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How the Steel Was Tempered

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Bacon's essays

Never forget

Education of love

Aesop's Fables

Biography of celebrities

The Old Man and the Sea

Charlotte's Web

Aesop's Fables

Andersen's Fairy Tales

[Literary Works] Journey to the West

Hulan river

One Hundred Thousand Whys

robinson crusoe

The Water Margin?

have a nice trip

Flying classroom

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

A Dream in Red Mansions

The temptation of wolves

That boy is really handsome.

Cry Me A Sad River

How many flowers fall in my dreams?

"Ordinary world"

Muslim funeral

Norwegian forest

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Godfather

The catcher in the rye

Wanli fifteen years

The course of beauty

A besieged city

"alive"

Xu Sanguan sells blood.

gadfly

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Ivanhoe

Eugene onegin.

Walden, wait!

Lu Yao's Ordinary World

Muslim Funeral in Huo Da.

Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Forest

Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo

Mario puzo's The Godfather

Sophie's world.

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

Chen's White Deer Plain

Cadale breaks April

Huang Renyu's Fifteen Years of Wanli

Li Zehou's The Course of Beauty

Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged

Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Alai's The Dust Settles.

Alec Hale's Roots

New Man Chun People's Life Begins Tomorrow.

Yu Hua's "Living"

Yu Hua's Xu Sanguan Selling Blood

The gadfly of Voynich

Wuthering Heights by emily bronte

Liu, The Complete Biography of Napoleon

Selected plays of Cao Yu

1. Ordinary World Author: Lu Yao

This is a novel that shows the contemporary urban and rural social life in China in a panoramic way. This book consists of three parts. In the past ten years, the author has created many images of ordinary people from all walks of life through complex contradictions and entanglements. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. In addition to Henan people, villagers from poor counties in the loess plateau in the north and the plain in the south are also an important part of Tongcheng. Since the coal industry came into being, it has become Alaska in the west of China, attracting countless people looking for a way out. In this "United Nations" with various accents, because there are the most people in Henan, the public communication language is generally Henan dialect. People living in Tongcheng can speak a few words of Henan dialect and hum a few words of Henan opera. The city is surrounded by mountains. There are many rocks and thin soil on the mountain, which is not suitable for farming. The agricultural population is far less dense than the hinterland of the Loess Plateau, let alone the crowded central plain. Because there are few farmers and there is no shortage of fuel here, dense firewood and even some treetops grow on these hilly areas, which are more beautiful than other places on the Loess Plateau. Whenever autumn comes, some mountains are full of red leaves and flowers ... between the ridge and the headland, holes are formed due to excessive excavation of the stratum depth, and the surface sometimes sinks. Shocking large cracks often tear several ridges, and even large roof caving leads to the collapse and collapse of the whole mountain, triggering an earthquake with a magnitude of about Richter scale. One or two hundred miles north of the mountain is the Yellow River, which breathlessly flows eastward with thousands of tons of sediment ... The city can only build one main street in this narrow ravine. Along this winding street, along both sides of the railway, along the Qishui River, which usually has a small flow, rows of shops and buildings are stacked on top of each other, as dense as beehives and ant nests, stretching for ten miles from south to north. The railway station is located in the city center. A rectangular waiting room is painted yellow, which looks magnificent in this dusty city. Apart from the military-civilian airport in the southern suburbs, the square with a small railway station is probably the most open place in the city. The train goes south from here, crosses the green central plain, and reaches the provincial capital in five or six hours. In the west, east and north, there are highways extending to neighboring provinces. This railway station has two express trains from the provincial capital every morning and afternoon, and the rest are trucks carrying coal. The last section of the branch line of Longhai Railway did not end at this station. This steel ladder forks here again, climbing all the way through the hole and stringing together more than 20 mining areas on the east and west sides. When outsiders mention copper city, they all know that it is a place where coal is produced, so imagine that this city is probably full of coal. In fact, there are only one or two small coal mines on the edge of Tongcheng, and the rest of the large mines are in the ravines on both sides of the east and west. When you turn into these gullies along the railway branch line, you will know what a huge world it is. These coal mines, which are only ten miles apart, have tens of thousands of workers in each mining area, plus their families, which almost exceeds the size of a mountainous county. Dense population, dense houses, towering derricks, rumbling machines and noisy sounds are unbelievable. How can these small canyons and bays bear such a big load?

2. The Muslim Funeral Author: Huo Da

A Muslim family, the rise and fall of 60 years, the ups and downs of three generations' fate, two love tragedies that happened in different times and had different contents but were intertwined. It reveals their unique psychological structure in the collision and integration of China culture and Islamic culture, and their confusion and pursuit of the true meaning of life in the political and religious atmosphere. It shows ancient national customs and realistic covetousness full of contradictions. The works are fresh, smooth and unpretentious. They explore people's hearts with delicate brushstrokes, leaving deep thoughts after reading them.

3. Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Forest

A 100% popular love story in Asia was once a "super bestseller" in the history of Japanese literature.

This should of course be regarded as Haruki Murakami's masterpiece. Many people know about this Japanese from this book. The book takes memories as a clue to express the loneliness and confusion of teenagers facing adolescence and the helplessness and boredom of growing up. For the first time, Murakami clearly emphasized the theme he repeatedly emphasized in his later works: through the survival pain that young people can't get rid of under social pressure, they show their sadness and powerlessness towards life.

This is a sad, painful and 100% love novel. Watanabe, the hero of the novel, begins his love entanglement with two girls. Watanabe's first love Naoko was originally the girlfriend of his high school friend Muyue, and later Muyue committed suicide. A year later, Watanabe and Naoko met unexpectedly and started dating. At this time, Naoko has become demure and shy, and a shadow that is difficult to capture passes through the beautiful crystal eyes from time to time. They just walk aimlessly in the streets of Tokyo, falling leaves day after day, either before or after, or side by side. On the night of Naoko's 20th birthday, they had sex, but Naoko disappeared the next day. A few months later, Naoko wrote that she lived in a mental hospital in the distant mountains. When Watanabe visited, he found that Naoko began to have the fullness and beauty of a mature woman. Although they shared the same room at night, Watanabe restrained himself and said that he would wait for Naoko forever before breaking up. Shortly after returning to school, Watanabe began to associate with junior Qing Zi because of an accidental meeting. Yoko is just the opposite of Naoko. "It's like a deer jumping into the world in the morning light of spring." . During this period, Watanabe was very depressed and confused. On the one hand, I can't forget Naoko's lingering pain and tenderness, on the other hand, I can't resist Naoko's bold confession and charming vitality. Soon came the bad news of Naoko's suicide, and Watanabe went hiking without soul. Finally, encouraged by Naoko's roommate Reiko Kobayakawa, she began to explore her future life.

Personally, I think the content is more complicated. If you don't look carefully, it's easy to get confused.

4. The Count of Monte Cristo Author: Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo is the masterpiece of Dumas, a famous French writer. Tang Taisi, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was entrusted by the captain to send a letter to the Napoleonic Party. He was framed by two despicable guys and a judge and sentenced to death. Father Faria, a cellmate, taught him all kinds of knowledge and told him the secret of a batch of treasures buried in Monte Cristo before his death. After Tang Taisi escaped from prison, he found the treasure and became a rich man. From then on, he assumed the alias of Count of Monte Cristo, and after careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies. This book is full of romantic legends, with novel chapters and fascinating chapters.

Very story-telling and readable!

5. Godfather Author: mario puzo

This is a novel published in the United States from 65438 to 0969. It is the number one best seller in American publishing history. It has been on the bestseller list for 70 weeks in a row and sold 20 million copies in 37 years. As early as the early 1970s, it was made into a film and distributed all over the world, which was widely welcomed. Two of the three films adapted from this novel won an Oscar. The story of "The Godfather" provides some terrible pleasure factors rooted in the hearts of Americans, which enables readers to observe a thrilling dark and violent illegal class at close range and present readers with a feast of dangerous lifestyle. The classic of gangster stories ~!

6 "Sophie's World" Author: Jostan Gard

A philosophy book that is popular all over the world and super best seller.

The most readable philosophy book in the world.

A novel about the history of philosophy.

One of the 20th century 100 classic works.

1994 won the German Youth Literature Award and the Best Works Award.

Sophie's World, in the form of a novel, reveals the development of western philosophy through the process of a philosophical tutor imparting philosophical knowledge to a girl named Sophie. The thoughts from Socrates to Sartre, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, etc., are vividly reflected on the paper by the author's vivid brushstrokes, and explained with the historical background at that time, which is fascinating. Critics believe that this book is the most suitable introductory book for those who have never read philosophy classes, and it can also refresh old knowledge for those who have read some philosophy before and completely forgotten it.

7. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is Salinger's only novel. Although it is only a few hundred thousand words, it has had a great influence on American society and literature. At 195 1, the novel immediately caused a sensation. The hero's experience and thoughts resonate strongly among teenagers and are warmly welcomed by readers, especially college students and middle school students. They all imitate the clothes of the protagonist Holden and speak "Holden-style" language, because this novel tells their hearts and reflects their ideals, anguish and wishes. After more than 30 years' test, it has been proved to be one of the "modern classic novels" in contemporary American literature. At present, most middle schools and universities list it as a must-read after class. As some critics have said, it has "almost greatly influenced several generations of American youth".

8. Fifteen Years of Wanli Author: Huang Renyu

The fifteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, namely 1587, was originally an extremely ordinary year in the history of China. Focusing on the historical events around that year and the people living in that era, the author sorts out the problems existing in China's traditional social management, and on this basis, discusses the experiences and lessons that modern China should learn. The author is famous for his concept of "great history", which has appeared in this book. "The narrative may be very detailed, but the conclusion should not be far from near." Since its publication in Chinese mainland in the early 1980s, the book has received rave reviews and exerted a wide influence in academic and cultural circles. ...

Fifteen Years of Wanli was written by Mr. Huang Renyu in the United States on 1976, but it didn't attract public attention in China until recent years. In fact, nothing earth-shattering happened in the Ming dynasty this year, so most researchers didn't notice it, but many trivial things happened this year, such as the Qing-Ping rebellion, which became a precursor to the collapse of the empire.

Zhang Yuanfu Juzheng has been dead for five years, and Harry also died in this year. Qi Jiguang, a great star, also died at the end of the year. At that time, 29-year-old Nurhachi rose in the northeast: building palaces, distributing decrees in the Ministry, prohibiting riots, preventing theft, and legislating ... but the court did not pay attention to it; The Spanish Armada is about to sail for England, turning a new page in world history. ...

9. Beautiful course Author: Li Zehou

A Course of Beauty gives a general description and aesthetic grasp of China's art and literature for thousands of years from a macro perspective. Among them, it puts forward three categories: the dragon and phoenix dance of primitive ancient art, the hideous beauty of bronze art in Yin and Zhou dynasties, the rational complementarity of Confucianism and Taoism in pre-Qin period, the romanticism of Chu Ci, Han Fu and Han stone reliefs, the Wei and Jin demeanor of "human awakening", the Buddha sculptures in the Six Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties, the landscape paintings in the Song Dynasty and the aesthetic categories of poems, words and songs. English, German, Japanese and Korean versions have been published. This article is really good.

10. Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged

Fortress Besieged is a satirical novel with a unique style in the history of modern literature in China. The author Qian Zhongshu (19 10), a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, 1933 graduated from the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University, and then studied in Britain and France. He is a brilliant scholar with a thorough understanding of Chinese and western cultures. Fortress Besieged was written in 1944 and completed in 1946. At that time, the author was living in Shanghai, hearing and witnessing the insolence of the Japanese invaders, "Two years of worrying about the world and hurting my life" and "Preface to Fortress Besieged", and at the same time stubbornly putting his feelings and thoughts on life and academics into writing.

