Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Kelly Orlando Biographical Essay John Green is one of America’s most famous modern-day authors known for his works such as Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars. Also famous for YouTube videos, Green is well-known for his educational online posts. He was one of the 100 most influential people in the world, according to Time magazine. Green won numerous awards for his writings including the Michael L. Printz Award with Looking for Alaska and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize under

Rivera Jose Gabriel Hankins English 116 05/20/2015 A Bend in the River – Book Review “The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it”. That’s how V.S. Naipaul starts his novel “A Bend in the River”. The book describes the post-independence struggles of an unnamed Africa governed by a dictator, “The Big Man”. A Bend in the River is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. The collision of cultures in India, Arab, Africa, South

To Kill A Mockingbird,” considered one of the best novels of the 20th century, is also one of the most controversial. According to the American Library Association, this novel is one of the most challenged and banned classical books. Being a banned book means it is prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means. Reasons why people might want to ban To Kill A Mockingbird is because they, feel that the racism, language in the book is offensive and inappropriate. I think To

Massachusetts had it banned. “He has had his problems with librarians from the start when, in 1885, “those moral-ice-bergs,” the Library Committee of Concord−symbolic seat of freedom−pronounced the book rough, coarse, inelegant, and expelled it from library shelves. “Trash and suitable only for the slums,” they said (Stanek). “Nearly 130 years since then, this novel has been challenged, defended, banned, expurgated and bowdlerized numerous times by

“The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger is a critically acclaimed and highly spoke of book. The book “Catcher in the Rye” is narrated by a sixteen year old boy named “Holden Caulfield”. This teen adolescent is not like any other boy you will ever find, Holden is a sixteen year old teen going through the most difficult times of adolescence and is discovering that no one understands him. Holden is too complex for our understanding he speaks in his own vernacular as if not one thing or person can

Today, I want to discuss this book, which is one of my favorite book and movie. The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is always considered to be the "must read" novel by book critics around the world. The Modern Library ranked The Great Gatsby at number two on the list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. Time magazine honors The Great Gatsby as one of the 10 greatest literary works of all time. The Great Gatsby is told by Nick Carraway's memoirs of what happened in

consequences of the present day behavior. Utopias tended to have a placid gloss of phony benevolence, while Dystopias displayed somewhat satanic thunder. Utopias commonly featured “moderns” undergoing an experiment to the utopian mind-set after which all action stopped. On the other hand, Dystopia is a character representing modern is excitingly chased down, persecuted, degraded, and commonly killed. Whether pleasant,

Censorship Censorship is the reason why books are banned in schools. In the novel, The Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger, he addresses the topic of inappropriate words and behaviors. He implies that it is okay for kids to have bad behaviors. The Catcher In The Rye was banned from 1961 to 1982. It was banned in almost every school because of the inappropriate behaviors, language, and poor decision making skills. ¨The Catcher was attacked in the name of 'citizen action' by such bodies as the

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite". (Jules 199) This part of a Quote written by Jules Verne himself can be found in one of Verne's most famous book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. it Gives a clue to his fascination with world travel adventures and the knowledge he was inspired by. Jules Verne is a globally

Ever since Bram Stoker wrote his entrancing novel people have been adapting it, and the story is one of the most reproduced ideas in history. Each innovation of the novel influences the story for the creators own purpose, and in doing so generates another version of Dracula. Count Dracula has become an infamous character in history, and has been captured in many different mediums, such as the Japanese anime and manga series Vampire Hunter D, which follows Draculas son D in his adventures (Kikuchi)