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More than a hundred years ago, American writer Upton Sinclair wrote a book that shocked the United States. Upton Sinclair, like his Chinese counterpart Xia Yan, personally went to the slaughterhouse to "lurk" for seven weeks and truthfully recorded all the horrific facts, which directly triggered a strong response from the American public on food safety and hygiene, and ultimately alarmed the U. S. Government, directly promoting the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Administration Act and the establishment of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. The latter became the patron saint of American food safety over the next hundred years. This social effect was so good that the author later joked: "I wanted to touch the public's hearts, but unexpectedly hit their stomachs." This is actually a book about fate and struggle.

This book is a popular youth book. It is divided into three lectures. The first lecture talks about why reading, how to read, and what to read; the second lecture talks about women's status, rights and education; the third lecture talks about the mystery of life and its art. The speech is rich in content and highly readable. It is philosophical, full of wisdom, inspiring, lively, easy to understand, and integrates knowledge and interest.

"Grass Pillow" is one of Natsume Soseki's early important masterpieces. The novel writes about "I": In order to escape the worries of the world and seek a world of "inhuman" beauty, a young painter came to a remote mountain village and what he saw, thought and heard there. The work focuses on describing the people and scenery in the mountain village, interspersed with a large number of "my" monologues about art theory and aesthetics, and comparing the differences between Eastern and Western art. The most core point in these monologues is "inhumanity". The so-called "impersonal feelings" are a realm that transcends morality or human feelings, a worldly realm that transcends the secular world, and is also an artistic aesthetic. For example, the "I" in the work believes that the artistic conception conveyed in Tao Yuanming's poems is deeply "inhuman". Therefore, "The Straw Pillow" is more like Natsume Soseki's treatise on art than a novel; and the description of the mountain village style and the occasional haiku and poems make this work like a beautiful travel prose. In short, "The Straw Pillow" is a unique work and well worth reading.

"Gadfly" was written by the Irish female writer Egel Lillian Voynich. This book describes the life of Gadfly, an Italian revolutionary. The protagonist, Arthur, a naive and naive patriotic young man, was misunderstood by his revolutionary comrades, so he pretended to commit suicide by drowning in a river and fled to South America. Thirteen years later, when he returned to his hometown with a disability, the painful experience had tempered him into a determined revolutionary. He participated in the struggle against the Austrian rulers and fought for the independence and reunification of the country, and finally gave his life for it. The novel touches on the colorful themes of struggle, faith, and sacrifice.

Another classic masterpiece of Harold Bloom's literary criticism collection. This book takes the novelist's life time as the main clue, starting with Cervantes in the 16th century, and provides a detailed interpretation of more than 80 outstanding novelists and their works in the past five hundred years. The lives of novelists have influenced their works, and their works are a true reflection of each novelist's thoughts. With his unique vision and taste, Bloom shows readers a world belonging to novelists. This book evaluates nearly eighty influential novelists and more than one hundred novels. From Cervantes in the 16th century to Chinese American female writers in the late 20th century, the styles are diverse and reflect the changes in the art of fiction over the past four hundred years. With the taste and unique vision of an experienced reader, Professor Bloom leads us into the colorful worlds written by novelists, comments on their artistic value, analyzes the influences of each writer and the origin of the genre, and leads the reading experience to a deeper level.

The daughter of a general, with unique skills. She was obsessed with being promoted to the king, and she assisted him for ten years, and finally her mother was honored by the world. She fought for him, fought on the battlefield, and became a hostage in other countries for him. When she came back after three years, there was no room for her in the harem. Her daughter died tragically, and all members of her Shangguan family were loyal and slaughtered by him. No one was spared, and she was the only one left. The relationship between husband and wife that lasted for decades was trampled on by him mercilessly. What a joke. He said: "Seeing that you have contributed to this country, I will give you poisonous wine and leave your body intact. What do you think?" God was kind to her and made her twelve years old again. Her relatives were all here. Shangguan swore that when I came back, I would protect Shangguan's family, seize your kingdom, and make you suffer humiliation. She fought with them to see who would win in the end. But the rebellious young prince of the Mu family just sat on her wall: It's just a throne, you can take it if you like, the imperial power belongs to you, but you have to give it to me.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is a diary written by Anne Frank, a German Jew. It is a record of her life and emotions while hiding in a secret room. As a growing teenager, she confided in her diary the confusion of constant conflicts with her mother and her sexual curiosity. At the same time, the record of 25 months of hiding and terror-filled life in a secret room also makes "Annie's Diary" an eyewitness report on the suffering life of the people under German occupation.

