A Christmas Carol is often remembered as a heartwarming holiday tale, but its origins are far more desperate and personal than most readers realize.
Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in grief and exile. From that darkness, she created a gothic masterpiece. This video breaks down the paragraph that brought the monster to life and changed literature forever.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee distilled the moral heart of her novel into a single teaching moment; one quiet conversation about birds, sin, and innocence. It’s one of the most quoted passages in American literature. But is it perfect?
