Famous 20th Century Novels
This is not a top 14 list, just some of my favorites. However they all do appear on many lists of great literature of the 20th century.
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- W inston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania.
- Tom Joad makes his way back to his family farm after being released from prison.
- Howard Roark, a young architect, is expelled from his architecture school.
- A plane full of school boys is shot down over a tropical island.
- The first part of the novel focuses on Mrs. Morel and her unhappy marriage to a drinking miner.
- Dagny Taggart struggles to keep the family railroad from failing in tough economic times.
- Stephen Dedalus, Buck Muligan, Haines, Leopold Bloom.
- Billy Pilgrim travels between different periods of his life.
- takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive, totalitarian super-State.
- opens with the narrator, Jake -Barnes, delivering a brief biographical sketch of his friend, Robert
- N ick Carraway moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business.
- Four businessmen take a trip down a georgia river
- Old Major gathers the other animals to tell them a dream he had of living without oppressive humans
- B igger Thomas, a poor, uneducated, twenty-year-old black man in 1930s Chicago
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