"Bacon's Essays" is a collection of essays written by the British philosopher and writer Francis Bacon. The content is mainly short essays of an argumentative nature, mainly describing Bacon's attitudes and ideas about looking at things from different angles. It involves politics, economy, religion, love, marriage, friendship, art, education, ethics and many other aspects, including chapters such as "On Reading", "On Truth", "On Jealousy", "On Death", "On Beauty", etc. It is Bacon's representative work in literature. The language is simple and beautiful, the reasoning is thorough, and the aphorisms are repeated, which contain the essence of Bacon's thoughts.

[This is a story about a lion and a fox fighting against each other, plotting and counter-calculating, and finally admitting defeat! He is the first member of the Yan family and the head of the Yan family. He was born to stand at the top and overlook all living beings. She is an orphan girl with a blood feud. Under her cynical appearance, she is secretly trying to find out the truth behind the sudden changes in her family. In the Qingshan Villa, the garden was filled with the fragrance of magnolia. When the petite figure covered in blood fell from the sky and broke the flower branches in front of the window, he met the man who was leisurely drinking yogurt in the house. One is to escape, and the other is to meditate and cultivate. It was a first encounter that was far from beautiful, but it bound the lives of two people from then on. From now on, you chase me and escape, you cause trouble and I finish it off, and you avenge me and I accompany you. This emperor-like man's lifelong wish was to pamper her into a queen. Whatever you wish for, I will also be the pioneer. I am most proud of having you in my arms. Lost in the Ancient Tomb, Godan in the Desert, Death Training Camp... Behind her, there is always a pair of eyes, calm and self-possessed, strategizing, and ruthless in heart, making a smooth path for her.

The story of "The Three Musketeers" takes place in the era of French King Louis XIII. Cardinal Richelieu was in power for a while, and power struggles inside and outside the court were constantly taking place. D'Artagnan, a young provincial nobleman, comes to Paris and joins the command of Mr. Treville, the commander of the musketry battalion. On the way, he meets the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and they become life-and-death friends in a conflict. In the complicated political whirlpool, these four partners met Richelieu's confidant - Milady, a woman as beautiful as a peach and as poisonous as a snake. The two sides competed repeatedly. D'Artagnan and his partners escaped from desperate situations again and again, thwarting Richelieu's conspiracy.

Will our world get better? Countless people at home and abroad have asked this question in various forms because they feel anxious and worried about reality. The author of this book was also eager to get the answer, so he threw this question to the best people in the world. The author spent 2 years conducting in-depth interviews with 12 elites. Extending from the ultimate question of "Will our world get better?", It mainly focuses on a number of current hot issues and cutting-edge trends, such as the prospects of blockchain, the future of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, "grey rhinoceros", fiscal and monetary policies, changes in the traditional retail industry, China's role in the future economy, etc. The 12 interviewees are all world-class experts, scholars and industry figures who are active in various fields. Thomas Sargent, the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, Kevin Kelly, the author of the trilogy "Out of Control", "What Technology Wants" and "The Inevitable", Yuval Harari, the author of "A Brief History of Humanity" and "A Brief History of the Future", etc. Want to predict the future? The best way is to create it. Follow this book to see the present and the future clearly.

