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"It is only in the aesthetic state that we feel as if we are separated from time, and our humanity is expressed purely and completely, as if it has not been damaged in any way due to the influence of external forces." From this book. There are more masterpieces by famous people in the book, waiting for you to appreciate them.

In 1903, the famous French writer Romain Rolland was deeply aware of the dullness and decline of European culture at that time. In order to let the world "breathe the breath of heroes", he began to use words to compose a majestic symphony of life: "The Life of Beethoven", "The Life of Michelangelo" and "The Life of Tolstoy" - these are the three works included in this book. Three geniuses who created the greatest art masters fought endlessly on the journey of life's troubles and difficulties.

The second part of the "Border Trilogy". The story of "Time Travel" takes place before "Horse", in the New Mexico border area in the 1930s, where 16-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd ran a ranch with their parents. The trap set by him and his father captured a female wolf. Billy discovered her trap while riding on patrol and decided to send her back to the mountains of Mexico. Hence this journey across the border. Billy brought the female wolf to Mexico, but was forcibly detained by local forces in a border town. He shot the female wolf with his own hands and wandered aimlessly in the mountains. When he returned home, he found that everything had been turned upside down... He and his brother were determined to retrieve everything that belonged to them. However, as the book says, the consequences of an action are often inconsistent with a person's wishes.

This book is a great work that has moved hundreds of millions of readers around the world. It uses the form of a diary to tell people touching stories from the perspective and tone of a fourth-grade child, Amway. The book is carefully adapted on the basis of the original work, and is accompanied by exquisite illustrations, showing such an ideal world to children and their parents. Classics are not afraid of time. Although it has been more than a hundred years, this "Education of Love" still shines with dazzling light, guiding everyone who reads it to feel the fragrance of the soul.

This set of books is the commemorative collection edition for the 40th anniversary of Lin Yutang's death. There are 18 volumes in total, including "From Pagan to Christian", "The Rumbling of the Wind", "Red Peony", "Smoke in Beijing (2 volumes)", "The Wisdom of Confucius (2016 Commemorative Collection Edition)", "Lai Boying", "Laozi's Wisdom (Commemorative Collection Edition)", "American Wisdom (Part 1 and 2)" Volume) (2016 Commemorative Collector's Edition)", "Qidao (Commemorative Collector's Edition)", "The Art of Living (2016 Hunan Literature and Art Edition)", "The Biography of Su Dongpo", "Chinatown", "Laughing and Laughing", "My Country and My People (2016 Hunan Literature and Art Edition)", "The True Biography of Wu Zetian", "The Wisdom of India", "The Wisdom of China", "Zhumen".

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The famous Soviet writer Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky enjoys the title of "Master of Lyrical Prose". His most famous work is "The Golden Rose". In this collection, Paustovsky summarizes his own creative experience and the creations of many world-renowned literary giants in a very moving way, and explores the process, methods, and purposes of literary creation. In his unique language, Paustovsky recounted the beautiful human emotions, the picturesque scenery of nature, and the lofty mission of literature. "The Golden Rose" has attracted generations of readers with its interesting content and unparalleled language.

"The last knight of German Romanticism" and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hesse's new 10-volume anthology, translated by famous writers, includes novels, short and medium-length works, poetry, prose, fairy tales and paintings, comprehensively displaying Hesse's creative career. The novel "Natchez and Goldmund" is Hesse's masterpiece published in 1930. It describes the life experiences of a pair of friends who represent rational asceticism and erotic sensual hedonism. The young novice monk Narcissus in the monastery is extremely talented and is deeply loved by Dean Daniel. The new student Goldmund was obsessed with secular life. Although they became friends, Goldmund ignored Narcissus' rational preaching and secretly went to the village to have a tryst with the girl. Then he escaped from the monastery and wandered around, experiencing joy and hardship. His wanderings made him gradually mature, but he was later sentenced to death for falling in love with the governor's mistress. Narcissus, who became the abbot of the monastery, rescued him from prison and let him specialize in sculpture. Goldmund went out to march again, and fell seriously ill on the way. Narcissus expressed his friendship to him before his death, making him die happily. The novel expresses the conflict between two different human natures and achieves harmonious unity in the process of exploring ideals; some critics call it "a beautiful Faust variation that combines knowledge and love."

