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"The Old Curiosity Shop" (The Old Curiosity Shop) is a novel published by the British writer Dickens in 1840-1841. Turrent, the owner of an old antique shop, and his beautiful, kind-hearted granddaughter Little Nell depend on each other. In order for his granddaughter, who was under 14 years old, to live a happy life after his death, Torent wanted to get rich through gambling, but fell into the clutches of Daniel Quilp, an upstart loan shark. The greedy Quilp used loan sharking to not only take away all the property of the old antique shop, but also wanted to take away the beautiful little Nell. The grandfather and grandson were forced to flee London and live a life of begging. In the end, Xiao Nai'er, who was physically and mentally injured, died due to mental exhaustion. "The Old Curiosity Shop" is known as "Victorian melancholy".

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"The Temptation of Saint Anthony" is a novel with a dramatic form, narrating the legendary story of the medieval hermit Saint Anthony who was tempted by the devil.

Shakespeare, a great playwright and poet during the British Renaissance, was the master of humanistic literature during the European Renaissance. He is a rare and perhaps unprecedented great dramatic poet, and the greatest literary figure in the world in history. "Romeo and Juliet (Selected Translations of Masterpieces)" selects four famous love-themed plays, "Romeo and Juliet", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Twelfth Night" and "Antony and Cleopatra", into one volume for the readers' enjoyment.

Rastignac, a college student, came to Paris to study from a small place. He lived in a dilapidated apartment and aspired to join the upper class society. After careful planning, he met the little daughter of his neighbor, Old Man Gao, and became her lover. When family affection encountered the impact of money, Old Man Gao watched helplessly as his beloved relatives embarked on the road of betrayal...??

"Eugénie Grandet" is a representative work of Balzac, the 19th-century French critical realist writer, the founder and outstanding representative of European critical realist literature. It is included in the "Provincial Life Scenes" of his masterpiece "The Human Comedy" and "Studies of Customs". It is regarded by the author and commentators as an outstanding picture in the "Human Comedy". This book is a classic translation by the famous translator Fu Lei. Balzac uses a network structure model, with Old Grandet as the center, and through the stories of Eugenie, Old Grandet, Charles, Crouch and others, he presents the French society in the first half of the 19th century in a three-dimensional and all-round way, and at the same time describes the diverse and complex characters. In the novel, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.

This book is the masterpiece of Italian writer Collodi, published in 1880. When the benevolent carpenter Pipano was sleeping, he dreamed of a blue angel giving life to his most beloved puppet, Pinocchio, and the little puppet began his adventure. If he is to become a real boy, he must pass the tests of courage, loyalty, and honesty. During the adventure, he skipped school out of fun, was deceived out of greed, and turned into a donkey. Finally, he fell into the belly of a big whale and unexpectedly met Pipano... After this adventure, Pinocchio finally grew up. He became honest, hardworking, and kind, and became a real boy. The work was adapted into an animated film by Disney in 1940.

Tom lost his mother when he was young and was adopted by his aunt. The smart and naughty Tom couldn't stand the control of his aunt and school teachers, and often skipped school and got into trouble. Late one night, while playing in a cemetery with his good friend Huckleberry Finn, he accidentally witnessed a murder. Fearing that the murderer would discover that they knew about it, Tom and Huckleberry fled to a desert island with another friend and became "pirates". The family thought they had been drowned, but they turned up at their own "funeral". After a fierce ideological struggle, Tom finally stood up bravely and testified against the murderer. Not long after, during a picnic, he and his beloved girl Betsy got lost in a cave. They were hungry and cold for three days and nights, and faced the threat of death...

