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Tokutomi Asuka's intention is to "publish to the public a few pages of sketches about nature and life." This is Tokutomi Asuka's sketch of nature and his attitude toward life. His magnanimous natural feelings, romantic spirit and philosophical thoughts are everywhere in the book, which has a profound influence on the Japanese literary world. Everything he saw and heard was recorded with his leisurely and elegant pen and ink: the dawn on Mount Fuji, the sunset on Sagami Beach, the summer temple in Kyoto, the cicadas chirping outside the house... Japan's scenery of soft water and warm mountains, and the strong and soft people leaping on the paper, are unforgettable.

If the trees on this planet could talk, what would they tell us? An epic of human beings and nature, like "Walden" meets "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Over the centuries, the fates of characters from different races and countries are like the same tree. Underground are the cultural history of family traditions, and above ground are the branches of civilization in the new century. They meet, get acquainted, and fight for nature and life together. From the chestnut trees in the Brooklyn countryside, to the fusang legend in Eastern China, from scientists with language barriers, to the American pilot who fell into a tree during the Vietnam War, a paralyzed Indian game development programmer, a psychologist who doubts human nature, an engineer who has a mysterious relic and heard ancient legends, and a female college student who died. Nine unrelated stories from different countries and different eras finally come together.

Travels in France and Belgium is a collection of letters and notes written by Hugo during his travels in France and Belgium, as well as the Alps and Pyrenees. The author traveled through famous cities and countryside, lingered in ancient buildings, churches and museums, explored countless castle ruins, and described the beautiful mountains and rivers, the morning light and the setting sun, the mist-filled valleys, and the rough sea. In these accounts, the poet Hugo presented the unparalleled magnificence of nature with his rich historical knowledge and cosmic awareness, extraordinary imagination and keen observation.

"The Complete Works of Rilke" is translated based on the 12-volume "The Complete Works of Rilke" (Rainer Maira Rilke. S? Mtliche Werke in zw? Lf B? Nden) published by Island Publishing House in 1975. The Chinese version has 11 volumes in total. This volume collects works created by Rilke from 1894 to 1902. There are works published by the poet at his own expense, as well as original manuscripts, which were not officially published during the poet's lifetime. Among them are "Life and Song", which he later completely denied, and the poem "Chicory" The compilation of songs also includes "The Eleven Visions of Christ" and "Celebration of You", which he cherishes. The former was hidden by him because of its religious attitude, while the latter was specially composed for his lover Salome. According to Salome's wishes, it was not known to outsiders during his lifetime. In addition, there are all his poetic dramas, which are short in length and basically only construct a scene with few characters, either monologues or dialogues. Some of the poet's important works at this stage, such as "Celebrate Me", "The Marquise in White", "Flagbearer" and "Prayer", all have first drafts and revised drafts respectively. The time span between the first draft and the revised draft varies. These first drafts are also included in this volume. The final drafts of these works are arranged in the first volume of the complete collection. Therefore, if readers want to understand the overall picture of Rilke's early poetry creation, they may wish to read the first volume together with this volume.

This book collects 16 popular fairy tales represented by the Japanese fairy tale master Kenji Miyazawa, including "Kaze no Matasaburo". In "The Biography of Gusko Budori", Gusko Budori sacrificed himself to prevent people from being affected by the cold wave, and in "Kenju Forest Park" the simple, kind and unrewarded Kenju are all true portrayals of Miyazawa Kenji himself; and "Kaze no Matasaburo" The friendship between Nakazaburo and his classmates and the description of the natural scenery, the discussion of the law of the jungle in "Twenty-Six Nights", and the journey of the little rabbit Hermon from good to evil in "Shell of Fire" all demonstrate the rich charm and profound connotation of Miyazawa Kenji's works. Miyazawa Kenji integrates his compassion and kindness into his pure and highly creative writings, leading readers to experience the beauty of nature and regain the innocence in their hearts.

"Pillow" is a landmark masterpiece in the history of Japanese literature, a literary miracle book that has been passed down for thousands of years. Written around 1000 AD, it was the first of Japanese essay literature, and together with The Tale of Genji, it is the "twin gems of Heian period literature". "Pillow" can clearly and directly lead readers to understand the delicacy and beauty of Japanese literature, as well as the aesthetic taste in Japanese culture. The book has a total of 305 paragraphs, divided into three major contents: clustering, diary and reflections.