"Point of View" is the last collection of essays published by the famous British writer and "story master" Somerset Maugham during his lifetime. It is not only a collection of brilliant essays, but also a collection of literary criticism that is knowledgeable and considerate about the world. The characters and themes involved range from the novels of the great poet Goethe to the spiritual cultivation and life story of a Hindu sage, from the self-centeredness and sharpness of three French writers famous for their diaries. The acrimony is reflected in the generosity and kindness of the British theologian and archbishop Tillotson, as well as his plain and natural style. In particular, through the interpretation of the life experiences and artistic characteristics of several short story masters he admired, including Edgar Allan Poe, Kipling, and especially Maupassant, Chekhov and Mansfield, this book provides a wonderful and in-depth discussion and analysis of the short story, a literary form for which he himself is a master. Maugham used his insight in shaping novel characters and his superb story-telling skills to vividly paint a group of images of literati from different eras, different countries, and different fields, and then penetrate into their literary world and inner soul. What he finally opened up is the universal human nature and human heart - from "literary heart" to "human heart".

As Tocqueville's masterpiece, "The Old Regime and the Revolution" starts from the background, motivation and mechanism of the French Revolution to analyze the puzzle of social transformation, trying to answer the following questions: Why did the French Revolution come suddenly during the reform? Why did prosperity hasten the arrival of the Great Revolution? Why does reducing people's burdens lead to riots? Why did the outcome of the Revolution deviate from its original intention? What kind of futures do countries in transition have? Etc.

"Diary of Living Alone" is a recognized classic among the five diaries written by May Satten. When Mei Sateng's reputation was at its peak, she secluded herself from the world, struggled with her heart, and healed by living alone. In her diary, she often talked about her thinking and creation, love affairs and friendships, kept writing down the trivial matters of daily life, and her detailed observation of the ever-changing but surprising four seasons, all of which constantly soothed her sensitive and fragile heart.

"My Loneliness is a Garden: Selected Poems of Adonis" is a selection and translation of seventeen collections of poems by the translator from the time when the poet entered the poetry world nearly fifty years ago. The poet Adonis is a rebel with a clear attitude, who fights against power and current customs with his indomitable stubbornness. His poems overlook all aspects of life from the perspective of all mankind. His chanting of the eternal themes of those poems reached an otherworldly, profound and timeless realm. His love poems are not afraid of the secular world and want to justify the body and sensuality; but there is no vulgar interest in being intimate with each other, but they show the desolation of life and time. Adonis considered himself a "spiritual exile." Poetry alone, however, was his true place of exile. In his eyes, poetry is supreme, and "the era when poetry ends is just another kind of death."

221 BC was the first year that Ying Zheng conquered the six countries, unified the world, and ascended the throne as emperor. In the same year, Taishangdao, the leader of hundreds of families, was so powerful that he bullied the government. He was suppressed by the First Emperor and split into two, disappearing into the north and south, regardless of the secular world. Those to the south, living in the Yue region, know the miraculous arts of heaven and earth, control invisible swords, can control ghosts and gods, and call the "Shangqing Dao"; those to the north, secluded in Yanzhao, are familiar with runes and incantations, practice the art of "mantra", follow the words when spoken, and can summon divine objects to exorcise demons and ward off evil spirits, so they are named "Tai Dao". In memory of the work "I Have a Date with a Zombie", I will not mess with the relationship between men and women.

"The Moon and Sixpence" is one of Maugham's representative masterpieces. The story is partly based on the life of French post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. Stock exchange broker Strickland's heart was burning with an unquenchable desire for art, so he abandoned his stable family life and wealthy economic environment, and left London alone to pursue his painting ideals in Paris and Tahiti. After experiencing a series of incredible twists and turns, he finally found the perfection of art and completed the sublimation of life. The game between survival and ideals, the coexistence of creation and destruction, are vividly demonstrated through the legendary experience of an artistic genius.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" mainly describes a story of revenge that took place during the French Bourbon Dynasty. Dantes, the young first mate of the Pharaon ship, was entrusted by the captain to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party before his death. He was framed by two despicable villains and the sinister prosecutor Villefort, and was put on death row, depriving him of the beautiful sunshine, love and future that should have belonged to him. Eighteen years later, he escaped from prison with the secret told to him by his fellow inmate Faria before his death. After finding the treasure hidden by Faria, he became extremely rich. From then on, he changed his name to the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor, punished three enemies who wanted to kill him, and repaid his kindness to his benefactor.