This is a song about the growth of an ignorant boy, with a thrilling and ups and downs storyline that sparkles with dreams of vast seas and sky. The upholding of justice and the power of emotion deeply touched the hearts of the children. Three naughty boys mustered up the courage to paddle a raft away from home and go camping on an isolated island. The ever-flowing river records the footprints of the boys' growth. The boys' flying courage and ambition, as well as their twists and turns and thrilling treasure hunting adventure, together constitute this silent, tense and gripping novel.

The most superstitious people in society can only carry the shrine once on the day of the game. I wonder if those "new talents" who are studying "sound, light, chemical and electricity" can live in seclusion in the mountains and live in harmony for the rest of their lives.

This book is the combined edition of Tagore's two classic poetry collections. In "New Moon Collection", the poet vividly describes children's games, skillfully expressing children's psychology and their lively imagination. Its special and timeless artistic charm brings us to a pure world of children and evokes our beautiful memories of childhood life. "The Collection of Flying Birds" includes more than 300 beautiful poems. Day and night, streams and oceans, freedom and betrayal, all merge into one in Tagore's writings. Short sentences express a profound philosophy of life and lead the world to explore the source of truth and wisdom.

The long epic "Divine Comedy" (approximately 1307-1313) is Dante's most important masterpiece and a landmark work in the history of European and world literature. Through the author's dialogues with various famous figures in hell, purgatory and heaven, it provides an artistic summary of the field of medieval culture, and also vaguely reveals the dawn of humanistic thought in the Renaissance era.

The short story collection "Madman" and "Hope", the novella "Three Sisters", "February" and "Mother of a Slave", the novel "Death in the Old Era", the poems "War" and "The Blood is Boiling--Commemorating the Death of a Hunan Comrade who was Killed in Nanjing", newspaper His works include the reportage "A Great Impression" and the essay "Individualism and the Reality of a Rogue"; his translations include "The Collection of Danish Short Stories" (cooperated with Lin Danqiu), "Decadence" by Gorky of the former Soviet Union, and works by progressive writers from Yugoslavia and other Eastern European countries.

"The Myth of Sisyphus" is a comprehensive reflection on the meaning of life by Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus. It contains the content of four series: "The Myth of Sisyphus", "Absurd Reasoning", "Absurd Man" and "Absurd Creation". Among them, "The Myth of Sisyphus" mainly revolves around Sisyphus in Greek mythology. He never stops pushing the boulder to the top of the mountain, and the boulder rolls down again unchanged. In Albert Camus's view, the struggle of pushing the boulder up the mountain is enough to enrich people's hearts. For Albert Camus, the essence of life is how to live with the pain you are born with. This book directly faces the dilemma of human existence and has become an influential philosophical essay in Western literature in the 20th century.

"Nature is as obedient to what it is engaged in as the hands of a dyer." Auden, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, has newly included a 10,000-word postscript from the famous collection of essays by translator Hu Sang. "The Dyer's Hand" collects the splendid prose works of W. H. Auden, a generation of literary giants, including his famous lectures as professor of poetry at Oxford University. The articles in the book cover a wide range of topics but are related to each other. They all put forward their own views on poetry, art, and various situations in life. These thoughts and feelings are original and unconventional. Although the core focus is literature and art, behind the argument is the author's entire experience in the twentieth century.

The beauty of Japan is popular all over the world, and Yasu Kawabata is indispensable for its success. He regards beauty as his "belief" and uses beautiful words to expand the realm of aesthetics. His thoughts gradually matured and were scattered in many essays, making it difficult for ordinary readers to get a full picture. Mr. Chen Dewen, a famous translator and scholar, has studied Kawabata Yasunari for decades, carefully sorted out, integrated and translated this book, which completely and accurately presents Kawabata's aesthetic ideological system and presents the essence of Japanese oriental aesthetics in a textbook style. People with high emotional intelligence, simply put, have strong empathy. The first thing is to have a keen sense of perception and be able to distinguish between beauty and ugliness. Reading Kawabata's prose is like communicating with Kawabata Yasumimoto himself, listening directly to the gentle words of this "sensitive and beautiful oriental soul", and understanding the mystery of the beauty of Japan and the East.

