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"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes "Autumn Peace", "Autumn in the Kobayakawa Family" and "The Taste of Saury" by Yasujiro Ozu.

"The Sorrow of Deirdre" is a famous love tragedy written by John Millington Synge and Yeats. It is based on the legend of Deirdre and King Conal from Irish mythology. When Deirdre was born, there was a prophecy that she would become a beauty with curly yellow braids and charming gray-green eyes, but the king and lords would wage war for her... When Deirdre grew up, King Conor wanted to marry her as his queen, but she had a lover, Naxi. So King Conor sent troops to kill the three Naxi brothers. Finally, Deirdre committed suicide on their graves. The play is a three-act tragedy that Synge left unfinished during his lifetime and was later completed by Yeats and Synge's widow, Molly Allgood.

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It is a comedy written by the British playwright William Shakespeare. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a romantic comedy that tells a love story in which lovers finally get married.

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Aristophanes' worldview basically reflected the interests of the peasants among the free people. He proposed some new ideas, but he also had a conservative tendency in politics. He firmly opposed the war between the Athenian group and the Spartan group. After the war, the economy of Athens collapsed, and the average people became even poorer. The idea of ​​an utopia emerged in society, demanding equal wealth. Plays such as "The Assembly Women" and "Fortune" reflected these ideas.

This set of books is the first complete work of Shakespeare in verse in the Chinese-speaking world. The original form of Shakespeare's drama is a verse drama, which is a verse drama with blank verse as its basic form. Translating poetry into verse, trying to make the translation closer to the original appearance of Shakespeare's drama in terms of tone and language rhythm, is the ultimate appeal of this version. "Issue \u002F Black Comedy Volume" contains five works of Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's important early work and a highly satirical comedy. "As You Like It" is one of the "Four Comedies" created by Shakespeare. The story mainly takes place in the forest of Arden, far away from the world. "Troilus and Cressida" is one of Shakespeare's tragedies. The play is based on Homer's Iliad and is based on the medieval legend. "All Well Ends Well" is a work written by Shakespeare in the second period. This work tells the story of how the beautiful and talented heroine Helena tried her best to win the love of Bertram, a noble-born, arrogant and superficial playboy, and finally got her wish. "Self-Inflicted" is about love and marriage, but it highlights folly and the dark side of society. Therefore, it not only echoes the tragedies of the same period, but also corresponds to the romantic mood of the play with comedy or bitter ridicule.

This book is based on the legendary novel "The Biography of Huo Xiaoyu" by Jiang Fang in the Tang Dynasty, but the plot in the novel that caused Huo Xiaoyu's death due to Li Yi's betrayal was omitted. It narrates that after Li Yi and Huo Xiaoyu got married, Li Yi went on an expedition with the army, and Huo Xiaoyu missed him at home until Li Yi returned to Beijing on Chinese Valentine's Day and the two reunited. This is only half of the plot predicted in the "Opening" at the beginning of the volume.

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"Troilus and Cressida" is a play written by the English playwright William Shakespeare. It is a tragedy and was first published in 1609. The play mainly tells two stories: one is the story of the famous Trojan War in ancient history; the other is the love story of Troilus and Cressida that unfolded against the backdrop of the Trojan War. The play reflects the theme of idealism being shattered under the cruel reality through the tragic love between Troilus and Cressida.

This set of books is the first complete work of Shakespeare in verse in the Chinese-speaking world. The original form of Shakespeare's drama is a verse drama, which is a verse drama with blank verse as its basic form. Translating poetry into verse, trying to make the translation closer to the original appearance of Shakespeare's drama in terms of tone and language rhythm, is the ultimate appeal of this version. The "Legend Plays" contains five of Shakespeare's legendary plays. The legendary play "Pericles, Prince of Tire" was co-written by Shakespeare in his later years. "Cymbeline" is a late comedy work by Shakespeare. "The Winter's Tale" is a romantic romance play created by Shakespeare. The Tempest is Shakespeare's last complete masterpiece. "Twins" is a tragicomedy written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes Ozu Yasujiro's "Tokyo Story", "Early Spring" and "Tokyo Twilight".