The Sherlock Holmes created by the British writer Sir Conan Doyle (1859-1930) 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 several excellent detective works with different characteristics, a total of 21 pieces, compiled into "Selected Sherlock Holmes". With one volume in hand, you can see the essence of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, which is worth collecting and appreciating.

"The final volume of Natsume Soseki's late trilogy, the best-selling novel in the history of Japanese literature" - "Heart" is the last of Natsume Soseki's late trilogy "After the Vernal Equinox", "Pedestrian", and "Heart". It tells the story of a young student "I" who accidentally met a misanthropic gentleman and became a close friend. Before committing suicide, my husband wrote a letter to "me" explaining the reason for his suicide: when he was young, he used shady means to win over his friend and love rival K, which led to K's suicide. From then on, I had doubts about the goodness of human beings and could not get rid of the feeling of guilt. It depicts the image of an intellectual struggling with ethics and morality.

It is not only the tragic end of the love trilogy, but also the prelude to a series of late works by the author. The male protagonist Sosuke Nonaka of "The Gate" falls in love with his friend's wife Ami, which leads to social rejection. They live in seclusion in a house without sunlight. On the one hand, they taste the sweetness of sincere understanding, and on the other hand, they feel the bitterness of being guilty of others. They fall into a dilemma and cannot extricate themselves. This is a human tragedy in which free and sincere love is not tolerated by society. It is also a spiritual portrayal of intellectuals pursuing personal happiness but being unable to get rid of the fetters of moral norms. "The Door" is one of Natsume Soseki's representative works of anti-naturalism. The author used a combination of realism and romanticism to create a sentimental world.

In the winter of 1919-1920, the 45-year-old Maugham came to China and traveled 1,500 miles up the Yangtze River. "On the Chinese Screen" is the product of his trip. Fifty-eight short or long "materials" that could have been written into novels were concatenated into "a set of narratives of a trip to China." What Maugham showed to his British compatriots was an antique "Chinese screen" exuding a strong oriental sentiment. He felt and conveyed the images of all kinds of Chinese people he met with a compassionate heart that was sophisticated yet innocent. What is especially important is that while he sympathetically tried to get close to Chinese customs, he reflected the truth of British life in China with a critical attitude without mercy. Because he always believes: "In writing, what is more important is not rich materials, but rich personality."

Natsume Soseki's novel, written in 1908, forms a love trilogy with "The Next Thing" and "The Gate". The protagonist Sanshirō Ogawa graduated from high school in Kumamoto and was admitted to a university in Tokyo. After coming to Tokyo, a world completely different from what he had known before, under the impact of modern civilization and modern women, he was confused and at a loss. He was surrounded by three worlds at the same time: one was his hometown of Kumamoto, the other was the world of learning where Nonomiya and Hirota teachers lived, and the third was the world of glitz. Sanshirō becomes increasingly attracted to the glitzy world in which his crush, Miyako, lives. Sanshirō is passionately devoted to Miyako, but Miyako's attitude is ambiguous. She mentioned the term "lost lamb" to Sanshirō several times, but eventually married her brother's friend. Ordinary young people slowly grow up through interactions with all kinds of people in the metropolis.

Taking over the story of Rubbing Wuhen begins another wonderful journey. This is a story about modern rivers and lakes. Modern rivers and lakes are different from the rivers and lakes of that time, but rivers and lakes are still rivers and lakes after all. There is no way a person can survive in the rivers and lakes without getting stabbed.

