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"Eugénie Grandet" is a masterpiece in Balzac's collection of novels "Human Comedy". By describing Grandet's family life, it reveals the tragedy of human destruction and family breakdown caused by money. The miser Grandet is selfish and cruel. In order to make money, he coaxes his wife and daughter in every possible way and pays no attention to the happiness of his only daughter, Eugenie Grandet. Eugenie is gentle and kind, and resists her father's harsh control for the sake of love... The novel is simple and natural, with clear descriptions and distinctive characters. Especially the miser Grandet is vividly portrayed and has become a famous typical image in the history of world literature.

Hugo (1802-1885), a famous French novelist and poet. "Notre Dame de Paris" is his masterpiece novel. The gypsy girl Esmeralda is performing on the street, and Froed, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, wants to take possession of her...

The work "The Decameron (Set Volume 1 and 2)" 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, each telling a story every day, and told a hundred stories in ten days, hence the name "The Decameron". Many of the stories are based on historical events and medieval legends.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), one of the most outstanding writers in the United States, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. "The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's most representative inspirational novel. The work describes an old Cuban fisherman who finally caught a big fish alone after eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish. He fought with the big fish for three days at sea and finally killed it. 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.

"War and Peace" is the first novel written by Tolstoy and is known as one of "the greatest novels in the world". With an epic and grand vision, this novel describes the major historical events that occurred in Russia from 1805 to 1820. It connects war and peace, the front line and the rear, domestic and foreign countries, the army and society, the upper class and the lower class. It comprehensively reflects the style of the times and vividly depicts the tragedy and comedy of people who cannot control their own destiny in the turbulent era.

"Walden Pond" records the author's strange journey of living in seclusion on the shores of Walden Pond, blending in with nature, perceiving nature in pastoral life, and reshaping himself. It is also known as "the 25 preferred classics that shape readers' lives" along with "The Bible" and other works. This is a quiet, tranquil and wise book. In analyzing life and criticizing customs, the language is astonishing, the words are sparkling, the insights are unique and thought-provoking. Many pages are vivid descriptions, beautiful and detailed, like the purity and transparency of lakes, and the dense greenness of mountains and forests; there are also some pages that are thorough, insightful and enlightening. This is a fresh, healthy, and uplifting book with extremely moving descriptions of spring and dawn. Here we have the clean air provided by nature without the environmental pollution caused by industrial society. Reading it, readers will naturally feel the purity of the soul and the sublimation of the spirit.

"Crime and Punishment" is Dostoevsky's representative work. It is a psychological novel that reveals the characters' inner moral conflicts and the alternation of good and evil. It is a mature sign that the writer has completely moved towards originality. After the work was published, it attracted widespread attention from society and won the author worldwide praise. It was hailed as a "new Russian-style novel". Dostoevsky was hailed as "the unattainable master of European novel art" along with Balzac and Dickens in 19th-century Europe. His works focus on psychological analysis and consciousness disclosure. Through in-depth exploration of the sins of the world and sharp and ruthless anatomy of human nature, the narrative art has reached a new level. It reflects his artistic originality as a master of the Russian realist psychological school and is respected as a master by many modern literary schools.

"Treasure Island" is the most widely circulated masterpiece among all Stevenson's works. The novel mainly describes the thrilling story of Jim, a daring, witty and lively young man, who encounters a captain in his father's inn and accidentally obtains a treasure map. Then he outsmarts the pirates. After going through many hardships, he finally finds the treasure and returns victoriously. It uses plot changes to tell us that the most precious thing in the world is not wealth, but human love and justice.

"Letter from a Strange Woman" is a collection of novels by the famous Austrian writer Zweig, which includes 9 masterpieces of novellas such as "Letter from a Strange Woman" and "Forgotten Dreams". Among them, "Letter from a Strange Woman" was evaluated by Gorky as "an astonishing masterpiece". The writing style of the whole book is clear and delicate, with passionate emotion in the silence and pathos in the writing.