"Biography of Famous People", also known as "Three Lives of Giants", is the collective title of three biographical works, "The Life of Beethoven", "The Life of Michelangelo" and "The Life of Tolstoy" written by the famous French writer Romain Rolland. The three biographies are all extremely talented and accomplished figures in human history. Romain Rolland firmly grasps the commonalities of these three artists in different fields, and strives to depict their mental journeys of enduring hardships without changing their original intentions during the difficult life journey, highlighting their noble personality, philanthropic emotions and broad mind, thus composing a heroic symphony for us.

"Condensed Autobiography" of Auden, the great poet who changed the entire English literary world. The translation has been revised, the layout has been refreshed, and new illustrations have been added. Auden's last collection of essays \u002F reviews skillfully integrates personal experience into book review writing, which to a certain extent can be regarded as his concluding statement on his long-term thinking mode. Auden was a figure who changed the entire English literary world in the 20th century. His achievements not only left immortal masterpieces in the fields of poetry, drama and criticism, but also the unique modernity contained in his words had an impact on contemporary literature and brought profound inspiration to writers in various fields of literature. It is difficult to count and indelible. "Collection of Prefaces and Postscripts" is a collection of essays and comments published in Auden's later years, which plays a special and important role in his writing career. The essays included in "Collection of Preface and Postscripts" were written from the 1940s to the 1970s. The content involves literature, theology, philosophy, art and even daily household life. The materials are detailed and rigorous, and the writing style is comprehensive. They have extremely high academic value, historical value and aesthetic value. At the same time, they skillfully integrate personal experiences into book reviews written for others. Many passages are like a condensed version of Auden's autobiography. As Auden's last essay\u002F review collection, the entire work continues from the inner life of human beings to the outer life, and is finally integrated with "I" as a member of the human race. It implies Auden's duality thinking mode and understanding of the dual attributes of human beings. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as his concluding statement on his long-term thinking mode.

"Literary Portrait" by the famous Soviet writer Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky is a writer's notebook and a companion volume to the writer's very famous essay collection "The Golden Rose" (also translated as "The Golden Rose"). As the name suggests, Paustovsky painted a portrait of the great and excellent writers in his mind in this book. This book records the writer's memories, but the anecdotes of his life are not limited to a purely private space, but another kind of writing of literary history, revealing the writer's thinking on romanticism and its relationship with reality. The book contains 25 articles in total, involving European writers such as Oscar Wilde, Dickens, Schiller, Andersen, and Green, as well as compatriots such as Edgar Allan Poe, Gaidar, Ilya Ellenborg, Kuprin, Bulgakov, Babel, and Tsvetaeva.

"You must have money and a room of your own" - Woolf's immortal declaration to inspire women's spiritual awakening. In October 1928, Woolf gave two lectures on "Women and Fiction" at two women's colleges of Cambridge University. The next year, she integrated the speech into the article "Women and Novel" and published it. Later, she significantly revised and expanded it, and finally wrote the masterpiece "A Room of One's Own". This long article is delicate and funny, full of imagination, and sparkling with wisdom everywhere. It tells about the plight of women's survival in a male-dominated society, the historical prejudice against women, the impact of women's poverty on creation, and other issues. It encourages women to strive for independent economic status, actively achieve themselves, and develop their lives. This book contains another famous prose piece by Woolf, "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown".

Zhongtian's Reading China series, a 20-year classic, has sold millions of copies, covering Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Chengdu, and Wuhan. If you understand the city, you will understand ourselves!

Honoré de Balzac, French writer, the father of modern French novels, the founder and outstanding representative of European critical realist literature. Balzac was born into a middle-class family in the ancient French city of Tours. He studied law at a university in Paris, but despite his parents' opposition after graduation, he resolutely embarked on the path of literary creation. He once gave up writing and went into business but failed. His commercial failure left him with a lot of debt and a lifelong burden, but it also laid a solid foundation for his future creations. Balzac's masterpiece is a set of novels that reflect French social life, collectively known as "The Human Comedy". There are more than 90 novels in total, and more than 2,400 characters have been created, including "Eugénie Grandet", "Old Goriot", "Aunt Belle", etc. It is known as a rare literary monument in the history of human literature and an "encyclopedia" of French society.

