Sentences with phrase «classic works of literature such»

Classic works of literature such as Huckleberry Finn and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men were among the top 10 most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 2000, according to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom.

Not exact matches

They read such a wide variety of work including adult classics that I didn't even try to organise any formal Literature study.

In fact, the standards require that students continue reading classics, such as works from the American literature canon, Shakespeare, mythology, and stories of the world.

Schools must also replace classic works of literature with «informational» texts, such as studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

«Consider, for example, the many respected literary works by Slovenian authors in neighboring countries, such as Maja Haderlap in Carinthia or Boris Pahor, who lives in Trieste and is already considered a classic Slovenian writer of contemporary literature in Italy, France and Germany.

A retrospective of artist Glenn Ligon's work at the Whitney Museum provides a backdrop for his personal history growing up in New York, as well as for the disparate influences that contribute to his mature work — from DeKooning, to children's coloring books of the 1970's, to classics of American literature by writers such as Gertrude Stein or Zora Neale Hurston.

On the question of studying the primary literature: pre-hockeystick, the historical multi-century temperature record compiled by Hubert Lamb was based (I believe) on archive records of such things as the date of grape harvests, and the classic work was the massive «Histoire du climat depuis l'an mil,» (1967) by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie.