傲慢与偏见
The novel opens with the famous line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.". and ends with two marriages: Jane and Bingley's, as well as Darcy and Elizabeth's. Both couples are assumed to live happily ever after.
Elizabeth (Lizzy) Bennet is the core of the family. Elizabeth is the second of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's five daughters, and is an intelligent, bold, attractive twenty-year-old when the story begins. In addition to being her father's favourite, Elizabeth is characterized as a sensible, yet stubborn, woman. Misled by his cold outward behaviour, Elizabeth originally holds Mr. Darcy in contempt. However, she finds that Mr. Darcy improves on acquaintance, more so than she would expect.
Fitzwilliam Darcy (commonly known as Mr. Darcy) is the central male character and Elizabeth's second love interest in the novel. He is an intelligent, wealthy, extremely handsome and reserved 28-year-old man, who often appears haughty or proud to strangers but possesses an honest and kind nature underneath. Initially, he considers Elizabeth his social inferior, unworthy of his attention, but he finds that, despite his inclinations, he cannot deny his feelings for Elizabeth. His initial proposal of marriage is rejected because of his pride and Elizabeth's prejudice against him; however, at the end of the novel, after their relationship has blossomed, he is happily engaged to a loving Elizabeth.
Role of women in the 18th century
In late-18th-century England, women were relegated to secondary roles in society with respect to property and social responsibilities. For example, women were not permitted to visit new arrivals to the neighbourhood (such as Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice) until the male head of their household had first done so. Women were under enormous pressure to marry for the purpose of securing their financial futures and making valuable social connections for their families. Therefore, marriage, though romanticised, was in many ways a financial transaction and social alliance rather than a matter of love. Although Jane Austen did not condone loveless marriages (she stayed single all her life), she did approve of matches having equality in various respects, including wealth, social status, love and character. In Pride and Prejudice, wealth, social status, chastity (and the perception of chastity) and physical attractiveness are depicted as factors affecting a woman's chances for a good marriage.
了不起的盖茨比
Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby became an immediate classic and propelled its young author to a fame he never again equalled. The novel captured the spirit of the "Jazz Age," a post-World War I era in upper-class America that Fitzgerald himself gave this name to, and the flamboyance of the author and his wife Zelda as they moved about Europe with other American expatriate writers (such as Ernest Hemingway). However, Gatsby expresses more than the exuberance of the times. It depicts the restlessness of what Gertrude Stein (another expatriate modernist writer) called a "lost generation." Recalling T. S. Eliot's landmark poem "The Wasteland" (1922), then, Gatsby also has its own "valley of ashes" or wasteland where men move about obscurely in the dust, and this imagery of decay, death, and corruption pervades the novel and "infects" the story and its hero too. Because the novel is not just about one man, James Gatz or Jay Gatsby, but about aspects of the human condition of an era, and themes that transcend time altogether, it is the stuff of myth. Gatsby's attempts to attain an ideal of himself and then to put this ideal to the service of another ideal, romantic love, are attempts to rise above corruption in all its forms. It is this quality in him that Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, attempts to portray, and in so doing the novel, like its hero, attains a form of enduring greatness.
The novel is narrated in retrospect; Nick is writing the account two years after the events of the summer he describes, and this introduces a critical distance and perspective which is conveyed through occasional comments about the story he is telling and how it must appear to a reader. The time scheme of the novel is further complicated as "the history of that summer" of 1922 contains within it the story of another summer, five years before this one, when Gatsby and Daisy first courted. This is the story that Jordan tells Nick. As that earlier summer ended with Gatsby's departure for the war in the fall, so the summer of Nick's experience of the East ends with the crisis on the last hot day (the day of mint juleps in the hotel and Myrtle Wilson's death) and is followed by Gatsby's murder by George Wilson on the first day of fall. This seasonal calendar is more than just a parallel, however. It is a metaphor for the blooming and blasting of love and of hope, like the flowers so often mentioned. Similarly, the novel's elaborate use of light and dark imagery (light, darkness, sunshine, and shadow, and the in-between changes of twilight) symbolizes emotional states as well.
红字
The Scarlet Letter attained an immediate and lasting success because it addressed spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was an extremely risqué subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establishment, it passed easily into the realm of appropriate reading. It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius; dense with terse descriptions. It remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth, and continues to be read as a classic tale on a universal theme.[6] Another consideration to note having to do with the book's popularity is that it was one of the first mass-produced books in America. Into the mid-nineteenth century, bookbinders of home-grown literature typically hand-made their books and sold them in small quantities. The first mechanized printing of "The Scarlet Letter," 2,500 volumes, sold out immediately, was widely read and discussed to an extent not much experienced in the young country up until that time. Copies of the first edition are often sought by collectors as rare books, and may fetch up to around $6,000 USD.
远离尘嚣
Much of the plot of Far from the Madding Crowd depends on unrequited love — love by one person for another that is not mutual in that the other person does not feel love in return. The novel is driven, from the first few chapters, by Gabriel Oak's love for Bathsheba. Once he has lost his farm, he is free to wander anywhere in search of work, but he heads to Weatherbury because it is in the direction that Bathsheba has gone. This move leads to Oak's employment at Bathsheba's farm, where he patiently consoles her in her troubles and supports her in tending the farm, with no sign he will ever have his love returned.
This novel focuses on the way that catastrophe can occur at any time, threatening to change lives. The most obvious example occurs when Oak's flock of sheep is destroyed by an unlikely confluence of circumstances, including an inexperienced sheep dog, a rotted rail, and a chalk pit that happens to have been dug adjacent to his land. In one night, Oak's future as an independent farmer is destroyed, and he ends up begging just to secure the diminished position of a shepherd.