"La Traviata" (1848) was written based on the personal experience of writer Xiao Dumas. Margaret, a famous courtesan in Paris, was moved by the sincere love of young Armand, so she decided to leave social life and live with Armand in the countryside. Armand's father blamed Margaret for ruining his son's future, and Margaret was forced to return to Paris to resume her old career. Armand was furious and humiliated her in public. Margaret fell ill and died with hatred. After Armand read Margaret's suicide note, he learned the truth and regretted it. The novel was a huge success upon its publication. The author later adapted it into a script, and the opera adapted by composer Verdi made the work widely circulated around the world. The works are filled with strong lyrical color and tragic atmosphere, and have profound artistic charm.

A representative work of Kafka, the founder of Western modernist literature, and a classic masterpiece of expressionist novels. Mr. Zhang Rongchang, a senior translator and professor at Peking University, has been studying Kafka's authoritative translation for decades. "The Castle" is the last of Kafka's three novels. It was written in 1922. It is also Kafka's most distinctive and important novel. It describes a story: K, a land surveyor, was ordered to take up a post in a certain city, but was unexpectedly blocked outside the castle gate, so K launched a long and cumbersome negotiation with the castle authorities over whether he could enter the castle. The castle is located on a hill in front of us, but it is just out of reach; it is so cold and majestic, like a giant beast looking down at K; it represents a huge bureaucracy with a strict hierarchy, countless departments and officials, and countless documents that are gathered there in dust, unattended and unprocessed for many years. Facing this powerful castle, K was helpless and failed to enter the castle until the end. The novel is shrouded in a mysterious and nightmarish atmosphere from beginning to end, with profound implications and endless evocative meanings.

"Notes from the Underground" embodies all the artistic characteristics of Dostoevsky's poetics. It is profound in content and strange in form. It is like a novel, a confession, and a philosophical essay. The protagonist of the work looks like a bad guy and a good guy; a villain and a resigned person who has experienced many vicissitudes of life; a hero and a "non-hero" and nothing at all. ... The "basement man" is considered to be a "typical egotist", but some people believe that the "basement man" is the Russian Hamlet, a contemporary variant of the "superfluous man". Dostoevsky was the "seeker of truth" of his time. "Notes from the Underground" has become an increasingly popular book and is considered the preface to Dostoevsky's five novels and a milestone in his creative career. The depth of the human heart, the suffering of the human heart, the helplessness and tragedy of the human heart, everything that everyone has personally experienced but cannot express in words, are all contained in this book.

Starting from the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Henshui shifted his creative focus from romance to social criticism, and his writing style became increasingly heavy and sharp. "Intoxication" is a representative work of this period. In 1945, the National Government made Chongqing its capital. A group of drunken and dreamy dead gathered here. Everyone wants to get rich overnight. Small businessmen, bankers, courtesans, civil servants, old ladies, and even coolie workers are all involved in the "golden trend" caused by inflation. In the context of national speculation, human nature is distorted, and emotions and bodies become the weights of speculation and gambling. Tian Peizhi, a high-spirited and beautiful female student, was deceived and abducted by her lover and fell into a world of flowers. In the end, she couldn't stand the temptation and sank. Taking the history of her depravity as the main line, "Falling Out" tells a big story about people's mentality that took place in this era. It reproduces the crazy reality that on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the entire rear society was obsessed with sex and it was difficult to make money for the country.

"Confessions" is Rousseau's autobiographical work. It is a work of grief, indignation, introspection and painstaking efforts when the author was in a miserable situation in his later years. Through his unparalleled self-confession, Rousseau vividly presented his unique life experiences, thoughts, emotions and behaviors to the world, and guided us to go deep into that era to understand and think about many mysteries and deep-seated issues about people and society.

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.

