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"The Sun Also Rises" is a novel by Hemingway published in 1926. The author became the spokesperson of the "lost generation" and created a unique Hemingway-style writing style with this book. The novel is set in the historical period from 1924 to 1925 and in the famous city of Paris. It revolves around the emotional entanglements between a group of British and American young men and women who have suffered serious emotional or love trauma or suffered severe psychological or physiological dysfunction during the war. It reflects the painful and sad state of mind of this generation who have awakened their consciousness but feel that they have no way out.

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This book is a collection of short stories in verse, narrating the gathering of a group of 30 pilgrims at the Taiba Inn. These pilgrims include knights, monks, nuns, businessmen, craftsmen, doctors, lawyers, scholars, farmers, housewives and other people from all walks of life in the British society at that time. They are preparing to go to Canterbury to worship St. Thomas. The innkeeper loved the fun, so he volunteered to be their guide, and suggested that each person tell two stories on the way to and from the Holy Land to relieve the loneliness during the journey. The innkeeper would act as a referee and select the storyteller. After returning to the hotel, everyone gathered together to treat him to a meal. Everyone accepted the shopkeeper's suggestion, so they embarked on a pilgrimage together the next day and started telling stories.

This book tells the story of the protagonist John Christopher's struggle in a society full of vulgarity and strife. From the awakening of his musical talent in childhood, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, he finally reaches a state of clarity and loftiness, revealing the dawn of another world.

"Ancient Capital" describes the story of a young girl, Chieko, who was abandoned by her parents because of her poor family. She was taken in by a businessman, Taijiro and his wife, and raised as an adult. Later, she unexpectedly reunited with her twin sister Miaozi, and a series of misunderstandings occurred. The author not only describes their bitter life experience and pure love, but also describes their yearning for a better life. However, the insurmountable gap in social status forced the sisters to separate, and the sadness and loneliness of the impermanence of the world are revealed between the lines. "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is Kawabata Yasunari's early masterpiece and famous work. In the novel, "I" met an innocent dancing girl during a trip to Izu, and developed an ignorant love affair with the dancing girl. The whole story is immersed in the shyness and beauty of being reluctant to speak, and brings readers into an ethereal and fresh aesthetic world.

This is a neo-Confucian history. The work successfully creates a group of portraits of "pen-holders" in the new era, vividly depicts their complex psychological world, and truly reflects the living conditions of the little intellectuals living at the bottom of society at the end of the last century. The protagonist of this book, Zheng Xicheng, is a son of a peasant family. After graduating from university, he went to towns and counties to engage in news writing. He became a "local reporter". He wanted to praise virtues, but he got into unexpected trouble time and time again. The tortuous life experience seems to have made him smarter and more sophisticated. But the complex social reality did not change his innocent heart. In the face of justice and evil, he still took risks and spoke up for the villagers. The county leaders disliked him and even lost his job, but in the end he was favored by the superior news unit and was hired by a local evening newspaper as a temporary reporter.

This is a novel with a strong Chinese flavor. The novel begins when the Chinese New Year is approaching and a family of three returns to their hometown to celebrate the New Year. It does not shy away from the vulgar or the local, and is close to the entangled world and human relationships. Among the relationships between husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter, brothers, father-in-law, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts and nephews, the true emotions and true situations of people determined by the blood relationship within the family are thus highlighted...

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"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is the second part of Verne's trilogy, telling a vivid and mysterious collection of marine encyclopedia knowledge! The novel begins with the appearance of "monsters" on the sea and frequently attacks ships from various countries, causing people to panic, and ends with the Nautilus being swallowed by the Atlantic whirlpool. The whole novel is full of suspense and interlocking. Although the underwater scenery shown in the novel is charming, the reader, or the protagonist, is always confused by a mystery. He is always thinking and trying to solve this mystery: Who is Captain Nemo? Why does this talented engineer and knowledgeable scholar hate human society so much? What is the purpose of his roaming under the sea? When is the journey? The terminal point? The repeated escape efforts of Aronnax, Gong Saiyi and Ned Land seem to have been inadvertently frustrated. Can they return to the earth and gain freedom? How will this underwater journey end? The old mystery has just been solved, and new confusions are in front of them. The whole novel unfolds in this atmosphere of unrest and rising.