This novel offers modern readers a clear picture of how important social position was in England in the nineteenth century and of the opportunities that existed to change class, in either direction. In the beginning, Oak and Bathsheba are social equals: he is an independent farmer who rents his land, and she lives on her aunt's farm next door to his, which is presumably similar in value. The only thing that keeps her from accepting his proposal of marriage is the fact that she just does not want to be married yet. After Oak loses his farm and Bathsheba inherits her uncle's farm, there is little question of whether they can marry — their social positions are too different. She is more socially compatible with Boldwood, who owns the farm next to hers and is in a similar social position.

Recently, I read a fairy story book, Little Prince.This book tells the adventurous experiences of little prince from his planet to the earth.Little prince comes from the outer space and he is hurt by a rose. So he leaves there and travels into space.He comes to the earth and be the friend of a fox.The fox tells his secret to little prince and he helps a pilot in the desert.In the end, he dies under the help of a snake and his soul goes back to his planet.This book is very interesting and teaches me a lot.I like little price adventures.He teaches me to be honest and love others.All of us should never loss the pureness of childhood.
最近，我读了一本童话书，《小王子》。这本书主要讲述了小王子从他的星球来到地球的冒险故事。小王子来自外太空的一个小星球上，在他被一朵玫瑰伤害之后，他离开了自己的星球开始遨游太空。他来到了地球并且和一只狐狸成为了好朋友。狐狸把自己的一个秘密告诉了小王子，小王子用这个秘密在沙漠里帮助了一个飞行员。最后，他在蛇的帮助下死去，心灵重新回到了他的星球上。这本书很有趣，也教会了我很多。我喜欢小王子的冒险。他告诉了我要诚实，要去爱其他的人和事物。我们都不应该失去童年时候的纯真。
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小说以童话般简单可爱的语调，深入浅出地讲述了一个关于时间的哲理故事。主人公吉吉.利迪是一个聪明、乖巧、懂事的孩子，当他问妈妈想要什么样的生日礼物时，妈妈回答说她只需要多一点能掌握在自己手中的时间，于是，15岁的吉吉决定帮助亲爱的妈妈实现她的生日愿望。面对这样一个似乎不可能实现的愿望，吉吉在一个偶然的机会知道了一个秘密-有一个密室可以通往永恒之地，那里的时间是无穷无尽的，于是吉吉从自己的世界里消失，开始了为妈妈寻找时间的旅程。
　　读完这本书，跟着吉吉走完这次充满悬念的旅程，合上书本时我似乎有了书中写的那样时间静止的感觉，此时夜深人静，窗外滴滴答答的雨水陪着我，泥土的清香阵阵飘来，一种温馨、幸福亦带有柔柔的喜悦的感觉顿时涌上心头。真的希望时间可以在这一刻停止，让我尽情的享受这种美妙的感觉，可以这样傻傻的发呆和痴醉，可以听自己喜欢的音乐，看自己喜欢的书。然而，时间却像潺潺流动的小溪水一样永不复返，无论高兴的时刻，伤心的时刻，平静的时刻，激动的时刻，时间都在悄无声息的溜走。尤其在这个忙碌的现代社会，每个人从早到晚都在为自己或大或小的目标忙碌着，大多数时候的我们都是匆忙的，就像肯瓦拉小镇的人们一样。面对这样的现实，我不禁诘问自己，我充分的利用了自己的24小时吗?又该如何把握有限的时间，让生活更加美好、更有意义、更有价值呢?
　　平时很多人都在抱怨时间不够用的问题，其实，没有所谓的“时间太多”或者“时间不够”的情形存在，一天就是24小时，大人物也好，微不足道的小角色也好，时间对任何人都是公平的。所谓时间极少，只是表示在这段时间里要做的事情太多，以致这段时间不允许而已。因此，要想保质保量保时地完成学习和工作任务，就必须善于安排利用自己的时间。工作是很多的，时间却是有限的。如果不能合理有效的安排好有限的时间，计划再好，目标再高，能力再强，也是竹篮打水一场空。培根曾经说过：“合理安排时间，就等于节约时间”。在我们总感觉时间流逝得太快的时候，请停下来想一想，自己到底干了些什么，又收获了些什么?自己的时间安排的是否合理呢?
　　面对这一系列时间和如何安排时间的疑问，我想，我们不能一直看着时间走啊走，而是要用自己的能力和智慧来把它紧紧的抓在手里。比如，做好时间日志，记录每天花了多少时间做哪些事情，把它们详细的记录下来：早上出门(包括洗漱、换衣、早餐等)花了多少时间，上班路上到办公室花了多少时间，上班时花在各个项目上分别是多少时间，然后，就可以清晰的发现浪费了哪些时间，我相信，这和记账是一个道理的，只有找到浪费的根源，才能有办法改变。再比如，我们可以把自己每一天或者每段时间要做的事情列个清单，这样首先能让自己随时都明确自己手头上的任务，而当自己看到长长的任务列表时，也会产生紧迫感。再者，我们可以把每天要做的事情分为四类：重要且紧急，这便是危机任务，得马上完成;重要但不紧急，这是新的尝试机会和挑战，要认真对待，相信慢工出细活的道理;紧急但不重要，这一般是日常事务，通常可以利用休息的时间处理;既不紧急又不重要，通常就是杂乱的琐事，可以作为休闲娱乐时候的消遣。
　　总之，读完这本充满趣味却又让人感觉意味深长的小说，我想，从今天开始，我必须做个有时间意识的人，知道自己做什么，在有限的时间里又收获了什么。我们要做每一分钟的主人，否则，我们便是每分钟的奴隶。