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"The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's important early work and a highly satirical comedy. It was made around 1596-1597. The theme of the script is to praise benevolence, friendship and love. It also reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law and religion in bourgeois society. An important literary achievement of this play is to create the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking, ruthless loan shark.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the most mature comedy work of Shakespeare's youth, and it is also one of the most famous comedies in Shakespeare's works. The book tells the story of conflicts caused by "magic juice" and the resolution of the conflicts, and finally the lovers finally get married. This play has a huge influence on the history of world literature, especially the history of drama.

This book is also called "The Return of the Soul", and its full name is "The Return of the Soul in the Peony Pavilion". It is the masterpiece of Tang Xianzu, an outstanding dramatist in the Ming Dynasty. The script is based on the Ming Dynasty story-telling novel "Du Liniang Returns to Soul", and is creatively adapted. Through the love story of the aristocratic girl Du Liniang and the young scholar Liu Mengmei, it reflects the youthful awakening of young men and women of that era, especially young women, their persistent pursuit of a free and happy love life, and their fighting spirit for individual liberation and resistance to feudal ethics.

"The Seagull", which Chekhov himself called a comedy, tells the story of several misplaced loves in Russian manor life at the end of the 19th century, and the beauty that was destroyed as a result. As Chekhov's first four-act play, it has become a symbol of Chekhov's dramatic innovation and personal artistic maturity. Nina, a girl from a wealthy rural family, is innocent and simple. She longs for beautiful love and has great hopes for the future life. Trepolev hopes to become a writer, but also deeply loves Nina. Tripolev's father passed away, and his mother Irina took a writer named Trigorin back to the manor to recuperate. Nina was attracted by the famous Boris... This book is the fourth volume of the "Master Guide Edition" of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas", with audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. I would like to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death - his stage contains all the pain and expectations of this era.

This book is one of the Shakespeare drama collection series. This series is a bilingual version (English is the original British novel). The book is equipped with pen illustrations by the master illustrator Hugh Thomson. It also comes with a theater version audiobook with pure American pronunciation. This book is one of Shakespeare's four comedies. The main plot describes the exiled Duke's daughter Rosalind who goes to the forest to find her father and her love story. The title of the play "As You Like It" indicates that all the good people who were persecuted in the play are rewarded, the evil people are inspired, and the lovers get married. This reflects Shakespeare's ideal state of good overcoming evil.

This book is a volume in the complete collection of Chekhov's plays. It includes two multi-act plays, "The Forest Man" and "The Fatherless Man", which are representative works of Chekhov's early drama creation. According to research, "The Fatherless Man" was written during Chekhov's university days and is relatively unknown. The script describes the decline of provincial aristocratic estates and depicts the image of a group of intellectuals, represented by the protagonist Platonov, who have nothing to do and spend their days in melancholy. It is the precursor of a series of "superfluous people" characters at the end of the century created in Chekhov's later works. "The Forest Monster" tells a family story centered on a weird-tempered and selfish professor, and successfully created the image of "The Forest Monster", a doctor with unique ideas but not understood by everyone. It is regarded as a "beautiful dramatic novella". The research community recognizes that "The Forest Monster" is the predecessor of "Uncle Vanya" and is an indispensable part of the complete presentation of Chekhov's drama creation.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the most mature comedy work of the British playwright William Shakespeare in his youth. It is also one of William Shakespeare's most famous comedies. It tells a love story in which lovers finally get married. This play has had a huge influence on the history of world literature, especially the history of drama. Later generations adapted it into movies, stories, games, paintings, etc.

"As You Like It" is one of Shakespeare's four comedies. It is called Shakespeare's "four comedies" together with "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Merchant of Venice" and "Twelfth Night". It tells the story of Rosalind, the daughter of an exiled Duke, who goes to the forest to find her father in the Ardennes Forest, far away from the world, and her love story. The period from 1590 to 1613 was the golden age of Shakespeare's creation. His early plays, mainly comedies and historical dramas, reached their peak of depth and artistry in the late 16th century. By 1608, he was mainly writing tragedies. Shakespeare advocated noble sentiments, and his tragedies often described sacrifice and revenge, including "Othello", "Hamlet", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", which are considered among the best examples in the English language. Towards the end of his life, he began to write tragicomedies, also known as romance plays.

