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An interview with Nabokov, the master of novels, full of witty words, Lolita, butterflies, creative cards, memory, death, inspiration, Russia... Everything about Nabokov. Interviewed by well-known media such as "Paris Review", "Playboy", "Time", "New York Times", BBC Radio, etc., With vicious tongue + charming + wisdom, a true self-narration. "On My Own" is a self-edited collection of essays by Nabokov, the author of "Lolita" and the master of novels. It is based on interviews from well-known media such as "The Paris Review", "Time", "The New York Times", "Playboy", and BBC Radio. 22 Interviews, 11 letters to the editor, and 14 essays outline a clear and firm self-portrait. Different from other works of fiction, "Expressing My Own Opinions" is a true self-narration; most of the classic "venomous tongue" quotations circulating in the world with a unique Na-style style come from this book. Facing various tough questions raised by the media, Nabokov put forward a series of firm opinions on life, literature, education, movies and other topics: how "Lolita" almost burned down; how he was obsessed with butterflies for a lifetime; what is the most ideal way of travel; what is the ultimate standard of translation and creative art... He ignored the mediocre people who could not understand his works and was happy to slaughter those sacred cows in the literary world that he did not agree with. Readers can understand Nabokov through these sparkling words and embark on the charming, dangerous and challenging spiritual island in his mind.

"Confessions" is Rousseau's autobiographical work. It is a work of grief, indignation, introspection and painstaking efforts when the author was in a miserable situation in his later years. Through his unparalleled self-confession, Rousseau vividly presented his unique life experiences, thoughts, emotions and behaviors to the world, and guided us to go deep into that era to understand and think about many mysteries and deep-seated issues about people and society.

"The Outsider" is divided into two parts. Part of the story begins with the death of Meursault's mother and ends with him killing the Arabs on the beach. There seems to be no necessary connection between successive events, dialogues, gestures and feelings, giving people a sense of incoherence and absurdity. In the second part, social consciousness replaces Meursault's spontaneous consciousness. The judicial institution, with its inherent logic, described Meursault, who always believed that he was innocent and didn't care about anything, as a ruthless devil who deliberately killed people.

"How Steel Was Tempered" is a novel written by Soviet writer Ostrovsky in 1933. The novel uses the experience of the protagonist Paul Korchagin as a clue to describe a generation of young people who have gone through a series of hardships such as hard life, revolutionary wars, and post-war reconstruction. They were eventually tempered into steel and became outstanding proletarian revolutionary heroes. This is a youth hymn that praises the great spirit and has become a spiritual model for countless young people to learn from.

"Madame Bovary" is the masterpiece of the French critical realist novelist Flaubert. It tells the story of Emma, ​​a peasant girl who received an aristocratic education. Emma despises her husband Bovary, a rural doctor, and dreams of a legendary love. However, her two affairs not only failed to bring her happiness, but also made her an object of exploitation by loan sharks. She had accumulated so much debt that she had no choice but to commit suicide by taking poison. With a seemingly indifferent attitude, Flaubert very "objectively" revealed the causes and consequences that led to this tragedy, and stated the responsibility that society cannot shirk.

"David Copperfield" is an important representative novel by Dickens. It is a great crystallization of the author's personal experience, observations and rich imagination. This book is narrated in the first person, telling the story of the protagonist working as a child laborer, learning shorthand, interviewing congressional debates, diligently self-study, and becoming a writer. It has a lot of autobiographical elements.

Jules Verne, a famous French science fiction novelist and "the father of science fiction". "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is one of his important novels. In this ocean novel, Verne uses his magic touch to guide readers to follow Professor Aronnax to visit the library and museum of Nemo, the captain of the Nautilus, walk on the undersea plains, enjoy all kinds of marine life, try hunting in the undersea forest, cross the Arabian underwater passage, attend the funeral of the undersea coral cemetery, visit the ancient city of the Atlantic Ocean sunk at the bottom of the sea, and witness the salvage of treasures from a Spanish shipwreck. It takes readers ten months and 20,000 miles to get to know this mysterious and unknown underwater world.

This book is based on the life of French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. A broker of the British Stock Exchange who lived a stable life suddenly abandoned his wife and children and went to Paris to pursue his ideal of painting. In a foreign country, he not only suffered physically from poverty and hunger, but also endured mental pain in search of expression techniques. After some bizarre encounters, the protagonist finally leaves the civilized world and escapes to the isolated island of Tahiti, where he finds the tranquility of his soul and an atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament. This book triggers people's thinking about breaking away from secular society and finding a spiritual home.

"Walden" is a record of the American writer Thoreau who lived alone by Walden Pond, describing what he saw, heard and thought during more than two years. The first feature that distinguishes this work from previous literary works is its detailed description and extension of nature. The changes in scenery caused by the changing of the seasons, as small as the fight between two ants, are all vividly reproduced in Thoreau's wonderful pen, and the descriptions are not superficial, but have the precision of a naturalist.

This book tells the story that the story took place four to five hundred years ago, when the age of chivalry in Europe was over. However, the protagonist of the book, Mr. Don Quixote, became obsessed with reading chivalry novels and became obsessed with it. He found the armor, spears and shields that his great-grandfather had used, dressed up as a knight, and rode out to travel around the world. He believed that he was the greatest knight in history, and he was dedicated to eradicating violence and fighting injustice for the people and the country. He was not afraid of hardship and strong enemies, and fought bravely and tenaciously against the monsters he thought were monsters...

This book mainly tells the story of the submarine Nautilus traveling around the world on the bottom of the sea. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" depicts various adventures. Sometimes there are dangers and critical moments, and sometimes the scenery is beautiful and intoxicating. The whole book is full of exotic sentiments, as colorful as a myth, and embodies mankind's longing for heaven and earth, and the dream of flying freely since ancient times.

"Dr. Jekyll (English version)" is a novel that grips the heart, makes you addicted, and makes you think deeply. Generally speaking, few people will stop reading halfway through, even though there is a certain sense of horror in the lines. The novel begins with the disclosure of the will of Dr. Henry Jekyll, letting readers know that if the doctor dies, his inheritance will be left to Mr. Edward Hyde. The lawyer known as Mr. Utterson (Mr. Utterson) is responsible for handling all legal matters. Through Mr. Utterson, we learned the basic situation of the above two gentlemen. Mr. Utterson said that Mr. Hyde was a very cold and evil person. Once, this man knocked down a child and actually stepped on it and walked over the child without showing any mercy or compassion that should be shown. There are more sinister deeds, and it's up to you, the reader, to observe and discover them. This Mr. Hyde went into Dr. Jackal's house several nights, and seemed to spend the night there. So, what is the relationship between these two people?

The pinnacle of Tolstoy's artistic achievements, he outlines a broad picture of Russian social life in the 19th century. A classic translation by the famous Russian-Soviet literary translator Li Gang, interpreted by Wang Anyi. A profound interpretation of Tolstoy's outlook on life and art. Face the darkness and light in the heart, and write about the deep confrontation between good and evil in human nature. This year, Maslova was twenty-six years old and stood trial on charges of murder. Nekhlyudov, the aristocratic young master who once fell in love with her, possessed her, and abandoned her, happened to be one of the jurors in this trial. After many years, Nekhludoff felt deeply guilty when he saw Maslova again, whose life had been changed by his temptation. Deep in his heart, the "spiritual man" gradually defeated the "animal man". Due to the negligence of the judge and jury, Maslova, who was supposed to be innocent, was sentenced to exile. Nekhludoff was determined to avenge her and even married her to redeem his sins.

