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Call Me by Your Name 豆瓣
8.9 (58 个评分) 作者: André Aciman Picador 2008 - 1
A "New York Times" Notable Book of the YearA "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the YearA "Washington Post" Best Fiction Book of the YearA "New York" Magazine "Future Canon" SelectionA "Chicago"" Tribune" Favorite Book of the YearOne of "The Seattle Times"' Michael Upchurch's Favorite Books of the YearAn Amazon Top 100 Editors' Picks of the Year An Amazon Top 10 Editors' pick: Debut Fiction (#6)An Amazon Top 10 Editors' pick: Gay and Lesbian (#1) "Call Me by Your Name "is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. Andre Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians 豆瓣
作者: Ambrose Bierce Penguin Classics 2000 - 2
Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and completely vanished off the face of the earth. Though his ultimate fate remains a mystery to this day, Bierce's contribution to American letter's rests firmly on the basis of his incomparable Devil's Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This new collection gathers some three dozen of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions "An Occurrence at Owl Creek" and "Chickamauga, " his macabre masterpieces "The Damned Thing" and "Moxon's Master, " and his hilariously horrific "Oil of Dog" and "My Favorite Murder."
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.3 (13 个评分) 作者: Carson McCullers Penguin Classics 2000 - 8
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Set in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who appear to have little in common except they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, John Singer, whose presence changes their lives.
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The Fountainhead 豆瓣
7.2 (5 个评分) 作者: Ayn Rand Signet 1996 - 9
建筑学专业的洛克先生从大学开始就因为不遵循传统说教而被开掉,而听话的另一位先生顺利的毕业并且找到一份好差事。所有人都不喜欢洛克先生,甚至专栏作家也时不时的老羞辱他,洛克爱着的姑娘——也不出所料的跟了那位听话的好好先生……洛克先生活着就是麻烦不断。 在一次政府建筑项目中,那位他的同学,听话的好好先生居然同意了洛克先生独立自主的设计。如果洛克先生能因此获得荣誉,获得成功,并获得尊敬,由此改变世界对他的看法,那真是美好的生活啊。可洛克先生并为因此获得好运气:公众一如既往的反对混子洛克设计建设的这个项目,政府也因此推翻了这个项目,而两位设计者也无法控告政府,政府是无权被告的。洛克先生又一次显示了他混子本色,他搞了一些炸药把那做了一半的楼给炸成一堆碎瓦片子。他也因此而上了法庭,对于自己的行为,他是这么说的:创造是自己的私事,是天赋的权利,维护创造也是同样的天赋个人的权力……
Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.
The Godfather 豆瓣
9.6 (5 个评分) 作者: [美] 马里奥·普佐 Penguin Putnam Inc.,US 2001 - 10
a #1 New York Times bestseller. A classic american crime novel. An offer you can t refuse... Since its first publication in 1969, Mario Puzo s epic The Godfather has earned a permanent place in the American psyche and culture. In this story of family, loyalty, and the men who rule the American underworld, Puzo introduced a cast of singularly crafted characters, and offered an unforgettable look into the world of organized crime no writer has been able to duplicate since.
The Aleph and Other Stories 豆瓣 Goodreads
El Aleph
作者: Jorge Luis Borges 译者: Andrew Hurley Penguin Classics 2004 - 7
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight, he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house.  This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in
, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Austerlitz 豆瓣
Austerlitz
作者: W. G. Sebald 译者: Anthea Bell Penguin 2011 - 11
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before.
The Emigrants 豆瓣 谷歌图书
作者: W. G. Sebald 译者: Michael Hulse New Directions 1997 - 9
Among the greatest and most moving achievements of contemporary German writing"(Rheinischer Merkur), the four long narratives in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants appear at first sight to be straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. But Sebald has wrought something altogether new. Illustrated throughout with enigmatic photographs, it is an astonishingly beautiful book -- "one of the best novels to appear since WWII" (Review of Contemporary Fiction).The Emigrants was chosen three times -- by Susan Sontag, Tariq Ali, and A.S. Byatt -- in the London Times Literary Supplement as the 1996 International Book of the Year. Susan Sontag wrote: "W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants is the most extraordinary, thrilling new book I've read this year...indeed for several years. It is like nothing I've ever read...I know of no book which conveys more about that complex fate, being a European at the end of European civilization. I know of few books written in our time but this is one which attains the sublime".