This book "Journey to the West" written by Wu Cheng'en is based on "Mr. Li Zhuowu's Criticism of Journey to the West" photocopied by Zhongzhou Painting and Calligraphy Society. It is based on the Shidetang version. Based on this, a few typos in the original version have been corrected and individual missing words in the original version have been filled in. None of the Ming editions have the story of Tang Monk's birth in the current version (only Zhu Dingchen's original version has a simple explanation), so the ninth chapter of Zhang Shushen's "New Journey to the West" of the Qing Dynasty, "Chen Guangrui's Revenge of the Monk in the River when He Was in Disaster", was moved as an appendix and placed after the eighth chapter for readers' reference.

"Insect Diary" not only truly records the life of insects, but also reflects human society and life through the insect world. The book reveals witty words from time to time, puts forward in-depth thinking on the value of life, and attempts to incorporate deeper meanings into science. Moreover, Fabre cleverly connected the life of insects with human society, moved the moral and cognitive system of human society into the world of insects in his writing, and then reflected on society through insects endowed with human nature, conveyed personal experience and thinking, and gained insights into human society. Invisibly, it guides readers to re-understand the norms of human thought, morality and cognition in the "ethics" and "social life" of insects. After reading this book, we can think about many issues, such as how to face our short life and how to sublimate a small life in the struggle. "Insect Diary" is indeed a miracle. It is a music of life written by Fabre, an outstanding representative of mankind, and insects, the numerous ordinary people in nature. It is a book that can never be deciphered. Such a miracle may provide us with even more precious revelations as the earth is about to usher in the ecological era.

"I Am a Cat" is a famous work by Japan's "national master" Natsume Soseki, and is known as "a monument to Japanese critical realism literature." The author uses cat language to expose the nature of human money worship and egoism, and criticizes the society that worships money and the social habits of worshiping foreign things.

This book is a classic autobiographical work by Dickens. The protagonist David Copperfield is an unlucky posthumous son. His young and weak mother remarried, and David's stepfather abused them. Soon, his mother and newborn baby died, and David became an orphan and was sent to work as a child laborer. He lost his childhood early and experienced the hardships of the world. He decided to go to his aunt and start a new life. After experiencing all kinds of changes in the world, joys and sorrows, David Copperfield found his own direction, became a successful writer, and gained true love and happiness.

People live in a bizarre society, and monsters and monsters are also born in the human heart. Ghost stories are scary, but the stories that actually happen around us are chilling, and the unpredictability of people's hearts is the scariest thing. Sakaguchi Ango, another representative of the "rogue faction", uses stories from his life to peel off the mask of life for us and face the most naked truth. For readers who like "Anwu Lane Talk", this book will not disappoint you. Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) is the standard-bearer of the "rogue faction" in Japanese post-war literature, and is as famous as Dazai Osamu and Ishikawa Jun. In 1931, he published the novels "Dr. Wind" and "Kurotani Village", which were appreciated by famous writers Shimazaki Fujimura and others, and he has since been recognized by the Japanese literary world. In June 1946, he published his masterpiece "The Idiot", which became "a model of Japanese post-war literature" and thus established his status as a representative writer of the "rogue faction".

"Alexandre Dumas' Gourmet Dictionary" is a literary feast made up of entries one by one. Different from the rigid writing method of traditional dictionaries, Alexandre Dumas added a lot of literary factors when making entries. All celebrity anecdotes, myths and legends, jokes, and historical materials related to food are included, which is full of interest and makes people unable to bear to put it down. This book has been widely praised as "good-looking and easy to use". It is one of the few serious food literatures in the West. Its survival value and contribution cannot be underestimated. It is a rare work of French literature and French cuisine handed down from generation to generation.

Kawabata Yasunari, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a master of Japanese aesthetic literature, is a masterpiece that will not be forgotten! "A Thousand Cranes", "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Friends" and "Distant Journey".

