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"You want a real life, and it's expensive." "The conscience of American drama" Arthur Miller is comparable to the late masterpiece "Death of a Salesman", winner of four Emmy Awards, nominated for two Tony Awards, a modern version of the "Cain" and "Abel" dispute. "The Price" is a two-act play written by Arthur Miller in 1967. It is a family game that penetrates from the pricing allocation of old furniture to the price people pay for their own life choices. After the Great Depression, Victor Franz interrupted his college studies to become a policeman in order to support his father who was crushed by the stock market crash. The two of them lived in the attic of his uncle's house with the remnants of their past wealthy life. More than 30 years later, the old house will be demolished, and Victor comes back to sell his parents' inheritance. His wife Esther, brother Walter, and savvy furniture businessman Solomon each have their own plans. The two brothers uncover stories from each other's past that they don't want to admit, and in the end, Victor must face his own sacrifice. Since its premiere on Broad Street in 1968, "The Price" has been revived several times and received two Tony Award nominations; the TV adaptation received four Emmy Award nominations and won two of them.

"I want my reputation." - Arthur Miller's classic work, "the conscience of American drama", captures the painful feet of outsiders with a family tragedy. It was jointly translated by the famous translators Tu Zhen and Mei Shaowu, and was published in a Chinese version for the first time in China. "A View from the Bridge" is a two-act play written by Arthur Miller in 1955. About a year after its premiere, the play was a huge success, first in London and then in Paris, where it ran for two years. After a lapse of 60 years, the new version launched by NT Live won two of the Tony Awards - Best Director and Best Revival of a Drama - which symbolize the highest achievement of theatre, achieving a successful return of the classic play. Dockworker Eddie and his wife Beatrice lived a poor life. They raised Sister Bei's orphan Catherine. Catherine is almost an adult and Eddie still loves her. The strong and special relationship between the two makes Bay uneasy. Marco and Rodolfo, two of Bay's Italian relatives, smuggled themselves to the United States to work and stayed at Eddie's house. Rodolfo, with his lively personality, attracted Catherine's attention, but their relationship was strongly opposed by Eddie: Eddie didn't like Rodolfo and told Catherine that Rudolph was only pursuing her for his American identity. In order to prevent them from getting married, Eddie reported Marco and Rudolf's status as stowaways to the immigration bureau. Marco found Eddie in anger and planned to take revenge.

"All My Sons" is a famous work by the famous playwright Arthur Miller, who is known as "the conscience of American drama". It premiered on Broadway in 1947 and ran for 328 performances. It won many awards including the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The story depicts the tragedy of a middle-class family: the sanctimonious father who made a fortune during World War II, the seemingly weak mother who worked hard to maintain the order of the entire family, the pilot's youngest son who mysteriously disappeared during the war, the impulsive and righteous eldest son... Everyone carries inner secrets and maintains a peaceful life with lies. With the visit of the girl next door and the appearance of a letter, people learned the truth about the disappearance of their youngest son three years ago. This seemingly happy family faced disintegration the moment the truth was revealed. The author uses a writing style rich in ancient Greek tragedy to write about the hidden reefs of human nature in modern society, revealing the banal evil beneath the surface of a peaceful life.

I don't know whether it is heaven or hell, but there is our hope, and we must live... This is a touching legendary story. A sandstorm destroyed the Joad family's land and forced them to leave their home. They assembled a trailer out of scrap metal, piled all their belongings on it, and headed west along Route 66 to the legendary paradise of grape-filled mountains-California. During this long journey of three thousand kilometers, they experienced many incredible things. Some things are cruel and painful, but there are also some encounters that touch them so much that they regain their confidence in living.

"The Grapes of Wrath" is the masterpiece of Steinbeck, the famous American writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature. The novel tells the story of a large number of farmers who went bankrupt and fled during the economic panic in the United States in the 1930s. The writer once followed farmers in Oklahoma as they wandered to California, and what he saw along the way shocked him. With his realistic writing style, he detailedly and thoroughly displayed that unforgettable special period in American history. As soon as the work came out, it caused panic among the powerful elites in various states at that time. Many states banned the publication of the novel. None of this can change the huge influence of "The Grapes of Wrath". To this day, it still occupies an unshakable and important position in the history of modern American literature.

