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World Literature — Classic Novels

Famous novels and their authors from world literature

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paperthin_reader 15 terms Aug 18, 2025
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Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky; Russian novel about guilt after a murder
2
1984
George Orwell; dystopian novel about totalitarian surveillance state
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes; Spanish novel about an idealistic knight
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald; critique of the American Dream in the 1920s
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee; racial injustice in the American South through a child's eyes
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez; magical realist saga of the Buendía family
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen; romantic novel critiquing social class in England
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy; epic of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley; dystopia of engineered happiness and social control
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger; teenage alienation narrated by Holden Caulfield
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Hamlet
Shakespeare; revenge tragedy about a Danish prince
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The Odyssey
Homer; epic of Odysseus's journey home after the Trojan War
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley; gothic novel exploring creation and responsibility
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The Stranger
Albert Camus; existentialist novel about indifference and absurdity
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison; novel about racial invisibility in America