"The Life of Giants" was originally called "Gao Canda and Pantagruel" and consists of five volumes. It is a multi-biography novel created by the French Renaissance novelist François Rabelais and published between 1532 and 1564. It is a satirical novel that tells the miraculous deeds of two giant kings, Gao Canda and his son Pantagruel: Gao Canda's extraordinary birth; Pantagruel's adventures when he was studying in Paris; Pantagruel and Gao Canda's discussion of marriage issues; Pantagruel traveling across the ocean to search for the source of wisdom - the "Vase of God", and finally getting his wish. The work lashed out at the feudal society of France in the 16th century and was a cry from the emerging bourgeoisie against the rule of the feudal church. It fully reflected the humanists' affirmation of people, human nature and human creativity. In the novel, Rabelais vividly and honestly criticized the hypocrisy and cruelty of the church, especially denounced the Catholic scholastic education that poisoned children.

"Eugénie Grandet" is a representative work of Balzac, the 19th-century French critical realist writer, the founder and outstanding representative of European critical realist literature. It is included in the "Provincial Life Scenes" of his masterpiece "The Human Comedy" and "Studies of Customs". It is regarded by the author and commentators as an outstanding picture in the "Human Comedy". This book is a classic translation by the famous translator Fu Lei. Balzac uses a network structure model, with Old Grandet as the center, and through the stories of Eugenie, Old Grandet, Charles, Crouch and others, he presents the French society in the first half of the 19th century in a three-dimensional and all-round way, and at the same time describes the diverse and complex characters. In the novel, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.

"The Call of the Wild": Buck originally lived in a place with warm seasons, but was sold by a gardener to a dog dealer and taken to the far north. It's freezing here, and Buck has to shoulder the heavy responsibility of pulling the sled, beware of attacks from his own kind, and endure human stupidity. In this process, the primitive wildness in Buck gradually awakened. He listened to the call from the wilderness, transformed from a dog into a wolf, and became the leader of the pack. "White Fang": White Fang was born in the wilderness and is one-quarter dog. He and his mother Guiche were taken in by the Indians and pulled sleds for them. White Fang has been separated from his mother since he was a child, and has been bullied by humans and his own kind. Finally, he is rescued by his loving master. Later, White Fang left the icy and snowy north and came to the warm south with his master, learning to be a dog and getting rid of his primitive wildness. At the end of the story, White Fang also rescued his master from a desperado and became the "heroic wolf" in the hearts of everyone.

A great literary work with worldwide influence, it is known as the "timeless red classic". It is an autobiographical inspirational novel by the famous Soviet proletarian writer N. Ostrovsky. It is a must-read for teenagers to set a roadmap in life. Paul Korchagin was born into a working-class family under the tyranny of the Tsar, and he suffered from the hardships of life since he was a child. Under the leadership of the revolutionary Zhu Helai, he embarked on the road of revolution. After going through life stages such as joining the army, fighting on the front lines, and building railways, Paul gradually grew into an upright, strong, and selfless revolutionary warrior. Even though he was eventually blind and paralyzed in bed, he tenaciously described his ideals with his pen and eulogized the meaning of life dedicated to his ideals. Classic translation: The famous translator Professor Zhou Lu vividly restores the essence of the original work based on the Russian literal translation. Introduction to the long text: A senior middle school Chinese teacher devotedly compiled the "High School Entrance Examination Study Manual" to sort out the five major test points for reading classics in the high school entrance examination.

