European and American novels are all classic literary works known to many literary and artistic enthusiasts. The best novels of all time are mostly works that promote humanity, reflect reality and are imbued with philosophy from which profound lessons for life are drawn. Although European and American novels are too picky to read, they are an indispensable part of world literature. If you are a book lover, European and American novels are novels that you should read once in your life. Let's find out which are the 15 best European and American novels of all time.
1 The Godfather
The Godfather - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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.
2 Harry Potter
Harry Potter - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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.
3 Cuore
Cuore - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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.
4 Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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.
5 Kak zakalyalasy staly
Kak zakalyalasy staly - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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.
6 Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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 - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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
Notre-Dame de Paris - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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
Pride and Prejudice - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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
The Catcher in the Rye - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
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.
11 The Thorn Birds
The Thorn Birds - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
This book also has another name that many people call "Birds hiding waiting to die". Talk about the family life of 3 generations and the immoral love between Maggie and the priest. The story clearly shows the psychological conflicts, the contradictions of life and the prohibitions in love. People always know how to sacrifice and keep each other the best. Unethical love has surpassed the limits of life, from here creating an extremely fierce struggle.
The song of birds in the thorn bushes is the love story between Meggie Cleary and the priest Ralph de Bricassart. Meggie tries to forget her feelings by marrying Luke O'Neill - an employee of her family, but soon she and her father Ralph are reunited, their love has caused many tragedies .
12 Gone with the wind
Gone with the wind - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
Gone with the wind is set in Georgia and Atlanta, in the southern United States during the Civil War and Reconstruction times. The work revolves around Scarlett O'Hara, a strong and brave Southern girl who must find a way to survive the war and overcome the difficult life in the post-war era. Along with it is her passionate love for the two boys Ashley and Rhett so deeply abandoned her.
13 Sans famille
Sans famille - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
This is a book by writer Hector Malot. It is not a book that everyone wants to read. Because when you have been swept away by its adventure, you will not stop grieving, not stop crying. Through the boy's adventures, the author imparts lessons to us. No relatives, no relatives, no relatives, the boy was lost in the magnificent French city. I have lived with all kinds of people, sometimes loving and happy, sometimes cheaply shaking. After that arduous process of growing up, I finally found my mother.
14 La Dame aux camélias
La Dame aux camélias - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
Alexander Dumas gave birth to this book when he was only 24 years old. It brought his name to the forefront of the world. Over the years, the life of the heroine has been exposed by Dumas' pen. Camellia is a work about the tragic life of the famous courtesan Marguerite Gautier, when the author accidentally got her relic book.
Because of her passion for flower tea, she took the nickname Flower Flower Girl, her life was always associated with suffering. With a young pen when she was only in her twenties, the author sketched the most realistic life of a prostitute and a sad love story with the famous lawyer Duval. The story becomes more wonderful than ever when the woman who is despised by the whole society dares to sacrifice for others. A wonderful life worth contemplating.
15 Don Quixote
Don Quixote - the best European and American novel of all time. Photo: Internet
Considered the first European novel, Don Quixote is one of the greatest works of the Renaissance. The work tells about the adventures of a poor nobleman named Quixada. He enjoyed reading stories about the knights of that era. And in the end he made himself a true knight under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He traveled around, fighting giants who were actually windmills. His wild imagination did more harm than harm to himself.
