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This book is a collection of masterpieces by Maupassant, the "King of Short Stories". "Beautiful Friend" describes the experience of Duroy, a clerk, who made his fortune. He lives at the bottom of society, and by chance, works in a newspaper. He relied on his appearance to win people's favor, and used various despicable and dirty methods to climb up the ladder. In the end, he became the son-in-law of a millionaire and a celebrity in the Paris press. "Ball de Suif" tells the story of the prostitute "Ball de Suif" who was forced to sacrifice her life to the enemy. It depicts the ugly face of property owners who disregard national dignity for their own interests. It vividly depicts the social scene of France during the war. It is praised as "a masterpiece that is exemplary both ideologically and artistically." "My Uncle Jules" not only exposes the supremacy of money and the indifference of family affection in capitalist society, but also profoundly reveals the complexity of human nature, the cruelty and drama of life.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a novel written by the American writer Hemingway in 1940. It takes the participation of Americans in the Spanish People's Anti-Fascist War as the theme. It is one of Hemingway's masterpieces. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American young man who teaches Spanish in college and has deep feelings for Spain. He volunteered to join the Spanish government army and engage in demolition activities behind enemy lines. In order to cooperate with the counterattack, he was ordered to contact local guerrillas to complete the task of blowing up the bridge. He won the support of Pilar, the wife of Pablo, the guerrilla captain, and other team members, isolated Pablo, who had lost his fighting spirit, and arranged everyone's specific tasks step by step. In the midst of the raging war, he fell in love with Maria, a little girl taken in by Pilar who had been raped by the enemy, thus smoothing out the trauma in Maria's soul. During these three days, Robert experienced the conflict between love and duty and the test of life and death, and his humanity continued to sublimate. When he was retreating after blowing up the bridge, he was injured in the thigh by the enemy. He stayed alone to stop the enemy, and finally gave his young life for the Spanish people. This book is a public edition, compiled by China Edition Group Digital Media Co., Ltd., And is not an imported edition.

"Wuthering Heights" is the work of Emily Brontë, one of the Brontë sisters, a British female writer. The novel describes the story of Heathcliff, an abandoned gypsy boy who was adopted by the old owner of the mountain villa. Due to humiliation and failed love, he went out to get rich. When he came back, he took revenge on the landowner Linton and his children who married his girlfriend Catherine. The whole novel is filled with a strong fighting spirit against oppression and striving for happiness, and is always shrouded in a bizarre and tense romantic atmosphere. It was initially regarded as a naive fantasy of a young female writer that was divorced from reality. However, combined with the fierce class struggle in the region it describes and the social phenomenon in Britain, it was soon highly recognized by critics and warmly welcomed by readers.

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This novel describes the process of a petty bourgeois woman's gradual degradation because she is not satisfied with her mediocre life. The protagonist Emma committed adultery in pursuit of a romantic and elegant life. Eventually, she was ruined because she was in debt and could not repay it, and committed suicide by taking poison. What is written here is a love affair that is very common both in life and in literary works, but the author's writing touches on sensitive areas that others have not yet touched. Emma's death is not only a tragedy for herself, but also a tragedy for that era. The author uses a very delicate writing style to describe the process of the protagonist's emotional decline. The author works very hard to find the social roots of this tragedy.

He slowly poured hot water on my feet, as if he was conducting an experiment. When I was a kid, the hibiscus flowers in the front yard were all red. A schedule drawn by my father is pinned to the wall, with time quotas for studying, lunch breaks, eating, praying, and sleeping. From the second grade to the fifth grade, every time we made a mistake, my father would ask my brother and me to break branches. We always choose pine because its branches are more resilient and are not as painful to fight as the branches of catalpa or avocado. But this time, there were no branches in the bathroom, only a green kettle for boiling water... Others said that Dad was the most upright and brave man. During the coup in Nigeria, Dad published an editorial in the newspaper, saying that he would never stop writing about freedom and truth. Kang Bili, a fifteen-year-old girl, also wants to plant a purple hibiscus that embodies freedom.

"The Moon and Sixpence" belongs to the "Bilingual Classics" series of books and is the masterpiece of the "story master" Somerset Maugham. The protagonist of the novel, Strickland, was originally a securities broker. In his forties, he suddenly responded to his inner call and gave up everything to paint in Paris. After experiencing various encounters, he came to Tahiti in the South Pacific. There, his inspiration surged like a fountain, and he continued to paint until he contracted leprosy. Only many years after his death did people realize that the unreasonable madman and impoverished tramp in the eyes of the world turned out to be a rare artistic genius in the world! The novel deeply explores the eternal theme of ideals and reality: how many people only occasionally raise their heads to take a timid glance at the moon, and then continue to lower their heads to chase sixpences.