This is a world-renowned literary masterpiece and a highly regarded classic translation; it contains a complete set of illustrations hand-drawn by Thackeray, and the text and pictures are a perfect combination. _X000b_William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was a British novel master as famous as Dickens during the Victorian period. "Vanity Fair" is his most famous masterpiece. Becky Sharp, the daughter of a poor painter, lost her parents when she was young, but she was extremely smart. After graduating from boarding school on a part-time basis, she started out as a tutor. She seized every opportunity, sharpened her head and got into the upper class society of the Victorian era, becoming a dazzling social star. The rise of this beauty, against the magnificent historical background of the Battle of Waterloo, presents the most successful artistic image of a female adventurer in world literature. Thackeray's words are sharp, witty and humorous, and his anatomy of life is subtle. For nearly 170 years since its publication, this book has been hailed as a satirical mirror and a cautionary book. This book contains a complete set of illustrations drawn by Thackeray for Vanity Fair. The text and pictures are radiant and perfectly combined, making it highly valuable for appreciation and collection.

This book is a novella written by Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It is one of Hemingway's most famous works. It tells the story of an elderly Cuban fisherman fighting a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream far offshore. This book established Hemingway's status. The book won the 1953 American Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Sadness does not mean that I am weak, but on the contrary, it will turn into a steady stream of motivation, driving me to keep moving forward. Since I experienced so many hardships in my childhood and finally survived and became the person I am now, then the current hardships will definitely inspire me to continue moving forward and take further steps.

"Resurrection" is Tolstoy's last novel, a summary of the writer's life exploration and thoughts, and is known as the peak of the development of Russian critical realism. Through Maslova's suffering and Nekhlyudov's appeal process, the novel extensively and profoundly criticizes the corruption and darkness of courts, prisons, and bureaucracies. It exposes the extravagant and luxurious life of the feudal ruling class and the cruelty, stupidity, and inhumanity of reactionary officials. It tears off the hypocrisy of the official church, reflects the bankruptcy of the countryside and the extreme poverty of the farmers, and outlines a social picture of a serfdom Russia that is on the verge of collapse.

"War and Peace" centers on the Patriotic War of 1812 and reflects major historical events from 1805 to 1820. Taking the experiences of the four nobles Balkans, Bezukhov, Rostov and Kuragin as the main line, it connects numerous events and characters in the alternate description of war and peace, forming a magnificent encyclopedia-style epic.

"Ivanhoe" (1819) is Scott's most famous novel and one of the best of his historical novels describing medieval life. The story of the novel takes place at the end of the 12th century, around the time when King Richard I, the Lion of England, was imprisoned abroad. King Richard was eager for military success and launched the Crusade in 1191. Due to the internal disintegration of the Christian countries participating in the expedition, he was soon forced to retreat. Encountering a storm on his way back, Richard led a small number of his followers to disguise themselves as civilians and returned to England via Vienna. He was captured by the Duke of Austria and imprisoned in a castle on the Danube for more than a year. After paying a large ransom, he was released and returned to the country in 1194.

In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, the poor clerk Nick breaks into the secret world of the spendthrift tycoon Gatsby. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the opposite bank of the river - in the flickering light, lives his beloved Daisy. However, the cold reality cannot tolerate vague dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the earthly world.

The novel "Anna Karenina" reflects the relationship between people through Anna's emotional life and a huge character system, and vividly and profoundly describes the period when Russian capitalism was just emerging in the mid-19th century.

On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank started writing a diary. In 1944, Minister Bockstein, a member of the Dutch government-in-exile, announced that he hoped to collect relevant first-hand information after the war to witness the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation. He specifically mentioned letters and diaries. After hearing the news, Anne decided to publish a book based on her diary after the war. So she began to rewrite and revise the diary, polishing the text, deleting passages that were not interesting enough, and adding some content from memory. At the same time, she also kept her original diary. In the academically valuable "The Diary of Anne Frank: An Annotated Edition" (1989), Anne's first, unedited diary is called Version A to distinguish her second, revised diary (Version B).

The content of this book includes the travel notes of Lilliput, first arriving in Lilliput, being trusted by the "little people", regaining freedom, resisting foreign enemies, introducing Lilliput, conspiracy and frame-up, escaping from Lilliput, coming to the land of giants, performing in towns, coming to the palace, going on patrol with the king, etc.

