What makes a classic book? Come along on a journey through the classics as we discover how a book becomes exalted above others - and whether they're still relevant today. Oh, and yeah, The Odyssey makes its episodic appearance.
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Swept Away by Beth O’Leary
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Once there were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
What makes a classic? - Pan Macmillan
What makes a classic - classic? : r/literature
Italo Calvino’s 14 Criteria for What Makes a Classic – The Marginalian
What makes a classic? | Books | The Guardian
What Makes A Classic A Classic? – The Book Habit
Understanding the Craft of Writing – Myers Fiction
“Intuition is Essential.” Writing Advice from Gabriel García Márquez ‹ Literary Hub
Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Books, Short Stories, Magical Realism, Nobel Prize, & Facts | Britannica
The 52 Best One Hundred Years of Solitude Quotes
The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights – Celestial Timepiece
Language – Pride & Prejudice
10 Most Common Themes Across Classic Literature Books | Times Now
Little Women: Themes | SparkNotes
The Great Gatsby: Themes | SparkNotes
In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence ‹ Literary Hub
Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and Civil Rights | TIME
Bridge to Terabithia: Themes | SparkNotes
The best children's books? Authors (and kids) on what makes a classic
https://lutherspeightscholarship.com/the-golden-age-of-childrens-literature-what-makes-a-classic/
Why I Dislike Required Reading And That’s Okay || A High Schooler’s Perspective – Hammock of Books
What is the Value of Reading Difficult Books? – Eustea Reads
https://medium.com/@realistkul/the-catcher-in-the-rye-by-j-d-salinger-an-odyssey-through-adolescence-d68d5aa4428a
https://christianscholars.com/historicizing-the-scarlet-letter-and-covid-19/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/15/book-beach-wide-sargasso-sea-jean-rhys
https://fass.open.ac.uk/sites/fass.open.ac.uk/files/files/new-voices-journal/issue10/bar.pdf
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5xWSmdPmVQ5f89tvd4PCjKm/why-lady-chatterleys-lover-is-about-much-more-than-just-sex
https://www.rlf.org.uk/posts/there-is-always-the-other-side/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/12/the-big-idea-do-we-need-to-dismantle-the-literary-canon
https://anarrativeoftheirown.substack.com/p/wide-sargasso-sea
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10436929508580150
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture/
https://wr.english.fsu.edu/College-Composition/Our-Own-Words-The-James-M.-McCrimmon-Award/Our-Own-Words-2005-2006-Edition/The-Wizard-of-Oz-More-Than-Just-a-Children-s-Story-by-Lauren-Houlberg#:~:text=Earle%2C%208).-,Littlefield%20describes%20Dorothy%20as%20an%20everyday%20man%20to%20Baum%3B%20the,concerns%20of%20the%20American%20people.
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