Summary: What makes a work of literature a classic? Photo: SV Klimkin. Source: Morguefile Mark Twain called a classic a book everyone wants to have read, and no one wants to read. We remember them from high-school: big, scary tomes with strange titles our teachers all said were full of wisdom. We really, really tried to get through them. Some of us actually did. But whether it was the 25thcharacter named Ivan in a Tolstoy story, or a […]
