1, the old man and the sea (the old man and the sea)
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by Hemingway in Cuba on 195 1 and published on 1952.
This work revolves around the story of an old Cuban fisherman fighting a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream off the coast. Although Hemingway's The Old Man is tragic.
But he has the characteristics of Nietzsche's superman, accepting failure and facing death bravely. These "tough guys" embody Hemingway's philosophy of life and moral ideal, that is, the fighting spirit and positive and optimistic attitude towards life that human beings will never bow to fate and never give up. ?
It established Hemingway's prominent position in world literature, and this novel won the Pulitzer Prize in the United States and the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1954.
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel by Dumas, a French writer, published in 1844- 1846.
The story tells that during the "Hundred Days Dynasty" of French emperor Napoleon in the19th century, Edmond Dantès, the first mate of Pharaoh, was entrusted by the captain to send a letter to the Napoleonic Party. He was framed by two despicable guys and judges and put in a black prison.
Father Faria, a prisoner, taught him all kinds of knowledge and told him the secrets of a batch of treasures, which were buried in Monte Cristo before his death.
After Dundees escaped from prison, he found the treasure and became a rich man. It was renamed the Count of Monte Cristo (Sinbad the sailor, Father busoni, Lord Weimar). After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies.
The novel takes Monte Cristo as the central clue of the story development, and the main plot is ups and downs, which leads to several secondary plots. The episode is compact and wonderful, but it doesn't usurp the throne, and the plot is bizarre but it doesn't violate real life.
The book uses suspense, suddenness, discovery, drama and other techniques brilliantly, with high narrative density and complicated relationship between characters. All these make this novel full of narrative tension and the beauty produced by narrative itself.
Therefore, The Count of Monte Cristo is recognized as a model of popular novels. After the novel was published, it quickly won the favor of readers, was translated into dozens of languages and published, and was made into movies many times in France and the United States.
3. Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by British writer daniel defoe. The book was first published on April 25th, 2009, and its telephone number is 1765438.
This work mainly tells the story that the protagonist Robinson Crusoe was born in a middle-class family and devoted his life to traveling around the world.
Once, I was caught in a storm on my way to Africa, drifted to an uninhabited desert island alone, and began to live in isolation. With strong will and unremitting efforts, he survived tenaciously on a desert island and returned to his hometown after 28 years and 2 months 19 days.
This novel was written by Defoe inspired by a true story at that time. 1704 In September, a Scottish sailor named alexander selkirk quarreled with the captain and was abandoned by the captain in the Atlantic Ocean. After living on a desert island for four years and four months, he was rescued by Captain woodes rogers.
Defoe, based on the legendary story of selkirk, devoted his many years of sea experiences and experiences to the characters and made full use of his rich imagination to process literature, making Robinson not only a hero in the eyes of the middle and small bourgeoisie at that time.
And became the first idealized emerging bourgeoisie in western literature. After many years of publication, the novel has been translated into many languages and widely circulated all over the world, and has been adapted into movies and TV series many times.
4. Uncle Tom's cabin (Uncle Tom's cabin)
Uncle Tom's cabin: the life of the humble (English: Uncle Tom's cabin; Or, "The Life of the Humble"), and translated it into "The Record of the Black Slave" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
This is an anti-slavery novel published by American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (Mrs Stowe) on 1852. The views on African-Americans and American slavery in this novel have had a far-reaching impact and, to some extent, exacerbated the regional conflicts that led to the American Civil War.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the best-selling novel in19th century (and the second best-selling novel, second only to the best-selling Bible), which is considered as a major reason for the rise of abolitionism in1850s.
In its first year of publication, it sold 300,000 copies in the United States. Uncle Tom's Cabin had such a great influence on American society that when Lincoln met Mrs. Stowe at the beginning of the Civil War, he said, "You are the little woman who started a big war." Later this sentence was quoted by many writers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin and various dramas inspired by it have also promoted the emergence of a large number of black stereotypes, which are well known to people today.
For example, the kind black nanny, the prototype of black children, the patient and loyal uncle Tom who is obedient to the white master. In recent decades, these negative elements in Uncle Tom's Cabin have weakened the historical role of this book as an "important anti-slavery tool" to some extent.
5. The Catcher in the Rye (Catcher in the Rye)
The Catcher in the Rye is the only novel by American writer Jerome David Salinger, which was first published in 195 1. Salinger limited the story to three days when Holden Caulfield, a 65,438+06-year-old middle school student, left school and wandered in new york, and used the unconstrained conscious writing method for reference to fully explore the inner world of a teenager.
Anger and anxiety are the two main themes of this book. The hero's experience and thoughts have aroused strong repercussions among teenagers and are warmly welcomed by readers, especially middle school students.