Today I came up with an idea.
That is, I want to create two blogs!
One blog is my thinking and response of English learning progress(my major in college) and my life.
Another blog is use to record of my imagination, includes my painting and so on.
I hope I could write faithfully.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friends...
sometimes, your friends are not like what you think.
They're not bad,
but if you completely depend on them,
your heart will know what feeling is "cold".
It seems that the content above is gloomy.
You can say that honest word always look like this.
There is not denying that people need friends.
Yet people need to choose what friends you want to get along with them.
Besides, you can not rely on them to help you every time.
You must to train yourself become independent to handle trouble.
And ask someone you really trust for help.
I THINK waht I treat my friends,
they will also response.
It's not true.
But it will not influence my mind.
I will try my best to become a better person,
and help my friends.
They're not bad,
but if you completely depend on them,
your heart will know what feeling is "cold".
It seems that the content above is gloomy.
You can say that honest word always look like this.
There is not denying that people need friends.
Yet people need to choose what friends you want to get along with them.
Besides, you can not rely on them to help you every time.
You must to train yourself become independent to handle trouble.
And ask someone you really trust for help.
I THINK waht I treat my friends,
they will also response.
It's not true.
But it will not influence my mind.
I will try my best to become a better person,
and help my friends.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
I felt anxious
Recently, when I stayed at home alone, I was anxious.
I felt like lost the way of life and didn't know how to fix it.
I knew I need to sit in front of the dest, to read or to do some assignments,
but I lacked motivation to finish them.
Then, I started to think about many things.
Maybe those things made me anxious.
Those things were about my future, what I need to do, what I want to do,
and so on.
I even think why I was not happy to stay at home.
Before long, when I was a junior, I really want to have time to stay at home
and do things I like.
Now, I could do it but I didn't do it.
When I stayed home alone, I EVEN didn't want to follow my schedule.
Usually, I watched pps for all afternoon. In addition, I didn't want to go out to buy dinner.
To solve those problems above, I want to get early next time.
If I concentrated on my job from morning till night, maybe I would not fell
alone.
I felt like lost the way of life and didn't know how to fix it.
I knew I need to sit in front of the dest, to read or to do some assignments,
but I lacked motivation to finish them.
Then, I started to think about many things.
Maybe those things made me anxious.
Those things were about my future, what I need to do, what I want to do,
and so on.
I even think why I was not happy to stay at home.
Before long, when I was a junior, I really want to have time to stay at home
and do things I like.
Now, I could do it but I didn't do it.
When I stayed home alone, I EVEN didn't want to follow my schedule.
Usually, I watched pps for all afternoon. In addition, I didn't want to go out to buy dinner.
To solve those problems above, I want to get early next time.
If I concentrated on my job from morning till night, maybe I would not fell
alone.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
What I Did in Summer
This summer vacation had last for three months. Start from 22, June and end in the 13, September.
During the vacation, I become a staff of the summer camp which hold by my college club.
The summer camp have more than 150 children. The purpose of our club was let those children understand certain knowledge by playing some funny games. In other words, we play some filed games, and in the games, we teach them do not get in touch with drugs, any alcoholic drink , and have correct opionion of AIDS. Our club's name is Sun Spring.
I am a art publicist of the summer camp. Except me, I have 3 group members, and all of them are resposible at works. I had learned good attitude when I cooperate with other people.
After the summer camp, I come back to my hometown for two weeks.
I spend the rest of my summer vacation on reading some good books and watching America TV series.
During the vacation, I become a staff of the summer camp which hold by my college club.
The summer camp have more than 150 children. The purpose of our club was let those children understand certain knowledge by playing some funny games. In other words, we play some filed games, and in the games, we teach them do not get in touch with drugs, any alcoholic drink , and have correct opionion of AIDS. Our club's name is Sun Spring.
I am a art publicist of the summer camp. Except me, I have 3 group members, and all of them are resposible at works. I had learned good attitude when I cooperate with other people.
After the summer camp, I come back to my hometown for two weeks.
