GILAS INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE
TO DO: add first line of all of these
Brontë Sisters
- Charlotte, Emily, Anne Brontë were part of 6 siblings
- father is Patrick Brontë and their mother, maria died early in their lives
- 2 of their siblings died in school, so they were homeschooled from then on
- The sisters and their one brother (Branwell) wrote stories in their childhood about imaginary places, etc. as they were influenced by the magazines their father brought home
- Were taken care of by their aunt, Elizabeth
- Elizabeth eventually died and left money, which the sisters used to publish their first poem book (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell)
Charlotte Brontë
Pen name: Currer Bell
- married her father's assistant
- died due to pregnancy complications @ 38
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
published in 1847
- Set in Northern England
- Jane, who overcomes traumatic childhood
- Currer Bell old pen name
- 10 y.o Jane tells of abusive childhood at Gateshead hall
- Reed family uncle adopted her when orphans
- Mrs. Reed and their son, John treat her like a servant
- Mrs Reed's maid, Bessie, recognized her as a child that is smart
- Defended herself one day and Mrs. Reed locked her in the room here Mr. Reed died
- Fainted because she mistook a sharp light for Mr. Reed's ghost
- Mr Lloyd, an apothecary was sent to treat Jane
- Saw her potential and encouraged to send to school
- Went to Lowood institution for girls, which is run by Mr. Brocklehurst
- Humiliated Jane by calling her a liar in front of everyone
- befriended Helen Burns, who believes in forgiveness
- Helen soon dies from Tuberculosis
- Becomes governess at estate called Thornfield Hall
- Reports to Mrs. Fairfax, a housekeeper for Mr. Rochester
- touched by kindness of pupil, Adele, who is Mr. Rochester's ward
- Grace Poole, a seamstress, lives in the attic and laughs maniacally
- Came across someone that fell from his horse that is somehow Mr. Rochester
- Eventually falls in love with Mr. Rochester
- Jane rescues him from a fire
- Mr Rochester went to another estate to visit another lady, Blanche
- nagselos si Jane
- Jane thinks he's interested only due to social status
- Bessie's husband shows up to tell Jane that Mrs Reed is dying
- Mrs. Reed apologizes for bullying her
- Rochester was supposed to marry Blanche but confesses to Jane, who he gets married to
- Weeks later, Jane awakes from a nightmare to find that a strange woman is in her room, tearing her bridal veil in half
- as she is about to marry Mr. Rochester, a strange man stops the wedding to announce that Mr. Rochester is already married to the man’s sister, who lives in Thornfield’s attic and is cared for by Grace Poole.
- devastated, she leaves and meets the Rivers family, who are somehow her cousins. Their father apparently died and left his estate to an unknown relative (her) main character ahh luck
- Lives with them and is basically happy
- One night hears Mr. Rochester calling out to her, so she instinctively goes to his estate
- His insane ahh wife burned Jane’s bed, therefore burning their estate, and then proceeded to jump to her death??
- Mr. Rochester lost a hand and his vision (one of the vision of his eyes returned later)
- Married Jane and had a child
Emily Brontë
Pen name: Ellis Bell
- died of tuberculosis at 30
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte, pen name Ellis
published 1847
romance between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.
narrator, Mr. Lockwood, the new tenant of a fine estate calle Thrushcross Grange, paying a visit to Wuthering Heights
owned by a troubled man named Heathcliff.
Lockwood passes the night at Wuthering Heights by reading the diary of Catherine Earnshaw
While reading, Lockwood is visited by Catherine’s ghost
Lockwood falls ill and asks his housekeeper, Ellen “Nelly” Dean, who used to work at Wuthering Heights, to tell him what she knows about the place.
Nelly’s story begins witha gentleman-farmer named Earnshaw, who returns from a trip to Liverpool with a “dark-skinned” orphan boy he found
Naming the boy Heathcliff after his late son, inspiring the envy of his biological son, Hindley, who beats Heathcliff every chance he gets.
In contrast, Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine, immediately befriends Heathcliff
One day, Catherine and Heathcliff are caught spying on the Linton family, who live at Thrushcross Grange.
Catherine also becomes infatuated with Edgar, the Lintons’ son.
Heathcliff worries that she will lose interest in him. she cannot marry him due to his inferior social status.
