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The Longest Journey (1907) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. Despite its critical success, the novel was a commercial failure for Forster, but has since grown in reputation and readership to help cement his reception as one of twentieth century England's most talented writers.
Rickie Elliot enters Cambridge as a young man, exploring his interests in poetry and art and joining a circle of intellectuals centered around, a philosopher named...
3) Villette
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Left with no family and no money, Lucy Snowe goes against her own timid nature and travels to the small city of Villette, France, where she becomes a school teacher in Madam Beck's school for girls.
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2008.
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From a "literary original" (The Wall Street Journal) comes a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer...
5) Big Sur
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Retiring to a seaside cabin near San Francisco, Jack Duluoz looks for tranquility, but finds only horror and despair.
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"A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse--one woman's furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband and their baby daughter, a writer gets on a flight for a speaking engagement in Reno, not carrying much besides...
8) Freshwater
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An extraordinary debut novel exploring the metaphysics of identity and mental health, centering on a young Nigerian woman as she struggles to reconcile the proliferation of multiple selves within her.
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First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. Classics of modern fiction, these novellas capture 1931 Berlin - charming, grotesque, and dangerous, as Hitler was ascending to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters, in particular the nightclub performer Sally Bowles, whose misadventures were popularized on stage and screen in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.
10) Agnes Grey
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Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...
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2015.
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Published for the first time, here are three holiday tales by the author of Mary Poppins--a gift for all ages. P.L. Travers wrote with a signature blend of sugar and spice; her characters, including Mary Poppins, are endearing, outsized, and cozy. Her talent for capturing the perspective of children shines through Aunt Sass Christmas Stories. Each of the stories in this book was written as a holiday gift, sent to her friends and family and never published....
12) Schooled
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[2013]
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After the coach and principal approach Amar'e to join the school basketball team, Amar'e realizes the sport is different indoors than the street ball tournaments and he must prove to himself and his teammates he belongs on the team.
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2020.
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"From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and...
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2021.
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Deep down in your heart, are you eager to live a unique version of yourself? The author's, autobiographical novel, a book made with time and tears, but all scars can be repaired with love. A true love creation, the book contains a deep analysis of human nature, and also has an entertaining story development, which makes people want to stop.
你的內心深處,是否渴望活出與眾不同的自己? ◎作者的自傳體小說,用時間和眼淚成就的書,但所有傷痕都可以用愛修補。...
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2020.
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Simplified Chinese edition of On the Road
作为“垮掉的一代”灵魂人物的心灵自传,《在路上》被称为“垮掉的一代”文学运动的宣言书,也是年轻一代对抗世俗桎梏的精神自白,自上世纪六十年代轰动美国,至今依然是世界各地青年的精神读物,也是历久弥新的美国文学经典。 小说主人公为了追求个性,与几个年轻男女驱车横穿北美大陆。一路上他们纵情狂欢,高谈东方禅宗,追寻生命的纯真体验。在东西海岸间的公路来往穿梭追梦的过程中,年轻的生命如同迅速燃尽的流星,坠落,直至四散分离,但灵魂永远向往着漂泊、游荡与远方的道路。...
20) On the road
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2003, c1991
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Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
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