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A period of lonely growth of a young girl, a great work of Carson McCullers' completely true self-portrait. A series of spiritual whispers and actions of an adolescent girl during her brother's wedding, showing the intense loneliness of young life. They whisper, their voices bloom like flowers - if voices could be flowers and words could bloom. Maybe we all want to be free and make our own decisions, but no matter how hard we try, the outcome is inevitable. I am me, you are you, and he is him. Each of us is limited by ourselves.

A pair of golden pupils, silently looking at the gap in the heart, a boring military camp, a peeping young soldier, two couples who seem to be inseparable, humiliation and betrayal, maybe death is the best ending for love. Carson McCullers is a classic that transcends an era, and Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor star in the movie of the same name. Alienation, loneliness, unavailable love, sudden death...

Griffin is a crazy scientist. Just like numerous disasters caused by crazy scientists, Griffin conducted a thorough study of optics and biology and created a drug that can make people invisible. He thoroughly enjoyed the benefits of the drug. No one can see him, no one can stop him. He can kill, steal, and subvert the entire world... Until the cold winter comes, people can become invisible, but clothes cannot...

If the world introduced itself, this would be what War and Peace would look like! The first of the world's top ten full-length classics! When Haruki Murakami was 15, he had read "War and Peace" three times! Marquez, Maugham, and Proust all paid tribute! Cao Ying's classic translation! It includes 5 exquisite color illustrations, original character relationship diagrams, and a complete guide to present a magnificent epic picture! In the history of human literature, "War and Peace" uses 559 characters to complete a magnificent narrative and lift up the entire human civilization. It is called "the great epic of this era"! Selected as a recommended must-read for the new curriculum standards and a recommended reading series for "Chinese Language" compiled by the Ministry of Education! Taking the experiences of the four nobles as the main line, it completely outlines the major historical events in Russia from 1805 to 1820. In the intertwining of two lives, war and peace, a thrilling era is revealed through a group of young minds...

"Blade", Maugham's long work narrated under his real name, once created a miracle of selling 500,000 copies in one month of publication in the United States. It has been adapted into movies twice and has been nominated for multiple Oscars. Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Zhang Ailing, and Wang Anyi moved to recommend. Reader's Classic Library has a new hardcover illustrated edition of "Blade", which specially includes "The Story Behind "Blade" (Maugham's 1938 Travel Notes in India)" to help you truly understand "Blade". Specially included are 6 representative paintings by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian theosophist living in India, to show you the highest spiritual realm described by Somerset Maugham. It is not easy to cross the edge of the knife, so wise men often say that the road to salvation is difficult. --"Ghatto Upanishad" During a battle, the young pilot Larry saw his friend die trying to save him. The death of his friend caused Larry to rethink the meaning of life. He left his fiancée, refused a decent job, and began to travel around the world, embarking on a path of pursuit...

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is the personal diary left by Anne Frank, a German-Jewish girl, during World War II. It truly records the two-year life that Anne's family and four other Jewish friends spent hiding in a "secret room" to escape Nazi persecution. As a growing girl, Anne observed the people and things around her from a unique perspective, and expressed her yearning for freedom and a better life. The diary demonstrates Anne's outstanding writing talent, and also triggers people's thoughts on war and human nature, as well as their love for the youth in the "secret room".

This is a fluent and beautiful collection of "stories" with vivid narration and is very popular around the world. This set contains volumes 6-11, including "Religious Reformation", "The Age of the Beginning of Reason", "The Age of Louis XIV", "The Age of Voltaire", "Rousseau and the Revolution (Volume 1 and 2)", and "The Age of Napoleon (Volume 1 and 2)".

This is a fluent and beautiful collection of "stories" with vivid narration and is very popular around the world. This set contains volumes 1-5, including "Heritage of the East", "Greek Life", "Caesar and Christ", "The Age of Faith (Volume 1 and 2)" and "Renaissance".

Travels in France and Belgium is a collection of letters and notes written by Hugo during his travels in France and Belgium, as well as the Alps and Pyrenees. The author traveled through famous cities and countryside, lingered in ancient buildings, churches and museums, explored countless castle ruins, and described the beautiful mountains and rivers, the morning light and the setting sun, the mist-filled valleys, and the rough sea. In these accounts, the poet Hugo presented the unparalleled magnificence of nature with his rich historical knowledge and cosmic awareness, extraordinary imagination and keen observation.