The masterpiece of Balzac, the French literary master, tells the story of a pollen dealer who seems ordinary in all aspects. Because of his ridiculous ambition, he plummeted from the peak of prosperity and became a pauper who lost all his money. However, his "extremely honest" virtue and his efforts to atone for his sins gave his suffering a brilliance of martyrdom. The golden age was the starting point of his misfortune, and when the final victory came, his life also came to an end. In this way, Birotteau, who was not easily interested in readers, finally became one of the important characters that has been tested for a long time and has not become outdated on the stage of "Human Comedy". The work is not only a commercial novel with historical significance, but also a very interesting bourgeois genre painting.

This book includes Mr. Mao Dun's short stories such as "Lin's Shop" and "The Rural Trilogy". "Lin's Shop" was originally called "Bankruptcy". It is set in the rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang before and after the "January 28th" Incident in 1932. Through the process of Lin's Shop from struggling to bankruptcy, it reveals the bad luck of national businesses going bankrupt. In 1959, writer Xia Yan adapted it into a script, and the film of the same name became a screen classic.

Dude is full of affectionate and nostalgic tenderness, and uses simple brushstrokes and clear tones to depict beautiful and moving scenes of Provence: the quiet mountains and forests under the scorching sun in the south, the fields covered with grapes and olives, the charming starry sky on the Luberon Mountains, the wind mills all over the hills, the fireworks on the wheat field during the festival, the women's bodies The golden cross and lace dress, the crisp sound of mule bells on the road, and Daudet's famous mill that looks like a big butterfly resting on a green hill... All these pictures with a strong southern color are in the local scenery gallery of French literature, and they will always have artistic vitality with their elegant style and profound charm.

The masterpiece of Boris Pasternak, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. One of the most important great works of Russian-Soviet literature in the 20th century, written by Mayakovsky as "the poet among poets", after "War and Peace", no other work can summarize that period of such vastness and historical significance as "Doctor Zhivago". The thick two-volume "Doctor Zhivago" unfolds for readers a picture of an era as deep and vast as the Russian land: Zhivago, a young surgeon from a family of intellectuals, served in the Tsarist army during World War I. He saw the weakness and incompetence of the Tsarist and the corruption of the old army. His smart mind had a premonition of the maturation of revolutionary forces, and expected that the revolution would bring new life to the country and people, and supported the new regime with positive actions. However, the harsh reality of the civil war and the subsequent implementation of a series of policies by the new regime made this honest and upright old intellectual develop deep doubts and fears about violence and centralization, and he was under tremendous pressure in a forced and systematic double life. Another important thread in the novel is the tortuous love between Zhivago and Lara. What is particularly praised by the world is their short but shining life together and poetry creation in Varejino where they took refuge. Zhivago praised the simple and quiet Russian quality and yearned to live his own life quietly and do meaningful work; but this ideal of life, as well as his difficult and beautiful love with Lara, was ultimately not tolerated by the harsh reality.

A German writer went to Venice for vacation. He fell in love with a boy and stayed in Venice due to some chance. At this time, a cholera epidemic began in Venice, and the government suppressed the news. The writer was obsessed with the boy, and the long pursuit made him exhausted. At the same time, he ate strawberries that were too ripe and almost rotten, contracted cholera, and died there.

The Compson family is a famous family in Jefferson Town. Their ancestors once served as governors and generals, but they have declined by Jason Compson's generation. The Compsons have three sons and one daughter, but their relationship is not happy. The second daughter, Xiaoka, was so willful that she became pregnant out of wedlock. The eldest brother, Quentin, had been obsessed with his sister since he was a child. Inspired by Cam's loss of virginity and marriage, he committed suicide by sinking into a river while studying at Harvard. Quentin's suicide dealt a heavy blow to Mr. Compson, who was already depressed because of Cam. He soon passed away, and his third son Jason became the head of the family. Jason is withdrawn, has mediocre talents, and his greedy nature eventually makes him difficult. The youngest son Benjamin is mentally retarded. Only his sister Xiaoka and the black maid Dilsey gave him real care.

