 years

    The first English novel was about talking cats and its author had to keep it hidden for 10 years

    Frances Babbage, The Conversation Rachel Stenner, The Conversation
    · Sep 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • How ‘Wuthering Heights’ became associated with a long-standing myth of incest in the Bronte family

    How ‘Wuthering Heights’ became associated with a long-standing myth of incest in the Bronte family

    Amber Pouliot, The Conversation
    · Jul 31, 2018 · 07:30 pm
  • Why I’m still reading a fat novel (‘Middlemarch’) two years after I began. I may not even finish it

    Why I’m still reading a fat novel (‘Middlemarch’) two years after I began. I may not even finish it

    Cheryl-Ann Couto
    · May 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • How a thousand-year-old Sanskrit love poem has travelled the world

    How a thousand-year-old Sanskrit love poem has travelled the world

    Anu Kumar
    · Oct 02, 2016 · 07:00 am