"La Traviata" begins with the author's own narrative. At the auction of the famous prostitute Margaret's belongings, Dumas bought a novel signed with Armand's name. A few days later, Armand came to see him and wanted to buy the book back with a large sum of money, but Dumas generously gave it to him. Armand told him the touching story of his true love with Margaret, the Lady of the Camellias. The language of "La Traviata" is fluent and gives people a real and natural feeling. The book has also been adapted into plays and operas, which have a long history.

Karl Ove Knausgaard, a master of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, has created the second volume of a tetralogy based on the four seasons. In preparation for the arrival of new life, Knausgaard looked at our world with the fresh eyes of a first sight, incorporating daily musings into letters to his unborn daughter. With his unique and sensitive brushstrokes, he carefully outlines themes such as the moon, water, chaos, owls, and birthdays. He completely sets aside our usual perceptions and gives new meaning to these familiar, everyday things. New life is about to come, but the earth is still in hibernation, waiting for the weather to warm up and all things to revive. Knausgaard's writing is precise, beautiful and full of compassion. He writes about the world we know well, but it is very different from our daily cognition. This is the true face of the world from another perspective: both banal and magnificent.

"The Ladies and the Philosophers" is Fitzgerald's first collection of short stories, which includes eight of his published short stories: "The Pirates of the Offshore," "The Ice Palace," "Head and Shoulders," "The Cut Glass Vase," "Bernice with a Short Hair," "The Gift," "The Misguided Daley Rimbole," and "Four Times." This collection of short stories depicts the life scene of American society after World War I with a new perspective and vivid writing style. It expresses the conflict between modern consciousness and traditional concepts, and praises the young generation's rebellious mentality against old culture and old morals as well as their longing and pursuit of a better future. It earned Fitzgerald the reputation of "Poet Laureate of the Jazz Age".

The novel "Little Thing" is a semi-autobiographical work that tells the story of Little Thing's experiences. It is mainly based on the first-person self-narration of the protagonist, and also inserts the third-person narrator's point of view. The first half is Daudet's own experience, in which there is more pain than joy, and more tears than smiles; the second half, except for his brother Jacques, is entirely fictional. The family ethics expressed by the author are very clear: only pure love can build a healthy family, and family affection is an indispensable spiritual pillar in life. This is the realization gained from personal experience by the protagonist, who was naive and ridiculous when he first came into the world.

This book tells the story of love and revenge that took place in Wuthering Heights and lasted for three generations. After the gypsy outcast Heathcliff was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, he fell in love with his daughter Catherine and resisted the tyranny of his son Hendry. Because of the disparity in social status with Heathcliff and her own vanity, Catherine accepted the proposal of Edgar, the owner of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff ran away angrily and returned home three years later when he got rich. He found out that Catherine had married Edgar, so he took cruel revenge on the person who took away his love and happiness. He took away Hendry's family fortune through gambling, made his son Hareton a slave, and deliberately married Edgar's sister Isabella to persecute him. Although Heathcliff's revenge was successful, he did not gain happiness from it.

The British genius Alain de Botton has the critical depth of Milan Kundera and the deconstructive temperament of Roland Bartel; however, he has a more three-dimensional love thinking than Kundera, and is more attuned to the love nerves of lovers than Bartelle, activating people's new reading experience. This book is a detailed and vivid record of the love process that combines rationality and sensibility. It faithfully records all the details of the relationship with your girlfriend, especially the psychological and philosophical thoughts. The text is vivid and full of wit. It is not only a great pleasure to read, but also makes you endlessly memorable after reading it.

Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective novels "The Complete Sherlock Holmes", including "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four", "A History of Adventures", "Memoirs", and "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

"The Three Musketeers" is a story about justice and ideals. D'Artagnan, a rural boy from a grassroots background, went to Paris to join the army with the dream of becoming a musketeer. By mistake, he became life-and-death friends with three legendary musketeers of the King's Guard, practicing the knight's declaration of "everyone for one, one for everyone." In order to thwart the conspiracy of the villain Cardinal, the Musketeers brothers, who are resourceful, brave and each with their own strengths, embarked on a thrilling adventure...