With this unique novel, Qian Zhongshu became a novel master in modern China literature. Since the book was published in the late 1940s, how many people have cried for it, laughed for it, sighed deeply for it and pondered for it for a long time. Life is a besieged city and marriage is a besieged city. If you rush in, you will be surrounded by various concerns about survival. Qian Zhongshu tells the joys and sorrows of a group of intellectuals in a free and easy humorous style. Qian Zhongshu's insight into the bone marrow and transcendental survival wisdom are enough to make readers comment again and again. .

1 1. Yu Hua's "Living"

The title of this work is to be alive. As a word, "alive" is full of power in the language of our country. Its strength does not come from shouting or attacking, but from enduring, enduring the responsibility given by life, enduring the happiness and pain given by reality, boredom and mediocrity. Being alive, as a part of the work, tells the friendship between a person and fate, which is the most touching friendship, because they are grateful to each other and hate each other at the same time. No one can abandon each other, and no one has any reason to complain about each other. When they were alive, they walked on the dusty road together, and when they died, they turned into rain and mud together. At the same time, To Be Alive also tells how people bear great suffering, just like the old saying: a close call. Let a hair bear the weight of 30 thousand Jin, it won't break. Living also tells the breadth and richness of tears; Tell us that despair does not exist; It tells us that people live for living itself, not for anything other than living.

12. Yu Hua's "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood"

Xu Sanguan's Selling Blood is a novel written by Yu Hua in 1995. It depicts life in misery with great warmth, and expresses people's desire to survive in the face of bad luck in the form of fierce stories. The novel tells that Xu Sanguan survived the difficulties of life by selling blood and overcame the stormy waves imposed on him by fate. When he was old, he knew he didn't need his blood anymore. Had a nervous breakdown. Commenting on Xu Sanguan's story of selling blood, French magazine Reading said: This is an exquisite novel, a perfect combination of simplicity and profound connotation. Yu Hua is currently writing a novel, which tells a love story with a long time span. In terms of literary style, it will be a completely different work from Xu Sanguan's story of selling blood. The novel will be finished early next year. This book expresses the author's fascination with length, a road, a river, rainbows after rain, endless memories, a ballad that begins and ends, and a person's life. All this is like a bundle of coiled rope, which is slowly pulled out by the narrative and pulled to the end of the road. Here, the author sometimes does nothing, because he finds that fictional characters also exist from the beginning. He believes that these voices should be respected and let them seek answers with the wind. Therefore, the author is no longer an invader of narrative, but a listener, a patient, careful, considerate and empathetic listener. He tried to do this. During the narration, he tried to cancel his identity as an author. He felt that he should be a reader. This is also the case. When the book was finished, he found that he knew no more than others. The characters in the book often speak for themselves, which sometimes surprises the author. When those appropriate and wonderful words blurted out in the fictional mouth, the author suddenly felt inferior and thought, "I can't say such things." However, when he becomes a real reader, when he reads other people's works, he often feels smug: "I said so too." This seems to be the joy of literature, and we need its influence to correct our thoughts and attitudes. Interestingly, when many great works influence an author, he will find that his fictional characters also influence him in the same way. This book is actually a long folk song. Its rhythm is the speed of memory, and the melody jumps gently. The rest is hidden by rhyme. The author only fictionalizes the history of two people here, but tries to arouse more people's memories. Matthias said: "Recalling the past life is tantamount to rebirth." Writing and reading are actually knocking on the door of memory, or trying to live again.

13. The gadfly of Voynich

The gadfly: dying for faith is like walking.

