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The two families have been enemies for generations, but their children Romeo and Juliet fell in love at first sight. Forced by a feud between families, the two held a secret wedding. Later, Romeo was exiled because he stabbed Juliet's cousin to death in revenge for his friend. Juliet also faced the dilemma of being forced to marry, so she took sleeping pills and pretended to be dead. Romeo rushes back, not knowing the truth, and commits suicide. After Juliet woke up and saw that her lover was dead, she also ended her life in grief.

Charles Dees called A Tale of Two Cities his "best work". The story is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution in the 18th century, connecting the two major cities of Paris and London. Manette, a famous doctor living in Paris, accidentally witnessed the atrocities committed by the feudal aristocrats Evermonde brothers who treated human life indiscriminately. Because of their injustice, he was thrown into the Bastille and imprisoned for eighteen years. After being released from prison, Manette's daughter Lucy fell in love with her enemy's son Dardenne. As a result, in the vortex of the French Revolution, scenes of family grudges were grandly staged... Through the confrontation of love and hate, and the struggle between good and evil, as the author said, "love can always defeat hate" and "evil is often short-lived and will perish together with the evildoer, while good will last forever", achieving the author's consistent creative intention of punishing evil and promoting good.

This book is Paul Heizer's most representative collection of short stories and short stories, which not only describes pure love, but also praises beautiful human nature. The plot has ups and downs, and almost every work is rich in rare classical drama and romantic legend.

"Shipwreck" is Rabindranath Tagore's masterpiece. The whole story describes the joys and sorrows of Nari Naksha and Kamana, an extremely pious and kind-hearted young couple. The accidental encounters in the story clearly indicate in Tago's writing that everything is God's arrangement or God's will. He deliberately used this to promote his religious ideas. But more importantly, Tagore actually fully expressed his outlook on life and world view through this story.

"Rashomon" tells the story of a dismissed servant and an old woman who was a robber. When faced with a life-or-death decision, they "reviled the evil with evil" to survive "as a matter of course". The novel uses a suffocating and compact layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, conveying the author's perspective and thinking on human nature. "Rashomon" contains the most representative works of Ryunosuke Akutagawa: "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Hell Transformation", "The Nose", "Yam Porridge", "Kappa" and "Words of the Dwarf". Each novel is a classic work by the author. The plot of the novel is mysterious and profoundly demonstrates the choices and entanglements of human desire, conscience, and interests.

Tom lost his mother when he was young and was adopted by his aunt. The smart and naughty Tom couldn't stand the control of his aunt and school teachers, and often skipped school and got into trouble. Late one night, while playing in a cemetery with his good friend Huckleberry Finn, he accidentally witnessed a murder. Because they were afraid that the murderer would discover that they knew about it, Tom and Huckleberry fled to a desert island with another friend and became "pirates". The family thought they were drowned, but they turned up at their own "funeral". After a fierce ideological struggle, Tom finally stood up bravely and testified against the murderer. Not long after, during a picnic, he and his beloved girl Betsy got lost in a cave. They were hungry and cold for three days and nights, and faced the threat of death. Later, he finally escaped from danger and found the treasure buried by the murderer with his friend Huck.

"Treasure Island" is the most widely circulated masterpiece among all Stevenson's works. Its storyline originated from a map drawn by the author. "Treasure Island" has been translated into various languages ​​and widely circulated around the world, and has been put on the screen many times. The novel vividly describes the thrilling story of young Jim meeting a captain by chance, accidentally obtaining a treasure map, going to Treasure Island to hunt for treasure, fighting wits and courage with pirates, and finally finding the treasure after going through untold hardships. The novel uses Jim's personal experience to tell us that the most valuable thing in this world is not gold and silver, but the beautiful qualities of human nature such as love, bravery and sense of justice.

"Robinson Crusoe" is a full-length adventure novel by the British writer Daniel Defoe. It is the pioneer of British realist novels and a pioneer of nautical adventure novels. The novel tells the story of the protagonist, Robinson Crusoe, who encountered a storm on his way to Africa and drifted alone to an uninhabited desert island, where he began to live an isolated life. With his strong will and unremitting efforts, he survived on the desert island.

A broker of the British Stock Exchange already had a solid career, status, and a happy family, but he became obsessed with painting and felt like he was "possessed by the devil." He suddenly abandoned his home and went to Paris to pursue his ideal of painting. No one could understand his behavior. 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 leaves the civilized world after his death and escapes to the isolated island of Tahiti. He finally found peace of soul and an atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament. He lived with an indigenous woman and created one masterpiece after another that shocked later generations. Before he contracted leprosy and became blind, he painted a great work depicting the Garden of Eden on the fourth wall of his house. But before his death, he ordered the indigenous woman to burn the painting after his death.