I can say: "If I can get all the happiness I want, I will be happy." I can also say: "If I achieve the best self-improvement, I will be happy." - Erich Fromm The first part of "The Art of Existence" clarifies the nature of the two modes of existence, possession and existence. The dominant results of these two modes of existence are for the well-being of mankind. The comprehensive humanization of human beings needs to break through from possession-centered to activity-centered, from selfishness and self-centeredness to solidarity and altruism. The second part of the book offers some practical suggestions that may help humanize the world. To start discussing the art practice of life, we first need to think about what is the goal of life? What is the meaning of human life?

The character of Carmen comes from the writings of the 19th-century French writer Mérimée. Her alluring charm is world-famous and she is regarded as one of the most mythical female characters in the West. This book also includes nine short stories and short stories, including "The Vision of Charles XI" and "The Capture of the Bastion".

The works selected in this book come from the two periods before and after Chekhov's creation. Among the early works, in addition to "Chameleon" which is familiar to Chinese readers and has a certain realistic criticism, there are also some light-hearted and purely humorous novels. "The Man in the Trap" is the most famous of Chekhov's later novels selected in "Selected Short Stories of Chekhov". This novel expresses the dull and depressing atmosphere of the times and satirizes the generally rigid and restricted mental state of Russian society.

"Crime and Punishment" is an outstanding social psychological novel. It describes the story of Raskolnikov, a poor college student who was poisoned by anarchist ideas and believed that he was a superman and could do whatever he wanted. Forced to make a living, he killed the old loan shark Alyona and her innocent sister Lizaveta, creating a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sophia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on depicting the protagonist's psychological changes after committing a crime and reveals the miserable life of the Russian lower class people.

This book is a novella written by Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It is one of Hemingway's most famous works. It tells the story of an elderly Cuban fisherman fighting a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream far offshore. This book established Hemingway's status. The book won the 1953 American Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

"Letter from a Strange Woman" is a collection of novels by the famous Austrian writer Zweig, which includes 9 masterpieces of novellas such as "Letter from a Strange Woman" and "Forgotten Dreams". Among them, "Letter from a Strange Woman" was evaluated by Gorky as "an astonishing masterpiece". The writing style of the whole book is clear and delicate, with passionate emotion in the silence and pathos in the writing.

This book is a classic in postmodernist literature. It has a unique position in the history of 20th-century literature in the United States and the world. It has caused huge controversy in the West. Some people call it the pinnacle of contemporary literature, while others think it is a rhyme that "predicts the end of the world." The plot of this masterpiece is complex, and the dream-like fantasy is full of confusing and intricate cross-relationships, various, weird and messy narratives, specious discussions, and descriptions of physics, rocket engineering, advanced mathematics, psychology, international politics, and abnormal sex. The background of the novel is the Second World War. German V-2 rockets frequently attacked London. The British and American intelligence agencies discovered that the place where an American intelligence officer had sex was often the landing point of the rocket. They studied this phenomenon, which attracted and implicated many people and events. The central image of the novel is the rocket. The so-called "gravity rainbow" refers to the parabolic arc formed after the rocket is launched. The author also uses it to symbolize death and the inevitable trajectory of modern civilization towards destruction.

German literature is famous for its poetry and "novelles" (short stories). Most of the famous German writers have written some excellent short stories and short stories. Short and medium-sized novels in German-speaking countries, especially short stories based on one moment and one event, have the advantage of seeing the big from the small. Like mountain flowers and weeds with strong vitality, they grow everywhere in German-speaking countries and develop in colorful ways. The novels of Romantic writers such as Hoffmann exude the fragrance of mysterious "orchids"; the works of Swiss novelists such as Gotthelf are filled with the bright sunshine and fresh air of the Alps; the novels of Sturm, who grew up on the coast of the North Sea, are always like a layer of mist, filled with desolate and soft poetry... This book selects and translates famous works of German literature masters such as Goethe, Heine, Zweig, and Kafka. The title of this book comes from a story in Genesis. The story tells that Noah, the ancestor of mankind, sent a dove out of the ark to find out news when the flood on the earth began to recede. However, after he sent out the third dove, this dove never returned and there was no news. The author uses this fable to condemn the imperialist world war and express his deep concern for the fate of mankind.

