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Collecting articles from Pamuk's Norton Lectures at Harvard University, the author discusses his creative process as a novelist, the relationship between fiction and reality in novels, the way novels produce effects on readers, and other topics. The title comes from Schiller's classic distinction between two different literary styles: "naive" and "sentimental." Pamuk came to his own conclusion in a dialogue with Schiller's literary concepts: Novelists are both naive and sentimental, and novel creation is to achieve a certain balance between that intuitive, simple naivety and reflective, deconstructive sentimentality. Pamuk also elaborated on a point throughout the book in these articles, that is, the difference between modern novels and ancient literature (such as epics) is that novels must have a center, and all the details in the book should point to this center. This center is the meaning of the novel, or the meaning of life itself, that can be slowly approached and experienced during reading.

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.

"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.

This book tells the adventure story of the protagonist Robinson who was shipwrecked at sea and drifted to an uninhabited island. He had to survive alone and persisted in living on the island for nearly twenty-eight years. Finally, he miraculously returned to his hometown. In the article, Robinson never gave up the pursuit and persistence of his ideals and beliefs. With his amazing perseverance and courage, tenacious self-protection ability, rich life experience, superhuman wisdom and creative spirit, he devoted himself to the struggle against nature. In the end, he became the master of nature through his actions. His spirit of never being satisfied, constantly pursuing, constantly making progress, and having the courage to fight against difficulties is worth learning from each of us.

Xiao Dumas's first masterpiece that made him famous in the literary world, the story tells an unforgettable and touching love story between a young man and a courtesan of Parisian high society. It expresses the heroine Margaret's desire and persistence for true love, creating a love affair that exudes immortal charm. This timeless love classic celebrates the noble soul and the beauty of humanity, while also ruthlessly exposing the corrupt life of the upper class of the French July Dynasty.

"Madame Bovary" is the famous and representative work of the French writer Flaubert, and it is also a landmark work in the history of French literature. Emma is the daughter of a farm owner who pursues a romantic and elegant life. After she married the country doctor Charles Bovary, she found that life was far from what she expected. So she was unsatisfied with the status quo and Hongxing cheated. But her first lover was a morally corrupt country squire, and her second lover was a selfish and cowardly intern. Her affair not only failed to bring her happiness, but gave opportunities to speculators, forcing her to become the target of loan sharks. She was deeply in debt and had no choice but to commit suicide by taking poison.

Goethe is an outstanding poet, writer and thinker in modern times. The world recognizes him as the most outstanding representative of Western spiritual civilization after Dante and Shakespeare, and occupies an important position in the history of world literature. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is his most important early work. This is an epistolary novel written in the first person. The author was only twenty-five years old when he wrote it. The novel describes the experiences and feelings of progressive young people about the despicable German society at that time, and expresses the author's reaction to the feudal moral hierarchy and his strong demand for individual liberation: the young Werther fell in love with a girl named Lotte, who was already engaged to someone else. The setback in love made Werther devastated. Later, Werther committed suicide because he was incompatible with feudal society and felt that his future was hopeless. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" came out in 1775. Its publication was considered an epoch-making event in the history of German literature; it shocked the hearts of an entire generation of young people in Germany and even Europe.

This article describes how Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone after eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish. On his way back, he was repeatedly attacked by sharks. When he finally returned to port, only the head, tail and a spine were left. "A person can be destroyed, but not defeated." This sentence will always give people the courage to face reality.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is a diary written by Anne Frank, a German Jew. It is a record of her life and emotions while hiding in a secret room. As a growing teenager, she confided in her diary the confusion of constant conflicts with her mother and her sexual curiosity. At the same time, the record of 25 months of hiding and terror-filled life in a secret room also makes "Annie's Diary" an eyewitness report on the suffering life of the people under German occupation. The last entry in Anne's diary is dated August 1, 1944. After the war, Anne's father Otto Frank decided to fulfill his daughter's long-cherished wish and publish the diary.

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.

"Lost Horizon" narrates the magical journey of the British Consul in Pakistan Conway and his assistant Captain Mallinson, the French Miss Brinklow, and the American Barnard after the plane crash. They were lucky enough to survive and came to the Blue Moon Valley near the Himalayas. In the valley stood the most beautiful Karakal Snow Mountain in the world. The flawless white pyramid-shaped outline was as simple as the handwriting of a child. Hidden in the narrow Blue Moon Valley is the mysterious and peaceful Shangri-La, which is like a paradise. It is connected to the outside world only through horse caravans. There are emerald-like grass, mirror-like lakes, rich gold mines, beautiful temples and temples of other sects. Everything is deeply immersed in tranquil joy. People living here live long lives, maintaining the great harmony between nature, and everyone's life is filled with auspiciousness and happiness.