"The Regiment of Jacques" is a play based on the famous "Regiment of Jacques" peasant uprising in France in the 14th century. The story of the script takes place in Baoaxi. The feudal lord Gilbert da Plemont was so cruel and brutal that the peasants couldn't bear it. Inspired and led by a monk named John, they staged an uprising. They captured Da Plemont's castle, killed the feudal lord, and achieved victory every step of the way. Due to the deception of the feudal rulers and the internal and external attacks of the British rogue army, the uprising failed. Faced with the disaster of failure, the peasant soldiers who lacked consciousness complained that Brother John had led them to a desperate situation and finally killed him. The main purpose of the play is to reveal the people's fighting spirit against the tyranny of feudal lords, to show the inevitability and rationality of the exploited and oppressed people's resistance under feudal violence, and to express obvious sympathy for the people's revolutionary actions.

Chekhov is not only a world-renowned master of short stories, but also an outstanding playwright and a pioneer of modern drama. He is known as the first dramatist after Shakespeare. This book is a volume of the complete collection of Chekhov's plays, including a total of nine one-act plays such as "The Road", "On the Harm of Tobacco", "Swan Song", and "The Bear". They are all short and interesting. Some works have experimental colors, reflecting Chekhov's special style exploration of one-act plays, and are an indispensable part of Chekhov's drama creation spectrum.

In the autumn of 1947, Shanghai World Book Company published "The Complete Works of Shakespeare's Plays" translated by Zhu Shenghao, a total of 27 plays, including no historical dramas. This set of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare's Plays" is a reappearance of these 27 classics. Except for the unified translation of "Hamlet" into "Hamlet" according to the conventional translation method, the translation contents of other names and place names are reproduced in the 1947 version. In terms of editing, this set of books has rearranged the original contents according to the nature of each play and subsequent expert opinions and divided them into six volumes. For details, see the bibliography of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare's Plays" in the book. It took two years of correction and editing to strive for excellence and restore the full picture of Mr. Zhu Shenghao's translation to the greatest extent possible.

"The Merchant of Venice" is one of Shakespeare's plays. It is extremely ironic and creates a typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking and ruthless loan shark. The main theme is to praise benevolence, friendship and love, reflecting the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, showing the social reality at that time, embodying the pursuit of the value of "people" during the European Renaissance, as well as humanistic thoughts on issues such as money and law. The period from 1590 to 1613 was the golden age of Shakespeare's creation. His early plays, mainly comedies and historical dramas, reached their peak of depth and artistry in the late 16th century. By 1608, he was mainly writing tragedies. Shakespeare advocated noble sentiments, and his tragedies often described sacrifice and revenge, including "Othello", "Hamlet", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", which are considered among the best examples in the English language. Towards the end of his life, he began to write tragicomedies, also known as romance plays.

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Works by Peter Handke, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. This book contains Handke's three plays: "The Irrational Man Will Die", "The Moment of Strangeness" and "Planning the Eternity of Life". In "The Moment of Strangers", various characters take turns to appear on the stage. They meet each other in this center, hinder each other, form a group together, and then disintegrate it. In the author's allegorical and allegorical writing, this all-encompassing, strange, and ultimately dark world stage may be a microcosm of the real world that Handke felt. "Irrational People Will Die Eventually" depicts a picture of sentient beings whose minds have been distorted by capital and wealth. "Planning the Eternity of Life" is called "King's Play" by the author. The story takes place in an era "from the last war to the present and beyond" in an embattled enclave that is constantly threatened by war. It is a play with complex character relationships, multi-layered structure and an open ending.

