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"The Tale of Genji" is a classic Japanese literary masterpiece that has had a huge impact on the development of Japanese literature and is known as the peak of Japanese classical literature. It narrates the life of a dreamy and handsome character "Genji", shows the various aspects of court life in the Heian period, and leaves an informative and rich sketch of the aristocratic life in the prosperous Heian era.

Uncle Bangs was a musician, an honest and noble self-reliant man. He loved the art of painting very much. In order to enrich his collection of famous paintings, he devoted all his energy and thought. When people did not know that he had all these treasures in his house, no one took him seriously. When they learned the value of these famous paintings, in order to seize the inheritance of the lonely old man Bangs, some people from the upper class headed by Camusot tried every means to obtain his wealth.

This book collects several short stories and short stories by Hemingway, the "tough guy in the literary world" in the United States, among which "The Old Man and the Sea" is the representative one. The old man Santiago subdued the big fish alone at sea. After being exhausted, he took turns fighting the sharks that came to prey on the big fish. Hemingway praised the old man's bravery, perseverance, and tenacious fighting spirit, which still inspires readers to face life bravely.

Why did the Ming Dynasty collapse in the mid-17th century after lasting for 276 years? From the unique perspective of climate history, Sinologist Professor Bu Zhengmin demonstrated how the extreme environment of the Little Ice Age broke through the empire's survival threshold, providing a new perspective in addition to the traditional narrative of "Chongzhen's lack of ability and the Manchus' southward movement leading to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty". Around the 14th century, the climate in the northern hemisphere began to turn colder, reaching its peak in the 17th century. In these three centuries, intermittent dry and cold weather and the persistent dry and cold climate around the 1640s gradually destroyed the agricultural foundation of the Ming Dynasty, causing it to slide from local famine in the Yongle period to the collapse of the national food system in the Chongzhen period. Professor Bu Zhengmin used a large number of private account books, local chronicles, notes and other materials to quantitatively analyze the soaring food prices and the soaring cost of survival, fully presenting the Ming people's feelings about the living environment, commodity prices (especially food prices), etc., As well as the difficulties of people's lives under climate change. The book is logically rigorous and advances layer by layer, demonstrating the impact of climate change on the Ming Dynasty regime. The author believes that climate often sets the limits of people's lives. If there is not enough food to feed everyone, it will at least trigger an economic and social crisis, and probably a political crisis. This understanding has far-reaching implications for understanding the fragility of pre-modern countries and the impact of climate fluctuations on countries.

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The novel "Grass Harp" (1951) is one of the writer's representative short novels. It describes three strange protagonists - one is an orphan, and the other two are eccentric old ladies - who are troubled by the cruel real life in the American South. They tried all kinds of begging methods but were unable to survive. They had no choice but to leave the real world with fierce competition and endless places for people to live in seclusion in a tree house. This is a work in which the author creates early dreams and reality, fiction and truth, which embodies the tradition and color of early American southern literature.

This book is a collection of short stories by Japanese writer Atsushi Nakajima. Each chapter in the book is based on Chinese classics, such as "The Analects of Confucius", "Lieh Tzu", "Historical Records", "Journey to the West" and Tang Dynasty Legends. Atsushi Nakajima borrows the shell of Chinese classics and injects modern ideology. He opens up his imagination in the blank spaces and gaps of Chinese classics to create strange worlds that are both true and illusory, presenting the human nature and modernity in classical stories. Atsushi Nakajima focuses on expressing the loneliness and nihilism of modern people. The protagonists in his works usually fall into self-pulling situations. However, while expressing the plight of the human spirit, they also provide a way out, gradually establishing the order of their own inner world, defeating nihility in action, and re-establishing their complete self. "Mountain Moon", with its sincerity, thoroughness, profoundness and sharpness, has become a book of warning, a book of answers and a book of life for countless literary and artistic young people.