Throughout the ages, female characters in narratives have been either beautiful and kind, or ugly and vicious. The silent queen in "Hamlet" and the extremely ugly and vicious sister in "Cinderella". When gender stereotypes become shackles, all Atwood has to do is untie, disrupt and reshape them. This time, Atwood is taking offense on behalf of offended women. I don't even have a name. All this time, I was just "that ugly sister", with the emphasis on the word "ugly". --Page 18 of this book

Certain historical figures were buried twice, first in a tomb and then in the shadow of their fame. This is the case for Jacques Cole, the protagonist of "The Dream Maker". He was the first French merchant to set his sights on the East and the supervisor of King Charles VII. He lived in the early fifteenth century and witnessed this era of continuity and the transformation of the Middle Ages giving way to the Renaissance. This separation of the past and the future made people ignore his own reality, the instigator of the revolution. This book is written in the voice of Cole, who lives in exile on the island of Chios, recalling his magnificent life: from the golden leopard that represented the Eastern dream in his childhood to the calm and precocious young man during the siege, from the ambitious businessman and powerful official who traveled around the world to his precarious life in exile, and his only love. It was not until Agnès Sorel appeared on his path that he understood how happy and painful the human heart can be...

This is one of Balzac's many works. The book tells the love story of a young man named Albert Savaron who graduated from law. Albert Savaron fell in love with an Italian princess. In order to be worthy of the one he loved, he kept struggling. For more than ten years, he experienced intrigues in the world. Their love also withstood many tests, but they were eventually separated by others. Albert Savaron also abandoned the world and escaped into a monastery. In this novel, Balzac, who is famous for exposing moral decay, materialistic desires, and the evils of money, passionately eulogizes a pair of lovers who are outstandingly independent and fight tenaciously for true love in a society where love has become a slave to money, and composes a shocking and pure love song.

This book is an anthology of Chekhov's short stories, including more than 20 of Chekhov's representative short stories such as "The Chameleon", "Death of an Official", "Wanka", "Ward No. 6", And "The Man in the Trap". Chekhov is known as one of the three greatest short story writers in the world. His short stories are outstanding representatives of Russian and even world realist literature at the end of the 19th century. The works selected in this book represent Chekhov's creative achievements in different periods. Many of them have been selected into primary and secondary school textbooks and are well-known to every household.

The pinnacle of novels in the 20th century, a pioneer of modern literature as famous as Kafka, Joyce, and Proust. "Man Without Personality" is the unfinished posthumous work of the Austrian writer Robert Musil. It is a "spiritual novel" and a literary work rich in essayistic thinking. Through the miniature world in the novel, the writer outlines the transition from the upper-class civil society shaped by enlightenment rationality to the modern mass society. It displays a wax museum of the characters of his era and occupies an important position in the modernist literature of the 20th century. The background of the novel is the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1914. In Vienna, a committee was formed to prepare for the celebrations in 1918 of the seventieth anniversary of the reign of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, the same year that Germany would celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II; so the Austrian operation was called a "parallel operation" (however, 1918 would be the year of the fall of both kingdoms, which puts a comically absurd bombshell into the basis of the novel). The protagonist of the novel - Ulrich, the secretary of the Parallel Action Committee - realizes that possibilities are more important to him than the mediocre and rigid reality; he feels that he is a person without personality, because he no longer regards people, but material, as the center of modern reality: "Today... Has produced a world without individuality, a world without the experience of those who experience it." He saw that he was forced to face various problems of the times, and to face various contradictions between reason and soul, scientific faith and cultural pessimism.

This book is Mark Twain's masterpiece, full of childlike innocence. The protagonist Tom is innocent and lively, daring to explore, and pursues freedom. He cannot bear the life that restricts his personality and always dreams of doing something heroic. The novel describes the free and lively minds of children in a cheerful style, while using satire to criticize hypocritical and vulgar social customs, hypocritical religious rituals and rigid and outdated school education. It is a pastoral pastoral of the "Golden Age" of America.

