- Author: Jane Austen
- Year of publication: 1813
Jane Austen's work, Pride and Prejudice, is a renowned novel that has become a literary classic. In addition, the book's narrative was turned into a movie of the same name.
The story depicts the fate of five sisters raised and educated for marriage. However, they follow their own passions and instincts.
Also, one of the sisters, Elizabeth Bennett, knows Mr. Darcy. They get to know each other and discover lovely details about each other.
From this, the history of both follows a path of pride, prejudice and other obstacles.
- Author: George Orwell
- Year of publication: 1949
The book 1984 is one of writer George Orwell's masterpieces and geniuses. In this dystopian work, the story of a country that follows a totalitarian regime is portrayed.
The totalitarian state implements surveillance systems so that it has complete control over the population.
George Orwell's dystopia is made all the more brilliant by the fact that it is a critique of totalitarianism, as well as a reflection on society and possible unexpected paths.
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Year of publication: 1869
War and peace is considered by many to be the best book in the world, written by Leo Tolstoy, a Russian artist.
The book's narrative is developed in Russia, during the Napoleonic Wars, by the lives of five families of the Russian aristocracy.
The characters are portrayed in a psychological and characteristic way based on the society of the time and the current context.
- Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Year of publication: 1866
Crime and Punishment it is one of Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnificent works. The main character is Raskolnikov, a law student who commits murder.
Despite being able to get rid of the law, his inner guilt gnaws at him. From this, several social issues and society's imaginary are discussed and put for reflection.
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Year of publication: 1609
William Shakespeare is one of the best known and most celebrated playwrights in human history. In Hamlet, the brilliant story surrounding the death of King Hamlet of Denmark is portrayed.
The late king's brother, Claudius, soon marries the widow to occupy the throne.
However, Prince Hamlet passes by and sees his father's ghosts and ends up discovering that his death was actually a murder committed by his uncle Claudius.
From this, it follows the magnificent plot with questions of betrayal and revenge in Shakespeare's work.
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- Year of publication: 1967
One hundred years of Solitude is a Latin American work, created by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.
In this novel, the narrative unfolds in the village of Macondo, in front of the generations of the Buendía-Iguarána family.
The book narrates and reflects the story about the family tree, reflecting on themes such as forgetting.
- Author: Homer
- Year of publication: 8th century BC Ç.
Odyssey it is a work dated from the 8th century BC. C., created by Homero. This work was disseminated and appreciated worldwide, as a landmark of Ancient Greece.
The book portrays the adventures of Odysseus, after the Trojan War, in an attempt to return to his home. Their paths are crossed with fantastic and mythological creatures.
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Year of publication: 1808
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was an epic German writer with several works known around the world and marked the history of German literature.
In Faust, the alchemist physician Johannes Georg Faust, makes a pact with the devil. So he sells his soul in exchange for access to knowledge.
- Author: Albert Camus
- Year of publication: 1942
The French writer Albert Camus produced several important works for world literature, among them, The foreigner.
In this work, the character Mersault receives a telegram reporting the death of his mother. However, he seems unaffected by the loss, but later murders a man with whom he has an argument.
From this event, a reflection on the vulnerability of human existence and psychological situations is presented.
- Author: Richard Francis Burton and Geraldine McCaughrean
- Year of publication: 1704
The one thousand and one nights is a collection of folk and folk stories, invented and preserved in the oral tradition of Arabic culture.
The story of the king of Persia, Xariar, who decides to marry a new woman each night, because he hates traditions.
She every day she got married and the next morning that wife was killed. Until a young woman, Xerazade, decides to escape this fate using a few stories and persuades the king each night, escaping death.
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Year of publication: 1925
The process is a work by the German writer Franz Kafka. In this book he tells the story of Josef K, a man who awakens in a situation where he is accused and indicted in a court case.
However, the character cannot remember the crime for which he is accused and declares his innocence, even without understanding what is happening.
- Author: Níkos Kazantzákis
- Year of publication: 1946
Zorba the Greek, the work of the great Greek thinker Níkos Kazantzákis, tells the story of a young intellectual who left his studies to live with the most needy part of society.
From there, he meets an older gentleman, named Zorba, who becomes his mentor and wise friend.
- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- Year of publication: 1955
Lolita it is a very controversial work to this day. Writer Vladimir Nabokov created this work to establish reflections and knowledge of a portrait of American life.
The book tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who establishes obsessive relationships with his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
- Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Year of publication: 1887
A Study in Red is a thriller created by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
This work is known worldwide for portraying the first story of detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, John Watson.
In this book, the detective goes in search of answers to a murder, at first sight, undecipherable.
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes
- Year of publication: 1605—1615
Don Quixote of La Mancha is the work of Miguel de Cervantes, a brilliant Spanish writer. The book is considered by many to be the greatest work in the Spanish language.