The content of this book includes a hat that eats an elephant, a weird little prince, an alien visitor falling from the sky, a baobab tree that penetrates the planet, forty-three sunsets a day, the little prince is angry and cries, the little prince falls in love with a flower, and cries. The little flower, the king who is in charge of an old mouse, the king who is willing to keep raising his hat, the drunkard who does not want to drink, buying stars with stars, lighting the lamp once a minute, turning off the lamp once, the guidance of the geographer, the lonely lamplighter, the snake who can guess riddles, etc.

The content of this book includes the little match girl, the strong tin soldier, the older brother and younger brother, the ugly duckling, the phoenix, the rose tree and the little snail, the proud buckwheat, the most beautiful rose, the green aphid, in the far North Pole, a drop of water, the wonderful method, the wow news, the hidden good luck, the small chrysanthemum, the windmill, the picky butterfly, etc.

The content of this book includes the young man in trouble, working at the station, getting a gun, meeting Tonya for the first time, Zhukhlai and Seryosha, Varya, meeting Tonya, rescuing Zhukhlai, Tonya looking for Paul, Paul being imprisoned, returning to Tonya, the liberation of his hometown, a new life, being injured on the battlefield, breaking up with Tonya, fierce battles, etc.

The book selects more than 30 representative works of Edgar Allan Poe, covering his masterpieces in the fields of thrillers, detective novels, science fiction and humorous satirical novels, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Black Cat", "The Golden Beetle", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "Manuscript in the Bottle", "Spectacles", "The Rise and Fall of the Moscone Whirlpool" and "A Barrel of Monterey White", which are familiar to readers, and is translated by Cao Minglun, an expert on Poe's works.

I believe that in this world, no matter whether Chinese or foreign, young or old, male or female, there are very few people who have never heard of the name "Holmes", because in detective novels both at home and abroad, no one can shake Sherlock Holmes's status as "the eternal boss". Needless to say, those who like reasoning and suspense, even those who feel shuddering at texts such as tragedies and murders, once they see the beginning of "Sherlock Holmes", it is difficult not to be attracted and want to read it in one breath, because the strict logic of one link and the tense arrangement of one scene after another are so fascinating and fascinating that people really can't stop.

"Tess" is the most famous full-length masterpiece by the British literary giant Thomas Hardy, and it is also one of the "Wessex Series". Tess was born into a poor peasant family. She is pure and beautiful, and is a descendant of an ancient jazz family. Under the arrangement of her parents, Tess, who was inexperienced in the world, went to "get married" for the sake of the family's livelihood. Unexpectedly, she was seduced by her playboy "cousin" Alec d'Urberville. The stubborn Tess did not want to be Alek's mistress and returned home. However, after returning to the village, she was gradually criticized by the whole village, and the child she gave birth to died soon after. The sad Tess chose to leave her hometown and work as a female worker in a strange dairy factory. Here, she met the love of her life, Claire. Claire illuminates her young life like a ray of warm sunshine, but Tess suffers from low self-esteem due to the past. Later, on their wedding night, Tess finally mustered up the courage to confess everything to Claire, but she fell into endless darkness...

"Resurrection" is one of Leo Tolstoy's most famous masterpieces. The work takes "resurrection" as its theme and describes the process of Nekhludoff and Maslova's spiritual and moral resurrection. Maslova was originally the illegitimate daughter of a serf. When she was sixteen years old, she was innocent and kind-hearted and sincerely fell in love with Nekhludoff, but was abandoned by this noble young master. Maslova, who was pregnant, was kicked out of her home and, after several twists and turns, was forced to become a prostitute. But fate did not favor this poor girl. Misfortunes followed one after another. She was accused of murder and was tried. As a juror, Nekhludoff recognized Maslova in the court, and his conscience was deeply condemned. He tried every means to rescue Maslova and asked to marry her to atone for his sins. Later, the appeal failed, and Nekhludoff accompanied Maslova in exile in Siberia. His behavior finally moved Maslova, but in order not to affect Nekhludoff's reputation and status, Maslova rejected his proposal and married a revolutionary.