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells the story of a little girl named Alice chasing a talking white rabbit with a pocket watch and falling into a rabbit hole, thus falling into a magical underground world. In this world, drinking a sip of water will shrink you to the size of a mouse, eating a piece of cake will turn you into a giant, eating the same piece of mushroom will make you shorter if you eat the right side, and it will grow taller if you eat the left side. Dogs growl and wag their tails when they lose their temper, while cats growl and wag their tails because they are happy... She also met a lot of people and animals: the Dodo, Bill the Lizard, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Dormouse, etc. In this fantasy and crazy world, Alice seems to be the only sane person. She keeps exploring, and at the same time, she keeps asking "who am I". While exploring, she keeps getting to know herself and growing up. When she finally grows into a "big" girl, she suddenly wakes up and realizes that all this is a dream of hers.

The work tells the story of Anna, an aristocratic woman, who pursues love and happiness, but is defeated by Karenin's hypocrisy and Vronsky's indifference and selfishness. She eventually ends up committing suicide by lying on a train and leaving her body in a station. The manor owner Levin opposed the private ownership of land, resisted the capitalist system, and sympathized with the poor peasants, but he could not get rid of the aristocratic habits and fell into an inextricable contradiction. Contradictory periods, contradictory systems, contradictory characters, and contradictory psychology make the whole book bump in the whirlpool of contradictions. This novel is a portrayal of the nervous and panic-stricken Russian society in the transition period between the old and the new.

This book is the representative work of the famous British female novelist Jane Austen. 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 protagonist of this book, Miss Rebecca, comes from a humble background and is discriminated against in society. She uses various strategies and even uses sex to seduce and curry favor with the rich and powerful, and she uses all means to climb up. This character is neither evil nor kind, but very humane and completely a product of the times. The book compares the British capitalist society at that time to a vanity fair. The author describes all kinds of social figures, including aristocrats who live a slutty life, capitalists who regard money as life, vulgar and shameless country squires, cynical playboys, colonial vampires-British colonial officials, etc. The whole Vanity Fair is full of greed, hypocrisy, selfishness, following others and cunning.

In 1866, the whole world was talking about a strange thing - a huge "sea monster" appeared in the sea. Professor Aronnax is a French naturalist. When he was preparing to return after an expedition, he received an invitation from the U. S. Department of the Navy, so he boarded the destroyer "Abraham Lincoln" to participate in the mission of eliminating "sea monsters". But contrary to expectations, the "sea monster" was not eliminated, and the destroyer was crashed by the "sea monster". Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian whaler Ned Land became the captives of the "sea monster"... What kind of secret does this "sea monster" hold? Can Professor Aronnax and the three finally escape? What kind of adventure did they encounter? The protagonists are placed in the gorgeous and fantasy seabed and embark on thrilling adventures.

This book selects 24 short stories and short stories by Mark Twain, all of which are popular works, including "Running for Governor", "The Stolen White Elephant", "Millions of Pounds", "The Man Who Corrupted Hedleyburg", etc. Mark Twain was famous for his humor and vividness. His stories always made people excited and made them laugh. After laughing, they would think deeply again. The stories he wrote are not only pistachios of life, but also full of simple and noble emotions. Because of this, he is called "a source of the American spirit." Readers can not only enjoy the beauty, but also get spiritual sublimation.

"Coriolanus" tells the story of Coriolanus, a decorated general of the Roman Republic who had an arrogant and violent personality. As a result, he was framed by others and was eventually expelled from Rome, but his revenge failed.

This book mainly records Anne Frank's secret life and physical and mental growth before her death. The first part was written on June 12, 1942, and the last part was written on August 1, 1944. In the secret room life shrouded in an atmosphere of depression and fear, although Anne was sometimes as depressed as adults, she always had hope. She used the diary "Gitty" as the imaginary recipient and expressed her inner feelings in letters. The diary not only records Anne's likes and dislikes of family members (especially her mother), her analysis of the internal debates in the secret room, her views on the war, and even her views on women's social status. It also records Anne's longing and desire for ideal love, and her profound exploration of human nature and life... Through constant self-reflection and self-encouragement, Anne gradually became independent and autonomous.