A controversial work by Nobel Prize winner William Golding, a "dark version" of desert island literature, was selected into the "Western Canon" by the famous 20th century literary critic Harold Bloom. A profound novel that explores the evil of human nature and whether the soul can ultimately be redeemed. "Pincher Martin" is an important masterpiece by William Golding. It is a masterpiece that deeply explores the evil of human nature and whether the soul can ultimately be redeemed. The book tells the story of a low-ranking officer named Christopher Hadley Martin on a British naval escort fleet during the Second World War. His warship was hit by a torpedo, and he was washed up on a rock in the ocean by the waves. He fought desperately for survival alone in the harsh environment, and eventually died. However, it is not until the end of the story that the author reveals to the readers in an unexpected way: Martin's torture on the rocks is actually just the suffering of a sinful soul in purgatory. The author wants to use this to warn mankind that if you persist in your own greed and sin, you will eventually fall into hell and never recover; and only by destroying the human nature of greed can your soul be expected to undergo the baptism of purgatory and be finally saved.

"The Black Sailor of the Narcissus" is one of the masterpieces of Conrad's famous "sea novels". Whit, the new black sailor, fell ill in bed as soon as he boarded the ship. He made no contribution to the entire voyage, but showed "irritability and cowardice" everywhere. In the end, Whit died on the ship. The sailors held a water burial for him. As soon as Whit's body fell into the sea, a strange wind blew on the sea. After that, everything was normal. The "Narcissus" arrived in England, and the sailors scattered after landing. This unique image of Whit has aroused great interest among critics. Commenting on "Narcissus" became an explanation of Whit's meaning. As a result, there were as many Whits as Conrad critics. In fact, Whitt is just the focus of the shadows cast by thousands of concrete social phenomena on land to the sea. Conrad "objectified" universal human suffering into Whit, thereby creating a unique character.

Montaigne is world-famous for his rich ideological connotation and is known as the "treasure house of ideas". "Being a Spectator of Life (Essays of Montaigne) (Essence)" collects Montaigne's essays, mainly philosophical essays. "Being a Bystander of Life (Essays of Montaigne) (Essence)" contains all aspects of life, is full of the author's wise thinking, and fully demonstrates the essence of Montaigne's thoughts.

This book is Tony Judt's oral memoir after he suffered from ALS. It is also the only work in which Judt talks about himself. In the silent nights where he could not move, Judt used space as a clue to search and organize past memories, and built a "memory house". He admitted that his writing during his illness basically came from his night visits to the memory cabin. He sometimes focuses on small things, describing his grandmother's Jewish cuisine, London's Green Line buses, and Swiss trains. Sometimes he looks at the wider world and talks about the farcical movements of the post-war generation in Western Europe, the ideological constraints of the era, and his own observations and participation in society. These words shuttle between the moving and the sharp, the private and the public, the specific history and the individual feelings of being involved in it. They trace not only the life course of a historian, but also the complex history of the 20th century. The "Works of Tony Judt" series also includes "Postwar European History", "Sickness Everywhere", "On Europe", "Thinking about the 20th Century: The Thoughtful Autobiography of Tony Judt", "The Burden of Responsibility: Bloom, Camus, Aron and France in the 20th Century", "The Unfinished Past: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956", "After Facts Changed", "Revaluing Values" (new edition to be released), etc.

"The Old Man and the Sea" tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman's desperate struggle with a formidable marlin in the sea. "The Old Man and the Sea" is fluently written, concise and capable, vividly expressing the fighting spirit of human beings in the face of danger, and the strong character image created is a classic. The author won the "Pulitzer Prize" and the most important "Nobel Prize for Literature" in one fell swoop.

"Travel Notes on China" is a record of what the Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa wrote after his visit to China. In 1921, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, then 29 years old, visited China as a reporter. After returning to China, he recorded the social customs and sentiments of China at that time. In addition, he also left records of his conversations with historical celebrities such as Zhang Binglin and Li Renjie, which are precious materials that show the style of modern China and understand the history of Sino-Japanese exchanges.