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

The protagonist Gregor Samsa in "The Metamorphosis" works as a traveling salesman in a company. He travels around for many years and works hard to support the entire family's expenses. When Samsa could still support his unsympathetic family with a meager salary, he was the respected eldest son in the family. His parents praised him and his sister loved him. When one day he turned into a beetle, lost his labor force, and no longer contributed materially to the family, his family changed their previous respect for him and gradually showed a face of indifference, disgust, and hatred. His father beat him viciously with an apple, his mother fainted from fright, and his sister disliked him. Gradually, Samsa moved away from society, and finally died silently and painfully of hunger.

On a hot evening in June, with all the windows open, college student Arthur Bolton was looking through a stack of sermons in the library of the Theological Seminary of Pisa. The Abbot, the Abbe Montanelli, looked at him lovingly. Arthur was born in Italy to the family of a wealthy British businessman named Burton. He was nominally the son of Burton and his second wife, but in fact he was the illegitimate son of his second wife and Montanelli. Arthur has been discriminated against by his half-brothers and sisters-in-law at home since he was a child, and he saw his mother being tortured and insulted by them. He was very unhappy mentally, but he never knew the truth of the matter. Arthur respected Father Montanelli's profound knowledge and regarded him as a good teacher and father. He repaid Montanelli's care for him with a sincere heart. At that time, Italy was being invaded by Austria, and the Young Italy Party's idea of ​​fighting for national independence attracted passionate young people. Arthur decided to dedicate himself to this cause. Montanelli was very disturbed after discovering Arthur's activities and tried every means to dissuade him; but Arthur felt that there was no contradiction between being a devout believer and a person fighting for Italian independence. At a secret gathering, Arthur met his teenage girlfriend Gemma and fell in love with her quietly.

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

"Madame Bovary" is the masterpiece of the French critical realist novelist Flaubert. It tells the story of Emma, ​​a peasant girl who received an aristocratic education. Emma despises her husband Bovary, a rural doctor, and dreams of a legendary love. However, her two affairs not only failed to bring her happiness, but also made her an object of exploitation by loan sharks. She had accumulated so much debt that she had no choice but to commit suicide by taking poison. With a seemingly indifferent attitude, Flaubert very "objectively" revealed the causes and consequences that led to this tragedy, and stated the responsibility that society cannot shirk.

In the spring of 1922, writer Nick left his hometown full of hope and came to the emerging city of New York along with the gold rush. Although jazz was popular here and stocks were soaring, the rich and the poor were polarized and people were indulged in extravagance. In order to pursue the American dream, Nick gave up writing and entered the stock market. He moved to the bay near New York and became a neighbor of the mysterious rich Gatsby. Gatsby was not rich when he was young. He was a major officer. He fell in love with a girl named Daisy, and Daisy also fell in love with him. Later, when the First World War broke out, Gatsby was transferred to Europe. It seemed accidental but inevitable, so Daisy broke up with him and married Tom, a playboy from a wealthy family. Daisy's married life is not happy because Tom has another mistress. The satisfaction of material desires cannot fill Daisy's spiritual emptiness. Gatsby was in great pain. He firmly believed that money made Daisy betray her chastity, so he determined to become a rich man. A few years later, Gatsby finally succeeded. He built a mansion opposite Daisy's mansion. Gatsby spent money like water and played the flute all night long, hoping to attract Daisy's attention and regain his lost love.

"The Stranger" is a famous work by the French writer Camus and one of the outstanding works of existential literature. In an objectively recorded "zero style", the book roughly describes the various absurd things that the protagonist Meursault has experienced in an absurd world, as well as his own absurd experience. From attending his mother's funeral to accidentally becoming a murderer, and then being sentenced to death, Meursault seemed indifferent to everything, existing indifferently, rationally, and irrationally. He was like a symbolic symbol, representing a universal existence, and like a blood-red beacon, highly warning. However, the emergence of the outsider phenomenon is undoubtedly bred by the world itself, and Meursault's existence has its profound external reasons.