A brain-burning version of "Robinson Crusoe", an erudite version of "Don Quixote", and an exquisite version of "The Three Musketeers". The whole story is a mixture of fiction and reality, a mixture of truth and falsehood, and is wonderful. In the hot summer of 1643, a merchant ship "Amaryllis" with a secret mission to find the location of the 180th longitude line was wrecked somewhere in the South Pacific. Roberto, the only survivor on the ship, was a young man who suffered from hypochondriasis, paranoia, photophobia, and could not swim. After being shipwrecked, he was washed aboard another abandoned ship, the Daphne. Roberto relied on the remaining food, fruits, vegetables, and poultry on the ship to survive. While waiting for death, he could only pass the time by writing love letters-and memories, which eventually evolved into novels. Through these writings, the author Eco explains to readers the first half of Roberto's life - the battle for the city of Casale that affected the whole of Europe (the Holy Roman Empire, France, Spain, and the Church all appeared), the spy wars between various countries for the purpose of seeking the secret of longitude, the fierce confrontation between faith and science in that century...

"Robinson Crusoe" tells the story of Robinson living alone on an uninhabited island for 28 years. It is wrong to say that life is not right, survival is the portrayal of Robinson Crusoe. He started from scratch on the island, and through hard work, finally lived a self-sufficient life, but he was very lonely, with only parrots talking to him, and his neighbors were cannibals who occasionally visited. However, he firmly believed that as long as he used wisdom, he could create all the materials needed for survival; he firmly believed that the servant "Friday" he rescued was kind-hearted and worthy of dependence; he firmly believed that he would be rescued... It was this belief and courage that finally made him return to England. Defoe uses vivid and lifelike details to write fictional scenes that make people feel like they are actually there, giving the story a strong sense of reality.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was the greatest playwright and poet of the English Renaissance and the master of humanistic literature of the European Renaissance. He is an unprecedented and arguably unprecedented great dramatic poet, and the greatest literary figure in the world in history. Shakespeare's masterpieces are recognized as treasures of human culture, and his four most famous masterpieces "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth" are known as Shakespeare's "four great tragedies" and are the most famous chapters in the history of human literature and even civilization. The translation of this book is an important result of the famous professor and poet Mr. Sun Dayu's concentration on the study and translation of Shakespeare. Mr. Sun Dayu is the first scholar in my country to translate Shakespeare's poems and plays in verse. His translation uses pentameter plain verse with the phonetic system he created to translate the pentameter plain verse of the original text of Shakespeare's plays, which is of great pioneering significance and unique style and charm. This book contains a complete set of more than 100 exquisite illustrations of the four tragedies drawn by the famous British artist and illustrator Sir John Gilbert, which is of great collection value.

"Petro Goriot" is set in Paris from the end of 1819 to the beginning of 1820, and describes a thought-provoking story: the noodle merchant Goriot made his fortune by selling grain, but was abandoned by his daughter after raising him, and died tragically in the attic of the Voquet apartment; the young man Rastinana gradually embarked on a path of depravity under the corrosion of the upper class society in Paris. Old Man Goriot is both a pursuer of money and a victim of money worship. Before his death, he uttered a long howl intertwined with love and hate. It was a blood-and-tear indictment of the sins of money, and was hailed as the "eternal masterpiece."

Write to every lonely soul in the world! Using sharp words, it shows the original courage and strength of every life in the world. "The Call of the Wild" uses sharp words to show the original courage and strength of every life in the world. It writes about animals and talks about people. It is obviously literature, but it reads out the living world. A classic work of animal novels and a representative work of naturalism. One of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, one of the 88 books that shaped America. This book collects Jack London's representative short stories and short stories - "The Call of the Wild", "White Teeth", "Love Life" and "To Make a Fire". The stories mainly take place in the extremely cold places in northwest Canada. The style is heroic and masculine, showing the original tenacity, courage and strength of life.

This book is the pure English version of "The Mortgated Heart" by the famous American writer Carson McCullers. The book is a collection of posthumous works compiled by McCullers' sister, including his early and later short stories and essays, which are full of McCullers-like themes of "human loneliness" and "inability to love".

