Of Mice and Men
Author: John Steinbeck, a 20th-century American writer The heart-rending story of the friendship between two ranch hands during the Great Depression in California, this controversial novel exploring loneliness and shattered…
Classics demystified – A fresh look at Classics.
Oedipus Rex
Author: Sophocles, an ancient Greek tragedian King Oedipus, the 5th century B.C.E. Greek play by Sophocles, narrates the tragic tale of Oedipus, drawing on legends and myths of ancient Greece.…
Nineteen Eighty-four
Author: George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was a 20th-century English novelist. Set in London, in Airstrip One province of Oceania, one of three superstates in the fictitious…
Moby-Dick or The Whale
Author: Herman Melville, a 19th-century American novelist of the American Renaissance period This unique novel written in mid-nineteenth century America has since captured the world’s imagination with its fascinating descriptions…
Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert, a 19th-century French novelist. Flaubert’s debut novel and masterpiece, this mid-nineteenth century French fiction is a scandalous account of a provincial doctor’s wife engaging in adulterous affairs.…
Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding, a 20th-century British novelist, playwright, and poet Golding takes the format of popular island adventures, particularly that of Ballantyne’s Victorian novel Coral Island, and paints a stark…
Lord Jim
Author: Joseph Conrad, a late 19th century & early 20th century Polish-British writer An extraordinary story of a man’s lifelong quest for redemption and restoration of his honor, the narrative…
King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare, a 16th century English playwright, poet and actor Lear, king of Britain, distributes his kingdom among his daughters Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. When he asks his daughters…
Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Brontë, a nineteenth-century English novelist and poet. Jane Eyre is both the first-person narrator and the spirited protagonist of this nineteenth-century iconic novel. It is the story of…
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou, a twentieth-century American writer, poet, and civil rights activist. The first of Maya Angelou’s seven-part autobiography, this coming-of-age story of literary brilliance describes Maya dealing with rape…