One of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. Othello is a general employed by the city-state of Venice. He is of African Moorish origin and has a black complexion. Desdemona is the daughter of a Venetian noble, smart, beautiful and passionate. In order to sympathize with Othello's heroic experience and love his cheerful character, she married him without telling her father. Ago is Othello's old subordinate. This man has a loyal and honest appearance, but in his heart he is completely different. He hates Othello for not promoting him to be the chief chamberlain, he hates a black man for marrying a white woman, and he suspects Othello and his wife are having an affair, but the bigger reason is that he thinks from the bottom of his heart that only destroying the happiness of Othello and Desdemona is his greatest satisfaction. He used Roderigo and Emilia as his tools to fabricate false evidence of Desdemona's infidelity, making Othello jealous out of thin air. Jealousy breeds suspicion, forcing Othello to kill Desdemona for "just" reasons. Of course, the truth is revealed in the end, but the mistake has been made, and Othello has the only way to commit suicide. Argo's tricks and Othello's psychological and emotional changes, as well as other people's reactions, are the highest artistic achievements of the characters depicted by Shakespeare.

"The Good Man from Sichuan" tells the story of two thousand years of hard work for good people in the world, so three gods came to the world to look for good people. They encountered difficulties from the beginning: neither the rich nor the poor were willing to provide them with a place to live, and only the kind-hearted prostitute Shen De took them in. The next day, the three gods gave Shen De more than a thousand silver dollars in the name of paying accommodation fees. In this way, Shen De no longer has to work as a prostitute. He opens a small cigarette shop and provides free food and accommodation to those who seek help. Instead of being rewarded, her kindness made it difficult for the smoke shop to survive. The helpless Shen De had to put on a mask and appear as his cousin Shuida. He opened a cigarette factory to provide employment opportunities. Cruel exploitation and strict management made the factory larger and more prosperous. While people were grateful to Shuida for giving them jobs and bread, they also missed the kind-hearted Shen De very much. Someone suspected that Shuida had murdered his cousin in order to occupy the tobacco shop, and Shuida was reported. In front of the three gods disguised as judges, Shui Da showed Shen De's true form and expressed his difficulties: "I have to be kind to others and treat myself well at the same time, which I can't do." The three gods were also helpless in front of this problem. "Is it to change people, or to change the world?" Brecht set the background of the story in distant China and wrote an allegorical drama.

"Salome" is a famous work written by Oscar Wilde based on the Bible story. It tells the story of how the Jewish princess Salome induced her stepfather King Herod to kill John the Baptist. In the play, Salome woos John but is rejected, vows to kiss him on the lips, and finally has John's head chopped off. For more than two thousand years, her image has spread across many fields such as painting, sculpture, literature, drama, song and dance, and film, and has become the focus of inspiration for countless artists. Through Salome, the masters conveyed their understanding of human nature. The Salome created by Wilde interweaves her love and hate in the story, full of mystery and temptation, giving this image new connotation.

"Romeo and Juliet", the masterpiece of the great writer William Shakespeare, is a popular classic of Shakespeare's dramas and its poetic version is highly praised. Shakespeare's masterpieces are recognized as treasures of human culture. "Romeo and Juliet" is Shakespeare's most famous love tragedy and the most famous chapter in the history of human literature and even civilization. The translation of this book is an important result of Mr. Fang Ping, a famous Shakespeare scholar and translator, who devoted himself to the study of Shakespeare and translated poems into poems. It fully meets the needs of readers for studying Shakespeare plays and collecting books.

Created during Shakespeare's most mature period of comedy writing, the content is lively, joyful, and philosophical. Compared to Shakespeare's other comedies. The characteristic of this play is that the scenes and language are closer to real life. Claudio fell in love with Hero, but was afraid of being rejected. As a result, his friend Don Pietro came to help and arranged a unique masquerade ball to bring them together. Just when everyone thought that everything would have a happy ending, Don John interfered and made Claudio mistakenly think that Hero had another love. The deeper the love, the deeper the hatred, Claudio vowed revenge, and thus, the love ordeal of a pair of mandarin ducks began...