Overhearing this, Heathcliff becomes distraught and runs away.
At the age of 18, Catherine marries Edgar and moves into Thrushcross Grange.
To Catherine’s relief, Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights three years later
Heathcliff indulges the affections of Edgar’s sister, Isabella, in an attempt at revenge on her brother.
Heathcliff is thrown out of the Grange, to which Catherine responds by shutting herself in her room.
Edgar and Isabella elope
Heathcliff and Isabella regret their elopement.
Heathcliff comes to Grange, where he and Catherine have a passionate reunion
Catherine died that very night, after giving birth to a daughter, Cathy.
Wracked with grief, Heathcliff calls on Catherine’s ghost to haunt him for the rest of his days.
Growing increasingly crazed, Heathcliff reveals to Nelly that he is still tormented by the ghost of Catherine, having dug up her grave in a deranged attempt to gaze upon her corpse.
Tiring of the gloomy moors, Lockwood moves away but encounters Nelly while passing through the area eight months later. Nelly explains to Lockwood that Heathcliff grew so obsessed with Catherine’s ghost that he stopped eating and sleeping. One day, Nelly found him dead, with a bizarre smile on his face. Heathcliff is buried with Catherine, while Hareton and Cathy make plans to marry and move into the Grange.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Bronte
published in 1848
- one of the first feminist novels
- Helen Graham, leaves alcoholic and abusive husband
- inspired controversy, book went against Christian teachings regarding marriage
- Uses Epistolary format
- Letters from a neighbor, Gilbert Markham to his friend about Helen Graham
- Helen moved into the nearby dilapidated mansion, Wildfell Hall
- Gilbert is fascinated by reclusive Helen
- Anne critiqued social norms at time
- Based on Anne's experience with her brother Branwell
- Branwell struggled with alcohol and opium addiction
Anne Brontë
Pen name: Acton Bell
- died of tuberculosis at 29
Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte, Acton Bell
published 1847
- Agnes Grey lives with family (mother, father, sister: Mary)
- works as governess due to financial struggle
- Agnes discovers that governess is boring @ Bloomfields of Wellwood
- Three children are rebellious
- Tom, 7 y.o likes torturing animals
- Fanny, 4 y.o and Marry Ann, 6 y.o are defiant
- parents refuse to discipline children
- Uncle hands tom a nest full of baby birds
- Bloomfields fire Agnes, works with Murray's
- Rosalie, 16 y.o. is pretty
- Matilda, 14 y.o is tomboy
- Rosalie is prepared to make entrance to society
- Rosalie flirts with everyone looking for sugar daddy
- Agnes likes Mr. Weston, one of Rosalie's suitors
- Another one of Rosalie's suitors is Mr. Hatfield
- Mr. Weston likes that he's generous and serious
- Mr. Weston is basically really good to Anne
- Agnes is humiliated due to her failed attempts to captivate Weston
- Rosalie says yes to proposal by Sir Thomas Ashby, who is affluent but not attractive
- Agnes goes back to open boarding school
- Says goodbye to Weston and eventually gives advice to Rosalie, who is unhappy in her marriage
- Eventually Mr. Weston and Agnes meet again in river and get engaged
Wildfell Hall
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
-ORIGINALLY TITLED: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
-published in 1813
- follows story of Bennet sisters
- attempts to preserve their reputation
- system that honors wealth
- Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzie) and her sister, Jane (older)
- Longbourn, Bennet Family's estate
- Mr. Bingley " a single man of large fortune" has moved nearby
- Mrs Bennet wants one of her daughters to marry him
- They met in a ball, and took an immediate liking to Jane
- Mr. Darcy, his friend, snubs Jane
- Mr. Darcy begins to admire Elizabeth, but Elizabeth doesn't like him
- Bingley invited Jane to his estate but fell ill cuz of rain
- Elizabeth trudged thru muddy fields to help her sister
- Elizabeth met Bingley's sisters, who disliked her appearance
- Soon Jane recovered and went home with Elizabeth
- Mr. Collins (Mr. Bennet's cousin), described as a silly man visits the Bennet estate because he will inherit it
- wants to marry one of the daughters to make amends
- Asked Elizabeth to marry him, Elizabeth refused
- Mr. Collins married Charlotte (Eliz's friend) instead
- Bingley was to travel to London for 6 months
- Bingley's sister wants him to marry Darcy's younger sister, Georgiana
- Jane travels to London, Bingley didn't call her
- Eliz heard that Darcy convinced Bingley not to marry Jane
- Darcy confesses that he wants to marry her but was rejected
- Fixed and explained all their mess and other people's mess
- went on many side quests
- Bingley proposes to Jane at Netherfield park
- Darcy gets married to Elizabeth
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
- Johnathan Harker is an English solicitor/lawyer travelling to castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania
- Because Dracula is buying Carfax Abbey in England
- Harker records details of trip for his fiancée, Mina Murray
- Count Dracula is a pale, aged man dressed in black
- Castle is dark and empty
- Dracula leaves at dawn, appeared when he was shaving