In outer space 5,000 kilometers above the earth's surface, alien enemies from 12 planets have gathered. They are watching eagerly, waiting for opportunities, and are preparing to launch an interstellar war, and their opponent is human beings. Humanity knows very little about these alien enemies. What do aliens actually look like? How do we identify aliens? How to find aliens lurking around you? If aliens invaded Earth, how would they attack? To what extent have their technologies advanced? Do humans have any chance of winning against aliens? How do we kill them and protect ourselves? John Scalzi, current president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, gave the answer. This book is his masterpiece, a super best-selling novel that is popular all over the world. It has the coolest and most comprehensive description of aliens.

The four daughters of the March family have very different personalities and have built their own "castles in the air": Meg, who is steady and dignified, dreams of becoming a good wife and mother, Joe, who loves art, is independent and free, Beth, who is quiet and well-behaved, loves to play the piano, and Amy, who is sweet and cheerful, longs to enter the upper class society. Girls will quarrel, be jealous, and shed tears of frustration; they have their own little secrets, but they are also each other's closest accomplices. Before Christmas comes, they are determined to work hard to become "little ladies" with strong self-esteem, stop losing their temper, put down their rebellion, overcome laziness, and become the pride of their parents. Life is poor and warm, and they gradually understand: to love and work in their youth.

Peter Pan is a child who never grows up. He lives in Neverland, where fairies, mermaids, red-skinned Indians and a group of vicious pirates also live. One day, Peter broke into Wendy's home and took Wendy and her two brothers, John and Mike, to Neverland. So they experienced adventures that ordinary children cannot experience: living in a home under a big tree, playing games with mermaids, forming an alliance with Indians, fighting with pirates, and finally annihilating the pirate leader Hook. Although there are countless fun things in Neverland, Wendy and the others still go home. When Peter came to Wendy's house again many years later, Wendy had grown up and she could no longer fly to Neverland with Peter.

The work tells the story of a plague epidemic in Florence, Italy in 1348, and 10 men and women took refuge in a villa in the countryside. They played and entertained all day long, and each told a story every day. They lived for 10 days and told hundreds of stories. These stories criticized the Catholic Church, ridiculed the church for teaching darkness and sin, praised love as the source of talent and noble sentiments, condemned asceticism, ruthlessly exposed and lashed out the depravity and corruption of the feudal aristocracy, and reflected humanistic ideas. "The Decameron" is the first realist masterpiece in the history of European literature; the modern Italian critic Sanctis once compared "The Decameron" with Dante's "Divine Comedy" and called it "Human Comedy".

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"Pride and Prejudice" is a comic and fascinating work by Jane Austen. The novel reflects the world and customs of British society from the late 18th century to the early 19th century through the story of several middle-class girls from villages and towns talking about marriage. The male protagonist Darcy behaves arrogantly, causing the heroine Elizabeth to always be prejudiced against him, which also makes their love journey full of hardships. But Elizabeth finally understood Darcy's true personality. Darcy changed his arrogant attitude because of Elizabeth, and they ended up in a happy marriage. The plot of the novel is tortuous and full of comedy, the language is natural and fluent, and it is witty and humorous. It reveals the tragedy and comedy of life with superb skills.

Bosmans, who was seventy years old, began to recall his past life. He thought of a girl he dated 40 years ago, her name was Margaret LeCourz. During that time, the two often went out together because they had a common experience of being followed. Margaret was born to a man named Bouaval, while Bosmans was born to his mother and stepfather. Marguerite met Bouaval in a café, and the latter began to stalk her. In order to get rid of this man, Margaret went to Switzerland and then to Paris, where she met Bosmans. Margaret works as a nanny, and her employer is a somewhat mysterious male doctor who seems to have been associated with some cult groups in the past. Later, the male doctor was arrested, and Margaret chose to flee again, without any news. Now, 40 years later, Bosmans decided to find Margaret again, so he went to Berlin to look for this mysterious woman again...

