(Penguin Modern Classics, £8.99) One of the greatest books about the American Dream also happens to be one of the very ...

For a long time, American high school English classes didn’t teach much American literature. All the great stuff was by ...

Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors of our time, and he's often asked about his favourite books - here's a look at his top 10 novels of all time ...

A school district in Virginia temporarily suspended the use of two classic American novels after a concerned mother complained about the racial slurs in them. The novels in question are “To Kill ...

A lot of best-sellers become hit movies, but which classic novels have made the greatest movies? The practice of adapting movies from literary works is as old as movies itself. In 1910 ...

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways ... regarded as one of Twain’s finest novels (and one of the greatest American novels of all time), challenges ...

Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" has become a literary classic, selling half a million ... appeal lies in its exploration of the American Dream's allure and its often unattainable ...

By pure coincidence, two American operas based on classic Italian novels had their premieres about five weeks apart. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis premiered in New York on January 27 ...

Scott Fitzgerald set the classic novel of America’s jazz age ... in an interview, "the greatest American novel about class." The "compressed geography" of the place makes believable the class ...

AMC is throwing it back to its roots leaning into the "American" part of American Movie Classics with a new anthology series ...