I spend the rest of my summer vacation on reading some good books and watching America TV series.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
1. Don Quixote Miguel De CervantesThe story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries. Buy Don Quixote at Amazon.co.uk
2. Pilgrim's Progress John BunyanThe one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair. Buy Pilgrim's Progress at Amazon.co.uk
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The first English novel. Buy Robinson Crusoe at Amazon.co.uk
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision. Buy Gulliver's Travels at Amazon.co.uk
5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot of sex ending in a blissful marriage. Buy Tom Jones at Amazon.co.uk
6. Clarissa Samuel RichardsonOne of the longest novels in the English language, but unputdownable. Buy Clarissa at Amazon.co.uk
7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne One of the first bestsellers, dismissed by Dr Johnson as too fashionable for its own good. Buy Tristram Shandy at Amazon.co.uk
8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos An epistolary novel and a handbook for seducers: foppish, French, and ferocious. Buy Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Amazon.co.uk
9. Emma Jane AustenNear impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never fails to fascinate and annoy. Buy Emma at Amazon.co.uk
10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley Inspired by spending too much time with Shelley and Byron. Buy Frankenstein at Amazon.co.uk
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love PeacockA classic miniature: a brilliant satire on the Romantic novel. Buy Nightmare Abbey at Amazon.co.uk
12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac Two rivals fight for the love of a femme fatale. Wrongly overlooked. Buy The Black Sheep at Amazon.co.uk
13. The Charterhouse of Parma StendhalPenetrating and compelling chronicle of life in an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France. Buy The Charterhouse of Parma at Amazon.co.uk
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas A revenge thriller also set in France after Bonaparte: a masterpiece of adventure writing. Buy The Count of Monte Cristo at Amazon.co.uk
15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary genius. Buy Sybil at Amazon.co.uk
16. David Copperfield Charles DickensThis highly autobiographical novel is the one its author liked best. Buy David Copperfield at Amazon.co.uk
17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible to ignore. Buy Wuthering Heights at Amazon.co.uk
18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative.Buy Jane Eyre at Amazon.co.uk
19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The improving tale of Becky Sharp. Buy Vanity Fair at Amazon.co.uk
20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne A classic investigation of the American mind. Buy The Scarlet Letter at Amazon.co.uk
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel. Buy Moby-Dick at Amazon.co.uk
22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert You could summarise this as a story of adultery in provincial France, and miss the point entirely. Buy Madame Bovary at Amazon.co.uk
23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins Gripping mystery novel of concealed identity, abduction, fraud and mental cruelty. Buy The Woman in White at Amazon.co.uk
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll A story written for the nine-year-old daughter of an Oxford don that still baffles most kids. Buy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at Amazon.co.uk
25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott Victorian bestseller about a New England family of girls. Buy Little Women at Amazon.co.uk
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope A majestic assault on the corruption of late Victorian England. Buy The Way We Live Now at Amazon.co.uk
27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The supreme novel of the married woman's passion for a younger man. Buy Anna Karenina at Amazon.co.uk
28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot A passion and an exotic grandeur that is strange and unsettling.Buy Daniel Deronda at Amazon.co.uk
29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Mystical tragedy by the author of Crime and Punishment. Buy The Brothers Karamazov at Amazon.co.uk
30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James The story of Isabel Archer shows James at his witty and polished best. Buy The Portrait of a Lady at Amazon.co.uk
31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Twain was a humorist, but this picture of Mississippi life is profoundly moral and still incredibly influential. Buy Huckleberry Finn at Amazon.co.uk
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson A brilliantly suggestive, resonant study of human duality by a natural storyteller. Buy Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at Amazon.co.uk
33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome One of the funniest English books ever written. Buy Three Men in a Boat at Amazon.co.uk
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar WildeA coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his own tortured homosexuality. Buy The Picture of Dorian Gray at Amazon.co.uk
35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith This classic of Victorian suburbia will always be renowned for the character of Mr Pooter. Buy The Diary of a Nobody at Amazon.co.uk
36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Its savage bleakness makes it one of the first twentieth-century novels. Buy Jude the Obscure at Amazon.co.uk
