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"Life" describes the life of an aristocratic woman who pursues happiness but cannot obtain it. The protagonist Yona was born into a declining aristocratic family. Influenced by her parents, she loves fantasy and has all kinds of beautiful dreams and longings for the future, but the cold and ruthless reality shatters her dreams one by one...

"Resurrection" was written by Leo Tolstoy over a period of 10 years. The noble young man Nekhlyudov seduced the serf girl Katyusha Maslova and then abandoned her. Seven years later, Maslova, who had become a prostitute, was falsely accused of murder and thrown into prison. In the court, Nekhlyudov, as a juror, discovered that the criminal on trial was Maslova, and was deeply condemned by his conscience. He ran to avenge her and asked to marry her to atone for his sins. After the appeal failed, he was exiled to Siberia with Maslova. His actions touched her and made her fall in love with him again. But in the end Maslova rejected him and married a revolutionary.

"Treasure Island" is Stevenson's famous work. It tells an ancient treasure hunting adventure story in the voice of a child. Jim, a young man who originally lived an ordinary life, accidentally obtained a treasure map and became involved in an adventure of pirates and lost treasures. Jim, Captain Smollett, Dr. Livesey and Squire Trauni and other righteous people, headed by Silver. A thrilling battle to the death began among pirates disguised as sailors on the rough sea and the steep and steep Treasure Island. Later, justice defeated evil. Jim and the others defeated the pirates' plots many times and returned safely loaded with gold and silver treasures.

The Happy Prince looked down on the city, decked out in gold leaf and decorated with precious gems, but the suffering he saw made him weep and grieve. In order to help the suffering poor, the Happy Prince asked the swallow to become a messenger to deliver the treasure to the people who were in urgent need of money to change their lives. The prince lost his gorgeous clothes and was thrown into the furnace by the city officials. The swallow missed the opportunity to fly south and froze to death at the prince's feet. But their souls were praised and received eternal life.

The Spanish gypsy girl with an acacia in her mouth turned a blind eye to the ethical norms of the world and believed that love was a bird that could not be restrained. Even if her lover took away her life, he could not take away her free and uninhibited heart. Carmen was written by the 19th-century French novelist Melleme. Her alluring charm is world-famous, and she is filled with unconscious ideas of female liberation. She is one of the most mythical female characters in the West.

The story of the novel takes place in an ordinary town along the Mississippi River in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. The protagonist Tom Sawyer is innocent and lively, daring to explore, and pursues freedom. He cannot bear the boring life that restricts his personality and dreams of doing a heroic career. The novel is set before the Civil War, and although it is written in the small town of St. Petersburg, the town can be said to be a microcosm of American society at that time to some extent. Through the adventures of the protagonist, the novel satirizes and criticizes the hypocritical and vulgar social customs, hypocritical religious rituals and rigid and outdated school education in the United States, and describes the free and lively hearts of young children in a cheerful style.

"A Woman of Thirty" is an important work in Balzac's "Human Comedy". This book is actually a combination of six short stories published at different times. When included in "The Human Comedy", the author unified the names of the protagonists of the six stories and changed the overall title to "A Thirty-Year-Old Woman". In this book, for the first time, the author connects private customs with the era of characters' lives. The conflicts in private life and the conflicts in social life are integrated and complementary to each other. Love life, family life and public life are interdependent and harmonious with each other. In addition, this book also includes "The False Mistress".

"How Steel Was Tempered" is a semi-autobiographical novel that shines with lofty idealism. The novel successfully portrays the image of Paul Korchagin, a proletarian hero. It shows Paul Korchagin's life and emotional world with vivid and life-rich language and shocking spiritual power, and has become a literary classic that inspires generations of young people in China.

"The Magic Mountain" is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. The novel is centered on a sanatorium and describes many feudal nobles and bourgeois figures in Europe, including Prussian officers, Russian ladies, Dutch colonists, Jesuits... They are all parasites of society. The entire sanatorium is filled with a morbid and dying atmosphere, symbolizing the decline of capitalist civilization. The work reveals the kinship between decadence and fascism through the ideological conflicts between the characters.

The story takes place in Spain. The protagonist Carmen is a smart, beautiful, independent, and very willful Gypsy girl. She is a woman with a strong personality who demands freedom. She has evil characteristics and will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals, but the most important thing is her sincerity, frankness, and perseverance. She despises the moral laws of capitalist society and uses bad habits to resist society. She is a rebel in society. The novel was adapted into an opera shortly after its publication, with music composed by French composer Bizet.

"David Copperfield" is the masterpiece of Dickens, the great British realist writer in the 19th century. The protagonist Copperfield is a posthumous son, and his stepfather abuses him and his mother. His mother died soon, leaving Copperfield an orphan. He found his aunt and started a new life under her guardianship. The world has changed, family and friendship are joyful, and turmoil and pain have tempered people. Copperfield finally became a successful writer and was happily married to his beloved. The work has humorous language, clear love and hate, twists and turns in the plot, and grand pictures, which reflect Dickens's consistent style.

"How Steel Was Tempered" is an enduring red classic. The protagonist Paul Korchagin was born in poverty and is full of fighting spirit. After the "October Revolution" broke out, Zhuhelai came to Paul's hometown to do underground work, cultivating Paul's revolutionary enthusiasm. After Paul joined the Red Army, he charged on the battlefield. He was seriously injured and could not return to the front line, so he devoted himself to the work of building the country. During this period, he parted ways with his lover Tonya. After that, Paul suffered from total paralysis and blindness, but he got out of the trough with his will and wrote the novel "Born of the Storm", realizing his ideal in another way.

There are 154 "Shakespeare's Sonnets". In the history of world literature, it is also known as "Sonnets" by Petrarch of Italy and "Sonnets of the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrett (Mrs. Browning) of England. It was created between 1592 and 1603. It is a group of thoughts. Poetry with profound and high artistic achievements covers religious emotions, personal life, historical events, social issues, etc., Covering all aspects of life, greatly expanding the field of expression of this poetic style, and opening up a broad path for the creation of poets such as Donne, Milton, and Keats. The first 126 original poems are dedicated to a beautiful young man, while the 127th to 152nd poems are mainly written to a "black girl". The two sets of poems have a strong narrative and are interrelated, which not only greatly enhances the readability of the work, but also leaves a lot of confusion for future generations to understand.

"Faulkner's Selected Works Series" is a series of literary masterpieces. Specific titles include "The Sound and the Fury", "Go, Moses", "As I Lay Dying" and "Absalom, Absalom!" "The Temple", "The Intruder in the Grave", "August Light", "A Rose for Emily" and "Faulkner's Essays" are nine kinds. This publication selected classic translations that are generally recognized by experts in the literary field and readers. Some of the titles and chapters were revised by the translator.

There is a town in the middle of the United States that is famous for its beauty. Every spring, small white flowers bloom around the town, migratory birds begin to build nests on the branches, and the creeks are filled with various fish for human fishing. People from all over the world come here to enjoy the beautiful scenery, taste delicious food, and listen to the singing of birds... Everything is broken by a white powder. Agricultural aircraft drop the powder, covering forests, creeks, fields and homes. The first to fall were domestic animals that drank from the stream. After that, people found that the pest infestation became more serious, the small animals that often appeared around disappeared, and humans even fell ill. People are moving away from this place that once seemed like a paradise. In the spring of the next year, the songs of the birds disappeared, and there were no more bustling people here. The once bustling town became very quiet. What exactly is this white powder? How did they trigger this series of reactions? This book will try to give the answer.

Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. The heroine makes reasonable speculations and judgments based on superficial phenomena. Although careful readers may have various doubts from time to time, their thoughts will naturally develop with good observations. When the final result appears, it will be completely different from the superficial phenomena, resulting in an unexpected comedy effect. If you read it over again, you will find that the factors that lead to the inevitable result have already been seen between the lines. The plot of the novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the bad habit of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status in the British social trends at that time, and the ugly fashion of focusing on family status and ignoring women's feelings and human rights.

"Tomcat Moore's View of Life" is the author's masterpiece, marking the peak of Hoffmann's creation and an excellent work of the German Romantics. The novel consists of two parts: a biography of Tomcat Moore and a biography of bandleader Kreisler. Judging from the title of the novel, the former is the main body of the work. In fact, the latter is the core of the novel. The form is loose, but the theme is consistent. They both deal with the relationship between artists and society. The short stories and novellas selected in this book are all masterpieces of Hoffmann. Among them, the novella "Miss Scoudeli" is set in Paris during the reign of Louis XIV in the 17th century. It tells a bizarre story about an eccentric artist. It was hailed by some critics as "the first important detective novel" in German literature and had a certain influence on future generations of such novels. "Beautiful Mandala" tells a bizarre marriage and love story of a young college student. "Cousin's Corner Window" is a conversational novel about an episode in the life of a seriously ill, quadriplegic writer in his twilight years. "The Golden Vase" and "The Legend of Zack the Dwarf" are both artistic fairy tales. The former uses a humorous style to describe how a college student escapes from the depressing philistine environment and escapes to a whimsical and wonderful kingdom; the latter criticizes the current social ills and the corruption of the feudal court through the experience of a character who has no real talent and only knows how to cheat and bluff. It is Hoffmann's most cherished masterpiece and the most important satirical work of the German Romantics.

"Anna Karenina" is the pinnacle of Leo Tolstoy's three novels. Anna abandoned her family, wealth, and social status for the one she loved, openly challenging worldly conventions. When the love she had gained through all her efforts gradually cooled down, Anna finally died in despair. Tolstoy tears away the outer covering of love fairy tales and lets us see its fragile core - the purer the love, the less it can withstand the burden of reality. Similar to Anna, Levin, the other protagonist in the story, is also a person who deviates from the norm. As a landowner, he lives a comfortable life and has a happy family, but he lives in panic. He hoped to change the miserable living conditions of farmers and conducted various explorations and experiments, but all ended in failure. He looked inward for the meaning of his existence, but could only see nothingness and absurdity. Through Anna's love tragedy and Levin's spiritual crisis, the work reflects the shaken traditional values ​​and social customs during the transition period when "everything is turned upside down", as well as the confusion and anxiety this turmoil brings to individuals.

"Ah, is it you?" "Hey! Prodigal!" It was Takeo. The train is speeding away. The prodigal son leaned out of the car window like crazy and threw out the dark purple handkerchief in his hand. "It's dangerous, miss!" Ji Ma rushed over and hurriedly grabbed the prodigal son's sleeve. The lieutenant general, still holding the newspaper in his hand, immediately stood up and looked out the window. The train traveled ten or twenty meters... The prodigal son leaned out and almost fell off. When he turned around, he saw Takeo frantically waving the handkerchief and calling. Suddenly the track turned around the corner of the mountain. Outside the car windows in both places, there are only green mountains. But hearing the whistle blowing was like the sound of breaking cloth. The train was speeding toward the west. The prodigal son covered his face and fell on his father's knees.

This book selects 25 fairy tales written by Andersen in different periods, including "The Ugly Duckling", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Little Match Girl", "The Daughter of the Sea", "The Emperor's New Clothes", etc. Andersen's fairy tales are full of poetry and fantasy. Birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers, trees, the whole nature and even the furniture and dolls in the home are given life, injected with thoughts and feelings, lively and fascinating. Bold fantasy transcends the boundaries of time and space, curious thirst for knowledge penetrates the secrets of nature, the ugly duckling turns into an elegant swan, the little mermaid turns into a beautiful girl for love, the nightingale's wonderful song subdues death...