Margaret was originally a poor country girl. After arriving in Paris, she became a social butterfly in the upper class and was known as the "La Traviata". In this dazzling fame and fortune fair, she was moved by the sincere love of young Armand, and they both fell in love. Just as the lovers in love were looking forward to a better life in the future, Armand's father asked Margaret to leave Armand. Armand didn't know the truth and thought that Margaret had abandoned him intentionally in order to live a high-society life, so he looked for every opportunity to take crazy revenge on her. Tortured by the disease and Armand's blow, Margaret eventually died alone. After seeing her diary, Armand understood what sacrifices this woman had made for love.

Romain Rolland's novel "Jean-Christophe" is a series of stories about a young man who constantly pursues his dreams and struggles with society for his dreams. This is the second volume of this book. It has a gentle and tranquil atmosphere in general, and sings the tragic song of friendship and pure love. After the calm, there will be a big crisis in life. This storm will destroy almost everything, but the result will still be a clear and lofty state, revealing the dawn of another world.

"Oblomov" was created more than a hundred years ago and is Goncharov's masterpiece. The novel creates a typical "Oblomov character" and reveals the profound social and life roots of Oblomov's tragedy of self-destruction. Oblomov was upright, kind, and gentle, but he was lazy, indulged in fantasy, inactive, conservative, and pampered, and regarded labor and public duties as unbearable burdens. Although he envisioned a huge action plan, he was unable to accomplish anything. In the end, he could only lie on the sofa and dawdle, becoming a complete lazy man and waste. The novel delicately describes his spiritual death process and expresses the strong anti-serfdom sentiment and desire for change in society on the eve of serfdom reform. Oblomov is a product of the collapse of serfdom, and his character is the inevitable result of the influence of lifeless manor life on his spiritual life. His image marks the limit of the degeneration of Russia's "superfluous people" in the 19th century. He is a typical example of a declining landlord. This is also the most successful aspect of the novel. This image marked the end of the image of the "superfluous man" in Russian literature in the 19th century.

Romain Rolland's novel "Jean-Christophe" is a series of stories about a young man who constantly pursues his dreams and struggles with society for his dreams. This is the first volume of this book, which describes John-Christophe's boyhood and youth: as a boy, Christophe has been living in the small world of his family and hometown-until he passed a test. The young man got enlightenment from the test, constantly brandishing Don Quixote's spear, and went on a rampage to conquer the lies of society and art at that time, attacking mule drivers, clerks, wind wheels of mills, and festivals in Germany and France. He bravely walked out of the small world of his hometown and pursued his dreams on a larger stage.

"The Adventures of Good Soldier Schweik" written by J. Hasek, through the various encounters of an ordinary soldier Schweik in the First World War and the activities of various people around him, uses a wonderful technique of joking but not cruelty, adding solemnity and humor, and containing anger and laughter, exposing the cruel and decadent Austro-Hungarian Empire and all its ugliness to the broad daylight.

Jiayu went to the boiler room with a bamboo basket on her back. The road surface was hard and slippery from the winter frost. Jiayu walked out of the row of bungalows next to the farmland, walked up a long loess slope, and then crossed over the overpass next to the children's school. The dim lights of the mining area illuminated her pudgy figure. The fog was very thick, and suspended ice particles slapped her face. She felt like pieces of her face were bitten by hungry ice shards.

"Long Journey Into the Night" is an autobiographical work that describes the daily life of four members of the Talon family from morning to night. They complained, sarcastically, quarreled, talked and reconciled. It does not seem to have much drama, but its inherent tension makes the audience feel a sense of nervous suffocation, because the corrosive power of vulgar life on the good things in human nature is demonstrated here in a natural and thrilling way. He used his own personal experience and his family's misfortune as material, and relentlessly made the pain and the most unspeakable truths of his family public to the public. In his works, scandals and misfortunes in the family such as his father's stinginess, his mother's drug abuse, his brother an alcoholic, himself suffering from lung disease, his beloved son's early death, etc. Are all revealed in the play, showing amazing boldness and magnanimity.

"Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel. The first draft was the epistolary novel "Eleanor and Marianne" written in 1796. It was later rewritten into "Sense and Sensibility" in November 1797. For more than ten years, "Sense and Sensibility" became silent. It was not until March 1811 that Austen revealed in a letter that she was in London looking at the proofs of the book. The book was published on October 30 of that year. The novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the unhealthy trend in British society at that time of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status, as well as the ugly fashion of focusing on family status regardless of women's feelings and human rights. Both heroines in the novel pursue equal communication and exchange of thoughts and feelings with men, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on independent observation, analysis, and freedom to choose men. In Britain at the time, this was almost a cry of defiance. As the title of the book reflects, the story focuses on the conflict between "reason" and "emotion". The heroine Eleanor is both emotional and rational, which represents the author's ideal on this issue, that is, people cannot be without emotions, but emotions should be restricted by reason.