"Confessions of a Mask" is Yukio Mishima's early famous work and one of his masterpieces. It has epoch-making significance in the history of Japanese literature and is rated as "the core and root of Mishima literature". "Confessions of a Mask" is autobiographical in nature, describing the growth process and complex psychological activities of the protagonist "I". In the novel, the sexual desires connected with the happy desires of young people are correctly and calmly organized, expressed, and literaryized. This is not only an important way to understand Mishima's deep thoughts, but also becomes an important reference sample of "youth" that everyone has experienced and frequently reviewed. Mishima adheres to the extreme concept of "people should die when they are young and beautiful". Almost all of his works are "youth-oriented", but only "Confessions of the Mask" is the pinnacle of youth and the swan song of youth.

The author of this book, Washington Irving (1783-1859), was the founder of American literature and a famous essayist and short story writer. His masterpiece "Notes on What He Saw" caused a sensation when it was published in England in 1820 and spread widely, making him the first American writer to gain international reputation and known as the "Father of American Literature". Scott and Byron became his close friends, and Thackeray called him "the first envoy from the New World literary world to the Old World." He left the world with immortal chapters such as "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Westminster Abbey". He is also a master of travel writing, and his selected works such as "Westminster Abbey", "Voyage" and "Alhambra" are all excellent and can be regarded as models in prose essays. They can be regarded as fine works of literary works, giving readers great artistic enjoyment.

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"Aesop's Fables" is an important part of ancient Greek literature. Most of the characters in the book are anthropomorphic animals, ordinary people and gods. The author uses vivid stories to tell certain thoughts, moral consciousness or life experiences, so that readers can get corresponding education. These stories are short in length but have profound meanings. Some teach people to be upright and diligent; some advise people not to be proud and not to lie; some explain that things should be done according to rules and within one's ability; and many reflect various profound life principles such as the strong are cruel but are often defeated by the weak.

Albert Camus, the great writer of the 20th century, talked with reporters and himself about literary creation and drama adaptation, about existentialism and the "legend" between him and Sartre, about human conscience and the despair and hope of the future of mankind, as well as the interview he accepted after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. These interviews span almost Camus' entire creative career, comprehensively and directly presenting Camus's thoughts on literature and issues he was concerned about, as well as the evolution of his thoughts. It also allows us to intuitively see this sincere and profound Camus.

"Disqualified in the World" is a classic work written by Dazai Osamu, a representative writer in the field of "private novels", based on his own experience. It is world-renowned and has far-reaching influence. "I'm sorry to be born human", this book presents to all readers the helpless cry of a soul in despair, which is thought-provoking.

"Classics that must be read in a lifetime: Top Ten Classics in the World: Biographies of Celebrities for Teenagers" is a classic among the world's biographical literary works. It is three manuscripts depicting the human soul, and three hymns to heroes composed with passionate words: Beethoven - a deaf musician, a man tricked by fate, a hero who exchanges pain for joy; Michelangelo - a melancholic patient, a workaholic who gives life to rocks, a hero who enjoys pain and abandons joy; Tolstoy - an old man who ran away from home, a hero who broke the peace of life to appease his conscience. Different life experiences create the same success and glory. It inspires us: people must have the courage to face the misfortunes and sufferings of life and not give in to difficulties and pain. In order to better express the content and be closer to the reading habits of young readers, "Classics that must be read in a lifetime: Top Ten Classics in the World: Biographies of Celebrities for Teenagers (Super Low Price Collector's Edition)" has been carefully rewritten on the basis of retaining the basic content and text style characteristics of the original work, and has drawn hand-drawn illustrations that delicately express the text content. The combination of exquisite text and exquisite paintings will help young readers have a deeper and unique understanding of the contents of "The Biography of Celebrities".

It's an adventure story about love and loss, filled with quirky characters. The father's life was gradually lost in the past due to the accidental death of his beloved wife; the son accidentally killed his father's lover, and thus began a 50-year escape with his father; the violent lumberjack cut off contact with his family, but regarded the father and son as his own family and gave them all protection. During this escape, the lives of the three people continued to lose balance, and they also lost the people they loved. Fifty years later, his son Daniel became a writer who lost his only son and lived alone. He has lost too many cherished things, but he knows that his life adventure has just begun. While the people you love are still here, love without regrets every day.

