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"Robinson Crusoe" is the first work of British realist novels and a pioneer of nautical adventure novels. The protagonist of the novel, Robinson Crusoe, was born in a middle-class family and aspired to travel around the world throughout his life. Once when he was sailing to Africa, he encountered a storm and drifted alone to an uninhabited desert island, where he began to live in isolation from the world. With his strong will and unremitting efforts, he survived on the desert island and returned to his hometown after 28 years, 2 months and 19 days.

It describes the little urchin Huck meets the little black slave Jim who has escaped from his master. In order to avoid a murderous misunderstanding, the two took a small raft down the Mississippi River and encountered various interesting encounters. One of the most exciting and thrilling scenes is when Huck exposes the scam of the liar "King" to defraud the three sisters of their property. As a result, Huck is pursued by the bad guys. And Huck often had an inner battle over whether he should help the slaves escape, and finally had a happy ending after many twists and turns. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" can be said to be an outstanding picture of American social life. Mark Twain used humorous writing to reproduce what he saw and heard in the South in his early years, and carved the raw gold and jade of his life experience into exquisite literary treasures. What is outstanding about Mark Twain is that he reflected the universal ideological conditions of mankind by describing specific and local people and things.

The classic translation of the Republic of China period was the first direct translation of the original Russian work into Chinese, which was vivid and fluent and maintained the artistic style of the original work. The translator, Gao Zhi, is a famous writer and translator in my country. He is fluent in English, Japanese, and Russian. He is especially committed to the study of Russian literature and is the author of "On the Works of Leo Tolstoy". He is considered the most authoritative person in my country to translate Tolstoy's works.

The classic translation of the Republic of China period was the first direct translation of the original Russian work into Chinese, which was vivid and fluent and maintained the artistic style of the original work. The translator, Gao Zhi, is a famous writer and translator in my country. He is fluent in English, Japanese, and Russian. He is especially committed to the study of Russian literature and is the author of "On the Works of Leo Tolstoy". He is considered the most authoritative person in my country to translate Tolstoy's works.

On the occasion of Mr. Xu Yuanchong's 100th birthday, a new commemorative collector's edition of "Three French Literary Classics" is launched, including "The Red and the Black", "Madame Bovary" and "John Christophe". "The Red and the Black" is the representative novel of Stendhal, the French realist writer and "the father of modern novels", and the foundation work of French critical realist literature; "Madame Bovary" is the representative novel of the famous French writer Flaubert and the representative translation of the famous translator Xu Yuanchong. "Madame Bovary" reproduces the social life of France in the mid-19th century; "Johan Christophe" is the masterpiece of the famous French writer Romain Rolland. Romain Rolland won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature for this work. It tells the story of a musical genius's struggle with himself, art, and society, and traces the life evolution of a German musician in the process of artistic struggle.

On the occasion of Mr. Xu Yuanchong's 100th birthday, a new commemorative collector's edition of "Three French Literary Classics" is launched. Among them, "Red and Black" is the masterpiece of French realist writer and "father of modern novels" Stendhal. It is also the foundation work of French critical realist literature. The protagonist Julien can be called the "ancestor" of a series of heroic figures who rebelled against capitalist society in 19th-century European literature. The protagonist Julien was born in a family of small proprietors. He was obsessed with Napoleon's great achievements. He wanted to get ahead, but he had no choice but to join the army and finally chose the path of the church. Julien was favored by the local mayor and became a tutor. Later, he was recommended by the church and served as the personal secretary for the Marquis de Larmore, a backbone of the royalist party. But a whistleblower letter ruined his career...

On the occasion of Mr. Xu Yuanchong's 100th birthday, a new commemorative collector's edition of "Three French Literary Classics" is launched. Among them, "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece of the novel by the famous French writer Flaubert, and also a representative translation of the famous translator Xu Yuanchong. "Madame Bovary" uses concise and delicate writing to reproduce the social life of France in the mid-19th century through the experience of Emma, ​​a passionate woman. This book incorporates female desire into a literary theme for the first time and is regarded as "the code of new art" and a "perfect novel". It is a writing model for many literary masters. It was selected into the British BBC's "100 Stories that Changed the World" and the British "Guardian" Top 100 Novels. The film of the same name was shortlisted for the 64th Academy Awards.