The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is a miracle in the history of American publishing. Its global sales have reached 15 million copies. It is a magnificent epic of modern American farmers. "The Grapes of Wrath" is Steinbeck's masterpiece. The novel describes the tragic story of the Joad family, a poor farmer, who migrated from the windy and sandy plains of Oklahoma to the affluent valleys of California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is an epic of modern American farmers. "The Grapes of Wrath" has become required reading in American high school and college literature classes because of its historicity and importance.

George and Lennie are a pair of homeless people who work everywhere to make ends meet. They have a dream to own a small piece of land of their own, with a small windmill, a small shed, a chicken coop, a pig pen, an orchard, and an alfalfa field so that Lenny can raise his favorite rabbits. However, all this is a dream. But George and Lennie did not give up. This time, they came to work on a new farm, hoping to work hard here and save more money, but they didn't want Lennie to get into trouble again...

Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" is based on the life story of Zero fighter designer Jiro Horikoshi and the novel of the same name by writer Tatsuo Hori. The only part that fits Hori Tatsuo's autobiographical story is the love story of a boy pursuing his dream and a girl who is unlucky. However, as early as 1976, there was another movie called "Snowy Dusk" (also known as: "The Wind and the Dream"), which was basically faithfully adapted from Hori Tatsuo's masterpiece. The classic screen couple Miura Tomokazu and Yamaguchi Momoe use their green grass-like love to interpret their infinite attachment to their lover and their last attachment to life. A pure heart and love as simple and transparent as spring water really exist, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

A best-selling novel serialized at the same time as "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" but with a completely different style, it is a romantic comedy that transcends identity barriers under the long spring sun. "The Long Spring" is a brisk best-selling novel by Mishima Yukio. Ikuo, a law student at T University, and Momoko, the daughter of a used bookstore owner, are engaged lovers. The two overcame their differences in family background and finally came together. Now, as long as Yuxiong officially graduates in one year and three months, the two can get married. Although they have been recognized by the people around them and have become a recognized couple, compared with the happiness they felt when they first secretly fell in love, the two gradually felt some shortcomings...

The ultimate way to exist is love and jealousy. A masterpiece that carries Mishima's literary ambitions. "Hunger of Love" is a very representative novel by Mishima Yukio. With delicate psychological description and exquisite writing structure, the work conveys Mishima's unique atmosphere of gloom, perversion, and sadness. Etsuko has always had illusions about love. However, after the marriage, the husband had a new love outside the home, and the couple became extremely estranged. Later, the husband died of illness. The widowed Etsuko moved to the countryside to live with her father-in-law's family. In the remote and lonely countryside, Etsuko projects her fiery and pure passion onto her family's gardener, Saburo. This love burned so fiercely that when Etsuko discovered that the reality was not what she thought, she actually killed Saburo in a mixture of love and hate...

Yukio Mishima's masterpiece of essays is a sharp introduction to love, marriage, and personality development. It is humorous and playful and shows how a straight male writer teaches the secrets of love. It includes three short stories: "New Love Lecture", "The Aesthetics of Ending" and "Spiritual Conversation to Young Samurai". They talk about the art of love, social skills and the development of teenagers' character and provide sincere suggestions. What exactly is love? What kind of love do you want to have? Japanese literary master Yukio Mishima wrote this book specifically to explain love. From the form, morality, philosophy and techniques of love, Mishima uses humorous and sharp writing to get to the core, guiding men and women how to fall in love and how to reveal their true emotions in love. This book contains three short story collections: "Lectures on New Love", "The Aesthetics of Ending" and "Spiritual Talks to Young Samurai". In addition to love, it also touches on issues such as social art, character development, etc. It is unique and thought-provoking. Especially in today's society where people's views on love and values ​​are unstable, this book can help readers examine love, family, and life from another perspective, which has great practical significance. This book is also the embodiment of Mishima's philosophy and aesthetic thoughts.