This book is a collection of short stories by the famous French novelist Daudet. His short stories play a prominent role in French short story creation. Among them, the famous piece "The Last Lesson" can even be synonymous with Dude, and can be regarded as a model of the combination of ideological and artistic aspects in short stories. "The Last Lesson" describes the last French lesson in a rural primary school that was ceded to Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War and bid farewell to the language of the motherland. Through the self-narration of a naive and ignorant primary school student, it vividly expresses the pain of the French people under foreign rule and their love for their motherland.

"The Temptation of Saint Anthony" is a novel with a dramatic form, narrating the legendary story of the medieval hermit Saint Anthony who was tempted by the devil.

A young pregnant woman of unknown origin collapsed on the street, and people sent her to a poor asylum. She died the next day after giving birth to a boy. The orphan was named Oliver Twist. Ten years later Oliver became an apprentice in a coffin shop. Unable to endure the abuse, he fled to the foggy London, where he unfortunately fell into the hands of a gang of thieves. The little orphan struggled in adversity, but fortunately he got help from kind people because of his kind nature. He saved the day from danger time and time again, and was finally reunited with his loved ones, and the truth about his mysterious origin was revealed.

This book is a trilogy of Gorky's autobiographical novels. It describes Gorky's understanding of suffering and his unique insights into social life. There is an endless desire and strength flowing between the lines. It is rich in connotation and thought-provoking, and depicts a wonderful spiritual world for us. This trilogy of world-famous autobiographical novels observes and understands the world around him through the eyes of a growing child, allowing us to see the image of a stubborn, compassionate and constantly pursuing teenager. The various problems that teenagers encounter during their growth period and the various psychological tests they undergo are extremely touching and touching for readers.

Shakespeare, a great playwright and poet during the British Renaissance, was the master of humanistic literature during the European Renaissance. He is a rare and perhaps unprecedented great dramatic poet, and the greatest literary figure in the world in history. "Romeo and Juliet (Selected Translations of Masterpieces)" selects four famous love-themed plays, "Romeo and Juliet", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Twelfth Night" and "Antony and Cleopatra", into one volume for the readers' enjoyment.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the masterpiece of Jonathan Swift, the most outstanding British political commentator and satirical novelist in the 18th century, and a great satirical novel in the history of world literature. The novel uses Captain Gulliver's voice to narrate the experience of traveling around Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the Flying Island Kingdom, and the Houyhnhnms Kingdom. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize the British political system, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class.

Nekhludoff met Maslova, the adopted daughter of a relative, and they fell in love with each other, but he seduced her and abandoned her. After Maslova became pregnant, she was kicked out and became a prostitute. Later, she was involved in a murder case. In the court jury, there happened to be Nekhludoff. He fell into guilt and ran around for her in order to atone for his sins. In the process, the two dusty souls gradually awakened and moved towards resurrection.

Zhang Guyuo is famous for his successful translation of three of Hardy's novels: "The Return of the Native", "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", and "Jude the Obscure". Among them, the translation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is the most popular among readers. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is Hardy's masterpiece and one of the "Wessex Series". It describes the tragic fate of a rural girl. Hardy called the heroine "a pure woman" in the novel's subtitle, openly challenging the hypocritical social morals of the Victorian era.

"Eugénie Grandet" is a representative work of Balzac, the 19th-century French critical realist writer, the founder and outstanding representative of European critical realist literature. It is included in the "Provincial Life Scenes" of his masterpiece "The Human Comedy" and "Studies of Customs". It is regarded by the author and commentators as an outstanding picture in the "Human Comedy". This book is a classic translation by the famous translator Fu Lei. Balzac uses a network structure model, with Old Grandet as the center, and through the stories of Eugenie, Old Grandet, Charles, Crouch and others, he presents the French society in the first half of the 19th century in a three-dimensional and all-round way, and at the same time describes the diverse and complex characters. In the novel, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.