He, the gadfly-a man willing to be tortured by fate for revolutionary beliefs. He deeply loved two people-his father Montagni Lini and the noble woman Joan Ma, but he never gave them a chance to love him in his later years. His heart

It is not only a generous and touching revolutionary work, but also an elegant and pure literary masterpiece. This book is full of artistic appeal that deeply describes human feelings and humanity. In China, which has the largest population, and the former Soviet Union, which has the widest territory, the gadfly has countless admirers from generation to generation. The main character, the gadfly, is an upper-class rebel. I experienced several unforgettable emotional sufferings when I was young. Because of ignorance, he made a big mistake. His favorite girl gave him painful mental injury; His respected biological father is a vicious political enemy! However, he pursued the truth without hesitation and abandoned love and life-for the independence and freedom of Italy. The gadfly has become the embodiment of "power" in the hearts of young people! The novel revolves around the gadfly, his lover Joan Ma and Bishop Monteyne with complex personality. Concise lines and ups and downs in writing are thrilling, which shows the author's intense emotional world and strong artistic skill.

14. Wuthering Heights by emily bronte.

Wuthering Heights is a shocking "fantastic novel" written by Emily? Bronte's only masterpiece in his life. Heathcliff is an abandoned child who was adopted by Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine has been friendly with him since childhood and has a passionate love. However, Hindley, the son of the landlord, hated him. After the death of Old Earnshaw, he became a slave and suffered humiliation. Catherine married Linton to get Heathcliff's financial support from Linton, the owner of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff found out and left angrily. A few years later, Heathcliff came back with money, ruined Hindley, tricked Linton's sister into marrying him, and abused him wantonly. Catherine died of a sad illness because she could not combine with Heathcliff.

15. The Dust Settled by Loy

The Dust Settled is a novel written by Alai, a young Tibetan writer, who won the 5th Mao Dun Literature Prize. In the Aba area of Sichuan in the 1940s, the local Tibetans were ruled by eighteen Tu people, and the Maggie Tusi was one of them.

"The Dust Settles" tells the story of Tibetans in Kangba, which is of course a very national theme. Because of the writer's race and his life experience, it is inevitable to choose this seemingly unique theme, but the novel is not limited to the national theme, and the topics involved in the novel, such as power, heroes, religion, credit, vendetta, love and so on, have modern significance. This makes The Dust Settled not only have a special theme, but also have universal significance. The Dust Settles is about history, but history is also a reality, and this reality will be more fully expressed, and its scope will be broader and more profound. Similar space, that is, it is possible to deduce a variety of stories. Regarding this period of history, A Yi said, "History is a state of writing about it, or my understanding of a certain aspect of it."

16. Liu "The Complete Biography of Napoleon"

1804, in a grand ceremony, Napoleon? Bonaparte crowned himself emperor of France. His French has a strong Corsican accent, and it seems that it is not suitable for France. But he almost conquered the whole world. He was a military genius who traveled all over Europe and Egypt ... 18 15, and the allied forces of Britain and Prussia defeated him in the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon was exiled to an English island in the South Atlantic and died six years later. Napoleon was also a gentleman who loved his country and beauty. There are countless romantic debts in his life ... His tricks to win the hearts of beautiful women are as outstanding as his military talents ... This book is by far the most comprehensive, fair, vivid and delicate work to show Napoleon's military career and emotional world!

17. kadale broke April

George's brother was killed by his enemy, and from that moment on, George's life left him. According to the Kanu Code, which rules the plateau area in northern Albania, if a person is killed, his family must avenge him. George can't escape his fate. On March 17, he successfully shot the murderer. Before being chased by the family of the deceased, he was allowed a 30-day truce, so his April was divided into two parts: before April 17, it was "white" and safe; Then there is "black" and white, despair.

Intertwined with George's fate are a newly married couple. They come from cities and are full of yearning for plateau culture. The bride Diana fell in love with George who was threatened with death at first sight. Meanwhile, Georg wants to see Diana again before it gets dark in April.

As soon as people are born in this world, they fall into a fate of hunting or killing, and life can only be as short and brilliant as broken April. Broken April tells the story of a person for a month in a concise and poetic style, but it reflects the obsession and tragedy of a nation for hundreds of years.