"Robinson Crusoe" is a world-renowned classic novel. Robinson was born in a middle-class family and spent his life traveling around the world. Once, he encountered a storm while sailing to Africa and drifted alone to an uninhabited desert island. He began a life of isolation from the world: he dug caves, built houses, grew food, and took in his loyal friend "Friday". With his strong will and unremitting efforts, he survived tenaciously on the desert island, looking forward to the opportunity to return to his hometown and reunite with his family...

"Childhood" is the first of Gorky's autobiographical novel trilogy, and it is also a work that Gorky wrote with great devotion and charm. "Childhood" depicts a poetic, colorful and fascinating picture of children's life, vividly reproducing the living conditions of the lower class people in Russia in the 1870s and 1980s. With its unique artistic form and profound ideological content, it occupies an important position in the history of Russian and Soviet literature and even world literature.

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.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a popular historical novel and the representative work of the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Dontès, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was entrusted by the captain to deliver a letter to the Bonapartists. He was framed by two despicable villains and a judge, and was sentenced to death. The inmate Father Faria taught him all kinds of knowledge, and before his death, he told him the secrets of a group of treasures buried on the island of Monte Cristo. After escaping from prison, Dontes found the treasure and became a millionaire. From then on, he was known as the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies. This book is full of romantic legend, and the chapters are unique, novel and fascinating.

This is a satirical novel full of fairy tale color. But the fairy tale color of the novel is only a partial feature on the surface, and the sharp and profound irony is its soul. The protagonist of the novel, Gulliver, is a person who is naturally adventurous and unwilling to be lonely and bored. He has a strong memory, is good at learning and observation, is good at thinking, has unique thinking, has a simple and gentle temperament, is friendly to others, has a kind demeanor, is easy to interact with others, knows how to repay his kindness, has a gentleman's style, and is willing to help his friends. He is willing to risk his life for his friends and is always ready to fight against anyone who is harmful to his friends. At the same time, he is smart, courageous, smooth and reasonable in dealing with things, smart in speaking, resolute in doing things, has strong self-confidence, and believes that he can succeed. In general, he is a wanderer with a questioning spirit, a passion for truth, and endurance. During his travels, he gained insight into the increasingly degenerate social reality and concluded that British society was not civilized.

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"A Farewell to Arms" is a masterpiece of Hemingway's war-themed works. In this semi-autobiographical work, his unique writing style becomes more sophisticated, marking the maturity of Hemingway's artistic style. Henry, an American young man who volunteered to participate in the European War, and Catherine, a British nurse, fell in love on the battlefield and fled the battlefield together to find a quiet life. However, tragedy struck, leaving Henry alone and enduring the endless pain left by the war. No matter how necessary the war is and how justified it is, never think that war is not a sin. --Hemingway

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" written by Goethe tells the tragic story of love and life of a young man named Werther. As a young man who still doesn't know his life goal, Werther comes to W City and falls in love with the beautiful girl Lotte, but Lotte is already someone else's fiancée. Later he left the city to avoid Lotte and worked for an embassy for a while, but the rigidity of affairs and the restraint of etiquette destroyed his hopes, and he could not identify with the upper class of society and the life of the aristocracy. He returned to W City disappointedly. At this time, Lotte was already married, and Werther immediately fell into great distress. At the same time, Werther was troubled by love and seemed out of tune with the secular society. Under the pressure of double despair, Werther finally chose to commit suicide.

"The Buddenbrooks" describes the rise and fall of four generations of the Buddenbrooks from 1835 to 1877. Through the historical description of the gradual decline of the Buddenbrook family under the exclusion and attack of the monopoly bourgeois family, it reveals in detail the fierce competition and historical successes and failures of capitalism's old deliberate exploitation and new plunder and merger methods, becoming an artistic microcosm of Germany's social development in the second half of the 19th century. However, because the author was influenced by the philosophical thoughts of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the novel has a helpless and negative attitude towards the imperialist forces and a helpless and sad mood towards the liberal bourgeoisie.

