Modern Library 100 Best Novels

One of the most obvious ways in which American society considers their wants over their needs is the multi-billion-dollar online shopping industry. Sites like Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are all huge moneymakers and household names, since just about everyone has purchased from them once or twice. Most people have Amazon wish lists a mile and a half long, which isn’t inherently a bad thing, but it does create a good indicator of who we are as a society. Driving by houses in a suburban neighborhood, it’s

the jury’s attention from his perverse pedophilic ways, suggesting that horrific things can be temporarily veiled behind the beauty of art. Evidence of Humbert’s entrancing language can be seen straight from the beginning of the novel. The very first sentence of the novel, “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta”, reads with such stirring

Introduction The Great Gatsby was published in 1925,and this book was awarded the second of 100 best novels of American literary history.This book’s writer,F. Scott Fitzgerald,whose shadow has been shown on the Nick and Gatsby.Nick and Fitzgerald were both born in common families but graduated from famous universities,and thought that the new life with luxury and crazy love is attractive.Gatsby and Fitzgerald are both mammonish.They thought the money can bring everything and they can prove that

Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. Although the book has often been challenged for removal from libraries in the US and Canada, sometimes successfully, Keyes refused to make the change and sold the story to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction instead. and

his first novel at the age of 17, which was never published. The first published work "Crome Yellow" was a satire work related to social issues. He edited for the magazine "Oxford Poetry", wrote poetry, stories and created scripts for some Hollywood films. In 1911 he suffered from blindness for two or three years. As a result, he do not qualify for service in World War I. Once recovered, he studied English literature at an Oxford College, where he graduated with first-class honors. His novel "Brave

Prize for many of his novels, including The Grapes of Wrath that was written in 1939. When he received the Nobel Prize in 1962, The Grapes of Wrath was cited and was called a “great work” and one of the top reasons he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1998 it was ranked tenth by the Modern Library on a list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It was included in Time magazine in “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923-2005”. The novel was still receiving

1,037 page novel became the fastest selling novel ever printed despite its price of $3. By Christmas of the first year, the novel had sold one million copies. Soon after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the motion picture of the same name on December 1939, sales of the novel reached 2,153,000 copies (Corbett). The motion picture went on to win 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and made $1.6 billion in ticket sales when adjusted for inflation (Lang). Nevertheless, the beloved novel ranks #26

451 was just that; a society where everyone got what they wished and literature was eliminated entirely so it wouldn't offend anyone. Sadly, this still continues to happen in the United States. Many books have been banned from school and public libraries because

World, by Aldous Huxley, is a novel set in London, England of AD 2540 or 632 A.F., “After Ford” as Huxley refers to it (Baldassarro). The novel predicts developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation as well as classical conditioning that, through joint effort, impact a society as a whole. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World as fifth place on its list of 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century (Modern Library Board Members). Then in 2003

mankind is played out by children of a wide range of ages with no guidance or preparation for the task. The novel lends itself to fall somewhere within the genre of fictional survivalist stories as well as being adventurous that readers aging from young teens to adults, or “Young Adult”, could relate to. Unlike the overall ages of the characters stranded on the island, Lord of the Flies isn’t a novel to be read by children looking for bright and colorful fantasy