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If you were given eternal life, would it be a blessing or a curse? In the Middle Ages, Fosca, the monarch of the Italian city-state, was a ruler who worked hard to govern, but he felt that he could not govern a country well in a short life and hoped to live forever. He accidentally got the elixir, and after taking it, he got rid of the threat of death. He sang all the way and made his country the overlord of Italy, but instead it attracted the invasion of France. He felt that a divided country could not last long and must control a unified universe, so he dedicated his country to the Holy Roman Empire and acted as the emperor's counselor. But instead of building a super-empire as he wished, the emperor was busy suppressing rebellions everywhere, and eventually the empire fell apart. Fosca later came to America and Canada, and also participated in the French Revolution and the British labor movement. Finally he realized the true meaning of life...

This book is a collection of short stories published by Beauvoir in 1967. Among Beauvoir's published essays, novels, autobiographies and letters, it belongs to her later creation. The three short stories collected all have women as the protagonists, which can be said to be the three types of women's experiences in modern society. Among them, "The Age of Sensible" tells the story of middle-aged professional women's dissatisfaction and anxiety about themselves, their husbands, and their son's marriage and career prospects; "Monologue" is the whole story of a single mother, and underneath the neurotic words is the pain of her little daughter's suicide; "Exhausted Woman" uses the form of a diary to show the psychological journey of a housewife coping with her husband's extramarital affair. Beauvoir depicts three women in crisis: one considers herself a good mother and tries to control everything; one is full of resentment and worry about her family and children; one is abandoned by her husband and is at a loss as to what to do.

"The Witches of Salem" is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller, the famous playwright known as "the conscience of American drama". It won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1953. The famous French writer Jean-Paul Sartre adapted it into a movie in 1957. The story is based on a persecution case that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, North America in 1692. A "witch" appears in a town shrouded by Puritanism. Pastor Barris invites "exorcists" from neighboring parishes to assist in the investigation. In order to protect themselves, people began to doubt, expose and even frame each other, which then triggered a butterfly effect. The girls' forest dance eventually turned the town into purgatory. The hero Proctor was framed, but he was unwilling to betray his friends and soul in exchange for a humiliating existence. Using history as a metaphor for the present, Miller perfectly presents a fable about the conflict between good and evil and evil in human nature, revealing the cruelty and ruthlessness of powerful forces, the evil of blind obedience of the mob and the collapse of moral beliefs, and people's choices when disaster strikes. There is the deepest abyss in human nature, but also the most dazzling glory of human nature.

"All My Sons" is Arthur Miller's famous work. It was an instant success after being staged in 1947 and ran for 328 performances. The script tells the story of factory owner Joe Keller who sold cracked cylinder heads to the Army Air Forces during World War II, causing twenty-one plane crashes. At that time, Joe's son Larry was fighting in the war. After hearing the news from the newspaper, he felt ashamed to see others, so he deliberately crashed his plane and committed suicide during the mission. Before he died, he wrote a letter to his girlfriend Ann. When Joe was under investigation, he blamed his partner Steve Deaver. Deaver was imprisoned because of this, and even his daughter Ann and son George were convinced of this, and they ignored their father in prison from then on. Three years later, Larry's brother Chris planned to marry Ann. However, Joe's wife Kate insists that Larry is still alive, and she is counting on Ann to wait as long as she does for Larry to return. At this time, George brought shocking news. He learned from his father that Joe was the culprit. Therefore, he firmly opposed the marriage between Ann and Chris. Chris heard the truth from the conversation between Joe and Kate, and angrily accused Joe of killing his brothers. Joe thought he did it for his family. Ann was forced to tell the truth about Larry's death. Keller finally realized that he had made a big mistake by sacrificing his big family for his small family, killing twenty-one pilots. Finally, he finally said "They are all my sons" and shot himself.

"You want a real life, and it's expensive." "The conscience of American drama" Arthur Miller is comparable to the late masterpiece "Death of a Salesman", winner of four Emmy Awards, nominated for two Tony Awards, a modern version of the "Cain" and "Abel" dispute. "The Price" is a two-act play written by Arthur Miller in 1967. It is a family game that penetrates from the pricing allocation of old furniture to the price people pay for their own life choices. After the Great Depression, Victor Franz interrupted his college studies to become a policeman in order to support his father who was crushed by the stock market crash. The two of them lived in the attic of his uncle's house with the remnants of their past wealthy life. More than 30 years later, the old house will be demolished, and Victor comes back to sell his parents' inheritance. His wife Esther, brother Walter, and savvy furniture businessman Solomon each have their own plans. The two brothers uncover stories from each other's past that they don't want to admit, and in the end, Victor must face his own sacrifice. Since its premiere on Broad Street in 1968, "The Price" has been revived several times and received two Tony Award nominations; the TV adaptation received four Emmy Award nominations and won two of them.

