I'm sorry to tell my millions of readers that I can't really tell why this work appears on the “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die”...

Yet another in the long list of candidates for The First Novel, which also includes such notables as Don Quixote, The Tale Of Genji,...

When I was a kid, everybody knew about these stories. We saw them on filmstrips in class, we had them as bedtime stories at night, we...