The trilogy of philosophical novels composed of three interrelated novellas, "Hodoub", "Meteor" and "Ordinary Life", is Capek's most unique and powerful work. The novel carefully arranges three highly compact stories that are intertwined. It tells the lost lives of a group of ordinary people with a narrative method of multiple perspectives and free imagination, emphasizing the relativity between truth and reality. The story of the novel is full of suspense, and the creative skills and critical spirit complement each other. It is a wonderful work. This book was included in the "Ideal Book Collection" by the French "Reading" magazine and included in the "Classic Book List" of the "Western Canon" by the famous American literary critic Harold Bloom.

Robinson was born in the middle class. His father often taught him the philosophy of contentment and asked him to be satisfied with the status quo. But he still couldn't resist the temptation of the new world overseas. He went to sea several times and finally got trapped on a desert island. Twenty-eight years of living on an isolated island still failed to stop his adventurous spirit. With perseverance, he built houses, cultivated fields, planted food, and raised livestock on the desert island, and finally built a paradise on the desert island. Finally, he escaped from danger and returned to Europe.

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"Anne of Green Gables" is the sweetest novel describing children's life. It is also a spiritual book that parents, teachers and children can gain insights from. Canadian female writer Montgomery uses fresh, smooth, vivid and humorous writing to tell the story of the innocent, kind-hearted and life-loving heroine Little Anne, who lost her parents at an early age and was adopted at the age of twelve. However, she has a distinctive personality, is full of fantasy, and has self-respect and self-reliance. With her hard work, she is not only loved by her adopters, but also wins the respect and friendship of her teachers and classmates.

This popular children's literature masterpiece by the first British Nobel Prize winner has enjoyed world-renowned reputation and spans a century. It contains a large number of original illustrations and is carefully arranged to vividly reproduce classic scenes, making reading more interesting. It was translated by famous translator Buron. The writing is standardized and the translation style is simple yet elegant, which is pleasing to the eye. "The Jungle Book" is a popular world literary masterpiece by Kipling, the first British Nobel Prize winner for literature. It consists of 16 short stories, divided into two parts: "The Jungle Story" and "The Sequel". The nine stories in the first part tell the story of the protagonist Mowgli, the wolf boy, growing up in the animal world and finally returning to the civilized world; the seven stories in the second part are independent of each other, and the scenes are no longer limited to tropical jungles. The stories take place in polar ice sheets, ocean worlds, foothills of South Asia, military camps, etc. The work reflects human society through the animal world through the "language of animals and birds". Its powerful thoughts, ingenious imagination, and text form with rich poetry and prose make this book not only readable, but also audible, recitable, and visual. It has been enduring in the minds of young readers around the world for hundreds of years.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is one of the masterpieces of the American writer Hemingway. It was published in 1952 and was the last novel published by the author during his lifetime. In Hemingway's own words, this is "the best work he can write in his life. Other excellent and mature works are greatly inferior to it." Hemingway created many "tough guy" images in his works, among which Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea" is a representative one. The old man Santiago fought with the big fish at sea, adhering to his life motto "A person can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated." It was a duel between the strong and the strong, and only in this duel can the "tough guy" spirit become more dazzling. In the end, the old man dragged the fish bones back home. He failed, but he became an out-and-out hero.

Alexandre Dumas, a famous French popular historical novelist. "The Count of Monte Cristo" is his masterpiece. Dantès, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was young and promising, and had a beautiful woman in his heart. Unexpectedly, he was hated by others and was framed and imprisoned. Dantès, who suddenly lost everything, fell into the abyss of despair. Fortunately, he met the prisoner Father Faria, and learned from him the secret of the treasure on Monte Cristo Island. Dantès found the treasure after escaping from prison and became extremely rich. However, after fourteen years, things have changed: the enemy has become famous, and the lover has married someone else. Dantès transformed into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, stepped into Paris's upper class society, and launched an act of revenge. This book is full of romantic legend, and the chapters are unique, novel and fascinating.

