Top Four Timeless Classics To Add To Your List
Reading good classic literature, with its beautiful language and historical perspectives, is highly recommended. There is an enthralling aspect to enjoying a story that has impacted several generations and helped form literature as we know it today.
There are many classics that have been written and enjoyed throughout the years, but if you’re looking for a more condensed must-read list, this is it.
Animal Farm
Very few people are not familiar with George Orwell's Animal Farm. This fable-type story is set on a farm. In the story, the animals have overthrown their human owner and have taken over. Their first task is to set new rules for the farm. As time passes, the farm becomes controlled by a few corrupt animals who are stealing from those below them while claiming equality. This breaks the constitution that the animals drew up.
In this book, it's the pigs who are in charge and consider themselves better than others. The working animals exist only to serve these corrupt pigs. Animal Farm will reshape your views on the abuse of power and the human and social struggle.
The Great Gatsby
Written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is widely regarded as the greatest writer of the twentieth century. This novel although only 200 pages, every word is filled with such conviction they are sure to feel like so much more. Set in the rich upper-class Area of New York in the 1920s, you are immediately drawn into a world of mansions, chaos and drug-filled parties, scandalous affairs, and the complexities of love.
The story is centered around Gatsby, a wealthy man who conducts a mysteriously private life. Gatsby has moved in next to Nick, the narrator of the story, you see the vibrancy of the roaring twenties as Nick gets to know Gatsby. Written with historical accuracy, during the height of the Jazz age, The Great Gatsby was made into a Hollywood film in 2013 and starred Leonardo Di Caprio.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is a more recent classic, having been published in 1951. This Young Adult novel depicts adolescence in a touching and unique light. Holden, a 17-year-old rebellious upper-class schoolboy continues to get in trouble at school. The story follows his journey, exploring the themes of loneliness and adolescent alienation as he roams the unpredictable streets of New York.
Brave New World
This futuristic novel by Aldous Huxley is set 2540 with Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, as a metric and God-like figure. In this future reality, we have become willing slaves of the political system that we are living in. To cope with an unbearable world and escape reality, the human race relies on a drug called ‘Soma.’
The book is often compared to 1984 by George Orwell as they both accurately present a future dystopian world. However, Brave New World tends to be more compelling and strangely enough, all of the predictions within the book have come true to date.