Best Books from the 20th Century

The Little Prince

"The Little Prince" is the most famous book by the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900- 1944). It is a contemporary classic of world literature....

The Pearl

From an early age, Steinbeck showed a rebelliousness and opposition to the traditional way of life. To please his parents, he studied at Stanford University. However...

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh, in this his most famous novel, shows his fascination by both the Catholic faith and the English aristocracy. It is narrated by the architectural painter...

The Little Virtues

A book that can be placed between the genres of essay and autobiography. Through personal experiences (the suffering of war and hunger, the memory of her dead husband...

The Red Horse

Historical novel, which tells the story of a soldier in Italy, from the Second World War to the 1960s. It focuses especially on the description of the characters,...

Fahrenheit 451

451 degrees centigrade is the temperature that paper in a book catches fire. The story focuses on the fireman Montag who is unhappy with his work burning books in a...

The Neverending Story

This unique book contains two seemingly parallel stories (each written in a different color): the first, in the real world, begins when Bastian finds a book called "...

To Kill a Mockingbird

A novel set in the United States in the 1930s. It masterfully describes the atmosphere of the time, albeit with a universal vision: it shows how the life of a family...

The Diary of a Young Girl

Diary written by a Jewish teenage girl, while hiding in Amsterdam during World War II with her family. The period covered is 2 years (1942-1944): from the moment when...

Rosaura a las diez

Novel set in Buenos Aires, quite surprising to read. The plot can only be understood after reaching the end, and yet not entirely, as there are some loose ends left...