On the occasion of Mr. Xu Yuanchong's 100th birthday, a new commemorative collector's edition of "Three French Literary Classics" is launched. Among them, "Johan Christophe" is the masterpiece of the famous French writer Romain Rolland. Romain Rolland won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature for this work. The book consists of ten volumes, divided into four volumes. The novel tells the story of a musical genius's struggle with himself, art, and society. It traces the life evolution of a German musician in the process of artistic struggle. The protagonist John-Christophe left the small town and went to Paris. His works were not understood, his love was repeatedly frustrated, and his life became increasingly difficult. However, with his persistence in music and his optimism about life, he found the tranquility of life in the midst of hardships, just like a river flowing into the vast and deep ocean.

Hugo's life almost experienced the turbulent changes of French society in the 19th century. His creative process lasted for more than sixty years, almost spanning the entire process of French modernization. Hugo wrote a lot in his life. He was born into a family of military officers. Hugo was not born among the working people, and he did not even have any important social relations with the working class. His own experience and path were also far removed from those of the lower class. What was the force that pushed him to write "Les Misérables", a masterpiece about the suffering of the lower class people? We have to admit that this strength and ideological foundation are the humanitarian ideas he has always adhered to. In this novel, Hugo depicts the historical aspect from Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo to the popular uprising against the July Monarchy, and draws a large-scale picture of social and political life. The book describes the tragic experiences of the three central characters: the fugitive Jean Valjean, the woman Fantine living on the street, and her daughter Cosette, and angrily condemns and accuses the reasons for all these unreasonable and unfair phenomena.

Saint-Exupéry, a famous French writer, wrote many famous novels and also wrote such a fairy tale full of wisdom. "The Little Prince" is a children's literature work and a fairy tale written for adults. The whole novel is full of poetic melancholy and a touch of sadness. The author uses a little prince from a different planet to write a thought-provoking philosophy and touching charm in plain language. Throughout the fairy tale, the writing is clean, even pure, and the form is concise, even simple. Therefore, the translation of this fairy tale should also be as clear as the words.

Jane Eyre's parents died when she was young. When she was eighteen years old, she was hired as a tutor at Thornfield House and met her master Rochester. Both of them were attracted by each other's unique temperament and rich emotions, so they fell deeply in love regardless of the disparity in identity and status. During the wedding, Jane Eyre discovered a mad woman hiding in the attic of Rochester's house, who turned out to be Rochester's first wife. Jane Eyre left angrily and later inherited an inheritance from her uncle. But she could not resist her longing for Rochester, so she returned to Rochester, who had lost her wealth and her body was severely damaged by the fire, and resolutely married him. Under the bath of love, Rochester found happiness and health. "Jane Eyre" successfully created the first female image in the history of British literature to adopt an independent and proactive attitude towards love, life, society and religion, and who dared to fight and fight for freedom and equal status, and became a classic in the history of literature.

The pinnacle of novels in the 20th century, a pioneer of modern literature as famous as Kafka, Joyce, and Proust. "Man Without Personality" is the unfinished posthumous work of the Austrian writer Robert Musil. It is a "spiritual novel" and a literary work rich in essayistic thinking. Through the miniature world in the novel, the writer outlines the transition from the upper-class civil society shaped by enlightenment rationality to the modern mass society. It displays a wax museum of the characters of his era and occupies an important position in the modernist literature of the 20th century. The background of the novel is the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1914. In Vienna, a committee was formed to prepare for the celebrations in 1918 of the seventieth anniversary of the reign of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, the same year that Germany would celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II; so the Austrian operation was called a "parallel operation" (however, 1918 would be the year of the fall of both kingdoms, which puts a comically absurd bombshell into the basis of the novel). The protagonist of the novel - Ulrich, the secretary of the Parallel Action Committee - realizes that possibilities are more important to him than the mediocre and rigid reality; he feels that he is a person without personality, because he no longer regards people, but material, as the center of modern reality: "Today... Has produced a world without individuality, a world without the experience of those who experience it." He saw that he was forced to face various problems of the times, and to face various contradictions between reason and soul, scientific faith and cultural pessimism.