The story begins in the Elizabethan era in the 16th century and ends in the "present day" when Woolf wrote in 1928, lasting four hundred years. Orlando was first an innocent aristocratic beauty who entered the court because he was favored by Queen Elizabeth. After King James ascends the throne, the Great Frost comes. Orlando meets a Russian princess and falls in love. As a result, he falls out of love and falls out of favor, and lives in seclusion in a country mansion. Orlando has been obsessed with literature and poetry since he was a child. The figure of Shakespeare is unforgettable for him. He manages to get acquainted with the slightly famous poet Green. Unexpectedly, he is teased again. In addition, he cannot bear the entanglement of the Grand Duchess of Romania, so he asks for a mission to Türkiye. After a fire in Constantinople, Orlando changed into a woman, left officialdom, and mingled among the Gypsies. Later, she returned to England, became a noble lady in the upper class, and met a group of famous literati at that time. Entering the Victorian era, in order to continue writing, Orlando could only compromise with the spirit of the times and marry a sea captain. By the end of the story, Orlando is already a prize-winning poet of the 20th century. She returns to the mansion that symbolizes tradition throughout the book, and comes under the big oak tree to review her eternal pursuit of literature and poetry.

"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.

"Absalom, Absalom!" "" Is Faulkner's most important, complex, profound and epic work. It tells the story of a family in the southern United States that experienced intense disintegration from about 1860 to 1910. It profoundly expresses the various conflicts between people and between people and themselves, and touches on many universal issues related to the human condition. The narrative method of the novel is unique; the characters in the book "interpret" the past from different angles and with different subjective feelings, but together they embody the tragic style of the entire work. The title of this book comes from an allusion from the Bible. The love and hate between parents and children, the ambiguous feelings between brothers and sisters, etc. Described in the book have the color of biblical stories.

E. M. Forster is one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth century. "Maurice" was written during the author's heyday, but because it involved same-sex love, it was not published until 1971 after the author's death, making it the last publicly published novel by the master of fiction. This classic work of same-sex love literature has already entered the temple of literary classics. The film of the same name starring James Wilby and Hugh Grant has also become a classic in film history. Maurice and Clive met and fell in love in Cambridge when they were young. However, after three years of knowing each other, Clive chose an official career and married an aristocratic lady, leaving this relationship behind. Maurice, who still persisted, almost suffered a mental breakdown and was on the verge of suicide. In despair, he finally met Alek, the gamekeeper who fell in love with him regardless of everything. True love made the two of them break through the double imprisonment of class differences and social taboos with difficulty, and lived together happily.

"Brother" is one of Natsume Soseki's masterpieces. Through the various dramatic conflicts between an unsophisticated, frank and reckless man who enters the society and the vulgar things around him, the work pungently and skillfully satirizes the ugly phenomena in society, lashes out at despicability, power and hypocrisy, and praises justice, straightforwardness and innocence. The writing is smooth, the rhythm is lively, and the image is vivid.

The beautiful Mary Panton lost her beloved libertine husband a year ago. Fortunately, her husband died early due to a car accident and left some property for her. With some precious jewelry on hand, she was able to live a leisurely life. After burying her husband and cleaning up the family property, Mary came to Florence and rented a beautiful antique villa on a hill in the suburbs to rest her body and mind. Sir Edgar, Mary's admirer for many years and the "builder of the British Empire", has been prospering for many years and is about to be appointed Governor of Bengal. Before being appointed, he came to Florence to propose to her. But late one night, Mary's temporary infatuation led to a nightmarish act of violence. At the critical juncture, she had no choice but to turn to the notorious lothario Lawley Flint for help, and through him, she finally realized that denying love - and all the passion and adventure involved in it, was tantamount to denying life and life itself. Maugham's most mature short novel, the story is fascinating, the characters are vivid and vivid, and the insight into human nature is even more penetrating.

"The Predators" is a well-received "coming-of-age novel" by Faulkner. The banker's grandson Lucius, along with the driver Hoganbeck and the black servant Ned, secretly drove his grandfather's car out of town and stayed in a brothel. Hoganbeck found Corrie, a prostitute, and Ned secretly exchanged a car for a horse in order to help another black servant, and then used the horse to participate in the competition and win back the car. Four days later, they returned home. Hoganbeck married Corrie, and the protagonist of the story, Lucius, who was only 11 years old, not only experienced people's kindness, compassion, and mutual care during these four days of adventure, but also saw greed, cunning, despicability, and depravity. It has been tempered and matured in the conflict between virtue and non-virtue.

