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The works selected in this book come from the two periods before and after Chekhov's creation. Among the early works, in addition to "Chameleon" which is familiar to Chinese readers and has a certain realistic criticism, there are also some light-hearted and purely humorous novels. "The Man in the Trap" is the most famous of Chekhov's later novels selected in "Selected Short Stories of Chekhov". This novel expresses the dull and depressing atmosphere of the times and satirizes the generally rigid and restricted mental state of Russian society.

German literature is famous for its poetry and "novelles" (short stories). Most of the famous German writers have written some excellent short stories and short stories. Short and medium-sized novels in German-speaking countries, especially short stories based on one moment and one event, have the advantage of seeing the big from the small. Like mountain flowers and weeds with strong vitality, they grow everywhere in German-speaking countries and develop in colorful ways. The novels of Romantic writers such as Hoffmann exude the fragrance of mysterious "orchids"; the works of Swiss novelists such as Gotthelf are filled with the bright sunshine and fresh air of the Alps; the novels of Sturm, who grew up on the coast of the North Sea, are always like a layer of mist, filled with desolate and soft poetry... This book selects and translates famous works of German literature masters such as Goethe, Heine, Zweig, and Kafka. The title of this book comes from a story in Genesis. The story tells that Noah, the ancestor of mankind, sent a dove out of the ark to find out news when the flood on the earth began to recede. However, after he sent out the third dove, this dove never returned and there was no news. The author uses this fable to condemn the imperialist world war and express his deep concern for the fate of mankind.

This book is an anthology of Chekhov's short stories, including more than 20 of Chekhov's representative short stories such as "The Chameleon", "Death of an Official", "Wanka", "Ward No. 6", And "The Man in the Trap". Chekhov is known as one of the three greatest short story writers in the world. His short stories are outstanding representatives of Russian and even world realist literature at the end of the 19th century. The works selected in this book represent Chekhov's creative achievements in different periods. Many of them have been selected into primary and secondary school textbooks and are well-known to every household.

The pinnacle of novels in the 20th century, a pioneer of modern literature as famous as Kafka, Joyce, and Proust. "Man Without Personality" is the unfinished posthumous work of the Austrian writer Robert Musil. It is a "spiritual novel" and a literary work rich in essayistic thinking. Through the miniature world in the novel, the writer outlines the transition from the upper-class civil society shaped by enlightenment rationality to the modern mass society. It displays a wax museum of the characters of his era and occupies an important position in the modernist literature of the 20th century. The background of the novel is the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1914. In Vienna, a committee was formed to prepare for the celebrations in 1918 of the seventieth anniversary of the reign of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, the same year that Germany would celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II; so the Austrian operation was called a "parallel operation" (however, 1918 would be the year of the fall of both kingdoms, which puts a comically absurd bombshell into the basis of the novel). The protagonist of the novel - Ulrich, the secretary of the Parallel Action Committee - realizes that possibilities are more important to him than the mediocre and rigid reality; he feels that he is a person without personality, because he no longer regards people, but material, as the center of modern reality: "Today... Has produced a world without individuality, a world without the experience of those who experience it." He saw that he was forced to face various problems of the times, and to face various contradictions between reason and soul, scientific faith and cultural pessimism.

"Pride and Prejudice" is a comic and fascinating work by Jane Austen. The novel reflects the world and customs of British society from the late 18th century to the early 19th century through the story of several middle-class girls from villages and towns talking about marriage. The male protagonist Darcy behaves arrogantly, causing the heroine Elizabeth to always be prejudiced against him, which also makes their love journey full of hardships. But Elizabeth finally understood Darcy's true personality. Darcy changed his arrogant attitude because of Elizabeth, and they ended up in a happy marriage. The plot of the novel is tortuous and full of comedy, the language is natural and fluent, and it is witty and humorous. It reveals the tragedy and comedy of life with superb skills.

This book is a collection of short stories by the famous French novelist Daudet. His short stories play a prominent role in French short story creation. Among them, the famous piece "The Last Lesson" can even be synonymous with Dude, and can be regarded as a model of the combination of ideological and artistic aspects in short stories. "The Last Lesson" describes the last French lesson in a rural primary school that was ceded to Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War and bid farewell to the language of the motherland. Through the self-narration of a naive and ignorant primary school student, it vividly expresses the pain of the French people under foreign rule and their love for their motherland.