Anathem Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: Neal Stephenson William Morrow 2008 - 9
新作《Anathem》,属于太空歌剧类型。从目录上简介我们可以一窥其主要内容: 从童年开始,Raz就生活在一座有3400年历史的修道院的围墙之后,一个科学家、哲学家和数学家的避难所——远离无知、无理性和无法无天的saecular世界,那个世界一直处于繁荣和毁灭、世界大战和气候巨变的循环往复中。直到有一天,更高级的力量、恐惧的驱使,只有这些生活在修道院的学者才有能力转移这一次迫在眉睫的大灾难。一个接一个,Raz和他的军团召集起来朝着无法预知的世界前进。
Cryptonomicon 豆瓣
作者: Neal Stephenson Avon Books 1999
Computer expert Randy Waterhouse spearheads a movement to create a safe haven for data in a world where information equals power and big business and government seek to control the flow of knowledge. His ambitions collide with a top-secret conspiracy with links to the encryption wars of World War II and his grandfather's work in preventing the Nazis from discovering that the Allies had cracked their supposedly unbreakable Enigma code. The author of Snow Crash (LJ 4/1/92) focuses his eclectic vision on a story of epic proportions, encompassing both the beginnings of information technology in the 1940s and the blossoming of the present cybertech revolution. Stephenson's freewheeling prose and ironic voice lend a sense of familiarity to a story that transcends the genre and demands a wide readership among fans of technothrillers as well as a general audience. Highly recommended.
The Forsyte Saga 豆瓣
作者: John Galsworthy Wordsworth Editions Ltd 2001 - 1
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. The Forsyte Saga, comprising The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let is here produced by Wordsworth for the first time in a single volume. Initially, the narrative centres on Soames Forsyte - a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class, materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary possessions for a 'Man of Property', but beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness and brutal relationships. The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination, creating a feud within the family that will have far-reaching consequences.
小说的八百万种写法 豆瓣
Writing the Novel from plot to print to pixel
7.7 (19 个评分) 作者: [美] 劳伦斯·布洛克 译者: 邵逸 后浪丨中国友谊出版公司 2019 - 7
风靡全球的推理小说大师为你解锁写作的八百万种可能
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 享誉世界的美国推理小说大师、当代“硬汉派”侦探小说最杰出的代表、“爱伦·坡奖”终身成就奖得主、“纽约犯罪风景的吟游诗人”——劳伦斯·布洛克数十年创作经验全公开!
☆ 本书由劳伦斯·布洛克在《作家文摘》开设了十四年的专栏汇集整理而成,出版四十余年畅销不衰!经布洛克亲自修订更新,新旧观点碰撞出惊人的火花!
☆ 劳伦斯·布洛克的作品不仅受到推理迷的欢迎,更备受社会精英、知识分子推崇,在中国拥有众多名人明星书迷:侯孝贤、梁朝伟、王家卫、张大春、朱天文、朱天心为之迷狂……
☆ 无论时代如何变化,故事的内容和讲述的方式永远是虚构写作的核心。讲什么故事?用什么方式来讲?新人如何出道?老手怎样创新?这正是布洛克想要与你真诚探讨的话题。
☆ 广纳百余份作家问卷调查结果.探究世界知名作家的写作方式——小说写作没有公式可循,但从前人总结的经验与教训中,你可以找到适合自己的创作之路!