I have always pretended to be a normal person, but "Confessions of a Mask" understood the madness inside me! The starting point of Mishima literature! Japan's epoch-making and bizarre work. My whole life I have been performing against my will. Pain said to me: "You are not human. You cannot interact with people. You are some kind of inhuman, strange and miserable creature." When pretending becomes a habit, can you still distinguish between the mask and the real self?

A total reckoning of sex and beauty, intoxicated by the imagination of the sun and iron. For those who have survived the dreams written by Mishima Yukio, Mishima's imagination will always be a symbol of their encounter with the sun. The tight and expanding summer sun dominates the nocturnal universe as tightly as the physical bodies of men and women. Just like in the Iron Age, heavy blunt knives had an obligation to maintain a balance of blood flow with human muscles. The sex and beauty in "Forbidden Color" are like Mishima's spirit and strength. They need the exposure of the summer sun and the upbringing of iron, singing the fatal temptation of romance and freshness in the darkness.

Reincarnated in "The Beauty of Sex", Mishima's soul will never rest in peace. Mishima said, "As soon as a person turns 30, his name will be quickly forgotten like peeling paint. The reality represented by those names is more illusory and useless than dreams, and will be gradually abandoned by daily life." However, Mishima's heroic scene of begging for death has always stood out in front of the world, becoming his literary and even aesthetic label. The dream that haunts Iinuma repeatedly uses the reincarnation of Princess Moonlight to make Mishima's beauty, together with his body and soul, a vigorous sacrifice in the book. In the strange "sexual" aesthetics caused by gender misplacement, Mishima integrated himself into the Four Seasons of the Sea of ​​Fertility, reincarnating a fully mature and full kingdom of "sexuality", forging a twisting soul echo, a kingdom of Akatsuki that knows no difference between day and night.

As time goes by, the sublime turns into comedy bit by bit, Mishima's perfect narrative work. Honda remembered what Kiyoaki said after his dream eighteen years ago before his death: "We will meet again. We will definitely meet again, under the waterfall..." Honda believed that Isao was the reincarnation of Kiyoaki. But Ionuma Isao's character is very different from Kiyoaki. He is fierce and resolute. His highest belief is the "sword", which is "killing himself in the sun"! Ultimately, he assassinated the financial tycoon Takesuke Kurohara who he believed to be the source of the crime.

"Five Decline of Heaven and Man", the final chapter of "Sea of ​​Fertility", Mishima's last work, the reincarnation of the past, just like time stops in Buddhism, everything in the world is like a dream, but the untarnished spiritual power lasts forever. "There is nothing, neither memory nor anything exists. It is extremely lonely."

"Dublins" is the most famous collection of short stories in modern Western literature, published in 1914 at the beginning of the 20th century. The author uses Dublin as the background, and his writing directly targets the lives of the middle and lower classes. The book is composed of fifteen stories in total, each of which is like an impressionistic painting, showing the life scenes of Dubliners in a bleak world.

"Dong Bei and Son" describes the rise and fall of Dong Bei and Son. Dong Bei is a greedy big capitalist, and his wife and children have become tools and furnishings for him to pursue profits. The company manager Kaker is a treacherous villain. After defrauding Dong Bei's trust, he single-handedly caused his bankruptcy. In the lessons of reality, Dong Bei's thinking changed. In the end, although he was unable to rebuild the family business, he achieved real family happiness. The beginning of "Dong Bei and Son" has been translated by Mr. Yang Jiang. Xue Hongshi continued her translation and re-translated the beginning.

Pushkin is known as the "Father of Russian Literature" and "The Sun of Russian Poetry". "The Captain's Daughter" is his first completed novel and enjoys a high status in the history of Russian literature. It is the first Pushkin novel to be translated into Chinese and the first Russian literary work to be completely translated into Chinese. It has a wide influence in China. This book adopts the form of Chinese and Russian comparison. In addition to marking the vocabulary of level 4 and above for university Russian majors in the Russian part, the book also explains the historical figures and events that appear in the book, as well as the research results in this field in recent years, with detailed annotations.

