School can turn classic books into a chore. Rereading Eliot or Austen or Shakespeare as we grow older, we can see how we have grown as imaginative, moral beings.

Since those years I have seen, more through lived experience than through academic study, just how deeply meaningful the reading of classic books, like Pride and Prejudice, can be. Penguin I no ...

As Boethius states in Book 2 of the Consolation ... took only 24 hours to complete her version. (The Consolation is, in the Penguin Classics 1969 translation, a little over 130 pages in length).

Who knew that combining a sweet story about an adorable penguin and one about the atrocities of a political uprising in 1976 ...

One film per year in which the unexpected friendship of a penguin deeply affects a human being dealing with emotional pain? No objection here. That’s what we get with the British offering “The ...

trying to get a clear shot of the book. He ultimately identified the cover as an Oxford World's Classics edition. “So I Googled, ‘How many Oxford World’s Classics are there?’ and it was ...

What begins as a melancholy expat’s teaching stint in 1970s Buenos Aires morphs into a quietly powerful tale of friendship, ...

“The Penguin Lessons” gave me an unsettling sense of déjà vu. Reading the synopsis, I could have sworn I’d just reviewed a movie about a man in South America and the penguin who helped ...

To mark its 10th anniversary, the Murty library has brought out “Ten Indian Classics,” an anthology of extended excerpts from 10 books that have already been published by the series in ...

The beauty of movies is that they can often expose a mass audience to stories that would otherwise be forgotten. The tale ...

The Minnesota State Wrestling championship began on February 27th, and Grand Rapids ended the day with a Class AA consolation championship title under their belts. Grand Rapids began the day ...