★ 二加二大于五
请记住,情节设计是一个增效的过程,整体的价值远大于部分的和。
★ 人物塑造是小说成败的关键
对小说中的人物提不起兴趣,无法产生共情,是读者放弃一部小说的重要原因。
★ 从中间开始写效果更佳
小说的开头不一定是故事开头,从故事中间开始的手法可以迅速调动起读者的兴趣。
★ 对话必须简洁
创作对话时,你需要加快节奏,省略你来我往,做一些总结与概括。
◎ 内容简介
想写小说的时候,你最好吃上两片阿司匹林,躺在黑暗的房间里,静静地等待这种冲动过去。如果那份热情没有就此熄灭,那你就该老老实实地下一番功夫了――至少,你得听听劳伦斯·布洛克的建议和忠告,因为他在写作上栽的跟头可能比你读过的书还多。
该写什么小说好?怎么拟定大纲?卡壳的时候该怎么办?如何提高作品被出版的概率?从开始写下第一个字,到完成创作后继续面对下一部作品,这个过程绝无标准公式。小说的创作方法千变万化,最重要的是找到适合你的那一种。《小说的八百万种写法》由劳伦斯·布洛克在《作家文摘》开设十四年的写作专栏结集整理而成,涉及小说创作过程中的方方面面,本书出版四十余年畅销不衰,此版由布洛克亲自更新修订,新、旧观点的碰撞让这本创作秘籍更加富有生机。
夜神科尔内尔 豆瓣
Esti Kornél
8.7 (29 个评分) 作者: [匈牙利] 科斯托拉尼·德若 译者: 汪玮 作家出版社 2018 - 1
谁是夜神科尔内尔?这是一部长篇,一部短篇集子,一部自传?都是,也都不是。
四十岁过后,科斯托拉尼并未意识到他的生命很快将走到尽头,或者意识到了他的生命将要走到尽头?都是,也都不是。《夜神科尔内尔》是一次生命,又是很多次生命。
科尔内尔∙艾希蒂是一个来自外省的文学青年,在首都,他经历又怀疑过一切,他像个玩世不恭的孩童寻找着世间种种光怪陆离的幻象……其寻找之旅折射出深刻的包容与同情。
夜神科尔内尔是游弋在布达佩斯大都市夜色里的堂吉诃德,这个人物本身,或者说科斯托拉尼本身,就是现代匈牙利语言的象征。简洁又深刻,怪异又明晰,平易却哲理,悲伤也亲切。
夜神科尔内尔在德语、西班牙语版本的书名被译作《科尔内尔∙艾希蒂——自己时代的英雄》,然而,科斯托拉尼不仅给了夜神科尔内尔一个时代,更给出了一个时空,而且是多维的时空。
The Jungle 豆瓣
作者: Upton Sinclair Bantam Classics 1981 - 10
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In this powerful book we enter the world ofJurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrivesin America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom,and opportunity. And we discover, with him, theastonishing truth about "packingtown," thebusy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, wherenew world visions perish in a jungle of humansuffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the"muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman'slot at the turn of the century: the backbreakinglabor, the injustices of "wage-slavery,"the bewildering chaos of urban life. TheJungle , a story so shocking that itlaunched a government investigation, recreates thisstartling chapter if our history in unflinchingdetail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform,Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his1906 novel stands as one of the most important --and moving -- works in the literature of socialchange.
Where Reasons End 豆瓣 Goodreads
Where Reasons End
8.6 (35 个评分) 作者: Yiyun Li Random House 2019 - 2
A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.
The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words."
Written in the months after the author lost a child to suicide and composed as a story cycle, this conversation between mother and child unfolds in a timeless world. Deeply intimate, poignant, and moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity in a relationship across generations, even as they capture the pain of sadness, longing, and loss.
In writing this book, Yiyun Li was inspired by a line from Proust's Remembrance of Things Past "Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart; the transformation itself, even, for an instant, releases suddenly a little joy."
Meeting life's deepest sorrow with originality, precision and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.
The Given Day 豆瓣
作者: Dennis Lehane William Morrow 2008 - 9
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife. Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era—Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover. Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time—including the Spanish Influenza pandemic—and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.
Star of the Sea 豆瓣
作者: Joseph O'Connor Harvest Books 2004 - 3
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith, his wife and children, and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution.
This journey will see many lives end, others begin anew. Passionate loves are tenderly recalled, shirked responsibilities regretted too late, and profound relationships shockingly revealed. In this spellbinding tale of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the farther the ship sails toward the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past that will never let them go.
As urgently contemporary as it is historical, this exciting and compassionate novel builds with the pace of a thriller to a stunning conclusion.