This book is the most familiar love classic among Shakespeare's plays. In this play, Shakespeare highlights the sharp conflict between humanistic ideals of love and feudal concepts and feudal forces. He linked the fate of young people to the safety of the entire city where they lived. The bloody vendetta between feudal families not only caused the love tragedy of young people, but also brought disaster to the city. In the script, themes common in historical dramas condemning feudal disputes and themes common in comedies praising ideal love and friendship appear comprehensively. This is a tragedy, but the whole play is full of rich lyrical color and contains a lot of comedy elements. In the end, the young people's sacrifice brought about reconciliation between the two families and peace in the city. The parents also decided to build a golden statue for them.

This volume includes Chekhov's classic plays "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard", sorted by creation time, and includes Jiao Juyin's "The Cherry Orchard\u003E Translation Postscript" written in 1943. Although these three plays have different stories, they all express themes that Chekhov has always been concerned about: he hated the gray people who could be seen everywhere in Russian society at the end of the 19th century, who only used some incoherent empty talk and fantasies about the "future" to enrich their current empty, declining and lazy life.

"Richard III" is a work by the British playwright William Shakespeare. It describes the short reign of Richard III. The play is believed to have been written around 1591. The play is sometimes classified as a tragedy (in the early quartos), but a more accurate classification would be a historical drama, as in the First Folio. The work begins with "Henry VI Part 3" and ends the series of historical dramas that began with "Richard II". This work is Shakespeare's second longest play, after "Hamlet". Since the version of "Hamlet" included in the "First Folio" is shorter than the previous quarto, "Richard III" is the longest play among them. The length of the script is often considered a drawback, as it is rarely performed in its entirety and unimportant characters are often omitted.

This book is one of the Shakespeare drama collection series. This series is a bilingual version (English is the original British novel). The book is equipped with pen illustrations by the master illustrator Hugh Thomson. It also comes with a theater version audiobook with pure American pronunciation. "King Lear" is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. It tells the story of the aged King Lear who wants to divide the kingdom among his three daughters. The eldest daughter Goneret and the second daughter Regan win his favor and divide the kingdom among his three daughters. However, the youngest daughter Cordelia gets nothing because she is unwilling to flatter her. The King of France, who came to propose marriage, was very discerning and married Corcordelia as his queen. King Lear left the throne, and his eldest daughter and second daughter actually refused to give him a place to live. The king at that time had no choice but to go to the wilderness... Cordelia led the attack, and the father and daughter were reunited. But the war went unfavorably, Cordelia was killed, and King Lear died in grief guarding the body of his beloved little daughter.

This book contains the entire contents of Liang Yuchun's handed down prose collections "Tears and Laughter" and "Chun Liao Collection", as well as his representative essays. Liang Yuchun's prose captures the essence of British sketches. His techniques and emotions are similar to those of the 18th-century British prose master Charles Lamb. He inherits a tragic humor and is rooted in the soil of Chinese classical literature, drawing nutrients from it to form his own unique artistic style.

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It compiles and selects excellent poems published in various literary publications and poets' blogs in 2013, comprehensively showing the achievements and aesthetics of Chinese poetry creation in 2013. In the selection and selection process, the editor adheres to sexual, ideological and literary conscience. From the value of the works, we repeatedly consider, collide, and judge, so as to select the best works from the sand, select the outstanding works that have wide influence and can withstand the test of time, and compile them into a volume.

"The Tale of Bamboo", written in the early 10th century, is the earliest Japanese narrative literature. The story tells that a bamboo cutter found a beautiful little girl in the heart of a bamboo. She grew up in three months and named her "Xizhu Heyingji". Five noble sons proposed to her, and she promised to marry the man who could find her favorite treasure, but all the suitors failed. At this time, the emperor wanted to use his power to marry her by force, but he was rejected. He Yingji suddenly ascended to heaven while these ordinary people were at a loss.