This book is the most heart-wrenching and shocking masterpiece of the great German writer Thomas Mann in his later years. The author himself also favored it and looked at it differently, regarding it as "the confession of a lifetime" and "the boldest and most eerie work". In the last interview before his death, Thomas Mann made it very clear that this artist's novel was his favorite: "This Faust novel is extremely precious to me... It cost me the most effort... No other work makes me as attached to it as it does. Who doesn't like it? , I dislike anyone immediately. Anyone who understands the mental pressure it endures will win my heartfelt gratitude. The protagonist of the novel is the fictional composer Adrian Leverkuhn, a young man with musical talent and a bright future, but he is not satisfied with the status quo and pursues...

This book collects 18 wonderful short stories by the author, from which we can appreciate the overall creation of this great writer. The first novel, "Fall", is his debut novel. It is based on the love between an actress and a college student. The novel was greatly praised by people as soon as it was published, which gave the author more determination and confidence to pursue the path of literary creation. The novella "Tristan" is the author's mature work. It is set in a sanatorium and reflects the morbid life of the upper class in Germany at that time through the description of the ambiguous relationship between the writer Spinel and a gentle and beautiful wealthy businessman's wife. "Death in Venice" is full of poetry and beautiful writing. It is the author's favorite work and has been highly recommended by critics. It was co-produced by the United Kingdom and Italy and put on the screen in 1971, which has far-reaching influence. The finale, "Mario and the Magician," is Mann's pinnacle work. Because it is a profound political novel, it was included in the banned book list by the fascist authorities as soon as it was published. The novel not only has clear political content, but also has high artistic quality. The author has vividly described many scenes, making it exciting to read. Each other article in this book also has its own characteristics and charm.

The five novels "The Temporary Gentleman", "Top Secret Manuscript", "On the Other Side of Canaan", "The Long Road" and "The Long Day" together form the "Irish Story Universe", with the same story structure and intertwined characters, vividly, three-dimensionally and comprehensively showing readers a national group looking back on history in the smoke of gunpowder.

Balzac was a French literary giant of the 19th century. His novels are collectively called "Human Comedy", among which "Eugenie Grandet" and "Petro Goriot" are his masterpieces. "Eugenie Grandet" vividly reproduces the provincial life in France in the 19th century and creates various characters, especially the cunning and stingy upstart Old Man Grandet, which reveals the money relationship between people in society at that time. "Petro Goriot" tells the story of what happened in Vauquer's apartment in a remote neighborhood of Paris, describing the bizarre and bizarre aspects of Parisian society. The author examines and judges life with superb artistic means.

The more people understand and pursue, the lonelier they become. In a hot and depressing southern town, the quiet deaf-mute John Singer has become the target of everyone's talk: a poor girl with a musical dream, a black doctor who pursues fairness all his life, a fanatical worker who hopes for reform, a cafe owner who has lost his passion for life... Everyone has found comfort from the mute, but no one can relieve his loneliness.

Early in the morning in Jerusalem, my wife was electrocuted to death while hugging her male neighbor. Rumors spread among the neighbors that Israeli agent Joel decided to retire early, take his daughter with mild epilepsy away from the place of trouble, and invited his mother and mother-in-law to live with him. The sudden change in lifestyle left him at a loss. Recalling the past, the former agent was shocked to realize that the wife he once thought he was so familiar with turned out to be the biggest mystery in his heart; he took the initiative to take on household chores, but he was constantly at odds with the women... The secret service called again, and Joel flatly refused for the sake of his family, thus escaping the fatal trap. After escaping from death, he began to examine his own heart, tried to understand women, and embraced and experienced new life.

If reality makes you feel powerless, read "The Anxiety of the Soul"! Insight into the twists and turns of the characters' inner world, the peak of realistic psychological description! In the history of human literature, Zweig is known as the "Hunter of the Human Soul". "The Anxiety of the Soul", as the only full-length novel he wrote during his lifetime, provides insight into the deep twists and turns of the human inner world and is a supreme work that explores human nature! Zweig is good at depicting complex inner conflicts with delicate brushwork. In "The Anxiety of the Soul", his description of the inner world is extremely realistic! Zweig was loved by readers all over the world during his lifetime! In the 1950s, according to a United Nations survey, Zweig's works ranked first in the world in terms of translation and sales! An important source of inspiration for Oscar-nominated director Wes Anderson's masterpiece "The Grand Budapest Hotel"! Zweig, the king of short stories, was the only full-length novel during his lifetime! It's long but not complicated, so you can read it in one go and fully express your emotions! "The Anxiety of the Soul" completely presents the human spiritual world! The author was forced to go into exile during World War II, and during this period he wrote "The Anxiety of the Soul", a masterpiece that shines with the brilliance of humanism! Have you ever felt powerless in a relationship? By chance, a young and poor military officer met the disabled daughter of a local noble family. The two got closer and closer, and Qianjin fell in love with him. However, the officer found that he was unable to respond to her love and was wavering between staying and going...