Kafka's five masterpieces of short and medium-sized novels will help you see the true face of human nature. "The Metamorphosis" (novella): One morning, Gregor woke up and found that he had turned into a giant insect. His superiors came to his home to urge him to go to work, but ran away when they saw his appearance. The mother was so frightened that she fainted and the father clenched his fists with hostility. Only the sister dared to take care of him... The family's life was turned upside down. "The Hungry Artist" (short story collection): Kafka's only collection of self-selected stories during his lifetime. Most of the protagonists in the story are artists: a trapeze artist who hangs alone on a hanging bar day and night, a starving artist in a cage, a female singer who has an enthusiastic audience but is not understood... They are extremely lonely artists, and they are also you and me who are unwilling to be mediocre.

The only reason you say race is not a barrier is because you wish it wasn't. We all hope that's not the case. But this is a lie. Ifemelu decides to move back to Nigeria even though she already has everything in the United States: a popular racial blog, a position as a researcher at Princeton University, and her boyfriend, a black professor who shares her views, is a decision that cannot be explained clearly. Immigration is the dream of all Nigerian young people, but when she came here she discovered that in addition to bills, identity, and language, skin color was the turbulent undercurrent hidden under everything. However, after returning to her hometown as a "Yankee", can she adapt to life in Nigeria again?

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"Doctor Zhivago" describes a series of major historical events before and after the October Revolution: the 1905 Revolution, World War I, February Revolution, October Revolution, Civil War, New Economic Policy, and socialist construction. The protagonist of the novel, Yuli Zhivago, experienced almost all these complex and turbulent stages in his short life of less than forty years, and he responded to all these historical events.

Two stories about death. "Persian Women": A story of love, revenge and death. The Hatter: A story about family, respect and death. Two days later, when I was walking towards the lonely house on the damp grass that had fallen into disrepair before even half of it was built, I suddenly remembered what I had said to a Persian woman when I went for a walk in the pine forest with her. Nowadays, so many young people have committed suicide. These young people have no choice but to commit suicide. The society we have lived in has no understanding of why young people would do this. I remembered that at that time, I asked her bluntly and in my unique unscrupulous way whether she would commit suicide one day. The Persian woman laughed after hearing my words and said, yes.

"The Mysterious Island (Full Translation)\u002F National Reading Classic" is the third part of the famous science fiction trilogy by the French writer and "father of science fiction" Jules Verne. The novel describes the story of five Northern Army prisoners who escaped from Richmond in a balloon during the American Civil War. They encountered a storm and were thrown to a desert island in the Pacific Ocean. The plot of the whole novel is ups and downs, full of descriptions of strange and colorful nature, and it integrates various knowledge into the thrilling story. Therefore, although it has been published for more than a hundred years, it is still highly praised and loved by readers all over the world.

Facing the pressure from society and family, would you choose to marry the person you love or continue to wait for the right person? Katie, who is young, beautiful and vain, chose the former, but was captured by a smooth-talking married man soon after her marriage. She thought she had met true love, so she risked her life, like a moth to a flame. But when the veil is lifted, her illusions are shattered by the truth. For the first time in her life, she began to reflect and grow; perhaps, her mistakes and follies, and the misfortunes she suffered were not in vain, and would eventually lead her to find a way to inner peace. "The Veil" not only presents the bad aspects of love and marriage - betrayal, indifference, suspicion, revenge, but also the uneasiness and self-salvation in the face of life changes. If you understand "The Veil", you will understand yourself.

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"The Mercenary Captain" was written from 1957 to 196. The protagonist Gaspard Winclair has devoted himself for several months to imitating a "Mercenary Captain", which is comparable in all aspects to the "Mercenary Captain" in the Louvre. The original is a 1475 painting by the Italian painter Antonello of Messina. Page 1 begins with Winclair assassinating Madeira. Why was there this murder? Why Gaspar? Winclair failed in his plan to rival Messina's Antonello? What is he looking for in becoming a master of counterfeiting? What does he want in the image of control and energy embodied in the mercenary's face? Why did he view Madeira's murder as a form of liberation?