On the hot plains of central Spain, a priest who had just been accidentally promoted to a high priest and a former mayor who believed in communism drove a rusty Seat 600 car, heading towards Madrid... General Franco, the Inquisition, Marx and "Das Kapital", pornographic movies, Malaga wine, the Holy Trinity... In Green's modern parody of "Don Quixote", Father Quixote and Mayor "Sancho" debate various issues. With their beliefs being questioned and doubts secretly growing, where will their troubled journey ultimately go?

Kim Il-woo is a silent child. After "that incident", he sat at the bus stop every day, even if the hot summer made him sweat. Now he can no longer hear the sound of trumpets, the chirping of cicadas, or the whispers of people. Pedestrians who spoke to him would not have thought that this mysterious young man sitting here had almost saved his family from a life that was going further and further downhill with his own ears. Park Sang-woon once owned a thriving variety show production company, but fierce industry competition caused him to be abandoned. Jung Ki-seop grew up in a traditional market, thinking it would always exist until large supermarkets sprang up like monsters... He could never learn the lessons, his father was fired, his mother was sad and tired, and the rental houses became increasingly smaller. Life seemed like it would never get better. However, Riyu's hearing talent was suddenly discovered one day like a ray of light. At the same time, the three-cup contest THECHAMPION kicked off on the TV station, and the winner will receive a bonus ten times the amount of the bet. Riyu's family went to great lengths to raise 50 million won and became a contestant betting the amount. When Riyu got his wish and reached the last level - the program producer with a bleak future and the market representative who wanted to protect the traditional market - the interests behind the program emerged with all their teeth.

The pinnacle of Japanese story literature, it comprehensively presents the historical features and court life of Japan's Heian period. "The Tale of Genji" is a masterpiece of Japanese classical literature. It has had a huge impact on the development of Japanese literature. It is the peak of Japanese classical literature and opened the era of "mono-sorrow" in Japan. The novel takes Genji's life experience and love story as the main line, describes the style of Japan's Heian period, reveals the complexity of human nature and cruel court struggles, and reflects the palace life of the Heian period.

This book is one of the famous translation collections of world literary names. It is a collection of short stories and short stories by the famous French novelist Daudet. It was translated by the famous French literary researcher and translator Liu Mingjiu, including "The Last Lesson", "The Siege of Berlin", "The Flag Bearer" and "The City of Allais". "Girl", "Customs Sailor" and other famous novels. These works embody the characteristics of harmless irony and implicit sentimentality (also known as "tearful smile") in Daudet's novels, and fully demonstrate the artistic achievements of this outstanding French patriotic novelist.

"The Three Musketeers" is a long historical novel written by French writer Alexandre Dumas in 1844. It describes the legendary life of knight swordsmen in the seventeenth century. D'Artagnan's youthful bravery, Athos' poise and sophistication, Porthos's boldness and recklessness, and Aramis's resourcefulness and grace are all vividly drawn by the author's vivid writing, ready to be drawn out. The work is based on the conflict between King Louis XIII of France and the powerful Cardinal Richelieu, interspersed with the overt and covert struggles of ministers and factions, and unfolds a series of thrilling, twists and turns and interesting stories around the secret history and anecdotes of the palace. 2024 Marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. This book was presented to the French President as one of the national gifts.

This book is the masterpiece of the Irish female writer Voynich. It tells the story of Arthur, a young man from a wealthy Italian family. After being betrayed by the one he loves, Arthur runs away from home. After going through hardships, he takes the pseudonym "Gadfly" and returns to Italy. He criticizes the church with sharp writing, smuggles arms, and prepares for an uprising. Later, unfortunately, he was arrested by his biological father, but the two hearts that were once connected deviated from each other due to the arrangement of fate. Facing a fragmented life, Gadfly made his own choice...

