1. THE GREAT GATSBY
The Great Gatsby, the third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, brought out in 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel recounts the deplorable story of Jay Gatsby, an independent, self-made mogul, and his quest for Daisy Buchanan, an affluent young lady whom he loved in his youth.
Unsuccessful upon publication, the book is presently viewed as an exemplary of American fiction and has frequently been known as the Great American Novel.
2. WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Wuthering Heights is described through the journal of Mr. Lockwood as he records the two of his own encounters and the memories of others. Craving isolation, Lockwood has as of late started leasing Thrushcross Grange, a far off house in the Yorkshire Fields of Northern Britain. At some point, he chooses to visit Wuthering Heights, the nearby home of his new landowner, Heathcliff.
At Wuthering Heights, Lockwood experiences a few bizarre and strange characters: Cathy, Heathcliff’s pretty yet rude daughter-in-law; Hareton Earnshaw, a savage yet prideful young man; Joseph, a sullen old worker; and Heathcliff, the cynical owner of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
Confused by the undeniable enmity between the tenants of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood returns briefly visit yet is compelled to go through the night when a blizzard hits. In the evening, Lockwood is stirred by a spooky youngster who calls herself Catherine Linton and asks to be allowed in through the window.
Totally unnerved, Lockwood wakes Heathcliff, who at that point continues to open up the window and shout to the phantom, imploring it to return. Urgent to take off from this spooky house and its creepy inhabitants, Lockwood embarks for Thrushcross Grange as quickly as time permits.
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3. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Pride and Prejudice, a heartfelt novel by Jane Austen, distributed namelessly in three volumes in 1813. An exemplary of English writing, composed with a sharp mind and great character outline, it fixates on the fierce connection between Elizabeth Bennet, the girl of a country man, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich distinguished landowner.
The work, which Austen at first named First Impressions, is the second of four books that Austen four during her lifetime. Despite the fact that Pride and Prejudice has been scrutinized for its absence of historical setting, the presence of its characters in a social bubble that is once in a while entered by occasions past it is a precise depiction of the encased social world wherein Austen lived. She portrayed that world, in the entirety of its own tight pride and prejudice, with unswerving precision and parody.
4. ANNA KARENINA
Anna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in instalments somewhere in the range of 1875 and 1877 and thought about one of the zeniths of world writing. The story fixates on the two-timing issue between Anna, spouse of Aleksey Karenin, and Count Vronsky, a youthful bachelor.
Karenin’s disclosure of the contact stirs just his concern for his own public picture. Anna guarantees secrecy for her partner and young son yet in the end gets pregnant by Vronsky. After the child is conceived, Anna and the child go with Vronsky first to Italy and afterwards to his Russian estate. She starts making stealthy excursions to see her older child and becomes progressively severe toward Vronsky, in the end seeing him as unfaithful.
In desperation, she goes to the train station, buys a ticket, and afterwards indiscreetly hurls herself before the approaching train. An equal romantic tale, including the troublesome romance and satisfying marriage of Kitty and Levin, gives a rich contrast to the misfortune and is thought to mirror Tolstoy’s own marital experience.
5. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
The Catcher in the Rye is the tale of the endeavours of a young teen American to identify with an adult world that he finds profoundly defective and in a general sense unsympathetic. The main figure, Holden Caulfield, leaves his boarding school and spends a weekend in New York City. Here he finds himself alone in what he sees as an adult universe of defilement, horribleness and bad faith.
The principal topic of the novel is Holden’s protection from growing up in this sort of world, which, through his eyes, undermines youthful innocence and respectability. The epic has no genuine plot. It comprises basically of the perceptions of Holden on his encounters, especially on the ‘phoniness’ of those he experiences.
His attempt to get used to the expectations of the grown-up world is a disappointment. He withdraws from this disappointment into a mental illness and composes his story while under mental treatment.
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