1. Little Prince is in my English booklist top three which published in 1943, wrote by French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This novella has been translated into more than 180 languages. The story involves the author’s aviation experiences which drawn on the same experiences for the plot of The Little Prince. The Little Prince tells a story about the pilot, whose plane broke down and forced to land away from the densely on the sub, when a fascinating and mysterious little boy appears and asks the pilot to paint a lamb. He is the little Prince, purity, blue, from an unknown asteroid, love to ask questions of other people’s problems are never answered. The little prince explored the planet and visited the King, businessman, lamplighter, geographer, drunkard and conceited man respectively. Each of them has a conversation with the little prince. Then the values and thoughts of life and loneliness reveal from each conversation. For instance, I remember that the little prince ask a question about what does businessman do with his own stars. The businessman answered that “I administer them, and count them and recount them, and then I put them in the bank.” Comparing with businessman, the answer of little prince’s is totally different. He said, “I myself own a flower," he continued his conversation with the businessman, "which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which I clean out every week (for I also clean out the one that is extinct; one never knows). It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them. But you are of no use to the stars..." A romantic monetary philosophy is revealed from their conversation which inspired me a lot during my childhood.
check the link of Little Prince
2. The second one is Gone with the Rainy Season, which is Sanmao’s work, one of my favorite authors. As a pseudonym, Sanmao, her Chinese name was Chenping, a popular Taiwanese author during her era. She is such a legend in her own time. She has read much classic Chinese literature at the age of five. Through her early year of education, she had conflicts with her teacher, including an incident in which she said she wanted to be a garbage collector when she grew up. Then, she studied in Spain, Germany and then went to the Sahara desert and married a Spanish man named Jose Maria Quero Y Ruiz in 1974, whom she met in Madrid seven years before while she was a student. Later on, she published her first work, entitled The Stories of the Sahara in 1976, which she took her own experience in the Sahara Desert as a background of this fictionalized-autobiographical work. After her husband died from a diving accident, she decided to go back to Taiwan and then traveled to Central and South America. At her age of 48, she committed a suicide. The reason of suiside is still a myth. Finally, she wrote around 20 books, including a script and many of fictionalized-autobiographical works. I read all of her works during the period of my middle school. I cannot tell you which one is my favorite one because of her works just like an entire journey of her real life. From the golden age of her teenage to her life in the Sahara Desert, her works were such a bunch of interesting and mysterious stories. Sometimes, I cannot figure out which part was real or fabricate in the works. I think that the most attraction is Sanmao brings her own stories to her works which opens a unique way to learn the world. The book, Gone with the Rainy Season is one of the popular books, which portrays many of stories during her teenage.
This link is connecting with the Sanmao's works in Chinese
also, the chinese version of Amazon which is the link of Gone With the Rainy Season
PS. Her famous works includes Gone with the Rainy Season, The Stories of the Sahara, Plays hooky for Studies, and Lonely Long-distancerace etc.
3. The third one should be the Pride and prejudice, which wrote by British novelist Jane Austen, published in 1813. The story bases on the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet’s love story in the early 19th century England. Some of people define Pride and Prejudice as a love story because of the plot is develops in terms of the relationship of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Somehow, in my opinion, the love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy reveals the issue of western social class in Britain. Jane’s sharp observation of manner and moral in the early 19th century reflects the reality of the western culture and the constraint of tradition.
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