Top 15 best European and American novels of all time you should read once in your life

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a famous European-American novel by Italian-American writer Mario Puzo. The story is about a Mafia family from 1945 to 1955.

Mario Puzo has breathed life into the lives of Italian Mafia with love stories. As a famous Italian-American writer, he brought his own insights and knowledge into his novels. The famous Italian tycoon Don Corleone, now living in the US, is called "The Godfather" by the world. Not only because his power is too great, but also because he is a person who always keeps his faith and morality.

In addition to the scary murderous stunts, the novel also highlights the extremely strong family love between seemingly cold-blooded people. The book, after being adapted into a film, has brought many great awards and become the most beloved movie of all time.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is the name of the series of British female writer J. K. Rowling. The series is about the wizarding adventures of the boy Harry Potter and his friends. Mainly set at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, England. This is a series of novels associated with the childhoods of many early 8x and 9x generations. Throughout the seven volumes of the novel, the values are highlighted between humanity, love, friendship, and family affection. Shown through the life of the little wizard boy and his adventures.

The trio of main characters Harry - Hermione - Ron deserve to be the characters that live forever with the years. The main and supporting characters interweave situations that strengthen the story and Rowling's captivating style has created a big name for the novel over the years. Harry Potter has been published into a movie and always goes hand in hand with young people's childhood.

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Cuore

It is a simple story with the most ordinary people, but their personalities, relationships, and noble and holy hearts are forever profound and valuable moral lessons.

An Italian boy, Enrico Bottini, daily records the big and small happenings in his student life, his feelings and thoughts into a diary. The characters in the diary are Enrico's teacher, teacher, classmates, Enrico's father and mother. Characters have been stylized to represent a good or bad trait, or just a habit.

Because it is not a work that reflects the education in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century, but a work that borrows artistic images to present thoughts on morality at school and at home. carry in the mind as an ideal, and in the heart as an ambition.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

This is a novel by author Harriet Beecher Stowe known otherwise as "The Miserable Life". This is a novel that influenced the American class system at that time. A book that touches the reader's heart. That was the reality of American society at that time, amid discrimination, the desire to be loved.

Throughout the novel is the journey of being sold into slavery by Uncle Tom, a black man. Along with the slave trade were the extremes, the cowardice of the life of the black slave. Go to the end of the bitterness and sound like a wake-up call to American society. This is the best-selling book of the 19th century. In its first week of publication, 5,000 copies were sold. It was later republished and sold over 300,000 copies in the US.

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Kak zakalyalasy staly

Russian literature also contributes to the color of life. Nikolai Astrovski put his whole life into it. He lived a life like the character he created. The author wrote this work while lying on the hospital bed. Blindness and paralysis ravaged his body but could not destroy his soul. Refusing to lie still and wait for death to come, Asstorov-sky also wants to participate in the war out there with his pen.

Works like his soul left to mankind. Steel here refers to the main character Pa-ven, an ordinary childhood of working people, but when he met the revolution, he burned. Going through the process of training with his own will, even though he suffered a lot, he still accepted it. The work is an epic about the spirit and strength of a soldier who is also a son of the country.