This is a book that describes all traits that can be seen in a generation. One hundred years of solitude or Cien años de soledad (in Spanish) by Gabriel García Márquez develops on two levels. First, the author frames the story of a family and the history of a city in which he is living [...]

The protagonists of the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck are George and Lennie, two seasonal workers who go from one farm to another, earning their living from working the land. The incursions into the life story and the history of the two are rare and reserved, but we know that they are [...]

It took James Joyce seven years to write Ulysses, but its importance in the literary landscape cannot be measured. Published for the first time in 1922, Ulysses remains today one of the most revolutionary and influential literary works, an almost perfect example of the potential of the modernist novel. Leopold Bloom’s journey through Dublin of [...]

The only novel by Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights was not successful in its time of publication. However, the merit of writing a novel of exception, it is now recognized to the author. Set in Britain in the late eighteenth century, Wuthering Heights strikes first by combining the Gothic, which fascinates and also terrifies, with the [...]

Published for the first time in 1936, Gone With the Wind is the only novel by Margaret Mitchell. The story takes place in Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and follows the live of young Scarlett O’Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant, plantation owner. Although in love with Ashley Wilkes, Scarlett married [...]

Thomas Hardy is one of those few perfect storytellers who manage to give life to characters and invented events. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy is one of those novels that come to life in front of your eyes as you read, you feel carried in a time and among people as real [...]

For those who still have not read Crime and Punishment by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky I will give you some reasons to get your hands on the book. The first reason is that it is impossible not to be captured by the reading of the book: Dostoyevsky has no empty spaces in the novel’s [...]

Launched in 1954, the Lord of the Flies is the first novel by William Golding, and it includes most of the topics of the author’s future works: the tendency of analyzing the individual psychology in parallel with the collective one, the temptation of using violence, isolation and loneliness because of which children are suffering, deep [...]

The book introduces a narrative that seduces and also sensitizes the reader about the idea of ​​love unbounded by the barriers of time, narrative that can be seen also as a simplistic vision of love, by the reader who is distracted and enters in the trap of the charming style of the artist named Gabriel [...]

Stories never end and many beautiful stories were not told yet, and some are written right now. The proof is the performance of the writer J.K Rowling with the seven books about Harry Potter. Very popular and belonging to the fantasy genre, the books reveal the wizards’ world in which takes place the conflict between [...]