Which books attracted you from the beginning?

I wonder if you have ever read a book at random, and suddenly a beginning and a few lines make your eyes shine, and you can't help but be curious about the development of the plot.

Perhaps there are not many such books, but after reading the six books selected by Jun today, you will be deeply attracted as soon as you open them.

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Brief einer Unbekannten

Douban score 8.7? 35,200 comments

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Stephen? Zweig, a famous Austrian novelist and biographer. His works are characterized by depicting the universal psychology of human beings, such as pride, vanity, jealousy and hatred. Instead of trying to attract readers with twists and turns, it sets off people and things that make people linger in plain life. His life works are rich and colorful, especially biographies and short stories.

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This book is about a strange woman. At the last moment of her life, she wrote a touching long letter full of lifelong infatuation, and revealed her desperate love to a famous writer. The novel describes the depth and persistence of love through a woman's most painful experience.

Recommended reason

"I'm not an enthusiastic person. I tend to treat people and things with a shallow attitude, including some literary works. Among them, of course, letters from strange women are an exception. " -Douban reading friend Grace

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Anna? Karenina douban score 8.5? 2849 comments

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Lev? Russian literature master Tolstoy. He worked hard all his life, reaching the peak of critical realism literature in Europe at that time and occupying an important position in world literature. He described the broad life scene of the Russian people and was called "a mirror of the Russian revolution". Representatives such as War and Peace and Anna? Karenina and Resurrection.

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Anna, a noble woman, pursues love and happiness, but encounters karenin's hypocrisy, indifference and lenski's selfishness, and finally commits suicide and stands on the tracks. Levin, the owner of the manor, opposed the private ownership of land, resisted the capitalist system and sympathized with the poor peasants, but he could not get rid of the aristocratic habits and fell into an unavoidable contradiction. Contradictory period, contradictory system, contradictory characters and contradictory psychology make the book bumpy in the whirlpool of contradictions.

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Anna? Everyone knows karenin's first sentence. All happy families are similar, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. However, there are at least two questions behind this sentence: How did happiness come from? How did misfortune come about? When I finished reading Tolstoy's famous works, I already had the answer in my heart. -Douban reading friend Han Yi loves bookcases.

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A Tale of Two Cities with Douban Score of 8.2? 122 17 comments

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Charles. The great English novelist Dickens. With diligence and talent, he created a large number of classic works, including David? Copperfield, Little Li Du, Great Expectations, etc. In our time, Dickens' insight into social darkness and his pursuit of spiritual freedom are not outdated, but more precious.

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A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of two great cities, London and Paris, which is the most tortuous and thrilling one of Dickens' representative works. With the French Revolution as the background, he wrote about love and hate, sacrifice and fulfillment, gloomy style and superb skills, expressing profound humanitarian feelings.

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There is no denying that Dickens is a great novelist. He perfected the artistic form of modern English novels, but greatness does not mean apotheosis. He is a true, honest and kind person. He has compassion and extraordinary passion for life and creation, which is enough. -Zhang Ling, a famous Dickens critic and translator.

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Douban score of Lover is 8. 1? 75,922 comments

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Margaret. Duras, a French novelist, playwright and film director, was born in zhina and returned to France after he was eighteen. She won international fame for her films "Love in Hiroshima" and "india song", and won the Gonger Literature Award for her novel "Lover".

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Lover is an autobiographical work, which describes the deep and hopeless love between a poor French girl and a rich young master China with the life of French colonists in Vietnam as the background. The brushwork deeply touches some of the most fundamental and secretive features of human nature, which makes people think deeply. The emotional power surging from beginning to end in the novel even surpasses the superb writing skills and is very infectious.

Recommended reason

"Lover" is Margaret? Duras' prestigious masterpiece was awarded the French Gungur Prize for Literature in 1984. Douban reader Jianghupig commented: I still remember that the first sentence in Duras's Lover is "I am old", which is really full of infinite vicissitudes.

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Izu's dancer

Douban score 8. 1? 24086 comments

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Yasunari Kawabata is a Japanese writer. Born in Osaka. 1968, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "keen sense, superb narrative skills and expression of Japanese spirit". Representative works include Dancer of Izu, Snow Country, Ancient Capital, Thousand Cranes, Mountain Sound, Sleeping Beauty and so on.

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Dancer of Izu contains exquisite short stories such as Bonfire and Hot Spring Hotel by Yasunari Kawabata, especially the famous Dancer of Izu, in which the protagonist "I" went to an institution of higher learning in Tokyo and traveled to Izu in the summer vacation before the start of school. On a sunny rainy day, I met a group of touring artists on the mountain road, who was naive, simple and naive. The dancer's name is Xunzi. Her voice is euphemistic and moving, and her dance steps are light and beautiful, showing her warm affection for me. "I" was shocked by Xunzi's naive beauty and fell into contradiction. Xunzi also gradually became attached to "I". But they can only be passers-by in each other's lives ...

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Kawabata Yasunari appreciates the delicate beauty very much, and likes to express natural life and human destiny with the symbolic language that is often sad at the end of the pen. -Nobel Prize in Literature's acceptance speech

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Douban score of Bridges of Madison County is 8. 1? 4 19 1

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Robert? James. Waller, American novelist, photographer and musician. He used to be the dean of the Business School of the University of Northern Iowa, and now lives on a mountain farm in Texas. He writes, photographs, plays music and studies economics and mathematics in his spare time. Many works have been listed in The New York Times's bestseller list. The masterpiece The Bridges of Madison County ranked first in the best-seller list of 1993.

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The Bridges of Madison County tells the story of a brother and sister who dug up a dusty past while sorting out their mother's relics. Francesca, a middle-aged woman, has a quiet and trivial life after marriage and lacks passion. Robert, photographer of National Geographic magazine? Kincaid came to shoot the covered bridge in Madison County, where he met Francesca and fell in love with her. Faced with belated love and family responsibilities, Francesca chose the latter, while Robert chose enrichment. Four days of perfect love, in exchange for half a life of missing each other.

Recommended reason

Poetic brushwork, sensitive subject matter, fun of reading ... "Bridges of Madison County" wrote endless love. -San Francisco Chronicle

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