- realized Dracula has no reflection in mirror, grabs crucifix
- found Dracula sleeping in casket below castle, realized he was a supernatural monster
- casket was put on ship (The Demeter) to England, Harker couldn't stop him
- The Demeter crashes and only captain is aboard, dead tied to the wheel while holding a crucifix
- Lucy, Mina's friend sleepwalks up a hill and is bit (puncture marks) on her throat
- Mina found out Johnathan was ill in a hospital in Hungary, where they were married
- Lucy died in hospital, put garlic in her coffin
- several children went missing, many returning with bites on their throat, a beautiful lady took them
- Van Helsing says Lucy is now a vampire, they try to defeat him
- Arthur stakes her thru the heart, cut off head
- Mina was forced to drink Dracula's blood, Johnathan unconscious
- Mina is under Dracula's control now
- waited for Dracula at his castle
- Van Helsing destroys brides inside castle
- Quincey Morris is killed but also Dracula, turns into dust
Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
- published in 1951
- Story of Holden Caulfield, 16 y.o. who has been expelled from Pencey prep
- recounts experiences and thoughts
- Struggles with the idea of growing up
- often feels isolated
- New York City, wandering aimlessly
- reflects on younger brother, Allie's death
- Holden wants to prevent the innocence of children
- "Catcher in the rye" is his image of himself, standing at the edge of a cliff and catching children before they fall into the complexities of the adult world
- former roommates, Stradlater had romantic encounter with a girl Holden used to like
- met former teacher, Mr. Antolini who gives him advice but Holden got pissed
- wears red hunting hat, as a symbol of his individuality
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
- William Golding was losing faith in humanity
- he was a former philosophy teacher turned into a Royal Navy lieutenant
- during Cold War
- first novel, rejected by 21 publishers
- title from Demon Beelzebub, associated with pride and war
STORY:
- island adventure story, young boys were shipwrecked
- satire story
- highly inspired by R.M. Ballantyne's "Coral Island"
- boys already on the island, plane had been shot down by nuclear war
- 6 to 13 year old
- only choir familiar with each other, lead by a boy named Jack
- new home appears to be paradise but darkness hangs over situation
- shadows are compared to black, bat-like creatures
- trading rumours about a 'beastie'
- try to establish order
- Ralph blows into a conch shell to assemble everyone and give orders but Jack vies for leadership with Ralph
- blindly follows Jack to end of island
- Golding portrays the british children as the savages instead of usual good colonialism trope
- boys start to fight on the island
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
- civil war in America, tells story of March family
- March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy
- aren't rich but found joy in other's company
- each girl has personal struggles
- Meg, the oldest, wants luxury but realized that material possessions are not the key to happiness
- falls in love with John Brooke, and married
- Jo, second oldest is independent and rebellious
- dreams of becoming a writer
- befriends Laurie, a neighbor who becomes her close friend
- falls in love with Prof. Bhaer, German
- Beth, third sister is quiet and gentle
- spends days playing piano and is loved by many
- has health problems and succumbs to scarlet fever
- Amy, the youngest, is spoiled and selfish
- matures over course of novel
- falls in love with Laurie, but rejects his proposal to marry her childhood friend, Fred Vaughn
Emma
by Jane Austen
- published in 1815
- story of Emma Woodhouse, a young and wealthy woman
- lives with her father in the village of Highbury
- Regency-era England
- themes of social class, romance, and the pitfalls of matchmaking
- known for beauty and also her tendency to be marites and pakelamera
- introduced friend, Harriet Smith, a young girl to bachelors to find her a good match
- encourages Harriet to reject a proposal from a farmer, believing that Harriet can do better
- Emma falls in love with a newcomer, Frank Churchill, but he had a secret engagement to another woman
- Emma's longtime friend Mr. Knightley tries to steer her away from matchmaking and toward a sensible approach to life and love
- Her attempts at matchmaking hurt feelings and make complications
- Harriet becomes infatuated with a man who is not interested in her
- Emma realized that she has been blind to her feelings for Mr. Knightley
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawkthorne
- written in 1850
- Set in 1700s Puritan, Massachusetts
- Hester Prynne, who gives birth to Pearl after an affair
- focuses on the effects of affair rather than the affair itself
- led to scaffold, where she is shamed by community
- forced to wear the letter "A" on her gown at all times
- stitched large scarlet A onto her dress with gold thread
- Roger Chillingworth, her husband, was in the crowd despite being assumed to be lost at sea
- Hester goes to prison
- Chillingworth disguised as a physician enters and says he has settled in Boston
- Many years pass, Hester and Pearl move to cottage outside Boston
- Hester does stitchwork while Pearl grows up to be wild and disobedient.