Jack Barnes, an American young man, was seriously injured in World War I and lost his sexual ability. He fell in love with the beautiful woman Brett Ashley. However, because Ashley could not accept a marriage without sex, Barnes could only helplessly let her become someone else's fiancée, and even arranged for her to have trysts with other men. The two went to Spain to watch a bullfight with several friends. Brett Ashley fell in love with the young bullfighter Romero at first sight, but when Romero proposed to her, she resolutely rejected him. The age gap made her "not want to be a bad woman who ruins the future of young people." Eventually, she returned to Barnes, but both parties knew that they could never truly be together. "The Sun Also Rises" was first published in 1926. It is Hemingway's first novel. It condenses and brings together the young Hemingway's own thoughts, emotions, reason, pain and his glimpse of the future. It is an in-depth extension of Hemingway's own life experience and philosophical thinking. After the publication of the novel, the term "lost generation" spread immediately and spread more and more widely, and then evolved into a conceptual literary term - it not only represents the main creative tendency of the young generation of writers after the war, but also became a marker to refer to the thoughts and emotions of this generation.

The protagonist of the novel, David Copperfield, is an orphan. He is smart and diligent. He studies hard and overcomes many difficulties with the help of kind-hearted people around him. Finally achieved career success and became a famous writer. The lines of the novel reveal Dickens's ideal of a life filled with kindness, justice, humanity, and fraternity, which he called his "most beloved child." The character "Micawber" has now been included in the common English dictionary as a word.

"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?

"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.

The wise and clever Elizabeth said, "Even if I can't find a man in my life, I would never want me to marry you." But the handsome and indifferent Mr. Darcy said, "I found out that I fell in love with you only when I couldn't help myself." One of them is prejudiced, the other is arrogant, and they stay away from each other in every contact, which makes the little spark of love flicker. In the end, the misunderstanding was solved, Darcy married Elizabeth as he wished, and Elizabeth broke away from prejudice and became Mrs. Darcy, which confirmed the saying "You can't get married without love." The story style of the novel is relaxed and humorous, and the scene descriptions are beautiful and charming. It explains four different views on marriage and love through the marriage experiences of four pairs of men and women. It is a love and marriage novel that is still very attractive and realistic even after two hundred years.

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.

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" depicts such an interesting world to children through a fantasy and absurd plot: the little girl Alice saw a white rabbit that could talk, tell time, and wear clothes. In order to keep up with this strange rabbit, she accidentally fell into the rabbit hole and came to a wonderful place. Here she meets the Cheshire Cat who is always grinning, the crazy March Hare, the Queen of Hearts who likes to chop off other people's heads... Here, Alice seems to be the only sane person. She continues to explore, learn about herself, grow, and finally becomes a "big" girl. Next, can Alice return to her home?

"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...

"The Cliff" is one of the three famous works by the famous Russian writer Goncharov. It took the author 20 years from conception to completion. By describing the love and spiritual pursuits of Russian aristocratic young men and women, the novel reflects the social life and social changes in Russia from the 1840s to the 1960s. In the story, the aristocratic young man Reisky is smart, studious, and loves art, but he has no will to persevere. From Petersburg he came to Malinovka, a manor on the edge of a cliff, where his two beautiful cousins ​​lived. Raisky first fell in love with the simple and lively Malfinka, but Malfinka fell in love with the young Vikendiyev. So he fell in love with his eldest cousin Vera. Vera was cold, charming, and pursuing freedom, but she only regarded him as her brother and best friend. She fell in love with Mark, an exiled prisoner who was full of new ideas and unruly. But later I discovered that I and Mark QC had different views on love and thoughts, and all Mark's thoughts were fantasy. With the help of her grandmother and Laisky, she stepped back from the brink and chose Tushen, the forest farm owner. Laisky went abroad to study sculpture, wandered in art palaces, and was sublimated physically and mentally. However, he always felt the call of his relatives in his hometown and was determined to return home.

The work "The Decameron (Set Volume 1 and 2)" tells the story of ten young men and women who took refuge in a villa during the plague epidemic in Florence in 1348. They feasted all day long, each telling a story every day, and told a hundred stories in ten days, hence the name "The Decameron". Many of the stories are based on historical events and medieval legends. In "The Decameron", Boccaccio praised real life, praised love as the source of wisdom and beautiful sentiments, condemned asceticism, and made a powerful satire on the depravity of the feudal aristocracy and the shameless debauchery of the Catholic Church. The work adopts a frame structure to connect one hundred stories together, making the whole book coherent. The language of the work is concise and humorous, and the characters and objects are described with subtlety.

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...

Sir Glenarvan, a Scottish aristocrat, accidentally got a bottle, which contained a distress letter from Captain Grant who disappeared in a shipwreck two years ago. At the request of Captain Grant's children, Mary and Robert, he resolutely decided to set sail on the "Duncan" to find and rescue the stranded captain. In this way, the Sir and his wife Helen, their friend Colonel McNabs, the French geographer Paganel and others took their two children on an adventure around the world...

"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.

"Insect Diary" is a work about insects written by French entomologist Fabre based on his lifelong experience and achievements in insect research. Fabre used human nature to observe the nature of insects, and used prose style to truly record the instincts, habits, labor, marriage and love, reproduction and death of various insects in the book. The whole book is permeated with the author's love and awe for life, and reflects the author's meticulous and tireless scientific exploration spirit. This work is not only a popular science book on entomology, but also a literary masterpiece describing insects. It is a model of the perfect combination of science and literature.

