Top 18 most famous literary works in the world you cannot ignore

“The birdsong in the thorn bush” is the masterpiece of Australian female writer Colleen McCulough, immediately after being born and published in many languages, the work has had a strong influence. This is a work that ranks on par with writer Margaret Mitchell’s work “Gone with the Wind”. This work was published at the same time as New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney.

The work tells the love story between the beautiful Meggie and the Reverend Ralph. Because of his status and position, the vicar had to run away from emotions all his life. Their love is intense emotions, loves, separations, closeness and suffering and tragedy. Come to”The sound of birds singing in the thorn bushes“, you will immerse yourself in the feelings of each character, a work that has a strong impact on people’s hearts.

The end of the story and also the end of a love, the work took away so many tears from the reader, mourning the unfortunate fates, regretting a noble love, the sacrifices for double love. age. Novel The sound of birds singing in the thorn bushes published in the spring of 1977 simultaneously in New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney – It was soon translated into seven languages, to a standing ovation from readers and critical acclaim. For several years it was the best-selling work in the West. This is a unique and valuable work in modern world literature.

Fierce childhood – The book revolves around the combat and sacrifice lives of 13- and 14-year-old teenagers in the ranks of the Youth Scouting Team of Tran Cao Van regiment. The Luom, Mung, Quynh Son Ca, Hoa Den, Bong Sua, Tu Dat… each with the same situation, but all with the same determination, enthusiasm and patriotism, participated in fighting with all their heart and sacrificed. when he was very young. True to the name of the story, readers will encounter there really intense details about the unfortunate teenage life, about the cruel war against the enemy, but deep inside we still see pure and innocent souls. see the extraordinary courage and bravery of the character.

Everyone who has read this work can hardly help but be moved and shed tears of sympathy and admiration. This is really a precious work in the Vietnamese literary treasure. A story that arouses in each person the love of the country and the respect for childhood memories… Writer Hoang Phu Ngoc Tuong once commented, “There is a precious time gem dedicated to giving people, that is Childhood. The magical gem, clear but too fragile, cannot be found for the second time in life And there is a generation of Vietnamese who have never held the pearl in their hands, Phung Quan’s intense childhood was written for that generation. Read to remember, to be proud of, and to pray for the Childhoods to come…”

“Catching children in green fields” is a story about youthful rebellion, secret desires and a sense of disorientation in life in adolescence. Moreover, it is a clear and innocent look at the hypocrisy in society. Published in 1951, “Catching children in green fields” by J.D. Salinger was a huge hit (or rather controversial), a time when the book was the most censored out of the US high school and library systems. But its appeal and humanistic and educational values ​​have been highly appreciated and included in the high school curriculum and translated into many languages ​​around the world.

The story only tells about 17-year-old Holden Caufield, whose times when he was expelled from school for nothing more than a failure of a subject or being called a lazy student. During the more than 300 pages of the book, he only talked about the next few days, nothing more, but still captivated the reader so much that he kept reading and reading to see where he went, what he said, what he did next. At the age of 17, he just stepped on the threshold of life, supposed to be full of life and full of life, he looked at everything with a very negative eye. He seems to hate everything. A guy who gets kicked out of school all year round, smokes like a bellows, messes up and gets punched in the nose because of a kid he used to hold hands with and never tire of, what’s the big deal. Not too fussy, a work with very simple words goes deep into the human subconscious, revives inner voices and perspectives on life. Writer Salinger shows intelligence and ingenuity in his storytelling, the work tells about a guy with simple, intelligent, funny thoughts but contains a deep insight into life.

Come to”Alchemist” by great writer Paulo Coelho if you are still engrossed in finding dreams, meaning and happiness in life. This work will show you even the simplest values ​​of life. You will see yourself. , see the ego that is sometimes lazy, see the “signs” that life always brings, you will see the interference between people and the world around, see the secret of happiness sometimes is just contemplating the beautiful things in the world without forgetting “two drops of oil on a spoon”.