This book is set in Paris and London during the French Revolution. It revolves around Dr. Manet's family in Paris and the Saint-Antoine district of Paris, headed by the Defage couple. It tells the story of Dr. Manet who was imprisoned for 18 years for writing a letter to the court to report the marquis brother's indiscriminate use of human life. However, Charles Da, the nephew of the marquis who hated his family's sins, However, Nye fell in love with Lucy, the daughter of Dr. Manette; Dr. Manette repaid evil with kindness. For the happiness of his daughter, he suppressed his hatred of the Evermond family in his heart, and accepted Charles Darnay as his son-in-law with tolerance and forgiveness. Carton, who loved Lucy deeply, went to the guillotine in place of Charles Darnay for Lucy's happiness. This book has a rigorous structure, twists and turns, drama, and vivid characters. It profoundly reflects the class antagonism and human conflicts during the French Revolution, embodies the author's humanitarian thoughts against violence, and can be called the pinnacle of Dickens's twilight years.

The story takes place in France in the seventeenth century. The queen accidentally transferred the jewelry given to her by the king to her lover, the Duke of Buckingham. Minister Richelieu discovered this and regarded it as a great opportunity to display his ambitions. At the same time, d'Artagnan, who had practiced swordsmanship as a fledgling, came to Paris to join the musketeer captain Treville. He met the three musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis unexpectedly, and they formed an irreversible friendship without fighting. D'Artagnan meets the queen's maid by chance and falls in love with her at first sight, but unexpectedly learns that Richelieu, the powerful red-coated leader, wants to sow discord between Britain and France for his own plan to destroy the country, intending to create a royal scandal and cause King Louis XIII to misunderstand the queen. In order to fight against the evil conspiracy of the red-dressed leader and protect the queen's innocence, the people with a sense of justice started a battle of wits and courage with the enemy...

Dickens (1812-1870) was a famous British realist novelist in the 19th century. "David Copperfield" is his semi-autobiographical novel. It depicts a broad social picture through the narration of the unfortunate experience of an orphan. It creates a series of typical characters with superb skills and shows the author's generous and broad humanistic feelings. It was once praised by the literary giant Tolstoy as the best British novel.

"I Am a Cat" is the representative work of the famous Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki. It is a literary work with humor, satire and comedy as its main characteristics. As a cat, the protagonist looked down at the Japanese society at that time and the so-called modern civilization in the twentieth century, while making all kinds of ridicule and ridicule. Through the life of the protagonist Kusama, the work uses humorous language, delicate writing style and sharp writing to describe a group of literati and snobs who are accustomed to talking about the past and the present. It vividly exposes and ridicules the capitalists and rulers, criticizes the society where money talks and blindly worships the Western lifestyle, and creates the image of a group of self-proclaimed and cynical intellectuals.

An old man named Geppetto had no children. He carved a puppet out of wood and named him Pinocchio. Although Pinocchio always wanted to be a good boy, he could not change his bad habits. He skipped school, lied, made bad friends, was fooled several times and refused to change his ways. Later, a fairy taught him that every time he lied, his nose grew longer. He lied three times in a row, and his nose grew so long that it was impossible for him to even turn around in the room. At this time, Pinocchio began to wake up, but he still couldn't resist the temptation of the bad boys and followed them to the "Land of Toys" again. A few months later, a pair of donkey ears sprouted from Pinocchio's head, and he soon became a full-blown donkey and was sold to a circus. Soon, Pinocchio broke his leg during the performance, and was sold by the circus owner to a businessman to skin the drum heads. At the critical moment, it was the fairy who rescued him. Pinocchio decided to change his ways and finally one day became a child of flesh and blood.