- Church officials want to take Pearl away due to mischievousness however Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister, manages to convince the governor to let Pearl stay
- Chillingworth becomes a physician and was transferred into same home as Dimmesdale, who is suffering from an unknown illness
- Chillingworth is convinced that Dimmesdale's condition is caused by a guilty heart
- saw mark of shame on his breast and thinks that he is Pearl's father
- Chillingworth torments the minister in guise of nursing him back to health
- Pearl asks for Dimmesdale to acknowledge her as his daughter but he refuses
- meteor in shape of A illuminates Chillingworth
- Hester realized Chillingworth is slowly killing Dimmesdale
- Hester tells Dimmesdale in forest, telling Chillingworth's true identity
- decide to run away with each other
-Leaving the church, Dimmesdale notices Hester and Pearl standing nearby and shocks the crowd by climbing the scaffold with them.
- Dimmesdale confesses to having fathered Pearl and reveals the scarlet A seared into his chest, admitting that he should have assumed his rightful place by Hester’s side
- After this admission, Dimmesdale suddenly dies on the scaffold.
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
-published in 1877
- story of Anna Karenina, a married woman who falls in love with a young count
- late 19th century, changing society
- married to Alexei Karenin, government official
- meets Count Vronsky at a ball and falls in love
- Anna becomes pregnant, marriage with Alexei deteriorates
- Karenin becomes aware of affair and demands that Anna end it
- Anna leaves husband to be with Vronsky
- becomes isolated from society
- shunned by friends and gets issued
- relationship with Vronsky becomes strained
- starts to doubt his love for her
- Also story of Konstantin Levin, a land owner who struggles to find meaning in his life
- is in love with Kitty, sister of Anna's sister-in-law, but is rejected when proposal
- sets on journey of self-discovery
- Anna becomes paranoid and desperate
- Anna throws herself in front of a train, committing suicide
- Vronsky is left alone and Karenin is left to care for their child
Tuesdays with Morrie
By Mitch Albom
- Fav book ni mommy
- Tells story of Mitch and reconnection with old sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz
- Morrie is dying of ALS
- Full of wisdom and love for mitch
- Discuss various topics every Tuesday
- Mitch believes that life is about loving and being loved, and Mitch learns this through their conversations
- Morrie's health deteriorates and eventually dies peacefully, surrounded by family and friends
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
- book na napanalunan ni mommy noong compe niya
- Huckleberry Finn was used on slavery
- Huck Finn lives in St Petersburg, Missouri
- Him and Tom Sawyer discover 12 thousand dollars in treasure
- Judge Thatcher invests it to keep it safe
- Huck is adopted by Widow Douglas and Miss Watson
- Pap, his abusive father, often takes his money
- judge Thatcher gives custody to Pap, gets beat up in log cabin
- Huck faked his own death and escapes down Mississippi River
- Finds Miss Watson's slave, Jim, who also tried to escape and basically go on many adventures
- meets hamburgs known as Duke and King, want to cheat people along the river with a technique called the Royal Nonesuch
- Plan is absurd theater performance before leaving town
- Duke and King escape with 400 dollars
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
- Begins at dinner party, hosted by Time Traveller
- explains 4th dimension is in fact time
- asks guests to picture cube, it has to exist for a period of time
- states that Time and Space are the same thing
- argues that gravity weighs us down but time is still traversable
- states that he has a gadget that does this
- Brings gadget out and asks Psychologist to pull lever, sending it off to the future
- they go home, unconvinced
- time traveler has a party next week but is later
- disheveled, heads upstairs to get himself ready
- leads guests to smoking room to tell story
- He said that time machine was finished and he got in
- started and stopped the machine, but realized it was 5 hours later
- does it again and sees how time progresses
- realizes that there can be mass where he is in the future and stops, now in a garden
- spotted by 4ft person in purple, people go to him in amazement
