Classic literature: Reading between the lines
From Moby Dick to the Moomins, exploring the books that captured the world's imagination
Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet
The original Italian novel about the wooden puppet with the growing nose
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Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy
Bridget Kendall explores a novel that gave rise to a new term in the English language
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Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery
How the queen of crime achieved her extraordinary success
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Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece
The multi-layered masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes
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The Devils: Dostoevsky’s novel of political evil
Dostoevsky’s study of terrorism and poisoned ideals in pre-revolutionary Russia
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Toni Morrison: The legacy of a literary legend
How her influence as a writer extends across the globe
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A radiant light: The Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah
The romantic works and tragic life of a noble writer from Sumatra
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Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith
A 20th century master of the psychological thriller
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One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
Gabriel García Márquez’s modern classic that fuses the magical with real life
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Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal
A portrait of the prolific writer who was an environmental thinker before his time
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The One Thousand and One Nights
The ancient magical tales whose origins stretch from India to Persia to Arabia
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The Kalevala: the Finnish epic that inspired a nation
The collection of folk songs and poetry that articulated Finnish independence
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Mermaids: Tales from the deep
A history of sea creature folklore from around the world
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Alexandre Dumas: The man behind the Musketeers
The adventurous life of the much-loved French novelist
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Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane
Teasing and thought provoking: the works of the Argentinian master of pithy stories
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Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction
Celebrating the author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
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Tolstoy: War and Peace
An epic sweep of war and love and family life set in 19th century Russia
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Chaucer, father of English poetry
The man who in the 14th Century made English a language fit for literature
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Aesop and the Fables
A black slave wrote 700 animal tales in Ancient Greece. Why are they still best sellers?
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Natsume Soseki: Japan’s great novelist
The Japanese literary giant of the early 20th Century
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Li Bai: The revered Chinese poet
The prodigious talent and restless life of Tang dynasty's literary rebel
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Big-nosed hero
The swashbuckling poet of a late 19th-century French play and his real-life inspiration
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Albert Camus: Embracing life’s absurdity
The Stranger and other key works of Algeria’s great humanist Albert Camus
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell's dystopian classic
Why George Orwell's novel remains topical 70 years after publication
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