Uglies 丑人儿
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2005年,Scott发表了作品《丑人儿》(Uglies)。作品虚构了一个表面繁华美丽的New Pretty Town,这里的人们全都优雅美丽,生活富足快乐,过着无忧无虑的生活。所有的青少年只需在年满16岁时接受一次全身整容手术,即可拥有明星般的外貌和美好的生活。在这一看似充满诱惑力的“成人仪式”背后,潜藏着的却是权力机构不可告人的阴谋。然而,并不是所有人都心甘情愿地接...
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Category: Author:novel
2005年,Scott发表了作品《丑人儿》(Uglies)。作品虚构了一个表面繁华美丽的New Pretty Town,这里的人们全都优雅美丽,生活富足快乐,过着无忧无虑的生活。所有的青少年只需在年满16岁时接受一次全身整容手术,即可拥有明星般的外貌和美好的生活。在这一看似充满诱惑力的“成人仪式”背后,潜藏着的却是权力机构不可告人的阴谋。然而,并不是所有人都心甘情愿地接...
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I wrote Little Brother in a white-hot fury between May 7, 2007 and July 2,2007: exactly eight weeks from the day I thought it up to the day I fin-ished it (Alice, to whom this book is dedicated, had to put up with meclacking out the final chapter at 5AM in our hotel in Rome, where wewere celebrating our anniversary). I'd always dreamed...
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Mr. Harrison’s Confessions is an episodic 1851 long short story or novella (over 29,000 words) by Elizabeth Gaskell about a doctor in provincial England. It is notable for being a prequel to her novel Cranford. With Cranford, The Last Generation in England and My Lady Ludlow, it was adapted for TV in 2007 as Cranford.
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Category: Author:Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina(sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance wa...
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Category: Author:Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle' is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts her and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents. The memoir stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks and is now under development as a film by Paramount.By late 2007, The Glas...
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Category: Author:Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it is Hosseini's first novel,[1] and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007. The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. The ...
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Category: Author:Barack Hussein Obama
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream is the second book written by then-Senator Barack Obama. In the fall of 2006 it became number one on both the New York Times and Amazon.com bestsellers lists after Obama was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey. In the book, Obama expounds on many of the subjects that became part of ...
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