The narrative revolves around the protagonist, Quixote, a man enchanted with chivalry romances.
Soon, he decides to become a knight, but his imagination and reality start to merge, making it difficult to discern what is fantasy and what is real.
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- Year of publication: 1952
The old and the sea is an extraordinary work that calls into question reflections on aging, vulnerability of existence and human overcoming.
The protagonist is Santiago, a gentleman fisherman who sets out on a sea voyage. He ends up fighting a huge fish and doesn't give up until he catches it.
- Author: Marcel Proust
- Year of publication: 1913
The book on Swann's way is the first in the sequence of the 7 books of In Search of Lost Time, created by French writer Marcel Proust.
This narrative portrays the story of Swann's childhood, with several memories.
The work was well known for its narrative style of memory and for addressing issues such as female homosexuality.
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Year of publication: 1902
The work the heart of darkness is Joseph Conrad's most celebrated work. The book is one of the pioneers to question and reflect on white domination and colonialism.
The main character takes a trip to the heart of Africa, where he is surprised and amazed at the ways in which his own people and culture are dominated.
- Author: Fernando Pessoa
- Year of publication: 1982
O Book of Disquiet is one of the works of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. It was developed for over 20 years and signed by the heteronym Pessoa, Bernardo Soares.
The book portrays several reflections on the individual and strong existential issues.
- Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Year of publication: 1932
End of Night Journey is the first work by French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
In this work, the story and characters are inspired by the author's life, with a certain autobiographical character.
The book reflects on human nature and real and important social constructions.
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Year of publication: 1856
Madame Bovary is the best-known work by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert.
The work generated a great scandal during the period in which it was published for presenting the young protagonist, dreamy and determined, who detaches herself from the traditional values imposed on her, such as marriage.
- Author: Dante Alighieri
- Year of publication: 1321
The divine Comedy is one of the greatest works of Italian and world literature, created by the magnificent Dante Alighieri.
The narrative is intertwined with religious and Renaissance themes, traced by the author himself as the protagonist. It reflects and creates connection with Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.
- Author: Machado de Assis
- Year of publication: 1899
Machado de Assis is one of the most brilliant writers in Brazilian literature and one of his books needed to be on that list.
In Dom Casmurro, the author talks about the life of Bento Santiago, also called Casmurro or Bentinho, who falls in love and develops a relationship with a woman named Capitu.
However, this relationship is established in the face of suspicions of infidelity. It is from this that the great doubt of Brazilian literature arises, did Capitu betray Bentinho or not?
- Author: Herman Melville
- Year of publication: 1851
Moby Dick it was not a work favored at the time it was published.
In reality, the author's career and name were the target of criticism and decline, and only after his death was the book recognized as one of the greatest novels of world importance.
The narrative is about the story of a group of sailors who attack a sperm whale but never manage to kill it.
In addition to the hunting narrative, the book brings personal and social reflections on the existence of God and man's confrontation with nature.
- Author: José Saramago
- Year of publication: 1995
José Saramago was a great Portuguese writer and the only Portuguese-speaker to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In Blindness essay, the writer produces a critical analysis of the fragility of society.
Furthermore, it portrays the importance of having eyes when others get lost in figurative blindness.
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Year of publication: 1927
to the lighthouse is a book by Virginia Woolf, an English writer who has marked the history of Western literature.
This work is characteristic of the modernist movement and talks about the Ramsay family, with its family tensions, reflections on childhood, memory and the social conflicts of the time.
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Year of publication: 1950
I steal is a work by Russian writer Isaac Asimov. It is a set of tales about a dystopian universe, where artificial intelligence is a present and essential part of humanity.
Artificial intelligence is governed by the 3 Laws of Robotics, designed to protect humanity. However, the plans do not always turn out as expected and robots can exert dominance.
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Year of publication: 1861
The English writer Charles Dickens had as one of his last works the novel Big hopes.
The book tells the story of Philip Pirrip, who becomes an orphan at the age of seven. He helps a prisoner escape the penal colony and receives a large reward for his achievement.
Without knowing the reason for the money or its origin, when he became an adult, Philip meets this man again and new questions arise in history.
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Year of publication: 1865
Alice in Wonderland is one of the most famous, charming and influential children's works in the world.
It tells the story of the girl Alice who falls into a rabbit hole and finds herself in a completely unknown and fantastic universe.
On her journey home, Alice meets new friends and faces great adventures.
- Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Year of publication: 1943
The little Prince is another children's book that attracts many looks and enchantments.
The work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry raises important issues such as reflections on society and human way of life, on the relationships and behaviors of humanity.
The main character travels across different planets, looking for new learnings and reflections. Thus, he learns new values from different scenarios.