"Jacob's Room: The Haunted House and Beyond" was published in 1922. The plot of "Jacob's Room" is very simple. It mainly tells the short life of a young man, Jacob Flanders. The novel consists of a series of life episodes: studying at Cambridge, traveling in Europe, and finally dying in the war. This book is generally regarded as a turning point in her creative process, the beginning of her attempt to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and a prelude to her later famous stream-of-consciousness novels.

After World War I, Barnes, an American young man living in Paris, worked as a reporter for a newspaper and fell in love with Mrs. Ashley from England. Due to being injured in the war and losing his sexual ability, Barnes has never been able to truly combine with Mrs. Ashley. He often drowns his sorrows in alcohol and tries to forget the pain under anesthesia, but to no avail. The two went to Spain with a group of friends to participate in the bullfighting festival. Mrs. Ashley, who is romantic and pleasure-seeking by nature, fell in love with Romero, a much younger bullfighter. Although Mrs. Ashley ended her relationship with Romero and returned to Barnes, they both knew in their hearts that they could never truly be together.

Life is hard to distinguish between fiction and reality, and there are layers upon layers of secrets. Anyone who demands any certainty is either stupid or rude. Imagination builds life, writes the truth of desire, and expresses the cry deep in the soul. The key to life is to keep moving forward with more questions than answers. The five short stories included in "Dreamers of Ostend" are run through by "secrets", and everyone is struggling in the whirlpool of secrets: Emma's unspeakable passionate love, Gabe's collection that has been hidden in the hole in the wall and torturing Gabe for many years, the patient with many mistresses, the mysterious power brought by his sincere praise, the pedantic professor who confused reality and fiction, and the elegant woman who has been waiting on the Zurich platform for 15 years. They are all mirror images of us, our lives wrapped in secrets.

The legendary master who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature 21 times is known as the uncrowned king of the Nobel Prize for Literature! Graham Greene's highly regarded masterpiece is also a highly autobiographical novel. This book contains fanatical love, fanatical hate, fanatical suspicion, fanatical jealousy, fanatical faith, and all the fanatical emotions in love. Regarding love, I think of you again... In London, England during World War II, the writer Morris fell in love with Sarah, the wife of civil servant Henry. An unexpected incident caused Sara to leave without saying goodbye, and Maurice spent two years in hatred and jealousy. Two years later, they met again, and the hot love, hate, suspicion, jealousy, and faith in that relationship once again tortured Morris...

A collection of fantasy adventure stories by Pavich, the author of "Khazar Dictionary". "The Romance of the Fish Scale Hat" tells a magical and poignant love story. Under the guidance of his teacher, Arkachi, an imperial slave who loved collecting keys, went to the Imperial Mint to find a job. On the way, he was guided by a mysterious woman and purchased a strange wooden key, and thus gained the love of Mikaina. When he decides to continue to the mint and sell the wooden key, Mechiina mysteriously disappears. In search of Mechiina, Alkachi searched for the wooden key, but failed. The sad Alkaqi cast the image of Mechiina and the name of his city on imperial coins, hoping to leave clues to Mechiina's whereabouts. Many years passed, and he, who had already married a wife and had children, finally received news from Mechiina - someone brought her relic wool ball. The desperate Alkhaqi looked back on his life and decided to forget this painful past. At this time, he suddenly discovered that his daughter, like Mechiina, wore a fish-scale hat and knelt down in a mysterious ritual to a wooden key on the wall. The wool ball that was Mechiana's relic was wrapped in seven coins he cast with the image of Mechiina.

"Flounder" is a novel by Glass. The work is quite fairy tale-like, using Grimm's fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife" as the framework, and doing the opposite, using a unique artistic form to outline nine important stages of human development, revealing the process of dominant men creating violence, pursuing power and reaching the end of the road, and exploring the role of women in promoting real progress, that is, the elimination of hunger. Nine cooks from different eras come to life, and a large number of historical figures and events are integrated into the story. Reality and fantasy are synchronized, and narrative and discussion are intertwined. It reproduces the changes in European history and in a sense depicts a microcosm of the history of Western civilization.