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine ChildersA prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in the Irish republican rising. Buy The Riddle of the Sands at Amazon.co.uk
38. The Call of the Wild Jack LondonThe story of a dog who joins a pack of wolves after his master's death. Buy The Call of the Wild at Amazon.co.uk
39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad Conrad's masterpiece: a tale of money, love and revolutionary politics. Buy Nostromo at Amazon.co.uk
40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame This children's classic was inspired by bedtime stories for Grahame's son. Buy The Wind in the Willows at Amazon.co.uk
41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust An unforgettable portrait of Paris in the belle epoque. Probably the longest novel on this list. Buy In Search of Lost Time at Amazon.co.uk
42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence Novels seized by the police, like this one, have a special afterlife. Buy The Rainbow at Amazon.co.uk
43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford This account of the adulterous lives of two Edwardian couples is a classic of unreliable narration. Buy The Good Soldier at Amazon.co.uk
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan A classic adventure story for boys, jammed with action, violence and suspense. Buy The Thirty-Nine Steps at Amazon.co.uk
45. Ulysses James Joyce Also pursued by the British police, this is a novel more discussed than read. Buy Ulysses at Amazon.co.uk
46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Secures Woolf's position as one of the great twentieth-century English novelists. Buy Mrs Dalloway at Amazon.co.uk
47. A Passage to India E. M. ForsterThe great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire. Buy A Passage to India at Amazon.co.uk
48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The quintessential Jazz Age novel.Buy The Great Gatsby at Amazon.co.uk
49. The Trial Franz Kafka The enigmatic story of Joseph K. Buy The Trial at Amazon.co.uk
50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway He is remembered for his novels, but it was the short stories that first attracted notice. Buy Men Without Women at Amazon.co.uk
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a masterpiece of linguistic innovation. Buy Journey to the End of the Night at Amazon.co.uk
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner A strange black comedy by an American master. Buy As I Lay Dying at Amazon.co.uk
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley Dystopian fantasy about the world of the seventh century AF (after Ford). Buy Brave New World at Amazon.co.uk
54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh The supreme Fleet Street novel. Buy Scoop at Amazon.co.uk
55. USA John Dos Passos An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express the story of America. Buy USA at Amazon.co.uk
56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Introducing Philip Marlowe: cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone. Buy The Big Sleep at Amazon.co.uk
57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford An exquisite comedy of manners with countless fans. Buy The Pursuit of Love at Amazon.co.uk
58. The Plague Albert Camus A mysterious plague sweeps through the Algerian town of Oran. Buy The Plague at Amazon.co.uk
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell This tale of one man's struggle against totalitarianism has been appropriated the world over. Buy Nineteen Eighty-Four at Amazon.co.uk
60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the author of Waiting for Godot. Buy Malone Dies at Amazon.co.uk
61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger A week in the life of Holden Caulfield. A cult novel that still mesmerises. Buy Catcher in the Rye at Amazon.co.uk
62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor A disturbing novel of religious extremism set in the Deep South. Buy Wise Blood at Amazon.co.uk
63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White How Wilbur the pig was saved by the literary genius of a friendly spider. Buy Charlotte's Web at Amazon.co.uk
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. TolkienEnough said! Buy The Lord of the Rings at Amazon.co.uk
65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis An astonishing debut: the painfully funny English novel of the Fifties. Buy Lucky Jim at Amazon.co.uk
66. Lord of the Flies William Golding Schoolboys become savages: a bleak vision of human nature. Buy Lord of the Flies at Amazon.co.uk
67. The Quiet American Graham Greene Prophetic novel set in 1950s Vietnam.Buy The Quiet American at Amazon.co.uk
68 On the Road Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation bible.Buy On the Road at Amazon.co.uk
69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Humbert Humbert's obsession with Lolita is a tour de force of style and narrative. Buy Lolita at Amazon.co.uk
70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass Hugely influential, Rabelaisian novel of Hitler's Germany. Buy The Tin Drum at Amazon.co.uk
71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Nigeria at the beginning of colonialism. A classic of African literature. Buy Things Fall Apart at Amazon.co.uk
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark A writer who made her debut in The Observer - and her prose is like cut glass. Buy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Amazon.co.uk
73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper LeeScout, a six-year-old girl, narrates an enthralling story of racial prejudice in the Deep South. Buy To Kill A Mockingbird at Amazon.co.uk