The latest classic version of FLTRP! The story told in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" took place on a midsummer night. Two pairs of lovers fled to fight against an absurd law. When they fled to the woods, the intervention of elves confused the objects of each other's love. After a period of chaos, everyone finally regained their sanity and harmony.

This book is an autobiographical novel published by Danish female writer Karen Blixen in 1937. The book uses beautiful words to describe the author's life of running a coffee farm in Africa from 1914 to 1931. He fondly recalls the natural scenery, animals and people in Africa, reflecting the author's familiarity and attachment to African customs and customs. The story is touching and exciting. After the book was published, it has been reprinted many times. It is not only a best-seller in East Africa and English-speaking countries, but has also been translated into many languages.

Goethe's epistolary novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" tells the story: Once, young Werther attended a country dance, met the girl Lotte, and fell in love at first sight. Unfortunately, Lotte is already married and has an owner, so she is engaged first. In order to get rid of this hopeless and painful love, he decided to leave Lotte and work as a secretary in the legation. The corruption, hypocrisy, vulgarity and boredom of the officialdom prevented him from displaying his talents. Werther left angrily and was invited to stay at a marquis's manor for a period of time. However, he was still incompatible with the environment there, so he returned to Lotte. Lotte was married at this time, and he could no longer stay by her side at will. Love is broken. In that decadent and dark society, he could not find a way out, and finally committed suicide in despair.

"Wuthering Heights" is the work of Emily Brontë, one of the Brontë sisters, a British female writer. It is one of the representative works of British literature in the 19th century. The novel describes the gypsy abandoned child Heathcliff who was adopted by the old owner of the villa. He went out to get rich due to humiliation and failed love. After returning, he takes revenge on the landowner Linton and his children who married his girlfriend Catherine. The whole novel is filled with a strong fighting spirit against oppression and striving for happiness, and is always shrouded in a bizarre and tense romantic atmosphere. This book is translated by Zhang Ling and Zhang Yang.

"Petro Goriot" is a novel written by the French writer Balzac and published in 1834. The story tells the story of the protagonist Goriot, a flour merchant who started his career during the French Revolution. He lost his wife in middle age. He devoted all his love to his two daughters. In order to let them squeeze into the upper class, he gave them a good education since childhood and gave them a dowry of 800,000 francs each when they got married. However, his two daughters lived a dissolute life and spent money like water. His love was easily defeated by the principle of money supremacy.

More than four hundred years ago in Spain, a writer named Cervantes wrote a novel called "Don Quixote". The protagonist Don Quixote in the book is a poor country squire. He has a whimsical idea and calls himself a knight errant. He rides on a skinny horse and takes a squire with him. He travels around various places, doing chivalry and fighting injustices. After the publication of this book, the story of Don Quixote spread throughout Spain. No matter the nobles, gentlemen, or servants and vendors, the whole country fell in love with this book like crazy.

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The story takes place in England at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Due to the power struggle within the royal family, the aristocratic Guan Bocang was disfigured by child traffickers when he was a child, turned into a "Laughing Man" and abandoned on the coast on a cold winter night.

"Live, make mistakes, fall, conquer, and create life from life!" Stephen was sensitive and lonely since he was a child, and was often bullied by his classmates. When he was a teenager, he encountered family changes. His father drank all day long and couldn't make ends meet. He tried to convert, but he couldn't help but have fun and blamed himself constantly. He fell in love with several girls, but they all died in vain. When he was depressed, he met a young girl playing in the water on the beach and inadvertently realized the beauty of the world. Stephen decided to break free from the shackles of life and go to Paris to find the freedom of his soul and his true self...

