What this topic explores
These guides bring together enduring works that reward close reading of character, social context, form and recurring human conflicts. Use the hub to compare how different periods approach questions such as power, identity, class, love and responsibility.
How to compare these books
Read across the guides by comparing what problem each book identifies, what explanation it gives, and what kind of response it imagines. The differences are often as useful as the similarities.
Books in Classic Literature
20 related Litvero guides.
1984
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →Macbeth
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →The Great Gatsby
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →Frankenstein
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →Pride and Prejudice
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →Animal Farm
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →A Christmas Carol
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →Romeo and Juliet
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →Hamlet
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →Of Mice and Men
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →Jane Eyre
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →The Picture of Dorian Gray
Summary, analysis, discussion prompts and quiz.
Read guide →To Kill a Mockingbird
Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, the novel follows Scout Finch as she grows up amid racial prejudice, social hierarchy and moral conflict. Through the trial
Read guide →Lord of the Flies
After a plane crash leaves a group of schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island, they try to create rules and organise themselves. Their fragile society gradually brea
Read guide →The Catcher in the Rye
Holden Caulfield recounts several days in New York after leaving his boarding school. His sharp, restless voice reveals grief, loneliness and resistance to what he sees a
Read guide →Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë’s novel follows the destructive bond between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff across two generations. Love, resentment, social class and revenge shape the l
Read guide →Dracula
Bram Stoker’s Gothic novel unfolds through journals, letters and documents as a group of characters confront Count Dracula, a Transylvanian vampire who travels to England
Read guide →Brave New World
Aldous Huxley imagines a technologically managed society where people are engineered into social castes, conditioned from childhood and kept content through consumption,
Read guide →The Odyssey
Homer’s epic follows Odysseus as he struggles to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War. His journey tests endurance, judgement, loyalty and identity, while his wife Penel
Read guide →The Metamorphosis
A surreal novella about Gregor Samsa’s transformation, alienation, family obligation, work and the instability of human worth.
Read guide →