"The Complete Translations of Cao Ying" is a complete collection of literary works translated and created by the famous Russian-Soviet literary translator Mr. Cao Ying throughout his life, with a total of 21 volumes and about 7 million words. Among them, 12 volumes include the classic Russian literary works translated by Cao Ying, mainly the complete novels of the great writer Leo Tolstoy; 7 volumes include important works translated by Cao Ying that reflect the Soviet Patriotic War and Soviet socialist construction, including the works of writers such as Nobel Prize winners Sholokhov and Lermontov; 1 volume includes Cao Ying's personal works on Russian-Soviet literature and literary translation issues; and 1 volume collects Cao Ying's translated articles published in various newspapers and magazines over the years. This volume is: "War and Peace" (Volume 1), the first volume of Cao Ying's translations.

"Every Word Sitting with Other Eyes" is a collection of essays that brings together nine articles by Herta Miller on different themes. The author uses cold and surreal poetic language to express his inner feelings about the real environment and his feelings about the displaced living conditions. To sum up, different articles show the author's concern for the true dignity of human nature and the poet's mind. This book was first published in 2003. It is an outstanding prose work by the Nobel Prize winner. It explains the theme of his novel and his life insights in a clear and direct style, allowing you to better enter the author's spiritual world. The author's dual identity as a foreigner and the resulting perspective of an onlooker, coupled with her sensitivity to the language medium, make these articles of hers very enlightening to read.

Sonnets were introduced to England in the early 16th century. With the spread of Renaissance thought in Europe, they soon became one of the most popular poetry styles at that time. A large number of sonnet poets emerged in the Elizabethan era. Sidney's "The Star Lover and the Star", Spencer's "Little Cupid" and Shakespeare's "Sonnets" are known as "the three most popular sonnets in the British literary world during the Renaissance".

"Collected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" contains Tagore's four most widely circulated and representative collections of poems, "Gitanjali", "The Gardener's Collection", "The Gift of Love" and "The New Moon Collection". The full text reveals the unique spiritual philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, the "poet saint of a generation", with fresh poetry and profound writing style. Reading these poems will open up blocked sources of wisdom for us and comfort our loneliness in body and mind.

"The Divine Comedy" is a long classical poem written by the famous Italian poet Dante for more than ten years. It is divided into three parts: "Inferno", "Purgatory" and "Paradise". This book is the second part. The whole poem starts with the traveler Dante getting lost in the dark forest and tells the story. Under the guidance of Virgil, he travels through the center of the earth, walks out of hell, climbs to the top of Purgatory Mountain, flies through the heavens with Beatrice, and finally sees the Trinity. It is a journey into a wonderland that combines magic, novelty, terror, thrills, and wisdom. The translation of "The Divine Comedy" introduced by Utopia this time is the first complete Chinese translation of the three-rhyme "Divine Comedy" translated into Italian by the well-known Hong Kong translator Huang Guobin for more than 20 years. While conveying the style of Dante's original poem to the greatest extent possible, it also uses encyclopedia-like detailed annotations to help readers clarify the religious changes, mythological allusions and even historical context in the Middle Ages. To appreciate the profound meaning of the Divine Comedy, this volume is enough.

"Little Silver and Me" is a representative work of Jimenez's early literary creation and one of the writer's most important works. The book consists of 138 exquisite prose poems, which tells the story of the poet, accompanied by a beloved silver-white donkey, Xiao Yin, walking through the hustle and bustle of the market and the tranquility of the fields, pouring out his heart to it, and even becoming a confidant. In the book "Little Silver and Me", Juan Ramon Jimenez uses rich nostalgia and clear light colors to depict a set of southern Spanish style paintings for readers. This poetic style painting depicts the poet's hometown of Mogel in the province of Huelva, which is also his final resting place. Xuanle's translation is exclusive to our publisher, and it is also our brand-new translation since the publication of this book in the 1980s. In addition, this book also contains a number of "Ballads" written and published by the poet at the same time, so as to provide readers with a more comprehensive introduction to the poet and his works.

