Franzen's edgy multigenerational family saga, winner of a US National Book Award, was among the first novels to capture the zeitgeist of the century's first decade. As Alfred and Enid Lambert and their three adult children gather at the end of the 20th Century for 'one last Christmas', t...
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a我宁愿为理想奋斗,不愿意放弃而他日后悔 I rather am the ideal struggle, but is not willing to give up the another day regret [translate] aThe greatest disease of the 21st century is ignorance and retrogressive culture 21世纪的最巨大的疾病是无知和倒退文化[translate]...
Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest novels ever written, War and Peace is a bestseller, with new editions appearing regularly, almost a century and a half after its first publication. It is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Leo Tolstoy’s finest literary ...
But in the hands of Todd Haynes, and with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as co-leads, it was more than worth the wait. Far more romantic than Highsmith's murderous Ripley novels, it's no less subversive for its depiction of a lesbian relationship under siege by various representatives of ...
His second album Magazines or Novels was released in 2014, and featured "Honey, I'm Good" which is his most successful song to date, peaking at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. This single has been certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and ...
No surprise then that ⑦ was Dickens that Britons turned to, during the economic crisis, to make sense of a world ⑧ (rapid) falling apart. One of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit,was adapted ⑨ a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first ...
Of course, there are plenty more great apocalypse and post-apocalypse novels that didn’t fit on this list, and I haven’t read enough books in translation in this genre, so as ever, please add on your own favorites in the comments. ...
Golding is one of the few writers whose complete novels I’ve read, so now I’m getting around to re-reading one or two. From this perspective, his novels fall into 2 categories: those I can remember something about (The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, Rites of Passage), and those I rememb...
In the latter half of the 20th century, the world was introduced to the formidable talent of Toni Morrison, whose novels laid bare the complexities of race, identity, and power in the U.S. With works like Beloved and The Bluest Eye, Morrison challenged readers to confront the...