"David Copperfield" is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British novelist Charles Dickens, who he called his "favorite child in his heart". The protagonist Copperfield is a posthumous son, and his stepfather abuses him and his mother. His mother died soon, leaving Copperfield an orphan. He found his aunt and started a new life under her guardianship. The world has changed, family and friendship are joyful, and turmoil and pain have tempered people. Copperfield became a successful writer and was happily married to his beloved. The book adopts a personal narrative technique and depicts a broad social picture through the unfortunate experience of an orphan. The work uses superb skills to create the images of typical characters from different classes, showing the author's generous and broad humanistic care.

"The Grapes of Wrath" is a novel written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1939. "The Grapes of Wrath" is based on the background of farmers' bankruptcy, escape and struggle in central states during the economic crisis. Farmers in Oklahoma and neighboring states of Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas were deeply in debt, their land confiscated by large corporations, and they were homeless. They had to move westward, trying to find a way out in California. The novel takes the Yoder family as the representative and records the difficult experience of a family of twelve escaping from Oklahoma to California. After they sold everything in their home, they bought a dilapidated car, and the family fled westward in the car. On the way, young Noah and Connie deserted halfway. When they arrived in California, everything was not as beautiful as they imagined. Unemployment, hunger and poverty were still waiting for them. Farmers there used their surplus labor to lower wages for tenant farmers, and local forces extorted and persecuted wandering farmers. So the farmers were angry, they united and fought. The "anger" in the title of the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" is a strong protest against the unfair social system that leads to poverty.

The 1950 film "Rashomon" directed by Akira Kurosawa was based on the short story "In the Bamboo Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. In this novel, there is no so-called truth, only the use of one's own narrative to deconstruct the narratives of others, dominated by egoism. It is this darkness that obscures the truth of the murder and constitutes the fog of "In the Bamboo Forest". "Rashomon (Chinese-Japanese Bilingual)" selects and translates two works by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Grove" that are widely known to readers. The short story "Rashomon" with the same name as the movie is based on the 23rd chapter of Volume 29 of the Japanese Buddhist story collection "The Story of the Past", "A man with a wife traveling in Tamba was bound to the mountains in Ojiang Mountain." "Rashomon" is said to be the door to hell, so the word also has the meaning of "wandering between life and death".

"The Old Curiosity Shop" is a novel published by the British writer Dickens in 1840-1841. In order for his granddaughter, who was not yet 14 years old, to live a happy life after his death, Torent tried his best to get rich, but unexpectedly fell into the clutches of the upstart loan shark Daniel Quilp. 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".

"A Tale of Two Cities" is a long historical novel written by the British writer Charles Dickens and set against the background of the French Revolution. It was first published in 1859. The story connects the two big cities of Paris and London, and revolves around Dr. Manette's family and the Saint-Antoine district headed by the Defarges. The novel describes how the nobles corrupted and harmed the people. The people's deep hatred for the nobles accumulated in their hearts, which led to the inevitable French Revolution. This book is translated by Zhang Ling and Zhang Yang.

"It was the best of times, and it was also the worst of times!" It was an era full of oppression and plunder, when people were roughly classified into piles, and society was chaotic and disorderly; it was an era full of anger and massacre, with angry language everywhere, and reason was annihilated by fanaticism; but there were still people who were willing to give up their aristocratic status and huge amounts of property in order to uphold justice; there were still people who, for the sake of the ideal clear world, Willing to sacrifice his own life... "A Tale of Two Cities" was first published in 1859. The British literary giant Dickens used the raging French Revolution as the background to depict a society full of oppression, anger, and violence. He created a group of people who remained rational and upheld justice in an era of broken faith, and created a new era of British critical realism. In "A Tale of Two Cities", you will witness the darkest social reality and see the most noble light of humanity.