"Flush: The Biography of a Dog", as the name suggests, the protagonist of the novel is a dog named Flush. But this is a dog with a great background, and his owner is a legendary woman in the history of British literature. In a concise and humorous way, the author describes Elizabeth Barrett, the famous British poetess of the Victorian era, from the side: her character, her extraordinary love with the poet Browning, their secret marriage and then their elopement, and the happy married life they spent in the sunny country of Italy. At the same time, the author also uses a dog's perspective to reflect the class contradictions at the time, the author's feminist thoughts, etc., Adding an evocative depth of thought to this short-like work.

"Faulkner's Speeches" collects Faulkner's wonderful speeches on different public occasions. Faulkner's wisdom, knowledge, imagination, talent and sense of humor are fully reflected in this book. This collection of non-fiction essays provides a glimpse into some aspects of Faulkner as an artist and as a human being. These articles, while showing us what this extremely passionate, extremely complex, and extremely secretive writer was willing to reveal to the public during the last forty years of his career, also allow us to gain a better understanding of his person and his work.

"Go, Moses" is one of Faulkner's most famous works and an important part of the "Yoknapatawpha Lineage". McCaslin, a manor owner in the southern United States, had a daughter with a slave girl, and later gave birth to a son, Terry Le, with this daughter. Terry Le later married Tanney, a slave girl of another manor owner, Bush Champ, and their children all bear the surname Bush Champ. McCaslin's granddaughter married Edmonds. The whole book is about the complex relationship between the descendants of these three surnames. The most colorful character is McCaslin's grandson Isaac. He participated in bear hunting activities since he was a child under the guidance of black hunters. When he grew up, he saw through the abnormal relationship between white people and black slaves. He voluntarily gave up his family property and went to the town to make a living as a carpenter. The whole book consists of two novellas and five short stories. Each part is relatively independent and integrated into a complete picture.

The essays in "Faulkner's Essays", like his novels, also present a very special diversity. For example, "Mississippi", "On Privacy", "On Fear", etc. Are all masterpieces of Faulkner's non-fiction works. Faulkner's wisdom, knowledge, imagination, talent and sense of humor are fully reflected in this book. These articles, while showing us what this extremely passionate, extremely complex, and extremely secretive writer was willing to reveal to the public during the last forty years of his career, also allow us to gain a better understanding of his person and his work.

"To the Lighthouse" describes the life of Professor Ramsay's family and a few close friends on vacation on a Scottish island after the First World War. The author attempts to explore the meaning of life and the nature of the self in this novel with a very simple plot, pointing out that it is possible for the self to escape the clutches of the endless passing time and survive forever despite the threat of death. The flash of the lighthouse spire symbolizes the light of Ramsey's soul. The stream-of-consciousness writing techniques in this book are very noteworthy, such as perspective switching, two times, symbolic techniques, musical structure, drawing reference from paintings, etc.

"A Room with a View" is a novel published by British writer Edward Morgan Forster in 1908. It is Forster's most romantic and optimistic novel. It tells the story of Lucy, an upper-middle-class British aristocratic girl, who met George, an Englishman, during her trip to Florence. This trip brought dramatic changes to Lucy's worldview. After the two reunited in England, Lucy decided to break off her previous engagement and be with George. She gained freedom and happiness through breaking with her own class. This is not only a love novel, but also a criticism of the repressive and hypocritical British society in the early 20th century.

"The Master and Margarita" is the representative work of Soviet writer Bulgakov, and is considered to a certain extent as the pioneering work of magical realism. This is a twisted person expressing a twisted life and a twisted world in a twisted way. This is a masterpiece that took two years to write 15 chapters, but burned the manuscript. As a result, I couldn't stop and couldn't stop talking, so I re-opened the paper and finished it in one go. "The Master and Margaret" is a critical realist novel with world influence created against the background of real life in the Soviet literary and artistic circles in the 1920s and 1930s, using a combination of traditional realism, symbolism, and magical realism. The author opens his eyes for justice, lashes out against corruption, praises true love, and integrates fantastic and magnificent landscapes with rich and poignant poetry, ultimately giving the work eternal artistic charm.

