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慢读经典系列·奥威尔代表作_动物农场+1984
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Wuthering Heights - Emily Jane Bronte
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her s... -
Woodsburner - John Pipkin
SUMMARY: Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844, John Pipkin's novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young ... -
Walden and on the Duty of Civil - Henry David Thoreau
SUMMARY: Thoreau, a sturdy individualist and nature lover, lived a spare existence in a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1847. "Walde... -
Under the Banner of Heaven_ A S - Jon Krakauer
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1984, Ron and Dan Lafferty murdered the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother Allen. The crimes were noteworthy not merely for their brutality but f... -
Tokyo Year Zero - David Peace
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. British author Peace (_GB84_, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction) bases this riveting novel on a real-life serial... -
The Shallow Seas - Dawn Farnham
In this sequel to "The Red Thread", the sexy Regency-style romance set in the exotic East, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scandalous l... -
The Revisionists - Thomas Mullen
A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, from the award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth. -
The Missing - Chris Mooney
From Publishers WeeklyAt the start of this competent but unoriginal thriller from Mooney (_Deviant Ways_), it's 1984 and teenager Darby McCormick is hanging out in the woods with h... -
The House of Rothschild_ The Wo - Niall Ferguson
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849-1999