"Leaves of Grass" is a collection of poems that is the essence of Whitman's lifelong creation. The poems in it are like the grass that grows all over the American land, full of vitality and exuding an alluring fragrance. It is a world-famous masterpiece of poetry. This new translation selects wonderful works from each chapter of the original work, refers to the English version and multiple translations, abandons awkward translation methods, strives to highlight the author's thoughts and feelings of the original work, and fits the contemporary Chinese context.

Misuzu Kaneko is the comet of Japanese nursery rhyme poetry. Her poems are full of inspiration. A tree, a flower, a cloud, a dewdrop, a playing card, and even frostbite on her hands are all sources of inspiration for her. The childlike innocence of gold, keen observation and rich imagination weave a dream childhood that should belong to children. "Kanako Misuzu's Nursery Rhyme Poems" selects more than 300 of his nursery rhyme poems, divided into four volumes: spring, summer, autumn and winter. The entire book is dubbed and recited by Xiao Zeng, a famous announcer from China National Broadcasting Station. More than 100 beautiful paintings by Takehisa Yumeji. The multi-layered expression of sound, poetry and painting allows healing power and imagination to take off.

"If Sadness Could Talk" selects the beautiful prose poems "Tears and Laughter", "Wanderer" and "Broken Wings". The theme of love and beauty runs through the poem from beginning to end, expressing the desire for freedom, ideals, love and beauty in the eulogy of nature; the description of life experience all contains the exploration of the true meaning of life. These poems convey the essence under the description of the scene and touch people's hearts.

Become a place of love, meet you, and become an opportunity for us to get closer to Rumi and explore our inner self! "There is a place beyond the concepts of right and wrong. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down on the grass there, the world is too full to talk about. Concepts, language, and even the word each other have no meaning." I think the place Rumi is talking about is a non-dual world, transcending all good and bad, right and wrong, right and wrong. In the end, each of us can return there. If you can reach that grassland while alive, it means you are enlightened. There is no need for language because all thoughts, words, each other, etc., Belong to the world of duality. Likewise, joy, sadness, happiness, and sorrow cannot be found there. One day we will all meet there. Before that day comes, let us enjoy the beauty and ugliness, good and evil, right and wrong, good and bad of the dualistic world. Who knows whether impermanence or tomorrow will come earlier.

"A Child's Garden" is a collection of children's poems written by the British writer Stevenson (1850-1894), which has been published in many editions around the world. This special collector's edition collects more than 100 classic illustrations from illustrators in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It will become a classic language enlightenment book and a souvenir of childhood worth collecting for every family. Original English poems are included with the book, allowing children to start learning English through children's poems.

"Poems of Pasternak (Set Volume 1, 2)": Pasternak was a giant of Russian poetry in the 20th century. He experienced the Silver Age, the October Revolution and the "thaw" of the Soviet Union. He had the courage to renew his fame in the poetry world in his early years, and finally won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his great achievements in the traditional fields of modern lyric poetry and the great Russian novel".

"Son of Light": Although he has established the most powerful kingdom in the world, fate does not allow the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti to live a long life. He must choose the next Egyptian Pharaoh from his descendants - the cunning and treacherous eldest son Xena and the enthusiastic younger son Ramesses. Seti used countless tests and deadly traps to enlighten Ramses to understand the important responsibility given by the gods. But can Ramesses escape the conspiracy of his brother Xena? How should he choose between the passionate Ise and the mysterious Nefertari? How did his classmates and friends: the snake wizard Saydavu, the scribe Yameni, the Hebrew Moses, and the diplomat Asshai help him overcome many obstacles?

"A person, no matter when, where, or who he is, likes to do what he is willing to do." Many people have suffered various grievances in life; many people have suffered blows to their self-esteem; many people have low self-esteem but dare not speak out; many people want to resist but find that they have no power; every sensitive person is a "basement person", with a confused, sensitive, struggling, and introspective soul. "It is a human right to justify cowardice and social fear." For those who feel grievances and dare not speak out, this book can fully express them for you.