Anne is a little girl with a miserable life experience. Her parents died soon after she was born and she became an orphan. A kind-hearted neighbor raised her until she was six years old. After that, she went to another family to look after children, and was later sent to an orphanage. When she was eleven, she was adopted by Matthew and Marilla of Green Gables. Anne has a lively and optimistic nature and a rich imagination. Her innocence and fantasy caused a lot of jokes, but her kindness and straightforwardness also won her friendship and true love. She was smart and diligent, and passed the university with her own efforts, but she gave up her studies in order to take care of Marilla. This is a story about an orphan growing up, simple and gorgeous, full of childlike innocence and dreams. The Cuthbert brothers and sisters at Green Gables Farmhouse decide to adopt a boy to help with farm work in the fields. What is surprising is that the orphanage sends a red-haired child who loves fantasy and chatters, an elf. This little elf is like a breath of fresh wind blowing into the secluded farmhouse countryside...

This work uses daily life as the material. It goes against the content and artificial writing methods of sentimental novels that were popular in the society at that time. It vividly reflects the conservative and closed-off British rural life and world conditions from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century. The protagonists are the five daughters of the Bennet family. As soon as the snobbish mother saw the wealthy young men Bingley and Darcy coming to the town, she couldn't wait to arrange for her daughter to catch golden turtles...

In 1868, a publisher invited Louisa May Alcott to write a "book about girls." Based on her own life, Alcott tenderly described the life and growth of the four March sisters. This is the origin of "Little Women." The eldest sister, Meg, is a good wife and mother. After getting married, she takes care of her husband and raises children, and manages the family well; the second sister, Joe, is cheerful and open-minded, independent and self-respecting, and is keen on writing; the third sister, Beth, is introverted, good at playing the piano, and has high musical attainments, but is frail and sick; the fourth sister, Amy, is a typical lady who pays attention to body posture and likes to try art. They live in a harmonious family with loving parents, filial children, love and help each other, and are self-reliant.

The ugly deaf man Quasimodo was adopted by Claude, the priest of Notre Dame de Paris, and worked as a bell ringer. After meeting the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda, the serious-looking priest Claude was seduced by her beauty and was fascinated by her beauty. He ordered Quasimodo to forcibly abduct Esmeralda. On the way, he was rescued by the captain of the cavalry captain Phoebus, and Esmeralda fell in love with Phoebus.

I believe that in this world, no matter whether Chinese or foreign, young or old, male or female, there are very few people who have never heard of the name "Holmes", because in detective novels both at home and abroad, no one can shake Sherlock Holmes's status as "the eternal boss". Needless to say, those who like reasoning and suspense, even those who feel shuddering at texts such as tragedies and murders, once they see the beginning of "Sherlock Holmes", it is difficult not to be attracted and want to read it in one breath, because the strict logic of one link and the tense arrangement of one scene after another are so fascinating and fascinating that people really can't stop.

One is a poor orphan girl, who is beautiful and cunning, and is regarded as a "gold digger" because she wants to join the upper class society; the other is a young lady from a rich family, who is gentle and kind but has no ambition, and is a "love brain" who gave up a good life for a heartless man. A red rose and a white lotus float up and down in the vanity fair of overt and covert struggles. Behind the glitz of chasing fame and fortune, what kind of price is waiting for people... Open this book and be a sober person who will not lose your way in the ubiquitous vanity fair!

Tess is a beautiful country girl, pure, kind, resilient and able to distinguish between good and evil. Because his family was poor, he worked for the d'Urberville family, a noble family with the same surname as himself. As a result, she was seduced by her master's son, Alec d'Urberville, and gave birth to an illegitimate son. Because of this "sin," Tess is despised. Under tremendous pressure and with the death of her child, Tess left home to work in a dairy farm and met Angel Clare, the pastor's daughter-in-law. The two fell in love and got married. But on their wedding night, Tess confessed her past to him, and Angel abandoned her and went to Brazil alone. Living in poverty and being humiliated, Tess waits for Angel's return to no avail, and becomes Alec's mistress. At this moment, Angel came to Tess with a feeling of repentance and wanted to be with her again. At this point Tess kills Alec. On their way to escape, Tess was caught by the police and sentenced to death.