"Schindler's List" is a novel that won the Booker Prize, the highest award for English literature. It uses a highly documentary approach to depict the true story of the German Oskar Schindler who risked his life during World War II and devoted all his financial resources and wisdom to rescue the lives of hundreds of Jews. Since its publication, this novel has moved countless readers with its breathtaking authenticity and the brilliance of humanitarianism that pervades the words. After being adapted into a movie by Spielberg, it even swept the Oscar Awards that year, winning seven awards and becoming a classic in film history. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked "Schindler's List" among the 100 best films of the 20th century.

The original novel of the movie "Carol" with a score of 8.3 On Douban, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, was well received after its release in 2015. "Carol" tells the story of Therese, a young girl who pursues her dream of being a stage designer in New York, but can only work as a sales girl in a department store. One day, she and Carol, a middle-aged housewife who was in marital crisis, met by chance in a department store. The two people who were attracted to each other began to exchange letters, telegrams, and even go on a road trip together. However, this was not allowed in American society at the time. Therese's boyfriend thought she was just temporarily confused, and Carol's husband hired a private investigator to investigate and collect evidence, hoping that Carol would have nothing in the divorce proceedings. The time to test the two women has finally arrived. Can the two break through social taboos and persevere to reach a happy ending? How much are they willing to pay to protect this love?

There is beauty every now and then, and it's a good place to live in IKEA. When grandma was still alive, she often said that her concubine was born to be noble and glorious. Only Ji Yu herself knew that as early as that winter, that unintentional look at each other had already made her addicted to it, and she didn't want to extricate herself. Once, he wanted to conquer tens of millions of barbarians and thousands of miles of rivers. Later, what he wanted even more was that beautiful heart...

This book is an appreciation of the art of novels written by the British novelist and literary theorist David Lodge. It provides general readers with a way to appreciate the art of novels. It can also be used as an introduction to academic theory and a guide to writing techniques. This book is divided into fifty chapters, giving an in-depth and simple explanation of the art of fiction from fifty aspects. Each article quotes one or two novel fragments, and based on a close reading and analysis of the text, demonstrates all aspects of novel techniques, including the opening remarks in traditional novels, delicate characterization techniques, and the unique theories of stream of consciousness and metafiction in modern and post-modern novels. Most of the chapters in the book have been published as columns in the Sunday Independent and the Washington Post. The content covers a wide range of topics, including almost every major classical and modern writer in the history of English fiction, such as Fielding, Thackeray, Austen, Henry James, Joyce, Hemingway, Beckett, Milan Kundera, etc. The writing is both easy to understand and professional and accurate, and can be used as a textbook and reference book for novel learning and writing. The author's humorous and interesting writing style also makes it suitable for the tastes of public readers. When "The Art of Fiction" was published in the 1990s, it was on the British non-fiction bestseller list. The Financial Times commented: "It is the most outstanding novel study for the general public since Forster's "Aspects of the Novel"."

In 1922, when Maugham was achieving great success as a playwright, short story and novelist, and even a socialite, he put it all aside and made a long and arduous trip to Southeast Asia. Maugham accidentally read a passage from Herzlitt's "On Travel" on the boat going up the Irrawaddy River to Bagan: "Wonderful! Break free from the shackles of the world and public opinion - leave our entangled, annoying, endless self-identity in nature, be a person of the moment, and eliminate all burdens --Only a plate of offal to sustain everything, and owe nothing except the night's wine debt. No longer seeking applause and being despised, only known by the title of the gentleman in the drawing room!" I was so enlightened that I decided to write such a travelogue and titled it "The Gentleman in the Drawing Room". However, it was not until seven years later that he actually wrote the book, and confessed in the "Preface": "This book is not an accident like "On the Chinese Screen". The journey described in the book was my wish; but I had intended to write it as a book from the beginning. I had fun writing "On the Chinese Screen". I want to try my craft again on the same subject, but on a more refined scale and in a form that I can give a clear pattern. This is an exercise in style."