"All My Sons" is a famous work by the famous playwright Arthur Miller, who is known as "the conscience of American drama". It premiered on Broadway in 1947 and ran for 328 performances. It won many awards including the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The story depicts the tragedy of a middle-class family: the sanctimonious father who made a fortune during World War II, the seemingly weak mother who worked hard to maintain the order of the entire family, the pilot's youngest son who mysteriously disappeared during the war, the impulsive and righteous eldest son... Everyone carries inner secrets and maintains a peaceful life with lies. With the visit of the girl next door and the appearance of a letter, people learned the truth about the disappearance of their youngest son three years ago. This seemingly happy family faced disintegration the moment the truth was revealed. The author uses a writing style rich in ancient Greek tragedy to write about the hidden reefs of human nature in modern society, revealing the banal evil beneath the surface of a peaceful life.

I don't know whether it is heaven or hell, but there is our hope, and we must live... This is a touching legendary story. A sandstorm destroyed the Joad family's land and forced them to leave their home. They assembled a trailer out of scrap metal, piled all their belongings on it, and headed west along Route 66 to the legendary paradise of grape-filled mountains-California. During this long journey of three thousand kilometers, they experienced many incredible things. Some things are cruel and painful, but there are also some encounters that touch them so much that they regain their confidence in living.

The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is a miracle in the history of American publishing. Its global sales have reached 15 million copies. It is a magnificent epic of modern American farmers. "The Grapes of Wrath" is Steinbeck's masterpiece. The novel describes the tragic story of the Joad family, a poor farmer, who migrated from the windy and sandy plains of Oklahoma to the affluent valleys of California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is an epic of modern American farmers. "The Grapes of Wrath" has become required reading in American high school and college literature classes because of its historicity and importance.

George and Lennie are a pair of homeless people who work everywhere to make ends meet. They have a dream to own a small piece of land of their own, with a small windmill, a small shed, a chicken coop, a pig pen, an orchard, and an alfalfa field so that Lenny can raise his favorite rabbits. However, all this is a dream. But George and Lennie did not give up. This time, they came to work on a new farm, hoping to work hard here and save more money, but they didn't want Lennie to get into trouble again...

"East of Eden" is the representative novel of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. "I seem to have been writing this book forever. I have been writing this book all my life. The early works were just exercises: exercises to prepare the book. That is why I want this book to be well written, because it is first." "East of Eden" is indeed the most important book among all Steinbeck's works. The award speech for the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature praised his work: "It is both realistic and imaginative, as well as socially insightful and humorous." "East of Eden" is the pinnacle of Steinbeck's literary life and also occupies a place in the history of world literature.

Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" is based on the life story of Zero fighter designer Jiro Horikoshi and the novel of the same name by writer Tatsuo Hori. The only part that fits Hori Tatsuo's autobiographical story is the love story of a boy pursuing his dream and a girl who is unlucky. However, as early as 1976, there was another movie called "Snowy Dusk" (also known as: "The Wind and the Dream"), which was basically faithfully adapted from Hori Tatsuo's masterpiece. The classic screen couple Miura Tomokazu and Yamaguchi Momoe use their green grass-like love to interpret their infinite attachment to their lover and their last attachment to life. A pure heart and love as simple and transparent as spring water really exist, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

"The first private novel in my life... I want to leave a suicide note to the realm of death where I used to live." The famous work of the Japanese literary wizard Mishima Yukio, a monument to Mishima's youthful passion, caused a huge sensation in the Japanese literary world after its publication, telling the story of Mishima Yukio's growth process in adolescence. "Confessions of a Mask" is a novella published by Yukio Mishima in 1949. It is also Mishima Yukio's famous work. The work has a keen and delicate grasp of the characters' psychology, and is permeated with the author's sensitive traits. His thinking is complicated and detailed, he repeatedly doubts, overthrows and overthrows, and then rebuilds. Twenty-four-year-old Mishima Yukio uses perverted introverted confessions and combines autobiographical plots and stories to intellectually explore his inner world, starting from a kind of social psychological repression to fight against the constraints of traditional order and values. The work first describes "my" birth and family situation, and then introduces readers to "my" strange inner world when I was five years old, and then describes "my" bold psychology in adolescence. "I" felt ashamed of my natural weakness, longed for a strong and wild body, and was determined to carry out spiritual self-training. During the war, "I" approached the opposite sex with the mentality of trying to fall in love, and finally fell in love with my classmate's sister Sonoko, but the relationship ended because I felt that I was not capable. After the war, Sonoko married someone else, but "I" tried to still date her secretly, trying to completely give up the spiritual love of sensuality.

