10 Books that Changed the World

 10 Literature Books that Revolutionized the World
(and might change yours too)

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It might be hard to realize that a bunch of papers and ink managed to shape new ideologies and influence people at that extent that the world as it is now wouldn't be recognizable without them.

The books that the following list contains, may have the same impact on your world, as it contains all the sources that you need to reconsider things in your life. 

1. 1984 by George Orwell

Synopsis. 1984 is the year when Big Brother watches everything and whatever leads to thought is forbidden. Language, liberty, human emotions. Whoever commits the crime of thought is sentenced to death. When George Orwell wrote this book, 1984 was his future. Now it is past. However, it will always remain a future, the beginning of the end of our society, as we know it.

How has it influenced the world? George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four has raised the political awareness of many of its readers. What is more, many of its phrases have been quoted and are widely used. lastly, the term "Orwellian" is used to refer to a state or a governmental policy out of control, and one that is totally corrupt.

2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Goodreads Synopsis. 'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'

Introduction and Afterword by Joe Wheeler

To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. "A Christmas Carol" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.

How has it influenced the world? "A Christmas carol" has changed the way that we celebrate Christmas. Before that book, Christmas Wasnt even a celebration-worthy holiday and snowy weather was not connected to Christmas until its publication!

3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Goodreads Synopsis and How has it influenced the world? The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.

First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

4. Beloved by Toni Morrison

Synopsis. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but something from her past is still haunting her, something that keeps her still captive. Sethe's baby died without a name and with only one word engraved on its tombstone: Beloved, which is the name that a mysterious teenage girl calls herself that comes to reveal Sethe's secret. 

How has it influenced the world? Tonis Morrison's Beloved is one of the most popular and influential literature books of our time. It was written to honour the destructive legacy of African American slaves. her book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988

5. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 

Synopsis. Upton Sinclair tells the story of the life of a Lithuanian villager, who migrated in the USA at the early of the century, who's trying to survive as a worker at a slaughterhouse and as a migrant, he faces double exploitation.

How has it influenced the world? the novel is recognised as of the most powerful works of literary social criticism.

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