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"Romeo and Juliet" is one of the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics by Xu Yuanchong" and is also one of Shakespeare's famous tragedies. The story told is familiar to the majority of readers: the plot tells the story of Juliet, the daughter of the Kapler family, an Italian aristocratic family, and Montague, who have been enemies for generations. The son Romeo fell in love at first sight, fell in love persistently, and had a secret union. However, due to the conflict and mutual killing between the two families, Romeo was exiled. With the help of the priest, Juliet took medicine and faked her death to escape the marriage arranged by her father, and finally both died in love.

"The Force of Habit" premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1974 and was Thomas Bernhard's first true comedy. Garibaldi, a circus owner, decides to practice the cello in order to overcome illness, aging, and the chaos of mediocrity. For years, when not touring the circus, Garibaldi tried to perfect the music by performing Schubert's Trout Quintet in its entirety with circus clowns, animal trainers, jugglers and his high-wire walking granddaughter. However, rehearsals often have to be interrupted for various reasons and become a complete disaster. Year after year of grotesque drills became a circus routine. We don't like this life, but it has to be lived; we all hate the Trout Quintet, but we have to play it.

This set of books is the first complete work of Shakespeare in verse in the Chinese-speaking world. The original form of Shakespeare's drama is a verse drama, which is a verse drama with blank verse as its basic form. Translating poetry into verse, trying to make the translation closer to the original appearance of Shakespeare's drama in terms of tone and language rhythm, is the ultimate appeal of this version. "Tragedy Volume Two" contains three of Shakespeare's tragedies. "King Lear" is one of Shakespeare's four famous tragedies. Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and his most popular work. It is often considered the darkest and most powerful of his tragedies. "Timon of Athens" is Shakespeare's last tragedy, written around 1607-1608. The plot tells the story of the Athenian nobleman Timon, who was generous and charitable by nature, so many people took the opportunity to come and defraud him of money. Later, he went bankrupt, his "friends" left him one after another, and finally died alone in despair.

Shakespeare's classic comedy. Zhu Shenghao's classic translation, a Chinese-English bilingual version, allows you to intuitively experience the charm of Shakespeare's language. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a very representative comedy work by Shakespeare. It tells the love story of lovers who finally get married. This work has a huge influence in the history of world literature and drama. Although the story in the play takes place in the ancient Greek period, the thoughts and feelings of the characters in the play are based on the real life in Britain at that time, reflecting the struggle of new women at that time for the right to free love and independent marriage. Through the contrast of real emotions and the magic forest, and the coexistence of real characters and the fairy king of the forest, it expresses the humanistic ideal of equal coexistence between people and harmonious coexistence between man and nature. If this drama offends you, just think of it as a dream.

The plays Shakespeare wrote throughout his life include historical dramas, comedies and tragedies, which belong to three creative periods with their own emphasis. In comedy, Shakespeare achieved high achievements. The humanists of the Renaissance held beautiful ideals and believed deeply that the future of mankind was infinitely bright. This spirit of optimism was the keynote of Shakespeare's comedy creations. This book selects five representative comedies among these, namely "The Merchant of Venice", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Twelfth Night", "Much Ado About Nothing" and "As You Like It", collectively known as "Shakespeare's Five Comedies". Zhu Shenghao's translation is distinctive in quality and style, with beautiful and clear diction and distinctive characters. It is an artistic treasure cherished by readers and recognized by Shakespeare researchers at home and abroad. Since its publication by our publisher, the book has been revised by successive generations of experts, scholars and editors. It has condensed the wisdom of the academic community on Shakespeare research and has been recognized by readers over the years.

Ancient Greek drama is the oldest drama in the world and the source of the literary genre of drama. It originated in the sixth century BC and reached its peak in the fifth century BC. As a treasure of ancient literature in the world, ancient Greek drama has lasted more than two thousand years, but its touching plots, profound thoughts and superb skills can still impress people today. This translation is exclusive to our company. The translator Luo Niansheng directly translated the representative tragedies "Prometheus Bound", "Oedipus the King", "Medea" and the comedy "Knights" from ancient Greek. It portrays the hero Prometheus who was tortured for stealing fire from mankind in the ancient Greek era, and Oedipus the King who shows the struggle between human will and destiny. It praises human heroes and beautiful emotions, exposes the corruption of rulers, and displays the history and culture of ancient Greece.

