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Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. Great Expectations is written in the first person from the point of view of the orphan Pip. The novel, like much of Dickens's work, draws on his experiences of life and people.
作者狄更斯在经历了丰富的社会生活后，对人，对周围的环境以及对自己的经历都有了深刻的认识，而所有他成熟的思想都汇总在《远大前程》一书中。这部作品原题名是Great
...Jane Eyre is an influential novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. The novel merges elements of three distinct genres. It has the form of a Bildungsroman, a story about a child's maturation, focusing on the emotions and experiences that accompany growth to adulthood. It is a novel often considered ahead of its time due to its portrayal of the development of a thinking
...Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful
...The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is London's most-read book, and it is generally considered his best,
...Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on 23rd May 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island. Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry
...The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in
...The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911. Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of children's literature. The garden is the book's central
...Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy. It could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an aristocratic woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words.The story is said to have originated
...Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter is a romantic work of fiction about Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
《红字》以17世纪清教殖民统治下的新英格兰为背景，讲述海丝特·白兰的恋爱悲剧。女主人公嫁给了医生奇灵渥斯，他们之间却没有爱情。在孤独中白兰与牧师丁梅斯代尔相恋并生下女儿珠儿。白兰被当众惩罚，戴上标志"通奸"的红色A字示众。然而白兰坚贞不屈，拒不说出孩子的父亲。作品揭露社会的残酷、宗教的欺骗和道德的虚伪等主题。
...The Deserted Womanis a short story written by Honoré de Balzac. It is about the life of French aristocracy. The grand dame who has good relationships with elite of the society has to live in seclusion. But she still finds love there and decides to fall in love again with Gaston de Nueil who is younger. However, she is still deserted.
《被遗弃的女人》是巴尔扎克的短篇小说，讲述了法国上层社会的故事。巴黎贵妇鲍赛昂侯爵夫人遭人遗弃，离开巴黎到诺曼底隐居后，因受到一年轻男爵的追求，再次陷入情网，演出了新一轮令人震惊的爱情悲剧。
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