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"The Strange Current Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" by Wu Jianren of the Qing Dynasty is one of the four major condemnation novels in the late Qing Dynasty. Through the protagonist's experiences and experiences in the 20 years from his "narrow escape" from attending the funeral of his father to his failure in business, it reveals countless strange current situations in China's officialdom, shopping malls, and foreign affairs from the Sino-French War to the early 20th century. Wu Jianren satirized the "strange current situation" in the intellectual world, especially the literati and famous celebrities in the foreign market, which was extremely successful. He rationally realizes that "business is the foundation of financial management", but still cannot forgive the intrigues in shopping malls; he describes many scandals of fratricide and tragic changes in human relations within the family, revealing the destruction of ethics and morality; in particular, he successfully creates a negative example throughout the book - Gou Cai (Gou Cai). By describing his extremely shameless history of fortune, he portrays the dirty soul of a corrupt official. In short, in one hundred and eight chapters, Wu Jian showed readers a historical picture of the imminent collapse of the feudal society at the end of the world.

"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.

This set contains 3 volumes: 1. "Bird of Paradise and the Snail" is a special commemorative anthology released by Japan's Kawade Shobo on the 30th anniversary of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's death (2017). This book combs through Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's many works and collects classic works with the theme of "animals". Opening this book is like entering a wonderful zoo. The content is full of interesting content, and it is another review of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's huge book collection. It is an excellent entry into the charming and dazzling world of Shibusawa. It is also a must-have style work for both new and old readers. Because it has no legs, the bird of paradise cannot stay on the branches or fly to the ground. It has to hover in the sky day and night, never stopping, and can only fall to the ground after death. Tapirs feed on human dreams, and nothing else. Eat, if you eat good dreams, the feces will emit an intoxicating aroma; the Ibis bird will insert its long beak into the anus and perform an enema on itself; the bird called Caladrios can tell whether the patient can escape death; growing in Su A tree on the bank of a river in Glen will bear duck-shaped fruits. The fruits will rot when they fall to the ground, and they will flap their wings and fly away when they fall into the water... Rhinoceros, Dodo, The Beginning Fish, Humans Mimicking Fish, Scarabs and Cicadas, Caterpillars and Butterflies, Ant Lions, Grams The Snails of Rite Island, etc., "Birds of Paradise and Snails" selects 29 short essays talking about animals, birds, marine life and insects from Shibusawa's huge number of works. In addition to real-life creatures, fantasy creatures are also mixed in. The famous articles about animals by Japanese dark aesthetic master Shibusawa Tatsuhiko are all gathered in this book. 2. "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon" is a special commemorative collection released by Japan's Kawade Shobo on the 30th anniversary of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's death (2017). This book combs through Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's many works and collects classic works with the theme of "plants". Opening this book is like entering a magical plant museum. The content is full of interesting content, and it is another review of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's huge book collection. It is an excellent entry into the charming and dazzling world of Shibusawa. It is also a must-have style work for both new and old readers. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the huge building "The Hanging Garden" in the metropolis Babylon contains all the plants in the world, including rare flowers; in Greek mythology, there are countless wonderful stories of humans transforming into plants; pornographers are fond of the primitive plants sexual fantasies; most plants in the world are immersed in romance; the bulbs of plants are often described as beautiful boys; the fear of being poisoned by medieval nobles and their persistence in herbs and poisonous weeds reached an outrageous level... The secrets of the plant world are far beyond your imagination. The declining nobles of the plant world, Icarus of the plant world, herbs and poisonous weeds, spices, amber, preference for gardens, etc. "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon" contains 18 unique and charming essays about plants by Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, among which "Flora's Escape" includes 25 short essays about flowers. The famous works about plants by Japanese dark aesthetic master Shibusawa Tatsuhiko are all gathered in this book. 3. "Natural History of Fantasy" There is a monster in Ethiopia with a human face, human ears and blue eyes. The body is like a lion and red like blood. The tail is like a scorpion and can sting the enemy. Its cry is like an ensemble of reed flutes and trumpets. There is a poisonous animal in the Indian sea called sea hare. When a pregnant woman sees a female sea hare, she will immediately feel nauseated just by looking at it, which may lead to miscarriage. In the area near the source of the Ganges River in eastern India, there lives a race called the Astomi. They have no mouths and live by inhaling air and fragrance through their nostrils... In "Natural History of Imaginations", Japanese dark aesthetic master Shibusawa Tatsuhiko uses "Natural History" written by Pliny, known as "the classic among classics", as the entrance, and selects a labyrinth and a sundial. , Ethiopian monsters, sex and the diaphragm, sea hares and sea animals, miracles in the world and other 22 themes. With its unique quotations and witty remarks, it not only vividly presents Pliny and his philosophy of life, but also brings us into a strange world where it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and weird and imaginary.

"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.