"A Wanderings in France" is a travelogue written by Henry James. It is a record of the author's travels in France in 1882. At that time, James visited nearly forty places in France from north to south. He had mixed praise and criticism for France, and he freely commented on these places with his own likes and dislikes and the style of a novelist. The grapes in the south were harvested, and he couldn't help but admire the beautiful scenery of the vineyards dressed in October red; the Loire River was majestic and full of scenery, and its bends slowly reflected half of the skylight. At the same time, he also spent a lot of space recording filthy hotels, musty museums, substandard churches, boring cultural relics, etc.

"Stories of the Jazz Age" was published in 1922. It is Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and includes 10 short stories: "Nana", "Camel's Back", "May Day", "Return to Youth", "Tarquet in Chipsade Street", "Oh, the Auburn Witch", "The Bitterness of Happiness", "Healing the Heart", "Hot and Cold Blooded" and "Gretchen's Forty Blinks". These short stories have vivid plots and profound implications. They record and describe the dreams, pursuits, love, pain, disappointment, hardship, confusion and other complex life experiences of the younger generation. They condense and reflect the colorful characteristics of the times and the fate of an entire generation or even several generations. They highly dramatize the fierce conflicts between modern consciousness and traditional concepts. They are the short stories written by Fitzgerald in this period that are rich in depth and power.

"All the Sad Young People" is Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories. It is considered to be Fitzgerald's most sonorous and most artistic collection of short stories. It includes 9 short stories: "The Rich Young Master", "A Winter's Dream of Spring", "Baby Party", "Absolution", "Larges Martin-Jones and the Prince of Wales", "The Mind Reader", "In Hot and Cold Blood", "The Wise Move" and "Gretchen's Forty Blinks". These stories have serious themes, profound contents, rigorous structures, and smooth writing styles. They reflect a talented novelist's keen observation of society and awareness of the future, and represent Fitzgerald's mature creative ideas and established artistic style.

The work illustrates some of the most destructive and intense forms of love - Ruthalyn/Christie's only daughter. The dangers of the human heart are not limited to murder. The inner turmoil within a family or between lovers alone is enough to make any story thrilling and make you hold your breath as if reading a murder story. The only thing Christy left to the world was what she called herself

"Three Strangers Boating" is a humorous novel that makes people feel relaxed. It was once rated as one of the "50 most humorous literary works in history" by "Esquire" magazine. The novel mainly revolves around a rafting trip by three weirdos and a dog. It is full of exaggerated and unrealistic plots. They fell into the water, lost things, quarreled, made up with laughter, and told each other stories; they all have lofty ambitions and high enthusiasm, but no one can get up in the morning; they all want to be great explorers, but in fact, as long as it rains, they are still willing to stay by the warm fire and sit in comfortable chairs - reading makes people happy and forgets to get tired. In addition to the humor and wit of the story, there is also a kind of love permeated between the lines. The author is obviously sharp-tongued and harsh in every word he speaks, but his satire contains deep tolerance. Like sunshine without impurities, it makes people feel warm and secure, and they can read the truth, goodness and beauty of life while laughing.

"Three Strangers Riding" is also a humorous novel that makes people laugh. The protagonists are still the characters in "Three Strangers Canoeing". This time they are not rafting, but riding bicycles through the Black Forest of Germany. In the introduction to the famous 1957 "Renren Library" edition of "Three Strangers on a Ride", D. C. Browning commented on the book: "Compared with "Three Strangers on a Boating", "Three Strangers on a Ride" is slightly inferior, but only a little bit inferior. For a long time, "Three Strangers on a Ride" has been a textbook used in schools in Germany."

"The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's masterpiece, winning the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, fighting a big fish. It creates a typical tough guy image in the history of literature and promotes the fighting spirit of not being afraid of hardships and not succumbing to fate.

"The Shackles of Humanity" is the famous work of the British novelist Somerset Maugham, and it is also his masterpiece. At the same time, it is also considered to be Maugham's autobiographical novel. The Modern Library of America lists this novel as one of the "100 Best Novels in the English-speaking World of the 20th Century", ranking 66th. The novel "The Chains of Humanity" later became Maugham's most famous and enduring work. Few people who have read this book can forget the tragic love experience that the protagonist Philip experienced when he was a student at London Medical College. That is the most vivid and exciting part of the book. The author uses dramatic techniques to write about the entanglements of human nature.