"Great Expectations" is a novel written by Dickens in his later years. The story is set from Christmas Eve of 1812 to the winter of 1840. The protagonist, orphan Pip, uses an autobiographical approach to narrate three stages of his life starting from the age of 7.

Yilin's "Audio Bilingual Classics" original version introduces English classics specially written by American education experts for students, and selects classic works that are close to the English acquisition level of Chinese students. The series of books selects high-quality Chinese translations, accompanied by introductions, introductions to the authors' works and illustrations, and employs senior college entrance examination listening test anchors to read English audio books. The audiobook playback platform is easy to operate. Just scan the QR code in the book to listen and download. The book series covers classic literary works from various countries, allowing children to improve their literary appreciation and English listening and reading skills during reading. The famous children's literature writer Huang Beijia recommends a long article introduction. Behind the dazzling four words "Great Expectations", there are some questions that are often ignored by people: How can we have "Great Expectations"? What standards must be met to be called "Great Expectations"? And, why do we want to have Great Expectations? Dickens is as sharp as Dickens, and by writing about the bizarre experiences of the young Pip and the people around him, he answers these important questions about "Great Expectations" for us. "Great Expectations" is Dickens's classic work depicting society and human nature. Pip, a little boy, wants to be a gentleman, and a mysterious benefactor helps him get promoted. Pip moved to London and received an education from the upper class. He wanted to change his background and marry the beautiful Miss Estella. When the identity of the benefactor is exposed, will everything be in vain? In this masterpiece of his later years, Dickens expressed his views on love, wealth and friendship.

"The Personal History of David Copperfield" (The Personal History of David Copperfield, also translated as "David Copperfield") is a novel written by the British novelist Charles Dickens. It was called by the author his "favorite child in his heart". It was published in twenty parts monthly from 1849 to 1850. The whole book adopts first-person narrative and incorporates many of the author's own life experiences. The novel tells the story of the protagonist David's life from childhood to middle age. Taking the birth of "I" as the source, the novel combines the sincerity and darkness of friends, the childishness and impulsiveness of love, the sweetness and triviality of marriage, and the conflicts and harmony of family members into a stream that slowly flows on the river bed of fate and eventually merges into the tolerant and magnificent sea. Mixed in with all kinds of characters and opportunities. The language is witty and interesting, showing a broad picture of Britain in the mid-19th century, reflecting Dickens's ideal that the world is full of kindness and justice.

Dickens uses the foggy London as the background to tell us the difficult experience of an orphan, showing the battle between good and evil, beauty and ugliness, and full of humane feelings. Oliver's mother died when he was born, and when he was nine years old, he was sent to a coffin shop as an apprentice in the workhouse. Unable to endure the insults and beatings, he ran away alone. Although he fell into a den of thieves by mistake, Oliver stuck to his inner integrity and kindness and refused to be a thief. Later, with the help of the kind-hearted Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Mellie, he came to know his life experience and finally lived a happy life.

The Pickwick Papers is the first novel written by Charles Dickens. After the novel was published, it became a sensation and became a highlight in the British publishing industry at that time. Charles Dickens started writing "The Pickwick Papers" mainly with the intention of writing a series of novels. Therefore, the various chapters in "The Pickwick Papers" are very loosely related to each other and are more like a series of adventure novels. The protagonist of the novel, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, is a wealthy, kind-hearted old gentleman, and the founder and permanent president of the Pickwick Club. In order to have a deeper exploration and understanding of many strange phenomena in life, the old gentleman suggested that he should take the lead and be joined by three other members of the Pickwick Club (they are Mr. Wink, Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Topman), and follow him from London to a distant place (it is said to be remote, but actually to the British countryside) to explore the meaning of life, and after returning, report what they saw and heard to the club members. As a result, the entire novel revolves around their excursions into the English countryside.

