Jimmy Fraser từ Juodiškės, Lithuania

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12/22/2024

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2019-06-11 22:30

Bài Tập Trắc Nghiệm Ngữ Pháp Tiếng Anh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mai Lan Hương

“She felt as though her nerves were strings being strained tighter and tighter on some sort of screwing peg. She felt her eyes opening wider and wider, her fingers and toes twitching nervously, something within oppressing her breathing, while all shapes and sounds seemed in the uncertain half-light to strike her with unaccustomed vividness. Moments of doubt were continually coming upon her, when she was uncertain whether the train were going forwards or backwards, or were standing still altogether; whether it were Annushka at her side or a stranger. ‘What’s that on the arm of the chair, a fur cloak or some beast? And what am I myself? Myself or some other woman?’ She was afraid of giving way to this delirium. But something drew her towards it, and she could yield to it or resist it at will.” When asked for his three favorite books, Faulkner replied: "Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina," and polls of other well-known writers consistently rate it the greatest novel ever written. The genesis of the novel was in an encounter with Maria Hartung, Pushkin's daughter (giving Anna an interesting eighth-Ethiopian heritage - perhaps this was part of her mysterious appeal). Tolstoy began reading Pushkin, and had a fleeting daydream of a "bare exquisite aristocratic elbow." From that fragment, Anna emerged. Perhaps with the cumbersome initial chapter of War and Peace in mind, Tolstoy told his wife that novels should plunge immediately into the action, and that night wrote the wonderful first sentences of what would become Anna Karenina. The title is deceptive. Tolstoy's original title, Two Families, is more reflective of the structure of the novel, which presents Levin and his courtship and marriage to Kitty in counterpoint to Anna's infidelity with Vronsky. Indeed, it could be argued that Levin is the central character of the novel. The model for Kitty was Sofie Behrs, Tolstoy’s wife (Tatiana, the youngest Behrs sister, was the model for Natasha in War and Peace). Nabokov, who also acclaimed it the finest novel ever written (switching allegiance from Madame Bovary; a shift hinted at in the opening and closing sentences of Ada), with a typical Nabokovian concern with patterning, noted the theme of trains. When Anna first encounters Vronsky, a man has been killed on the tracks, a tragedy Vronsky uses to his own ends. When Anna first sees her niece and nephew, they are playing with a toy train set, suggesting the playful, seemingly innocuous nature of the intial gestures that will lead to infidelity. Later, in one of the most delicately developed scenes (see the passage quoted above), Anna is in a train carriage returning to Moscow, reveling in her emotions, but trying to convince herself that nothing has happened between her and Vronsky; then, stepping onto the freezing platform at a station, she meets him, and he makes his feelings clear. Anna's nightmare of the peasant is on the train tracks, and, of course, she finally commits suicide by throwing herself under a train. The quoted passage also shows Tolstoy's use of interior language in order to show a character's thoughts. This interiority was to become, with modifications, the stream-of-consciousness of the early 20th-century modernists. There are two minor love stories. The book opens with the infidelity of Oblonsky (Anna's brother) and his wife Dolly's reaction when she finds out. The casual revelation, halfway through the book, that Oblonsky is involved in another affair with a dancer, is both shocking and utterly true to his character. The unfulfilled attraction between Levin's older brother Koznyshev and Varenka forms another minor thread. In the heartbreaking "mushroom scene," Koznyshev and Varenka go gathering mushrooms, and everyone, including themselves, expects a marriage proposal to occur. But the moment passes and they return with baskets of mushrooms but no confession of their feelings. The book is exquisitely proportioned. When Kitty, infatuated with Vronsky, initially rebuffs Levin, he returns to his country estate and throws himself into his farmwork, going out and scything all day long with the peasants. He is, of course, trying to submerge his emotions in physical labor. As we enter into his work, we too begin to forget about Kitty, and this makes the eventual confession of love all the more poignant. All the main characters meet and react in their individual ways to Levin and Anna, but the encounter between the two main characters is left to the end. Tragic and beautiful, philosophical and descriptive, the novel also contains moments of superb comedy. In particular, Levin's hapless attempts to put the ring on Kitty's finger during the marriage ceremony, and his frustration with the doctor while Kitty is in labor are wonderfully understated. Anna Karenina, more than any other novel, has the quality of changing as one rereads it. Of course it is not the novel that changes; one's experiences are reflected in the pages, and moments that seem insignificant at first reading take on weight upon rereading.

2019-06-12 03:30

Tủ Sách Khai Sáng Tri Thức Giúp Bé Thông Minh - Thiên Nga Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Hậu Khởi

** spoiler alert ** A few words can describe this book as I was reading this and after it was done. Disappointing, Weird, Ok, Funny and maybe Good. It was kind of all of that. I will start with the basics without giving away too much of the book. This happens about a year or so after Return, Luke is a General, which he doesn't want to be, but he is invistaging Mindor, where there are Imperials still. He gets in trouble and the whole gang (Han, Liea, Lando, Chewie, and Wedge, who seem to be in almost every book now) come to help out and save the day. There is a new bad guy, who is supposed to have more power then the Emperor, Vadar or Luke. If you want to know what happens I will let you read it. What I liked about it: Leia's, Chewie (He actually did more then just growl or hang out. He was fighting and was doing Wookie things) and Han's characters. They were pretty much from the movies we know and they hadn't changed (unlike the book The Courtship of Princess Leia, don't get me started...). Lando was ok in also. The story itself or how it flowed was ok. The comedy tone was good. What I didn't like about it: Luke's character. He was ok for the most part, but then at the end his comment that he didn't want to use his lightsaber or kill anyone anymore was dumb. There were a few other moments like that. Did Stover not read any of the other books that were written before him and set after his book? I get the whole peace thing, I am Jedi blah blah, but he sounded more like Superman. He was just wishing washing. His comedy tone was ok though. And I got the book because I sort of thought it was about Luke and maybe an adventure for himself, but the whole gang was there. Not that I mind it, but just wish the story was about him and maybe his quest on Jedi training or something. And for beign a Jedi it seems like Luke is always rescued by someone else. Maybe Stover watched too many of the episodes 1-3 or the Clone Wars, but I just wish Luke could kick butt for once. I haven't read all the ST's books, but I wish he just dominated in 1 of them. Just like I am Luke and bad guys are going to die. The character Nick was annoying after a while, he told too many jokes. There were the too many "I have a bad feeling about this. Don't tell me the odds, etc." Lastly, which is becoming a far too much trend in these books is that there is this person that is more powerful then the Emperor or Vadar. I get the galaxy is big, but for 1 book please don't make the bad try to be that way. If he was that powerful and such then why wasn't he there for the Battle at Endor with the Emperor? Just saying... I have a feeling Stover is going to do 2 more books that are like Luke Skywalker and the whatever as title. You will see in the book by it is called that. I guess he is trying to make a joke of things.

Người đọc Jimmy Fraser từ Juodiškės, Lithuania

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.