"Tess" is the author's best work. Tess, a simple and beautiful rural girl, was raped by a rich man. On the wedding night, she told the groom about her misfortune, but the groom could not forgive him for abandoning her. Forced to make a living, Tess had to live with the rich. Later, the groom changed his mind and reconciled with Tess. In despair, Tess believed that the rich man had ruined her happiness in life, so she killed him and was sentenced to death herself. The work profoundly reflects the social reality at that time and reveals that it was the hypocritical bourgeois morality that caused Tess's misfortune.

"Journey to the West" has a total of one hundred chapters. The first seven chapters arrange for Sun Wukong to appear, explaining clearly his origin, inheritance, abilities, and temperament. Through Sun Wukong traveling through the four realms of heaven, earth, underworld, and water, he depicts the features of the four realms and constructs a world that is both virtual and real; Chapters 8 to 12 describe the appearance of Tang Monk. The story of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty entering the underworld explains the reason why Tang Monk went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures; Chapters 13 to 100 tell the story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Monk Sha, and White Dragon Horse protecting Monk Tang to obtain Buddhist scriptures from the West. Since this book is long and contains many difficult words, the editor specially compiled a concise picture of Monk Tang's Buddhist scriptures from the West, and also notated the difficult words to make it easier for readers to read and identify.

Julien, the protagonist of "The Red and the Black", was born in a family of small proprietors. He was obsessed with Napoleon's great achievements and wanted to get ahead. Unfortunately, France was in the midst of the Bourbon Restoration at that time, and he had no choice but to join the army and chose the path of the church. Because he could recite the entire New Testament, Julien was favored by the local mayor and became his family's tutor. Later, he was recommended by the church and became the personal secretary of the Marquis de Larmore, a backbone of the royalist party. But in the end, a whistleblower letter ruined his career.

A poor boy meets a rich lady and falls in love, determined to pursue his own "Great Future". A carnival about love and wealth unfolds in London. Between chance and disillusionment in the world, when all the splendor fades away, the most authentic things in a person's life can be revealed. In December 1860, "Great Expectations" began serialization. Dickens, who entered the late stage of his creation, used this work to tell readers that the relationship between life and life is far greater than the relationship between money and money.

"Gulliver's Travels" is an eighteenth-century travel satirical novel. The whole novel is divided into four parts, which respectively tell the adventures of the protagonist Gulliver in the Kingdom of Lilliput, the Kingdom of Adults, the Kingdom of Flying Islands and the Kingdom of Houyhnhnms. The storyline is interesting, fantastic and thrilling. At that time, the British Empire was bathed in the glory of "the sun never sets", and advocating personal adventure and encouraging the pursuit of wealth became the trend and social orientation of the times. "Gulliver's Travels" profoundly reflects such characteristics of the times. Gulliver is tolerant and modest, tolerant, tenacious, and brave. He not only pays attention to the living conditions of the upper class and the lower class people, but also reflects on the essential relationship between science, philosophy, literature, politics, and people's lives. While describing what Gulliver saw and heard, author Jonathan Swift also revealed the ugly nature of the greedy exploiters and cunning power-seekers in British society at that time.

The American young man Frederick Henry volunteered to join the Red Cross as an ambulance driver in the late World War I, rescuing the wounded on the northern Italian front. During a mission, Henry was hit by a cannonball and injured. While recovering from his injuries in a Milan hospital, he was cared for by British nurse Catherine, and the two fell in love. After recovering from his injuries, Henry returned to the front line. When he retreated with the Italian troops, he witnessed the cruel scenes of the war. He resolutely left the army, joined Catherine and fled to Switzerland. As a result, Catherine died in childbirth. By describing the love between the two, the novel sings a sad and moving tragedy, revealing the absurd and cruel nature of war. "A Farewell to Arms" was first published in 1929 and is Hemingway's early masterpiece. This work marks Hemingway's artistic maturity.

Maupassant is one of the world's leading short story masters. The publication of "Ball de Suif" in 1880 made him famous in one fell swoop. The story has also become a classic in the history of world literature.