"Bleak House" tells the story of a girl who discovers her parents' hidden secrets. The story includes murder, suicide, betrayal, love and fear. Almost all human emotions that readers can imagine are included in Dickens. However, "Bleak House" also deeply explores the philosophical significance of charity and the philosophical thought of loving your neighbor as yourself from another angle: How much attention should we pay to people who are not favored by the goddess of luck in life and are suffering from tragic fate? The so-called charity, how to give alms? How much charity? How can we avoid focusing on one thing and losing another? In addition, there is a more important question: How do poor people escape poverty? Must they rely on the good will of individuals? What role should the government play in this? How much responsibility is there to help them? The reason why Dickens raised so many questions was mainly because he felt about the British society at that time.

Yilin's "Audio Bilingual Classics" original version introduces English classics specially written by American education experts for students, and selects classic works that are close to the English acquisition level of Chinese students. The series of books selects high-quality Chinese translations, accompanied by introductions, introductions to the authors' works and illustrations, and employs senior college entrance examination listening test anchors to read English audio books. The audiobook playback platform is easy to operate. Just scan the QR code in the book to listen and download. The book series covers classic literary works from various countries, allowing children to improve their literary appreciation and English listening and reading skills during reading. The famous children's literature writer Huang Beijia recommends a long article introduction. "A Christmas Carol" is one of Charles Dickens' classic representative works. The book is deeply loved by literature lovers all over the world. The book creates the classic literary character Scrooge and promotes the humanitarian sentiment of mutual help and generosity to the whole society. It has a profound influence on some Western countries that believe in Christianity. Dickens himself was called "the man who invented Christmas" by readers because of this work. The famous Christmas greeting "Merry Christmas" became popular all over the world through this book.

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"Life" is the French writer Maupassant's classic debut novel, and it is also his only novel that has been adapted for the screen. This novel was completed under the care of his mentor Flaubert. It was revised several times and carefully polished. It is a work of female spiritual awakening about marriage, growth and disillusionment. Maupassant described the life of aristocratic girl Yana in "A Life". She was innocent, romantic and full of fantasy, but she suffered the betrayal of her husband, the death of her parents and the departure of her children. Exhausted physically and mentally, Yana could only seek some comfort from the dream of life in the maid. "Life" depicts the innocent dreams of women in the background of that era and the collision of their heads and blood in the real society of overflowing desires. It is the epitome of the miserable lives of most women. Even today, unfortunate women can see themselves in Yana and see in this book the heavy pressure they may face.

This five-volume set of Maupassant's short stories and short stories includes "Selected Novels of Maupassant's World", "Selected Romance Novels of Maupassant", "Selected Novels of Maupassant's War", "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Humorous Novels" and "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Bizarre Novels". It is the result of the author's appreciation and selection of more than 300 short stories and short stories by the "King of Short Stories" based on his long-term research and translation. It can also be said to be a collection of Maupassant's short stories in a classified form. Maupassant was first and foremost a social genre painter. Adhering to the fundamental principle of realism, his worldly novels mainly write about the two social classes he is most familiar with: farmers in Normandy, his hometown where he spent his youth, and clerks in Paris where he worked as an adult. Little characters occupy the center of literature; their lives, their anguish and despair are laid bare. What is particularly commendable is the writer's deep sympathy for the suffering people at the bottom. This book is equipped with original illustrations.

Maupassant's short stories and short stories are deeply rooted in reality and have a wide range of themes. They mainly describe the French social customs of his time, and all kinds of life are included in them. Among the collections of Maupassant's works published in France, the most influential one was the "Illustrated Complete Works of Maupassant" (1901-1912) published by Paul Hollandorff Publishing House. There are nineteen volumes of short stories and short stories in this complete collection, of which the titles and contents of fifteen volumes are basically the same as those of Mo's self-edited volume. There are another four volumes supplemented by the publishing house. These nineteen volumes collect a total of 272 short stories and short stories by Maupassant. The translator is now requested to include the thirty-four pieces not included in the Austrian edition as "addendums" to six of the nineteen volumes. The 306 Mo's short stories and short stories discovered so far are all included in them, and are accompanied by some illustrations from the Austrian edition, which can be said to be rich in pictures and texts. The translator Zhang Yinglun is an expert on Maupassant at the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been cooperating with our agency to translate Maupassant's short stories and short stories. His writing style is humorous and in line with Maupassant's writing style.