"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".

The great American literary critic Edmund Wilson said: "In the history of British literature for nearly one and a quarter centuries, there have been several revolutions of taste, but only Shakespeare and Jane Austen have endured." This book is one of Austen's most famous works. Mrs. Bennet's lifelong ambition is to marry her five daughters decently, so she always regards the wealthy bachelors nearby as a piece of property that one of her daughters deserves, so there are several young couples who have ups and downs of separation and reunion. In the end, the hero and heroine put aside their pride and prejudice and made their own moral choices. The work fully expresses the author's own views on marriage, emphasizing the impact of economic interests and family status on love and marriage. The more than 50 original illustrations compiled in this book vividly reproduce classic scenes. They were created by the Irish-British painter Hugh Thomson at the end of the 19th century. They are also the most widely circulated and unique set of illustrations of Austen's works.

Recommended edition personally written by the President of the Jane Austen Society! Original color illustrations, original picture and text interpretation! If you don't cater to or accommodate yourself, you will definitely meet the right person! "It is a universally recognized truth that a single man with a rich family must marry a wife." Successfully marrying off her five daughters was a major event in Mrs. Bennet's life! Suddenly one day, a single man with a wealthy family moved into the Netherfield Manor next door, and the story of Miss Bennet's search for love began. On this road to marriage, how should they with different personalities meet the "right person" of their own?

The collection of Hardy's works (three volumes in total) includes "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", "The Return of the Native", and "Jude the Obscure". 1. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (1891) is one of the last two important novels written by Thomas Hardy. This work has long been loved by readers not only in the author's own country, but also around the world. It has attracted the attention of professional researchers and has been courteously received by artists in the film and theater circles. For more than a hundred years, it has been recognized as Hardy's best representative work and has been included in the classics of world literature. 2. "The Return of the Native" (1878) is Hardy's representative "novel of character and environment" and an important achievement in Hardy's middle period of creation. It is a classic masterpiece of British realist literature. 3. "Jude the Obscure" (1895) is Thomas Hardy's last novel. Since then, Hardy turned to poetry creation, and "Jude" is also considered the "swan song" of his novels.

"Gone with the Wind" is a novel narrated against the background of the American Civil War. The author Margaret Mitchell focuses on the experiences and feelings of the women who stayed at home in the rear and suffered from the war, from their reverence for the war and full support for the war at the beginning of the war, to the pain of losing their loved ones due to the war, having to succumb to the fate of failure, and the arduous journey of rebuilding their homes after the war. In the turmoil of the great era, strong individuals face the harsh reality with awe and become strong men who are not afraid of difficulties in life and move forward on the journey of life.

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.

"Biographies" is a biographical work created by the famous French critical realist writer Romain Rolland (1866~1944) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes three biographies: "The Biography of Beethoven" (1903), "The Biography of Michelangelo" (or translated as Michelangelo) (1906), and "The Biography of Tolstoy" (1911). Known as the "Biographies of the Three Great Heroes", it is also known as the "Three Biographies of the Giants". This book also very well confirms an ancient Chinese saying: Those who have achieved great things in ancient and modern times must not only have extraordinary talents, but also must have perseverance. The three people in this biography, one is the German musician Beethoven, the other is the Italian sculptor, painter, and poet Michelangelo, and the other is the Russian writer, thinker, and litterateur Leo Tolstoy. Although they have different careers, different contributions, and live in different times and countries, they are all great geniuses and great men in their respective fields.

"Eugénie Grandet" is a novel written by the French critical realist novelist Balzac, which is included in "The Human Comedy". The novel narrates a story of money destroying human nature and causing family tragedy. It revolves around the central event of Eugenie's love tragedy, and uses three intertwined plot threads to connect the novel: the waves caused by the autocracy within the Grandet family, the open and secret fights between the bankers and notaries outside the family, and the painful life experience of Eugenie's love for Charles Grandet and Charlie's betrayal.

