The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne: Book Summary
Let me tell you about a book that invented the American way of talking about sin. Nathaniel Hawthorne had Puritan anc...
Beverly Ashford • 11 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Tag: Classic Literature
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Little Women – Louisa May Alcott: Book Summary
Let me tell you why this book refuses to go away. Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868 because her publisher...
Beverly Ashford • 08 Mar 2026 • 3 min
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the most divisive narrator in American literature. People either love Holden Caulfield or find...
Beverly Ashford • 07 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Moby Dick – Herman Melville: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the book almost nobody finished when it was published. Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851....
Beverly Ashford • 05 Mar 2026 • 3 min
Lord of the Flies by William Golding: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the novel that was rejected twenty-one times before a junior editor at Faber and Faber pulled it f...
Beverly Ashford • 18 Feb 2026 • 4 min
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the novel that Hemingway said contained everything he had learned in forty years of writing — comp...
Beverly Ashford • 13 Feb 2026 • 3 min
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee: Book Summary
Let me tell you why this book still matters nearly 65 years after it was published. Harper Lee wrote one novel (well,...
Beverly Ashford • 12 Feb 2026 • 3 min
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald: Book Summary
Let me tell you about the best short novel in American literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in 1925...
Beverly Ashford • 12 Feb 2026 • 3 min
Classic Books Everyone Should Read (and Why They Still Matter)
"Why should I read a 200-year-old book when there are thousands of new releases every year?" It's a fair question. Class...
Beverly Ashford • 28 Dec 2025 • 4 min