Dante's "Divine Comedy" is the most influential book in the Western world besides the Bible. Dante himself has become one of the three most famous poets in the West, known as the father of the Italian language and one of the three spiritual sources of literature. Recently, Dan Brown, the most influential best-selling author in the United States and the author of "The Da Vinci Code", has released a new book "Inferno", with a first edition of 2 million copies. The book is based on the first part of "Inferno" in Dante's "Divine Comedy" to unfold the plot. The book is expected to be adapted for screen next year (2014), which will usher in an enthusiastic response to "The Divine Comedy". This English translation is the most authoritative translation in the English-speaking world. It was translated by the famous 19th-century American poet Longfellow, and immediately became a classic translation in the English-speaking world after its publication.

"The Three Musketeers" is one of the most famous works by Alexandre Dumas, the most famous French novelist in the 19th century. The story tells that d'Artagnan, who was born as a civilian, went to Paris to join the army, joined King Louis XIII's musketeer guard, and became good friends with three other musketeers. In order to protect the reputation of Queen Anna of Austria, they fought against Cardinal Richelieu, defeated many obstacles set by Richelieu, went to England, retrieved the Queen's diamond from the Duke of Buckingham, and thwarted Richelieu's plot to sow discord between the King and Queen.

The novel "Emma" is one of the most influential classic novels in the 19th century, written by the famous British writer Jane Austen. The protagonist of the novel is a girl named Emma, ​​who is beautiful, intelligent and wealthy. But at the same time, she is also an out-and-out dreamer. She enthusiastically pays attention to the romantic stories around her, but stubbornly believes that she will never fall into them. As an orphan, she took matters into her own hands and directed love again and again. When the girl thought she was in love with the magistrate, Emma discovered that she had also fallen in love with the same gentleman. Although this was contrary to her vow of never marrying from the beginning, she had to give up her vow of innocence when she fell in love. This work has been adapted to the screen many times and made into a TV series many times, and is widely loved in the West. This manuscript was originally published in 1815. Although it is a love and romance novel, the author also wanted to use this novel to deeply explore the difficulties and worries faced by British women at that time.

The winning work of the 117th Naoki Prize. The masterpiece of Jiro Asada, the master of contemporary Japanese warmth, was recommended with tears by 1.5 Million readers! The short story "The Railway Man" of the same name won the Special Award at the 16th Japan Adventure Novel Association Awards. The movie of the same name, starring Takakura Ken and Hirosue Ryoko, won nine major awards at the Japan Film Academy Awards. These are all gentle miracles that happen to you. Acethon, the webmaster of a remote small station, lost his wife and daughter many years ago, and now he has to leave the post he has held for his whole life; Kyouichi, who is nearly middle-aged, was accidentally demoted to a remote branch when his career was going smoothly; Chieko, who was abandoned by her parents, faced her husband's affair and the censure of her husband's family, she could not find a place to stay. Just when they were about to despair, those loved ones they thought they would never meet again unexpectedly appeared in front of them again... These are the gentle miracles that happen to you.

Defoe's masterpiece, a famous British writer in the 19th century, has been recognized as a classic of world literature more than a hundred years after its publication and is a must-have in Western spiritual and cultural life. This version has become a classic version of the English translation. The content of the story includes: the first part, the three voyages after running away from home; the second part, the fourth time going to sea and living on a desert island; the third part, various encounters after returning to England.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was an Indian poet, philosopher and Indian nationalist. In 1913, he became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His poems contain profound religious and philosophical insights. For Tagore, his poems are his gifts to God, and he himself is God's suitor. Tagore's poems enjoy epic status in India, including his representative works "Gitanjali", "Birds", "Sand in the Eyes", "Four People", "Family and the World", "The Gardener" and "The Last Psalm". This time I chose his "Gitanjali" and "Crescent Moon Collection".

Sons and Lovers is a novel published by D. H. Lawrence in 1913. The Modern Library of America lists this novel as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century, ranking ninth. This shows the importance. And over time, today many prominent critics recognize it as a masterpiece and is regarded as one of Lawrence's greatest works.

"The Adventures of Huck" is a novel written by the famous American novelist Mark Twain. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. The novel is generally considered one of the "greatest American novels" and remains at the forefront of "American literature". The novel mainly describes the situation on both sides of the Mississippi River in the United States and the lives of the people living there. The most distinctive thing is that the characters in the book all have their own language, especially the description of the language of African Americans, which leaves a deep impression on the readers. In other words, only by reading the original English novel can you appreciate the scenes depicted by the author. This version is the version used in many student textbooks in the United States.

