The Best Gay Novels of the Century 100

1. Thomas Mann's Death of Venice is downloaded in PDF format.

Thomas Mann, one of the greatest German writers in the 20th century, was named as the 100 best gay novel in the last century. This is a homosexual novel based on the death of composer Mahler. Whether Mahler is gay or not is anybody's guess, but after listening to the Eighth Symphony, thomas mann discovered the homosexual tendency excitedly and felt that "his dark passion suddenly lit up".

2. james baldwin's Giovanni's Room

1956 james baldwin's classic novel broke the taboo at that time and touched the deepest part of his heart. The name of this novel later became the name of many restaurants and a bookstore.

3. Jean Genet's Madonna in Flowers

Notre Dame in Flowers, written in prison, is a wonderful work in French literature. When you open this book, most people can't help but question Jean Genet, a French gay dramatist, novelist and poet, who once stole, engaged in prostitution, served in prison and was involved in any deviant behavior.

4. The download format of Memories of Time Past pasted by Marcel Proust is PDF+EXE.

Memories of Time Past and Pursuit of Lost Time are one of the most important literary works in the 20th century. They are popular all over the world with their wonderful descriptions of spiritual pursuit and superb stream-of-consciousness skills, and have established their position in contemporary world literature.

5. andre gide's "Deceiving Immoralist"

Anti-virtue theory advocates an anti-moralism advocated by Gide, that is, the protagonist of the novel boldly despises all established moral concepts, breaks through the shackles of religion and family, fully satisfies human nature and pursues individualistic life ideals. In art, the novel broke the traditional novel mode of19th century, expressed the complex thoughts and feelings of modern people in the perfect form of French classical literature, and recast a new model for the traditional novel mode. 1947, Gide won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his works such as The Defeated, which "showed human problems and situations with fearless love for truth and keen psychological insight".

6. Download Virginia Woolf's Orlando in PDF format.

Although men and women are different, there are intersections. Everyone swings between the sexes, and only their clothes can tell whether this person is a man or a woman.

7. radcliffe hall's Well of Solitude.

Lonely Well is the first lesbian novel in history, which was first published in 1928 and describes the story of a lesbian couple trying to be accepted by the society. Lonely Well is obviously the story of the author's own life. At that time, this book was shockingly frank, and it was the first novel to condemn the unfair treatment of homosexuals in society. This book was completely banned in 1928, and its publication was a very brave move, which almost ruined Hall's literary career. Although it has been more than half a century since this book was first published, the prejudice and persecution mentioned by Rick Reeve Hall are still not out of date today.

8. Manuel Puyg's kiss of the spider woman

For the emergence and existence of homosexuality, the author made a concrete analysis with a serious attitude. He used novel expression techniques and skillfully combined with various artistic skills to carefully construct the novel structure, colorful movie stories, theoretical pillars corresponding to the novel text, stream of consciousness interspersed in the dialogue, and concise running script documents, which made people interesting to read. It was a combination of serious literature and popular novels, with both fascinating storylines and sociological significance. This combination of literariness, interest, sociality and scientificity is the main reason for the success of this novel.

9. Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian

French and American literary critics unanimously spoke highly of the book. This novel is the autobiography of a fictional Roman emperor, which appears in the form of a letter from his adopted grandson and future heir to the throne, Mark Horrillo.

10. Zami by Oder Lord

1 1. dorian gray by Oscar Wilde is downloaded in dorian gray PDF format.

The Portrait of Dorian gray is the masterpiece of aestheticism at the end of 19, which can be called the three wonders of the trend of "art for art's sake" in drama, novel and painting. The beautiful words, colorful images, abnormal characters and absurd plots in this work have been misunderstood for a long time. In fact, this book has another real meaning.

189 1 The publication of "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" caused a great uproar and was severely criticized by the media. Wilde also met Sir Alfred Douglas that year, and his tragic fate began.

