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"I Met Human" is a novel by the popular British novelist Matt Haigh. It tells such a story. Humans are bipedal creatures of moderate intelligence, containing 7,000 trillion atoms in their bodies. It looks ugly, at least at first glance. There are countless ideas beyond their capabilities, such as time travel and postmodern philosophy; they are extremely dangerous to themselves and others. One day they will die, and they know it, but there is nothing they can do about it - except love. Love, by the way, is their one saving grace. In fact, love is the only thing they need.

In 2013, a plague broke out in London, and strange epidemics also broke out in various states in the United States. For a time, the United States fell, and the streets were littered with corpses. The darkness and glory of human nature were undoubtedly revealed in the face of this disaster. The protagonist, Professor James Smith, survived several struggles and lived a tribal life with several survivors. Sixty years later, human civilization retreated into primitive society. As Professor Smith approaches his final years, he worries that he is the only person who has lived in the pre-pandemic era and is trying to pass on his knowledge and wisdom to his grandchildren. However, all efforts were in vain.

Barry Fairbrother's sudden death outside a golf club has sent shockwaves through the town of Paggar. The Morrison family, who consider themselves the first family in the town, naturally regard the vacant seat as a piece of cake, but unfortunately others do not think so. Simon Price, who beats his wife and children at home all day long, thinks he also has a chance to get a good job, and the well-dressed and neurotic vice-principal "Pigeon" Wall seems to regard himself as the perfect candidate to carry forward the spirit of the deceased. The women around these men are also outstanding, and they are not fuel-efficient lamps. Some "sell oversized bras" and have erotic dreams about handsome men other than their husbands; some are mentally obsessive and plan to kill their cheating husbands.

Woolf is one of the most important British writers of the 20th century. She was diligent throughout her life and wrote prolifically. Woolf believed that writing should abandon complicated material representations, freeze the "meaningful" "moments" of human "existence" in the exploration of nature and the essence of life, and uncover the veil of life through the characters' momentary perceptions to explore the philosophy of life. "The Waves" and "Mrs. Dalloway" are considered to be Woolf's two most important works.

"The Crab Walk" is the late masterpiece of German writer Günter Grass. The novel is based on real history: In 1945, the German cruise ship "Gustloff" carrying more than 10,000 refugees and soldiers was sunk by the Soviet army, killing nearly 10,000 people, including about 4,000 children. The novel reveals the serious disasters brought by the war initiators to the people of the country. Tula, a pregnant woman on the ship, was rescued, and her son Paul was born on the night of the disaster. Mother and son fled to Germany. The elderly Tula told his grandson Conrad about the shipwreck and other experiences. Conrad developed extreme ideas, founded a neo-Nazi website, advocated racial hatred, and shot and killed netizens who pretended to be Jewish youths. The work explores the tragedy caused by the Nazis and the war, and analyzes the underlying reasons for the resurgence of right-wing racist ideas in Germany.

"Choose? When to choose? Have I chosen? A woman in a white dress, white shoes, and a pink scarf tied around her neck, standing on the grass. Her appearance is the result of the choice. She is exquisitely dressed, in line with the status of her class, and she is staying here as someone's wife. Of course, as a mother of children..." On an ordinary summer day, middle-aged housewife Kate's peaceful life for many years quietly collapsed - her family members were busy planning for the future, and the house was about to be rented out. Kate was shocked to find that she had become a dispensable person. Feeling lost, Kate walked out of the house and began a long summer journey. Three condensed periods of time, three unusual encounters, intertwined with metaphorical dreams, Kate is lost in the breath of freedom, and suddenly wakes up in memories, wandering, and thinking.

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Catalina is a beautiful, simple girl whose legs were disabled in an accident. On this day, while the whole city warmly welcomed the two Valero brothers as they returned home in fine clothes, Catalina prayed sadly alone in the monastery. At this time, a miracle came unexpectedly, and she was told that the one who served God the most among the three Valero brothers could cure her disability. Which one of the three brothers will this person be? Is this a prank or a real apparition of the Virgin Mary?