- year of 802,701 AD
- eats with them and tries to learn their language, they are childlike
- Apex of communism, one gender apparently idk
- organisms develop strength thru necessity
- sees society as perfect triumph of nature
- realizes his time machine is gone
- time machine must be in Spinx monument, starts to doubt their simplistic species
- saves one from drowning, introduced herself as Weena
- saw white ape creatures, figures humanity split into 2
- theorizes that ape were old poor people (Murlocks)
- climbs down well and gets beat up by Murlocks
- Palace of Green Porcelain is a museum
- go to woods with Weena and gets attacked by Murlocks
- started fire, becomes forest fire
- sees his time machine there and goes further in time
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- originally written as newspaper series
- Fugitive Slave law just passed
- written to expose horrors of slavery
- Uncle Tom, and Eliza Harris slaves
- were faced w choice to run away or not
- Uncle Tom is head slave on the Shelby Plantation and his wife is the head cook
- Christians about 4 years earlier
- Eliza Harris is personal Maid of Shelby's wife
- young George, 13 son of Shelby
- promised Tom he would free them and hire as servants
- Shelby is in a lot of debt to Haley, a slave trader
- Shelby has to either sell house and give up slaves to another master or just sell a few slaves and save the house
- Eliza runs away so she takes son, warns Uncle Tom
- Eliza gives up life to save son
- Tom gives up freedom to save his family
- Haley chases after them but doesn't reach
- Eliza jumps into Ohio river out of desperation, feet bleeding
- Tom meets Eva who sees him as a person, unlike everyone else
- saves her from drowning
- Eva's father buys her off Haley
- Eliza made her way to Canada and reunited
- Tom is slave again, Eva and father died
- He is sold to Simon Legree, beats Tom due to being Christian
- Legree, another slave drugs him and tells Tom to kill him
- Cassie runs away, left tom cuz hes beaten up
- Legree beats up Tom even more
- Young George freed slaves, came to buy tom
- Tom died cuz of his wounds
- Eliza, son, husband are free in Canada; Cassie was apparently Eliza’s mom
A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
- at London
- Dr. John Watson moved in 221 B, Baker Street and met Sherlock Holmes
- Scotland Yard reported that Drebber, an American man, died.
- basically Sherlock Holme’s first appearance
Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
About Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
Meets Marmeladov in first act, who later dies
Kills a pawnbroker named Alyona Ivanovna
Deals with the trauma and consequences of killing the pawnbroker
Was a former student in St. Petersburg
Processes trauma of murder with constant pressure by the life events of his mother and his sister
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- in 1965 driving to Acapulco, Gabriel Garcia Marquez turned around (1982 Nobel prize for Literature)
- He asked his wife to take care of family's finance for a few months
- Latin-American
THE BOOK ITSELF_____
- fortunes and misfortunes of Buendia family over seven generations
- genre known as magical realism
- supernatural is described in a realistic tone
- village of Macondo, based on Columbia
- settlement in isolation but is continuously exposed to the outside world
- characters die and return as ghosts
- characters often repeat mistakes by their reincarnations
- pattern of Columbian history, civil conflict
" Where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true, and happiness will be possible"
The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 1st and only novel by Oscar Wilde
- Dorian is obsessed with his image after getting his portrait
- Wished for picture to get old, but he never would
- Portrait records each of his sins
- Driven to madness, tries to reconcile the decay on his portrait
- 19th century Victorian
- Basil Hallward painted the portrait of Dorian Gray
- Basil entertains Lord Henry Wotton and asks about the sitter in the painting
- Suddenly, Dorian arrives
- Lord Henry made Dorian realize that one day he will age, and will no longer look as beautiful as he was in the picture
- This made Dorian terrified and exclaims that he would trade his soul for him to remain young and only his portrait to age
- Basil Hallward grabs a knife in an attempt to destroy the painting but Dorian stops him.