This book is one of Nabokov's lesser-known biographies. The author takes readers into Gogol's youth, looks through his early works, and provides detailed reviews of his collection of The Imperial Envoy and the first volume of Dead Souls. He also briefly reviews Gogol's most famous short story, "The Overcoat." In the book, Nabokov explores Gogol's unique writing style, using multiple fragments of his own translation to prove Gogol's impeccable prose. He emphasized not the plots of Gogol's works but their style, and successfully showed another side of Gogol, who was known for his satire.

One of the strangest of all Nabokov's novels. The novel consists of a preface, a four-chapter poem, commentary and index. Just looking at the four-section structure with commentary as the main body cannot help but make people suspicious. It is said that Nabokov was inspired by the process of translating Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin". The number of pages in the notes exceeds the translation by ten times. As an avant-garde exploratory writer, Nabokov was always looking for original novel forms. This intertextual structure with commentary as the main body reflects Nabokov's point of view: "Human life is nothing more than a series of notes added to an obscure and unfinished masterpiece."

A collection of systematically related personal memories spanning thirty-seven years (from August 1903 to May 1940), it is one of Nabokov's most important and famous works. It uses the precise language of a lepidopterist to observe the wonderful patterns on butterfly wings through a high-power magnifying glass and describe them, giving readers an extraordinary reading experience. Memory and review of the past often dominate Nabokov's novels, so this autobiography is an excellent code for interpreting his novels, because memory itself is a hidden bridge between fantasy and reality.

"The Rise of the Rougons" is the first volume of Zola's multi-volume masterpiece "The Rougon-Macquarts". It was serialized in "Le Temps" in 1970 and was later discontinued due to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. The book was officially published in France in October 1971. By describing the fate of several generations of the Lugon family, this book depicts all aspects of French life from Napoleon III's coming to power to the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, exposing the unpopularity of Napoleon III's coup and the abominable face of his supporters. The novel's depiction of characters and exploration of human nature are meticulous and profound.

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The old woman took her granddaughter to the park and met a fugitive on the way. She tried to use religion to influence the other party, but it triggered conflicts, and ultimately revealed the complexity and absurdity of human nature in violence.

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Many years ago, three men who had never met each other encountered a fire in the same hotel and narrowly escaped death. Many years later, the three men unexpectedly reunited and entered a bizarre dream, transforming into warriors to fight against monsters. And the giant bird that guided them in the dream, the endless monsters, and the square filled with posters are all inextricably linked to the real crisis? Politicians, popular idols, and ordinary office workers co-starred in a fantastic adventure that traveled between reality and dreams!

"Only Love Strangers" is a highly skilled short novel, a masterpiece of the "Horrible Ian" period. It focuses on exploring the infinite possibilities of human desire and tells a story about how a pursuer of beauty destroys the object of beauty to death in order to satisfy his own desires. A pair of lovers who are inseparable but seem to be inseparable are on vacation. From the first day they entered this bustling but weird tourist city, they have been followed and secretly photographed. The eyes in the dark follow each other like a shadow, tempting the lovers to seek fresh excitement and solace from so-called strangers, and ultimately make them devote themselves wholeheartedly to a trap of lust and death that is deliberately set for them. The novel contains countless metaphors, is highly intertextual with many classic texts, and is full of meaningful quotations or parodies of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" and E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View." It is known as one of McEwan's two "mini-masterpieces."