74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller'[He] would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.' Buy Catch-22 at Amazon.co.uk
75. Herzog Saul BellowAdultery and nervous breakdown in Chicago. Buy Herzog at Amazon.co.uk
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez A postmodern masterpiece. Buy One Hundred Years of Solitude at Amazon.co.uk
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor A haunting, understated study of old age. Buy Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont at Amazon.co.uk
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre A thrilling elegy for post-imperial Britain. Buy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy at Amazon.co.uk
79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison The definitive novelist of the African-American experience. Buy Song of Solomon at Amazon.co.uk
80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge Macabre comedy of provincial life. Buy The Bottle Factory Outing at Amazon.co.uk
81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer This quasi-documentary account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore is possibly his masterpiece. Buy The Executioner's Song at Amazon.co.uk
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo CalvinoA strange, compelling story about the pleasures of reading. Buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller at Amazon.co.uk
83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul The finest living writer of English prose. This is his masterpiece: edgily reminiscent of Heart of Darkness. Buy A Bend in the River at Amazon.co.uk
84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee Bleak but haunting allegory of apartheid by the Nobel prizewinner. Buy Waiting for the Barbarians at Amazon.co.uk
85. Housekeeping Marilynne RobinsonHaunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women. Buy Housekeeping at Amazon.co.uk
86. Lanark Alasdair GraySeething vision of Glasgow. A Scottish classic. Buy Lanark at Amazon.co.uk
87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster Dazzling metaphysical thriller set in the Manhattan of the 1970s. Buy The New York Trilogy at Amazon.co.uk
88. The BFG Roald Dahl A bestseller by the most popular postwar writer for children of all ages. Buy The BFG at Amazon.co.uk
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi A prose poem about the delights of chemistry. Buy The Periodic Table at Amazon.co.uk
90. Money Martin AmisThe novel that bags Amis's place on any list. Buy Money at Amazon.co.uk
91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro A collaborator from prewar Japan reluctantly discloses his betrayal of friends and family. Buy An Artist of the Floating World at Amazon.co.uk
92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey A great contemporary love story set in nineteenth-century Australia by double Booker prizewinner. Buy Oscar and Lucinda at Amazon.co.uk
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera Inspired by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is a magical fusion of history, autobiography and ideas. Buy The Book of Laughter and Forgetting at Amazon.co.uk
94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman RushdieIn this entrancing story Rushdie plays with the idea of narrative itself. Buy Haroun and the Sea of Stories at Amazon.co.uk
95. La Confidential James Ellroy Three LAPD detectives are brought face to face with the secrets of their corrupt and violent careers. Buy LA Confidential at Amazon.co.uk
96. Wise Children Angela CarterA theatrical extravaganza by a brilliant exponent of magic realism. Buy Wise Children at Amazon.co.uk
97. Atonement Ian McEwan Acclaimed short-story writer achieves a contemporary classic of mesmerising narrative conviction. Buy Atonement at Amazon.co.uk
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman Lyra's quest weaves fantasy, horror and the play of ideas into a truly great contemporary children's book. Buy Northern Lights at Amazon.co.uk
99. American Pastoral Philip Roth For years, Roth was famous for Portnoy's Complaint . Recently, he has enjoyed an extraordinary revival. Buy American Pastoral at Amazon.co.uk
100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald Posthumously published volume in a sequence of dream-like fictions spun from memory, photographs and the German past. Buy Austerlitz at Amazon.co.uk
1. Don Quixote Miguel De CervantesThe story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries. Buy Don Quixote at Amazon.co.uk
2. Pilgrim's Progress John BunyanThe one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair. Buy Pilgrim's Progress at Amazon.co.uk
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The first English novel. Buy Robinson Crusoe at Amazon.co.uk
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision. Buy Gulliver's Travels at Amazon.co.uk
5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot of sex ending in a blissful marriage. Buy Tom Jones at Amazon.co.uk
6. Clarissa Samuel RichardsonOne of the longest novels in the English language, but unputdownable. Buy Clarissa at Amazon.co.uk
7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne One of the first bestsellers, dismissed by Dr Johnson as too fashionable for its own good. Buy Tristram Shandy at Amazon.co.uk
8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos An epistolary novel and a handbook for seducers: foppish, French, and ferocious. Buy Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Amazon.co.uk
9. Emma Jane AustenNear impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never fails to fascinate and annoy. Buy Emma at Amazon.co.uk
