F·S·菲茨杰拉德（Francis Scott Fitzgerald，1896—1940） 二十世纪美国最杰出的作家之一，以诗人和梦想家的气质为“爵士时代”吟唱华丽挽歌。短短四十四年的人生，他的遭际几经跌宕起伏，在名利场中看尽世态炎凉。二十世纪末，美国学术界权威在百年英语长河中选出一百部最优秀的小说，凝聚了菲茨杰拉德才华横溢的两部长篇小说《了不起的盖茨比》和《夜色温柔》均榜上有名，前者更高居第二位。

F·S·菲茨杰拉德（Francis Scott Fitzgerald，1896—1940） 二十世纪美国最杰出的作家之一，以诗人和梦想家的气质为“爵士时代”吟唱华丽挽歌。短短四十四年的人生，他的遭际几经跌宕起伏，在名利场中看尽世态炎凉。二十世纪末，美国学术界权威在百年英语长河中选出一百部最优秀的小说，凝聚了菲茨杰拉德才华横溢的两部长篇小说《了不起的盖茨比》和《夜色温柔》均榜上有名，前者更高居第二位。

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Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn’t take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She bec...(展开全部)

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn’t take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She bec...(展开全部)

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Knowing nothing more than the working-class life he is born into, headstrong Lu Xiaolu reluctantly starts down the path he is expected to follow. At age nineteen in 1990s China, he feels pressure to follow suit with those around him and takes a job at the town’s saccharin factory. Slowly, he adjusts to the bureaucratic factory routine, making the best of the situation by bondin...(展开全部)

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