During the Second World War, a junior officer named Christopher Hadley Martin on the British naval escort fleet was hit by a torpedo and 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.

Charlotte, the protagonist of "Charlotte", is the prototype of Chaplin's classic character, the Tramp. After Charlotte played the silent love drama in "City Lights", she didn't know what new adventure she was pursuing. But one thing I dare to say is that Charlotte's adventure is limited, but his life is infinite. He is a friend not only to modern humanity, but also to future and eternal humanity, since human suffering is endless.

This book is a collection of Emerson's classic essays, including Emerson's famous essays, such as "Nature", "Beauty", "Nature", "Power", "Culture", "Great Men", etc. Emerson is known as "the prophet and explorer of New England". What's even more valuable is that his thoughts and articles still make people feel fresh and refreshing. This book has strong readability and literary appreciation value.

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" is the first novel of author Carson McCullers. It is also her most famous work and her most shocking masterpiece. Published when the author was 23 years old. It ranks 17th among the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century" selected by American Modern Book Company. By changing the narrative perspective, the novel tells the story of a group of people wandering in loneliness in a small southern town in the United States. McCullers uses her unique approach to write about dreary American southern towns, the long dreary afternoons in August, the lonely people drinking cold beer in cafes at midnight, the black people's tolerance and contradictory pain for freedom, and the crazy, desperate but still determined determination of those who hope for reform to move forward... The protagonist of the story is a mute named Singer. He and his good friend Antonapoulos lived together in the town. After Antonapoulos was sent to a mental hospital, Singer began a lonely journey. His unusual silence and alienation made the people in the town feel that he had a mysterious and wise character about him. Mick, a girl who has great passion for music, Jack, an alcoholic who studies all day long to spread the truth and hopes for reform, black doctors who try to awaken the self-awareness of his compatriots, Biff, the cafe owner who hides behind the cashier all day long to observe customers, etc. In the hearts of people in the small town, Singer is "mythized" as "God". People tried to pour out their hearts to Singer, but unfortunately Singer could not understand them, and instead put all their emotional chips on Antonapoulos. Until the death of his beloved Antonipoulos, he finally lived alone in the world without feeling.

This book is Balzac's masterpiece. It is based on the French society during the Bourbon Restoration. Through the shaping of "typical characters in typical environments", it depicts a panoramic view of Parisian society that uses money as a lever: "Balzac's character is not just a character, but a typical example of the era. The tragic factors are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the licentious and corrupt social environment. Madame Beauseant represents the declining nobility. The family ends up in seclusion, and Rastignac and Vautrin represent the two styles of the emerging class: one penetrates into society like a plague, and the other blasts into society like a cannonball. The interplay between the struggle of careerists for fame and fortune and the desperate fatherly love of Goriot make the content of the novel even more bizarre and touching." The translator Chen Jing is an associate professor of French at Beijing International Studies University, and her main research interests are French women's literature and comparative literature. The guide, Wu Yuetian, is a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a doctoral supervisor, the president of the French Literature Research Association in China, and a member of the Chinese Writers Association.

An eternal classic that explores "why do people live?" It has been a best-selling literary masterpiece around the world for nearly a century. The "lonely revolutionary hero" who touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of people once worked with "How the Steel Was Tempered" to build a pedigree of heroes in the hearts of the Chinese people. Translated by famous translators, Cai Hui, a famous translator. "The Gadfly" is the representative work of the Irish female writer Voynich. After being introduced to China in the 1950s, it became very popular and became one of the favorites of young people at that time. Arthur, an Italian young man, was born into a wealthy businessman family, but he resolutely joined the revolution as an adult. Due to negligence, he leaked the secret, which led to the arrest of his comrades in arms, misunderstood his childhood sweetheart girlfriend Gemma, and painfully discovered that he was the illegitimate son of Father Montanelli, whom he had admired for a long time. Under the harsh reality education, he used fake suicide as a cover and ran away angrily. After 13 years of wandering abroad, he became a determined revolutionary under the pseudonym "Gadfly". He returned to his country to organize armed forces, smuggled arms and actively prepared for the uprising. In the end, he was unfortunately arrested. Faced with threats from the military and his biological father's persuasion to surrender, he remained unmoved and died calmly. "Gadfly" also tells the story of the snow-like pure and flawless love between Gadfly and Gemma, as well as the intertwined love and hate for their biological father. It is very sad to read.

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"Flowers of Evil" was new and unique from all angles. It was beyond people's expectations and immediately attracted the attention of people from all walks of life. Some people considered this monster-like collection of poems to be immoral and blasphemous. As a result, Baudelaire also suffered a lawsuit. Not only was the collection of poems banned, but both the poet and the publisher were fined. But the great writer Mr. Hugo praised this book, saying that it was like a dazzling star, bringing a new tremor to the French poetry world. Hugo's judgment becomes more and more correct and fair as time goes by. It was this "Flowers of Evil" that ushered in a new era of modern French poetry and left an indelible impact on the Western poetry world. People are increasingly aware that this is a work of very high artistic skills and extremely rich ideological content.

Jonathan Swift, one of the most famous writers in the history of English literature. "Gulliver's Travels" is his masterpiece. The author uses unusual imagination to describe all kinds of strange things that the protagonist Gulliver encounters when he travels to "Lilliput", "Adult", "Huiyin" and other places. For example, in the "Lilliput Kingdom", he can freely play with all kinds of people from kings to common people in the palm of his hand; while in the "Adult Kingdom", he can be controlled by others like a child; after arriving in the "Hui Yin Kingdom", the horse has become a symbol of wisdom, and people have become inferior animals. Through such interesting stories, the author satirized various ills of British society at that time, such as the intrigues of politicians and the greed of the rich. While readers admire the author's fantastic ideas, they can also have a general understanding of the situation in Britain at that time.

World classics, selected translations by famous writers, with ingenious conception, free and easy humor, sharp sarcasm, and heart-wrenching joy, this is a nationally compiled junior high school Chinese language textbook for ninth grade students (volume 2) to expand their reading list. This book is written in a self-narrative way, mainly describing the strange experiences of the protagonist Gulliver in the country of Lilliput, the country of adults, the flying island country and the "Houyi" country. The novel realistically reproduces Gulliver's four fantastic journeys and alludes to reality through this fantasy journey. The author uses rich satirical techniques and bizarre plots of fictional fantasy to deeply analyze the social reality of Britain at that time. It is popular but not vulgar, elegant but not exaggerated, strong but not conceited. It still has the power to inspire people today. Since it was first published in Britain in 1726, it has been widely loved by readers. It has been translated into dozens of languages ​​and has been widely circulated in countries around the world. It is known as "one of the great treasures of literature" and "one of the great treasures of film".

A book I'm writing is about the five senses, to illustrate that modern people no longer know how to use them. This is the ultimate collection of short stories that Calvino was still writing when he died, the final song of his creative career. Because of his sudden death, he only finished writing about the three senses of smell, taste and hearing, leaving irreparable regrets. In "Puma Sunshine," a troubled couple travels to Mexico to deduce the nature of love through dishes made with exotic ingredients and spices. The enthroned tyrant in "The King Is Listening" is a prisoner of both his power and his ears, as the echoes of his vast palace bring conflicting messages of judgment, love, and intrigue. In "Name, Nose," a playboy, a prehistoric man, and a stoner rocker embark on a frantic search for a woman's scent.

"Smoke: Argentine Ants" collects Calvino's two important novellas "Smoke" and "Argentine Ants". This is because they echo each other in a structural and moral sense. "Smoke" uses the style of a sociological essay or a secret diary to present the image and ideographic symbol of the world that people in modern industrial society face: smoke. The smoke of chemical waste that permeates industrial cities is omnipresent, elusive but oppressing mankind with unmistakable and terrifying power. In "Argentine Ants", the little rampant ants destroy all people's dreams and turn life into a painful swamp, which concretely embodies the disasters faced by modern society.