This book is a trilogy of Gorky's autobiographical novels. It describes Gorky's understanding of suffering and his unique insights into social life. There is an endless desire and strength flowing between the lines. It is rich in connotation and thought-provoking, and depicts a wonderful spiritual world for us. This trilogy of world-famous autobiographical novels observes and understands the world around him through the eyes of a growing child, allowing us to see the image of a stubborn, compassionate and constantly pursuing teenager. The various problems that teenagers encounter during their growth period and the various psychological tests they undergo are extremely touching and touching for readers.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the masterpiece of Jonathan Swift, the most outstanding British political commentator and satirical novelist in the 18th century, and a great satirical novel in the history of world literature. The novel uses Captain Gulliver's voice to narrate the experience of traveling around Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the Flying Island Kingdom, and the Houyhnhnms Kingdom. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize the British political system, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class.

"A writer who writes with talent, a real magician." A new collection of Nabokov's five classic novels by the author of "Lolita". It is an exercise in the style of a literary alchemist and an early masterpiece that Nabokov fans cannot miss. Vladimir Nabokov, the author of "Lolita", is recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Nabokov Collection II" selects five of Nabokov's masterpieces, from which we can see the growth of a literary alchemist: his debut novel "Mary" misses his homeland and first love; "Defense" depicts a crazy chess genius with scalpel-like precision; "The Eye" challenges novel techniques with the theme of "spy"; "Desperation" plays with "metafiction", and the protagonist has the shadow of Humbert in the later "Lolita"; "The Invitation to the Beheading" is a bizarre and surreal allegorical noir.

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The original work of the popular TV series "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses". Newcomer Maple became famous in her first game event. In search of rare equipment, she and Sally embarked on an exploration of the second event. Facing a killer player? Defeated! Encounter an undefeated monster on the road? Capture! New skills "Magic Enhancement" and "Floating Fortress" are now available. It turns out that the mysterious turtle floating in the sky is Maple's mount. In this way, amidst everyone's discussion, a week in which countless legends were born officially kicked off!

"Madame Bovary" tells the story of Emma, ​​the wife of a provincial doctor, who is addicted to romantic fantasies. She falls into debt due to her pursuit of extravagant love and material things, and finally commits suicide in despair, revealing the evil of banality and the disillusionment of romantic fantasies.

"Small Town Freak" is the representative work of American writer Sherwood Anderson. It is a good book that will never go out of date. The whole book consists of 25 stories that are both independent and communicate with each other. The author sets the background of the story in the town of Wineburg, Ohio, and outlines the "weirdness" of various characters in the town from their behavioral styles to their deep spiritual depths. Underneath the comic-like comic level, there is the spiritual care flowing through the author's gentle writing. Turning over the pages of the book, real and vivid souls come to mind. This book also specially invites the famous cartoonist Mr. Zuo Chuan to add vivid and vivid cartoon portraits to each character for the readers' enjoyment.

Seven heart-warming stories brought by a cat who delivers oracles, a heart-warming masterpiece by Japanese healing writer Michiko Aoyama! Everyone who is confused will find their own guidance in this book. A lovelorn girl, a graduate frustrated with job hunting, a father with a rift in the parent-child relationship, a housewife trying to decide between her family and her dreams, a victim of school violence... Several people accidentally visited a shrine and all met a cat with a star mark on its left hip. The oracle is like a riddle, but when people find the answer, their lives will change dramatically. Seven leaves, seven tender stories, let the magical cat enlighten you who are confused. Won the 13th Tianlong Literary Award × Shortlisted for the Future House Novel Award! Michiko Aoyama, a treasured Japanese healing writer, writes with heart-warming words and phrases! "Pain can't go away, and you don't have to let it go away. It won't go away, but will slowly turn into something else." Michiko Aoyama's warm writing style will heal you who are anxious and sensitive. Although we are all small existences, the world exists because of you and me.

