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Hillary: "A truly great book!" Oprah: "A must-read in this lifetime!" Recommended by Time Magazine, The New York Times, and The New Yorker! "The Signature of Everything" spans the 18th and 19th centuries, narrates touching themes such as love, adventure and exploration, and witnesses for us the most changing and extraordinary age of enlightenment in human history. This is the epic story of a woman, who sees the beauty of all things and recounts the ups and downs of life. The prose-poetic language in the book is as luxurious and cool as the narrative poetry of the 19th century, and the themes it focuses on: the collision of science and faith, and the struggle of women to achieve self-realization are all full of modern spirit.

In 1940, at the beginning of World War II, 19-year-old wealthy girl Vivian dropped out of Vassar College and went to her aunt Peg, who ran the Lilly Theater in New York. In this gorgeous but crumbling old-fashioned theater, Vivian discovers her talent for designing costumes and meets a group of women who have influenced her life: Celia, a dancer who is indulgent and dreams of conquering the world with her beauty; Olive, who is serious and mediocre from head to toe, but is the beloved lover of her maverick aunt; Edna, a British actress who regards drama as life and the godmother of style who is not beautiful at all; Marjorie, a weird girl in a second-hand clothing store who looks ridiculous but has great ideas about life. Through them, Vivian experienced a liberation from body to mind, and fully experienced the charm and freedom she understood in New York. Until an unexpected sex scandal happened, Vivian fled New York in a hurry and began her journey towards maturity... 70 Years later, 89-year-old Vivian wrote a long letter to a feminist named Angela about her life experience: New York in her eyes, the dazzling days and nights in this "their city", her love for sewing and clothing, Her shame and pain, the love and freedom she realized... Throughout her life, she never became the "lady" that that era expected her to be, but there was a real Vivian Morris in the world, and she spent her life following the fire in her heart.