In the turbulent year of 1947, 23-year-old Calvino published his first novel: "The Path to the Spider's Nest". Everything that happens in the book is described through the eyes of the naughty boy Pien: war, sex, heroism, history... The author writes in the preface: "This is a story written on the edge of guerrilla war. It has nothing to do with heroism and sacrifice, but it conveys its color, rhythm and bitter taste."

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

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

No family is as complex, full of noise and turmoil as the Compson family: their ancestors were once a prominent family in the town, but by Jason Compson's generation they had declined. Compson was drunk and dreaming all day long, always feeling that life was meaningless. His wife, Caroline Bascom, was selfish and cold-blooded, complaining all day long. They had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Quentin, is talented and intelligent and was admitted to Harvard University, but he has been obsessed with his sister Katie since childhood...; The second daughter, Katie, is kind-hearted but willful since childhood. She always wants to live her dream life, but always falls in love with the wrong man along the way, which is regarded as the shame of the family; the third son, Jason, is withdrawn, greedy and cold-hearted; the fourth son, Ben Jiming, is a lovely person. Pity, suffers from mental retardation. At the age of thirty-three, he only has the intelligence of three years old. He is despised by his mother and third brother Jason. Jason plans to send him to a mental hospital after his mother passes away... Open this book and you will understand the moral dilemma of the entire human race through the rise and fall of a southern manor, and see through the beauty, ugliness and desire in human nature at a glance.

"The Sound and the Fury" is the most outstanding masterpiece of American Nobel Prize winner and 20th century literary master William Faulkner. It was published in 1929. This novel describes the decline of the Compson family, a prominent family in the town of Jefferson in the south of the United States from the late 19th century to the 1920s, as well as the experiences and mental states of each family member. The book is divided into four parts, each part has a character narrating the story.

This book contains all of Faulkner's mature articles, speeches, book reviews, prefaces, and letters intended for publication, many of which reflect his increased sense of responsibility as a public figure after winning the Nobel Prize. From them, we can get a glimpse of all aspects of Faulkner as an artist and as a human being. These pages show us what this intensely passionate, extraordinarily complex, and intensely private writer was willing to reveal to the public during the last forty years of his career, while also allowing us to gain a closer understanding of both his person and his work.

"Thirteen Pieces" is the first collection of short stories written and published by the famous American writer William Faulkner. It was first published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith in the United States in 1931 and was later republished by Penguin Random House. Faulkner dedicated the book to his eldest daughter, Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on January 11, 1931, and his wife Estelle. Nowadays, the book "Thirteen Chapters" is no longer printed and published separately and has become a collection. "Thirteen Parts" is divided into three parts. The first part mainly writes about the experiences and mental difficulties of soldiers on the European battlefield during World War I; the background of the second part is Faulkner's classic creation; the story of the third part moves to southern France and Italy.

"The Sound and the Fury" is a classic work by the famous American writer Faulkner. The title of the book comes from Macbeth's famous lines in Act 5, Scene 5 of Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth": "Life is like a dream, full of noise and commotion, but meaningless." The novel tells the story of the family tragedy of the Compson family, a declining landowner in the South. The whole book revolves around Katie's fall through the inner monologues of these three sons. Old Compson was idle and addicted to drinking and drinking. His wife is selfish, cruel, and resentful. The eldest son, Quentin, desperately clung to the so-called old traditions of the South. His sister Katie was so romantic that she insulted her status as a southern lady and was so filled with love and hate that he committed suicide by drowning. The second son Jason is cold and greedy, while the third son Benji is an idiot. At the age of thirty-three, he only has the intelligence of a three-year-old child.

The original name of this book is "Evaluation of Popular Romance Type Shiyan by Zhengxiao Guan". It was compiled by Lu Renlong in Qiantang and commented by Lu Yunlong. It was published by Zhengxiao Guan Bookstore in the fifth year of Chongzhen. It has eight volumes and 40 chapters. It is a novel in the form of a script. The book "Xing Shiyan" is rarely circulated. About ten years after its publication, it is difficult to find it. Around the 16th year of Chongzhen, Jiangnan Shujia revised and edited it, reprinted 30 chapters according to the original format, wrote a new chapter for each chapter, changed the title of the book to "Three Inscriptions", and the author also changed his signature to Mengjue Taoist and West Lake Prodigal.

He traveled throughout Europe, especially Italy, and lived in Venice, Italy, for seven years. There he often visited friends and socialized very happily with his close friend Shelley. In Byron's later career, he participated in the Greek War of Independence and fought against the Ottoman Empire. He was revered by the Greeks as a national hero. In 1824, he died of an infectious disease at the age of 36. In fact, the literary world has been arguing endlessly about the image represented by the character Don Juan. It can be said that there are different opinions and no consensus.

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

The book "Middlemarch" has two main lines. One is the disastrous marriage and disillusionment of the idealistic girl Dorothea, and the other is the tragic marriage and career failure of the young doctor Lydgate. The author uses techniques such as contrast, symmetry, parallelism and repetition to skillfully interweave these two main lines and write in many characters, successfully expressing the disillusionment theme of "society defeats people".

Defoe, a famous British novelist, "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" is his masterpiece. Robinson was born in the middle class. His father often taught him the philosophy of contentment and asked him to be satisfied with the status quo. But he still couldn't resist the temptation of the new world overseas. He went to sea several times and finally got trapped on a desert island. Twenty-eight years of living on an isolated island still failed to stop his adventurous spirit. With perseverance, he built houses, cultivated fields, planted food, and raised livestock on the desert island, and finally built a paradise on the desert island. Finally, he escaped from danger and returned to Europe.

"Gone with the Wind" is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, a famous modern American female writer, based on the background of the American Civil War. Through magnificent war scenes and delicate and lifelike characters, the work interprets a touching love story in poetic language.

The protagonist of the novel, Mendel Singer, is a devout Jew living in a small town in Eastern Europe. His family makes a living by teaching Hebrew scriptures to Singer. The youngest son Menusim was not only born with epilepsy, but also suffered from dementia and aphasia. After the eldest son joined the army, the second son fled to the United States. The Singhs later immigrated to the United States with their daughter. With the outbreak of World War I, misfortunes ensued. His second son died on the battlefield, Singer's wife died suddenly, and his daughter went crazy and entered a mental hospital. Singer's fate is like that of Job in the Bible, withstanding the test of disaster. When he gave up his fear and belief in God, lived like a zombie and planned to return to his hometown, a miracle happened - his youngest son Menusim suddenly appeared in front of him. He was no longer the dementia with epilepsy, but became an elegant and charming young musician.

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"Niels Riding the Goose" is Selma Lagerlöf's only full-length fairy tale written for children. It was written as a school geography education book in accordance with the requirements of the Swedish Ministry of Education. Unexpectedly, it later became a treasure of world literature and art. In Sweden, there is now one of the most important children's literature awards, which is named after Niels. This is a book that has accompanied the growth of generations of children around the world; a book that is printed on banknotes along with the author; a work that is well-known in Sweden and even around the world.

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

"Sense and Sensibility" is one of Jane Austen's most humorous works. It mainly tells the story of the complicated love and marriage of two sisters, Elinor and Mellie, who live in a British squire family. The elder sister Elilo is good at controlling emotions with reason, while the younger sister Melia is full of fantasies about love. Therefore, when they face love, they have completely different reactions. Through this humorous comparison of "reason and emotion", the novel raises the issue of moral and behavioral norms, which is thought-provoking. "Sense and Sensibility" and the author's other masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice" can be called companion works, and have been adapted to the big screen many times.

"The Call of the Wild" mainly tells the story of a domestic dog who turns into a wild wolf. The protagonist of the novel is a dog named "Buck". Before being trafficked, he was a pampered domesticated dog in Judge Miller's family and lived a carefree life; however, after being trafficked to the harsh north, he had to face a completely different world. In an extremely harsh real-life environment, it showed a strong desire to survive, and was dominated by this desire. It managed to overcome all unimaginable difficulties and became a sled dog that adapted to the laws of survival and competition in the wilderness. In the end, it responded to the call of the wilderness and returned to nature.