The Japanese version of "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio", the origin of modern ghost story literature and a mirror through which Westerners look into Japan, "Kai Tan·Qi Tan" contains a total of fifty-five ghost stories, all of which are retellings and rewrites by Koizumi Yakumo based on famous works of Japanese classical literature, and are taken from "Wandering Strange Tales" "Talks", "Ghost Talk at the Night Window", "Ten Lessons", "Stories of the Past and Past", "Ugetsu Monogatari", "Anthology of Ancient and Modern Writings", "Hundred Monogatari", "New Hundred Monogatari" and many other ancient Japanese books. These stories of loneliness or loneliness in the dark have won the samadhi of Japanese literature. "Strange Tales" is an indirect reflection of Japanese history, and it also carries the cultural beauty shared by the East. The aesthetic realm of the blending of Eastern and Western civilizations presented in the whole book has extremely high appreciation and recognition value. The book is equipped with Koizumi's hand-drawn illustrations from his manuscripts, which are extremely precious.

The novel mainly describes the love story of a pair of protagonists. Fabrice won the favor of his aunt when he was young. When he grew up, he became the focus of many women because of his handsome appearance. He experienced many romantic affairs, and after being imprisoned, he met the daughter of the fortress commander and completely changed into a different person. From then on, he began a tear-jerking love story with the heroine. "The Abbey of Parma" is one of Stendhal's most representative novels. It is set in Italy from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century and criticizes the dark rule of European feudal forces.

This book is a novel published in 2022 by Paolo Giordano, an Italian writer and winner of the Strega Literary Award. This is a rich and profound novel. It follows the protagonist walking on the streets of Rome, Italy, the climate summit in Paris, France, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and even the distant Guadeloupe. He talks with meteorologists, physicists, journalists and atomic bomb survivors, trying to show the current moment. It explores the complexity of the world, the spiritual crisis of contemporary people, and explores the dangerous future facing human society. It is a literary work with realistic concern and topical significance. It was praised by the media as "a novel that truly belongs to our times" and won the 2023 French André Malraux Literary Award.

Coming from a country that no longer exists, being taught a language that was fragmented, I stuck out my tongue like a dragon in a fairy tale, and it bifurcated: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian... Can a language so painful, a language that has never learned to describe reality as complex as one's inner experience of reality, be able to tell a story? It was always like this in the beginning. Or that. They did that, went there, and then came to Holland. The exile narrative is undated. Too many things happened in the short "post-war" period, and their psychological clocks broke under the pressure. Everything is broken. Place and time are divided into "before" and "after", life is divided into "here" and "there". They are suddenly without witnesses, parents, family, friends, or even the usual people with whom they can reconstruct their lives. Without these reliable intermediaries, they are thrown back into themselves. In a mediatized world, nothing is real. Memories pass through many intermediaries, taking the form of a Juliette Binoche or a red, white and blue woven bag, translating my personal pain into my language. Only this one thing is true. Pain is silent, useless, but the only true witness.

Volde, now translated as Voltaire (1694-1778), was a French bourgeois Enlightenment thinker, philosopher, historian, and writer. "The Biography of Fulde" is one of the many biographies of the biographer Mauroa. Moroa's literary achievements are especially reflected in his biography. The biographies he wrote have vivid characters, interesting plots and the flavor of novels. He can be said to have made innovations in the way he wrote biographies. His works are known as some of the best biographies in the French literary garden, including "The Life of Fude".

"Bacon on Life" is a collection of Bacon's essays and a classic of modern European philosophical prose. Since its publication, it has been immortal for four hundred years and can be called a treasure handed down from generation to generation in the history of world prose and thought. The content of the work covers all aspects of human life such as politics, economy, religion, love, friendship, art, education and ethics. Its thoughts are broad and profound enough to enable people to absorb spiritual nutrients on the road of life.

Tagore's prose creations cover a wide range of contents. "Memories of Life" selects his life memories with literary biographies, literary travel notes and beautiful essays on literature, so that readers can enjoy the beauty in their knowledge. "Children's Songs" is Tagore's first important poetic essay, which focuses on his thoughts on children's literature. "Shakuntala" is a review of the plays of the classical Indian poet Kalidasa, praising the natural beauty of Kalidasa's plays. It also includes some works that elaborate on his literary thoughts, including important papers such as "The Nature of Literature", "The Materials of Literature", "Literary Thinkers" and "Aesthetics". Among them, "The Nature of Literature" is an important essay that focuses on Rabindranath Tagore's early literary thoughts.