"The Sun Also Rises" (The Sun Also Rises) is Hemingway's first novel. The author became the spokesperson of the "Lost Generation" and created a unique Hemingway style of writing with this book. 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. The lady finally returned to Barnes, although both parties knew that they could never truly be combined...

The first beautiful fairy tale written for adults in the history of literature! Wilde's masterpiece truly entered the temple of literature, and has since become the embodiment of beauty in the history of literature! The first beautiful fairy tale written for adults in the history of literature! Oscar Wilde said that my fairy tales are not written for children, but for adults aged 18 to 80 who have childlike innocence. The book includes Wilde's important events.

This book is the representative work of American writer Mark Twain. It describes that Prince Edward and pauper Tom exchange places with each other through an unexpected chance. Pauper Tom wears the prince's clothes and enjoys all the glory and wealth in the palace, and becomes the new king of England. But the real prince Edward wandered around and had to endure poverty and the bullying and ridicule of beggars. With the help of kind-hearted people, Prince Edward went through many hardships, corrected his bad habits, and finally returned to the palace. Under the condemnation of his conscience, Pauper Tom returned the throne that did not belong to him to the real prince. After that, Edward became a benevolent monarch and lived a happy life with his people. The story is extremely imaginative and the language is humorous. While bringing happiness to children, it can greatly stimulate children's imagination and yearning for purity, kindness, and beautiful things.

Jane Eyre, who was born into a poor family, fell in love with Rochester when she was working as a tutor. At their wedding, Jane Eyre discovered a mad woman hiding in the attic of Rochester's house, and she turned out to be Rochester's first wife. Jane Eyre left angrily. Soon, the mad woman burned the manor, and Rochester became blind and fell into poverty. Just when he was desperate for life, Jane Eyre came back to him.

This book includes fourteen of the author's best short and medium-sized novels, including "Call of the Wild", "Love of Life", "Silent Snowy Wilderness" and "The Power of the Strong". These works describe shocking scenes of life-and-death struggles between humans and harsh nature, humans and beasts, humans and humans, and animals and animals in the vast wilderness. They show the primitive struggle for survival between humans and animals, and are highly artistically appealing.

"Gulliver's Travels" tells the story of surgeon Gulliver's experiences after he was shipwrecked on four voyages. The book is divided into four parts, which respectively introduce Gulliver's experiences and experiences in strange countries such as Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island, Wizards, Science Fiction, Longevity, Japan and Shenma. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize and satirize the British society and human society at that time, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class. The organic unity of fantasy and reality is the greatest feature of this work.

"Selected Tragedies of Shakespeare" includes Shakespeare's four major tragedies "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", as well as the well-known love tragedy "Romeo and Juliet". The selected translation is the unedited translation by Zhu Shenghao. The selected plays for "Shakespeare's Comedy Selections" include "Twelfth Night", "The Merchant of Venice", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "The Taming of the Shrew", "As You Like It", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and other works. They revolve around the themes of love, friendship and marriage, with humorous and vivid language, vivid, rich, bizarre and interesting plots. The stories have twists and turns and have eternal charm. "Selected Historical Plays of Shakespeare" includes several classic Shakespeare historical plays by the master translator Zhu Shenghao. They are original, interesting and can be chewed over and over again. It also includes "Henry IV" (top and bottom) translated by Mr. Wu Xinghua and "Henry V" translated by Mr. Fang Ping. This book contains a total of seven of Shakespeare's most famous historical plays: "The Tragedy of Richard II" (The Tragedy of Richard II), "Henry IV (Part 1 and 2)", "Henry V", "The Martyrdom of the Queen" (Antony and Cleopatra), "Caesar Meets the Murderer" (Julius Caesar), and "The Heroic Treason" ("Coriolanus").

Sadness does not mean that I am weak, but on the contrary, it will turn into a steady stream of motivation, driving me to keep moving forward. Since I experienced so many hardships in my childhood and finally survived and became the person I am now, then the current hardships will definitely inspire me to continue moving forward and take further steps.

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"Mother" is one of the best works of the great Russian proletarian writer Gorky. This novel profoundly reflects the magnificent revolutionary struggle of the masses under the leadership of the Russian proletarian party in the early 20th century, and for the first time created the image of a proletarian hero with socialist consciousness. The novel describes the life of the old fitter Il Vlasov and the changes in his son. Through the experiences of this family, it shows how the working class moves from spontaneity to consciousness. The image of the mother is very important in this novel. The mother's awakening process fully reflects the historical trend that the masses will inevitably move towards the road of revolution under the education of the party.