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

"Jane Eyre" is a novel written by the British female writer Charlotte Bronte. It is an autobiographical work. The work tells the story of a British woman who was orphaned since childhood and continued to pursue freedom and dignity amidst various hardships, persisted in herself, and finally achieved happiness. The novel fascinatingly shows the ups and downs of the love experience of the hero and heroine, praises the breakaway from all old customs and prejudices, and successfully creates an image of a woman who dares to resist and fight for freedom and equal status.

"Around the World in Eighty Days" is a novel written by the French writer Jules Verne and is one of his masterpieces. The whole book was published in Le Temps from November 6, 1872 to December 22 of the same year, and was first published in 1873. The novel originated from a bet that the British gentleman Fogg made with his friends: to travel around the world and return to London in 80 days. Later, he and his servants overcame the difficulties and obstacles on the way, passing through the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, traveling to India, Singapore, Japan, the United States and other places, and finally returned to London. Along the way, Fokker was witty and brave, showing a complete gentlemanly style.

"Gulliver's Travels" is a satirical travel novel written by the British writer Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. The work uses the tone of Captain Rimel Gulliver to narrate his experience of traveling around four countries. Through Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the Flying Island Kingdom, and the Houyhnhnms Kingdom, it reflects the corruption and sin of the British ruling class in the first half of the 18th century. It also expresses the author's thoughts in a relatively perfect artistic form. The author used rich satire and fictional fantasy to write absurd and bizarre plots, which profoundly reflected the meaningless partisan struggle in the British Parliament at that time, the stupidity, decadence and profit-seeking of the ruling group, and exposed and criticized the cruelty of the colonial war; at the same time, it praised the heroic struggle of the colonial people against the rulers to a certain extent.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is a novel written by the French writer Jules Verne. It is the second part of the "Verne Trilogy" (the other two are "Captain Grant's Children" and "The Mysterious Island"). The book consists of 2 volumes and 47 chapters. The novel mainly tells the story of naturalist Aronnax, his servant Conseil and harpooner Ned Land traveling around the seabed with Nemo, captain of the submarine Nautilus.

"The Gadfly" is the representative work of the Irish female writer Voynich. After being introduced to China in the 1950s, it became very popular and became one of the favorites of young people at that time. Arthur, an Italian young man, was born into a wealthy businessman family, but he resolutely joined the revolution as an adult. Due to negligence, he leaked the secret, which led to the arrest of his comrades in arms, misunderstood his childhood sweetheart girlfriend Gemma, and painfully discovered that he was the illegitimate son of Father Montanelli, whom he had admired for a long time. Under the harsh reality education, he used fake suicide as a cover and ran away angrily. After 13 years of wandering abroad, he became a determined revolutionary under the pseudonym "Gadfly". He returned to his country to organize armed forces, smuggled arms and actively prepared for the uprising. In the end, he was unfortunately arrested. Faced with threats from the military and his biological father's persuasion to surrender, he remained unmoved and died calmly. "Gadfly" also tells the story of the snow-like pure and innocent love between Gadfly and the girl Qinma, as well as the intertwined love and hate for his father. It is very sad to read.

"Crime and Punishment" is one of the masterpieces of Dostoevsky, the great Russian writer of the 19th century. The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student who wanted to be a Napoleonic figure and believed that he was a superman. He was poisoned by anarchist ideas and forced to make a living. He killed the old landlady who was a loan shark and her innocent sister, and committed a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sonia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on the protagonist's mental state of being condemned by his conscience and feeling deeply lonely and fearful after committing a crime, and depicts his psychological changes before and after the crime. On the one hand, the novel depicts the miserable life of the lower class people in Russia and exposes the sins of the aristocracy; on the other hand, it also promotes the idea of ​​accepting one's fate and seeking liberation from religion.

