1 Little Women Little Women
Author: louisa may alcott, louisa may alcott, USA
Release date: 1868
Little Women is a family ethics novel set in the American Civil War, based on the trivial life between four sisters of an ordinary family in New England in the19th century.
Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a great thinker at that time, this novel emphasizes the concepts of personal dignity and self-discipline. The content is plain and delicate, the structure is simple and profound, and it is full of strong appeal.
Little Women is a semi-autobiographical novel centering on female characters and emphasizing female consciousness. A warm and touching family picture is painted for us in a plain and fresh style, and vivid characters arouse people's inner sense of belonging to home.
The focus of this paper is to express female consciousness and carry forward excellent quality. At the same time, Mrs. March's way of educating children is also worth learning from parents.
The second tom sawyer tom sawyer
Author: American Mark Twain
Release date: 1876
The story of the novel takes place in an ordinary town on the Mississippi River in the first half of the19th century. Tom sawyer, the protagonist, is naive and lively, dares to explore and pursue freedom, and can't stand the boring life that binds personality, dreaming of being a hero.
Through the adventures of the protagonist, the novel satirizes and criticizes the hypocritical vulgar social customs, hypocritical religious ceremonies and rigid and stale school education in the United States, and depicts the free and lively hearts of children with a cheerful style.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with his strong local humor and keen observation of characters, has become one of the greatest children's literature works and an idyll in the "golden age" of the United States.
The third The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: American Mark Twain
Release date: 1884
The hero of the story is Huckleberry Finn, who knows everyone in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry is a clever, kind and brave white boy. In order to pursue a free life, he fled to the Mississippi River.
On the way to escape, he met Jim, a black slave. Jim is a hardworking, simple, enthusiastic, honest and loyal slave. In order to escape the fate of being betrayed by his master again, he fled his master's home. Two people have experienced all kinds of adventures.
This novel is the most outstanding among Mark Twain's works, with many innovations in ideas and techniques. Hemingway once commented: "The whole modern American literature comes from Mark Twain's Adventures of Harburg Finn, which is our best book, and no other book can match it after that."
Fourthly, the portrait of the artist when he was young.
Authors: James Joyce, Irish James Joyce
Release time: 19 16.
The Portrait of a Young Artist is an autobiographical novel by Irish writer James Joyce, which describes the mental journey of Stephen Dedalus, an extremely sensitive and thoughtful hero, from childhood to youth.
However, this is not a simple history of personal spiritual growth, but a history of Irish people seeking freedom from beginning to end.