"Young Man" is a very important novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a great Russian writer in the 19th century, in his later years. It can be said to be the author's autobiographical novel, which shows his outstanding concern and in-depth thinking about the practical problems of Russian society at that time, as well as his strong moral color. The work takes as its main line the growth experience of Arkady Dolgoruky, a young man who was not deeply involved in the world and was deeply influenced by Rothschild's thoughts. It depicts the corrosion of the souls of the young generation at that time by the money worship in Russia in the 1870s when capitalism was developing rapidly. The novel also reflects the disintegration and decline of the Russian aristocracy by creating the typical image of Andrei Versilov, a Russian aristocratic landowner intellectual with dual personality.

This book is a collection of masterpieces by Russian satirist Gogol. "Dead Souls" is "an epoch-making masterpiece in the Russian literary world". The novel describes a speculative liar, the sixth-level civil servant Chichikov, who came up with a scheme of buying and selling short and plundering in order to make a fortune. He bought dead serfs who had not been written off the serf list at a low price. He used immigration as an excuse to apply for unclaimed wasteland from the country, and then mortgaged the acquired land and the list of dead serfs to the government to make a profit. "The Imperial Envoy" tells the story of a playboy, Khlesdakov, who loses everything in a bet. When he is unable to do anything, he passes through a city in another province from Petersburg. He is mistaken for the "Imperial Envoy", causing panic among the local officials and making many jokes. "Nose" and "Coat" show the tragedy of "little people" living under an authoritarian system.

This is the story of three parallel worlds that exist in the same time and space. They rise together, alternate with each other, share weal and woe, and depend on each other for life and death. The first world belongs to ants. They build civilization in the soil and compose a magnificent epic at our picnic place. The second is human society. If an anthill is like a miniature human society, then human society is also equivalent to a magnificent anthill. The third world is the biosphere, which is the sum of all life, a habitat full of infinite knowledge and mysteries, and the common home of thousands of species. In "Anthill," Wilson tells the coming-of-age story of an American boy named Rafe Cody. In order to escape the conflicts between his parents, little Cody often fled to the Nokobe Lake area near his home, where he observed and studied various animals and plants, and gradually grew into a little naturalist. When he graduated from college, Cody completed his graduation thesis using anthills as a research object. When he learned that the Nokobe Lake area might be destroyed by real estate development companies, Cody chose to enter Harvard Law School for further study, became an excellent lawyer, and successfully defended the ecological environment of the lake area using legal weapons. The entire novel can be divided into three main lines, namely anthill, human society and the entire ecosystem. Wilson's description of the rise and fall of ant colonies and tribal wars is comparable to "Homer's Epic", and his portrayal of human families and society by analyzing anthills has paved a unique, almost spectacle-like path for us to understand human society.

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

In a five-story apartment in the Petersburg slums, Raskolnikov, a poor student, lived. He originally studied in the law department, but was forced to drop out because he could not afford the tuition fees. Now he relies on the money saved by his mother and sister from their tight living expenses to survive. He hasn't paid rent for a long time. Recently, the landlady not only stopped providing him with food, but also pressed for rent. At this time he met Marmeladov, a young civil servant. Marmeladov fell into a desperate situation due to unemployment, and his eldest daughter Sonia was forced to become a street prostitute. Raskolnikov did not want to be manipulated like Marmeladov, and he planned to use "experiments" to prove that he was an "extraordinary person." After Raskolnikov committed the murder, he was in a painful conflict and could not get rid of his inner fear. He felt that all his original good feelings were wiped out. This is a punishment of conscience that is more severe than legal punishment. He realized that his "experiment" had failed. So he came to Sonia with a painful heart. Inspired by Sonia's religious thoughts, he told her the truth and motives of the crime. Under Sonia's persuasion, he surrendered to the police. Raskolnikov was sentenced to eight years of hard labor and came to Siberia. Soon, Sonia also came there. One morning, the two met by the river. They were determined to believe in God, endure all suffering with repentance, and gain spiritual rebirth.

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