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

6

Wuthering Heights

The classic story of the unrequited love and possessive ambition of the people on Wuthering Heights. 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. Described in the fields and hills of England, lonely and primordial as their love.

From childhood to adulthood, their attachment becomes more and more obsessive. Family, social status, and even fate plot against them, their fierce nature and jealousy also destroy them, so the whole time those two lovers lived in hatred and despair, Only death has a beginning meaning.

7

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is about a dog named Buck that has been tamed, and cherished as a pet. But misfortune came to him when he was forced to farm to become a sled dog in cold Alaska, during a time when people were rushing to find gold in the 19th century.

Buck became a switch for merchants, toiling in blizzards, through many cruel and heartless, abusive owners. Later, Buck met an owner, Jon Thomson, a very kind owner, who treated him well, tamed him and let him live as "a really passionate love". After Jon Thomson's sudden death, Buck was deeply saddened and heartbroken. It abandoned humans completely, followed the call of the wilderness and became a wild wolf.

8

Notre-Dame de Paris

The story is set in history on January 6, 1482 in Paris, France. This is a love story with tragic deaths that makes the reader feel sad. The scheming loves and the love ones that contain great sacrifice. Besides, the story shows the luxury of Paris at that time, as well as the hideous hells lurking in the hidden corners of the city.

Victor Hugo's Notre Dame Cathedral has been adapted into many films and plays, including musicals, ballet and radio. The story has created a resonance to this day that many people still appreciate when re-reading.

9

Pride and Prejudice

The story follows the confrontation between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a middle-class family, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a wealthy landowner. At first, the pride of class and property, and the prejudice of the low status of Elizabeth's family made Darcy at first want to stay away from her, while Elizabeth also prided herself on her self-esteem and prejudice. about Darcy's bourgeois manner, becoming a girl unlike the other girls around Darcy.

Elizabeth, with her sharp, witty and tough personality, is considered one of the most charismatic figures in English literature. The book Pride and Prejudice as a place for Jane Austen to express her dreams, beliefs and pride as well as the preconceived notions of society, women, and even boys.

10

The Catcher in the Rye

A story about Holden Caulfield, a 17-year-old who was expelled from Pencey Prep college prep school. He is a smart and sensitive boy, pressing between the evils of society at that time, the hypocrisy and making him unbearable. With simple words, but sometimes vulgarity to express the character's personality. Catching green field children into people's hearts by simple philosophies that are still present every day in life.