The ultimate way to exist is love and jealousy. A masterpiece that carries Mishima's literary ambitions. "Hunger of Love" is a very representative novel by Mishima Yukio. With delicate psychological description and exquisite writing structure, the work conveys Mishima's unique atmosphere of gloom, perversion, and sadness. Etsuko has always had illusions about love. However, after the marriage, the husband had a new love outside the home, and the couple became extremely estranged. Later, the husband died of illness. The widowed Etsuko moved to the countryside to live with her father-in-law's family. In the remote and lonely countryside, Etsuko projects her fiery and pure passion onto her family's gardener, Saburo. This love burned so fiercely that when Etsuko discovered that the reality was not what she thought, she actually killed Saburo in a mixture of love and hate...

Yukio Mishima's masterpiece of essays is a sharp introduction to love, marriage, and personality development. It is humorous and playful and shows how a straight male writer teaches the secrets of love. It includes three short stories: "New Love Lecture", "The Aesthetics of Ending" and "Spiritual Conversation to Young Samurai". They talk about the art of love, social skills and the development of teenagers' character and provide sincere suggestions. What exactly is love? What kind of love do you want to have? Japanese literary master Yukio Mishima wrote this book specifically to explain love. From the form, morality, philosophy and techniques of love, Mishima uses humorous and sharp writing to get to the core, guiding men and women how to fall in love and how to reveal their true emotions in love. This book contains three short story collections: "Lectures on New Love", "The Aesthetics of Ending" and "Spiritual Talks to Young Samurai". In addition to love, it also touches on issues such as social art, character development, etc. It is unique and thought-provoking. Especially in today's society where people's views on love and values ​​are unstable, this book can help readers examine love, family, and life from another perspective, which has great practical significance. This book is also the embodiment of Mishima's philosophy and aesthetic thoughts.

"Akatsuki" is the third part of Yukio Mishima's "Sea of ​​Plenty" tetralogy. Kiyoaki, the protagonist of the previous work "Spring Snow", is reincarnated as a Thai princess in this novel, and reunites with Honda, an old friend from her previous life. Honda has been looking for Kiyoaki's reincarnation, but when he saw the ultimate scene of death in a holy land in India, Honda finally realized that life and death are a cycle and death is inevitable. From then on, he let himself go and gradually turned dark. However, Qingxian's reincarnated body was bitten to death by a snake, starting the next reincarnation. The plot of the novel is simple, but it contains a huge amount of information. It contains forbidden love that accelerates the heartbeat, human torture of life, death and desire, magnificent tropical scenery, and the long and unique humanities and customs of Southeast Asia. At the same time, with the author's strong writing power, he carefully describes the subtle and huge changes in the mood of the people in the story over time, making the whole book feel immersive.

A total reckoning of sex and beauty, intoxicated by the imagination of the sun and iron. For those who have survived the dreams written by Mishima Yukio, Mishima's imagination will always be a symbol of their encounter with the sun. The tight and expanding summer sun dominates the nocturnal universe as tightly as the physical bodies of men and women. Just like in the Iron Age, heavy blunt knives had an obligation to maintain a balance of blood flow with human muscles. The sex and beauty in "Forbidden Color" are like Mishima's spirit and strength. They need the exposure of the summer sun and the upbringing of iron, singing the fatal temptation of romance and freshness in the darkness.

Reincarnated in "The Beauty of Sex", Mishima's soul will never rest in peace. Mishima said, "As soon as a person turns 30, his name will be quickly forgotten like peeling paint. The reality represented by those names is more illusory and useless than dreams, and will be gradually abandoned by daily life." However, Mishima's heroic scene of begging for death has always stood out in front of the world, becoming his literary and even aesthetic label. The dream that haunts Iinuma repeatedly uses the reincarnation of Princess Moonlight to make Mishima's beauty, together with his body and soul, a vigorous sacrifice in the book. In the strange "sexual" aesthetics caused by gender misplacement, Mishima integrated himself into the Four Seasons of the Sea of ​​Fertility, reincarnating a fully mature and full kingdom of "sexuality", forging a twisting soul echo, a kingdom of Akatsuki that knows no difference between day and night.