Many famous Jewish thinkers such as Moloa, Fromm, Adler, Wittgenstein, Kafka, etc., Use wise, humorous and wonderful words to interpret the five major issues in life that everyone has to face, including marriage and family, friendship and happiness, life and death, morality and art, economy and politics. This book was once popular all over the world, and to this day, we can still see the way forward through these wise eyes.

"Faust" is Goethe's most important and well-known masterpiece. It took nearly sixty years from creation to final completion, covering Goethe's entire literary career. It is also an insurmountable classic in the history of German literature and has a worldwide influence. It is one of the four major European masterpieces along with Homer's epic, Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet". "Faust" is based on the German folklore about Dr. Faustus in the 16th century. It tells the story of Faust's contract with the devil Mephistopheles, starting from his study and entering the outside world, in his unremitting pursuit of love, power, beauty and ideals. Although Faust's pursuit constantly encountered tragedies, and he finally died when his work of transforming nature was completed, his spirit reflected Goethe's own exploration of the inner world and the world in his long life. It was also a microcosm of the cultural development during the rise of the European bourgeoisie in the three hundred years from the Renaissance to the early 19th century.

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"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is written in diary and letter style. This style is good at revealing the inner world of the protagonist and expressing the depressed psychology and melancholy emotions. Werther came to a small town and met a girl named Lotte at a dance. He fell in love with Lotte. But Lotte is engaged to someone else. Seeing that he could no longer win over Lotte, Werther left resolutely and accepted the position of minister's secretary. The minister's pedantic, bureaucratic habits and intrigues brought great pain to Werther. He resigned from this official position and was invited to the manor of a marquis. However, at the Marquis, Werther found that his talents were still unable to be used. Love was shattered, society abandoned Werther, and Werther also abandoned everything. Finally, in despair, Werther committed suicide. As soon as this novel was published, it made the younger generation crazy. Some people who suffered similar experiences to Werther even committed suicide.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is Goethe's early masterpiece. It tells the story of young Werther who was moved by the temperament and talent of the girl Lotte and fell in love with this girl who had the same soul as his. Lotte was engaged, and Werther could not suppress his inner love, and finally ended his young life in the melancholy of being unable to love. The story takes Werther's love as the main line, but it shows the broad social picture of Germany at that time. The protagonist of the novel yearns for freedom and pursues individual liberation, and is progressive and profoundly critical. The depression of young Werther's life, the melancholy of love, and his romantic and pure feelings have infected thousands of hearts.

Goethe's "Faust" is a masterpiece that he devoted his whole life to writing and has a total of 12,110 lines from beginning to end. Based on the ancient legend of a German alchemist who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and youth, he used the opposite meaning to demonstrate the broad, profound and noble content of life, and sang a triumphant song for the enterprising spirit of human self-improvement that has resounded throughout the world.

This book is the pinnacle of German Bildungsroman. As the son of a businessman, William Meister is a passionate young man full of ideals and vitality. He is dissatisfied with the mediocrity and profit-seeking of the civil class, and hopes to transform society through dramatic art and aesthetic education. However, the chaotic and dirty theater world makes his efforts confused. William wandered around and came into contact with various world conditions, and finally got acquainted with a noble group composed of enlightened nobles, and became a seeker who constantly pursues the perfection of human nature and lofty social ideals. In this ideal society, everyone has his or her own personality, and at the same time respects each other and works together; everyone has lofty ideals, but at the same time, everyone is a doer who is not good at empty talk. William initially sought the art of drama, but ultimately found the art of life.

This book is a collection of poems by the famous German writer and thinker Goethe. Goethe is a very important writer in the history of world literature. He wrote more than 2,500 poems of various themes and genres in his lifetime. He was praised by Byron as "the king of European poetry". This book selects nearly 400 of Goethe's most representative poems in his more than 70-year creative career. The translator Yang Wuneng is one of the more representative figures in the field of German-Chinese translation. In this book, Yang Wuneng annotates and explains the poems of various periods and themes, helping readers to understand and feel the beauty of Goethe's poetry more deeply. The translation of the book is smooth and beautiful, the words are delicate and precise, and the background knowledge is rich. It has high literary value and publication value.