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From Here to Eternity_ The Restored Edit - Jones, James
From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones. The picture deals w ...
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U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos
The U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), Nineteen Nineteen (1932) and The Big Money (1936). The books were fir ...
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An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murd ...
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Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron. The author's last novel, it concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspir ...
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Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era gr ...
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The Studs Lonigan Trilogy - James T. Farrell
Studs Lonigan is a novel trilogy by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935). In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the S ...
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A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. It is the story of Mohun Biswas, a Hindu Indo-Trinidadian who continually stri ...
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Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is well known for its experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon.[1] Written ove ...
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The Golden Bowl - Henry James
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. The Go ...
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鹿鼎记-金庸
《鹿鼎记》是香港作家金庸的最后一部武侠小说作品。该小说于1969年至1972年间创作,故事发生在清初(1668年-1689年)。1969年10月24日开始在《明报》连载,到1972年9月23日刊完,一共连载了2年11个月。此书是金庸封笔之作,收录于《金庸作品集》中。它与《碧血剑》的情节有所关连。
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Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham.mobi
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, ...
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Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to indepen ...
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天龙八部-金庸
《天龙八部》是作家金庸笔下魁宏复杂的一部武侠小说作品。创作初衷以佛教的神话生物象征,谱写8个主角,各自成章最后交织为一。连载时逐渐发展成多线叙事、伏笔绵密的群像连续剧,以大理段氏、姑苏慕容、萧峯身世为核心,前后达30年的家仇国恨的史诗悲剧。本书横跨地域广阔,牵涉民族与个人的深刻情感矛盾。
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笑傲江湖-金庸
对于作者其他作品而言,《笑傲江湖》原本没有明确对应的历史背景,即与历史现实关联极少(但作中名词表明在明朝或之后)。作者在后记中说明:“因为想写的是一些普遍性格,是生活中的常见现象,所以本书没有历史背景,这表示,类似的情景可以发生在任何朝代”。
小说男主角令狐冲出身于五岳剑派之一的华山派,师父为“君子剑”岳不群。其时少林、武当、五岳剑派等“名门正派”与“魔教”日月神教之间的斗争正炙,门户之别极严。 ...
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倚天屠龙记-金庸
时代背景为元朝末年,《神雕侠侣》结尾的近百年后。故事围绕两样兵器屠龙刀和倚天剑。出场的真实历史人物包括张三丰、朱元璋、陈友谅、常遇春、徐达、汝阳王察罕帖木儿、王保保、韩林儿等等。设定中的当时社会之焦点主要是以明教为首的“邪派”和以少林、武当为首的正派之争,以及明教起义军和元朝蒙古朝廷的对抗。涉及的武林秘笈包括《九阳真经》、《九阴真经》、《七伤拳谱》等等。
小说前两章延续《神雕侠侣》的结尾,描述南 ...