This book selects the most representative short stories and short stories such as "Ball of Suet" by Maupassant, the master of French novels. Maupassant was good at cutting out typical fragments from ordinary and trivial things, and summarizing the reality of life with small insights. His novels have unique conceptions, ups and downs of plots, vivid and detailed descriptions, and lifelike characters, which make people have endless aftertaste after reading them. This book is a new translation, which is more suitable for contemporary readers than the language of the old translation.

This book is a collection of Maupassant's two novels, "Life" and "Pierre and Jean". "Life" is Maupassant's first novel, a genre novel depicting the countryside of Normandy. "Pierre and Jean" tells the story of two brothers, Pierre and Jean, because the heir to an inheritance is their younger brother, which arouses the elder brother's jealousy and makes many words and deeds that hurt his younger brother and his mother. In the end, the younger brother decides to give up the right to inherit the inheritance, and the older brother realizes that he has gone too far and decides to develop abroad.

The aristocratic girl Yana eagerly returns to her home at Poplar Grange from the monastery where she studied with a beautiful vision for the future and life. 17-Year-old Yana is at the age when she is in love. She is innocent, full of fantasy, and longs for love. And fate seemed to be particularly partial to her. Not long after she returned home, she met the elegant, gentle and considerate young aristocrat Viscount de Lamar, and they quickly fell in love and got married. Yana was full of hope that she was about to usher in a lifetime of happiness, but she never expected that the beautiful love she had always imagined would be the beginning of a lifetime of misfortune. After the marriage, the viscount quickly took off his gentle mask when pursuing Yana, revealing his true nature of being despicable, evil, greedy and lustful. He occupied Yana's property and had an affair with Yana's maid. Her husband's betrayal made Yana miserable. When she wanted to die, she was told that she was pregnant. The appearance of the child gave her new hope. But the happiness was too short-lived. Then a series of changes such as her husband's betrayal and death, the death of her parents, her only son running away from home, and bankruptcy, etc., Dashed Yana's hopes again and again. Yana gradually aged in despair. When her life came to an end, she said: "This life is neither as good nor as bad as you think."

This five-volume set of Maupassant's short stories and short stories includes "Selected Novels of Maupassant's World", "Selected Romance Novels of Maupassant", "Selected Novels of Maupassant's War", "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Humorous Novels" and "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Bizarre Novels". It is the result of the author's appreciation and selection of more than 300 short stories and short stories by the "King of Short Stories" based on long-term research and translation of his works. It can also be said to be a collection of Maupassant's short stories. Love novels are also worldly novels, but the large number of short and medium-sized novels and novels written by Maupassant with love as the theme has won it a unique place. Love is an eternal theme, and Maupassant's love novels are a complete example. There is joy, but more tears and blood, and there are still some lingering sounds of the French knight tradition. This book is equipped with original illustrations.

Maupassant is one of the world's leading short story masters. The publication of "Ball de Suif" in 1880 made him famous in one fell swoop. The story has also become a classic in the history of world literature. The author compares "Ball of Suet", a prostitute who is at the bottom of society and is discriminated against, with all kinds of sanctimonious so-called upper-class figures, fully showing the former's beautiful soul with a strong sense of justice and compassion and the latter's extremely selfish, shameless and ugly soul. This book collects more than 30 fine works such as "Ball of Suet".

This five-volume set of Maupassant's short stories and short stories includes "Selected Novels of Maupassant's World", "Selected Romance Novels of Maupassant", "Selected Novels of Maupassant's War", "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Humorous Novels" and "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Bizarre Novels". It is the result of the author's appreciation and selection of more than 300 short stories and short stories by the "King of Short Stories" based on long-term research and translation of his works. It can also be said to be a collection of Maupassant's short stories. Maupassant, who focused on realism, also played a significant role in the history of French fantasy novels. Some of his strange novels are fantastic and amazing; but more of his strange novels, although the plots are bizarre, are aimed at illuminating the illusion of the supernatural. Whether realistic or bizarre, he is in a league of his own. This book is equipped with original illustrations.