This book is a collection of short stories adapted from a story told by Baron Münchhausen in Hannover, Germany in the 18th century, and later re-created by a German writer. It is a work somewhere between a fairy tale and a fantasy story. The book tells that the Baron is a happy adventurer and a braggart. He can use the sparks in his eyes to hunt pheasants, fly on a cannonball, dance in the stomach of a whale, travel to the moon in a boat, and more. The stories in the book are absurd, humorous, and the exaggerated plots and rich imagination make people unbelievable but also imaginative.

"Uncle Bangs" is Balzac's masterpiece and is known as the "highest peak of his art". Uncle Bangs lived in poverty and lacked understanding of real life, but he was full of sincere love for art. He loved collecting antiques throughout his life and did not hesitate to spend money for it. However, the reality is full of conspiracies. Poor Bangs suffered from mental torture and eventually died of poverty and illness. Through Uncle Bangs, Balzac vividly presents to us the greatness and nobility of mankind, as well as the humbleness, ugliness and filth of mankind.

Robinson, who was born in a middle-class family, was unwilling to live a comfortable life and decided to go to sea to seek excitement. He was unfortunately in danger during a voyage and drifted to an uninhabited island, where he survived tenaciously for 28 years. During these 28 years, he experienced despair and regained hope and faith, making use of existing resources to invent and survive in difficult situations. He built a "country house" for himself, drank delicious mutton soup, and ate the baked bread that he dreamed of. After going through many hardships, he finally returned to his homeland.

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"I am a Cat" is a masterpiece of novels by the great Japanese writer Natsume Soseki. The novel takes an unnamed cat as the protagonist. The cat has seen through human nature. From the cat's perspective and responsibility, it writes about its owner and a series of strange people and things surrounding the owner's family. The writing style of the novel is humorous, funny and spicy, and very interesting. The wisdom of cats contrasts with the stupidity of humans. The owner of the house, Kusama, is a university teacher, but in fact he is pedantic and self-proclaimed, and can only write some incomprehensible poems; Mizushima Kanzuki is a metaphysical science and engineering man who studies topics of no practical significance all day long; the scholar Mi Ting is well versed in Chinese and Western knowledge, humorous, and loves to ridicule; Duxian is an idealist with an impassioned spirit. Even the capitalist Kaneda and his philistine big-nosed lady, and Suzuki Tojuro, who works for Kaneda at his door, are all brought to life.

This book is the last work completed by the great French critical realist writer Balzac during his lifetime. It was translated by Fu Lei. Readers who like Balzac's works should not miss this book. Many scholars at home and abroad regard this work as "Balzac's later masterpiece" and "the highest peak of his art". Uncle Bangs is a musician, an honest and noble self-reliant man who likes to collect famous paintings. When people didn't know that he had all these treasures in his hands, no one took him seriously. After his death, relatives from all walks of life showed their claws and claws in order to snatch the inheritance. Through the description of Bangs, Mrs. Xib and others, this book reveals the social situation during the July Dynasty, when demons danced wildly, good people died tragically, and righteous people remained silent, and lashed out at the shameless creed of "money supremacy" of the financial bourgeoisie.

In Lilliput, the citizens were only as tall as a pencil, and they lined up to jump over Gulliver's shoes; in the adult country, the residents were as huge as mountains, and Gulliver fought with mice, escaped from monkeys, and was stuffed into his pocket to travel long distances with his master; in the Flying Island Country, the islands could actually fly in the air, and the Royal Academy of Sciences was doing weird research; in the Houyhnhnms, the horses could talk, and the dirty Yahu, who was a livestock, hugged Gulliver and kissed him...