"In the World" is the second part of Gorky's autobiographical novel trilogy. The novel describes the life of the protagonist Alyosha from 1871 to 1884. In order to make a living, he and his grandmother picked wild fruits and sold them to make a living. He also worked as an apprentice to a draftsman, a dishwasher on a ship, and an apprentice in an icon workshop. On the road of life, he went through many ups and downs and interacted with people at the bottom of society. At the same time, he also had the opportunity to read a lot of books. Life experience and a lot of reading broadened Alyosha's horizons, and he was determined to "be a strong person and not give in to the pressure of the environment." With this belief, he left his hometown and went to Kazan.

On Christmas Eve, the fairy Belliluna told the woodcutter's children Tytil and Mytil that the blue bird was a symbol of happiness. She would take them to find the blue bird in order to save their sick daughter. Accompanied by cats, dogs and various still life souls, and guided by light, the children embarked on a dreamlike journey. They searched for the blue bird in the Land of Missing, the Palace of Night, the Palace of Light, the Future Kingdom, the Cold Cemetery and the Strange Forest. They went through many twists and turns, but never got the blue bird. On Christmas morning, Tytil and Mytil wake up. They were surprised to find that their little bird had turned into a blue bird.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by the famous French writer Prosper Mérimée. It includes short stories and short stories that represent his novel achievements and reflect his artistic characteristics: "Kalman's Passion and Death", "Damango's Bloody Story at Sea", "Matteo's Son Beheaded", "Federigo's Enlightenment", "A Gamble Lost and Eternal Hate", "Venus Stuns the City of Ill", etc. Among them, "Kalman's Love and Death" is the original novel of the world-famous opera "Carmen".

"The Abbey of Parma" is another important novel by Stendhal. The protagonist Fabrizio won the love of his aunt since he was a child, and after growing up to be a handsome young man, he won the favor of many women; he returned to Parma from the Waterloo battlefield, and after becoming the vice-bishop, he met a heroine, accidentally killed the heroine's lover, and was forced to flee to Bologna. When he was bored, he met the female singer Fausta, and staged a farce-style affair...

"Sir, I'm a fool!" Shuike is a complete fool, with a chubby round face and a silly smile that always hangs on his face. He was deemed an idiot by the military medical review board and retired from the army. From then on, he had to make a living by selling dogs and forging pedigree certificates for various mutts from humble backgrounds. Later, when the war was critical, he endured the pain of rheumatism and asked his maid to push him in a wheelchair to join the army. By coincidence, he became a captain and an orderly of the chaplain. From being drafted into the army to going to the front line, Shuai Ke obeyed his superiors unconditionally and carried out his orders to the letter. However, his mindless obedience and good intentions often make his superiors embarrassed and create one ridiculous farce after another...

"Don Quixote" is a satirical novel about chivalry and an epoch-making masterpiece during the European Renaissance. The protagonist Don Quixote is addicted to chivalry novels and decides to go out on adventures and become a chivalrous knight.

"The Sun Also Rises" is a novel by Hemingway published in 1926. The author became the spokesperson of the "lost generation" and created a unique Hemingway-style writing style with this book. The novel is set in the historical period from 1924 to 1925 and in the famous city of Paris. It revolves around the emotional entanglements between a group of British and American young men and women who have suffered serious emotional or love trauma or suffered severe psychological or physiological dysfunction during the war. It reflects the painful and sad state of mind of this generation who have awakened their consciousness but feel that they have no way out.

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"Faust", as a classic of German literature, is a masterpiece that Goethe completed throughout his life from his youth to the eve of his death. Its creation has gone through four periods of Goethe's literary creation: the Sturm und Drang period, the Italian trip and Weimar period, the classical literature period in collaboration with Schiller, and the creative period in his later years. Therefore, Goethe's "Faust" went from the "first draft" and "fragments" to the completion of the first and second parts. During this period, through constant conception and thinking, Faust completed the leap from an individual to representing the overall development of mankind, giving Faust the lofty ideal of stepping out of the "small world" and entering the "big world", thereby establishing the "Faustian spirit" of human beings pursuing "infinity".

Margaret was originally a poor country girl. After arriving in Paris, she became a social butterfly in the upper class and was known as the "La Traviata". In this dazzling fame and fortune fair, she was moved by the sincere love of young Armand, and they both fell in love. Just as the lovers in love were looking forward to a better life in the future, Armand's father asked Margaret to leave Armand. Armand didn't know the truth and thought that Margaret had abandoned him intentionally in order to live a high-society life, so he looked for every opportunity to take crazy revenge on her. Tortured by the disease and Armand's blow, Margaret eventually died alone. After seeing her diary, Armand understood what sacrifices this woman had made for love.