This book is a representative work of Balzac, the famous French novelist in the 19th century, and is included in the "Private Life Scenes" of "A Study of Customs" in "Comedy Humane". The protagonist in the book, Old Man Goriot, is an old noodle seller in Paris, France. For the sake of his two vain daughters who strived to live a decent life in the upper class, he spent all his last property and died alone and desolately without the company of his relatives. The tragedy of Old Man Goriot unveiled the tenderness of family in capitalist society and revealed the naked nature of money transactions. This important work shows the French society in the first half of the 19th century, reflecting the decadence and luxury of the aristocratic life at that time, and also reproduces the life styles of all social classes at that time.

Amory Bryan is a typical "lost generation". He is handsome in appearance, wealthy in family, full of fantasy and wants to get ahead. He is disdainful of reality with his aristocratic arrogance and is out of tune with society. While studying in college, the surrounding environment intensified his doubts about middle-class values. Just when he was confused and on the verge of degradation, the First World War broke out, and he left the campus and rushed to the military camp. During the war, his mother died and his classmates died tragically on the battlefield. After the war, he returned to New York to do business, but his investment failed and he eventually went bankrupt. At this time, the beloved girl got married, and the spiritual mentor whom I had admired for many years also died of illness. The repeated blows made him hate life to the extreme... "Heaven on Earth" focuses on expressing the strong rebellious spirit of the young generation after the First World War against traditional values ​​and moral standards. It is very similar to Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye". It is an "educational novel" with modern significance in the history of American literature.

The narrator of the novel, Ishmael, was tired of life on land and boarded the Pequod whaling ship to work as a sailor. Captain Ahab was bitten off half of his leg by a beluga whale on a previous voyage. He is determined to find the beluga and take revenge on this voyage.

"Stories of the Jazz Age" was published in 1922. It is Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and includes 10 short stories: "Nana", "Camel's Back", "May Day", "Return to Youth", "Tarquet in Chipsade Street", "Oh, the Auburn Witch", "The Bitterness of Happiness", "Healing the Heart", "Hot and Cold Blooded" and "Gretchen's Forty Blinks". These short stories have vivid plots and profound implications. They record and describe the dreams, pursuits, love, pain, disappointment, hardship, confusion and other complex life experiences of the younger generation. They condense and reflect the colorful characteristics of the times and the fate of an entire generation or even several generations. They highly dramatize the fierce conflicts between modern consciousness and traditional concepts. They are the short stories written by Fitzgerald in this period that are rich in depth and power.

Margaret, a courtesan in Paris, was conquered by the sincere love of Armand, who was not rich, and fell in love. Just as the lovers were looking forward to a better life in the future, Armand's father secretly forced Margaret to leave Armand. Armand does not know the truth and thinks that Margaret abandoned him intentionally. Margaret endured the humiliation and died of hatred due to the double torment of illness and grief. This innocent love ended in tragedy.

"Notre Dame de Paris" is set in France under the rule of Louis XI in 1482. It describes the entanglement between a gypsy girl, Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, and the abandoned Quasimodo. Quasimodo, who is ugly, deaf and mute, has a noble and pure heart. Esmeralda is a beautiful and pure dancer who was framed to death by Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, because she did not succumb to his desires. Quasimodo was desperate for losing his idol, and angrily pushed Frollo from the top floor to his death. He also went to the cemetery and committed suicide next to Esmeralda's body.

"How Steel Was Tempered" was written in 1933. The young Paul Korchagin was expelled from school for getting into trouble. Forced by life, he walked into the "human world". Hard life, heavy labor, naked cannibalism, and the dark bottom of society tested and tempered this stubborn young man... This is the process of training and growth for a new generation of young people, and it is also a wonderful story of "a boy grows into a man"!

The latest classic version of FLTRP! "The Merchant of Venice" creates the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking, ruthless loan shark, reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law, and religion in bourgeois society.

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is Hugo's first novel and a romantic novel that caused a sensation. In the novel, Hugo used fascinating and vivid writing to describe the entanglement, conflict, and destruction among the fates of several main characters such as Esmeralda, Quasi Mordo, and Frollo. He told a legendary and tragic story that took place in Paris, France in the 15th century, and artistically reproduced the historical reality of France during the reign of French King Louis XI. The novel embodies Hugo's artistic expression principle of "contrast between beauty and ugliness". Its publication breaks the shackles of pseudo-classicism and marks the victory of romanticism.

