Classics - A Glimpse

"The Classics" come alive with images, videos, maps, documents and ... dramatization. Look, listen and experience these "old" stories in a 21st-century way. These examples are a preview. Many more dramatizations are available for premium subscribers.

Classics - A Glimpse Story Briefs

An epic is a story, usually in the form of a narrative poem, featuring a hero who prevails despite terrible odds.

Throughout the centuries, artists have created works of art depicting "The Odyssey," a tale which Homer created likely in the second half of the 8th C...

NOTES from UNDERGROUNDBy Fyodor DostoevskyTranslation by Andrew R.

Jean Valjean was imprisoned nineteen years - at hard labor - for breaking into a bakery, stealing a loaf of bread, then trying to escape from his life...

Not long after she received her diary, as a birthday present, Anne Frank and her father took a walk together near their Amsterdam home.

Classics - A Glimpse Images

Classics - A Glimpse Audios

Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.

Three days after Anne Frank told "Kitty" about an unsettling conversation with her father - that the Frank family may have to go into hiding somewhere...

Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living with her family in Amsterdam, was thirteen years old during the summer of 1942.  At the time, German forces were...

NOTES from UNDERGROUNDBy Fyodor DostoevskyTranslation by Andrew R.

Jean Valjean was imprisoned nineteen years - at hard labor - for breaking into a bakery, stealing a loaf of bread, then trying to escape from his life...

Classics - A Glimpse Audio Narrations

Odysseus, also called Ulysses, is a Greek hero who is on his way home after fighting in the Trojan War. Listen to a story about one of the many issues...

Seamus Heaney was long known as "Famous Seamus" in his homeland.

Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.

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