As time goes by, the sublime turns into comedy bit by bit, Mishima's perfect narrative work. Honda remembered what Kiyoaki said after his dream eighteen years ago before his death: "We will meet again. We will definitely meet again, under the waterfall..." Honda believed that Isao was the reincarnation of Kiyoaki. But Ionuma Isao's character is very different from Kiyoaki. He is fierce and resolute. His highest belief is the "sword", which is "killing himself in the sun"! Ultimately, he assassinated the financial tycoon Takesuke Kurohara who he believed to be the source of the crime.

"Five Decline of Heaven and Man", the final chapter of "Sea of ​​Fertility", Mishima's last work, the reincarnation of the past, just like time stops in Buddhism, everything in the world is like a dream, but the untarnished spiritual power lasts forever. "There is nothing, neither memory nor anything exists. It is extremely lonely."

"Your Majesty" is Thomas Mann's second novel. The plot of the novel is very simple, even seemingly popular: the protagonist Klaus Heinrich is the prince of a small principality in Germany at the turn of the last century. Because his brother, Archduke Albrecht II, is weak and has no interest in governing, he is appointed as the ruling prince and can use the title "Your Majesty". The simple and kind-hearted Klaus Heinrich liked this duty, that is, attending various events on behalf of the Archduke, but sometimes he felt vaguely lonely and empty, until he met and fell in love with Irma Spolman, the daughter of an American millionaire. In the process of pursuing Imma and being constantly rejected by her, Klaus Heinrich realizes his true nature: a hollow man who does not understand real life and feelings, lives in a fictional "world of appearances", and whose responsibilities and work have no real meaning. So he began to change himself, learned to understand the feelings of others, and began to study economics, hoping to do something practical for the country. His change also made Imma change her attitude towards him. At the end of the story, the two become engaged, and Imma's father agrees to provide money to solve the financial crisis of the small principality. In his later years, Thomas Mann called "Your Majesty" the turning point in his transition to democratic thought. Although true democracy in the modern sense has not yet appeared in this novel, it still explores the significance of the monarch in a modern country. The monarch represents and guides the people, and the people in turn influence and help the monarch make decisions. This romantic political view can be said to be the prototype of democracy.

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

Pushkin is known as the "Father of Russian Literature" and "The Sun of Russian Poetry". "The Captain's Daughter" is his first completed novel and enjoys a high status in the history of Russian literature. It is the first Pushkin novel to be translated into Chinese and the first Russian literary work to be completely translated into Chinese. It has a wide influence in China. This book adopts the form of Chinese and Russian comparison. In addition to marking the vocabulary of level 4 and above for university Russian majors in the Russian part, the book also explains the historical figures and events that appear in the book, as well as the research results in this field in recent years, with detailed annotations.

"David Copperfield" is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British novelist Charles Dickens, who he called his "favorite child in his heart". 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 became a successful writer and was happily married to his beloved. The book adopts a personal narrative technique and depicts a broad social picture through the unfortunate experience of an orphan. The work uses superb skills to create the images of typical characters from different classes, showing the author's generous and broad humanistic care.

"The Grapes of Wrath" is a novel written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1939. "The Grapes of Wrath" is based on the background of farmers' bankruptcy, escape and struggle in central states during the economic crisis. Farmers in Oklahoma and neighboring states of Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas were deeply in debt, their land confiscated by large corporations, and they were homeless. They had to move westward, trying to find a way out in California. The novel takes the Yoder family as the representative and records the difficult experience of a family of twelve escaping from Oklahoma to California. After they sold everything in their home, they bought a dilapidated car, and the family fled westward in the car. On the way, young Noah and Connie deserted halfway. When they arrived in California, everything was not as beautiful as they imagined. Unemployment, hunger and poverty were still waiting for them. Farmers there used their surplus labor to lower wages for tenant farmers, and local forces extorted and persecuted wandering farmers. So the farmers were angry, they united and fought. The "anger" in the title of the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" is a strong protest against the unfair social system that leads to poverty.