"Ulysses" was first serialized in the American magazine "The Little Review" from 1918 until it ended in 1920. It was later published as a full book. It was subsequently recognized as "one of the most important literary works in modern literature". The so-called "Ulysses" is Homer's "Odyssey". The book has nearly 270,000 words (English) and uses 30,030 vocabulary words. As soon as it was published, it aroused great curiosity. Because the author uses "stream of consciousness", a popular psychological research technique in the early 20th century, and carefully considers the layout, the book uses many distinctive methods such as puns, metaphors, and humor. It is now recognized as "the most remarkable novel". In 1998, the Modern Library of America listed this novel among the "Best Novels in the English-speaking World of the 20th Century" and ranked it at the top of the list, which shows how much influence this novel had on 20th century literature.

In the form of notes, "We" depicts the life scenes of a totalitarian country in the 26th century, "One Country of Many": everyone has only a number, no name, lives in a completely transparent glass house, wears the same uniform, eats chemical food, enjoys a rationed sex life, and is ruled by a never-changing all-powerful "benefactor". "Us" is a masterpiece handed down by Zamyatin, which created a new literary genre of dystopian novels. Together with Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and George Orwell's "1984," it is also known as the most famous dystopian trilogy in the world's literary world.

The plot of "The Doomsday Conspiracy" is tense and gripping. It is a rare science fiction story from Sheldon, the best storyteller in the world. Dan Brown, who became popular around the world with "The Da Vinci Code", admitted that it was "The Doomsday Conspiracy" that set him on the path to writing popular novels. In the beautiful Swiss mountains, ten tourists witnessed shocking events; in Maryland, the United States, "Operation Doomsday" began; Navy intelligence officer Lieutenant Colonel Bellamy was seconded by the National Security Agency to track down the whereabouts of the ten tourists, and at this time he found that he was also being hunted by an evil force... Every step is gripping, making you so nervous that you don't even have time to drink water!

The French officer Captain Servadac and the orderly Ben Zoff were suddenly knocked unconscious by a huge shock. When the two woke up, they found that the sun rose from the west and set from the east. Day and night became 6 hours. Only one side of the Sharif River's bank remains. The waves in the Mediterranean Sea were several times higher than usual... When Servadac and the survivors rescued the astronomer Professor Rosset, everyone figured out the mystery: It turned out that they had fallen into a comet that had collided with the earth. Under the leadership of the captain and the count, everyone overcame various difficulties on the comet and saw many strange scenes in the universe. Two years later (the year of the comet), they miraculously returned to Earth.

"Songs from the Sad Cafe" is a collection of Carson McCullers' finest short and medium-length works. In addition to 7 classic works such as Cafe and Childhood, this book also includes various short stories and essays from McCullers' posthumous work "The Mortgage Heart". The author uses the propositions of "human loneliness" and "inability to love" to indifferently describe the loneliness and alienation in her eyes. Everyone here is trapped in the dark blue moist air. They are struggling deep in their hearts. In the fragility of loving and being loved, they want to escape from loneliness, but they fall into deeper loneliness again and again...

A large monster suspected to be a narwhal was discovered at sea, and Professor Aronnax and his servant Conseil were invited to join the hunt. During the pursuit, they and harpooner Ned Land unfortunately fell into the water and landed on the monster's back. They discovered that the monster was not a narwhal, but a submarine with a wonderful structure. The submarine was built secretly by Nemo on a desert island in the ocean. It has a strong hull and uses seawater to generate electricity. Captain Nemo invites Aronas to travel to the bottom of the sea. Starting from the Pacific Ocean, they passed through coral islands, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean, and saw many rare animals, plants and strange scenes in the sea. On the way, they also experienced many dangerous situations such as stranding, siege by indigenous people, fighting with sharks, iceberg road closure, octopus attack and so on. Finally, when the submarine arrived at the coast of Norway, the three of them left without saying goodbye and returned to their hometown.

The timeless classic (unabridged) of Jules Verne, the father of modern science fiction novels, is a new translation by the famous translator Chen Xiaoqing. The science fiction classic that influenced Liu Cixin and the masterpiece that has influenced mankind for 150 years were selected into the must-read list of the new curriculum standards of the Ministry of Education in 2018. "Around the World in Eighty Days" Mr. Phileas Fogg made a bet with his friends that he could travel around the world in eighty days. He took his servant Mastercard from London to the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, traveled to Hong Kong, Japan, the United States and other places, and finally returned to London. He originally thought he was one day late, but because of the time difference, he actually completed the impossible task one day early. "The Indian Lady's Five Hundred Million Frans" French doctor Sarazan and German chemistry professor Schulz each received an inheritance of five hundred million francs from an Indian lady. The former built a French city to provide residents with a happy life, while the latter built an arsenal to specialize in the production of destructive weapons. Schulz's conspiracy was undermined by engineer Marce who went deep into the arsenal, and he himself froze to death in the arsenal.