O. Henry, one of the most outstanding short story writers in the American and even world literary circles. This anthology carefully selects 30 of the author's works. In addition to representative works such as "The Last Leaf" and "Police and Hymns", it also selects some works that are rarely seen in other anthologies, thus more comprehensively reflecting the author's creative style. In addition, the translator also cleverly divided it into five themes, namely "Social Situation Novels", "Love Romance Novels", "Rogue Liar Novels", "Detective Mystery Novels" and "Philosophical Symbol Novels". This is also a highlight of this anthology that is different from other anthologies. The translator has made a concise and convincing analysis of these works in the preface, which will help readers better understand and appreciate them.

Henry David Thoreau, American transcendentalist writer and philosopher. In the spring of 1845, he built a wooden house in the woods near Walden Pond in his hometown of Concord. From then on, he worked at sunrise - farming, and at sunset - wrote. In 1847, he completed the first draft of "Walden". After five years of repeated revisions, additions, and polishes, he finally presented to the world this immortal work, "Walden, or the Chronicle of a Forest Dweller." In the book, the author describes in detail the two years and two months he spent in the woods near Walden Pond and his many thoughts during this period. He called the experience an attempt at living a simple and secluded life. Based on his deep belief in transcendentalism, the author provides a wonderful description of the changing seasons of nature and spiritual resurgence. The book begins with spring, goes through summer, autumn and winter, and ends with spring. This is exactly the cycle of life, where the end is also the starting point, and life begins to recover. The author talks about everything in the book, looking at the past and present, praising the natural beauty and denouncing the current social ills. Its exquisite writing and profound analysis have amazed generations of readers. As the most popular non-fiction work in American literature in the 19th century, it is worthy of its name.

Golding was one of the greatest British novelists of the 20th century. His novels are rich in allegorical meaning and widely integrated into classical literature, mythology, Christian culture and symbolism. In 1983, he was praised for his novels "with clear realistic narrative art and diverse mythology." "Sex and universality, revealing the human condition in today's world" and won the Nobel Prize for Literature; he was knighted in 1988. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third in the list of "the fifty greatest British writers since 1945". "Lord of the Flies" is Golding's most important masterpiece. It is a famous philosophical novel that uses the innocence of children to explore the serious theme of human evil. The story takes place in an imaginary World War III. A group of children between the ages of six and twelve were stranded on a desert island due to a plane crash during the retreat. At first they could live in harmony, but later due to the expansion of their evil nature, they killed each other, with tragic results. The author makes abstract philosophical propositions concrete and allows readers to understand them through fascinating stories and exciting battle scenes. The characters, scenes, stories, images, etc. Are all deeply symbolic. It is recognized as one of the greatest literary masterpieces of the 20th century.

William Shakespeare was the greatest playwright and poet of the English Renaissance and the master of European Renaissance humanistic literature. He is an unprecedented and arguably unprecedented great dramatic poet, and the greatest literary figure in the world in history. Shakespeare's masterpieces are recognized as treasures of human culture, and his four most famous masterpieces "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth" are known as Shakespeare's "four great tragedies" and are the most famous chapters in the history of human literature and even civilization. The translation of this book is an important result of the famous professor and poet Mr. Sun Dayu's concentration on the study and translation of Shakespeare. Mr. Sun Dayu is the first scholar in my country to translate Shakespeare's poems and plays in verse. His translation uses pentameter plain verse with the phonetic system he created to translate the pentameter plain verse of the original text of Shakespeare's plays, which is of great pioneering significance and unique style and charm. This book contains a complete set of more than 100 exquisite illustrations of the four tragedies drawn by the famous British artist and illustrator Sir John Gilbert, which is of great collection value.

Dickens was a British literary giant in the 19th century, and "Oliver Twist" is his early masterpiece. Orphan Oliver Twist was bullied in a poor workhouse since he was a child. After escaping to London, he unfortunately fell into a den of thieves. The world around him is like a crazy machine, but little Oliver strives to maintain the purity and nobility deep in his heart. This persistence finally helped him wait for a bright future: Mr. Brownlow, Mrs. Merrill and others provided a helping hand in time; at the same time, the truth about Oliver's strange life experience was also revealed step by step. While the novel deeply reveals social ills, it also leaves a series of vivid characters in British literature, which has been deeply loved by readers for more than a hundred years.

