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Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Published: 1960
Intro: Jean Louise Finch (Scout) lives with her brother, Jeremy (Jem), and their widowed father, Atticus, on the main residential street in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. A successful lawyer and a widower, Atticus raises Jem and Scout with the help of their black cook, Calpurnia.
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Title: Les Miserables
Author: Victor Hugo
Published: 1862
Intro: It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty year period in the early 19th century that includes the Napoleonic wars and subsequent decades. Principally focusing on the struggles of the protagonist, ex-convict Jean Valjean, who seeks to redeem himself, the novel also examines the impact of Valjean's actions for the sake of social commentary. It examines the nature of good, evil, and the law, in a sweeping story that expounds upon the history of France, the architecture of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, law, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love.
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Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Author: Jules Verne
Published: 1870
Intro: ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'' is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. The novel is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax.
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Author: Mark Twain
Published: 1884
Intro: This is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.
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Title: Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Published: 1945
Intro: A pig by the name of Old Major gathers all of the animals residing at Mr. Jones' Manor Farm for an important meeting at which time he describes an ideal society where all animals are free from the tyranny of their human masters. Three days later, Old Major dies but his philosophy of Animalism has successfully taken root in the minds of the animals of Manor Farm.
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