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Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie  by Thodore Dreiser has been called “the wheelhouse of American naturalism,” and “chief spokesman for the realistic novel,” and “a profound and prescient critic of debased American values.”Sister Carrie by Thodore Dreiser can be  regard as an American tragedy summary.Three main characters occur in this novel, who respectively own different life and fate. Carrie is an honest... 
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Wuthering Heights

The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte told us a story of  love and revenge,at the same time it reflected some   aspects of human nature.Not everyone is  from the same cloth. All of us are in different personalities. Some are generous,some may mean, some may selfish, various. Just because of this, others say we are different.   Since I read Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte , I have... 
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Whiplash (An FBI Thriller)

Whiplash  was wrriten by Catherine Coulter ,who  is an American author of romantic suspense thrillers and historical romances. In the very beginning, private investigator and part-time dance teacher Erin Pulaski is breaking into the Schiffer Hartwin Parmaceutical company’s CEO’s office. Everything goes well. Her client who is a professor at Yale has a father with colon cancer and there’s... 

Sense and Sensibility :which do you prefer

Two opposite personalities, sense and sensibility ,which do you prefer? I think it’s really very difficult to make a decision. It is humor. We are born with such characteristics. Emotional person is the sea,which shows her temper emotionally,sometimes calm, sometimes crazy. However, the rational one is the stream, which running through the montains and forests. She seldom presents her emotions publicly.... 
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The Overton Window: acceptable or unacceptable ?

Glenn Beck’s new novel “The Overton Window” will rank at the top of the New York Times Bestsellers List for adult fiction on July 4th.There are many  articles likes The Overton Window review has been wrriten by many people who interested in it.Glenn Beck has delivered a novel which is ripped from today’s headlines and destined to be as controversial as it is eye-opening and mixs American... 

The Rembrandt Affair:conflict between good and evil

Just as the comment “Of those writing spy novels today, Daniel Silva is quite simply the best”, Daniel Silva is the first New York Times’s bestselling author of “The Unlikely Spy”, The Mark of the Assassin, The Kill Artist, The Marching Season, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, The English Assassin, Moscow Rules, Price of Fire, and The Defector.... 
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My Viewpoints on Pride and Prejudice Summary

The theme of Pride and Prejudice is about love and marriage, three typical types of marriages—marrying for wealth and position, for beauty and passion, for true love but also considering the lover’s morality, wealth and position. And this is also Pride and Prejudice Summary. Most readers think that Jane and Mr. Bingley’s marriage is traditional, because they care more about man’s... 
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks :equal parts of shame and wonder

Someone died, leaving her cells immortal… Flying into space, her sells open its way to several Nobel achievements. There is amount of number of cells spreading in every corner of the world, growing in laboratory culture bottle. Numerous researchers have dealt with her. However, no one knows her name. Her real name is Henrietta Lacks. Her cervical cancer cells, the first line of human immortalized... 
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The Scarlet Letter:Repentance and dignity

Together with some his other works, This novel assumes the universality of guilt and explores the complexities and ambiguities of man’s choices. The main character of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and stuggles to creat a new life of repentance and dignity. She is the daughter of an ancient house of decayed forturn “a... 
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Little Women:Never Withering Flowers

As one of the best loved books of all time, Little Women was an immediate success, reaching a sale of 87,000 copies in three years.  Based on Louise May Alcott’s childhood, it lively portraits of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers. This novel sets its background in famlily life, and its clues in the relationship conflicts...