Classic American fiction

Five, "gone with the wind" Author: Margaret Mitchell, introduction: gone with the wind is the work of Margaret Mitchell (1900 -- 1949), an American female writer. The novel, based on Atlanta and a nearby plantation, depicts life in southern America before and after the civil war. The works depict the images of many southerners of the era, and scarlett, rhett, ASHLEY, Melanie and others, who occupy the central position, are typical representatives of them. Their customs and manners, deeds, spiritual ideas and political attitudes successfully reproduced the civil war led by Lincoln, the social life of the southern United States, through the love entanglement between scarlett and rhett. For whom the bell tolls Author: Hemingway, brief introduction: the story is about young American Robert Jordan teaching Spanish at university and has a deep affection for Spain. He volunteered to join the Spanish government forces in blasting behind the enemy lines. In order to cooperate with the counter-offensive, he was ordered to contact local guerrillas to complete the task of bombing the bridge. He won the support of guerrilla captain pablo's wife, belal, and other players, isolated the demoralized pablo and arranged his specific tasks on a step-by-step footing. In the midst of the fighting, he fell in love with the enemy girl maria, who had been spoiled by the enemy, and thus wiped out the wounds of maria's mind. In these three days, Robert went through the conflict between love and duty and the test of life and death, and human nature continued to rise. In the end of the bridge retreat, he was wounded by the enemy, left alone to stop the enemy, and finally gave the Spanish people a young life. Seven, the adventures of Tom Sawyer Author: Mark Twain, brief introduction: the story takes place in an ordinary town on the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century. The hero Tom Sawyer is naive and lively, adventurous, free, can not tolerate the shackles of personality, boring life, fantasy to do a heroic career. The age of the novel was written before the civil war, although st. Petersburg town, but it was to some extent the epitome of American society at that time. Through the adventures of the hero, the novel satirizes and criticizes the hypocritical and vulgar social customs, hypocritical religious rituals and rigid school education in the United States, and describes the free and lively mind of children and children in a cheerful writing. The adventures of Tom Sawyer has become the greatest children's literature with its deep local humor and keen observation of characters, and is also an idylloch song of the golden age in the United States.8. Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book after the Bible), and is credited with sparking the rise of abolitionism in the 1850s. Three hundred thousand copies were sold in the United States in its first year of publication.

Uncle Tom's Cabin had such an impact on American society that when Lincoln met Mrs. Stowe at the beginning of the Civil War, he said, "You are the little woman who started the great war." Later, this sentence was quoted by many writers.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the plays it inspired, also contributed to the creation of a number of black stereotypes that are familiar today. Such as the kind and loving black nanny, the archetype of the black child, and the obedient, Stoic and loyal uncle Tom to his white master. In recent decades, these negative elements of uncle Tom's Cabin have somewhat diminished the book's historical role as an "important anti-slavery tool."

The Sound and the Fury

Faulkner, Introduction: The novel is about the tragedy of the Compson family, a fallen landowner in the South. Old Compson loafed and drank too much. His wife was selfish, cold and bitter. The eldest son, Quentin, desperately clings to the so-called old traditions of the South and drowses himself in a love-hate relationship with his sister Katie, who is a womanizing and degrading southern lady.

The second son, Jason, was cold and greedy, and the third, Benji, was an idiot, with the intelligence of a three-year-old at thirty-three. All through the three sons of the inner monologue, around the fall of Katy, the final black maid Dilsey to the first three parts of the "limited perspective" to make a supplement. The sound and the Fury takes its title from the famous line from Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5 of Shakespeare's tragedy: "Life is a fool's tale, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."A Farewell to Arms

The story is about Frederick Henry, a young American who volunteered to drive an ambulance for the Red Cross at the end of World War I, rescuing wounded soldiers on the northern front of Italy. In a mission, Henry was wounded by artillery shells, in milan hospital during the period of recuperation by the British nurse Catherine care, two people fell in love.

Henry recovered after returning to the front, with the Italian troops retreat to see the brutal scene of the war, resolutely separated from the army, and Catherine fled to Switzerland after meeting. Catherine died in childbirth.