George Orwell was a great British humanitarian writer, journalist and social critic, and a famous English stylist. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is Orwell's masterpiece and is the most famous anti-utopian and anti-totalitarian political allegory novel in the world of literature. Words such as "Big Brother", "Doublethink" and "Newspeak" that he coined in his novels have been included in authoritative English dictionaries. His surname even gave rise to common words such as "Orwellian" and "Orwellianism", which continue to appear in the writings of journalists reporting on international news, which shows the profound influence of his works in English-speaking countries. "If one more person watches Orwell, there will be an additional guarantee of freedom," one commentator said.

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

Goethe is an outstanding poet, writer and thinker in modern times. The world recognizes him as the most outstanding representative of Western spiritual civilization after Dante and Shakespeare, and occupies an important position in the history of world literature. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is his most important early work. This is an epistolary novel written in the first person. The author was only twenty-five years old when he wrote it. The novel describes the experiences and feelings of progressive young people about the despicable German society at that time, and expresses the author's reaction to the feudal moral hierarchy and his strong demand for individual liberation: the young Werther fell in love with a girl named Lotte, who was already engaged to someone else. The setback in love made Werther devastated. Later, Werther committed suicide because he was incompatible with feudal society and felt that his future was hopeless. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" came out in 1775. Its publication was considered an epoch-making event in the history of German literature; it shocked the hearts of an entire generation of young people in Germany and even Europe.

As a cat, the protagonist looked down at the Japanese society at that time and the so-called modern civilization in the twentieth century, while making all kinds of ridicule and ridicule. Through the life of the protagonist Kusama, the work uses humorous language, delicate writing style and sharp writing to describe a group of literati and snobs who are accustomed to talking about the past and the present. It vividly exposes and ridicules the capitalists and rulers, criticizes the society where money talks and blindly worships the Western lifestyle, and creates the image of a group of self-proclaimed and cynical intellectuals.

This article describes how Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone after eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish. On his way back, he was repeatedly attacked by sharks. When he finally returned to port, only the head, tail and a spine were left. "A person can be destroyed, but not defeated." This sentence will always give people the courage to face reality.

Camus is a well-known French novelist, essayist and playwright, and a literary master of the philosophy of absurd existence. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "enthusiastic and calm elucidation of contemporary issues raised to human conscience." He was one of the youngest Nobel Prize-winning writers in history. In his novels, plays, essays and treatises, Camus profoundly revealed the loneliness of man in an alien world, the increasing alienation of individuals from themselves, and the inevitability of sin and death. However, while he revealed the absurdity of the world, he was not desperate and decadent. He advocated rising up in absurdity and adhering to truth and justice in despair. He pointed out to the world a path of liberal humanitarianism other than Christianity and Marxism. His courage to face the bleak life and his fearless spirit of "knowing that it was impossible but doing it" made him the spokesperson of his generation and the spiritual mentor of the next generation not only in France, but also in Europe and eventually the world after the Second World War. "The Stranger" is one of Camus' famous and representative novels. It can be called one of the most famous novels with epoch-making significance in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. "The Stranger" has thus become one of the most classic characters and one of the most important keywords in Western literature and philosophy.

Orwell was a great British humanitarian writer, journalist and social critic, and a famous English stylist. "Animal Farm" is one of Orwell's best works. It is a dystopian political allegory that penetrates the heart. A group of animals on the farm successfully carried out a "revolution", driving their exploitative human masters out of the farm and establishing an equal animal society. However, the animal leaders, those smart pigs, eventually usurped the fruits of the revolution and became more authoritarian and totalitarian rulers than their human counterparts. "If one more person watches Orwell, there will be an additional guarantee of freedom," one commentator said.