This book was first published in 1925. Fitzgerald, who was already a best-selling author at the time, was determined to write a novel that was completely different from any previous works and could be "left in a sincere and glorious world." The story of "The Great Gatsby (Chinese-English)" edited by F. S. Fitzgerald takes place after the First World War. The protagonist Gatsby was originally a down and out poor boy who traveled from the Midwest to the East of the United States and transformed into a mysterious tycoon who became famous overnight and filled the house with customers. Celebrities and distinguished guests came to his mansion in an endless stream, but in private they treated him with indifference and slanderous remarks. The woman he had been waiting for so long and who was already married to a noble lady only regarded him as the object of his spiritual cheating after marriage. Nick, the narrator of this book, watches Gatsby strive to pursue the corrupt and disgusting vanity, but still remains in awe of his inner innocence.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is a novel written by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered to be the pinnacle of the author's literary career. The book is adapted from a real patricide case, describing the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, as well as the court trial of the patricide case. The whole novel has two levels: on the surface, it is a case of patricide, and the victim's sons are suspected of conspiracy to some extent; but on a deeper level, it is a drama about the human spirit, telling a moral battle between lust, faith, reason and free will. The work shows an intricate tragic theme of society, family, morality and human nature. "The Brothers Karamazov" translated by translator Geng Jizhi is considered one of the most authoritative Chinese translations. It is famous for its faithfulness to the original work and restores the seriousness and ideological depth of Dossev's original text.

This book is the representative work of the Japanese literary master Natsume Soseki and has always been regarded as one of the world's masterpieces. The novel observes Japanese society after the Meiji Restoration through the eyes of a cat. It uses humorous and pungent language to ridicule and criticize the inherent weaknesses of human beings and the social ills of the world of money. It also quotes a lot of famous sayings from ancient and modern philosophers from the East and the West. It is full of wit and literary talent, and it is full of laughter and curses. The language of the work is a mixture of classics and slang, which can be appreciated by both refined and popular people. When reading it, one can't help but marvel in laughter.

"New Héloïse" is an epistolary novel written by Rousseau in 1761 and is known as the most important novel of the 18th century. The book is divided into six parts. The plot of the novel is from 1732 to 1745 and consists of 163 letters. The title of the book is borrowed from the love tragedy of the 12th century girl Heloise and her teacher Abelard. The novel tells the story of the love tragedy of the heroine Julie and her teacher Saint-Preux who fell in love but failed to do so. This book is the first novel in the history of French literature that praises love as a noble sentiment of human beings and describes the beautiful scenery of nature. It had a huge influence on subsequent French literature.

The story told in the novel took place in Georgia during the American Civil War. It takes the love journey of several young men and women as the main line, and reflects the rise and fall of several southern families as well as the Civil War and post-war reconstruction in the south. The heroine Scarlett was originally a pampered manor lady. After experiencing the war, she finally transformed into a strong, self-reliant businesswoman. Her character has multiple characteristics such as selfishness, greed, determination, daring to love and hate, etc. She is one of the richest, fullest and most classic female images in American novels. The alluring love in the novel has become the most romantic and legendary love story in the history of American novels.

"Aunt Bei" is an important work of Balzac. The novel is based on the life of the French upper class in the mid-19th century, and takes the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé's family as the main line. It tells the story of how the baron, driven by crazy passion, betrayed his pure wife step by step, hurt his innocent daughter, ruined the family's reputation, tarnished the army's reputation, and was ultimately ruined. Various characters, intricate plots, and thrilling battles between soul and flesh, love and hatred, good and evil, constitute a vivid tragicomedy in the world, a colorful history of civilization, and an endless elegy for the inevitable collapse of upper class society.

"Beautiful Friend" exposes the shady story of the press of the Third French Republic through the description of the rise to prominence of a shameless villain, Duroy. It profoundly reveals the complex political and economic phenomena and colonialist war policies of the Third French Republic, and can be called a historical picture of French society at the end of the 19th century.

In the monastery, Narcissus was extremely talented and was deeply loved by Dean Daniel. The new student Goldmund lost his mother when he was young and determined to serve God. Narcissus and Goldmund became friends. Narcissus found a temperament in Goldmund that was completely contrary to the spirit of the monastery, and advised him to abandon the shackles of asceticism and discipline, return to the nature given to him by his mother, and become an inspired person. After an unexpected encounter, Goldmund was shocked to realize his romantic nature and decided to start a wandering life. He wandered around, experiencing joy and hardship, and his wandering made him gradually mature. One day, Goldmund was shocked by the beauty of a statue of the Virgin, which inspired his deep creative talent. He began to study under a teacher and immersed himself in the art of sculpture. Finally, he returned to his close friend and mentor Narcissus. The two inspired each other with inspiration and reason respectively, and finally Goldmund mastered the art rules of turning moments into eternity and carved a perfect statue. However, his romantic nature still drives Goldmund to chase love and his last fantasy. Goldmund once again goes out on a parade to find his lover. On the way he fell seriously ill. Narcissus expressed his friendship to him before his death, which made him die with a sense of happiness.