The Alchemist Novel (The Alchemist) by writer Paulo Coelho written in Portuguese, first published in 1988 in Brazil. According to Sparknotes, before The Alchemist brought its author to fame on the world stage, writer Paulo Coelho had a rough writing career. In his teens, he admitted that he was not easy to get along with and often lived aloof from others. With that in mind, when he told his parents he wanted to be a writer, his parents sent him to a mental hospital where he remained isolated for three months.

After this time, Paulo Coelho complied with his parents’ wishes and applied for law school, but after only a year he dropped out and became a roaming hippie. During that time he published the unsuccessful book Hell Archives (1982) and became almost addicted to drugs. He wrote lyrics for Brazilian pop stars of the time such as Elis Regina, Rita Lee and Raul Seixas. Despite not having a successful writing career, Paulo Coelho makes a lot of money writing lyrics. He most likely made a career in this job, but then his trip to Spain took him in a different direction in life.

Russian literature of the 20th century always attracts readers with stories rich in humanistic meaning and “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak is one such work. The book recreates the history of Russia from the early years of the 20th century until after the second great war. Through the image of Yury Zhivago and Lara Guishar, the work depicts the tragic fate of people in this painful historical period. They are victims of war but beyond all the harshness of life, is their love story – a romance, beautiful but full of tears and suffering. Doctor Zhivago The book was finished by Pasternak in 1956, but due to the content not suitable for Soviet literary and political life at that time, the book was strongly opposed by the Moscow Literary Institute and the Soviet Union of Writers. Publishers in the Soviet Union refused to publish, and Pasternak himself was condemned and lashed out by the Union of Soviet Writers.

Although not published in the country and fiercely condemned, the novel Doctor Zhivago still find its way to Western readers. In 1957, the manuscript was published in Russian in Italian. A year later there were Italian and English editions. As a result, Pasternak was offered the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature, but the Soviet authorities at that time forced him to refuse the award. It was not until 1988 that the work was printed and published in Russia after 30 years of its birth. Up to this day, Doctor Zhivago is still considered as the most turbulent novel, the most typical literary work of the ideological battle between the two superpowers of the Cold War.

Three guys in the same boat (not to mention the dog) is a collection of humorous stories, anecdotes, that J tells throughout the journey of the quartet in a gentle, intelligent voice, sometimes interwoven with escapist details. harmless fact makes readers happy to watch and laugh. The stories come from situations that occur during the trip, but sometimes they are retold stories intertwined with real events. The witty, graceful and delicate Anglo-language stories captivate readers who love British wit. Jerome K. Jerome’s work and distinctive voice have been adapted into stage plays, cinema, television, and even poetry.

First published in Great Britain in 1889, Three guys in the same boat (not to mention the dog) is a humorous work based on true events of writer Jerome K. Jerome during his boat journey on the Thames from Kingston to Oxford. The impact of the work is still intact today when in 2003 the Guardian magazine ranked the book 33rd in the 100 novels of all time.

Year 2009, Three guys in the same boat ranked second among the 50 funniest works in history voted by Esquire magazine. Despite facing public opinion sources criticizing the work as “indecent” and lack of seriousness, but with his “hopefully and irreparably genuine” wit. Beyond a handbook of British geography, beyond an ordinary work of humour, Three guys in the same boat (not to mention the dog) of Jerome K. Jerome has become a classic literary work in English literature in particular as well as in the treasure of human literature in general.

Published in 1936, the work “Gone With the Wind” is a famous novel by writer Margaret Mitchell. Throughout the work is the image of a beautiful, intelligent and strong Southern girl Scarlett O’Hara with a liberal, enterprising lifestyle. Her image represents modern, strong, independent women, who aspire to express themselves and assert themselves. .

The work also praises the couple’s love, if you have ever read it, you will not be able to forget the romance of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler. This work was later adapted into a film and affirmed the vitality of an immortal literary work that has stood the test of time. Gone with the Wind is a classic of American literature first published in 1963.

The story follows the life of Scarlett O’Hara, a Southern American noblewoman struggling to survive the storm of the Civil War and a period of national reconstruction. She fought strongly with life, only to realize that she had missed a lot of so-called…love, ideals of life. Margaret Mitchell used her pen to honestly describe her profound reflections on the fate of people in general, the fate of the people of the South of America during the country’s unstable period. In it, there are lessons about the ideal of life, love for people, strength to overcome suffering and unhappiness and love between men and women. All are extremely real, lively and full of humanity.

