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Category： Author：Leo Tolstoy
I have said that my friendship with Dimitri opened up for me a new view of my life and of its aim and relations. The essence of that view lay in the conviction that the destiny of man is to strive for moral improvement, and that such improvement is at once easy, possible, and lasting. Hitherto, however, I had found pleasure only in the...
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Category： Author：Willa Cather 薇拉·凯瑟
Willa Cather, best-known as the author of "O Pioneers , My Antonia," and "Death Comes for The Archbishop" published "Youth and the Bright Medusa," a collection of her short fiction, in 1920. According to Alfred Knopf, Cather had been displeased with the dull brown covers of "O Pioneers " and "My Antonia," and upon seeing the bright bl...
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Category： Author：陀思妥耶夫斯基 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
《A Raw Youth》is Dostoevsky an important work in the late, the creation in 1874. At that time, the serf emancipation has thirteen years from 1861, along with the original moral system collapse, Russian society is a mess. Spiritual emptiness, insatiable fundraising, cynics broadly, trap society filled with authority, suicide, revolutio...
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Category： Author：novel
WE must now treat of youth and old age and life and death. We must probably also at the same time state the causes of respiration as well, since in some cases living and the reverse depend on this.
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Category： Author：DBC Pierre
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb f...
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