"Rebirth: The Third Anniversary of the Wenchuan Earthquake" was written by Guan Renshan, the famous writer and chairman of the Hebei Provincial Writers Association, to commemorate the third anniversary of the "5.12" Wenchuan Earthquake. This book tells the story of a person who traveled thousands of miles to deliver love from Tangshan to Wenchuan to Yushu. It shows the spirit of the Chinese nation that when one side is in trouble, all sides support it, expresses the brilliance of human nature and the power of love from a higher level, and praises the spirit of the times of gratitude and forge ahead. Guan Renshan, a Manchu, was born in Fengnan City, Tangshan, Hebei Province in February 1963. After graduating from Hebei Changli Normal School in 1981, he worked as a teacher, township cultural director and county government secretary. He is currently a member of the Chinese Writers Association and vice chairman of the Hebei Provincial Writers Association. Together with the famous writers He Shen and Tan Ge, he is known as the "Troika" of Hebei in the literary world.

"Bringing Humor to Life" is a collection of essays, travel notes and other works by Guan Renshan. It contains more than 80 essays and essays of various types since the author became famous. It includes the author's debut novel "My Reed Flower Pond", which was first published in newspapers, as well as representative works such as "Fish Flying Over My Head" and "Enjoying the Fun of Childhood" which tell the author's childhood memories. These works focus on the author's life, work and creative experience, and describe family, friendship, love and other life stories around him. They are close to life, have diverse themes, and have high literary attainments and value.

"How the Steel Was Tempered" is an excellent novel written by the Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky based on his own experience. The path taken by the protagonist Paul Korchagin reflects the fearless spirit of the first generation of Soviet revolutionary youths who were not afraid of difficulties, struggled hard, and had the courage to win, and inspired generations of aspiring young people to realize their ideals. The images in his novels transcend time, space, and national boundaries, and have had a worldwide impact, shaking the hearts of generations.

"How the Steel Was Tempered" is an excellent novel. The book vividly describes the growth experience of Paul Korchagin, and uses it to explain a truth to people. If you want to defeat a powerful enemy, you must go through arduous struggles and challenge yourself. Only by combining your own personal interests with the collective interests of the country and the people can miracles happen and your heart become truly strong. The book's language is vivid, full of rich flavor of life, conveying soul-stirring spiritual power and profound philosophy of life.

The protagonist Paul in this book was born in a poor railway worker family. He was naive and naughty since he was a child, and had a strong sense of resistance. With the help of underground party member Zhu Helai, Paul gradually embarked on the road of revolution.

At this time when "sissy" is popular, for teenagers to read this book and understand Paul, it is a "baptism of the soul" for themselves. This book is divided into two parts, telling the story of the protagonist Paul's glorious life that continues to grow in the flames of war. After the novel was published, it was translated into many languages ​​and received strong international response. In 1941, the book had a Chinese translation. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was recommended by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League as an excellent reading book for young people. The whole novel or fragments were selected as university and middle school textbooks. This book is one of our company's "nationally compiled Chinese textbooks and classics reading ability development series".

The "extraordinary periods" described in the novel include the First World War, the February and October revolutions, the civil war, the struggle against sabotage, banditry and petty bourgeoisie, the fight back against party opposition, and the industrialization stage of the country. These events formed the characters and psychology of the protagonists in the book, and also had a significant impact on the fate of these people who were forming new social relationships.

The work describes the protagonist's story when he was sent to the Suishu Plain to work as an intellectual youth, and describes the ignorance, innocence, ups and downs experienced by that generation under the special background of that time. The work is very simple and unpretentious, with real and simple emotions and a strong local flavor, expressing the author's infinite nostalgia and yearning for his hometown and youth.