- Soon, Dorian visits Lord Henry to say that he has fallen in love with an actress name Sibyl Vane
- Him,Lord Henry, and Basil Hallward eventually go to see Sibyl Vane act in Romeo in Juliet
- She then goes on to perform terribly, which embarrasses Dorian
- Lord Henry and Basil Hallward leave due to disgust towards the acting
- Dorian confronts Sibyl about her acting and had a huge argument about it
- That night, Sibyl Vane killed herself using poison
- When Dorian sees his painting again, there is a semblance of a frown
- Basil visits and asks about why the portrait is covered, which Dorian took as an insult
18 YEARS LATER ___
- Dorian gets involved in a lot of scandals and becomes materialistic
- One day, Basil visits Dorian to confront him about all the rumors that he has heard
- Dorian showed the portrait so that Basil could see the true degradation of his soul
- Basil is killed by Dorian and asked his servant chemist, Alan Campbell, to burn the body
- Alan then goes insane and proceeds to commit suicide
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- Dorian then visits and opium den and is attacked by James Vane, Sibyl's brother
- Dorian says "nah that wasn't me fam, i still look under twenty after 18 years"
- James apologizes but then one of the servants at the den tells him the truth
- Dorian proceeds to hide for the next few days
- One day he goes out to hunt when Dorian's friend, Geoffrey, shoots a man hiding on Dorian's property (James)
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- Dorian proceeds to become a better person and refused to corrupt a young girl who fell in love with him
- The painting did not get better, it just gained a hypocritical smirk
- He got so mad that he stabbed the painting
- His servants heard a shriek in the attic and say their unrecognizable master, dead
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley – subtitled The Modern Prometheus
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
Middlemarch – George Eliot
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky – First Line: “Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from our district, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, well known in his own day (and still remembered among mus) because of his dark and tragic death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago and I which I shall speak of in its proper place.” – There are four brothers in the Karamazov family: Ivan, the atheist intellectual; Dmitry, the emotional lover of women; Alyosha, the "hero" and Christian; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the illegitimate child, who is treated as the family servant.
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The House of Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
10,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Ulysses – James Joyce
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Lord of the Rings – John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
The Invisible Man (1897) – H.G. Wells
Invisible Man (1952) – Ralph Ellison – tells the story of a young African American man who moves north during the Harlem Renaissance and faces many trials as he attempts to find his place in society.
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream – Harlan Ellison
Holly (2023) – Stephen King – follows Holly Gibney, who made her first appearance in Mr. Mercedes. She also appeared in Finders Keepers and End of Watch, and later was a major supporting character in The Outsider.
Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
In A Bamboo Grove – Ryuunosuke Akutagawa – Rashomon
The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu – first novel in the world – Following the life and romances of Hikaru Genji
Stoner – John Williams
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin – Set in the future, D-503 (Russian: Д-503), a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State,[4] an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-like. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers.
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie – Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late. Justice Wargrave is the clever murderer in the mystery novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. He is described as an old and terminally ill man, and the other characters compare his appearance to both a frog and turtle.
The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Animal Farm – George Orwell – represents the Russian Revolution of 1917. Old Major represents Karl Marx, Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, Napoleon represents Josef Stalin, Squealer represents propaganda, and Boxer is a representation for all the Russian laborers and workers. Mr. Jones symbolizes Tsar Nicholas II. The animals successfully vanquish Mr. Jones, the owner of the farm, off of the property, and the pigs rename the farm Animal Farm from Manor Farm.
The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe – is the story of a man named Montresor who decides to seek revenge against a man named Fortunato, who has insulted him. He meets Fortunato at a carnival, lures him into the catacombs of his home, and buries him alive.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION NALANG:
Red, White, and Royal Blue – Casey Mcquiston
Normal People – Sally Rooney
Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
Atomic Habits – James Clear
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
It Starts With Us – Colleen Hoover
It Ends With Us – Colleen Hoover
The Love Hypothesis – Ali Hazelwood
Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Verity – Colleen Hoover
Bunny – Mona Awad
The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
milk and honey – Rupi Kaur
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami