Vintage Twins

Sweet. Launching in September, Vintage Classics is pairing classics with the new. What great "independent study" choices these would make for grade 12 English Class. Kids have it easy these days.

Matches include:

• Lewis Carol + Haruki Murakami
• Henry Fielding + Martin Amis
• George Elliot + A.S. Byatt
• Charles Dickens + Irvine Welsh
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky + Patricia Highsmith
• Henry James + Ian McEwan
• Mary Shelly + Jeanette Winterson
• Jonathan Swift + Michel Houellebecqu
• Dante Alighieri + Philip Roth

Read more about this in Giles Foden's blog from the Guardian.