This book contains a total of 26 Akutagawa's representative works of fiction and prose. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thereby showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of people, their helplessness and despair.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is a work written by Goethe when he was 25 years old. This epistolary novel describes the story of young Werther who fell in love with Lotte, who had been engaged to someone else for a long time. He was heartbroken after his love was frustrated, and because he was incompatible with feudal society, he finally chose to commit suicide when his future was hopeless. Through Werther's experience and feelings about the despicable German society at that time, the book expresses the author's aversion to the feudal moral hierarchy and his strong demand for individual liberation.

The protagonist of this book, Miss Rebecca, comes from a humble background and is discriminated against in society. She uses various strategies and even uses sex to seduce and curry favor with the rich and powerful, and she uses all means to climb up. This character is neither evil nor kind, but very humane and completely a product of the times. The book compares the British capitalist society at that time to a vanity fair. The author describes all kinds of social figures, including aristocrats who live a slutty life, capitalists who regard money as life, vulgar and shameless country squires, cynical playboys, colonial vampires-British colonial officials, etc. The whole Vanity Fair is full of greed, hypocrisy, selfishness, following others and cunning.

"A Farewell to Arms" is a masterpiece by Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. The hero and heroine of the story met in a small town in northern Italy during the war. An American lieutenant who volunteered to join the Italian camp and a Scottish nurse from the Red Cross fell in love with each other. The war almost destroyed their love, but the injured lieutenant was saved from death after a shelling. The two reunited in a hospital in Milan and spent a rare sweet time together. The lieutenant who returned to the battlefield had doubts about the meaning of the war. During the retreat, he witnessed the annihilation of humanity with his own eyes. He did not hesitate to return to his lover at all costs... This work, written by Hemingway in Paris, is Hemingway's famous "journalistic" writing and Ford Madox Ford, a practical critic of "Iceberg Theory", commented on this work: "Every word hits the heart directly. It's as if pebbles were taken directly from the stream, so vibrant and shiny, staying in their proper place."

A broker of the British Stock Exchange already had a solid career, status, and a happy family, but he became obsessed with painting and felt like he was "possessed by the devil." He suddenly abandoned his home and went to Paris to pursue his ideal of painting. No one could understand his behavior. In a foreign country, he not only suffered physically from poverty and hunger, but also endured mental pain in search of expression techniques. After some bizarre encounters, the protagonist leaves the civilized world after his death and escapes to the isolated island of Tahiti. He finally found peace of soul and an atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament. He lived with an indigenous woman and created one masterpiece after another that shocked later generations. Before he contracted leprosy and became blind, he painted a great work depicting the Garden of Eden on the fourth wall of his house. But before his death, he ordered the indigenous woman to burn the painting after his death.

Fielding's masterpiece "Tom Jones" is a biographical novel that tells the story of an abandoned infant Tom who grew up in abuse, was kicked out of his home, and broke up with his lover Sophia. Each of them went through many hardships and temptations. Finally, the mystery of his life experience was revealed and he was reunited with Sophia. The work is creative and inherits and promotes the tradition of British humorous and satirical literature. It is regarded as a milestone in the development history of British novels.

In 1864, the cruise ship "Duncan" was followed by a shark during its trial voyage. Sir Glenarvan ordered the sailors to catch the shark. As a result, a drift bottle was found in the belly of the fish. There were three documents written in English, German, and French in the bottle. However, some of the writing had been corroded by sea water and became blurred. After speculation, everyone believed that this was a distress letter sent by Captain Grant who was lost at sea two years ago, so they decided to take the captain's daughter Mary and son Robert and others on an adventurous journey to find the captain...