本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说,有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇,内容丰富多彩,结构巧妙动人。
本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说,有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇,内容丰富多彩,结构巧妙动人。
小说以主人公夏冲从4岁到31岁的经历、见闻为主要线索,时间跨度为1976年至2008年。 夏冲是一个对悲剧非常敏感的人,发现周围生活中到处是被忽略的悲剧,他的父母、少年时代的朋友等人都在各种悲剧之中,与传统悲剧不同的是,这些悲剧往往被看作是理所当然,不足为奇。小说叙述的半个爱情故事则是悲剧中的一抹暖色,女主人公戚敏与夏冲同样年轻、聪明,但更平静,也懂得安之若素。夏冲经历了三次“寂静”时期,他不清楚为什么生活如此平淡又令人激动,无论时代如何变化,这国家这生活都像一条龙,庞大、强力、野心勃勃,而主人公则像一只蝉,疏离、弱小、难以平静。当他到了成熟的年纪,成了一名律师,却仍受制于往日记忆,不得自由。2008年北京奥运会之前,中国已经成了一个崭新的国家,生活完全变了。这时夏冲回首往事,就像蝉发出了一
本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说,有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇,内容丰富多彩,结构巧妙动人。
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. Good Wives takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness.
Epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. This panoramic study of early 19th-century Russian society, noted for its mastery of realistic detail and variety of psychological analysis, is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families--particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs--the members of which are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14). The theme of war, however, is subordinate to the story of family existence, which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting pattern of human existence. The heroine, Natasha Rostova, for example, reaches her greatest fulfillment through her marriage to Pierre Bezukhov and her motherhood. The novel also sets forth a theory of history, concluding that there is a minimum of free choice; all is ruled by an inexorable historical determinism. --
Drawn from the wondrous tales told to Kipling as a child byhis Indian nurses, "Just So Stories" creates the magicalenchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk andthink like people.