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THE CLASSIC LITERATURE
Books, Films & the Golden Age — kept in print, kept in mind
Featured Classics
Four titles our editors keep returning to — old favourites and freshly rediscovered ones.
Authors We're Tracking
The literary lives, anniversaries and rediscoveries our desk is following right now.
Franz Kafka
1883 – 1924The Prague-born master of the uncanny bureaucratic nightmare — his unfinished manuscripts are still being re-read and re-argued over a century on.
Author Name
Years activeA short note on why this author is on our radar this month — a re-release, an anniversary, a new biography.
Author Name
Years activeA short note on why this author is on our radar this month — a re-release, an anniversary, a new biography.
Author Name
Years activeA short note on why this author is on our radar this month — a re-release, an anniversary, a new biography.
Moments From the Golden Era
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An Archive for the Unhurried Reader
The Classic Literature is a small desk devoted to the books, authors and films that outlasted their own decade — reviews, interviews and the odd detour into the golden age of cinema, written for people who still like to sit with a story.
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