"Brother" describes a straightforward, reckless but simple, kind-hearted young man with a sense of justice. After his parents died and he graduated from school, he left Tokyo to teach in a school elsewhere. As soon as he entered society, he fell into people's intrigues and plots against each other. He fought hard but fell into traps one after another. He felt strange and lonely. In the end, he beat his enemies severely, got angry, and returned to Tokyo to make a living. The novel exposes and criticizes the evil forces in society and profit-seeking interpersonal relationships. The language is humorous, bright and simple, and contains the beneficial elements of "rakugo" (a folk art similar to cross talk) in popular literature. It is funny and interesting. More importantly, it expresses the typical character of the cheerful "Edo child" and adds a permanent and lovely image to the history of Japanese literature. Through the various dramatic conflicts between his brother and the common people around him after he entered society, the author pungently and skillfully satirized the ugly phenomena in society, lashed out at despicability, power and hypocrisy, and praised justice, straightforwardness and innocence.

The 1950 film "Rashomon" directed by Akira Kurosawa was based on the short story "In the Bamboo Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. In this novel, there is no so-called truth, only the use of one's own narrative to deconstruct the narratives of others, dominated by egoism. It is this darkness that obscures the truth of the murder and constitutes the fog of "In the Bamboo Forest". "Rashomon (Chinese-Japanese Bilingual)" selects and translates two works by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Grove" that are widely known to readers. The short story "Rashomon" with the same name as the movie is based on the 23rd chapter of Volume 29 of the Japanese Buddhist story collection "The Story of the Past", "A man with a wife traveling in Tamba was bound to the mountains in Ojiang Mountain." "Rashomon" is said to be the door to hell, so the word also has the meaning of "wandering between life and death".

"The Old Curiosity Shop" is a novel published by the British writer Dickens in 1840-1841. In order for his granddaughter, who was not yet 14 years old, to live a happy life after his death, Torent tried his best to get rich, but unexpectedly fell into the clutches of the upstart loan shark Daniel Quilp. Quilp used loan sharking to not only take away all the property of the old antique shop, but also wanted to take away the beautiful little Nell. The grandfather and grandson were forced to flee London and live a life of begging. In the end, Xiao Nai'er, who was physically and mentally injured, died due to mental exhaustion. "The Old Curiosity Shop" is known as "Victorian melancholy".

"A Tale of Two Cities" is a long historical novel written by the British writer Charles Dickens and set against the background of the French Revolution. It was first published in 1859. The story connects the two big cities of Paris and London, and revolves around Dr. Manette's family and the Saint-Antoine district headed by the Defarges. The novel describes how the nobles corrupted and harmed the people. The people's deep hatred for the nobles accumulated in their hearts, which led to the inevitable French Revolution. This book is translated by Zhang Ling and Zhang Yang.

"Twin Cities" refers to the two large cities of Paris and London. The story revolves around Dr. Manette's family and the lower-class Parisian civilians headed by the Defarges. Love and resistance, sacrifice and revenge are wonderfully blended together, forming a tender, tragic and heart-wrenching story. French doctor Manette moved to London due to a tragic past incident. There, his beloved daughter Lucy met Charles Darnay, a tutor who was also a Parisian in France. The two young people soon fell in love. However, Sidney Carton, a young Londoner with a similar appearance to Darnay, also fell in love with Lucy and made a promise: "For you and for the people you cherish, I will do anything." A few years later, the French Revolution broke out. The wave of revolution swept over Darnay's former servants. It turns out that Darnay was a French nobleman. He hated his family's arrogance and extravagance, so he stayed away from Paris and made a living in London. He returns to Paris and rescues the servant. Unexpectedly, he was imprisoned because of his noble status. The doctor and Lucy tried every possible means to rescue Darnay, but in the end, Darnay was rescued by Caton. Carton paid the price with his life to fulfill his original promise to Lucy.

"Great Expectations" is a novel written by Dickens in his later years. The story is set from Christmas Eve of 1812 to the winter of 1840. The protagonist, orphan Pip, uses an autobiographical approach to narrate three stages of his life starting from the age of 7.

The Pickwick Papers is the first novel written by Charles Dickens. After the novel was published, it became a sensation and became a highlight in the British publishing industry at that time. Charles Dickens started writing "The Pickwick Papers" mainly with the intention of writing a series of novels. Therefore, the various chapters in "The Pickwick Papers" are very loosely related to each other and are more like a series of adventure novels. The protagonist of the novel, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, is a wealthy, kind-hearted old gentleman, and the founder and permanent president of the Pickwick Club. In order to have a deeper exploration and understanding of many strange phenomena in life, the old gentleman suggested that he should take the lead and be joined by three other members of the Pickwick Club (they are Mr. Wink, Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Topman), and follow him from London to a distant place (it is said to be remote, but actually to the British countryside) to explore the meaning of life, and after returning, report what they saw and heard to the club members. As a result, the entire novel revolves around their excursions into the English countryside.

