Classic Novels

Green Lights, Yo! 'The Great Gatsby' Is All The Rage Again

Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: 3d Movies, Great Gatsby, Entourage Gatsby, Anna Karenina, Classic Novels, Baz Luhrmann, Big Budget Movies, Great Gatsby 3d, F Scott Fitzgerald, Carey Mulligan, Summer Reading, Californication Gatsby, Video, Culture News

I don't know how it happened, but after 80 years F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel "The Great Gatsby" has become the coolest, most talked about thing in the world.

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'Second Bananas' Who Were First-Rate Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Wilkie Collins, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Classic Novels, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Underrated Novels, Underrated Authors, Mark Twain, Books News

Why do some 19th-century novelists resemble the pre-2004 Boston Red Sox or some current singers other than Adele? This post will explain!

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Literary Mixtape: Harriet The Spy

Flavorwire | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Literary Characters, Classic Novels, Children's Books, Harriet the Spy, Harriet the Spy Mixtape, Women News

If you've ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble,...

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10 Reading-Related Resolutions for 2012

Dave Astor | Posted 02.20.2012

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As New Year's Day nears, it's time for some book-related resolutions!

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Reading Iconic Novels Later in Life: Worth the Wait?

Dave Astor | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Classic Novels, Classic Literature, East of Eden, Classic Books, Don Quixote, All Quiet Remarque, Best Classic Books, Books News

As a teen and young adult, I managed to polish off some famous books. But, for various reasons, other renowned novels remained tantalizingly in my future.

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'On The Rocky Road' And Other Junk Food Novels

Madeleine Crum | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Book News, Food Books, Book Food, Junk Food, Junk Food Novels, Puns, Classic Novels, Book Puns, Books News

Sure, we've heard of Proust's Madeleine, that little lemon cookie that packs a punch, and the enticing dinner parties Mrs. Ramsey is known for whippin...

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A Dearth of Mirth at the End of Many Great Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Unhappy Endings, Wilkie Collins, Classic Novels, The House of Mirth, George Orwell, Novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

After just finishing The House of Mirth, I'm reminded once again that many great novels don't have happy endings.

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Sexpert Susie Bright: The Novel I Read a Million Jillion Times

Susie Bright | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Classic Novels, Paul Zindel, Dashiell Hammett, Charles Portis, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lost in Translation, True Grit, Coen Brothers, Favorite Books, Eloise, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Judy Blume, Harriet the Spy, Law and Order, The Big Lebowski, Books We Love, Books News

How did reading get to be such a faster-pussycat-hurry-up activity? We listen to favorite songs over and over without apology or distraction. They make us feel good, no explanation necessary. But with books, there's this myth that it takes a "long time".

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Loving Jane Austen

Lev Raphael | Posted 10.31.2011

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Jane Austen is so popular these days she's probably been a write-in candidate in more than one election. Who knows, she might even have won some of them. I'd vote for her.

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How's That Novel of Yours Doing?

Terence Clarke | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Literary Agents, Novels, Book Publishing, Ernest Hemingway, Literary Canon, Classic Novels, Writing a Novel, Books News

The wish for fame, so illusory a thing, can kill you. Or at least, it can kill your novel.

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The Art of Not Finishing a Famous Book

Dave Astor | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Marcel Proust, Famous Books, Erich Maria Remarque, Classic Novels, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Charles Dickens, Holocaust, Isbn, George Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

I realize that continuing to slog through a novel that says "stop reading me" after 100 pages may pay dividends when I reach the end of the book. Dense can turn into sophisticated, confusing into illuminating.

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The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History

Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!

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Vonnegut Library And ACLU Respond To Missouri School's Book Banning

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.05.2011

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In response to the Republic, Mo., school board's controversial decision last week to remove "Slaughterhouse-Five" from its high school library and cur...

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