The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short stories and short stories compiled and published by the American literary master Melville during his lifetime. The story is gorgeous, strange, profound, humorous, and the language is moving and fluent. The Chinese translation of the book is published for the first time to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Melville's birth.

The magician Wallander (Satan) parachuted into Moscow in the 1930s with a talking black cat, and used his magic power to "do evil" - vain citizens made a fool of themselves, greedy officials lost their lives inexplicably, and a city that believed in atheism was turned upside down by supernatural forces... At the same time, in another time and space, in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, a far-reaching judgment was being carried out nervously. Should the holy and sinless young man Jesus be executed? The Roman governor fell into a thousand years of entanglement and a thousand years of regret. A love as poignant as moonlight unfolds in Moscow as if destined. God, the devil, the master who burned manuscripts, and the girl who was crazy about love all appeared one by one; executioners, informers, adulterers, and selfish people came one after another. In the bizarre fantasy, a carnival spanning time and space begins... "The Master and Margaret" is considered the pioneering work of magical realism. The author fictionalizes the devil's visit to Moscow and connects incredible magical fantasies, real historical events and banal and vulgar daily life, creating a magnificent world where reality and illusion are intertwined, rationality and absurdity coexist, and fantasy and reality are integrated. It uses a relaxed, humorous and light-weight writing style, a chain comedy, a book-within-a-book structure, and bright, firm, and radiant language to sweep away the heavy, profound, and inaccessible impression that Russian literature has left on readers. It has been rated as the best Russian novel in the 20th century and the first of the 49 ideal collections of Russian literature in France's "Ideal Collection of Books."

Keigo Higashino's long suspenseful masterpiece is about dreams, family love and protection. Did you know? Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests and let other birds raise them on their behalf. --I found out that my daughter Fengmei was someone else's child, but I allowed her to be added to my household registration. I felt guilty. Perhaps my wife and I had distorted her life. I won't let this kid suffer any punishment. If punishment comes, I will risk my life. One day, a man named Kamijou found me. He seemed to have come prepared.

This book is the most proud mystery novel by the famous Japanese writer Chen Shunchen. The protagonist Shogo Hamura's adoptive mother dies mysteriously. Everyone present has perfect alibi. Who is the murderer? As the investigation continues to unfold, larger conspiracies are slowly emerging.

This book is one of the "Comprehensive Translation of Detective Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty: Gao Luopei's Embroidered Portrait Edition". The abnormal death of a local official leads to a major case of transnational gold smuggling and disrupting the social and economic order. There are suspense and thrills everywhere in the book. The seemingly independent cases are both scattered and intertwined with the main clues. Disappearance cases, murder cases, arms cases, collusion cases; Buddhist disciples, wealthy businessmen, fireworks women, and solitary virgins, who has no hidden secrets? The most surprising thing is that the book also contains a character with a similar genetic mutation, who seems to have come out of the ancient "Book of Mountains and Seas" - he has a long history and is eye-catching. There is also the ghost of the unjust dead man, wandering inside and outside the county government hall... When Judge Dee reveals the mystery and makes the readers excited, the author turns his pen and the mystery once again shows a strange smile.

This book contains a total of 18 critical articles and speeches written by Eliot from 1919 to 1936. With his profound literary connotation and calm and keen insight, this outstanding critic conducted a continuous examination of the representative poets of great importance in the history of British literature. At the same time, he also expressed his unique insights into the meaning and techniques of literary criticism.

As one of the four great classics, "Journey to the West" has been studied and compiled by many people since it was written. This review of "Journey to the West" is based on the Shidetang edition, and the collated editions are Yang Minzhai's edition, Zhu Dingchen's edition, Li Zhuowu's commentary, Tang Monk's Journey to the West, Tang Sanzang's complete biography, Journey to the West Zhengdao Shu, and Xinshuo Journey to the West, etc. Detailed annotations were made on the ideas, famous objects, classics, cultural phenomena, etc.; Errors in the reference books and old annotations were corrected; various methods were used to interpret the difficult points in the novel using knowledge from different disciplines; full use was made of the research results of past dynasties, as much as possible collected and sorted out, and the best ones were chosen; and the religious content was explored in as much detail as possible. This latest annotation could have given modern readers a deeper understanding of Journey to the West, a vivid novel of gods and demons.