Hermann Hesse, originally from Germany, became a Swiss citizen in 1923 and lived in seclusion in the Swiss countryside for a long time. He is known as the last knight of German Romanticism. His masterpiece "Steppenwolf" has caused a sensation in Europe and America, and was hailed as "Germany's Ulysses" by Thomas Mann. In 1946, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "because his inspired works are powerful and insightful, and also provide an example of lofty humanitarian ideals and noble style." "Siddhartha" describes the life of a Brahmin noble young man who seeks the true meaning of life. Siddhartha, an aristocratic young man in ancient India, was handsome and intelligent, and had everything that people envied. In order to pursue spiritual peace, he embarked on a journey of seeking Taoism alone. He listened to Buddha Gautama's teachings in Savatthi City, met the famous prostitute Kamala in the bustling city, and became a wealthy businessman. The enjoyment of his soul and body reached its peak, but it made him tired of and despised himself to the extreme. After making love with Kamala for the last time, he abandoned all worldly things and came to the river to end his life. At that most desperate moment, he suddenly heard the eternal voice of the river of life... After almost a lifetime of pursuit, Siddhartha finally experienced the harmony and unity of all things, the indestructible nature of all life, and finally integrated himself into the eternity of the moment. The novel is hailed as the essence of Hesse's thought and literary works, and is a successful work with worldwide influence.

Flaubert was a master of French realist literature in the 19th century, and "Madame Bovary" is his famous and representative work. The heroine of this book, Emma, ​​is the daughter of a wealthy farmer from another province. She spent her youth in a monastery. She learned the conversational manners of aristocratic women and read a lot of romantic works. Later, her bankrupt father married her to Bovary, a mediocre and slow town doctor. This made Emma, ​​who was obsessed with romantic life, uncomfortable at home, so she became the mistress of the landowner Rodolphe and the clerk Leon successively. In order to please Leon and maintain a luxurious life, she squandered her husband's property and took out loan sharks. Later, Leon became tired of her and her creditors pressed her for debt. She was desperate and committed suicide by taking arsenic.

Alexandre Dumas, son of Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright in the 19th century. "La Traviata" is his most famous classic. The beautiful rural girl Margaret came to Paris, where life was so rich and glamorous, and she became a courtesan sought after by aristocratic princes with her pretty face and good conversation. She always wore a bouquet of camellias with her, so she was called the "La Traviata". By chance, La Traviata met Armand and was moved by his sincere love, determined to leave Vanity Fair. Just as the lovers, who have experienced countless twists and turns, are looking forward to a bright future, the appearance of Armand's father seems to indicate that their union can only be a moon in the mirror and a flower in the water. The language of the whole book is fluent, giving people a real and natural feeling. The book has also been adapted into plays and operas, which are frequently performed.

The Sherlock Holmes created by the British writer Sir Conan Doyle has already transcended his era, nationality and even his author, becoming an image of an invincible, invincible, eternal and immortal detective, and has even become a common noun. This book is based on more than a dozen "best" works selected by Sir Conan Doyle during his lifetime. It also selects a total of 21 excellent detective works with different characteristics, compiled into "Selected Sherlock Holmes", and is accompanied by more than a hundred exquisite original illustrations. With one volume in hand, you can see the essence of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, and it is worth collecting and appreciating.

Jules Verne, a famous French science fiction novelist and "the father of science fiction". "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is one of his important novels. In this ocean novel, Verne uses his magic touch to guide readers to follow Professor Aronnax to visit the library and museum of Nemo, the captain of the Nautilus, walk on the undersea plains, enjoy all kinds of marine life, try hunting in the undersea forest, cross the Arabian underwater passage, attend the funeral of the undersea coral cemetery, visit the ancient city of the Atlantic Ocean sunk at the bottom of the sea, and witness the salvage of treasures from a Spanish shipwreck. It takes readers ten months and 20,000 miles to get to know this mysterious and unknown underwater world.

This book includes all of Kafka's short and medium stories, among which "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "Before the Gate of Law", "The Hungry Artist", "The Village Teacher", etc. Are all popular masterpieces. They all use symbols, metaphors, exaggeration and other techniques, with vivid plots and concise and smooth language; the stories are weird and bizarre, with no definite time and place, no cause and effect, giving people a dreamy, mysterious and strange feeling. The protagonists of the works are almost always in a situation where they can't help themselves. They all have their own goals in the bizarre world, but they often end up failing.

