《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》(братъя карамазовы )是俄国作家陀思妥耶夫斯基创作的长篇小说。最初在《俄罗斯信使》杂志上连载了将近两年(自1879年第1期至1880年第11期),并于1881年出版了第一个单行本。该书通过一桩真实的弑父案,描写老卡拉马佐夫同三个儿子即两代人之间的尖锐冲突。老卡拉马佐夫贪婪好色,独占妻子留给儿子们的遗产,并与长子德米特里为一个风流女子争风吃醋。一天黑夜,德米特里疑心自己的情人去跟老头儿幽会,便闯入家园,一怒之下,差点把老头儿砸死。他仓皇逃离后,躲在暗中装病的老卡拉马佐夫的私生子斯麦尔加科夫悄然杀死老爷,造成了一桩震惊全俄的扑朔迷离的血案,从而引发了一连串惊心动魄的事件。作品展示一个错综复杂的社会、家庭、道德和人性的悲剧主题。
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.
李氏先祖对北方各国的特别贡献,在隋朝末年纷乱局面中得以保存实力,一举赢得天下。太宗李世民对大唐帝国的建立更是众所皆知,在弱势的反对下顺利取得帝位,并开创了贞观之治。其后更有史无前例的女皇帝武则天,延续了帝国的盛世。唐玄宗的开元天宝之治紧接其后,帝国在中土大地上傲视世界各个角落。安史之乱后,唐帝国开始步入衰落。藩镇割据、宦官专权与朋党之争成为唐朝政治的毒瘤。宦官掌握这个摇摇欲坠的帝国命运。在中心人物纷纷不经意跳脱历史同时,为求结束战局,反对势力便就地合法化,加上不很听话的藩镇军阀,帝国恰也很识时务,得过且过。在长时间的冷静沉思中,失控的帝国也曾有过振作的遐想,却终究无法挽回。
The Moon and Sixpence(月亮和六便士) 立即阅读
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.