"Bleak House" tells the story of a girl who discovers her parents' hidden secrets. The story includes murder, suicide, betrayal, love and fear. Almost all human emotions that readers can imagine are included in Dickens. However, "Bleak House" also deeply explores the philosophical significance of charity and the philosophical thought of loving your neighbor as yourself from another angle: How much attention should we pay to people who are not favored by the goddess of luck in life and are suffering from tragic fate? The so-called charity, how to give alms? How much charity? How can we avoid focusing on one thing and losing another? In addition, there is a more important question: How do poor people escape poverty? Must they rely on the good will of individuals? What role should the government play in this? How much responsibility is there to help them? The reason why Dickens raised so many questions was mainly because he felt about the British society at that time.

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"Life" is the French writer Maupassant's classic debut novel, and it is also his only novel that has been adapted for the screen. This novel was completed under the care of his mentor Flaubert. It was revised several times and carefully polished. It is a work of female spiritual awakening about marriage, growth and disillusionment. Maupassant described the life of aristocratic girl Yana in "A Life". She was innocent, romantic and full of fantasy, but she suffered the betrayal of her husband, the death of her parents and the departure of her children. Exhausted physically and mentally, Yana could only seek some comfort from the dream of life in the maid. "Life" depicts the innocent dreams of women in the background of that era and the collision of their heads and blood in the real society of overflowing desires. It is the epitome of the miserable lives of most women. Even today, unfortunate women can see themselves in Yana and see in this book the heavy pressure they may face.

This five-volume set of Maupassant's short stories and short stories includes "Selected Novels of Maupassant's World", "Selected Romance Novels of Maupassant", "Selected Novels of Maupassant's War", "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Humorous Novels" and "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Bizarre Novels". It is the result of the author's appreciation and selection of more than 300 short stories and short stories by the "King of Short Stories" based on his long-term research and translation. It can also be said to be a collection of Maupassant's short stories in a classified form. Maupassant was first and foremost a social genre painter. Adhering to the fundamental principle of realism, his worldly novels mainly write about the two social classes he is most familiar with: farmers in Normandy, his hometown where he spent his youth, and clerks in Paris where he worked as an adult. Little characters occupy the center of literature; their lives, their anguish and despair are laid bare. What is particularly commendable is the writer's deep sympathy for the suffering people at the bottom. This book is equipped with original illustrations.

Maupassant's short stories and short stories are deeply rooted in reality and have a wide range of themes. They mainly describe the French social customs of his time, and all kinds of life are included in them. Among the collections of Maupassant's works published in France, the most influential one was the "Illustrated Complete Works of Maupassant" (1901-1912) published by Paul Hollandorff Publishing House. There are nineteen volumes of short stories and short stories in this complete collection, of which the titles and contents of fifteen volumes are basically the same as those of Mo's self-edited volume. There are another four volumes supplemented by the publishing house. These nineteen volumes collect a total of 272 short stories and short stories by Maupassant. The translator is now requested to include the thirty-four pieces not included in the Austrian edition as "addendums" to six of the nineteen volumes. The 306 Mo's short stories and short stories discovered so far are all included in them, and are accompanied by some illustrations from the Austrian edition, which can be said to be rich in pictures and texts. The translator Zhang Yinglun is an expert on Maupassant at the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been cooperating with our agency to translate Maupassant's short stories and short stories. His writing style is humorous and in line with Maupassant's writing style.

This book is a collection of Maupassant's two novels, "Life" and "Pierre and Jean". "Life" is Maupassant's first novel, a genre novel depicting the countryside of Normandy. "Pierre and Jean" tells the story of two brothers, Pierre and Jean, because the heir to an inheritance is their younger brother, which arouses the elder brother's jealousy and makes many words and deeds that hurt his younger brother and his mother. In the end, the younger brother decides to give up the right to inherit the inheritance, and the older brother realizes that he has gone too far and decides to develop abroad.