An adventure of Henry Adams, a poor American clerk in London. Two wealthy brothers in London made a bet to see how Henry would end up within a month by lending him a million-dollar note that could not be cashed. When the one-month deadline came, Henry not only did not starve to death or be arrested, but instead became a rich man and won the heart of a beautiful lady. The article reproduces the irony and humor in the master's novels with a slightly exaggerated artistic technique, and exposes the money worship ideology of British society in the early 20th century. It is an important work that cannot be ignored in the selection of Mark Twain's works, and is a very classic short story.

Margaret, who grew up in southern England, moved to the northern town of Milton with her pastor father. Compared with the warm and comfortable South, the northern town of Milton at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution was dirty, messy, and extremely cold. Not only that, she also had to face vulgar workers and textile factories with flying cotton wool all day long. Margaret was very unsuitable to the northern environment, let alone the arrogance and rudeness of the textile factory owner and young industrialist John Thornton. After a period of living in Milton, Margaret realized the pain and helplessness behind the workers' rudeness and irritability, and became even more disgusted with the textile factory owners. However, John Thornton fell in love with Margaret for a long time. The two are like the south and the north, completely opposite but closely connected...

The American young man Barnes suffered a spinal injury in World War I and lost his sexual ability. After the war, while working as a reporter in Paris, he fell in love with the British Mrs. Ashley. She pursued pleasure blindly, while he could only drink to drown his sorrows. The two went to Pamplona, ​​Spain, with a group of male and female friends to participate in the bullfighting festival in pursuit of spiritual stimulation. The lady rejected the pursuit of the Jewish young man Cohen, but fell in love with the 19-year-old bullfighter Romero. However, after getting along for a period of time, due to the huge age gap between the two parties, and Mrs. Ashley could not bear to ruin the future of the innocent young man, the relationship ended sadly. Madame eventually returned to Barnes, although both parties knew that they could never truly be together.

Quasimodo was an abandoned child born with deformities. He was adopted by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame in Paris when he was a child. As an adult, he became a bell-ringer at Notre Dame. The archdeacon is a sanctimonious guy who is attracted by Esmeralda's beauty, while Esmeralda is deeply in love with the suave captain of the guard. As a result, the archdeacon who could not get love began to brutally persecute her. The ugly-looking but kind-hearted Quasimodo tried his best to save Esmeralda, but Esmeralda was still sent to the gallows. Quasimodo died holding Esmeralda's body in his arms...

"Dead Souls" tells the story of a speculative liar Chichikov who buys and sells dead souls. He first went to a certain city to clear up relations with officials, and then went to the outskirts of the city to buy dead serfs from landlords who had not yet canceled their household registrations. He wanted to mortgage them as living serfs to the supervisory committee in order to defraud a large deposit. He visited many landowners and bought a large number of dead serfs. When he went through the legal transaction procedures with the help of his long-established relationship, his dirty deeds were exposed. The prosecutor was frightened to death by the rumors, and Chichikov had to escape in a hurry. This novel depicts an ugly and decadent picture of autocratic serfdom, and bitterly satirizes the greed and cruelty of human nature.

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"Everything You Love, Life Will Give You" is a collection of inspirational stories. With a unique perspective and warm writing style, the author analyzes the inner loneliness and confusion of contemporary young people from the two perspectives of self and others, and turns his understanding of life into words to teach people how to get along with themselves and reconcile with life. This book is a collection of stories and opinions. As a heart-warming collection of essays for girls, it teaches you how to kiss passionately in life.

