SEE-August 13th: The new generation seems to get carried away with smart phones, laptops, and tablets. Reading lost its essence since people started replacing physical books with electronic versions.
'SEE' brings back the vintage vibes by picking the best 5 classic books you can read this week, arranged from the oldest to the newest:
1- Frankenstein by Marry Shelly
A Gothic, thriller classic novel written by English author Marry Shelly, wife to poet Percy Shelly. She confronts the limitation of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness.
The novel tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student of science who brings a grotesque to life, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein.
2- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
T.S Eliot described the novel of the Jazz age the “first step” American fiction had taken since Henry James. It is considered as one of the great classics of 20th-century literature.
The novel combines magic and shocking realism. The story revolves around wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan, the luxurious parties on Long Island creates the tale of America in 1920 that resonates with the power of myths.
3- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The book is one of the top books of the 20th century, German writer Anne Frank wrote her extraordinary diary which is also known as The Diary of a Young Girl in the Amsterdam attic where she was hiding for 2 years with her family from the Nazis.
Anna reveals a deeper version of herself, the reader can see her more real, more human, and more vital than ever.
She is first a teenage girl stubbornly honest, vulnerable and in love with life. She imparts her deeply secret world of soul-searching and hungering for affection, rebellious clashes with her mother, romance and newly discovered sexuality.
She opens up about her experience with hunger, fear of discovery and death.
4-To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The unforgettable classic masterpiece of American literature was translated into 40 languages with over 18 million copies.
Readers get the chance to experience numerous of human feelings including, innocence, kindness and cruelty. in addition to love, hatred and compassionate. The novel consists of sense of humor and warmth despite of the critical issues the novel discusses such as race and injustice.
The story is written in the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch's point of view about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The main characters undergo significant changes that affect their adulthood.
The plot and characters are based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors near her hometown when she was 10 years old.
5- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Semi-autobiographical work of art is the only novel written by the American writer Sylvia Plath.
The novel portrays the realistic, intensely emotions of the protagonist Esther Greenwood, an ambitious student at Smith College who experience a mental disorder and fall later into the grip of insanity while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. The plot parallels Plath's experience of interning at Mademoiselle magazine and mental breakdown which was followed by a suicide attempt.
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