10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley Inspired by spending too much time with Shelley and Byron. Buy Frankenstein at Amazon.co.uk
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love PeacockA classic miniature: a brilliant satire on the Romantic novel. Buy Nightmare Abbey at Amazon.co.uk
12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac Two rivals fight for the love of a femme fatale. Wrongly overlooked. Buy The Black Sheep at Amazon.co.uk
13. The Charterhouse of Parma StendhalPenetrating and compelling chronicle of life in an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France. Buy The Charterhouse of Parma at Amazon.co.uk
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas A revenge thriller also set in France after Bonaparte: a masterpiece of adventure writing. Buy The Count of Monte Cristo at Amazon.co.uk
15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary genius. Buy Sybil at Amazon.co.uk
16. David Copperfield Charles DickensThis highly autobiographical novel is the one its author liked best. Buy David Copperfield at Amazon.co.uk
17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible to ignore. Buy Wuthering Heights at Amazon.co.uk
18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative.Buy Jane Eyre at Amazon.co.uk
19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The improving tale of Becky Sharp. Buy Vanity Fair at Amazon.co.uk
20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne A classic investigation of the American mind. Buy The Scarlet Letter at Amazon.co.uk
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel. Buy Moby-Dick at Amazon.co.uk
22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert You could summarise this as a story of adultery in provincial France, and miss the point entirely. Buy Madame Bovary at Amazon.co.uk
23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins Gripping mystery novel of concealed identity, abduction, fraud and mental cruelty. Buy The Woman in White at Amazon.co.uk
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll A story written for the nine-year-old daughter of an Oxford don that still baffles most kids. Buy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at Amazon.co.uk
25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott Victorian bestseller about a New England family of girls. Buy Little Women at Amazon.co.uk
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope A majestic assault on the corruption of late Victorian England. Buy The Way We Live Now at Amazon.co.uk
27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The supreme novel of the married woman's passion for a younger man. Buy Anna Karenina at Amazon.co.uk
28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot A passion and an exotic grandeur that is strange and unsettling.Buy Daniel Deronda at Amazon.co.uk
29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Mystical tragedy by the author of Crime and Punishment. Buy The Brothers Karamazov at Amazon.co.uk
30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James The story of Isabel Archer shows James at his witty and polished best. Buy The Portrait of a Lady at Amazon.co.uk
31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Twain was a humorist, but this picture of Mississippi life is profoundly moral and still incredibly influential. Buy Huckleberry Finn at Amazon.co.uk
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson A brilliantly suggestive, resonant study of human duality by a natural storyteller. Buy Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at Amazon.co.uk
33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome One of the funniest English books ever written. Buy Three Men in a Boat at Amazon.co.uk
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar WildeA coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his own tortured homosexuality. Buy The Picture of Dorian Gray at Amazon.co.uk
35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith This classic of Victorian suburbia will always be renowned for the character of Mr Pooter. Buy The Diary of a Nobody at Amazon.co.uk
36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Its savage bleakness makes it one of the first twentieth-century novels. Buy Jude the Obscure at Amazon.co.uk
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine ChildersA prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in the Irish republican rising. Buy The Riddle of the Sands at Amazon.co.uk
38. The Call of the Wild Jack LondonThe story of a dog who joins a pack of wolves after his master's death. Buy The Call of the Wild at Amazon.co.uk
39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad Conrad's masterpiece: a tale of money, love and revolutionary politics. Buy Nostromo at Amazon.co.uk
40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame This children's classic was inspired by bedtime stories for Grahame's son. Buy The Wind in the Willows at Amazon.co.uk
41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust An unforgettable portrait of Paris in the belle epoque. Probably the longest novel on this list. Buy In Search of Lost Time at Amazon.co.uk
42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence Novels seized by the police, like this one, have a special afterlife. Buy The Rainbow at Amazon.co.uk
43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford This account of the adulterous lives of two Edwardian couples is a classic of unreliable narration. Buy The Good Soldier at Amazon.co.uk
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan A classic adventure story for boys, jammed with action, violence and suspense. Buy The Thirty-Nine Steps at Amazon.co.uk
45. Ulysses James Joyce Also pursued by the British police, this is a novel more discussed than read. Buy Ulysses at Amazon.co.uk
46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Secures Woolf's position as one of the great twentieth-century English novelists. Buy Mrs Dalloway at Amazon.co.uk
47. A Passage to India E. M. ForsterThe great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire. Buy A Passage to India at Amazon.co.uk
48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The quintessential Jazz Age novel.Buy The Great Gatsby at Amazon.co.uk
49. The Trial Franz Kafka The enigmatic story of Joseph K. Buy The Trial at Amazon.co.uk
50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway He is remembered for his novels, but it was the short stories that first attracted notice. Buy Men Without Women at Amazon.co.uk
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a masterpiece of linguistic innovation. Buy Journey to the End of the Night at Amazon.co.uk
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner A strange black comedy by an American master. Buy As I Lay Dying at Amazon.co.uk
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley Dystopian fantasy about the world of the seventh century AF (after Ford). Buy Brave New World at Amazon.co.uk
54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh The supreme Fleet Street novel. Buy Scoop at Amazon.co.uk
55. USA John Dos Passos An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express the story of America. Buy USA at Amazon.co.uk
56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Introducing Philip Marlowe: cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone. Buy The Big Sleep at Amazon.co.uk
57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford An exquisite comedy of manners with countless fans. Buy The Pursuit of Love at Amazon.co.uk
58. The Plague Albert Camus A mysterious plague sweeps through the Algerian town of Oran. Buy The Plague at Amazon.co.uk
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell This tale of one man's struggle against totalitarianism has been appropriated the world over. Buy Nineteen Eighty-Four at Amazon.co.uk
60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the author of Waiting for Godot. Buy Malone Dies at Amazon.co.uk
61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger A week in the life of Holden Caulfield. A cult novel that still mesmerises. Buy Catcher in the Rye at Amazon.co.uk
62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor A disturbing novel of religious extremism set in the Deep South. Buy Wise Blood at Amazon.co.uk
63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White How Wilbur the pig was saved by the literary genius of a friendly spider. Buy Charlotte's Web at Amazon.co.uk
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. TolkienEnough said! Buy The Lord of the Rings at Amazon.co.uk
65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis An astonishing debut: the painfully funny English novel of the Fifties. Buy Lucky Jim at Amazon.co.uk
66. Lord of the Flies William Golding Schoolboys become savages: a bleak vision of human nature. Buy Lord of the Flies at Amazon.co.uk
67. The Quiet American Graham Greene Prophetic novel set in 1950s Vietnam.Buy The Quiet American at Amazon.co.uk
68 On the Road Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation bible.Buy On the Road at Amazon.co.uk
69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Humbert Humbert's obsession with Lolita is a tour de force of style and narrative. Buy Lolita at Amazon.co.uk
70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass Hugely influential, Rabelaisian novel of Hitler's Germany. Buy The Tin Drum at Amazon.co.uk
71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Nigeria at the beginning of colonialism. A classic of African literature. Buy Things Fall Apart at Amazon.co.uk
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark A writer who made her debut in The Observer - and her prose is like cut glass. Buy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Amazon.co.uk
73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper LeeScout, a six-year-old girl, narrates an enthralling story of racial prejudice in the Deep South. Buy To Kill A Mockingbird at Amazon.co.uk
74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller'[He] would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.' Buy Catch-22 at Amazon.co.uk
75. Herzog Saul BellowAdultery and nervous breakdown in Chicago. Buy Herzog at Amazon.co.uk
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez A postmodern masterpiece. Buy One Hundred Years of Solitude at Amazon.co.uk
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor A haunting, understated study of old age. Buy Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont at Amazon.co.uk
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre A thrilling elegy for post-imperial Britain. Buy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy at Amazon.co.uk
79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison The definitive novelist of the African-American experience. Buy Song of Solomon at Amazon.co.uk
80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge Macabre comedy of provincial life. Buy The Bottle Factory Outing at Amazon.co.uk
81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer This quasi-documentary account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore is possibly his masterpiece. Buy The Executioner's Song at Amazon.co.uk
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo CalvinoA strange, compelling story about the pleasures of reading. Buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller at Amazon.co.uk
83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul The finest living writer of English prose. This is his masterpiece: edgily reminiscent of Heart of Darkness. Buy A Bend in the River at Amazon.co.uk
84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee Bleak but haunting allegory of apartheid by the Nobel prizewinner. Buy Waiting for the Barbarians at Amazon.co.uk
85. Housekeeping Marilynne RobinsonHaunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women. Buy Housekeeping at Amazon.co.uk
86. Lanark Alasdair GraySeething vision of Glasgow. A Scottish classic. Buy Lanark at Amazon.co.uk
87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster Dazzling metaphysical thriller set in the Manhattan of the 1970s. Buy The New York Trilogy at Amazon.co.uk
88. The BFG Roald Dahl A bestseller by the most popular postwar writer for children of all ages. Buy The BFG at Amazon.co.uk
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi A prose poem about the delights of chemistry. Buy The Periodic Table at Amazon.co.uk
90. Money Martin AmisThe novel that bags Amis's place on any list. Buy Money at Amazon.co.uk
91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro A collaborator from prewar Japan reluctantly discloses his betrayal of friends and family. Buy An Artist of the Floating World at Amazon.co.uk
92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey A great contemporary love story set in nineteenth-century Australia by double Booker prizewinner. Buy Oscar and Lucinda at Amazon.co.uk
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera Inspired by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is a magical fusion of history, autobiography and ideas. Buy The Book of Laughter and Forgetting at Amazon.co.uk
94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman RushdieIn this entrancing story Rushdie plays with the idea of narrative itself. Buy Haroun and the Sea of Stories at Amazon.co.uk
95. La Confidential James Ellroy Three LAPD detectives are brought face to face with the secrets of their corrupt and violent careers. Buy LA Confidential at Amazon.co.uk
96. Wise Children Angela CarterA theatrical extravaganza by a brilliant exponent of magic realism. Buy Wise Children at Amazon.co.uk
97. Atonement Ian McEwan Acclaimed short-story writer achieves a contemporary classic of mesmerising narrative conviction. Buy Atonement at Amazon.co.uk
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman Lyra's quest weaves fantasy, horror and the play of ideas into a truly great contemporary children's book. Buy Northern Lights at Amazon.co.uk
99. American Pastoral Philip Roth For years, Roth was famous for Portnoy's Complaint . Recently, he has enjoyed an extraordinary revival. Buy American Pastoral at Amazon.co.uk
100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald Posthumously published volume in a sequence of dream-like fictions spun from memory, photographs and the German past. Buy Austerlitz at Amazon.co.uk
Saturday, July 24, 2010
The Day of Enjoying "The World of Brambly Hedge"
I went to my college library with my friend Tanya and Tina this morning. As soon as we entered into the library, we went to find the books what we wanted. First, I went to the category of art. I spend a long time there, and decided to borrow 7 books which were about painting. And then, I went to the category of Learning English. I started to prepare TOEIC, so I borrowed several books which could improve my English ability there. I had more than 10 books in the hand, but I still wanted to borrow some novels. As I moved around the category of literature, I suddenly got a glimpse of the book The world of Brambly Hedge.
The author of The world of Brambly Hedge is Jill Braklem.
Before I read the book, I was attracted by the picture of cover. According to the cover, I could image the book must is a lovely and joyful story. I took the book from the bookshelf immediately. Though I even hadn't read the book The world of Brambly Hedge, I feel good because I were going to read it.
Besides, I were really lucky. I found there was a book whcih I couldn't find before. The books is The borrower by Mary Norton. I had interested in The borrower because its trailer. The borrower Arrietty was released on July 17 in Japan and marked the directorial debut of Studio Ghibi animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who was the youngest person to direct a film for Ghibi. The music for the film" Arrietty's song" was composed by Bretonne singer Cecile Corbel. "Arritty's song" is really a fantastic song! I really hope The Borrower Arrietty will be released this year in Taiwan. The trailer of The Borrower Arrietty makes me quite expeted the film.
Before I watch the film, let me read the story The Borrower Arrietty carefully. ; )
After we left the library, we went to the store of lunch box to eat lunch. I ate the crisp fried chicken row rice. We got home in the afternoon.
I read the book The World of Brambly Hedge right away. Each pictures of it really touched me. Those pictures were so delicate, warm and fragrant. The story made me smile from heart.
I love it! The stories for children are the best choice to me during the summer time. Even though I were not a child any more, children book also made me learn a lot.
**I find the web of The World of Brambly Hedge.
http://www.bramblyhedge.co.uk/frame.htm
**This is the web of " The borrower Arrietty".
http://www.karigurashi.jp/index.html
Sincerelly,
Missy
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