"Everything must have both an entrance and an exit. There is no other choice." The second part of Haruki Murakami's "Youth Trilogy" is the beginning of Haruki Murakami's creative consciousness. Talk to the pinball machine and find the exit of your soul. In 1973, along with memories of college life and the passing of his college girlfriend Naoko, "I" graduated from college and made a living as an English translator. I met a pair of twin girls by chance, and then we went together to find a "pinball machine" in the bar where Rat and I often went three years ago. Finally, we found the legendary pinball machine stored there with dozens of other pinball machines in an old chicken farm warehouse. After being lost and found, he just left indifferently. Then "I" and the twin girls separated and returned to their own loneliness. At the same time, Rat, who dropped out of college three years ago and has lost his sense of reality, hangs out between the bar of the Japanese-Chinese hero and the apartment of his girlfriend who works in an architect's office. After some psychological struggle, he finally decided to leave his close friend Jie and his beloved girlfriend, pack his bags and stay away from his hometown. The major Chinese publishers of Haruki Murakami's works and translator Lin Shaohua have joined hands to present a new revised edition of Haruki Murakami's long-running series. In terms of design, we cooperated with the internationally renowned illustrator NomaBar. The three colors of black, white and red depict the subtle blur in Murakami's works between the square and the circle, and the overall presentation is both simple and classic. In terms of content, a lot of revisions have been made around foreign words, restoring the details of the author's intentional emphasis in the original version. Lin Shaohua updated the prefaces of the translations of many works, and made slight adjustments to some of the tone and expressions in the translations. The chronology of Haruki Murakami has been updated to the latest, and a music list is attached at the end of each book.

Martin Amis's unique masterpiece, ranked first in the "Sunday Times", describes the eternal love, desire and summer of young people. Unparalleled and ambitious excellence in English writing, brilliant and fearless alternative writing. A novel about sexual trauma, a vacation that "ruined Keith's twenty-five years of good life." In the summer of 1970, Keith, a 20-year-old nerd, a literature college student, and his friends were on vacation in a castle in Italy. At this time, new trends of thought were surging and in full swing. At this unprecedented historic moment, new trends of thought were flooding in. In everyone's mind, girls act like boys, and boys act like themselves. Keith is caught between the three women, and his friends are in a state of ecstasy, their true nature revealed but unresolved and unbearable. But they soon discovered a very disturbing fact, that is, in the change of social order, there will always be a threshold of purification, and this is the "pregnant widow" once described by the great Russian thinker Alexander Herzen - between the death of one and the birth of another, she will spend a long night of chaos and loneliness, struggling and being baptized.

This book collects 33 classic short stories in total that express his creative characteristics, such as "The Gift of the Magi", "The Police and the Hymn", "Devotion of Love" and "The Last Vine Leaf". His works have witty language, twists and turns in plots and unique style. He truly outlines all aspects of life with humorous strokes and presents us with the colorful social reality during the great changes in the United States. The joys, sorrows and joys of ordinary people, as well as the taste of life, are vividly reflected in his writings, vividly reflecting the tragic and embarrassing fate of a considerable number of people in the society at that time.

A total of more than 300 Chekhov's letters and essays have been selected and translated. Chekhov was modest by nature, did not like to talk eloquently, and rarely wrote critical articles. However, his views on literature and art, his observation of the world, and his evaluation of celebrities of his time are all scattered in letters and essays. Chekhov rarely expressed emotion in his personal letters. Instead, he complained about trivial matters, complained about lack of money, and ridiculed himself like ordinary people. He was seriously ill all year round, but rarely showed sadness; he loved nature, liked sledding, and raised a meerkat; he made various plans, such as planting 60 cherry trees and 80 apple trees, and publishing 1,000 kinds of books. The essay part contains Chekhov's creative reflections, recording the moments of inspiration, from which the prototypes of many masterpieces can be seen. Philosophical and interesting, humorous and venomous.

This book is a collection of essays by the famous French writer Hugo, including the essence of Hugo's essays and famous speeches. As a giant of French literature, Hugo's prose, like his novels, is profoundly ideological and highly artistic, exuding dazzling brilliance everywhere.

Let's experience life on an isolated desert island together! The young British man Robinson embarked on a sailing journey, but unexpectedly ended up on a desert island and began a long and arduous life on the island... This is a widely circulated and influential literary masterpiece, which reflects the strong enterprising spirit and enlightenment consciousness of mankind. Through this novel, the author created a typical image of Robinson Crusoe who dared to take risks and pioneer. Robinson became a hero in the minds of teenagers at that time and was the first ideal explorer image in Western literature.