"Night on the Galaxy Railway" is a classic collection of works by "Japan's Hans Christian Andersen" Miyazawa Kenji. It selects one of Japan's well-known "poems that are not poems" "Braving the Wind and Rain", as well as "Night on the Galaxy Railway", "Takashu the Cellist", "Yellow Tomatoes" and "The Origin of the Deer Dance" "The Cat's Office", "Nighthawk Star", "The Fourth of Narcissus", "Yamanashi", "Twin Stars", "The Restaurant with Many Requests", "Crossing the Snowfield", "Fazemata Saburo", "Otsbell and the Elephant", "The Wild Goose", "The Biography of Gusco Budoli" and other 15 popular fairy tales. "Night on the Galaxy Railway" is one of the most representative works. The author revised the draft four times in eight years and was still processing and polishing it before the end of his life. It is called "the never-ending fairy tale". It tells the story of a poor young man named Giovanni who fell asleep on a hill on the night of the Galaxy Festival. In his dream, he and his friends boarded the Galaxy Railway train bound for heaven, embarking on a magnificent and romantic journey to the Milky Way. Kenji Miyazawa constructed a wonderful and colorful fairy tale world, using simple language to show his reflection on the harmonious coexistence between human beings and all things in nature, his concern for life and the universe, and his pursuit of happiness and ideals, etc. Miyazawa Kenji's will to be on the earth and toward the Milky Way, as well as his lifelong spirit of persistent and down-to-earth struggle for the happiness of all mankind, are conveyed through his words. Everyone who reads it sighs: When you are born as a human being, you must become such a person. Miyazawa Kenji's fairy tales are not just fairy tales, they are not only children's stories, but also fairy tales that "never end" and "always grow". No matter children or adults, they can read the profound meaning every time they read.

This book is a revised version of the two books "Yilin Sanye" and "Yilin Sanye Continuation". It organizes the original entry-style content and organizes the content about the same person and the same thing together for the convenience of readers. "Yi Lin San Ye" is a collection of Mr. Zheng Yimei's anecdotes about people, covering multiple fields and multiple characters. The text is short and concise, and the insights are unique and insightful. Both the content and style are quite elegant and interesting. The author's high degree of familiarity with the people's anecdotes at that time makes the people and events in this book believable and impressive. This book classifies and organizes these complicated contents, which not only retains the style and historical value of the original work, but also makes it easier for readers to check and get a better reading experience in clear organization.

"Pamir Love Songs (Selected Novels and Short Stories by Lu Yiping)" is written by Lu Yiping. The works of "Pamir Love Songs (Selected Novels and Short Stories by Lu Yiping)" are mixed with the most mottled and gorgeous colors of this era. Childhood memories, the atmosphere of the frontier, military career; poetry, prose, and novels, all come from three different directions and literary practices of different styles, which are leading him to an unknown future. The gentle narrative and sharp pain come not only from the warm smell of the body, but also from the wilderness inside a person. Lu Yiping is obsessed with experiments in narrative forms, and also writes about absurdity, loneliness, violence, sex and death. However, her basic spiritual orientation is not existentialism, but uses absurd narrative forms to realize the ideal pursuit of the poetic meaning of life.

On the map of Arai, there is an orange horizontal line, which is the JR Chuo Line railway track. The Chuo Line starts in Tokyo and runs through the city in an inverted S-shape, from Shinjuku to the west to Takao. Kanda Station\u002F Try the soba shop "Matsuya" and the dessert shop "Takemura" frequented by Shotaro Ikenami. Ochanomizu Station\u002F On the Jimbocho used bookstore street with a history of 100 years, there is the Uchiyama Bookstore Musashi Sakai Station where Lu Xun often visited\u002F The public bath "Ziboyu" is " Takao Station is the inspiration for the "Abura" in "Spirited Away" \u002F Although it is the terminal station, take the Chuo Main Line from Takao, and the next stop is Kanagawa Prefecture in "Slam Dunk"... After reading this book, as long as you buy a ticket, you should be able to discover your own Chuo Line, your own personalized Tokyo!