The theme of "David Copperfield" is very clear: the powerful bully the weak and helpless. The powerless also bully the weak and helpless. The author Dickens focused his writing on orphans, women and mentally ill patients in order to deeply explore this profound theme. At that time, Britain was in the so-called "industrial age". Not only did society show no mercy and sympathy to orphans, women and the mentally ill, but it also exploited them as much as possible. Dickens wrote about his tragic childhood experiences to tell readers about the various inhumanities and injustices in society towards child labor. Dickens describes in detail the private prisons set up by creditors to hold debtors. Many characters in the novel have suffered harsh punishments from their creditors, although Dickens sympathetically points out that not all creditors are bad. The most moving part of the novel is the description of the scenes in which innocent people suffer a tragic fate.

"The Biography of Giants" is a satirical novel with five parts in total, telling the miraculous deeds of two giant kings, Gao Canda and his son Pantagruel: Gao Canda's extraordinary birth; Pantagruel's adventures when he was studying in Paris; Pantagruel and Gao Canda's discussion of marriage issues; Pantagruel's journey across the ocean to find the source of wisdom - the "Vase of God", and get his wish. As a satirical novel, "The Legend of Giants" uses various techniques. The author believes that "laughter is the essence of human beings". Therefore, the book is full of jokes, which makes people laugh hard when reading it.

In 1866 a strange thing happened. Many sailing ships discovered a "sea monster" on the sea, and some ships were attacked by the "sea monster". The United States dispatched a warship to chase the "sea monster". French biologist Professor Aronas was invited to participate in the chase. As a result, the battleship chasing the monster was chased by the monster and was ferociously attacked by the "sea monster". Professor Aronas and his two companions fell into the water and were rescued by the "sea monster". Since then, they have followed the "sea monster" around the sea, exploring the secrets of the seabed, and experiencing hardships and risks. Finally, because they couldn't bear the boring life in the underwater world, they managed to escape back to the land.

A novel by Hawthorne, an American romantic writer in the 19th century. Published in 1850. "The Scarlet Letter" tells the story of a love tragedy that occurred during the colonial period in North America. The heroine Hester Prynne married the doctor Chillingworth, but there was no love between them. In loneliness, Prynne fell in love with the Reverend Dimmesdale and gave birth to their daughter Pearl. Bai Lan was punished in public and wore a red letter A symbolizing "adultery". However, Bai Lan was unyielding and refused to tell the child's father. The novel usually uses symbolic techniques, and the characters, plots and language are all quite subjective and imaginative. In the description, people's psychological activities and intuition are often given top priority. Therefore, it is not only a representative work of American romantic novels, but also known as the pioneer of American psychoanalytic novels.

"The Insulted and Injured" is a social psychological novel. The book was written by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky and first published in 1861. Through complex character relationships and profound psychological description, the novel shows the suffering of the people at the bottom of society and the struggle of human nature. The story revolves around two main lines, one is the tragic fate of Nellie's family, and the other is the misfortune of Natasha's family. The culprit who destroyed these two families is Duke Volgovsky. He abducted Nellie's mother, defrauded Nellie's grandfather of all the family property, and finally caused three generations of Nellie's family to die out of hatred. He also falsely accused Natasha's father and bankrupted his family. Natasha was also deceived by the Duke's son. The work profoundly describes the painful life and tragic fate of civilians in Russian cities under the Tsarist autocratic system, and sharply raises the issue of the shameless behavior of the upper class and the happiness of ordinary people. It reflects the irreconcilable contradictions between the nobility, bourgeoisie and common people at that time, intertwining the writer's two thoughts and feelings of sympathy and exposure.

"Timon of Athens" tells the story of Timon, a wealthy aristocrat in Athens who was generous and charitable, but was defrauded of all his money by the flattering "friends" around him and became deeply in debt. He finally realizes that false "friends" are worse than thieves, and viciously curses both humans and gold.