Adichie received a letter from her childhood friend asking how she could raise her daughter to be a feminist. "Dear Angievilla" is one of her replies. In the letter, Adichie gave fifteen pieces of direct and candid advice, covering all aspects of parenting, motherhood, marriage, workplace, identity, and more. Regarding raising girls, it is also a discussion about how women should define and shape their true selves. "Because you're a girl" is never an excuse for anything. Never.

"American Notes" is a travelogue rich in literary and historical value. From the beginning of January to the end of June 1842, Dickens, his wife and friends conducted a six-month visit to the United States. They visited not only international metropolises such as Washington, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, but also some little-known small towns at the time such as Cincinnati, Hartford, Worcester, and West Point. He wrote down what he saw, heard and felt at that time in this travelogue. This travelogue is a rare reference for examining the customs and customs of American society in the 19th century.

"Eugénie Grandet" is one of Balzac's "Human Comedy". The novel creates the image of Grandet, a miser alienated by money, and depicts a beautiful and innocent character Eugenie and her tragic life. It vividly and truly reveals the power of money to change everything in reality, and has a strong warning effect.

Understanding of literature and his own creative experience, this book allows us to see the author's valuable experience and true thoughts during his decades of creation. At the same time, he also did not shy away from talking about his life past, including his childhood memories, the scenery of his hometown and the relationship between his relatives, which shows the growth trajectory of a writer.

By tracking "sea monsters", this book depicts magical underwater worlds for us. There are underwater plains, underwater forests, underwater cemeteries, pearl worlds, sunken continents and ancient castles... Of course, in addition, the novel also shows us a variety of confusing and magical fish worlds. At the same time, Verne also used his magical pen to set up many thrilling scenes for us, making the whole novel ups and downs and exciting.

"The Call of the Wild" is Jack London's long-standing novel. It tells the story of the "protagonist" Buck, who transformed from a pet dog living in a civilized society to a wild wolf king after experiencing changes in the living environment, which triggered his instinct and consciousness to return to nature. The story revolves around the gold rush that was prevalent in society at that time, and vividly depicts the world of dogs struggling in this special environment. It is written about dogs and reflects the human world.

The summer birds flew to my window to sing and then flew away again. The yellow leaves of autumn have nothing to sing about, they just sigh and fly down there. A group of little wanderers in the world, please leave your footprints in my words. The world has taken off its majestic mask towards its lover. It became smaller, as small as a song, as small as an eternal kiss. It is the tears of the earth that keep her smile young. The boundless desert passionately pursued the love of a leaf of green grass, and she shook her head and flew away with a smile.

A classic poem by the great Italian poet Dante. In "The Divine Comedy", Dante takes himself as the protagonist and adopts the hallucination form unique to medieval literature. He imagines that he is led by the ancient Roman poet Vigilius and his late lover Bayard respectively, traveling through the three realms of hell, pure world and heaven. With all his accumulated knowledge, life experience and artistic creativity, he depicts a bizarre and extremely broad soul world for us. Mr. Wang Weike translated the book based on the original Italian work, as well as translations from other countries such as France and England, and presented this catchy and poetic Chinese translation.

From the perspective of sex, humans are also animals, and this is eternal. From an instinctive point of view, treating humans differently from other animals would be to regard humans as too excellent creatures. This collection of essays explains the different marriage and love behaviors of men and women through the essence of gender.

"Hillier Gives to Children: A Different History of Art" consists of three parts: painting, sculpture and architecture. The author uses concise and expressive language to tell stories related to those art masters and immortal masterpieces. Like a senior art tour guide, he leads the children through the palace of world art. During the visit, the author will tell the children many interesting details at any time to attract their attention and arouse their interest in reading. Reading this book is like the author accompanying his children on a trip to famous art destinations such as Rome, Paris, and Athens, and getting to know art masters such as Van Gogh, Rodin, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Every painting, every sculpture and every building in the book vividly tells children what beauty and art are.