Shakespeare's works are treasures in the history of human literature, encyclopedias of human society, and are even considered secular bibles. Everyone can find their own shadow in Shakespeare's plays. This set of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" contains all of Shakespeare's plays and poetry, including 41 plays, 2 plays plus plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and other poems. Particularly different from other previous editions, this set of Shakespeare's complete works uses nearly a thousand illustrations by famous artists such as John Gilbert, the president of the Royal Watercolor Society in the 19th century, and illustrator George Cruickshank. The combination of pictures and texts provides more visual images for reading and understanding Shakespeare's works. This set of Shakespeare's complete works is selected from Zhu Shenghao's classic translation. The parts not translated by Zhu Shenghao were completed by the famous translator Su Fuzhong.

When in love, people become Romeo and Juliet; when in hesitation, people question survival or destruction. From the collapse of royal power to the noise of the market, from the whispers of love to the struggle for power - all emotions resonate in Shakespeare's writings. Power, desire, love, justice and fantasy, five eternal propositions, are staged in the theater of the book. "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Merchant of Venice" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are five drama monuments spanning four hundred years, covering tragedies, dramas and comedies. They depict the purest humanity and are still radiating bright light in the long river of human civilization.

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Zhu Shenghao (February 2, 1912 - December 26, 1944), a native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, is the earliest and most translator of Shakespeare's works in China. The quality and style of his translations are outstanding and recognized by Shakespeare researchers at home and abroad. Zhu Shenghao has high literary literacy, English proficiency and translation ability. In the spring of 1936, he began to translate "The Complete Works of Shakespeare's Dramas". He translated a total of 31 types of comedies, tragedies, historical dramas, dramas, etc. With smooth translation and gorgeous diction, it is the most classic and vivid translation of Shakespeare's works in my country.

400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. "The Winter's Tale" is one of the last tragicomedies created by Shakespeare in his later years and occupies an important position in Shakespeare's plays. "The Winter's Tale" tells the story of King Leontes of Sicily who asked Queen Hermione to help persuade his best friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, to stay in the palace for a longer period of time. The queen finally succeeded in persuading him to stay, and Leontes finally succeeded in persuading him to stay. This caused Thys to become jealous without warning, accusing Hermione and Polixenes of having an affair, forcing the queen to death, frightening the little prince Mamelus to death, and abandoning his infant daughter Perdita, for which he was cursed by the gods. Sixteen years later, Perdita, who was rescued by a Bohemian shepherd, grew up and fell in love with the Bohemian prince Florizel. However, she was strongly opposed by the Bohemian king. The two eloped to Sicily, which eventually led to the recognition of Leontes and Perdita as father and daughter, and Hermione's "resurrection" from the statue...

400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. Among all Shakespeare's works, the four tragedies "Hamlet", "Othello", "Macbeth" and "King Lear" can be called the pearls in the crown; the comedies "The Merchant of Venice" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are the most popular Shakespeare comedies; "Romeo" "With Juliet" is a well-known love story in China; the two tragicomedies "The Winter's Tale" and "The Tempest" are the two last works of Shakespeare in his later years; and "The Taming of the Shrew", as one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, represents the starting point of his playwriting career. The cutting-edge literary and art book brand "Unread" has launched "The Most Beautiful Collection of Shakespeare's Classic Plays" with a new and exquisite binding. It selects the ten plays that best represent Shakespeare, carefully edits them based on the recognized translation of Zhu Shenghao, and invites the well-known book binding designer Ma Shirui to design, presenting to Chinese readers a "high-looking" new version of Shakespeare's works that coexists with classics and fashion sense.

