related to school or learning
His academic pursuits included history, geography, and physics.

relating to excellence and the finest quality
The Mona Lisa is a classic painting.

relating to a particular group or society and their beliefs and ways of living
Each civilization has its own cultural standards.

a long story, often about many people and events
War and Peace is an epic novel about several Russian families in the early 1800s.

a work of literature set in an unreal world
Isaac Asimove wrote some fantasy stories about space and time travel.

the ability to have an effect on the way a person or thing acts or happens without directly controlling the person or thing
Everything you watch and hear influences your mind so be very careful.

being related to literature
The literary club met every other week and discussed a classic novel.

based on or described in a MYTH
Centaurs and dragons are mythical animals.

to print a written work and make it available to read
Big universities publish academic books for people to read.

a set of stories or articles on a particular subject that are presented over a period of time on television or in books and generally feature the same characters
There are seven books in the Harry Potter series.

a series of three connected works
The Three Musketeers was actually the first book in a trilogy by Alexander Dumas.