The drama "The West Chamber" written by Wang Shifu in the Yuan Dynasty is an important work in the history of Chinese opera and has always attracted the attention of literature lovers. There are five plays in total, namely "Zhang Junrui's Dojo Zaju", "Cui Yingying's Listening to the Piano at Night", "Zhang Junrui's Lovesick Zaju", "Caoqiaodian Meng Yingying's Zaju" and "Zhang Junrui's Qing Tuan Chuan Zaju". Each book has four folds and one wedge, showing the structural characteristics of the more typical Yuan dramas. The book tells the story of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying, with the help of their maid matchmaker, they broke through the constraints of various feudal ethics and difficulties in real life and finally got married. At the same time, it shows high artistic achievement. The gorgeous diction, the twists and turns of the story, the ups and downs of emotions, the delicate writing style, and the vividness of the characters are all a masterpiece. Its superb psychological portrayal and twists and turns of structure are also among the best in ancient literary and artistic works with the theme of love.

This book contains two of Sartre's most representative plays, "Death Without a Burial" and "Quarantine." "Death Without a Burial" is a play written by French writer Jean-Paul Sartre in 1946. It is Sartre's first play. Sartre successfully injected his existential philosophy into his realistic play "Death Without a Burial". This blend of realism and existentialism gives new meaning to core propositions such as the value of life, free choice, and responsibility for action, and brings vitality to existential literature.

This book is based on the translation of the drama part of "The Complete Poems and Dramas of Thomas Eliot" published by Faber Publishing House in 1969. It includes Eliot's five major dramas: "The Cathedral Murders", the most famous British poetic drama since the seventeenth century, which combines elements of Greek drama and detective drama in the mid-twelfth century, and shows the main themes. "Family Reunion", a work about the hero's self-redemption process; Eliot's most popular play "The Cocktail Party", which explores the twisted outlook on life; "Secretary", the only drama on the New York Times bestseller list in the past thirty years; and the author's last work "The Elder Statesman". His realistic approach and storyline, as well as his pursuit of deep symbolic meaning in his works, had a huge influence on the playwrights of his generation.

This set of books is the first complete work of Shakespeare in verse in the Chinese-speaking world. The original form of Shakespeare's drama is a verse drama, which is a verse drama with blank verse as its basic form. Translating poetry into verse, trying to make the translation closer to the original appearance of Shakespeare's drama in terms of tone and language rhythm, is the ultimate appeal of this version. "Historical Drama Volume One" contains four English historical plays written by Shakespeare. "King John" is a British historical play by Shakespeare. It tells the story of King Philip of France in the early 13th century who asked King John of England to return the throne he had usurped to his legitimate heir, John's nephew Arthur. John refused, which led to a war between Britain and France... "Edward III" writes that this British king coveted the French throne because his mother was from the French Plantagenet dynasty family, and conquered France, triggering the Hundred Years' War between England and France. "Richard II" is a historical play written by Shakespeare. It tells the story of more than 20 years from the time Richard II was forced to abdicate to the marriage of Henry V, a powerful figure overseas, and a French princess. "Henry IV" is a historical play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. This is the second of Shakespeare's tetralogy on the theme of successful kings. "Henry V" is a famous historical play written by Shakespeare in 1599 based on the life of King Henry V of England. It focuses on the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War.

This "Shakespeare's Comedies" contains four of Shakespeare's comedies, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1595-1596), "The Merchant of Venice" (1596-1597), "As You Like It" (1599-1600), and "Twelfth Night" (1599-1600). These dramas mainly write about love, friendship and marriage. The themes are similar, but the plots are vivid, rich and unconventional. The intricate plots are often composed of many deceptions, coincidences, disguises and adventures. The work shines with the light of humanistic ideals, is full of joyful atmosphere and optimistic spirit, praises the beautiful love and innocent friendship of mankind, and has eternal charm.

"Shakespeare's Comedies" contains six of Shakespeare's comedies, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night", "The Merchant of Venice", "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Much Ado About Nothing". These dramas mainly describe love, friendship and marriage. The themes are similar, but the plots are vivid, rich and unconventional. The work shines with the light of humanistic ideals, is full of joyful atmosphere and optimism, praises the beautiful love and innocent friendship of mankind, and has eternal charm. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" tells a love story in which lovers finally get married. The story scene of "As You Like It" mainly takes place in the forest of Arden, far away from the world. It describes the exiled Duke's daughter Rosalind who goes to the forest to find her father and her love story. "Twelfth Night" tells the story of twin brothers Sebastian and Viola who reunited after a series of twists and turns after being shipwrecked. "The Merchant of Venice" mainly portrays the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking and ruthless loan shark. Its theme praises benevolence, friendship and love, and also expresses humanistic thoughts on issues such as money and law. "The Taming of the Shrew" tells the story of a smart man who used ingenious strategies to successfully transform a grumpy rich girl into a gentle and virtuous wife. "Much Ado About Nothing" has two parallel clues around the theme of proposal, telling the story of two couples' experiences of falling in love, proposing, and finally getting married.

