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The Great Gatsby
"The Great Gatsby," published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, follows the mysterious, wealthy Jay Gatsby's obsessive pursuit of Daisy Buchanan against the backdrop of Jazz Age excess and moral emptiness on Long Island, narrated by Gatsby's neighbor Nick Carraway. The novel sold modestly during Fitzgerald's own lifetime and was considered a relative commercial disappointment at the time of his death in 1940, before a dramatic critical and popular reassessment during and after World War II established it as a defining work of American literature. Its precise, controlled prose and its critique of the American Dream's hollowness beneath Jazz Age glamour became a fixture of American high school and college curricula, and the novel's ending line — about boats beating "against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" — is among the most frequently quoted closing lines in American fiction. The Great Gatsby's combination of its dramatic posthumous critical rehabilitation and its enduring critique of American ambition has made it one of the most significant American novels ever published.
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1984
"1984," published by George Orwell in 1949, depicts a totalitarian superstate that surveils and controls its citizens' thoughts through pervasive propaganda, constant surveillance, and the deliberate manipulation of language and historical record. The novel introduced numerous terms and concepts that entered everyday English usage far beyond literary discussion, including "Big Brother," "doublethink," "thoughtcrime," and "Orwellian" itself, giving it a rare linguistic influence matched by very few other novels in history. Orwell wrote the novel while seriously ill with tuberculosis in the final years of his life, drawing on his experiences with wartime propaganda and his opposition to totalitarian movements across the political spectrum, and the book has seen recurring surges in sales during periods of political anxiety about government surveillance and misinformation. 1984's combination of its lasting linguistic influence and its recurring relevance during moments of political anxiety has made it one of the most culturally significant novels of the 20th century.
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