Readers from all over the world spend an average of one night reading it! The suspenseful masterpiece by Ken Follett, the author of "Fall of Giants" and master of all-night novels. Literature is full of lovable villains and sexy bad guys, and this assassin is it! This book once again pushes the tension to its peak, which is more exciting than drinking a strong drink in one gulp! He was a desperate assassin who fled abroad. In order to prevent Russia from being involved in World War I, he came to London alone to assassinate the Russian envoy. Churchill and the entire London police force were closing in on him, making the assassination difficult. At this time, the appearance of a woman brought a turning point to the assassination, but also led to a secret that had been hidden for 19 years...

Aristophanes' worldview basically reflected the interests of the peasants among the free people. He proposed some new ideas, but he also had a conservative tendency in politics. He firmly opposed the war between the Athenian group and the Spartan group. After the war, the economy of Athens collapsed, and the average people became even poorer. The idea of ​​an utopia emerged in society, demanding equal wealth. Plays such as "The Assembly Women" and "Fortune" reflected these ideas.

Aristophanes' worldview basically reflected the interests of the peasants among the free people. He proposed some new ideas, but he also had a conservative tendency in politics. He firmly opposed the war between the Athenian group and the Spartan group. After the war, the economy of Athens collapsed, and the average people became even poorer. The idea of ​​an utopia emerged in society, demanding equal wealth. Plays such as "The Assembly Women" and "Fortune" reflected these ideas.

The drama "Blood Wedding" is based on a real event that happened in Nijar (Almeria) in 1928: On the morning of the wedding, a young woman and her cousin, her lover, ran away. Not long after, the injured bride was found next to the body of her lover, who had been killed by the groom's brother. The double stimulus of an honor case washed with blood - like many dramas of the golden century, the dry and harsh environment of eastern Andalusia is purified and brought into play in the play. Two peasant families prepare for the wedding of their children: the groom's mother has a deep hatred for the Felix family because they murdered her husband and one of her sons. The bride's father wanted to connect the two families' lands together. On the day of the wedding, the bride's former lover, Leonardo Felix, came. Although he is married, he still loves her. As for the bride, she doesn't love her fiancé, but thinks she will forget Leonardo after marriage. In the middle of the wedding, they elope on horseback. The mother and groom chased after them until they caught up with them in a wooded area. The groom and Leonardo fight to death. "Blood Wedding" is a drama that reflects a secular scene, mainly showing repressed and forbidden love. What the hero and heroine face is a closed and backward society, the feud between two families and the economic interests between the characters. However, their love broke through all restraints, betrayed the moral principles of society, and even violated their own reason. The famous literary critic Fernandez Almagro called "Blood Wedding" "the soul of the nation with a primitive flavor".

This book contains two of Sartre's most representative plays, "Death Without a Burial" and "Quarantine." "Death Without a Burial" is a play written by French writer Jean-Paul Sartre in 1946. It is Sartre's first play. Sartre successfully injected his existential philosophy into his realistic play "Death Without a Burial". This blend of realism and existentialism gives new meaning to core propositions such as the value of life, free choice, and responsibility for action, and brings vitality to existential literature.

Kwantung Army, a notorious name. During the "September 18th" adventurous military operation, this unit reaped all the benefits, and was thus regarded as the elite of the Japanese Army, the so-called "Flower of the Imperial Army." However, on the eve of World War II, the Kwantung Army exposed its serious flaws in the battle with the Soviet Red Army, and was even completely defeated by the Soviet Red Army in the late stages of World War II. The showdown between the Soviet Red Army and the Kwantung Army also profoundly affected the course of World War II. For the first time, this book provides a panoramic description of the previous battles between the Kwantung Army and the Soviet Red Army. It provides an in-depth interpretation and comparison of the battle command, quality of commanders and soldiers, intelligence use, weapon configuration and national-level strategic deployment of both sides, bringing people truly into the smoke-filled battlefield of World War II.

