“All children, except one, grow up.” With this oddity of a statement, James M. Barrie begins his widely adored story of Peter Pan, the eponymous tale of the boy who remains to be the one exception to the proven law of aging. Wendy Darling, Peter’s lovely
"I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle — something heroic, or wonderful — that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead." This declaration from Louisa May Alcott’s boldly-blunt heroine, Jo March, seems to make up for any domestic impropriety that so often
Although Rhett Butler frankly—and famously—refused to “give a damn” about Scarlett O’Hara, why can’t we, to this day, even attempt to shelve the classic that the leading lady of Gone with the Wind has become? Perhaps the most iconic southern belle ever to grace the
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. So begins Jane Austen’s most popular novel Pride and Prejudice, the story of young Elizabeth Bennet’s search for true love in a world that