This book describes the story of Sir Glenarvan, the owner of the Duncan cruise ship, who got clues about the missing navigator Captain Grant and decided to organize a rescue team himself. They took the Duncan boat out to sea to find Captain Grant. Along the way, he overcame numerous difficulties and dangers, and finally found Captain Grant on a desert island in the Pacific.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin", also translated as "The Record of a Black Slave" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin", focuses on depicting the tragic fate of Tom, a black slave who believed in Christianity and had a noble spirit of sacrifice, under an unequal social system, thereby revealing the sinful nature of the slavery system. Once the novel was published, it immediately aroused strong responses from all walks of life, promoted the anti-slavery sentiment of the American people to a certain extent, and thus became one of the factors leading to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

The protagonist Julien is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was working as a tutor in the local mayor's house. After the affair was exposed, he fled the mayor's house and entered the seminary. Recommended by the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris to work as a personal secretary for the Marquis de Larmore, a backbone of the extreme royalist party. He was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, Julien had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine.

This book is based on the conflict between King Louis XIII of France and Cardinal Richelieu, the powerful prime minister with a heavy army in his hands. It is interspersed with the overt and covert struggles of ministers and factions, and unfolds a very interesting story around the secret history and anecdotes of the palace. The protagonist of the book, the young warrior D'Artagnan, carries the fifteen crowns left to him by his father, rides a long-haired and thin horse, bids farewell to his parents, and goes to Paris, hoping to become a musketeer in the King's Musketeers, captained by Treville, his father from the same country. At the captain's house, he met the three musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Through the duel popular among European knights, the four became close friends who shared life and death. The young d'Artagnan came to Paris from the provinces to serve French King Louis XIII. He formed a life-and-death friendship with the three musketeers, and jointly dealt with the king's enemy, Cardinal Richelieu's guards, and won repeated battles.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" records the two-year asylum life of the Jewish girl Anne Frank from June 1942 to August 1944. The diary not only contains detailed records of Anne's special life during the war as a fugitive, but also an outline of Anne's own growth as a young girl. A brief yet exciting first love, a sensitive longing for parental love, and a unique perspective on how to behave and the direction of life. Although he was in hardship, his love for life and yearning for peace always ran through the lines until the last page of the diary.

The novel is set in the French society during the Bourbon Restoration. It tells the story of two daughters raised by a wealthy businessman named Goriot. After marriage, they exploited their father's property, damaged his dignity, and tortured his emotions in a high-society lifestyle, until they had nothing and died of physical and mental exhaustion. Intertwined with this main line is the experience of the provincial young man Rastignac breaking into Paris's upper class society and recognizing all the temptations and dangers involved. The main characters in Balzac's masterpiece "The Human Comedy" appear one after another in this novel, thus opening the prelude to the "Human Comedy".

This book is a collection of works by the famous French writer Stendhal in the 19th century. The protagonist of the novel, Julien, is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife and became an adulterer. After the affair was exposed, he was forced to enter the seminary. Later, he worked as a personal secretary for the Marquis Larmour in Paris, and was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, he had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine. This book was translated by the famous translator Mr. Hao Yun, and the translation is smooth and faithful.

The protagonist Julien is extraordinarily handsome and intelligent. He comes from a humble background but is ambitious. He has hoped to join the upper class society through personal efforts and struggle since he was a child. Just when he thought he was on the road to success and had found love that transcended class, society ruthlessly sent him to the guillotine. "The Red and the Black" is a monument of French and even European literature in the nineteenth century. The confrontation between the individual and society is its central theme. After so many years, the book is still shining brightly in the long and long art gallery. It has not faded over the years and has become a literary book that people all over the world cannot put down.

The protagonist Lucien is the son of a banker, but he is not interested in inheriting his father's business. He joins the army and becomes a second lieutenant of the cavalry regiment. When driving into the city of Nancy, he accidentally falls off his horse and meets Madame Chastelet, a beautiful young woman who is watching the excitement. Madame Chastelet was young and widowed, and owned a million-dollar fortune. She was the target of many aristocratic young people in Nancy's upper class society. But Madame Chastelet was interested in Lucien, and the two began a sincere and passionate love. "The Red and the White" is one of Stendhal's most representative works. He described the emotional entanglement of the young man and woman against the background of the conflict and competition between various social forces in the French July Dynasty at that time, so he wrote it vividly and profoundly.

