Enhanced Classics is developing the technology to create an app to enhance the reading of classic literature. An Enhanced Classic e-book will include high-quality video of interviews with literary scholars and historians; slide shows of locations,
people or fashions of the time and audio of period music or dialects. Insertion of this material at appropriate points within the text of the novel allows the reader to have an instant connection between the novel and an author’s life. Our app
will also include extras such as bibliographies, interactive maps and timelines showing important historical or personal events during an author’s lifetime.
The first edition of Enhanced Classics is Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë.
The Team
Larry and I have been working on this project ever since we lived in Haworth, England, the home of the Brontës 20 years ago. During our stay we had the incredible opportunity to speak with scholars, do research in the parsonage,
the home of the Brontes, and walk the moors, which were so important to the 3 sisters and also influenced their writing. We came back from Haworth realizing how exciting it was to be able to read a classic work having an understanding about more about the
author. Our plans were put on hold until now because e-book technology did not exist at the time. We are now working to create an app, which will seamlessly blend the reading of classic novels with video, audio, slide shows and interactives that will shed
light on an author's life and times.
Larry has over 30 years experience as a software developer, and I have over 25 years of experience in web production as programmer, producer, writer and videographer. I also have a background in literary history.
