Great Fiction 2: Return to the Birthplace of 73 Literary Classics

About This Novel

The Booker Prize reviewer's reading list provides an in-depth analysis of 73 literary classics over the past 200 years. The writing team composed of British scholar, writer, Booker Prize reviewer John Sutherland and experts in various fields takes us on a wonderful journey. In addition to well-known classics such as "Les Miserables" and "Ulysses", it also unearths a series of classics that were previously unknown to us. It is a reading guide not to be missed by literature lovers. It is a travel manual and a time machine: Balzac's Paris, Fitzgerald's New York, and Woolf's London. The works written by the writer have both geographical location and historical time location. This book is like a travel manual that can be used to plan your own literary journey, and it is also like a time machine that collects different scenes of the same city, leading us through the long river of history. Reinterpret classics from a regional perspective and uncover the secrets of their birth. The literary landscapes in the book each have their own unique scenery. They are not just "story backgrounds". In a sense, the works mentioned in this book are all based on these regional characteristics. For every reader who loves literature, this is a literary lesson rich in inspiration. Opening this book is like entering a time machine, and you can go back to the places where classics were born: Balzac's Paris, Fitzgerald's New York, Woolf's London, Hemingway's Spain, and Orhan Pamuk's Turkey... This is a cross-border work between geography and literature. It has a unique approach, reinterpreting classic texts from a regional perspective, sorting out world literary trends in the past two hundred years, and telling the differences and characteristics of how different writers handle literary materials under different literary trends and in different regions. Readers can more intuitively understand the relationship between works and authors, master basic knowledge of world literature, and discover the secrets and values ​​of the birth of classics.

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