http://classiclit.about.com/ Classic Literature http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/07/16/grow-old-wise-or-just-old.htm How does dying affect art: literature and music? In this collection of essays, Edward Said explores the last works of writers and musicians, including Thomas Mann, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Samuel... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/07/16/grow-old-wise-or-just-old.htm 2008-07-16T20:19:32Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/07/12/to-live-walden-pond.htm Henry David Thoreau is one of the most studied writers in American literature--not for fiction, but for a nonfiction collection about his stay at Walden Pond. Thoreau was born on... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/07/12/to-live-walden-pond.htm 2008-07-12T22:21:11Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/07/05/to-sing-to-kill-a-mockingbird.htm Why would you kill a mockingbird? Harper Lee is famous for her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (she also received the Pulitzer Prize). In this famous work of fiction, Harper Lee... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/07/05/to-sing-to-kill-a-mockingbird.htm 2008-07-05T02:18:19Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/07/01/universal-focus-in-literature.htm There's something to be said for creating a work of literature that can stand the test of time. Many writers of today go to great (and painstaking) lengths in the... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/07/01/universal-focus-in-literature.htm 2008-07-01T22:10:31Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/30/romantic-types-readers-looking-for-romance-are-you.htm Summer is the time of weddings, and the season for nuptials is well underway. While you're preparing for your own wedding, watching someone you know walk down the aisle, or... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/30/romantic-types-readers-looking-for-romance-are-you.htm 2008-06-30T22:27:51Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/28/the-instrument-of-creation.htm It's the dream of some: To live forever, to be remembered far after the last breath has ceased. Luigi Pirandello was born on June 28, 1867. He was awarded the Nobel... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/28/the-instrument-of-creation.htm 2008-06-28T22:06:57Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/24/the-moon-like-a-strange-foreign-thing.htm I remember when I first read E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. I'd heard for such a long time that the book was marvelous, descriptive, unforgettable... but I don't think... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/24/the-moon-like-a-strange-foreign-thing.htm 2008-06-24T01:01:57Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/22/inevitable-fate.htm Erich Maria Remarque was born on June 22, 1898. He would later be in the unique position to write his famous war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, after... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/22/inevitable-fate.htm 2008-06-22T01:57:10Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/21/lost-in-the-sea.htm The Awakening is the famous (and very controversial) novel by Kate Chopin. Edna is the protagonist of the work. We see her life, her relationship with her husband and children,... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/21/lost-in-the-sea.htm 2008-06-21T01:48:33Z http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/19/making-tracks-or-remembering-characters.htm Whether you're reading a novel for a literature class, or enjoying a book on the beach, characters are the vehicles that often help to drive the plot. They make you... http://classiclit.about.com/b/2008/06/19/making-tracks-or-remembering-characters.htm 2008-06-19T01:50:03Z