1, War and Peace
War and Peace is a novel created by Russian writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and it is also his masterpiece, which was written in 1863- 1869.
This work is centered on 18 12 Great Patriotic War and reflects the major historical events from 1805 to 1820. According to the experiences of Balcon, Bezukhov, Rostov, Kulagin and big noble, many events and characters are connected in series in the alternate description of war and peace.
The author alternately describes two kinds of life and two clues of "war" and "peace", forming an encyclopedic magnificent epic.
The basic theme of War and Peace is to affirm the just resistance of the Russian people in this war and to praise the patriotic enthusiasm and heroism of the Russian people in the war. However, the tone of the work is religious benevolence and humanitarianism. The author opposes the war and deeply sympathizes with the sufferings of all parties to the war.
2. Childhood
Childhood is the first of three autobiographical novels written by Maxim Gorky, a writer of the former Soviet Union, based on his own experience (the other two are On Earth and My University).
This work tells the story of Aletha (Gorky's real name)' s childhood life from the age of three to ten, vividly reproduces the living conditions of the lower class people in the Soviet Union from 65438 to 2009, and writes Gorky's understanding of suffering and unique views on social life, with endless vision and strength between the lines.
3. Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer margaret mitchell, and 1937 won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
The novel takes Atlanta and a nearby plantation as the story scene, depicting the life of southerners in the United States before and after the Civil War. The works depict the images of many southerners in that era, among which Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley and Melanie are typical representatives.
Their customs, manners, spiritual concepts and political attitudes, through the entanglement of Scarlett and Rhett's love, successfully reproduce the civil war led by Lincoln and the social life in the southern United States.
4. Anna karenin
Anna karenin is a novel of Russian writer lev tolstoy and his masterpiece.
The work tells the story that Anna, a noble woman, pursues love and happiness, but encounters karenin's hypocrisy, Lenski's indifference and selfishness, and finally commits suicide on the railway track and stands dead.
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. This novel is a portrayal of the tense and fearful Russian society in the transitional period between the old and the new.
Through two clues, Anna's pursuit of love tragedy and Levin's exploration of rural reform, the book depicts a vast and colorful picture of Russia from Moscow to other provinces and villages, and describes more than 150 characters successively, which is a social encyclopedia-style work.
5. Red and black
Red and Black is a novel created by French writer Stendhal and his masterpiece. The work tells the story of Julian, the son of the protagonist small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was a tutor at the local mayor's house. After the story was revealed, he fled the mayor's house and entered the seminary.
On the recommendation of the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris and worked as a private secretary for the Marquis of larmor, the backbone of the ultra-royalist party, and was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. Meanwhile, Julian was having an affair with the Marquis' daughter.
Finally, under the planning of the church, the mayor's wife was forced to write and expose him, which ruined his successful career. In a rage, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife, was sentenced to death and went to the guillotine.
After the novel was published, there was a proverb in the society that "you can't mix politics without reading red and black", and the book was banned by many countries. The psychological depth of red and black is far beyond the reach of contemporary writers. It created "stream of consciousness novels" and "psychological novels" in later generations.
Later generations are competing to imitate this "Stendhal style", which makes the novel creation "turn inward" and develop into a modern form that pays attention to psychological portrayal and emotional expression. Therefore, people call Stendhal "the father of modern novels". Red and Black was published 100 years ago. It has been translated into many languages and widely circulated, and has been adapted into plays and movies for many times.