"Homer's Epic" is said to have been written by the blind poet Homer of ancient Greece. It is an immortal heroic epic of ancient Greece and the cornerstone of Western classical culture. The entire poem "Iliad" is divided into 24 volumes and 15,693 lines. It mainly tells the story of the Greek coalition's siege of Troy, a city in Asia Minor. It centers on the quarrel between the Greek coalition commander Agamemnon and the Greek hero Achilles, and focuses on what happened fifty days before the end of the war. The Greek hero Achilles refused to fight in anger because he had a female prisoner taken by his commander Agamemnon, and the Greek coalition suffered a setback. After his friend Patroclus died in battle, Achilles went into battle again and finally killed the Trojan general Hector, turning defeat into victory for the Greek coalition. The Odyssey consists of 24 volumes and 12,110 lines. It tells the story of Odysseus, the hero of the Greek coalition and King of Ithaca, who drifted on the sea for ten years after the Trojan War. After going through hardships and dangers, he finally returned to his homeland and reunited with his wife. Odysseus was brave and resourceful, and used the Trojan horse trick in the Trojan War, and the Greek coalition finally won. He went through many hardships and dangers on his way back home, and subdued the Cyclops and witches. He was also allowed to stay on the island for 7 years by the fairy Calypso. Finally, he asked the prophet Teiresias for directions before he could return to his hometown. At that time, his wife Penelope was suffering from the entanglement of suitors from all over the world, so he disguised himself as a beggar, shot all the suitors to death, and finally reunited his family.

Jonathan Swift, one of the most famous writers in the history of English literature. "Gulliver's Travels" is his masterpiece. The author uses unusual imagination to describe all kinds of strange things that the protagonist Gulliver encounters when he travels to "Lilliput", "Adult", "Huiyin" and other places. For example, in the "Lilliput Kingdom", he can freely play with all kinds of people from kings to common people in the palm of his hand; while in the "Adult Kingdom", he can be controlled by others like a child; after arriving in the "Hui Yin Kingdom", the horse has become a symbol of wisdom, and people have become inferior animals. Through such interesting stories, the author satirized various ills of British society at that time, such as the intrigues of politicians and the greed of the rich. While readers admire the author's fantastic ideas, they can also have a general understanding of the situation in Britain at that time.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's representative work. After eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone. However, the fish was so big that he dragged his boat on the sea for three days before exhaustion. He killed him and tied him to the side of the boat. On the way back, he was repeatedly attacked by sharks. When he finally returned to port, only the head, tail and a spine were left. Although this is a work with a simple story and a small length, it is rich in meaning. Many teachers use it as a teaching material on heroism education and recommend it to students, making it an enduring bestseller.

Defoe, a famous British novelist, "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" is his masterpiece. 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.

A world-renowned literary masterpiece, a highly praised classic translation; a complete set of color illustrations by the famous illustrator Kent, the text and pictures are a perfect combination. "The Decameron" tells the story of ten young men and women who took refuge in a villa during the plague epidemic in Florence in 1348. They feasted all day long and each told a story every day. They told a hundred stories in ten days, hence the name "The Decameron". Many of the stories are based on historical events and medieval legends. In "The Decameron", Boccaccio eulogized worldly life, praised love as the source of wisdom and beautiful sentiments, condemned asceticism, and made a powerful satire on the depravity of the feudal aristocracy and the shameless debauchery of the Catholic Church. The work adopts a frame structure to connect one hundred stories together, making the whole book coherent. The language of the work is concise and humorous, and the characters and objects are described with subtlety. "The Decameron" co-translated by Mr. Fang Ping and Wang Keyi is a recognized classic translation. It has been published in several editions by Shanghai Translation Publishing House and has been well received by readers. It is now included in a new edition in the "Translated Edition Illustrated Collection of World Literature Masterpieces" series. The overall design of the illustrated collection of "The Decameron" is dominated by large areas of contrasting colors, reflecting the style of its realistic secular literary works. The thirty-two illustrations created by the famous illustrator Kent Kent for the English version of "The Decameron" are the highlight of the book, with the text and pictures complementing each other perfectly.