“On the road” is based on the true story of Jack Kerouac and his friend Neal Cassady, two of the important figures of the Beat (Beat Generation) generation of America in the 50s, the leading birds initiating the movement. Hippy and inspired Bohemianists. This novel, written in less than three weeks in 1951, follows a spontaneous composition on a teletype scroll, presenting a fresh style of rambling sentences based on the fragmentary structure of Jazz music that, according to J.Kerouac, emphasized “There is no ‘selectivity’ in expression, but just following the associations of the mind, sinking into boundless seas of thoughts with a constant theme.”.

The work promotes the freedom of the soul, the ambition to live naked, the passion for adventurous trips and considers “that road to be their life”. The famous slogan “Make love, not war” was also born during this period. And from a small group of literary friends, the Beat generation has immortalized as an American cultural legend. The image of the character in the novel carrying a backpack and waving for a hitchhiking along the road inspired many young people at that time as well as now to imitate. Get in the car with Sal and Dean, maybe you’ll find yourself somewhere on that long road. Despite intense controversy since birth, On the road is the most vivid evidence of a period in American history, an intellectual movement. The book is recognized as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century in American and world literature.

Victor Hugo (February 26, 2 – May 1802, 22) was a famous French Romantic writer, poet, and playwright. He is also a politician, a typical committed intellectual of the nineteenth century. Hunchback of Notre Dame – translated from the original French Notre Dame de Paris by Hugo writer. The work was born from the author wanted to write a novel about a famous church in Paris. He went to Notre Dame Cathedral many times to see the ancient architecture of this church.

The historical novel is set in medieval Paris. He wanted the magnificent old church to rise above time and all events. The work has shown the rise to a philosophical height, by describing a fate that has led the characters attached to this church to death and destruction. It is this pessimistic inspiration that gives the work a grand and wild look. The work is divided into 11 volumes.

The intense and mysterious novel about Catherine Earnshaw, the rebellious daughter of the Earnshaw family, and the rough and crazy man her father brought home and named Heathcliff, is played against a backdrop of the fields and hills of England were as lonely and primitive as their love. From childhood to adulthood, their attachment becomes more and more obsessive. Their family, social status and even fate were plotted against them, their fierce nature and extreme jealousy also destroyed them, so the whole time those two lovers lived in hatred and despair. , but death has only the beginning meaning. A new beginning for those two fierce souls to be free to reunite, as desolate and frenzied winds sweep around the castles in Howling Hill.

Emily Bronte’s only novel was the one that reached the public with mixed reviews in 1847. Through the love affair between Cathy and Heathcliff, set in the desolate Yorkshire countryside, Howling Hill created a whole world of its own with a tendency to ignore routine, reach for poetry as well as to the dark depths of the human heart, making the work one of the greatest, most tragic novels ever written. people have written about burning passion. Appearing on world literature and affirming its mark as a unique phenomenon of classical literature. In addition, to date, the classic novel of English literature has been adapted many times to film, television, musicals and operas.

War and peace is a series of epic novels by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, first printed by Russki Vestnik between 1865 and 1869. It is a work that reflects a tragic period of the entire Russian society, from the nobility to the peasantry. , during the Napoleonic era, and is considered one of Lev Tolstoy’s two major masterpieces. War and peace It is also considered one of the greatest novels of world literature.

Novel series”War and peace” is known as the lion (Lev in Russian is the lion) of Russian literature. The plot is built on two historical events at the end of the nineteenth century, the war of 1805 and 1812. The period reflects the peaceful life in Russia during the Russian period in the periods 1805 -1812, 1812 -1820. The work shines with the desire to love peace, ignites a profound and worthy humanism. It is one of the masterpieces of mankind.

One of the salient features of War and peace is the art of depicting the psychology of characters. The characters’ fates with subtle moods are closely related to the ups and downs of history. This is Lev Tolstoy’s innovation point in the epic genre, thereby creating a modern epic image in the history of Russian literature and world literature.