The content of this book includes the travel notes of Lilliput, first arriving in Lilliput, being trusted by the "little people", regaining freedom, resisting foreign enemies, introducing Lilliput, conspiracy and frame-up, escaping from Lilliput, coming to the land of giants, performing in towns, coming to the palace, going on patrol with the king, etc.

Romain Rolland's novel "Jean-Christophe" is a series of stories about a young man who constantly pursues his dreams and struggles with society for his dreams. This is the second volume of this book. It has a gentle and tranquil atmosphere in general, and sings the tragic song of friendship and pure love. After the calm, there will be a big crisis in life. This storm will destroy almost everything, but the result will still be a clear and lofty state, revealing the dawn of another world.

Romain Rolland's novel "Jean-Christophe" is a series of stories about a young man who constantly pursues his dreams and struggles with society for his dreams. This is the first volume of this book, which describes John-Christophe's boyhood and youth: as a boy, Christophe has been living in the small world of his family and hometown-until he passed a test. The young man got enlightenment from the test, constantly brandishing Don Quixote's spear, and went on a rampage to conquer the lies of society and art at that time, attacking mule drivers, clerks, wind wheels of mills, and festivals in Germany and France. He bravely walked out of the small world of his hometown and pursued his dreams on a larger stage.

"The Three Musketeers" is one of the most famous works by Alexandre Dumas, the most famous French novelist in the 19th century. The story tells that d'Artagnan, who was born as a civilian, went to Paris to join the army, joined King Louis XIII's musketeer guard, and became good friends with three other musketeers. In order to protect the reputation of Queen Anna of Austria, they fought against Cardinal Richelieu, defeated many obstacles set by Richelieu, went to England, retrieved the Queen's diamond from the Duke of Buckingham, and thwarted Richelieu's plot to sow discord between the King and Queen.

This book is the last work completed by the great French critical realist writer Balzac during his lifetime. It was translated by Fu Lei. Readers who like Balzac's works should not miss this book. Many scholars at home and abroad regard this work as "Balzac's later masterpiece" and "the highest peak of his art". Uncle Bangs is a musician, an honest and noble self-reliant man who likes to collect famous paintings. When people didn't know that he had all these treasures in his hands, no one took him seriously. After his death, relatives from all walks of life showed their claws and claws in order to snatch the inheritance. Through the description of Bangs, Mrs. Xib and others, this book reveals the social situation during the July Dynasty, when demons danced wildly, good people died tragically, and righteous people remained silent, and lashed out at the shameless creed of "money supremacy" of the financial bourgeoisie.

In Lilliput, the citizens were only as tall as a pencil, and they lined up to jump over Gulliver's shoes; in the adult country, the residents were as huge as mountains, and Gulliver fought with mice, escaped from monkeys, and was stuffed into his pocket to travel long distances with his master; in the Flying Island Country, the islands could actually fly in the air, and the Royal Academy of Sciences was doing weird research; in the Houyhnhnms, the horses could talk, and the dirty Yahu, who was a livestock, hugged Gulliver and kissed him...

This book was first published in 1925. Fitzgerald, who was already a best-selling author at the time, was determined to write a novel that was completely different from any previous works and could be "left in a sincere and glorious world." The story of "The Great Gatsby (Chinese-English)" edited by F. S. Fitzgerald takes place after the First World War. The protagonist Gatsby was originally a down and out poor boy who traveled from the Midwest to the East of the United States and transformed into a mysterious tycoon who became famous overnight and filled the house with customers. Celebrities and distinguished guests came to his mansion in an endless stream, but in private they treated him with indifference and slanderous remarks. The woman he had been waiting for so long and who was already married to a noble lady only regarded him as the object of his spiritual cheating after marriage. Nick, the narrator of this book, watches Gatsby strive to pursue the corrupt and disgusting vanity, but still remains in awe of his inner innocence.

The story told in the novel took place in Georgia during the American Civil War. It takes the love journey of several young men and women as the main line, and reflects the rise and fall of several southern families as well as the Civil War and post-war reconstruction in the south. The heroine Scarlett was originally a pampered manor lady. After experiencing the war, she finally transformed into a strong, self-reliant businesswoman. Her character has multiple characteristics such as selfishness, greed, determination, daring to love and hate, etc. She is one of the richest, fullest and most classic female images in American novels. The alluring love in the novel has become the most romantic and legendary love story in the history of American novels.

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