This five-volume set of Maupassant's short stories and short stories includes "Selected Novels of Maupassant's World", "Selected Romance Novels of Maupassant", "Selected Novels of Maupassant's War", "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Humorous Novels" and "Selected Selection of Maupassant's Bizarre Novels". It is the result of the author's appreciation and selection of more than 300 short stories and short stories by the "King of Short Stories" based on long-term research and translation of his works. It can also be said to be a collection of Maupassant's short stories. Love novels are also worldly novels, but the large number of short and medium-sized novels and novels written by Maupassant with love as the theme has won it a unique place. Love is an eternal theme, and Maupassant's love novels are a complete example. There is joy, but more tears and blood, and there are still some lingering sounds of the French knight tradition. This book is equipped with original illustrations.

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 author compares "Ball of Suet", a prostitute who is at the bottom of society and is discriminated against, with all kinds of sanctimonious so-called upper-class figures, fully showing the former's beautiful soul with a strong sense of justice and compassion and the latter's extremely selfish, shameless and ugly soul. This book collects more than 30 fine works such as "Ball of Suet".

This book is composed of 29 Maupassant classics selected by the famous French literature translator Liu Mingjiu, including "Ball of Suet", "The Necklace", "On the Journey", "My Uncle Jules", "The Burning Umbrella" and other popular masterpieces. The themes that Maupassant was good at were the Franco-Prussian War that he personally experienced, his ten-year clerkship career, and his life in his hometown in Normandy as a teenager. These three environments provided extremely rich themes for his short stories. From rural stories, market life to deep accusations of war, it outlines a vivid picture of French social life. Images of aristocrats, bureaucrats, merchants, civil servants, workers, farmers, homeless people, beggars and other characters all appear on the page.

The work tells the story of Duroy, a junior officer of the French colonial army in Algeria, who came to Paris and worked as a newspaper editor. He relied on his beautiful appearance and the ability to please women to seduce upper-class women, and used this as a springboard to embark on the road to prosperity. In the end, he kidnapped the daughter of the newspaper owner, forced the owner to marry his daughter to him, and became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The end of the novel also hints that he will soon become a senator and cabinet minister, and his future is still bright.

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is the first full-length romantic novel by French writer Victor Hugo. "Notre Dame de Paris" artistically reproduces the historical reality of the reign of French King Louis XI more than 400 years ago, how the palace and the church colluded to oppress the people, and how the people fought heroically against the two forces. The novel has a strong romantic color and uses contrasting writing techniques. It is an artistic example of applying the contrast principle of romanticism.

"Ninety-Three Years" (1874) is Hugo's last novel. The novel creates three central characters: the Marquis de Lantenac, the leader of the Vendée rebels, his grandnephew, Guo Wen, the commander of the Republican Army who suppressed the rebellion, and Simourden, Guo Wen's tutor and commissioner of the Public Security Commission. An intricate plot unfolded around them, vividly describing the historical scene of the life-and-death struggle between the bourgeoisie and feudal forces in 1793. At the end of the novel: Lanternac, who had narrowly escaped death, returned to the burning castle to rescue three children due to his conscience. Guo Wen was moved by his uncle's humanitarian spirit and was willing to trade his own head for Landenac's life; Simulden shot himself while Guo Wen's head fell to the ground. "1993" Can be said to be the most perfect expression of Hugo's writing art and humanitarian spirit.

"Notre Dame de Paris" is the representative work of French writer Victor Hugo. It is a historical novel rich in romanticism. The book takes the twists and turns of the beautiful and kind-hearted street performer Esmeralda and the ugly Notre Dame bell-ringer Quasimodo as the main line. It panoramically displays the customs, beliefs, ethics, law, art and other aspects of medieval Paris, with exciting plots and rich scenes. With his certain philosophical cultivation and profound historical knowledge, the writer's profound insight into the society at that time and the rich presentation of the tragic situation of the people at the bottom triggered readers to think about what is truth, goodness and beauty, and what is false, evil and ugly. This made the novel a world literary classic that transcends time and space, and its influence continues to this day. The translator, Mr. Cheng Zenghou, had a lifelong love and accumulation of Hugo. When he was nearly 60 years old, he began to translate "Notre Dame de Paris" and regarded it as an academic project. In addition to careful consideration of the translation, it also provides contemporary Chinese readers with more than a thousand annotations and more than a hundred exquisite pictures that are rare in other Chinese translations, so as to help readers better experience the full picture of Paris in medieval France while reading the classics.

This book is the first large-scale romantic novel by French writer Hugo. It uses bizarre and contrasting techniques to tell a story that took place in France in the 15th century: Claude, the vice-president of Notre Dame de Paris, was sanctimonious and vicious, loved first and then hated, and persecuted the Gypsy girl Esmeralda. The ugly but kind-hearted bell ringer Quasimodo sacrificed 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.