This version of "Madame Bovary" is recommended by four well-known writers, including Mai Jia, Su Tong, Alai, and Ma Jiahui. The Mao Dun Literary Award winner and writer Su Tong has written a preface for in-depth reading and interpretation. This novel tells the story of Emma, ​​a young girl who has romantic fantasies about love, and marries the honest and honest doctor Charles with great expectations. After getting married, she discovered that the country doctor Charles could not give her the married life she wanted, and she began to long for a fierce and legendary love. After her marriage, she met two lovers, but instead of helping her in dire straits, both lovers abandoned her. In despair, Emma had no choice but to commit suicide by taking poison, and passed away with remorse and regret. Doctor Charles also died of depression after learning the truth, leaving his daughter alone. In this book, Flaubert deeply explores the emotional issue of what can be used to maintain a long-term marriage when marriage does not meet the expectations of love and when the novel charm of the lover gradually fades away. It is thought-provoking.

This book is a biographical novel written by Zoya and Shura's mother, Liu Kosmodemyanskaya, describing how Zoya and Shura grew up to become heroes of the former Soviet Union's Patriotic War. Main story: Sudden artillery fire disrupted the peaceful life of Zoya and Shula's family. The two siblings used their actual actions to write the most touching answer to life. Youth, life, sunshine, and smiling faces disappeared in the flames of war, leaving behind the brave and fearless righteousness of the two little heroes. They were the two children's deepest love for their motherland, everyone around them, and their mother.

"A Simple Heart" contains the novellas "Memories of a Madman" and "Autumn Rhythm" and the short story "A Simple Heart" by the famous French writer Flaubert. "Memories of a Madman" and "Autumn Rhythm" are his early works. "Memories of a Madman" describes the passion and melancholy of a young man who is silently in unrequited love and obsessed with love. "Autumn Rhythm" tells the story of a lonely, depressed young man who eagerly desires to experience the taste of love, but ends up dying of melancholy because of love. "A Simple Heart" writes about the ordinary and touching life of a maid. Through the details of daily life, the author creates a simple and touching image of a working woman, showing her beautiful and kind heart and brave and witty qualities.

"Slaughterhouse (English Version) \u002F Classic English Library" exposes the poor working conditions in Chicago meat processing plants and describes the tragic experiences of Lithuanian immigrants Jorgis Ludkus and his family after they settled in the United States. Jurgis's father died of illness due to overwork. Jurgis suffered a work injury and lost his job. His wife was raped by the foreman. In revenge, he beat the foreman, but was arrested and imprisoned. After he was released from prison, his wife and son died. He was alone and wandered around. Only with the education and help of some socialists did he see the light.

The publication of "Ball of Suet" in 1880 made Maupassant famous in one fell swoop, which represented Maupassant's outstanding achievements in short story creation. The author compares "Ball of Suif", a prostitute who is at the bottom of society and is discriminated against, with all kinds of sanctimonious so-called upper-class figures, fully showing the former's beautiful soul with a strong sense of justice and compassion and the latter's extremely selfish, shameless and ugly soul.

"The Prince and the Pauper" is a masterpiece by the famous American writer Mark Twain. It describes that the prince Edward and the pauper Tom changed places with each other by an unexpected chance. The prince became a pauper and the pauper became a prince.

"China in the Eyes of Tagore" is a collection of speeches and talks given by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore in Beijing, Shanghai and other places when he came to China in 1924. The topics of the speeches include the career of the poet, the ideal of freedom, the value of spiritual civilization, the friendship between China and India, the unity and development of Asia, the concept of education, etc. Some of the articles were translated by Xu Zhimo, who was the accompanying translator at the time. The language of this book is approachable and rich in philosophy, reflecting Tagore's deep friendship for China and his pursuit of love, beauty, peace and freedom.

"Collection of Fables" is Areola's representative work. As the title of the book indicates, it is a collection of short fables that integrates many literary influences and expression techniques. It is a process of simplifying the complex and condensing the essence. The stories in this book are rich in morals, and the diverse expressions hide bitter realities. Different readers may have different understandings of the same story; even the same reader may have different perceptions when reading a story multiple times. Each article tells both the protagonist of the story and the author. Sometimes readers can even see their own reflections in it.

