What defines a modern classic? According to the book’s author, Henry Eliot, it’s “a product of more recent times: it was written in response to a world we are still experiencing, and it can be all the ...

Some of the best novels are so inspiring that they’ve spawned modern adaptations, re-imagining the characters and themes that have kept the originals on our classics shelves for new audiences.

“One of the key things that we wanted to do was open these books up to people who haven’t read them before,” Thomson told CR. “For books that are older, we wanted to give them a new lease of life with ...

96 pp., illus. $10.95 paper. Scott Bukatman. Blade Runner. BFI Modern Classics Series. Indiana UP (800-842-6796), 1997. 96 pp., illus. $10.95 paper. Of course, the above comparison is unfair insofar ...

Penguin Modern Classics will publish Gerald Durrell's "beloved" accounts of his childhood spent in Corfu to mark the ...

Many people underestimate the importance of literature in education, instead opting to question the reason behind English ...

The principles set forth by John Gray in his famous book, 'Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus,' get an update directly ...

The Polish booth opens at the 2014 London Book Fair on the 8th of April. According to the authors of the Modern Classics project, Polish classics of the 20th century are doing well and are well ...