400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. "King Lear" is a famous tragedy by Shakespeare. "King Lear" tells the story of the elderly King Lear who, after abdicating the throne, was driven into the wilderness by his eldest and second daughters who could only speak sweet words. The third daughter, who became the Queen of France, led an army to save her father, but was killed instead. King Lear was so heartbroken that he died beside his younger daughter...

400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. "The Taming of the Shrew" is a famous early humorous comedy by Shakespeare. "The Taming of the Shrew" tells the story of Katharina, who could not find any man who dared to marry her because of her bad temper and stubborn temper. Reluctantly, she married Petruchio, a tall, strong bearded man. Petruchio was determined to train Katharina to be a good wife who would be obedient to him, so he came up with a strategy and started an interesting story of taming the shrew by "fighting violence with violence"...

400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. "Romeo and Juliet" is a famous tragedy by Shakespeare. "Romeo and Juliet" tells the story of two young men and women who fell in love, but suffered misfortune due to the generational hatred between the two families, and finally led to the reconciliation of the two families. The play has been popular throughout the ages and, along with "Hamlet", has become the most frequently performed Shakespeare play...

400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his most popular works. It is often considered the darkest and most powerful of his tragedies. The story is set in Scotland and observes the evil of chasing power and betrayal in a dramatic way, through psychological effects and political struggles. The play tells the story of Macbeth, a brave Scottish general who receives a prophecy from three witches that he will one day become King of Scotland. Out of ambition and the instigation of his wife, Macbeth assassinated King Duncan and proclaimed himself king. Tormented by self-blame and fantasy, he soon degenerated into a tyrant, forced to protect his throne and suppress hostility and suspicion through constant ruthlessness. The massacre and civil war made Macbeth and his wife arrogant and crazy. Macbeth, who gained power by insidiously usurping the throne, eventually went to destruction...

400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the most romantic of all Shakespeare's plays. This play tells the story of a pair of lovers in Athens, Hermia and Lysander, who fled Athens due to the opposition of their families and the possible legal sanctions they may face. Demetrius, who loves Hermia, and Helena, who is obsessed with Demetrius, also followed the lovers into the forest. At this time, the fairy king and queen in the forest were at odds because of a "changer". In order to make the Fairy Queen make concessions, the Fairy King sent Puck to get the magic juice to tease the Fairy Queen. This magic juice has such magical power: if you drop it on the eyelids of a sleeping person, no matter whether you are a man or a woman, you will fall madly in love with the first creature you see when you wake up. Because of the emergence of magic juice, the whole story changed dramatically...

A complete collection of twenty-three plays from Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. There are six volumes in total, three volumes of comedy and three volumes of tragedy. In 1947, "The Complete Works of Shakespeare's Dramas" translated by Mr. Zhu Shenghao was published by World Book Company. The entire book was selected and edited based on this edition. As one of China's earliest translators of Shakespeare's works, Zhu Shenghao's primary purpose of translation is to "maintain the charm of the original work", followed by clarity. It has been translated for more than seventy years and is still very popular. Zhu's translation is basically consistent with the style of today's Chinese. The distinctive Wu dialect and words that are unknown to modern readers but are rich in allusions and have great literary talent are all preserved in this edition. If combined with the context, these expressions will not cause obstacles to understanding the original text, and readers can also appreciate the charm of the original translation.

Maugham is well-known among Chinese readers for his novels such as "The Moon and Sixpence" that have long become cultural symbols. But in fact, in the first half of his life, long before Maugham became a novelist, he had achieved astonishing success in the theater world. During the heyday of his dramatic writing, London's major theaters once staged four of his plays simultaneously. Contemporaries once joked in cartoons that such an achievement would make Shakespeare jealous. Divided into four volumes, this complete collection includes complete translations of all 25 Maugham published plays, filling a gap in this field in the domestic publishing industry. His plays particularly embody his literary style that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, humor and wit, and are worthy of appreciation by all Maugham lovers.

"Twelfth Night" is the end of Shakespeare's early comedy creation. With a lyrical style and romantic comedy form, this work once again eulogizes the beautiful humanistic ideals of love and friendship, and expresses the beauty of life and love.