"Harvard Chinese History 5: The Struggling Empire: Yuan and Ming" is the fifth volume in the "Harvard Chinese History" series. The famous sinologist Bu Zhengmin is unique in narrating the development, rise and fall of the Yuan and Ming empires from the perspective of climate and environmental history, highlighting two major characteristics of this era: the new political order in the East Asian continent after the Mongol conquest and the social survival dilemma caused by environmental changes, thereby presenting China's first coherent ecological history. At the same time, he also discussed a series of important issues such as autocracy, social complexity and commercialization in ancient China.

The book "Childhood" truly describes the growth story of the protagonist Alexei. Alexey lives in the house of his grandfather, who is moody and has a bad temper. His grandmother is very loving to Alexei, telling him legends, fairy tales and folktales, and enduring all the pressures of life without complaint. After his grandfather went bankrupt, Alexey was forced to live in the world and start to make a living independently. The novel profoundly outlines a true picture of the decline and destruction of Russian society in the 19th century. At the same time, it shows the integrity, simplicity, and diligence of the lower-class working people, and reflects the writer's difficult life in childhood and his unremitting pursuit of light and truth.

"Gulliver's Travels" is an outstanding travel satirical novel by Jonathan Swift (translated as Jonathan Swift). The novel is written based on the experience of surgeon Gulliver's four voyage adventures. It expresses the author's thoughts in a relatively perfect artistic form. The author uses rich satirical techniques and bizarre plots of fictional fantasy to profoundly analyze the social reality of the time in Britain.

The protagonist "I" in the book is an underappreciated writer in London. He met a stockbroker by chance. When he reached middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and rebelled against everything. He first went to Paris, and then to Tahiti in the South Pacific to live with the indigenous people. He devoted himself to painting and became famous after his death. After he became famous, "I" began to trace his past interactions with the artist and his subsequent life experiences. The artist's story is based on the life of Gauguin, a French post-Impressionist painter who lived in extreme poverty and was prepared to die in glory.

"La Traviata" is a masterpiece of world literature. It has been published and performed in three forms: novel, drama, and opera. All three have become masterpieces handed down from generation to generation due to their immortal artistic value. Margaret, a courtesan in Paris, was conquered by the sincere love of Armand, who was not rich, and fell in love. Just when the lovers in love were looking forward to a better life in the future, Armand's father secretly forced Margaret to leave Armand. Armand does not know the truth and thinks that Margaret intends to abandon him. Margaret endured the humiliation and died of hatred due to the double torment of illness and grief. This innocent love ended in tragedy.

The novel depicts a historical picture of an era in Russian society. He used detailed language to depict the tragic life of people in the lower class, and how an orphan struggled, survived hard, and pursued his ideal experience. This book is an autobiography of the author's childhood. It is not only the life history of a young man, but also the artistic history of an era. This book reflects the disintegration process of petty bourgeois handicrafts caused by the growth of industrial capitalism in Russia. The bankruptcy of "my" grandfather's family is a true portrayal of Russia from the 1870s to the 1880s.

This book is a novel written by the former Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky, written in 1933. Through the growth path of Paul Korchagin, the novel tells people that only when a person defeats the enemy and himself in the hardships of the revolution, and only when he connects his pursuit with the interests of the motherland and the people, can he create miracles and grow into a steel warrior. Revolutionaries are forged into steel in struggle, which is an important theme in the novel.

"Anecdotes of Charles IX" is a novel by Mérimée. It takes the famous religious tragedy "St. Bartholomew's Night" during the period of Charles IX in the 16th century as its theme, and shows the darkness and cruelty of medieval feudal autocracy. The protagonist Melky is a young aristocratic Huguenot from the province. After the religious peace in 1570, he went to Paris to join the Protestant leader Admiral Collini. After Melky came to Paris, he met his brother George, who had been separated for many years and converted to Catholicism during the Civil War. Under the direct command of the king, the massacre of the Protestants began. George refused to carry out the bloody order and was thrown into prison. Melky fled Paris and took part in the revolt against the king in the Huguenot city of Rochelle.

Bernie disappeared for a while. Oh no, it should be said that he had reformed. After some hard work, he finally managed to make the second-hand bookstore barely break even. He thought his life would be so comfortable, but he also encountered a problem that most people have trouble with - soaring prices. The new landlord issued a notice that the rent would be increased, and it would be more than ten times the original price. The repentant thief seemed to have only one option left. On the first night he returned to his old business, Bernie encountered a corpse...