"Notre Dame de Paris" is a masterpiece of the novel by the famous French novelist and poet Victor Hugo. The gypsy girl Esmeralda is a street performer, and Froed, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, wants to take possession of her. Later, it was discovered that she had another lover, and she assassinated her lover and framed the blame on her, resulting in her being sentenced to death. Quasimodo, the ugly bell ringer who was full of love and humility for her, rescued her and took refuge in Notre Dame. Froed kidnapped her and forced her to give in to his bestial desires. After being refused, Froude handed her over to the officers and soldiers and watched her being hanged upstairs in Notre Dame. In despair, Quasimodo angrily pushed Froude, who had raised him, off the attic and fell to death. He went to the Eagle Mountain Crypt to hug Esmeralda's body and died with her, completing the "wedding".

"John-Christophe" is Romain Rolland's masterpiece novel. It reflects a series of contradictions and conflicts in real society through the life experience of John-Christophe, and promotes humanitarianism and heroism. The novel describes the struggling life of John-Christophe, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. In 1915 Romain Rolland won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Johan-Christophe". The translator of this book is Fu Lei, a famous Chinese translator, writer, educator, and art critic. The translation is beautiful and fluent. It accurately translates the author's descriptions of various types of music, and uses a vivid translation to present the author's high morale revealed between the lines.

"The Tale of Genji" is the world's earliest full-length realistic novel and Japan's immortal "national literature". It ushered in the era of "mono-sorrow" and had a profound impact on the development of Japanese literature in later generations. It is known as the source of inspiration for Japanese literature and the highest peak of Japanese classical realism literature. The work was written between approximately 1001 and 1008 AD. The novel is set in the heyday of the Heian Dynasty in Japan, with the Genji family as the center. The first two parts describe the tragic or beautiful love lives of the Genji family and the women. The third part uses the son of the Genji family, Kaoru-kun, as the protagonist, and lays out the complicated love entanglements between men and women. The original text of the book is nearly a million words, and the 400-word manuscript uses about 2,400 sheets of paper. It has a total of fifty-four chapters, covering the lives of three generations, four generations of emperors, a period of more than seventy years, and nearly 500 characters. It shows the various aspects of court life in the Heian period (equivalent to the Northern Song Dynasty in my country), leaving a detailed and rich sketch of the aristocratic life in the Heian and prosperous times. The story is outstandingly elegant, the psychological description is ingenious, the structure is exquisite and meticulous, the beauty of the writing and the avant-garde aesthetic consciousness can be called "the classic among the classics", and it is the highest masterpiece in the history of Japanese literature. "The Tale of Genji" is known as Japan's "Dream of Red Mansions" and is listed among the top ten ideal collections of Asian literature along with "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty".

A dark family history full of revenge and deceit, repression and sadness, a dense forest intertwined with countless plots; a classic translation that has been out of print for many years, and precious original illustrations to reproduce Dickens's great classic. "The Little Society," published in 1857, is one of Dickens's greatest late works. The novel is set in Marshall West Gaol, a famous debtor's prison in London during the Victorian period. It tells the bitter and bumpy growth process of the "prison daughter" Little Dolly, and reveals the dark family history of Clennan, the hero, full of revenge and deceit, oppression and sadness. The story and characters are so complex that critics call it a "dense forest intertwined with countless plots". Reading it is like peeling off a cocoon, making readers sigh and find it difficult to put down the book. The book's broad depiction of British society in the Victorian era, its profound exposure of the greedy nature and filthy souls of capitalists hidden under the cloak of hypocrisy, and its ruthless mockery of the corrupt officialdom embody the characteristics of Dickens' later works: his ideological content tends to be more profound and rich, and his ability to control characters and plots tends to be more mature.

Lyman Frank Baum's fairy tale "The Wizard of Oz" has been around for hundreds of years and tells us a story that takes place in the magical magical kingdom of Oz. A little girl Dorothy and her puppy Toto were brought here by a tornado in Kansas, USA. In order to ask the powerful wizard Oz to help them return to their hometown, Dorothy and Toto set foot on the yellow brick road leading to the Emerald City. They also met the brainless Scarecrow, the heartless Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. What kind of trouble will Dorothy and her friends encounter on this journey? Will the great and terrible wizard help them realize their wishes?