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This book is one of the Shakespeare drama collection series. This series is a bilingual version (English is the original British novel). The book is equipped with pen illustrations by the master illustrator Hugh Thomson. It also comes with a theater version audiobook with pure American pronunciation. "Othello" is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. Othello is a brave general in the Principality of Venice. He falls in love with Desdemona, the daughter of a senator, but because he is black, the marriage is not allowed. The two had to get married privately. Othello had an insidious flag officer, Iago, who instigated the relationship between Othello and Desdemona, saying that Cassio, another lieutenant, had an unusual relationship with Desdemona. Othello believed it and strangled his wife to death in anger. When he learned the truth, he drew his sword and killed himself in regret, and fell beside Desdemona.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the most mature comedy work of the British playwright William Shakespeare in his youth. It is also one of William Shakespeare's most famous comedies. It tells a love story in which lovers finally get married.

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Haruki Murakami is a famous modern Japanese writer. His works are widely known around the world and he has won multiple world-class literary awards. He is also one of the writers who has received the highest call for the Nobel Prize in Literature over the years. "The Collection of Haruki Murakami: Novels, Essays, and Interviews" contains a total of 21 Murakami works, including 11 Murakami novels: "Listen to the Wind," "Sheep Hunting Adventures," "Pinball in 1973," "The End of the World and Grim Wonderland," "Sputnik Lovers," "South of the Border, West of the Sun," "The Journey of Strange Birds," "Norwegian Woods," "Dance!" Dance! Dance! "Kafka on the Shore", "Knight Master"; 7 essays: "The Final Sad Foreign Language", "Murakami Asahido Diary: How to Find the Whirlpool Cat", "Murakami Broadcast", "No Swinging Without Meaning", "Border·Near", "Drums from the Distant", "Rainy Day"; 2 documentary works: "Underground 1", "Underground 2: The Promised Land" and interview collection: "The Owl Takes Off at Dusk".

Zhu Shenghao's translation is recognized as a translation that perfectly reproduces the charm of Shakespeare's drama and is extremely easy to understand! The authoritative final version, completely unabridged! Among Shakespeare's plays that have survived to this day, tragedies and comedies are the most popular. This set of books collects all 10 tragedies and 13 comedies by Shakespeare. The plays in this set of books are arranged in order of the time of Shakespeare's writing. Readers will more easily understand Shakespeare's writing context. The complete set of books is divided into 5 volumes. Volume 2 of tragedies includes 10 plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Volume 3 of comedies includes 13 plays including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love in vain, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night.

"Through the Window" contains seventeen literary reviews and one short story published by the writer Barnes in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and the Guardian. Critics include Penelope Fitzgerald, Orwell, Kipling, Ford, Merrimee, Houellebecq, Hemingway, Updike and others. As one of the most outstanding contemporary British novelists, Barnes is also an elegant and witty literary critic. In his writing, the image of the writer emerges vividly on the page: How did Orwell's boarding school experience affect his writing? Kipling traveled in France every year by car. What kind of affection did he have for France? Edith Wharton advanced an astronomical $8,000 royalties to Henry James anonymously; Lydia Davis was not very enthusiastic about "Madame Bovary," but her translation was the best... Through these windows of text, we see what is the best novel and the truth about life.

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Hamlet is the longest of all Shakespeare's plays. This play is the most frequently performed play by the Royal Shakespeare Company, formerly known as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. One of the world's famous tragedies, it is also Shakespeare's most famous play. It has profound tragic significance, complex characters and rich and perfect tragic artistic techniques. It represents the highest achievement of the entire Western Renaissance literature. Together with "Macbeth", "King Lear" and "Othello", it forms Shakespeare's "four major tragedies".