The author Stendhal is loved by readers for his profound analysis of the psychology of characters in novels, and is considered the earliest practitioner of literary realism. The novel records that a young man from another province not only used his own talents and hard work, but also used some deceptive means and double-dealing in his life to complete his struggle to climb up the social ladder and become a so-called upper-class person. But in the end, his true inner feelings betrayed him. The so-called "red" and "black" refer to religion (black) and secular (red). This was also the focus of society at that time and caused fierce controversy.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the representative work of the 18th century satirical fable writer Jonathan Swift. The story is told in the voice of Captain Gulliver, narrating his strange travel experiences in Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island and Huima. Since its publication in 1726, it has become a household classic, loved by readers all over the world, and has endured for more than 200 years.

"The Fifth Column" is set against the backdrop of the Battle of Madrid. At that time, a Spanish rebel general threatened to have four columns to besiege Madrid. At the same time, a group of sympathizers in the city would cooperate with the troops inside and outside. He named this the fifth column. The protagonist, an American reporter, helps the Spanish government forces in their counter-revolutionary work, sneaks into enemy reconnaissance posts, and captures spies and brings them to justice. His girlfriend is a somewhat cynical American college student who came to Spain to report on the war. The play also features German anti-fascist fighters, leaders of the Spanish government security agency and a black prostitute, and scenes of live drama are staged in the Florida hotel. "Spanish Land" is a documentary filmed on location jointly by Dutch directors Evans and Hemingway, with Hemingway writing the caption.

"David Copperfield (Volume 2)" is a long masterpiece with a length of more than 800,000 words, centered on the open-minded intellectual David Copperfield. Through the daily life, studying and making a living, making friends and love, and travel writings of various people in the book, it fully expresses the humanitarian views advocated by the author throughout his life, and also depicts a series of eye-catching stories. Unforgettable characters: the gentle and intelligent ideal female Agnes, the eccentric Miss Trowu, the simple and kind Peggotty brothers and sisters... Among all Dickens's works, "David Copperfield" covers the widest range of social life content, shows the most complex and rigorous story structure, and is unique in the history of world literature.

Huckleberry is a smart, kind and brave white boy. He fled to the Mississippi River in pursuit of a free life. On the way to escape, he met Jim, a black slave. Jim was a hard-working, simple, enthusiastic, honest, and loyal black slave. In order to escape the fate of being sold again by his master, he ran away from his master's home.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's representative work. After eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone. However, the fish was so big that he dragged his boat on the sea for three days before exhaustion. He killed him and tied him to the side of the boat. On the way back, he was repeatedly attacked by sharks. When he finally returned to port, only the head, tail and a spine were left. Although this is a work with a simple story and a small length, it is rich in meaning. Many teachers use it as a teaching material on heroism education and recommend it to students, making it an enduring bestseller.

"The Wandering Child" is a novel written by the French writer Hector Marlowe, first published in 1878. The novel tells the story of the protagonist, little Remy, who was abandoned on the street due to his parents' greed and cruelty. A legendary plot unfolds around Remy's fate. It reveals some ruthless social phenomena in capitalist society and is a mirror reflecting French social life in the 19th century.

"Anna Karenina" is one of the famous works of Tolstoy, the master of Russian literature. Through the tragedy of the heroine Anna's pursuit of love, and Levin's thinking and exploration of reform, it depicts the social panorama of Russia from Moscow to the countryside in the late 19th and early 21st centuries. It is a classic encyclopedia-style work. Through the relationship between the central character Anna Karenina, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky, and through the relationship between her brother Oblonsky, the story connects Anna's life circle with another circle, forming a system of hundreds of characters. The writer used the relationships between people reflected in this huge system to vividly and profoundly write about the social outlook of Russia in the mid-19th century when capitalism was just emerging, and raised the problems that existed in Russia during this historical period.

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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.

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With its exquisite artistic form and broad ideological content, it has become an unreachable peak in the history of world drama. This tragedy describes the story of Prince Hamlet of Denmark avenging his father. It is based on 1,200 years of Danish history. It has been adapted and re-created by many people, but Shakespeare used his own genius to inject the flavor and philosophy of the times into this ancient story. The play also contributed an unprecedented image to the history of world literature - Hamlet. The profound development of this image in the spiritual world is the most fruitful harvest of the entire European literature.

D'Artagnan, who was born a commoner, went to Paris to join the army, joined King Louis XIII's Musketeer Guards, and became good friends with the other three Musketeers. In order to protect the reputation of Queen Anne of Austria, they fought against Cardinal Richelieu, defeated many obstacles set by Richelieu, went to England, retrieved the queen's diamonds from the Duke of Buckingham, and thwarted Richelieu's plot to sow discord between the king and the queen.