Tag: Guide to the Classics

Image: Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, is an 1818 novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Set in the late 18th century,...

Image: Wheel of life and death. Wikimedia commons Since it was first published in English in 1927, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has proved...

 Image: Flickr Like several classics penned during the golden age of children’s literature, The Wind in the Willows was written with a particular child in mind. Alastair Grahame...

National Film & Sound Archive Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised...