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Drunk-Eyed Tales of Gu Long 醉眼看古龙
As a fan of Gu Long's novels, I've also chosen four books that I consider his “Four Great Classics”: Border Town Wanderer, The Seven Weapons, The Sentimental Swordsman and the Ruthless Sword, and The Happy Heroes. I haven't included works such as The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng, The Legend of Chu Liuxiang, The Great Banner Hero, or The Handsome Siblings because I feel the first four books are mature representatives of Gu Long's distinctive style in their ideas, prose, and character portrayal.
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Pride in a Silent World: Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995 无声世界的骄傲——95美国小姐海丝.怀特斯
This book is based on my mother's own account. It tells how she raised me, her thoughts on the many choices she had to make, and more. In many ways, my family was a typical American family. We weren't very wealthy, nor did we have a prominent name. We lived in a pretty bungalow in a middle-class neighborhood, and on weekends my father often took us sailing. My sisters and I rode a yellow school bus to public school, and like most of our friends, we often took odd jobs in the afternoons. Our pare
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Japan’s Quietly Burning Snow 静静燃烧的日本雪
Kawabata Yasunari’s father, Kawabata Eikichi, was a doctor who graduated from Tokyo Medical College. He had wide-ranging interests and once studied Chinese poetry and painting with a Confucian scholar in Osaka. His library held a substantial collection of classical Chinese texts, along with many Japanese and Western literary works. When Kawabata Yasunari was not yet two years old, his father died of tuberculosis. Even as he lay in bed, he thought of his children and hoped they would make somethi
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