"Small World" was introduced to China more than ten years ago. This time, Shanghai Translation Publishing House invited senior translator Professor Wang Jiaxiang to re-translate it. David Lodge is famous in the UK and is known as the representative of "academic novels". Almost all of his most famous novels have intellectuals as the main characters and radiate to society through events in the cultural world. "Small World" has been praised as the "Besieged City" of the West. It describes professors in Western academic circles flying around the world, ostensibly for academic exchanges, but actually pursuing fame, wealth and fun.

"The Casuarina Tree" is a representative work of short stories by Maugham, Britain's "greatest short story writer" and "story master". It collects six of his most outstanding short stories. These novels are roughly the same length, ranging between novellas and short stories, and are all set in Malaya and Borneo. They vividly describe the experiences of some Westerners (mostly British) in the Far Eastern colonies, especially the various mental tortures they suffered after being isolated from the Western civilized world where they originally lived.

"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.

In "Variations on a Spanish Theme", which Graham Greene praised as Maugham's best work, Maugham explores the unique spiritual essence of Spain, a country he was fascinated by, and takes us back to her golden age. He examines her religious beliefs and the most representative artistic and cultural categories such as picaresque novels, dramas, and paintings one by one. He reviews Loyola, The life stories and mental journeys of those great figures such as De Vega, Cervantes, El Greco, and Mother Teresa who shaped the spiritual outlook of this nation, depict the true image of the Spaniards in the golden age, and reveal why Don Quixote, Sancho and Don Juan have become the three immortal images that best represent the spiritual outlook of the Spaniards, and thus draw the conclusion: "In Spain, People are poetry, paintings, and architecture. People are the philosophy of this country. These Spaniards of the Golden Age lived, felt, and acted, but they did not think. What they pursued and discovered was life, a turbulent, passionate, and diverse life. Passion was the seed of their lives... Their excellence... Lies in their differences. Direction: It is an excellence of character. I think no one can surpass them except the ancient Romans. This energetic people seems to devote all its energy and originality to one goal: the creation of people. They are not good at art, but they are good at something greater than art. "

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), a representative of modern Japanese literary writers, erected a monument to critical realist literature and was known as the "national writer". "I Am Cat" is his famous work and one of his masterpieces. 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 satire. 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 is everything and the social habits of blind worship of Western lifestyle, and creates the image of a group of self-proclaimed and cynical intellectuals.

"Theatrical Style" is a particularly beloved work that Maugham claimed to have written in a very happy mood, using material from his life that he had been involved in the theater industry for many years - don't forget that he was once one of the most successful playwrights in British history. Julia Lambert is a famous actress on the British stage. She is a born actor. She is dazzling on the stage and confuses all living beings. However, off the stage, she falls into a dangerous passion with a young admirer. After being tortured and humiliated by lust, what saves her is still her infatuation with stage art. The painful life experience makes her control of characters more comfortable and her performance more proficient. She finally completes the redemption of lust in herself. Somerset Maugham used Julia's addiction and redemption to integrate life, humanity, lust, and art into one furnace, and performed it in a meticulous and penetrating way.

In 1945, Maugham was invited by the American "Red Book" magazine to draw up a book list, enumerating what he considered the world's top ten novels, and wrote a series of book reviews for it, commenting on the writing process, writing techniques, and artistic features of these masterpieces one by one, thus creating this book "Masters and Masterpieces." The ten novels and their authors are: Fielding and "Tom Jones", Austen and "Pride and Prejudice", Stendhal and "The Red and the Black", Balzac and "Petro Goriot", Dickens and "David Copperfield", Flaubert and "Madame Bovary", Melville and "Moby-Dick", Emily Brontë and "Wuthering Heights", Dostoevsky and "The Brothers Karamazov" and Tolstoy and "War and Peace". Maugham's way of commenting on these ten novel masters is very simple, that is, "knowing people and judging the world." Maugham did this not intentionally to sing a different tune or to sensationalize, but to remove all pretense and use his profound insight into human nature and his rich experience as a novelist to truly consider the writers and works he reviewed, leading readers to taste and appreciate them. As a result, this review by a great novelist about his own great novelist has become a classic of literary criticism and a unique literary guide for ordinary readers.