This book is the masterpiece of Italian writer Collodi, published in 1880. When the benevolent carpenter Pipano was sleeping, he dreamed of a blue angel giving life to his most beloved puppet, Pinocchio, and the little puppet began his adventure. If he is to become a real boy, he must pass the tests of courage, loyalty, and honesty. During the adventure, he skipped school out of fun, was deceived out of greed, and turned into a donkey. Finally, he fell into the belly of a big whale and unexpectedly met Pipano... After this adventure, Pinocchio finally grew up. He became honest, hardworking, and kind, and became a real boy. The work was adapted into an animated film by Disney in 1940.

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. Fearing 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 had been 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...

"Anna Karenina" is Tolstoy's second landmark novel, written from 1873 to 1877. Anna is a high-society lady, young and beautiful, pursuing individual liberation and freedom of love, while her husband is a "bureaucratic machine" with an indifferent temperament. Once at the station, Anna met the young officer Vronsky. The latter was attracted by her beauty and pursued her desperately. In the end, Anna fell in love and decided to leave her husband and live with Vronsky. But the longing for her son and the pressure from the surrounding environment made her fall into pain and uneasiness, and she gradually discovered that Vronsky was not a dedicated and ideal figure. After losing her son and her last spiritual support, Vronsky, in despair, she chose to commit suicide by lying on the train. The novel exposes the ugliness and hypocrisy of the Russian upper class in the 1860s and 1970s. It also expresses the author's complex moral exploration and ideological exploration during a period of social transformation.

The healing masterpiece of Japanese literary queen Banana Yoshimoto, illustrated by the famous Japanese illustrator Mai Ono. Xiao Qian was abandoned at the beach when she was a baby, wrapped in layers of wakame. The Odaira family picked her up and she became a member of the Odaira family. His grandfather founded a family hotel, and Xiaoqian was deeply influenced by his grandfather who had magical luck since he was a child. After his grandfather passed away, Xiaoqian took over to help manage the hotel business. In a small village with beautiful scenery, the family is warm and happy, and there are often incredible magical moments. Xiao Qian lives an ordinary and contented life. One day, his parents were involved in a traffic accident. It was not a big problem at first, but from that day on, the family began to be trapped by nightmares from time to time. Some pebbles appeared inexplicably in front of the entrance, and strange things happened one after another... In a small village protected by a sacred hill, what kind of "happy magic" does the protagonist Xiaoqian, who was once an outcast, master? Banana's new work depicts the light of hope living in this beautiful world. Yoshimoto Banana self-evaluated this work as "an unforgettable work in my life. Although it is short, it is of profound significance. I hope this novel can become a beam of light that will forever illuminate the darkness."

A brain-burning version of "Robinson Crusoe", an erudite version of "Don Quixote", and an exquisite version of "The Three Musketeers". The whole story is a mixture of fiction and reality, a mixture of truth and falsehood, and is wonderful. In the hot summer of 1643, a merchant ship "Amaryllis" with a secret mission to find the location of the 180th longitude line was wrecked somewhere in the South Pacific. Roberto, the only survivor on the ship, was a young man who suffered from hypochondriasis, paranoia, photophobia, and could not swim. After being shipwrecked, he was washed aboard another abandoned ship, the Daphne. Roberto relied on the remaining food, fruits, vegetables, and poultry on the ship to survive. While waiting for death, he could only pass the time by writing love letters-and memories, which eventually evolved into novels. Through these writings, the author Eco explains to readers the first half of Roberto's life - the battle for the city of Casale that affected the whole of Europe (the Holy Roman Empire, France, Spain, and the Church all appeared), the spy wars between various countries for the purpose of seeking the secret of longitude, the fierce confrontation between faith and science in that century...

"The Red and the Black" is Stendhal's masterpiece. It is the foundation work of European critical realist literature. Julien, the protagonist of the novel, is the son of a carpenter, smart, studious, and rebellious. He came to Paris because of his ambiguous relationship with the mayor's wife and party fighting. Appreciated by the Marquis. Just when Julien was dreaming of a successful career, an exposé letter from the mayor's wife shattered his ideals. Finally went to the guillotine. Through the personal struggle and ultimate failure experience of Julien, a protagonist full of desire and passion, the novel extensively displays "the social atmosphere brought about by successive governments that weighed on the French people in the first 30 years of the 19th century" and reflects some essential issues in the political and social life of France in the early 19th century.