This book specially selects three small masterpieces from the early, middle and late stages of Gide's creative career: "Palude", "Pastoral Symphony" and "Theseus", in order to provide readers with a unique perspective, to experience the unique charm of this most complex and changeable master in literature, aesthetics and philosophy.

General Macbeth, cousin of King Duncan of Scotland, returned from serving the king in countering rebellion and resisting invasion. He met three witches on the way. The witch told him some prophecies and cryptic words, saying that he would be crowned king, but he had no heirs to inherit the throne. Instead, the descendants of his colleague General Banquo would be the king. Macbeth is an ambitious hero who murders Duncan at the instigation of his lady and becomes king. In order to cover up others' eyes and prevent others from seizing the throne, he gradually killed Duncan's guards, Banquo, and the wife and children of the noble Macduff. Fear and suspicion make Macbeth more and more evil and cruel. Lady Macbeth went insane and committed suicide, which was also a great stimulus to him. With all the rebels and relatives separated, Macbeth faced the siege of Duncan's son and the English reinforcements he invited, and ended up with his head cut off. As soon as Macbeth appeared on the scene, he had different ambitions, killed the king and usurped the throne. In order to consolidate the throne, he also brutally massacred the people, making the country a river of blood, putting the society in chaos, and trapping the people in fire and water. It can be said that he is the same tyrant as Richard III. Such a tyrant deserves his suffering and death.

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

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

In the mid-1920s, David, a young American writer, and his wife Catherine went from Paris to the Mediterranean seaside of southern France for a honeymoon. They indulged in a romantic love life. David wanted to continue writing, but his wife only wanted to have fun in time. She went to a hairstylist to cut her hair short. After getting acquainted with a foreign girl, Marita, she even encouraged her husband to fall in love with her. The three of them got involved in a dangerous sex game. But the "good times" didn't last long. Because Marita supported David's writing, Catherine became jealous and resentful. She burned his manuscript and left a letter to leave. Under Marita's care, David's literary thoughts surged, and he rewrote one of his favorite short stories word for word, and returned to the "Garden of Eden". This is Hemingway's posthumous work published after his suicide in 1961. Although it was written in his later years when his body was declining, the whole book is full of vitality and love. It is a rare youth novel.

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"White Night" is one of the representative works of the writer's literary creation in the 1940s. It is a novella with a strong lyrical flavor. The novel describes the innocent girl Nastenka falling in love with a young tenant. The two agreed to meet on a bridge in Petersburg a year later, but the tenant did not show up. Although the girl was a little disappointed, her confidence remained. The protagonist "Dreamer", a poor intellectual from Petersburg, was deeply moved by the girl's affection, so he comforted her and waited with her by the river for four consecutive nights. At last the tenants appeared, and the "Dreamer" suppressed his newly rising love for Nasthenka and blessed them.

A large number of unknown objects fell on the outskirts of London, and citizens went to watch. Unexpectedly, a large number of aliens emerged from the unknown objects. They have technological levels that far exceed those of human society, and human heavy weapons can completely compete with them. Aliens used lasers, biochemical weapons, and giant armored tanks to carry out unprecedented massacres against humans. Human nature has also been challenged as never before in the battle. Just when all mankind was at a loss and the whole world was in a huge panic, aliens suddenly began to die mysteriously. It turned out that the aliens were unable to resist the bacteria and viruses on the earth. Can humans who narrowly escape death continue to survive better?

"The Collection of the Prodigal Son Returns Home" has six texts in total: Narith's Explanation, Love Experiment, El-Aqian, Philocdande, Bai Shapei, and The Prodigal Son's Return. It is like a prose poem, a novel, and a drama, but the author collectively calls it a "monograph" (Traités). The translator, Mr. Bian Zhilin, feels that the translation as "explanation" is not satisfactory. The materials of the six texts are all taken from myths, legends or fables in Greece and the Bible, and the symbols are interpreted with symbols. There are books in books and paintings within paintings, layered and full of meanings. They fully reflect the unique aesthetic, artistic, religious and moral views of Gide, the most complex literary master of the 20th century. Each of the six texts has its own emphasis but complements each other. It can be regarded as Gide's most artistic spiritual autobiography.