"The Gadfly" is the representative work of the Irish female writer Voynich. After being introduced to China in the 1950s, it became very popular and became one of the favorites of young people at that time. Arthur, an Italian young man, was born into a wealthy businessman family, but he resolutely joined the revolution as an adult. Due to negligence, he leaked the secret, which led to the arrest of his comrades in arms, misunderstood his childhood sweetheart girlfriend Gemma, and painfully discovered that he was the illegitimate son of Father Montanelli, whom he had admired for a long time. Under the harsh reality education, he used fake suicide as a cover and ran away angrily. After 13 years of wandering abroad, he became a determined revolutionary under the pseudonym "Gadfly". He returned to his country to organize armed forces, smuggled arms and actively prepared for the uprising. In the end, he was unfortunately arrested. Faced with threats from the military and his biological father's persuasion to surrender, he remained unmoved and died calmly. "Gadfly" also tells the story of the snow-like pure and innocent love between Gadfly and the girl Qinma, as well as the intertwined love and hate for his father. It is very sad to read.

This book is Montesquieu's only literary work, and it consists of one hundred and sixty letters. The letter contains detailed observations and sharp criticisms of the French society at that time, descriptions of bloodshed, sensuality and death, conversations between black and white eunuchs and their imprisoned wives and concubines, and lingering love words from the master in a foreign country. This is a novel that combines travel notes and political commentary, as well as a philosophical novel.

This book is selected from four novel collections, including "The Mill Letters", "Sunday Stories", "The Thrilling Adventures of Tartaran of Tarrasgon" and "Little Flemont and Big Risler", the most representative works of the French writer Daudet. There are popular works such as "The Last Lesson" and "The Siege of Berlin" that promote the spirit of patriotism, a mill story full of Provence style in the south of France, an exaggerated and ridiculous "The Adventures of Tatalan", and "Little Flemont and Big Risler" which exposes the decadent life of the bourgeoisie. These novels are full of fun and can bring readers pleasure and enjoyment.

The book is told in the voice of the protagonist Enrico, from the first day of school in October of the fourth grade to July of the following year, his experiences and ideological activities inside and outside the school. It is also interspersed with admonishing articles written by his parents for him, as well as touching short stories that the teacher reads in class every month. Love is the theme of the entire novel. In these plain words, the author incorporates all the great loves in the world - the love of teachers and students, the love of parents and the love of classmates. These seemingly ordinary feelings can stir up waves of emotional ripples in the readers' hearts, making the virtue of love stay in their hearts forever.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther", Goethe's masterpiece, tells the story of a love tragedy in which young Werther pursues Lotte, an engaged girl, but is unable to extricate himself due to hopelessness and commits suicide. The book has been a bestseller since its publication in 1774 and has been translated into dozens of languages ​​around the world. The bitter love story shown in the book has shocked the hearts of generations of teenagers. This is the Bible for young people. As soon as it came out, it became popular in Germany and the entire Western Europe. This is the epitome of the youth of an era, a bitter love affair destined to be fruitless! The sensational work of the world's literary giant has swept the hearts of tens of millions of young men and women around the world!

The novel "Heart of Darkness" deeply explores many issues related to imperialism from multiple levels and perspectives. The protagonist, Mr. Marlowe, wants to go from the outer railway station to the central railway station, and then ford a river to reach the inland railway station. During the entire journey, Mr. Marlowe saw many scenes of torture, appreciated the cruelty of human nature, and witnessed with his own eyes a society that was close to slavery. The detailed descriptions of the places where the events took place all provide brutal pictures and reveal the darkness of colonial rule. ...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa is an outstanding writer in modern Japan and is known as a "ghost genius". The highest achievement of his literary creation lies in short stories. "Rashomon", "In the Wild Bush", "The Nose", etc. Are the most well-known classics of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Most of his early works were based on historical themes, emphasizing artistic conception and aesthetic interest, showing a certain tendency of aestheticism, and later turned to realism. This book contains 6 short stories and short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying for the first time the author's understanding of people, his helplessness and despair. "Hell Transformation" uses bloody and cruel pen and ink to describe the arrogance and extravagance of slave owners and the tragic fate of slaves, which makes people feel thrilling...