"Ocean" is the first part of the "Blood and Rust" classic science fiction series. The story is set in a future world where the earth's resources are exhausted and human civilization is in crisis. The protagonist of the novel, Naylor, is a young "shipbreaker" who struggles to survive on a meager income. By chance, Naylor discovers a wealthy young woman named Nita hiding on a stranded luxury yacht. Naylor and Nita gradually establish an alliance that transcends class and embark on a dangerous escape journey. They not only have to face cruel challenges from different interest groups, but also struggle to survive in a world that excludes them. Throughout the book, Bachgalubi uses vivid language and powerful imagination to depict a world devastated by climate change. As a profound and revelatory novel, "Ocean God" shows people the possibility of a future world and guides people to think about the problems existing in contemporary society. This novel is not only a science fiction novel, but also a literary work that reflects social reality and is worthy of everyone's taste and consideration.

Nakamura Hang's classic novel collection consists of three warm and elegant short stories. "Wish You Were Here": When Yoshida grew up, he left his hometown of Odawara and came to Tokyo to study, but he never forgot the elephants in Odawara and his childhood friend Matano. At the same time, he and his classmate Maiko gradually fell in love, hoping that these warm people and things could stay with him forever... "Five Stories for Men": adapted based on the author's life experience. It describes the "me" in elementary school who only knew how to have fun, the "me" in junior high school when my love interest first blossomed, the "me" in high school who gradually developed a dream of music, the "me" in college who was confused, and the "me" after constantly trying to challenge myself in work. "Bard Life": The wonderful story of a boy named Tomohiro Ogawa and a girl named Xiaolan who got to know each other by feeding the same stray cat and communicating in a tree hole has been adapted into a movie.

"First Call from Heaven" tells a story that happened in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. One day, its residents suddenly started receiving phone calls from the deceased, making this place the focus of global attention. A mysterious "unknown" call breaks the tranquility of Coldwater, allowing people who have lost loved ones to hear their loved ones' voices again. Is this the greatest miracle of all time, or a massive hoax? As the news spread, the entire world fell into the fanatical pursuit of "miracles." History and reality overlapped in this ordinary town, and people chasing miracles fell into the polar opposites of doubt and belief. Only Sali Harding, a sad single father, is determined to find out the truth of the incident. A modern fable that can heal all pain, a breathtaking work that can't be put down, the best-selling work by Mickey Albom, the best-selling healing author in Europe and America in recent years.

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The protagonist d'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers (Part 2)" is a son of a provincial nobleman. After coming to Paris, he joined the musketeers of King Louis XIII and formed sworn friends with the other three musketeers. Queen Anna had an affair with British Prime Minister Buckingham, and Anna gave Buckingham a diamond pendant. However, Prime Minister Richelieu, who was an enemy of the queen, sent people to England to steal the two diamonds on the pendant, hoping to make the queen embarrassed at the ball. Dartagnan volunteered to go to England with three friends. After many twists and turns, he finally retrieved the pendant and saved the queen's reputation.

The washerwoman Qilvis gave birth to two sons by the shoemaker Lantier when she was a minor. He was later abandoned and married to Coupeau, a house builder. After Coupeau suffered a work injury, he went in and out of the small hotel all day long. Soon, Kirvis began to drink too much and fell into depression. In the end, Coupeau died of a stroke in the lunatic asylum after drinking, and Kirvis also died in the black hole at the bottom of the stairs.

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This book is the author's masterpiece, marking the peak of Hoffmann's creation and an excellent work of German Romanticism. The novel consists of two parts: a biography of Tomcat Moore and a biography of bandleader Kreisler. Starting from the needs of satire, Moore's biography imitates the so-called development novels about the protagonist's growth process such as Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister", and uses a self-narrative mode to describe the growth experience of a well-educated tomcat who likes to dance and write. The biography of Kreisler records a rough life path of a talented artist, whose life path has the shadow of the author himself. Judging from the title of the novel, the former is the main body of the work. In fact, the latter is the core of the novel. The form is loose, but the theme is consistent. They both deal with the relationship between artists and society.