Refusing to compromise, refusing to be mediocre, fiery love ignites the crazy soul, destruction or redemption? The original novel of the French film "Wild Rose of Paris"; an alternative interpretation of the "Beat Generation" in France!

In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, Nick, a poor clerk, breaks into the secret world of Gatsby, a lavish spender. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the other side of the river. In the bright shadow of the light, lives Daisy, who has always dreamed of him. However, the cold reality cannot tolerate misty dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the world. When all the truth is revealed, Gatsby's tragic life is like fireworks. The brilliance is only for a moment, and the disillusionment is eternal.

Nick Adams is one of the male protagonists in many of Hemingway's short stories. This unforgettable character grew from a child to an adolescent, a soldier, a demobilized soldier, a writer and a father - a process that paralleled the events in Hemingway's own life and clearly emerged as the first of a long series of incarnations of himself in Hemingway's works. All the male protagonists who appeared in Hemingway's novels later had Nick's history. This book contains a total of 24 articles, which is the first time that they have been collected and published in a single volume.

"The Black Sailor of the Narcissus" is one of the masterpieces of Conrad's famous "sea novels". Whit, the new black sailor, fell ill in bed as soon as he boarded the ship. He made no contribution to the entire voyage, but showed "irritability and cowardice" everywhere. In the end, Whit died on the ship. The sailors held a water burial for him. As soon as Whit's body fell into the sea, a strange wind blew on the sea. After that, everything was normal. The "Narcissus" arrived in England, and the sailors scattered after landing. This unique image of Whit has aroused great interest among critics. Commenting on "Narcissus" became an explanation of Whit's meaning. As a result, there were as many Whits as Conrad critics. In fact, Whitt is just the focus of the shadows cast by thousands of concrete social phenomena on land to the sea. Conrad "objectified" universal human suffering into Whit, thereby creating a unique character.

F. S. Fitzgerald, the author of "Tender Is the Night", is a famous American screenwriter and the most important representative of the "Jazz Age". Each of his successful works is the crystallization of the poet's sensitivity and the dramatist's imagination, and is the product of the perfection of his artistic talent. "Tender Is the Night" is Fitzgerald's most painstaking autobiographical novel. It is one of the 100 greatest English works of the 20th century selected by Modern Library.

André Gide (1869-1951) was one of the most important French writers of the 20th century and one of the most important figures in the history of French and even modern Western literature and thought. He won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "extensive and artistically profound works that express human problems and situations with a fearless love for truth and keen psychological insights." "The Counterfeiter" occupies a very special position in Gide's oeuvre: it is Gide's last and only novel, and is the product of his most mature period of thought and art. Gide admitted in his diary that he spent his entire life accumulating his efforts to write this work. It was the most important mission of his life. After writing it, he would die without regrets. Therefore, it can be said that it represents the highest and most comprehensive achievement of Gide as a thinker and artist. The works are profound and delicate in thought, clear and exquisite in writing, broad in vision and rich in content. It is not only a coming-of-age novel, an ethical novel, but also a psychological novel, and even a "meta-novel" that shows how to refine life and create art. It has a milestone significance in the history of literature.

Dude is full of affectionate and nostalgic tenderness, and uses simple brushstrokes and clear tones to depict beautiful and moving scenes of Provence: the quiet mountains and forests under the scorching sun in the south, the fields covered with grapes and olives, the charming starry sky on the Luberon Mountains, the wind mills all over the hills, the fireworks on the wheat field during the festival, the women's bodies The golden cross and lace dress, the crisp sound of mule bells on the road, and Daudet's famous mill that looks like a big butterfly resting on a green hill... All these pictures with a strong southern color are in the local scenery gallery of French literature, and they will always have artistic vitality with their elegant style and profound charm.

"The Waves" is Woolf's work at the peak of her creative power and was published in 1931. This highly poetic, abstract and stylized experimental work does not have a story in the strict sense, but is more like a musical work composed of nine movements: each introduction is an exquisite prose poem, using the ebb and flow of the sun and waves to correspond to the ups and downs of life; following each introduction are the momentary inner monologues of six highly formalized characters without surnames in their respective life stages - from childhood, studenthood, youth, middle age to old age. The introduction and the main text map each other, opening up unprecedented and nuanced channels for the readers' senses, and getting closer to the essence of life, time, consciousness and feeling to the maximum extent. This is a work that occupies an important position in modern literature and palaces. To this day, it still stirs our souls with its exquisite text structure and poetic style.

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