12. The Night Forest by Juna Barnes

13. Billy Budd Herman Melville downloads Billy Budd PDF format.

Billy Budd told a story that happened on a warship. The main plot is as follows: sailor Billy Budd is young, strong, kind and excellent, and is deeply loved by colleagues and officials. Be involved in a riot on a ship during a long voyage. ...

In Billy Budd, Melville wrote a warship named Zhanwei as a power field. There are officers with different titles and sailors with different grades. The novel's description of the distribution and operation of the ship's power structure and the tragic fate of the protagonist bud provides an annotation for Foucault's "power theory" to a certain extent. As early as the19th century, the micro-level social "occupation of dimension" put forward the confusion and thinking belonging to the 20th century, that is, the control and execution of power. What influence did it have on the life of American sailors in the19th century?

14. The Story of a Boy by edmund white

15. Dancers in Andrew Holland's Dance

16. Morris was downloaded by E.M. Foster in PDF format.

If love is a collection of soul and flesh, Foster artificially separates it. He gave Clive a soul fit and Scudder a physical infatuation, so Morris was not looking for complete love. Maybe this is not just a tragedy between the same sex.

This is a sad but not sad story. He won't tell the whole story. The secret is the incomprehensible love itself.

17. Gore Vidal's City and Pillars

18. Ruby Fruit Jungle by Rita Maybrown "Red Fruit Jungle"

Rita May Brown (1944-) It records the growth process of a lesbian. She created a positive and optimistic rebel and completely subverted the negative image of lesbians in previous novels. Therefore, this book is regarded by many scholars as the representative work of gay literature. But after careful analysis, it is not difficult to find that the book also explains feminist theory from many angles. Using feminist theory, the author and protagonist of this book are analyzed from three aspects: family, marriage and employment.

19. Download evelyn waugh's Revisiting the Old Place in PDF format.

1946 in the first three months, revisiting the old place sold 600,000 copies, which is a good result that gone with the wind, which was all the rage, has never achieved. Americans think that Walter has caught up with the good times after the war, so they dig out the most masculine man in America to PK with him. It is also a war. Walter only sprained his foot while skydiving, which is different from Hemingway who has more than 200 bullet fragments in his body.

20. Yukio Mishima's "Masked Confessions"

2 1. Wedding members in carson mccullers's Lonely Mind

22. John Reich's City of the Night

23. Myra Breckenridge Gore Vidal's Myra Forever

24. Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah

25. Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Tokales

26. truman capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms

27. Boston people who downloaded Henry James' PDF format.

& lt The Bostonian is a neglected and misread novel. This paper studies the narrative discourse of the novel and its influence on the behavior and psychology of the characters, and discusses the emergence of direct discourse, indirect discourse and free indirect discourse in the novel. By explaining the relationship between these discourses and speech acts, this paper points out that these discourses with linguistic significance read by readers are actually power discourses, reflecting complex interpersonal relationships and showing strong desire conflicts. As a realistic novel, its unique language features make it surpass the direct reproduction form of realistic novels and have the characteristics of romantic literature and modernist literature; It is quite inappropriate to simply label this novel as "realism".

28. Jane Bowles' Two Serious Ladies

29. Dorothy Alison's "The illegitimate child of Carolina"

30. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by carson mccullers. Download it in PDF format.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is the work of American writer carson mccullers. This book tells a story about loneliness. Mccullers wrote this small town in the south of the United States in her unique way, about the long and dreary afternoon in August, about the lonely people drinking cold beer in the midnight coffee shop, about the black people's forbearance and contradictory pain for freedom, and about the people looking forward to reform, who are crazy and desperate but still determined to move forward ... This is a lonely story to the extreme. Under those gloomy skies, the gentle deaf-mute used his loneliness to predict the changes in such a frenzied era in America. No one can get rid of the shadow of loneliness until he dies.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was once rated as one of the "20th Century 100 English Novels" by the American Modern Library, and ranked 17 on the list.

3 1. Mrs. Dalloway author Virginia Woolf downloads Mrs. Dalloway in PDF format.

As one of Woolf's representative works, this novel was rated as one of the best English novels in 1923-2005 by Time magazine.

This novel is based on two short stories, Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street and the Prime Minister. The story revolves around Mrs. Dalloway's preparations for an upper-class gathering. The reader's perspective shuttles through time span, interspersed between the protagonist's thinking and reality. By describing the details of Mrs. Dalloway's life in one day, she shaped her life experience and the whole British society before and after World War I.

32. Download Mary Renault's Persian Boy in PDF format.

From the perspective of a courtier and lover, I wrote the most glorious half of Alexander's expedition until his death. About a third of the space in front tells the story of Bagoas's miserable life, how he was favored by Darius and fled all the way. What is really wonderful is that after he came to Alexander's side, he followed Alexander to conquer Persia, crusade against barbarians, March into India, go through wars, March in the desert, and mutiny by veterans, and accompanied Alexander to the last moment of his life.

33. christopher isherwood's Single Man

34. Swimming pool library in alan hollinghurst.

35. Dorothy Busch's Olivia

36.Patricia High Smith's The Price of Salt (Carol) The Price of Salt is downloaded in PDF format.

The Price of Salt is a lesbian novel. And it's a lesbian novel a bit like a road movie. Road movies all involve self-awakening and self-pursuit. Generally speaking, Salt Price can be regarded as a journey of self-awakening of two lesbians (one old and one young, and then one of them has a husband and children). These two lesbians in the fifties really drove around the world! Unfortunately, Carol is fighting for the custody of her daughter with her ex-husband, who has taken almost inferior measures-hiring private detectives to follow Carol and Torres and obtain recordings and photos-which forced their journey to end hastily and got into some kind of predicament.

37. Carol Anshor's Aquamarine

38. Another country in james baldwin

39. Cheri of Colette

40. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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42. D.H. Lawrence's Woman in Love is downloaded in PDF format.

Woman in Love is one of the two greatest, most representative and most popular novels of D.H. Lawrence (the other is Rainbow), and he himself thinks it is his "best work". It explores the psychological problems of love in English novels with unprecedented enthusiasm and depth, and represents the highest achievement of Lawrence's works, so it has become the pioneer of the modern novel Rainbow.

43. Little Women are downloaded from louisa may alcott Little Women PDF.

The story of the little woman is simple and true, but it is very touching. Since/kloc-came out more than 0/00 years ago, it has been put on the screen many times and translated into various languages, becoming a classic in the treasure house of world literature. All kinds of emotional experiences and life experiences described in the book have happened, are happening and will happen in every girl's mature process; The book advocates kindness, loyalty, selflessness, generosity, dignity, tolerance, tenacity and courage, which are the virtues and beliefs that human beings will always respect and pursue. All these give this book vitality beyond the times and the country, which is also the charm and reason why it becomes an immortal classic.

44. Mary Renault's Friendly Young Lady (in the fog)

45. robert musil's Young Toles

46. Works of eustace Chisholm and James Poe's brother.

47. The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews

48. Download Alice Walker's Purple in PDF format.

The Color Purple is a long epistolary novel, in which God plays an important role as a receiver. God is not only a changing image in Celie's mind, but also encourages her to change from a weak woman to a confident and strong woman. As a traditional woman, Celie looked for God in her letter, but found nothing. She thinks that God is just a listener and can't bring her anything. But as a modern woman, Shag thinks that God is a symbol of freedom, equality and peace, and encourages Celie to seek God in the struggle for her due rights. So celie successfully freed herself. And understand that enjoying life and treating others with love is the best worship of God. Men are not gods, and women also have their rights. Only those who live with confidence and dignity are real people.

49. Joan Arnold's Gin Sisters

50. If he stumbles over Neil bartlett, get ready to catch him.

5 1. The Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

52. Download William Burroughs's Naked Lunch.

If there is "drug literature", then Naked Lunch is the highest classic of this kind of literature, but it is also a classic of American literature and culture. Burroughs, like most of his contemporaries, has been troubled by doubts about "reality" and is afraid of being fixed in some "realistic picture"

53. christopher isherwood's Berlin story

54. Young and Evil by Charles Henry Ford and Parker Taylor.

Oranges are not the only fruit in jeanette winterson.

56. Randall Kennan's Journey to the Soul

57. Download Gertrude Stein's Three-faced Eve or The Life of Three Women and Q. E.D (PDF format).

58. Ronald Fairbank's quirks about Cardinal pirelli.

59. Bohemia the Mouse by Sarah Shulman.

60. Vladimir Nabokov's The Dim Fire.

6 1. The Forger by andre gide

62. jeanette winterson's Passion was downloaded in PDF format.

63. Bertha Harris's Lover

64. Mobidick Herman Melville downloaded Mobidick in PDF format.

Moby Dick is one of the greatest novels in the world. This book focuses on Moby Dick, a beluga whale in the South Pacific, and how Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, bears a grudge against it. Aha was bitten off by Moby Dick on a voyage. He was determined to take revenge and finally found it by commanding the Pigood to travel around the world. After three days, I put down the boat and chased it. Although the white whale was stabbed, it was very tenacious and cunning, biting the boat and sinking the big ship. When it towed the whaling ship away, the rope caught Aha and hanged him. All the people on board were killed. Only one sailor escaped with a life buoy converted from a coffin. The whole story unfolds in the way described by Ishmael the sailor.

Editor's Note: Although this book is classic, I have never read it, and I am also skeptical about the word "Tong". .......

65. violette Leduc's La Ba Tarde

66. willa cather's Archbishop of Death. Download PDF format.

This paper analyzes the characters and themes in willa cather's Death of the Archbishop from the perspective of legendary literature. The characters in the novel have unique allegory and represent some abstract virtue. Cather's ideal of returning the protagonist to history and realizing paradise on earth inevitably touches the root of the deep conflict that runs through many great American legendary works: they belong to both the old world and the new world. The protagonist hopes to establish order and significance in the new world by virtue of religion and culture. It was in this process that they found the value of life temporarily, but their multiple identities as Christians, intellectuals and pioneers made them unable to escape doubts and hesitation.

67. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was downloaded in PDF format.

The book with the highest borrowing rate in American libraries is one of the favorite novels of British teenagers. The original work 1960 won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1930s, the lives of three innocent children were changed by two unjust cases in a small town in the southern United States during the Great Depression. Those who are weak and speechless, those ignorant people who cling to too many prejudices, and those kind lawyer fathers who abide by principles force them to understand the prejudice and indifference in the adult world, to understand the crisis and helplessness contained in the truth, and to try to understand that the bad guys may be innocent.

68.Petronius's Satyricon“Satiricon "was downloaded in PDF format.

The author of the novel, Albertre Rowe, is also a close friend of Nero, the tyrant. He symbolically showed everything in the ancient Roman world, such as lust, death, debauchery, myth, sex, and the luxurious and enjoyable life of the Roman Empire.

69. Lawrence Derel's Alexander Quartet.

70. Roger Peyrefitte's special friendship

7 1. evelyn waugh's "Revisiting the Old Place" is downloaded in PDF format.

Revisiting the Old Place begins with the friendship between a pair of teenagers, and describes the life and fate of an aristocratic family in Brideshead Manor, a suburb of London. Sebastian, the hero of this book, was born into a noble family. His father, Marquis de Chimaine, left home after World War I and lived in Venice with his mistress for a long time. His mother obviously believes in religion, but she leads a dissolute and luxurious life. The scandal of parents' life left a mark of shame on children and distorted their nature. Under the pressure of his family, Sebastian lived by drinking all day and was down and out all his life. The eldest daughter Julia is young, beautiful and thoughtful, but her love and happiness have been destroyed by religion.

72. Jose lezama Lima's Paradise.

73. Irving Rosenthal's The Shepherd

74. John Knowles's Alone Peace

75. Child manuela (m? Krista Winslow

76. The Flying Arrow by Mark Meris.

77. William Tulsman's Vulgar Image

78. The exquisite corpse of Alfred Chester

79. It was written by Jeff Lyman.

80. Theresa and Isabel

8 1. Michael Cunningham's Blood and Meat

82. edmund white's Beautiful Room is Empty.

83. Rebecca Brown's Child Crusade

84. colm tobin's The Story of the Night.

85. jean cocteau's El Nino Terror.

86. José Donoso's Endless Hell.

87. The river refers to a woman by Elana Nachman (Dyke Womon).

88. Tom Spanbauer's The Man Who Loves the Moon

89. Close-up of Dennis Cooper

90. Download the Lost Fantasy by Honore de Balzac.

It is often said that Eugenie Grandet and Gao Laotou are Balzac's representative works. In fact, disillusionment can represent the writer's own thoughts and feelings and direct life experience better than other novels. The experiences of several main characters in the book are mostly taken from the author's own experience, and he has tasted almost all their passions, fantasies and sufferings personally. He gave his 20-year struggle to three different types of young people: in The Story of David Xia Sai, he poured out his painful experience of running a printing factory and a letterpress factory and being persecuted by debts; In Lv Xian's experience, his ups and downs in the literary world and the press and publication world were integrated; He gave De Artz all kinds of beliefs and opinions summarized from his life and creation. At the same time, Lou Stowe and Fu Tuoleng acted as spokesmen for his analysis of society. It is conceivable that the author devoted great enthusiasm to this work. In a letter to Mrs. Hanska, he called Disillusionment "my first work", claiming that this novel "fully represents our times". In the preface of the third edition of Disillusionment, Balzac clearly declared that it was "the most important work so far" in the study of customs.

9 1. Elizabeth Jolly's Miss Peabody's Legacy

92. annie proulx Shipping News is downloaded in PDF format.

This is another novel by Anne proulx, an American woman writer, who is famous for Brokeback Mountain. It won the American National Book Award of 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize for Novel of 1994, and was made into movie shipping news by Hollywood.

93. The Interesting Boy by Shyam Salvatore Duray.

94. Joe Sinclair's The Waste Land

95. Mrs Stevens heard May Sutton sing the mermaid.

96. The Sea of Tranquility by Paul Russell

97. Jacqueline Wooderson's family photo autobiography.

98. Download j d Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in PDF format.

The importance of The Catcher in the Rye lies not only in the artistic style of the novel created by the author, but also in the fact that the book is narrated by the first person in a juvenile tone. More importantly, the author vividly and meticulously depicts the depressed and wandering spiritual world of a middle-class child with realistic brushstrokes, and truly exposes the essence of spiritual civilization in capitalist society. In addition to material life, people should also have a spiritual life, which is often more important than material life in a relatively rich society.

99. anne rice's Interview with Vampires was downloaded in PDF format.

Editor's Note: Night Interview with Vampires is the first chronicle of vampires in anne rice. The content downloaded in the attachment is vampire chronicles 1- 12. The first one is vampire night visit.

Interview with Vampires at Night was written by anne rice on 1976. This work is the first part of The Vampire Chronicle, and it is a magical novel describing the ghost world. Through a dialogue between a boy and vampire Louis, it shows readers the psychedelic vampire culture ―― vampire's emotional world, imagination, expression, sexual complex and everything connected with human beings, and also shows different aspects from human beings, such as their fear of fire and sunshine, and their bodies are immortal.

100. Anne is in my heart. Nancy Garden, Anne will live in my heart forever. Download in PDF format.

1982 "Annie in My Mind" even described a pair of high school girls' same-sex friendship, and the narrative was frank, natural and direct. In the 1980s, books about women's friendship were still rare in the youth library area, so as soon as her book was published, it made a great contribution to the author himself. Although its sensitive content triggered a backlash from parents and teachers in some school districts, it further led to the scene of banning and burning books, and finally even went to court. Fortunately, the lawsuit finally decided that the author Garden and the American Library Association (ALA) and ACLU organizations that supported her won. Since then, Jaden has never changed his position of daring to write and being loyal to his original intention. In the late 1990s, he has written several novels about same-sex friendship, such as The Good Moon Rises (1996).

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