This book is a collection of classic prose by the literary master Lao She. In order to help readers better understand the essence of Lao She's works, this anthology has screened and organized some of Mr. Lao She's outstanding prose works, including "Spring Breeze", "Thinking of Peiping", "Winter in Jinan", "British", "Photos", "Looking Up to See Joy", "Spring Breeze" and "Cat" "Little Animals", "Another Year of Green Grass", "My Mother", "Qingdao in May", "Spring Festival in Beijing", "Visiting Jinan", "Appreciation of Baotu Spring" and other representative classic prose articles by Mr. Lao She have been classified accordingly according to their content and style characteristics. The first part is mainly about the author's early life and travels; the second part is miscellaneous notes about family members and teachers and friends; the third part is mostly sketches and current reviews; the works in the fourth part are mainly about the author's views on literary creation.

"Wang Huo's Collected Works Volume 1 War and People" contains Wang Huo's masterpiece "War and People" trilogy, which are "The Moon Sets, Crows Crying and the Sky Full of Frost", "The Mountain in the Void" and "Maple Leaves and Flowers Autumn", which are reflections of the world. A masterpiece novel in the fascist book series, it takes the family misfortunes and life experiences of Tong Shuangwei, a high-ranking official of the Kuomintang and an authority in legal science, and his son Tong Jiating as the main line, showing a panoramic picture of the southern half of China during the Anti-Japanese War. The core character Tong Shuangwei went from passively taking refuge and maintaining his reputation to despising the Kuomintang's dictatorship and joining the ranks of the democratic movement. At the same time, Tong Jiating, who grew up as a young man, also devoted himself to the light without hesitation under the influence of the times.

This book collects all the classics of Lin Huiyin's works, including prose, novels, drama and poetry. These works either express life experiences, portray real souls, or elaborate thoughts from details. The language is gentle and implicit, elegant and clear, and they are full of intellectual and spiritual witty words. To a certain extent, they represent the origin of Lin Huiyin's creative temperament and character. However, if you read it carefully, you can hardly imagine that some of the words were written by her after she suffered from illness or emotional suffering. Her talent, emotion, perseverance and sincerity cannot but be admired and admired. Perhaps Jin Yuelin's sentence "What are the words of praise!" Is the most loyal evaluation of Lin Huiyin!

"Point of View" is the last collection of essays published by the famous British writer and "story master" Somerset Maugham during his lifetime. It is not only a collection of brilliant essays, but also a collection of literary criticism that is knowledgeable and considerate about the world. The characters and themes involved range from the novels of the great poet Goethe to the spiritual cultivation and life story of a Hindu sage, from the self-centeredness and sharpness of three French writers famous for their diaries. The acrimony is reflected in the generosity and kindness of the British theologian and archbishop Tillotson, as well as his plain and natural style. In particular, through the interpretation of the life experiences and artistic characteristics of several short story masters he admired, including Edgar Allan Poe, Kipling, and especially Maupassant, Chekhov and Mansfield, this book provides a wonderful and in-depth discussion and analysis of the short story, a literary form for which he himself is a master. Maugham used his insight in shaping novel characters and his superb story-telling skills to vividly paint a group of images of literati from different eras, different countries, and different fields, and then penetrate into their literary world and inner soul. What he finally opened up is the universal human nature and human heart - from "literary heart" to "human heart".

The three stories in "Wang Huo's Collected Works Volume 5" all left a deep imprint of the Anti-Japanese War. This is a history that our nation should not and cannot forget. The author has reflected it in a literary and artistic way in the story - whether it is the daily life of ordinary civilians ("Snow Festival"), or a monk hoping to seek liberation ("Zen Enlightenment"), or even studying abroad in Japan after the new century. It can be seen that the trauma of the Japanese invasion nearly 80 years ago on the Chinese nation is still aching, and it can also be seen that the author's painful memories and deep reflections are not motivated by personal emotions. Such reflections will never go out of style for the Chinese nation, as well as for all peace-loving nations in the world. Although these three works were created a long time ago, they still have strong practical significance.