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” It is one of the most popular books of readers around the world. Under the pen of the famous Mark Twain, the plot appears to be the adventures of the main character Huckleberry Finn on the Mississippi River with his slave friend Jim. The novel presents a profound perspective, a satirical laugh about the society in the American South at that time, in which the author specifically condemns racism. Image Huckleberry Finn Adventure on the river with the raft and his friend in search of freedom is an immortal image in the treasure of human literature.

Another unique feature of the book “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is the author’s style of writing, in which Mark Twain has skillfully applied local dialects to describe complex psychological situations, as well as to excellently describe natural scenes. As Mark Twain himself explains in the preface to this book, he used a wide variety of dialects from many different regions and classes of people, and the selection of these dialects was done carefully. careful, elaborate. It is a unique aspect of literary art in Huckleberry Finn which readers can only perceive by directly reading the original English language, but cannot clearly see through the translation into foreign languages.

Book thief – The work of Australian writer Markus Zusak published in 2005 has stormed the New York Times bestseller list for more than 100 consecutive weeks, becoming a classic, a choice. choice of British and American school libraries. Book thief When he was born, he immediately surprised the literary critics in the world and made millions of eyes tear up.

The narrator in this work is Death – a familiar “face” of war, associated with death, tragedy, and darkness. But the story that Death tells, about the ferocity of what humans inflict on their own kind, even Death has to shudder. Turning the pages of the book, the reader seems to enter into a conversation with Death, a character with a sense of humor, with a witty little warning at the beginning of the story that “You will die”.

This is a story with too many deaths but also full of love and imbued with humanity. However, the main content of the story does not depict the bloody battlefields of World War II, the barbaric killing scenes… but this is the story of Liesel, an orphan girl who was adopted in Thien Street. Dang in the city of Munich. It is in the poor little town with the peaceful appearance of children’s soccer games, the small thefts of hungry children, the beautiful friendship of Liesel and the boy Rudy full of personality … exudes. The atmosphere in Germany was tense and full of conflict, a Germany going through one of the most terrifying periods in human history.

Don Quixote, Don Quixote, Don Kijote, Don Quijote or Don Quixote (Spanish: Don Quixote de la Mancha) is a novel by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). The work is also full name is El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (Don Quixote, the talented nobleman of Mancha). The first part was published in 1605 and the second part published in 2. It is one of the earliest novels written in modern European languages ​​and arguably the most influential and representative work of all. List of works of Spanish literature.

Don Quixote is considered one of the few most widely read works in Western literature. A 2002 investigation by the Norwegian Nobel Institute found it to be the best novel of all time. The character of the work, through the image of Don Quixote, reflects the multi-faceted nature of man, besides his crass personality is his delicacy, love for fellow human beings, love of freedom and hatred of the parasitic luxury of the people. the aristocrats of the time and respected morality.

The work is also not entirely composed with a sense of humor, through the work, Cervantes mocks the remnants of the feudal knightly adventure ideal, lashing out at a common taste in the public, expressed a desire for a more just and humane post-feudal society. An immortal literary work of mankind, timeless, Don Quixote has been translated into the most languages ​​in human history after the “Bible”. The work brought the great writer Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) to the glory of his career. The work was voted best novel in an investigation by the Norwegian Nobel Research Institute. The humanistic meanings in the work still shine a longing for justice and charity in society.

Novel Kill the mockingbird Harper Lee’s book was recently voted America’s most loved book in a nationwide survey with the participation of millions of readers in the country. Kill the mockingbird remains one of America’s most representative books on racial segregation and injustice in the Southern states. Set in the 1930s, the work revolves around lawyer Atticus Finch and his two children, Jem and Scout. When Atticus defends a black man accused of wrongfully raping a white woman, it is his arguments and advice that help Scout “widen her eyes” to see the world around her. me. “Kill the mockingbird” – a book, although written in the voice of a little girl, but what the work conveys to the reader is extremely profound.

