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Romance 傳奇故事

Don Quixote



Fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.
a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon
In a 2002 list , Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written".


"Heart of Darkness"


a short novel by Joseph Conrad
written as a frame narrative
The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism.


Joseph Conrad



He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe.
some of his works have a strain of romanticism
His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including DH Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway


The Sun Also Rises



written by American author Ernest Hemingway
it is "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work"
Hemingway's sparse writing style, combined with his restrained use of description to convey characterizations and action, became known as demonstrating the Iceberg Theory
the characters are based on real people of Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events.


Ernest Hemingway



an American author and journalist
produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s (seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works)
won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954
His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).






Piano



Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;


Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see


A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings


And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.


In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song


Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong


To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside


And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.


So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour


With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour


Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast


Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.




Lady Chatterley's Lover (Erotic)



the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman
explicit descriptions of sex
* Erotic fiction:

is the name given to fiction that deals with sex or sexual themes, generally in a more literary or serious way than the fiction seen in pornographic magazines and sometimes including elements of satire or social criticism.



D. H. Lawrence



His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation.
EM Forster describing him as, "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."
Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature.