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"Petro Goriot" is set in France during the Bourbon Restoration and tells the tragic story of the flour merchant Goriot. Old Man Gao devoted all his efforts and property to his two daughters to help them marry into wealthy families. However, as the daughters lived a luxurious life after marriage, they gradually forgot about their father and turned a deaf ear to him. Old Man Goriot was ultimately destitute and died miserably in loneliness and illness. At the same time, Rastignac, a young man from the provinces, was struggling in Paris's upper class society. After witnessing what happened to Goriot, his outlook on life also changed dramatically. Fu Lei's translation is outstanding. First, his translation is smooth and natural, without any translation accent. Reading it is like appreciating local literary works, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the story without any obstacles. Secondly, Fu Lei has a profound writing skills, and his translation of the characters' language is very suitable for the characters' images, allowing readers to feel as if they are listening to the words of the characters in the book, and vividly showing their personality traits. Thirdly, he handles details extremely exquisitely when translating, not letting go of any ingenuity in the original work, and presenting it to readers through footnotes and other methods to help readers deeply understand the connotation and charm of the original work.

"The Woman Who Stirred the Water" is a novel that reflects the life in France at that time by describing the struggle for inheritance. It reveals the shamelessness and darkness of the upper class from the side. It is one of the most thrilling stories in Balzac's series of novels. One is the leader of a group of idle ruffians, and the other is a very scheming soldier. They are both extraordinary officers in Napoleon's old army. Both are experts in leading troops in battles, but they use their bravery and resourcefulness in fighting to fight for a considerable inheritance... In Balzac's view, the reason why people in society are diverse is because they live in different environments, so he attaches great importance to the creation and portrayal of the environment. Through the detailed description of the environment, the impact of the environment on the characters is emphasized.

This is the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. Through the experiences of two young men, the author unfolds the broad social landscape of the French Restoration period. This novel almost concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings. Balzac claimed that "Disillusionment" is "the first book among my works."

This is the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. Through the experiences of two young men, the author unfolds the broad social landscape of the French Restoration period. This novel almost concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings. Balzac claimed that "Disillusionment" is "the first book among my works."

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style. The content mostly involves human affairs and personal relationships between men and women. However, under the cover of all kinds of frivolous jokes and vulgar words, there is no lack of penetrating satire and praise of beautiful human emotions. The translator, Shi Kangqiang, is a famous French translator and writer in China. In this book, Balzac uses Old French. At the request of Xia Wen, senior French editor of the Humanities Society, he translated this strange book in a style that imitates the Song and Yuan dialects. It is both faithful to the original text and consistent in form and tone. It is a rare translation masterpiece.

"Petro Goriot" is Balzac's masterpiece. The basic theme of "Human Comedy" is reflected here, and its artistic style best represents Balzac's characteristics. The intertwining of the careerist's struggle for fame and fortune and Goriot's desperate fatherly love makes the content of the novel even more bizarre and touching. Here, some major characters such as Rastignac, Viscountess de Beauseant, and Vautrin appeared on stage one after another, and the "Human Comedy" kicked off.

"Disillusionment" reveals the inside story of the literary and journalistic circles, and concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deep feelings about life. It is one of the most valuable works in "Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and had their ideals shattered. The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution. The translator is Fu Lei, a famous Chinese translator and writer. He has hated evil all his life. Most of his translation works focus on exposing social ills and describing the struggles and struggles of characters. He proposed that "in terms of effect, translation should be like a painting, seeking not resemblance in form but resemblance in spirit". He believed that "the ideal translation should be as if it were the Chinese writing of the original author" and required that "the translation must be pure Chinese, free of stiffness and awkwardness". Fu Lei translated forty-three literary masterpieces in his lifetime, and various Chinese translations have been published in nearly 10 million copies. As far as the introduction of French literature is concerned, no one can match the number of translations, the distinctive features of the translations, and the great influence of the translations.

Old Grandet, a barrel merchant in Saumur, France, was stingy. He became a well-known local rich man by relying on careful calculation and greedy plundering, but he was reluctant to spend a penny on weekdays. His innocent and pure only daughter Eugenie Grandet has lived under her father's tyranny since she was a child, and cannot eat more than one piece of bread or light more than one candle. One day, his cousin Charlie from Paris suddenly visited. Old Grandet learned that Charlie's family was bankrupt and dismissed him. However, Eugenie developed sympathy and admiration for Charlie and spent all her savings to help Charlie go abroad for business. After the incident, she was severely punished by her father. Money cannot make a person immortal. A few years later, the old Grandet, who loved money as much as life, passed away. Eugenie suddenly became the heir to a fortune worth tens of millions. The locals rushed to propose to Eugenie. Eugenie only looked forward to a letter from Charlie, but what awaited her was Charlie's ruthless betrayal and abandonment...

"Uncle Bangs" is Balzac's masterpiece and is known as the "highest peak of his art". Uncle Bangs lived in poverty and lacked understanding of real life, but he was full of sincere love for art. He loved collecting antiques throughout his life and did not hesitate to spend money for it. However, in reality, there are conspiracies everywhere. From the concierge to his nephew-in-law, from antique dealers to doctors to litigation attorneys, countless villains appear on the stage, all plotting to carve up Uncle Bangs's rare collection. Only his friend Schmuke gave him comfort and hope. Poor Bangs suffered a lot of mental torture and eventually died of poverty and illness. Through Uncle Bangs, Balzac vividly presents to us the greatness and nobility of mankind, as well as the humbleness, ugliness and filth of mankind.

"The Peasant" is Balzac's masterpiece. The novel describes the conflict between the land ownership of aristocratic large estates and the small land ownership of the bourgeoisie, and the peasants are in the middle of these two social forces, just like "a bug is caught between a hammer and an anvil." The loan shark businessmen Gaubertin and Li Gu, who represented the interests of the bourgeoisie, defeated General Mongonay, who represented the interests of the aristocratic large landowners. However, the peasants who were attracted by the loan shark businessmen and rich peasants to this cruel struggle gained nothing. They just fell into a new kind of slavery and met a more vicious master. Balzac here describes the poverty situation in the countryside after the bourgeois revolution under the double exploitation of landlords and bourgeoisie, the farmers' strong hatred for the exploiters, and the farmers' dependence on loan sharks determined by their economic status at the time.

"Selected Short Stories of Balzac" is divided into short stories such as "Sahasi", "Unrecognizable Masterpiece", "A Street in Paris and Its Residents", etc.

This book tells the story of the protagonist Goriot, a flour merchant who started his career during the French Revolution. He lost his wife in middle age. He devoted all his love to his two daughters. In order to let them squeeze into the upper class, he gave them a good education since childhood and gave them a dowry of 800,000 francs each when they got married. However, his two daughters lived a dissolute life and spent money like water. His love was easily defeated by the principle of money supremacy.

"Aunt Bei" is a novel written by French writer Balzac in his later years. The story takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The Baron had served as a military auditor and director of munitions in the republican era. Now he was the head of one of the most important departments of the War Department, and was also a counselor of state. He was awarded the second class of the Legion of Honor. The novel describes how, driven by crazy passion that lost his reason and morality, he gradually ruined the reputation of his family and the honor of the army, embarked on the criminal path of speculation, fraud, and embezzled military funds, and finally lost his reputation. There are three volumes in this book, and this volume is the second. This book is a public edition, compiled by China Edition Group Digital Media Co., Ltd., And is not an imported edition.

The retired flour merchant Goriot was squeezed out of his money by his two biological daughters and died miserably in his attic; the aristocratic young man Rastignac took the first step to climb up under the corruption of Parisian society; the hard-labour fugitive seduced Rastignac, conspired to fight for the inheritance, and was arrested after his identity was exposed; the Parisian noblewoman was frustrated in love and withdrew from the upper class society. This book runs through four clues, revealing the dominant role of money and the evils of money worship in Parisian society in the early 19th century, and revealing the social reality of rampant human desires.

"Aunt Bei" is a novel written by French writer Balzac in his later years. The story takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The Baron had served as a military auditor and director of munitions in the republican era. Now he was the head of one of the most important departments of the War Department, and was also a counselor of state. He was awarded the second class of the Legion of Honor. The novel describes how, driven by crazy passion that lost his reason and morality, he gradually ruined the reputation of his family and the honor of the army, embarked on the criminal path of speculation, fraud, and embezzled military funds, and finally lost his reputation. There are three volumes in this book, and this volume is the first. This book is a public edition, compiled by China Edition Group Digital Media Co., Ltd., And is not an imported edition.

Philippe, a retired army officer from Paris, does all sorts of evil things in order to gamble and spend all his time trying to squeeze more money out of his family. Hearing that his uncle Roge has a large inheritance in the countryside of Isoutun, he comes to the countryside to make careful plans; The stirring woman's incitement, coupled with the cowardice of the old man Roge, soon led to a life-and-death struggle between the two, which eventually evolved into a duel between Philippe and Max... However, has the winning party really become rich since then? The conspiracy in the money society never rests...

Eugenie Grandet is the heroine in the novel "Eugenie Grandet" written by the French critical realist novelist Balzac. She is the most kind and pure character in the novel. The entire novel is based on her tragic life as the central clue. Her virtues gradually emerged in her painful life and in comparison with old Grandet, Charles, de Bonfeng and others. The more suffering she encountered in life, the more prominent the hypocrisy and ugliness of other characters around her, and the more obvious her kindness, tolerance and love became.

This book is "one of the most outstanding pictures" in Balzac's "Human Comedy". The novel narrates a story of money destroying human nature and causing family tragedy. It revolves around the central event of Eugenie's love tragedy, and uses three intertwined plot threads to connect the novel: the waves caused by the autocracy within the Grandet family, the open and secret fights between the bankers and notaries outside the family, and the painful life experience of Eugenie's love for Charles Grandet and Charlie's betrayal.

This is the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. Through the experiences of two young men, the author unfolds the broad social landscape of the French Restoration period. This novel almost concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings. Balzac claimed that "Disillusionment" is "the first book among my works."

The novel is based on the life of the French upper class in the mid-19th century, and takes the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé's family as the main line. It tells the story of how the baron, driven by crazy passion, betrayed his pure wife step by step, hurt his innocent daughter, ruined the family's reputation, tarnished the army's reputation, and was ultimately ruined. Various characters, intricate plots, and thrilling battles between soul and flesh, love and hatred, good and evil, constitute a vivid tragicomedy in the world, a colorful history of civilization, and an endless elegy for the inevitable collapse of upper class society.

"Colonel Chabe" includes three tragic novellas with themes between couples: "Colonel Chabe", "Honoline" and "Confinement". Like all the author's works, each novella contains a strong contrast between good and evil, right and wrong, beauty and ugliness. Gentlemen and ghosts and monsters are mixed side by side, which makes people laugh and cry after reading it. Only in this way can we realize the profound significance of "The Human Comedy".

People who act solely on instinct are at a disadvantage in front of smart people, that is, they will be seen through very quickly. Thoughts based on instinct are too simple, too dazzling, and can be easily understood at a glance. It is no better than understanding scheming thoughts. Both parties must be equally intelligent.

"The Story of a Donkey's Skin" has a magical and realistic color that is rare in Balzac's works. It is a classic philosophical novel that combines criticism, reality, and symbolism. At the beginning of his creation, Balzac aimed to bring together his personal life experience and philosophical thoughts to respond to the changes in society at that time - "Money is the only God." The book visualizes the contradiction between desire and life as a donkey skin. With this donkey skin, all your wishes can be fulfilled, but each time the donkey skin shrinks a little, until it disappears and your life is over. The person who owns the donkey skin is lucky, he can get everything, but he is also unlucky, because in the face of death, he dares not ask for anything. "Donkey Skin" made Balzac, who had been writing silently for 10 years, become a best-selling author in one fell swoop. Three years later, we began to build on this "Human Comedy", which is truly a foundation work.

The masterpiece of Balzac, the French literary master, tells the story of a pollen dealer who seems ordinary in all aspects. Because of his ridiculous ambition, he plummeted from the peak of prosperity and became a pauper who lost all his money. However, his "extremely honest" virtue and his efforts to atone for his sins gave his suffering a brilliance of martyrdom. The golden age was the starting point of his misfortune, and when the final victory came, his life also came to an end. In this way, Birotteau, who was not easily interested in readers, finally became one of the important characters that has been tested for a long time and has not become outdated on the stage of "Human Comedy". The work is not only a commercial novel with historical significance, but also a very interesting bourgeois genre painting.

The country girl Lisbeth is not as beautiful as her sister Aterina, so she always complains about her sister's good luck: Aterina married Baron Hulot in Paris, but Lisbeth became an old girl "Aunt Bette" in the repetitive work day by day. Wenceslas Steinbock, a young artist who committed suicide, was rescued by Aunt Bet, and relied on Aunt Bet's savings to learn sculpture. Therefore, she was closely watched by Aunt Bet who had a perverted and controlling desire. Wenceslas accidentally met Atrina's daughter Hortense, and the two fell in love. When Aunt Bei learned about this, the jealousy in her heart ignited. She colluded with the romantic socialite Valerie, and started with the beauty-loving Baron Hulot to launch a crazy revenge on the Atelina family...

"Bielande": The main fact is very simple, but the intertwined factors are bizarre; because a person's external appearance may be simple, his behavior may be boring, and not worth talking about, and his mental and emotional fluctuations are always complicated. In the case of Pierrelande, the accidents of all sizes caused her tragedy from beginning to end. In the play, her misfortune seems to be incomprehensible; for other characters, all developments are in line with the logic of struggle. Not only are they expected, but the motivations and goals are very clear. After careful planning and deliberate promotion: Pierrelande is just an ant they stepped on on the ladder to climb up. In the eyes of readers without sentimental temperament, parallel to Pierrelande's tragedy is an ugly drama played by the big and small bourgeoisie.

The character in Balzac's works is not just a character, but a typical example of the times. The factors of tragedy are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the promiscuous and corrupt social environment. ... The struggle of the careerist for fame and fortune is intertwined with the desperate fatherly love of Old Man Goriot, making the content of the novel more bizarre and touching. This book is a particularly serious and exciting one among Mr. Fu Lei's translations.

It mainly describes all kinds of living beings in the money society, and writes stories about various people's encounters with money in this era. Honorina is a person who intentionally stays away from the money society, and her escape is also a story of encounter. When Balzac wrote Honorine, Balzac was really more emotional than at any other time, maybe because Honorine is so rare. However, noble beauty is born with dirty beauty, and it is a pity that it is impossible to escape even if you have wings.