"Much Ado About Nothing" is a play written by the British playwright William Shakespeare. It was written in 1598-1599. This comedy is a work from Shakespeare's mature writing period. It tells two types of love stories of that era: one is Hero and Claudius, who follow social norms and family status concepts and represent a traditional union; the other is initially mocking each other and refusing to give in. In the end, they fell in love with each other. The perfect union of Benedick and Beatrice. In this comedy, Shakespeare explores self-awareness, sincerity and mutual respect between men and women. And issues such as social order.

There are two big families in the city of Vanluona who have a feud and kill each other, but in the embrace of hatred, a pair of star-crossed lovers are born. They talked to each other in the language of poetry in the garden at night, and tasted despair in the dark tomb. This is a real event that happened in Italy. Through Shakespeare's wonderful writing, it became synonymous with "love". Taking the love tragedy of "Romeo and Juliet" as the prototype, later writers wrote countless masterpieces, but none of them surpassed Shakespeare. Shakespeare is the eternal master in the elaboration of language and the development of plot.

The plot of "Julius Caesar" revolves around the struggle between two political parties in ancient Rome. In the play, Caesar is the representative of the autocratic faction. He has great achievements and strives to expand his own power, so it is inevitable to wear the imperial robe. However, the republicans headed by Cassius and others oppose personal dictatorship and attempt to eradicate Caesar's power. However, they are weak and weak, so they enlist the highly respected Brutus to participate in their actions. Led by Brutus, the Republicans assassinated Caesar. Afterwards, Caesar's confidant Antony incited the Roman people with passionate speeches, causing them to change their original intentions and turn against Brutus, and expelled Brutus and others from the city of Rome. Finally, under siege by the soldiers of Antony and others, Brutus committed suicide and the republic was destroyed.

"Henry IV" is the most successful and popular of Shakespeare's historical dramas, and is regarded as the representative work of Shakespeare's historical dramas. The main content of this work is to reflect the process of Henry IV and his princes' desperate struggle against the rebellious princes and nobles. Shakespeare breaks through the network structure of traditional historical dramas in which multiple clues intertwine and develop, and adopts a structure in which two clues develop in parallel - the clue of court life represented by Henry IV and the clue of city life represented by Falstaff.

"The Comedy of Errors" is a play written by the English playwright William Shakespeare. It is a comedy and was first published in 1623. "The Comedy of Errors" tells the story of the Syracuse merchant Igin's family who were separated for many years and finally reunited. It vividly reflects the social life and customs of Britain in the 16th century, and embodies the spirit of the Renaissance and the beautiful ideals of Shakespeare's humanism, which has certain ideological significance.

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"King Lear" is a play written by Shakespeare and is one of his four major tragedies. The story comes from an ancient British legend, and the story itself happened around the 8th century. Later, many plays were compiled in the UK. In addition to Shakespeare, there is also an earlier unknown work among the existing plays. It is generally believed that Shakespeare's King Lear was adapted from this play. The story tells that after the aged King Lear abdicated the throne, he was driven into the wilderness by his eldest daughter and his second daughter. The third daughter, who became the Queen of France, led an army to save her father, but was killed. King Lear died sadly beside her.

What needs to be expressed on the stage is the situation, not the character. The masterpiece of drama by Diderot, the outstanding French Enlightenment thinker, is the culmination of Diderot's drama creation thoughts. "The Dramas of Diderot" is the eighth volume of the "Collected Works of Diderot" and contains three representative works of Diderot's plays - "The Bastard or the Test of Morality", "Head of the Family" and "Is He a Good Man?" Or a villain? ", And a talk about theater - "A Talk About." Among them, "The Bastard" tells the story of Dorval, an illegitimate son who was invited by Clavier and his sister to stay at their home. During this period, Doval fell deeply in love with Clavier's fiancée Rosalie, and was tortured by his conscience for this. "A Conversation About" explains Diderot's thoughts on drama creation through the dialogue and debate between Doval and Diderot, the male protagonists of "The Bastard". Diderot's "serious drama" - "People cannot always be happy without pain, so there must be a middle ground between comedy and tragedy" - advocates no longer focusing on myths and historical legends, but getting the source of life from the joys and sorrows of ordinary people.

