Revisiting the Classics

I think that approaching a classic book is not as easy as picking up a contemporary that everyone is talking about. So I thought I would talk about these older but still great novels that we might recognize by name, but not by plot or subject. And maybe compare them to modern best-sellers. This time…

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar is one of the books I would recommend to anyone (maybe above the age of 13). When I first got it I expected a female version of The Catcher in the Rye, because I knew it had to do with alienation. But this story is completely the opposite. Holden Caulfield is a cynical…