Writer Harrper Lee took readers through levels of emotions, referring to any profound issues of society at that time. Come to the work when you want to know about racism, strict prejudice, eternal preference for men and women… From the perspective and lens of children, adults feel and draw the truth. many life messages. Love for people is the theme throughout the work, perhaps because of such humanity, the work is loved and read by many people.

Hitherto One hundred years of loneliness remains the greatest novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the Columbian writer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. One hundred years of loneliness was born (1967) caused a stir in Latin American literature and was immediately admired by the whole world. After nearly twenty years, One hundred years of loneliness has been everywhere on our planet to reach everyone and every home.

One hundred years of loneliness is the story of the Buendya family that existed for seven generations, the first being tied to a tree and the last being eaten by ants, a family that exiled themselves to solitude to escape incest. In that lonely world, Arcadio, Aureliano, Remediot and Amaranta were born, living with a tragic fate as predetermined: swaying in loneliness and nostalgia, anxiously worried about committing incest. But then they love each other intensely and get married in the hope that love will reform their race. But they still gave birth to pig-tailed children and it ended the Buendya family.

Hundred years of solituden is a call for everyone to live their true human nature – the synthesis of social relationships – to overcome all prejudices and personal prejudices, to fill in all the gaps between the individual and the individual. I get along with my family and the community. That’s why Garcia Márquez once stated that the book he spent his whole life writing was a book about loneliness and through loneliness he called on everyone to unite, unite to fight, unite to conquer love. Latin America’s underdevelopment, united to create a different myth. A fascinating new myth of life, where no one is determined by others even the way to die, where love has a way out and happiness is the real possibility, and where the they are sentenced to one hundred years of solitude at last and forever will have a second chance to be reborn on this earth. Readers come to One hundred years of loneliness because it is a literary book that really breathes modern life – a book of faith and human destinies.

The Old Man and the Sea (The Old Man and The Sea) is a short novel written by famous author Ernest Hemingway in 1952. It can be said that this is one of the most outstanding works in the writer’s career. Also thanks to this novel, Hemingway was honored to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Many people consider this not only one of the most outstanding works in the history of Nobel Literature but also a classic work. A must read in everyone’s life.

To the Old Man and the Sea, Readers will follow the three-day journey of catching giant swordfish extremely difficult of old fisherman Santiago. Thinking that luck had smiled when he was able to capture the most beautiful swordfish in the world, the sharks rushed to eat the old man’s only swordfish. And sadly, when the journey ended, the only result the old man obtained was a useless skeleton.

The content of the story is as simple as that, but hidden in it are deep layers of meaning and meaningful messages to readers. This is the “iceberg” principle that the writer has used thoroughly in his work, helping the story no longer simply talk about the old man fishing. Unlike other works that only delve into a single message, The Old Man and the Sea is a series of symbolic meanings throughout the work. This is also a famous work and one of the peaks in the writer’s career. This work won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953. It also contributed significantly to the writer receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

“Miserables” is the famous work of great writer Victor Hugo published in 1962 and became one of the most famous literary works in the world. Miserables is the story of French society in the first 20 years of the 19th century from the time of Napoleon I to the throne and several decades later. The main character of the novel is Jean Valjean, a former convict who seeks to atone for the mistakes made in his youth but cannot escape his past. Self Miserables There are many stories and characters with different lives, but the thread connecting these separate lives is about Jean Valjean.

Miserables It is a very meaningful and practical work. “When the law and the weather were still full of human abuse, they also created hells in the midst of civilized society and brought an artificial destiny to superimpose heaven; when the three great problems of the times were forgiveness The culture of men because of selling their labor, the debauchery of women because of their lack of food, the barrenness of children because of the darkness and lack of education, has not been resolved; in some places, life is still suffocating; put it differently and from a broader perspective, as long as on earth ignorance and suffering persist, books like this can also be useful.

“Miserables is a realistic novel, epic, social coverage and also a song about love. In terms of reality, Victor Hugo’s novel depicts the world of poor people realistically. On the epic aspect, the work has described important historical events of France, has portrayed the great conflicts within the human soul, between good and evil, between respect for the law and the law. and respecting human morality…The work makes people have a look at life, know how to love, share and appreciate what they have. If you can, take some time to read this masterpiece.