Reflection in the Golden Eye is an important early work by McCullers. It inherits the legacy of grotesque literature and Gothic novels in the American South. It compresses the two themes of loneliness and suppressed desire into a limited and closed space - a dull and monotonous military post in the American South. - As a carrier, through a series of incredible daily events caused by these abnormal people who are required to be obedient and abiding by the rules, but almost all of them are deviant and even deviant, until an inevitable murder, in a fable and prose style but full of suspense and Gothic form, it twists and turns to show the deformed people under the squeeze of normal society and the tragic consequences that their long-repressed and unresolved desires may bring. In 1966, McCullers personally served as the screenwriter, and Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor performed the impossible love of this abnormal person on the big screen.

Flaubert was a master of French realist literature in the 19th century, and "Madame Bovary" is his famous and representative work. The publication of "Madame Bovary" in the Paris Magazine in 1856 not only marked a turning point in the history of French novels in the nineteenth century, but also influenced the literary genre of novels around the world. The novel describes the tragic life of a wealthy farmer's daughter in mainland France.

"Heart of Darkness" is Joseph Conrad's masterpiece and one of the important works in the history of English fiction. Its importance stems from the profound speculation and analysis of human nature, the painful reflection on colonial rule and the innovation of narrative techniques. As a Polish-born English novelist, Conrad revolutionized the weak and declining English writing at that time with his powerful and profound style, paving the way for the peak of modernism set off by writers such as Joyce and Eliot. The novel takes Marlowe's process of rescuing Kurtz in the Congo colony as the main line, and uses the huge tension composed of multiple narratives as the framework to deeply explore the test of human nature in the face of the call of the wild, revealing the loneliness and emptiness of modern human existence.

What is talent? Do you feel deeply inferior because you feel you have no talent? This book is told in the form of two timelines intertwining the past and the present, divided into the "past" in 1999 when the protagonist Minori went to college and the "present" from 2019 to 2020. Through Minori's perspective, he tells various stories about what happened to his nephew, grandfather, and friends in the university club, and explores what "talent" really is. Minori has been stuck in a whirlpool of self-doubt for the first half of her life. She envied her friends who had meaningful and challenging jobs, but she was frustrated and unable to recover. Minori has always been overwhelmed by the talents of others, and has come to the conclusion that she has no talents, and has a very low self-esteem. But after learning about her grandfather's story, Minori finally discovered that the so-called talent is something that varies from person to person. It is ever-changing and has no fixed form. It requires everyone to actively search and explore throughout their lives, rather than simply defining it as having or not having it.

"The Byron of Rock and Roll" Cohen's semi-autobiographical masterpiece, the Canadian version of "The Catcher in the Rye." This book is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cohen. It tells the story of Briverman's life from childhood to the age of twenty. His life is like the superposition of a series of bizarre and dazzling images under a high-speed projector: his father's mysterious death, his secret hypnosis experiment, and his friendship with his teenage companion Kranz. When he was in college, he became famous for his writing, and he used labor to atone for his sins, and then fled to New York. The novel also tells the relationship between him and several women who entered his life. It depicts the growth history of a man with a "rogue temperament" that is both delicate and self-deprecating, and elaborates on the author's views on war, violence, class equality and the true meaning of love. It is known as the "Canadian version of "The Catcher in the Rye"".

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"Jerusalem" is a classic novel adapted from real events by Selma Lagerlöf, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and Swedish national treasure novel master. It was sold well in Europe a hundred years ago and lit up a spiritual light for the Swedes who had left their hometown. This is a story about the ultimate choice in life. At the end of the 19th century, the world was undergoing turbulent times, and Swedish rural areas could not stay out of it. New trends of thought from abroad quietly penetrated this land. People became confused. It seems that my hometown is no longer a peaceful and pure land. Some people claim that the Holy Land Jerusalem is the final destination. When the choice of fate comes, everyone stands at a fork in the road: stick to your hometown for the sake of reality, or believe in your ideals and go to the distant place?