In May 1975, "The President" premiered at the Academy Theater in Vienna, Austria (the second stage of the Burgtheater). In an unnamed European country, the president and his wife are preparing to attend the funeral. Not long ago, an anarchist assassination attempt against the president failed. The president himself survived, but the president's close aide, the colonel, and the president's wife's pet dog unfortunately lost their lives. While the president and his wife were freshening up and changing their clothes, they recalled the thrilling assassination and described a life in high positions, with power and fear. No one understands that they don't understand that these people don't understand anything. They only have despicable ambition and hatred in their minds. What else can there be...

"Sanshiro", "Ever After" and "The Gate" are Natsume Soseki's classic love trilogy. The novel stories respectively correspond to the three stages in a boy's life: youthful love, love choice, and staying together after marriage. "Ever After" is the second part of Natsume Soseki's "Love Trilogy" in his middle period. It tells the story of a pair of young lovers who reunite in middle age, and how the hero re-examines his original choice and takes on his destiny. The novel is so touching that it was adapted into the movie "Afterwards" directed by the famous Japanese director Yoshimitsu Morita. It won several awards including Best Film at the 9th Japan Film Academy Awards, Special Mention Award at the 10th Montreal International Film Festival, and Best Film at the 10th Hochi Film Awards.

This book collects Junichiro Tanizaki's classic works when he debuted in the literary world and created the "devilism" style, including "Tattoo", "Kirin", "Secret" and other masterpieces. These early works combined a fresh classical aesthetic style with a decadent rebellious spirit, revealing his lifelong writing interest and creating the Tanbi style in modern Japanese literature. Or interpret classical philosophy with graceful writing like prose poetry, or depict the style of the times with ukiyo-e style paintings, or embark on exciting and wonderful love adventures in dream-like hallucinations, using delicate self-perception to build a world that is above reality and fantasy and full of unique beauty, which vividly expresses Tanizaki's unique satanic taste. Readers can explore the source of Tanizaki's creation, decipher the code of his style, trace the form of Tanbi literature at its inception, and enter into the unique aesthetic experience of Japanese culture. It is a must-read for fans and researchers of Japanese literature and culture.

The Second World War was a turning point in history. A decisive battle of unprecedented scale on the Soviet-German battlefield. The most brutal battle on the Soviet-German battlefield.

The Second World War was a turning point in history. A decisive battle of unprecedented scale on the Soviet-German battlefield. The most brutal battle on the Soviet-German battlefield.

Kwantung Army, a notorious name. During the "September 18th" adventurous military operation, this unit reaped all the benefits, and was thus regarded as the elite of the Japanese Army, the so-called "Flower of the Imperial Army." However, on the eve of World War II, the Kwantung Army exposed its serious flaws in the battle with the Soviet Red Army, and was even completely defeated by the Soviet Red Army in the late stages of World War II. The showdown between the Soviet Red Army and the Kwantung Army also profoundly affected the course of World War II. For the first time, this book provides a panoramic description of the previous battles between the Kwantung Army and the Soviet Red Army. It provides an in-depth interpretation and comparison of the battle command, quality of commanders and soldiers, intelligence use, weapon configuration and national-level strategic deployment of both sides, bringing people truly into the smoke-filled battlefield of World War II.

"Collection of Books on the Art of War" contains three parts: "The Book of Five Rings", "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "On War". It involves many military theoretical works from ancient and modern times at home and abroad. It is a classic reading book that collects the wisdom of Chinese and foreign celebrities. This book is a collection of the world's three most famous military books, and has received widespread attention from many military enthusiasts. Among them, "The Book of Five Rings" takes the spirit of Bushido as its source and discusses the way to win in the art of war. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is regarded as a military classic in China and has been studied throughout the ages. Li Shimin said, "Looking at all the military books, there is no one like Sun Wu." Today, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has been translated into many languages ​​and also plays an important role in the world's military history. After the publication of "On War", it received great attention from the military circles of various countries. "Encyclopedia Britannica" evaluates it: It is worthy of being the first theoretical work to comprehensively study military academics. To a certain extent, his work is the "Bible" of strategy.

The most famous documentary writer in the contemporary world - "Did Paris Burn?" "The authors, Lale Collins and Dominique LaPierre, have joined forces to present a documentary literature classic to readers around the world. The two authors spent two years interviewing a large number of historical participants, from heads of state to ordinary soldiers, and reviewed a vast amount of historical materials and first-hand precious information. On this basis, they spent another three years writing this book. The book records in detail the wars and games that took place around Jerusalem before and after the founding of the state of Israel. The author reproduces many lifelike characters and uses detailed descriptions like "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" to amazingly restore the historical scene and present the most realistic and vivid details.