"Blade", Maugham's long work narrated under his real name, once created a miracle of selling 500,000 copies in one month of publication in the United States. It has been adapted into movies twice and has been nominated for multiple Oscars. Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Zhang Ailing, and Wang Anyi moved to recommend. Reader's Classic Library has a new hardcover illustrated edition of "Blade", which specially includes "The Story Behind "Blade" (Maugham's 1938 Travel Notes in India)" to help you truly understand "Blade". Specially included are 6 representative paintings by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian theosophist living in India, to show you the highest spiritual realm described by Somerset Maugham. It is not easy to cross the edge of the knife, so wise men often say that the road to salvation is difficult. --"Ghatto Upanishad" During a battle, the young pilot Larry saw his friend die trying to save him. The death of his friend caused Larry to rethink the meaning of life. He left his fiancée, refused a decent job, and began to travel around the world, embarking on a path of pursuit...

"The Moon and Sixpence" is one of the most important novel masterpieces by the famous British writer and "story master" Maugham. The British painter in the novel is based on the French post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin. The protagonist was originally a successful securities broker, but became obsessed with painting after reaching middle age. He suddenly abandoned his home and went to Paris to pursue the ideal of painting. He finally chose to abandon the civilized world and fled to the isolated island of Tahiti in the South Pacific. There he finally found the tranquility of his soul and the atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament, and created one artistic masterpiece after another that shocked later generations. Through the life experiences of such a geek who devoted himself to the pursuit of art and was ignorant of the world, Maugham deeply explored the origin and essence of art, the relationship between personality and genius, as well as the contradictions and interactions between artists and society, art and life, and other thought-provoking issues. This book contains a total of 25 illustrations drawn by the famous American illustrator Frederick Steele and works by Gauguin himself, which is of great collection value.

"Carousel" was first published in 1905. It is Maugham's masterpiece of early novels. It has an exquisite structure and shows the complex relationship between love and reason through a charming trio of stories. Through the protagonist's eyes, readers witness the short but happy marriage of a dying poet, a woman's unethical love for a shameless man, and a noble man's efforts to practice virtue to the extreme.

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"Wuthering Heights" describes that the protagonist Heathcliff is an abandoned child and is adopted by the old Mr. Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights. After adoption, he was jealous of and enmity with his young master Hendry because he was favored, but he had a deep relationship with his sister Catherine and fell deeply in love with him. After the death of old Earnshaw, Hendry demoted Heathcliff to a slave and persecuted him. Unbearable to be humiliated and frustrated in love, Hendry went out to get rich. After returning, he found that his girlfriend Catherine had married the landowner Linton, and a story of revenge against the landowner and his children followed. The whole novel is filled with a strong fighting spirit against oppression and seeking freedom, and is always enveloped in a bizarre, tense and romantic artistic atmosphere. This book is known as "the Sphinx in literature" and "the most magnificent epic of human love" in the history of British literature. It is "an outstanding work whose brilliance has not been obscured by the dust of time."

"Wuthering Heights" is a novel with the theme of love and revenge by the British writer Emily Bronte. It tells the emotional entanglement between two generations of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. With this work alone, Emily Brontë established her position in the history of world literature. Published in 1847, it remained in neglect for more than forty years after its publication. After entering the 20th century, this novel has captured the hearts of hundreds of millions of readers like a magnet. It can be said that among the novels of the Victorian period, "Wuthering Heights" is the only one that has not been obscured by the dust of time.

"Wuthering Heights" is an undoubted classic in the history of world literature. The strong local realistic features in the novel contain the power of original creation; with the help of deconstructed language and unreliable narrator, Emily makes us reflect on whether language can express the truth; the fiery and extreme love between Catherine and Heathcliff and the diverse and repeated symbolic images in the novel that do not provide a single meaning constitute a strong reading attraction.

The story takes place in Wuthering Heights, an almost isolated village in northern England. The abandoned child Heathcliff is adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, and falls in love with his little daughter Catherine. But Catherine finally abandoned Heathcliff because of her social status and accepted the proposal of Linton, the heir of Thrushcross Grange. This decision directly caused Heathcliff to leave in anger. A few years later, Heathcliff returned home in fine clothes, and his revenge began. He wants to take the most violent revenge on those who took away his love and happiness...

Don Quixote created by Cervantes is one of the most successful artistic images in the history of world literature. Westerners often refer to him as three outstanding models along with Hamlet and Faust ("The Most Classic English Library" has published "Hamlet" and "Faust" in the first five volumes), which shows his far-reaching influence. The main reason why the novel "Don Quixote" has won readers all over the world and has remained popular for more than 400 years is the author's unique portrayal of the character of Don Quixote: this is a man who is divorced from reality and acts blindly, a man full of justice and fond of fighting injustice, a man who makes people laugh and at the same time awe...

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