"Gone with the Wind (Part 1)" is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. The main plot is the love-hate relationship between the strong and willful manor lady Scarlett and several men. It is accompanied by major changes in society and history, and the disappearance of everything familiar in the past... "Gone with the Wind" is not only a swan song of human love, but also a grand historical picture that reflects the huge and profound changes in many aspects of social politics, economy, and morality.

The retired flour merchant Goriot was squeezed out of his money by his two biological daughters and died miserably in his attic; the aristocratic young man Rastignac took the first step to climb up under the corruption of Parisian society; the hard-labour fugitive seduced Rastignac, conspired to fight for the inheritance, and was arrested after his identity was exposed; the Parisian noblewoman was frustrated in love and withdrew from the upper class society. This book runs through four clues, revealing the dominant role of money and the evils of money worship in Parisian society in the early 19th century, and revealing the social reality of rampant human desires.

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"My University" is the last part of Gorky's trilogy of autobiographical novels. "My University" describes Alyosha's life in Kazan. When he was 16 years old, Asha left his hometown with his dream and went to Kazan to study. The hard life forced him to work day and night. In the courtyard of the Tsarist Russian army, on the ship, together with the working people of the lower class, and with all kinds of small citizens and thinkers, they fought tenaciously against the hard life. He tried every means to read and absorbed knowledge eagerly. In this social university without walls, he withstood various hardships and hardships and eventually grew into a determined warrior.

The Nobel Prize in Literature, with its great spirit of human idealism, provides an eternal standard for world literature. It includes poetry, novels, prose, drama, philosophy, history and other different genres. Masterpieces of different styles are full of brilliance and unique characteristics, comprehensively showing the overall situation of world literature in the 20th century. Although these writers with very different approaches have different languages, concepts, and backgrounds, their majestic attitude of holding high the banner of ideologicalism is the same, and their spirit of freedom of courageous pursuit is the same. Their majestic appearance is reflected in their works; their spirit is reflected in the words of these works. This series of books contains all the essence of their works that are revered by all generations. This series of books has erected a literary monument for us in the 20th century.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is a heroic and tragic novel full of fighting spirit and profound implications. It tells us a very impactful story in extremely concise and neat language. Hemingway said: "I tried to describe a real old man, a real child, the real sea, a real fish and many real sharks. However, if I can write realistic enough, they can also represent many other things." A person can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated - this is the spirit to be conveyed in "The Old Man and the Sea".

Emma, ​​a peasant girl who grew up in a convent, is obsessed with the lifestyle of the upper class and fantasizes about the romantic love in chivalric literature. In her marriage to a country doctor, she constantly sought stimulation from outside the world, transcended the boundaries of marriage, and drifted up and down in her desires for love, materiality, and status. Emma goes to destruction in the novel, travels through time and space in reality, and comes back to life in the ordinary life of modern people, becoming a mirror for every reader to torture themselves.

This is one of Hardy's best works. The male protagonist is only eleven years old, his parents are dead, he is poor, lonely and sentimental, but his young heart has deep ambitions to seek progress. Xi De's experience is a reflection of the desire of a generation of educated young workers to change their status after rural education gradually became popular in Britain in the second half of the 19th century.

"Gitanjali" is the work by Rabindranath Tagore that won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. "Gitanjali" is the transliteration of the Bengali word "song". "Gitanjali" is bilingual in Chinese and English, translated by the famous Bing Xin, with exquisite illustrations, beautiful artistic conception and meaningful writing. Tagore sang about the prosperity of life, the joy and sorrow of real life in a light and cheerful style, expressing his yearning for the ideal kingdom and his care and thinking about life.