The most famous documentary writer in the contemporary world - "Did Paris Burn?" "The authors, Lale Collins and Dominique LaPierre, have joined forces to present a documentary literature classic to readers around the world. The two authors spent up to two years interviewing a large number of historical participants, from heads of state to ordinary soldiers, and reviewed a vast amount of historical materials and first-hand precious information. On this basis, they spent another three years writing this book. The book records in detail the wars and games that took place around Jerusalem before and after the founding of Israel, and reproduces many vivid characters. With the detailed description of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", it amazingly restores the historical scene and presents the most realistic and vivid details.

"Harvard Chinese History 5: The Struggling Empire: Yuan and Ming" is the fifth volume in the "Harvard Chinese History" series. The famous sinologist Bu Zhengmin is unique in narrating the development, rise and fall of the Yuan and Ming empires from the perspective of climate and environmental history, highlighting two major characteristics of this era: the new political order in the East Asian continent after the Mongol conquest and the social survival dilemma caused by environmental changes, thereby presenting China's first coherent ecological history. At the same time, he also discussed a series of important issues such as autocracy, social complexity and commercialization in ancient China.

Chekhov's distinctive feature is his ability to reveal the essence of life from the most ordinary phenomena. He highly downplays the plot and only intercepts ordinary daily life fragments. He uses exquisite artistic details to truly depict and portray life and characters, and to reveal important social phenomena. But he does not fall into the "quagmire" of daily life. On the contrary, his profound realist images are often sublimated into philosophical symbols.

The book "Childhood" truly describes the growth story of the protagonist Alexei. Alexey lives in the house of his grandfather, who is moody and has a bad temper. His grandmother is very loving to Alexei, telling him legends, fairy tales and folktales, and enduring all the pressures of life without complaint. After his grandfather went bankrupt, Alexey was forced to live in the world and start to make a living independently. The novel profoundly outlines a true picture of the decline and destruction of Russian society in the 19th century. At the same time, it shows the integrity, simplicity, and diligence of the lower-class working people, and reflects the writer's difficult life in childhood and his unremitting pursuit of light and truth.

"Don Quixote" (also translated as "Don Quixote", "Don Quixote", etc.) Is an anti-chivalry novel published in two parts by Spanish writer Cervantes in 1605 and 1615. When the story takes place, knights have been extinct for more than a century, but the protagonist Alonso Quixote (original name of Don Quixote) is obsessed with knight novels and often fantasizes about being a medieval knight, and then calls himself "Don Quixote de... "La Mancho" (the guardian of the De La Manche area), took his neighbor Sancho Panza to be his servant, "walked the world in chivalry and justice", and committed various unbelievable behaviors that were contrary to the times, and ended up running into obstacles everywhere. But finally woke up from the dream. He died after returning to his hometown. Literary critics all call "Don Quixote" the first modern novel in the history of Western literature and one of the treasures of world literature.

The historical background of the description is that during the American Civil War in 1861, the 16-year-old eldest daughter Scarlett, the owner of the Tara Manor in Georgia, fell in love with Ashley. Later, Ashley was going to marry a girl named Melanie. Scarlett is so angry that she marries Melanie's brother Charles. Later, Charles and Ashley were drafted into the army together, but Charles died of illness shortly after joining the army. The arms dealer Duande took the opportunity to win Scarlett's heart. Scarlett's home was almost destroyed by the Northern Army. The Confederate army was defeated and Ashley returned. The two relived their old dreams, but Ashley could not agree to elope with her. In order to protect her manor, Scarlett did everything possible to win the trust of the wealthy Frank and commit herself to him. After Frank's death, Scarlett had no choice but to marry Rhett. Soon, Rhett, who had gone through too many hardships, no longer trusted her and decided to divorce her. Scarlett knows that the person who truly loves her is Rhett, and she is determined to find Rhett who loves her again.

"Contemporary heroes" are the majority of every era. A classic image of redundant people, with strong practical significance and unique stylistic form. Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841) was another great Russian poet after Pushkin. He was hailed as a "national poet" by Belinsky. Although he only lived for more than thirty years, his poetry has become another cornerstone of Russian literature after Pushkin. His full-length work "Contemporary Heroes" has become one of the world-recognized works. It consists of a series of novels such as "Bella", "Maxim Maximich", "Taman", "Princess Merry" and "The Fatalist". The protagonist Piccolin is an aristocratic young officer who serves in the Caucasus. He is energetic and intelligent, but cannot find a goal in life. Therefore, he develops a cynical attitude towards things and consumes his abundant energy in half-truth and half-false love games and risky actions, causing pain and misfortune to others. Pecholin is another classic "superfluous man" image in Russian literature after Pushkin's Onegin. The novel is famous for its profound psychological portrayal and excellent description of natural scenery. Its writing style is euphemistic and graceful, and its story is vivid and meaningful. It is recognized as a model of Russian classical literature.

This book is an immortal masterpiece in the history of world literature. The author uses superb artistic skills to create a series of distinctive characters and describe all kinds of human emotions and world conditions. There are a total of 559 characters in the book, ranging from emperors, princes, diplomats, generals, and nobles; to landlords, businessmen, farmers, and soldiers. Such many characters are endowed with a new vision and color under the pen of an art master who is best at expressing the psychology and personality characteristics of characters. The heroes and heroines appear in front of readers with all the complexity and uniqueness of their spiritual lives. This book has an epic style, with a vast picture and numerous characters. The book contains both narrations of major historical events in Russia and Western Europe, as well as fictional plots; it contains both battles with swords and blood, as well as comfortable and quiet daily life; it contains both impassioned discussions of people and the world, as well as delicate and graceful lyrical narratives.

The novel is connected by three intertwined clues: the waves caused by the autocracy in the Grandet family, the overt and covert fights between the banker and the notary, and Eugenie's betrayal of Charlie after she fell in love with him. It tells a story about money destroying human nature and causing family tragedy, and reveals the corrosion and destruction of people's minds and souls by money. In terms of thought and art, it marks a leap in Balzac's novel creation. The novel successfully created the image of Grandet, a cruel, cruel, greedy and miserly capitalist, and he was passed down to future generations as one of the four misers in the gallery of world literary figures.

"Notre Dame de Paris" is a novel written by the French writer Victor Hugo, first published on January 14, 1831. "Notre Dame de Paris" uses a bizarre and contrasting approach to tell a story that took place in France in the 15th century: Claude, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame de Paris, was sanctimonious and vicious, loving first and then hating, and persecuting the gypsy girl Esmeralda. The ugly but kind-hearted bell ringer Quasimodo sacrifices his life to save the girl. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, praises the kindness, friendship and self-sacrifice of the lower working people, and reflects Hugo's humanitarian thoughts.

In "The Passionate Traveler", the author uses the words of Pastor Yorick to describe his experience of traveling to France and Italy during the Anglo-French War. To a large extent, the work is a parody of the travelogue genre. The main purpose is not to write about the typical carefree young gentleman, but a tramp driven by impulses and strange ideas. The work is famous for its psychological description of characters. The characters in the book are sentimental and often lament over trivial things, revealing a sad mood in the humor. "The Passionate Traveler" has become a representative work of sentimental literature.

Original illustrations perfectly recreate Dickens's late classic! Translated by famous writers, out of print for many years. As one of the greatest achievements of the great writer Dickens, the Chinese translation of "Bleak House" is a rare and precious translation. It uses more than 30 precious original illustrations by the 19th century painter H. K. Brown. In 2005, it was adapted into a British drama of the same name by the BBC, which became popular all over the world. "Bleak House" is Dickens' late representative work. Through a protracted inheritance lawsuit that martyred the fate and youth of generations, the novel aimed its criticism at the incarnation of all injustice and unreasonable things in Britain at that time - the rigid and corrupt Chancery Chamber. The work describes a large group of despicable little people living under the shelter of this decadent law and the pathological aristocratic class who colluded with the law. It vividly expresses and exposes the dark side of British society at that time. The outstanding use of symbolic techniques in the work - the repeated rendering of natural scenery such as dense fog and clouds - makes it a classic with unique artistic appeal among 19th-century British realist novels.

The latest classic version of FLTRP! "Finally Married" tells the story of how a beautiful and talented heroine goes to great lengths to win the love of a noble-born, arrogant and superficial playboy.

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The protagonist "I" in the book is an underappreciated writer in London. He met a stockbroker by chance. When he reached middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and rebelled against everything. He first went to Paris, and then to Tahiti in the South Pacific to live with the indigenous people. He devoted himself to painting and became famous after his death. After he became famous, "I" began to trace his past interactions with the artist and his subsequent life experiences. The artist's story is based on the life of Gauguin, a French post-Impressionist painter who lived in extreme poverty and was prepared to die in glory.