The reason why a masterpiece is a masterpiece is because no matter what kind of wind and frost polishing it has experienced, it still exudes the charm of thought and art. The first sentence and the first paragraph in many literary masterpieces are often the charm of the entire work. They either attract people deeply or make people think deeply, making the reader addicted.
1. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Ming Luo Guanzhong
The water rolling in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves exhaust the heroes. Success or failure turns empty. The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red a few degrees. White-haired fisherman on the river, used to watch the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is a happy encounter. How many things in ancient and modern times are in the process of laughter.
——Sending "Linjiang Immortal" Zhai
It is said that the general trend of the world will be united for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. At the end of the week, the Seven Kingdoms were divided and merged into Qin. After the fall of Qin, Chu and Han were divided and merged into Han. The Han Dynasty revolted from Gaozu's beheading of the White Snake and unified the world, and later Guangwu Zhongxing spread to Emperor Xian, and was divided into three kingdoms.
2 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the years of wisdom, it was the years of ignorance; it was the time of faith, it was the time of doubt; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of disappointment; we were all going straight to heaven, we were all going in the opposite direction—in short, it was very much like it is now, and some of the noisiest authorities insisted on describing it at the highest level of the adjective. To say it is good is the highest; to say it is not good, it is also the highest.
3 Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy
Happy families are all similar, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes.
4 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett O'Hara isn't pretty, but men tend to ignore this when they charm her like the Talton twins.
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez
Many years later, Colonel Aureliano stood before the firing squad, reminiscent of the distant afternoon his father had taken him to see the ice. At that time, Macondo was a village of 20 families, with earthen houses built on the banks of the river, the river clear, flowing along the stone-strewn riverbed, the stones in the river were smooth and white, like prehistoric domes.
6 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
In 1801. I've just returned from a visit to my landlord— the lonely neighbor who is going to get me into trouble.
7 Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak
They walked, kept walking, singing "Never Forget", and when the song stopped, the footsteps of the people, the hooves of the horses and the breeze seemed to take over and sing this song of mourning.
8 Murphy, Samuel Beckett
The sun rose as usual and nothing changed.
9 Peter Pan by James Matthew Barry
All children will grow up, with one exception.
10 Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
It was inevitable: the taste of bitter almonds always reminded him of love that was destined for no return.
11 "The Fifth Slaughterhouse" Kurt Vonnegut
Everything in the story, more or less, happened.
12 "The Catcher of the Rye" j. d. Salinger
If you really want to hear me, the first thing you want to know might be where I was born, how I spent my bumpy childhood, what my parents did before they gave birth to me, and so on, but I honestly tell you, I have no intention of telling you all this.
13 The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald
When I was young and inexperienced, my father taught me a sentence that I still remember. "Whenever you want to criticize anyone," he said to me, "you remember that not everyone in this world has the advantages you have." ”
14 "Madame Chatterley's Lover" Lawrence
We simply live in a tragic time, so we don't want to panic. The cataclysm has come, we are in ruins, and we are beginning to build some new little habitats with some new tiny hopes. It's a tough job. There is no road to the future, but we make detours or climb obstacles. No matter how the world is turned upside down, we all have to live.
15 La Traviata Dumas
I think that only by studying a person deeply can you create a character, just as you can only speak a language if you have studied it carefully.
16 "My Name Is Red" by Orhan Pamuk
Now I am a dead man, a dead body lying at the bottom of a well.
17 The Outsider, Camus
Today, Mom is dead. Maybe it was yesterday, I don't know. I received a telegram from the nursing home saying, "Mother is dead." Buried tomorrow. This is the subject of this notice. "That doesn't mean much. Probably died yesterday.
18 Metamorphosis Kafka
One morning, Gregor Samsa awoke from an uneasy sleep and found himself lying in bed transformed into a giant beetle.
19 The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
He was an old man fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream, and he had been gone for 84 days and had not caught a single fish.
20 The Unbearable Lightness of Life, Milan Kundera
Nietzsche often pestered philosophers with a mysterious view of the "return of the many": think of what we have experienced, think of them repeating themselves as they did yesterday, and even repeating themselves endlessly! What does this crazy illusion mean?
21 "Lover" Margaret Duras
I was old, and one day, in the hall of a public place, a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said to me, "I know you and will always remember you." At that time, you were very young, everyone said you were beautiful, and now, I have come to tell you that for me, I think you are more beautiful now than when you were younger, when you were a young woman, and I love your battered face more than you did then. ”
22 Lolita Nabokov
Lolita, the light of my life, the fire of my desire. My sin, my soul. Lo-Li-Ta: The tip of the tongue goes up, in three steps, from the upper jaw down to the teeth. Lo-Li-Ta.
23 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
It has become a universally recognized truth that all rich bachelors always want to marry a wife.
24 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
If you haven't read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you don't know who I am, but that's okay. The author of the book is a man named Mark Twain, who mostly tells the truth.
25 "Chamillia" Aitmatov
Now I was standing in front of this small painting with a simple frame again. I will leave for my hometown early tomorrow morning, so I look at this little painting for a long time, as if it could say some auspicious parting words to me.
26 Don Quixote Cervantes
There was a place in Mancha, not to mention the place name, and not long ago lived a nobleman. His kind of nobleman had a spear on the spear rack, a leather shield, a skinny horse, and a hunting rabbit. There was more beef in the pot than lamb, and he often ate cold diced meat for dinner, fried eggs in fat and oil on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a wild chick on Sunday, which used 3/4 of his income, and the rest of the money bought a black tweed coat, plush socks and flat shoes for the holidays, and usually he always wore a fine brown tweed coat triumphantly. There is a housekeeper in her 40s, a niece who is less than 20 years old, and a young man who can farm and purchase, prepare horses for him, and prune branches.
27 Brighton Knock by Graham Green
Less than 3 hours after Hale arrived in Brighton, he knew they were going to murder him.
28 "Norwegian Forest" Haruki Murakami
"At the age of 37, I was sitting on a Boeing 747. The massive fuselage passed through thick rain clouds and landed on Hamburg Airport. The cold rain that swept the skin of the people in November painted the earth gloomy. Everything about the groundworker in a raincoat, the flag on the waiting floor hanging down to the ground, and the bmw billboard looked like the background of a Flemish depression painting. That's it, it's Germany again, I think. ”
29 "Wild Grass, Wild Grass" Lu Xun
"There are two trees in front of my house, one is a date tree and the other is also a date tree."
30 "Siege of the City" Qian Zhong Book
The Red Sea had passed early, and the ships were sailing on the surface of the Indian Ocean, but the sun was still unforgivingly late and rising early, encroaching on most of the night. The night seems to be soaked in oil and becomes translucent; it embraces the sun, and it cannot be separated, perhaps intoxicated by the sun, so that the night after the sunset fades is also red. When the red faded and woke up drunk, the sleeping people in the cabin also woke up in a sweaty sweat, took a shower and rushed to the deck to blow the sea breeze, and it was the beginning of another day. This is the hottest time of the year in late July, in conjunction with the three volts of the old Chinese calendar. In China, the heat is more than usual, and afterwards everyone says that it is the elephant of war, because this is the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China (1937).