"The Wind in the Willows" is the representative work of British writer Kenneth Grahame. It is known as a model of British prose works and the finale of the golden age of children's literature. The book takes four anthropomorphic animals as the protagonists and tells the story of them getting to know each other in the wild forest, going on adventures together, and finally working together to defend their homeland. The whole article vividly and delicately presents the beautiful pastoral scenery from the perspective of small animals. The friendship and care between the small animals described by the author are even more innocent and touching, and full of sincere and profound life philosophy.

A short story written by the French realist writer Mérimée, which tells the story of the adventures of a free-spirited Gypsy girl engaged in smuggling.

This book is one of Gorky's trilogy. It mainly tells the seven-year gray life of Alyosha when he lost his father when he was young and stayed at his grandfather's house from the age of three to ten. It successfully created the artistic image of his grandmother with great brilliance and human beauty in Russian literature. It vividly reproduced the living conditions of the lower class people in the Soviet Union in the 1870s and 1880s. It also wrote about Gorky's understanding of suffering and his unique insights into social life. There is an endless desire and strength in the words.

Paul Korchagin is the youngest son of a poor working class family in a town in Ukraine. His father died early, his mother worked as a cook in a wealthy family, and his brother Arqing was a railway worker. He suffered the pain of exploitation and oppression under the capitalist system. After dropping out of school, he worked as a waiter in the station canteen and as a worker in a power plant. Later he met Tonya, the daughter of a forest officer. However, there was a huge disparity in status between the two. In order to be worthy of Tonya, Paul decided to join the Soviet Revolutionary Army. In the end, he was recognized in the revolutionary army for his tenacity and wit.

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"Childhood" tells the story that Alyosha's father died of cholera when he was three years old, and his mother took him to live with his grandfather's house. In this family, fathers and sons, brothers, and husbands and wives often quarrel and fight over property and even over trivial matters. My grandfather was moody and had a bad temper. He beat my grandmother fiercely and beat Alyosha unconscious. My grandmother was very kind to Alyosha, telling him legends, fairy tales and folk stories, and she endured all the pressures of life without complaining. The mother was forced to remarry and died of tuberculosis a few years later. After his grandfather went bankrupt, Alyosha was forced to live in the world and began to make a living independently.

"Roman Women": 16-year-old Atriana is incredibly beautiful. Her impoverished mother regards her as a wealth code that can change her destiny, her close girlfriend regards her as a sacrifice to flatter the powerful, and her trusted fiancé regards her as a paradise for indulgence in lust. She was once full of longing for the future, but under the pressure of reality, she still became a prostitute selling her body. After that, Atriana dealt with all kinds of men, and once fell into the enjoyment of material and sensual desires, but never gave up the pursuit of innocence. At the bottom where people think they are dirty, there are still people who live innocently. "Contempt": It is about the crisis of marriage and the inability of modern people to love. After two years of marriage, the husband kept losing ground in the face of work, money and ideals, and his wife's contempt became the biggest punishment for him. He always wondered why he was despised by his wife, but pushed her further and further away. An originally happy marriage was about to collapse. "I despise you, that's why I don't love you anymore." "The Indifferent Man": It is about family tragedy and about the indifference of modern people. For a long time, this young man from the upper class suffered from mental torture. Facing the changes in his family, he wanted to show some emotion, but found that he could only feel indifference. In painful doubt, he completed his trial: "This is my real crime. I committed the crime of indifference."

When Lucy Barton was picked up from her home by her ex-husband William and sent to a coastal town in Maine for isolation, she had not yet realized what a major crisis humanity was about to face. "It's as if the world has suddenly changed. I have to get through every day with no end in sight, and the end seems to never come, which makes me very uneasy." They live in a seaside hut, and the news reports the turmoil of the world. They talked about their daughters, New York, reunions, death, old loves and new friendships, and they couldn't even hug each other like family. Looking out the window, the sea is turbulent and unpredictable, just like the ups and downs of sadness in the body. Everything has changed. However, there is always something, just like always.