The work tells the story of Duroy, a junior officer of the French colonial army in Algeria, who came to Paris and worked as a newspaper editor. He relied on his beautiful appearance and the ability to please women to seduce upper-class women, and used this as a springboard to embark on the road to prosperity. In the end, he kidnapped the daughter of the newspaper owner, forced the owner to marry his daughter to him, and became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The end of the novel also hints that he will soon become a senator and cabinet minister, and his future is still bright.

You should read "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" every ten years. It can always awaken the power of loving the world in your heart! Selected as one of the top ten famous books in the world by The New York Times and one of the top ten must-read books by The Times. The famous Chinese translator Li Yumin's classic translation was based on the original version written by Victor Hugo. The story tells the story of a girl who combines all the beautiful things in one body and an ugly and deaf bell-ringer. They were separated when they were babies, but they still couldn't get rid of the entanglement of fate. Their lives intersected again and ended at Notre Dame de Paris...

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is the first full-length romantic novel by French writer Victor Hugo. "Notre Dame de Paris" artistically reproduces the historical reality of the reign of French King Louis XI more than 400 years ago, how the palace and the church colluded to oppress the people, and how the people fought heroically against the two forces. The novel has a strong romantic color and uses contrasting writing techniques. It is an artistic example of applying the contrast principle of romanticism.

Jean Valjean had to serve nineteen years of hard labor for stealing a piece of bread; Fantine sold her teeth in order to raise her illegitimate daughter; the corpse thief became the savior of the general who escaped death. What kind of miserable world is this? Hugo used passionate writing to recreate the dark and soul-stirring era from the Napoleonic Wars to the French July Monarchy, and outlined the lives of a group of little people living at the bottom of society. Through the tragic experiences of Jean Val and others and a series of touching deeds after Jean Valjean was converted by Bishop Bian Furu, this book profoundly exposes and criticizes the decadent nature and evil phenomena of French feudal autocratic society in the 19th century. It expresses compassion and sympathy for the exploitation, fraud and cruel persecution suffered by the poor people under the heavy feudal pressure.

"Notre Dame de Paris" is set in France in 1482. It focuses on the relationship between the gypsy girl Esmeralda and the young and handsome captain of the guard, the sanctimonious archdeacon and the deformed and ugly bell ringer. It describes the entanglement between the fates of Esmeralda, Cassimordo and Frollo and other major characters. Conflict and destruction tells a legendary and tragic story that took place in Paris, France in the 15th century. It artistically reproduces the historical reality of France during the reign of King Louis XI, passionately sings the noble humanity of the gypsy girl and the bell ringer, and deeply lashes out at the hypocrisy and despicability of the captain of the guard and the deputy bishop. The novel embodies Hugo's artistic expression principle of "contrast between beauty and ugliness". Its publication broke the shackles of pseudo-classicism and marked the complete victory of romanticism.

"Ninety-Three Years" (1874) is Hugo's last novel. The novel creates three central characters: the Marquis de Lantenac, the leader of the Vendée rebels, his grandnephew, Guo Wen, the commander of the Republican Army who suppressed the rebellion, and Simourden, Guo Wen's tutor and commissioner of the Public Security Commission. An intricate plot unfolded around them, vividly describing the historical scene of the life-and-death struggle between the bourgeoisie and feudal forces in 1793. At the end of the novel: Lanternac, who had narrowly escaped death, returned to the burning castle to rescue three children due to his conscience. Guo Wen was moved by his uncle's humanitarian spirit and was willing to trade his own head for Landenac's life; Simulden shot himself while Guo Wen's head fell to the ground. "1993" Can be said to be the most perfect expression of Hugo's writing art and humanitarian spirit.