In many ways Shakespeare is the founder of the modern English that we use. He has enriched the way we speak and understand our language (see Shakespeare's development of modern English). In order to express precisely what he had in mind he created metaphors that so perfectly expressed those
Shakespeare's texts are four hundred years old. The stories they tell are still as exciting and relevant as they were to Shakespeare's audience. When you pick up of one of the texts, though, you may groan and complain that they are too hard and need translating from Old English into Modern English
One of the literary worlds most famous writers the reclusive Harper Lee has been published again for the first time in 40 years Harper Lee became a worldwide success when To Kill a Mockingbird was