This book includes two famous drama scripts by Mr. Lao She, one is "Teahouse" and the other is "Longxugou". "Teahouse" was created in 1956. The play uses a teahouse called Yutai to show the social changes in the three eras of the Reform Movement of 1898, the warlord war, and the eve of the founding of New China for nearly half a century, as well as all the living beings in this society. There are dozens of characters appearing in the play, but all of them have distinct personalities. You can "know the person by hearing their voice" and "outline the outline of a character in just a few words." This play has been performed many times at home and abroad and has won high praise. It is a classic work of contemporary Chinese drama creation. "Longxugou" was created in 1950. The play describes the different experiences of several families in a small courtyard in Beijing during social changes, and shows the earth-shaking changes in the old and new eras. The play creates unique characters such as Madman Cheng, Aunt Wang, Niangzi, and Sister-in-law Ding.

"People are not fruits. You can't eat oranges and throw away the peel." "Death of a Salesman" is the pinnacle work of Arthur Miller, the famous dramatist known as "the conscience of American drama." Willy Loman was a salesman. In his prime, he had reliable business skills. His wife Linda was a good housekeeper, and his two sons, Biff and Happy, made him proud. However, as time goes by, his good luck seems to be leaving him, and his life is gradually getting out of control... The author tears apart the glamorous appearance of the "American Dream", compassionately understands the tragic fate of the little people, and quietly presents his hope and pain on the dramatic stage. The play was published in 1949 and ran for 742 consecutive performances on Broadway. It won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It was the first play to win the three major drama awards in one fell swoop, making Arthur Miller a household name in the United States. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1985, starring Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman. The translator of this book, Mr. Ying Ruocheng, is a famous Chinese performing artist, translator, and drama director. He played the leading role in the Chinese premiere of "Death of a Salesman" directed by Arthur Miller himself.

The story all takes place in a teahouse in Beijing. People come and go in the teahouse, and people of all colors and religions gather together. A big teahouse is like a small society. Mr. Lao She captured the characteristics of this scene and highly condensed the time span of half a century and 60 to 70 primary and secondary characters into the teahouse, showing life scenes in three eras after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 in the late Qing Dynasty, the period of the Beiyang warlord separatism in the early years of the Republic of China, and the eve of the fall of the Kuomintang regime. He summarized the sharp opposition and conflicts between various classes and forces in Chinese society, and revealed the historical destiny of semi-feudal and semi-colonial China.

"Hamlet" is one of the four tragedies of the great dramatist and poet William Shakespeare. The story tells that the father of Prince Hamlet of Denmark suddenly died mysteriously while taking a nap in the garden. His uncle Claudius succeeded as king and married Hamlet's mother. Prince Hamlet met his father's ghost in pain. The ghost told the prince that his life, throne and wife were taken away by his uncle Claudius in his sleep, and told Hamlet to avenge him. So Hamlet begins a tortuous journey of revenge... There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers, and everyone will see their own inner struggle in this story. When your faith collapses in the face of reality, what choice will you make? To live or not to live, that is the question.

German poet Goethe has a famous saying: "There are countless Shakespeares!" Chinese dramatist Cao Yu once praised: "Shakespeare is a giant who always surprises and delights mankind!" Shakespeare is recognized as a world-class drama master. His plays contain the vastness of life, profound knowledge and endless profound thoughts. This book collects Shakespeare's six representative comedies, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Merchant of Venice", "As You Like It", "The Comedy of Errors", "Twelfth Night", and "The Merry Wives of Windsor". The themes are similar, but the plots are vivid and rich, unconventional. The intricate plots are often composed of many deceptions, coincidences, disguises and adventures. The work shines with the light of humanistic ideals, is full of joyful atmosphere and optimistic spirit, praises the beautiful love and innocent friendship of mankind, and has eternal charm.

"A Room of One's Own" is a masterpiece of essays by British writer Virginia Woolf. From the perspective of inequality between men and women in real society, she reveals the difficulty of human beings moving towards modern civilization. She hoped that the progress and improvement of society and the progress and improvement of mankind would be the direction for both men and women to work together. Women are destined to play an important role in modern society with the rapid development of science and technology. This essay has eternal value.

"Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" contains the prestigious poetry works of Rabindranath Tagore, Asia's first Nobel Prize winner. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature with "Gitanjali". He devoted his life to poetry creation, and his poems' reputation transcended national borders and had a profound impact on the creations of Guo Moruo, Bing Xin, Zheng Zhenduo, etc. This version of "Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" fully includes four poetry collections recommended for independent reading in Chinese textbooks, including the crystal clear and beautiful "Songs of Childlike Innocence" and "New Moon Collection", the clear and timeless "Songs of Philosophy" and "Collection of Birds", "Sacrifice to God" and "Gitanjali", and the youthful "Songs of Life" and "Gardener Collection". In addition, valuable information such as translation prefaces and examples are specially included to build a dialogue bridge with readers and help readers understand the text in a three-dimensional and comprehensive way. "Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" is a complete collection of Tagore's four representative collections of poems, including the crystal clear and beautiful "Songs of Childhood" and "New Moon Collection", the clear and timeless "Songs of Philosophy" and "Collection of Birds", "Sacrifice to God" "Gitanjali", and "Songs of Life" and "Gardener Collection" which incorporate the poet's feelings about youth. Through these poems, we can deeply understand how Tagore, the great Indian poet, loved his country with a long and excellent culture, its people, and its majestic and beautiful mountains and rivers.

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. "Pride and Prejudice" is the masterpiece of British writer Jane Austen. The book describes the love and marriage of several young men and women, vividly presents the social life and human emotions in British towns in the early 19th century, and reflects women's pursuit of independent personality and marital autonomy. It is an enduring classic in English literature. This classic work by Jane Austen tells the love story of the two daughters of the Bennett family. At a dance, the elegant new neighbor Bentley and his eldest daughter Jane fell in love with each other; Bentley's good friend Darcy was arrogant by nature. He was dissatisfied with the frivolity and shallowness of the Bennett family and refused to dance with his second daughter Elizabeth. Soon after, Darcy developed a liking for the intelligent and decent Elizabeth. However, Elizabeth was prejudiced against Darcy and rejected his advances. The relationship between Jane and Bingley also fell into crisis. Can they get out of their misunderstanding and gain happiness?

In this book, there are all the things you like above, and there is absolutely no unnecessary moaning text. A book with a small size and comfortable hand feel, suitable for you to open it anywhere. The moving subway, the fragrant cafes, the sofas where you can relax, the slightly heated benches in the park... Reading it is a wonderful thing. Everything is fresh, cheerful and lovely. Breathe smoothly and freely. The sun is pouring on the earth, and the soul is absorbing heat at this moment. Everything is awakened, yet everything is silent.

The ultimate goal of love is the mutual consent and union of body and mind. The essence of love is nothing more than the process of realizing the desire of a man and a woman to attract and pursue each other. However, in this process, one cannot just rely on bravery and enthusiasm to charge forward as one wishes, but there are indeed some rules that no one can avoid.

If there was a profession called a reader in the world, no one would be more suitable than Maugham. It seems natural that writers love reading, but like Somerset Maugham, he followed the chart, from the writer's works to the writer's life and character, and then turned around from their life and character to care about the writer's work, and wrote a wonderful collection of essays based on this, which is also a rare thing in the history of literature. This is a book of gossip by a master, and also a book of Maugham's insights into reading and philosophy. The spicy secrets and interesting humanity of the literary giant, Jane Austen's kind "meanness", Stendhal's inner inferiority, Flaubert's first love on the beach in childhood, Leo Tolstoy's confusion and confession in his life, Dostoyevsky's betrayal...

"Johan Christophe" is a Nobel Prize-winning work and a representative biography of Romain Rolland. "Johann Christophe" is based on Beethoven and describes the life of the musical genius John Christophe, who struggled with himself, art, and society, from the awakening of his musical talent in his boyhood, to his contempt and resistance to social and artistic dignitaries in his youth, to his pursuit of career, friendship and love as an adult, to his almost being destroyed by the great difficulties of life, but finally reaching a clear and lofty state. Although John-Christophe had an irreconcilable contradictory character, he had great enthusiasm for life and art. Even if he was misunderstood, he still maintained a sincere heart and fought tenaciously and bravely.

"The Odyssey" is an ancient Greek-Chinese version, the latest in the "Rizhi Classical Series". The Greek text of this book adopts the version of "The Odyssey" in Loeb's Classical Series, which is the authoritative revised version that has been in use for nearly a hundred years. The immortal heroic epic "The Odyssey" created by the ancient Greek poet Homer, together with the "Iliad", is called the "Homeric Epic" and is recognized as the ancestor of Western literature and the source of Western culture.

The long epic "Divine Comedy" is divided into "Inferno", "Purgatory" and "Heaven". The story adopts the form of medieval fantasy literature. The protagonist is the poet Dante himself, telling him that "in the middle of my life, I found that I had lost the right path and entered a dark forest." After wandering for a night, he walked out of the forest, but was blocked by three wild beasts - a leopard, a lion, and a wolf. In a critical moment, the ancient Roman poet Virgil appeared to rescue him and guide him to travel. This book is considered the most important landmark work of the Renaissance movement.

"The Divine Comedy" is a long epic poem. Each part of the trilogy has thirty-three cantos, plus the first canto as the overture to the whole book, for a total of one hundred cantos. This symmetrical structure is based on medieval concepts of the mysterious meaning and symbolism of numbers. "The Divine Comedy" extensively reflects reality, gives an artistic summary of medieval culture, and at the same time shows the dawn of humanistic thought in the Renaissance era. Therefore, Engels called him "the last poet of the Middle Ages and the first poet of the new era."

Shakespeare's Comedy Collection is a collection of Shakespeare's classic comedies, including the four famous comedies "The Merchant of Venice", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night", "Tit for Tat", "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and other famous works. The translation of this book is based on the translation by Zhu Shenghao, a famous translator of Shakespeare's plays, and has been carefully edited and equipped with exquisite illustrations and collector's stamps. The content is classic.

This set includes: four great tragedies: "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Othello" and "King Lear". Four major comedies: "The Merchant of Venice", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Twelfth Night". Classic tragicomedy: "Romeo and Juliet".

"I have never said that I have the ability to make up stories out of thin air; I often need an event or a character to start writing, but I always use my imagination, creativity and sense of drama to make the material my own." Maugham said. Since the age of eighteen in 1892, Maugham has developed the habit of recording various creative materials at any time, a habit he has continued for more than fifty years. In 1949, Maugham, who was already seventy-five years old, carefully selected from the fifteen volumes of notes, memoranda and travel notes he had saved, and published this "Writer's Notes" with concise notes. This is undoubtedly one of Maugham's most important and authentic works. It is tantamount to making his "warehouse of writing materials", the ultimate secret of his creation, public to the public after officially giving up the creation of fictional literature. Although he later published two collections of essays and reviews, "What Happens" and "Viewpoints," "A Writer's Notes" can be seen as the starting point and end point of Maugham's literary creation, and it was his farewell to his long literary career.

Virginia Woolf's diaries written over twenty-four years, including more than five hundred private murmurs of nights and days. "Perhaps I will not become 'famous' or 'great,' but I will continue to take risks, continue to change, broaden my horizons, refuse to be trampled on by others, and refuse to stick to the rules. The important thing is to release myself and find my own space without restriction." This book is a diary selection compiled by Virginia Woolf's husband, Leonard Woolf, and collects the precious diaries belonging to Woolf during the twenty-four years from 1918 to 1941. We can see how she walked through the thorns. As a female writer, her creations were almost as much denigrated as praised. On one side, she said, "I can write whatever I want," and on the other side, "I searched hard to find my own name in articles and reviews."

Thoreau's "Walden" uses clear thoughts and words to tell us the true meaning of life of "minimal material and abundant soul". Thoreau stayed away from the hustle and bustle and lived a minimalist life in Walden's poetic and beautiful scenery of the four seasons, constantly thinking about how to live closer to his own soul. He used words to set up a ruler of the real world, letting future generations know how deep the torrent of illusions and illusions is. The "Commemorative Edition" uses a well-received translation of the beautiful text. The beautiful text and beautiful scenery complement each other, making people fascinated. I hope everyone who enters the world can read "Walden" as soon as possible, which is a gift in life.