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The masterpiece of the famous writer Isherwood, the original work that became a Hollywood and Broadway classic, is a sketch of the chaos when Berlin fell before World War II. "Farewell, Berlin" is the most famous Berlin story written by the famous writer Christopher Isherwood. It is based on the bohemian decadent life of the author's youth. It depicts the chaotic chaos of Berlin before and after the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, and people's last carnival when the doomsday comes. The six short stories focus on various characters: the landlady Mrs. Schroeder and her tenant; two men with gay feelings; a struggling Norwegian family; a wealthy Jewish shopkeeper; the innocent yet sophisticated British gold digger Sally... Through the fate of characters of different parties, nationalities, and classes, the author accurately depicts a society heading into decline, allowing people to have a glimpse of the storm gathering over Berlin before and after the Nazis came to power, as well as the glimmer of humanity hidden within. "Farewell to Berlin" was adapted into the world-famous Broadway classic "Cabaret" (Cabaret). The film of the same name directed by Bob Fosse won eight Oscars in 1973, including Best Director and Best Actress. "Time" magazine and the U. S. National Library named "Farewell to Berlin" among the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century."

"The Temptation of Saint-Antoine" is the masterpiece of the great French writer Flaubert (1821-1880). The first draft was in 1849, the second draft in 1856, the third draft in 1872, and the full text was officially published in 1874. It spanned 25 years, during which Flaubert completed three novels, "Madame Bovary", "Salangbao" and "Emotional Education". The writing of this book almost ran through the writer's entire creative career. The novel is based on the legend of the saint, that is, the story of the Egyptian monk Anton (about 251–356) who resisted various temptations in the desert. There are many works based on this in Western art. In 1845, Flaubert's sister Caroline traveled to Italy as a newlywed, and Flaubert accompanied him. At the Balbi Palace in Genoa, he saw the oil painting "The Temptation of Saint Anton" said to be by the Dutch painter Bruegel the Elder, and gained inspiration for writing. Byron's poetic drama "Cain" and Goethe's poetic drama "Faust" he had read when he was young also gave him a lot of inspiration. The novel is divided into seven chapters and describes in detail Anton's spiritual vision one night. The devil, the Queen of Sheba, and Anton's own disciples placed countless huge temptations in front of him: wealth, power, pleasure, and even more tempting ones: gods, rituals, scriptures, oracles... In the name of science, the devil created obstacles and hid the secrets of the universe. From sunset to dawn, dreams continue. In the end, Anton emerges from the confusion and moves towards new life. The novel is written in the form of prose poetry (or poetic drama), reflecting the rebellion against religious delusions and the rejection of the materialistic society. It is a work in which the writer devoted himself to "mania".

"Eugene Onegin" is Pushkin's masterpiece. This poetic novel broadly reflects the social life of Russia in the 1820s, truly expresses the anguish, exploration and awakening of Russian youth of that era, and raises many important social issues. Therefore, Belinsky called it "an encyclopedia of Russian life and the most popular work." The central protagonist of the work is the aristocratic young man Onegin. Onegin had a luxurious life similar to that of ordinary aristocratic youths, but the atmosphere of the times and progressive Enlightenment ideas, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and Rousseau's "Social Contract", and Byron's poems praising freedom and individual liberation all had an impact on him, causing his attitude towards reality to change. He began to be tired of the empty and boring life in the upper class, and came to the countryside with a desire for a new life, and tried to engage in agricultural reform. However, the flashy aristocratic education did not give him any practical ability to work, and the bad habits of leisure and indolence left a deep mark on him. Coupled with the criticism and opposition from the surrounding landowners, Onegin was still in a state of idleness, depression and hesitation in the end, and contracted the typical disease of the times-melancholy.

"Selected Masterpieces of Matsumoto Seiho" (Part 2), following "Grand", continues the format of the first book, with an introduction written by Miyuki Miyabe, a Japanese civilian, and strictly selects eight representative Seiho-style short stories with different styles. When commenting on this set of books, Miyuki Miyabe, the editor-in-chief of this book, said, "Although I have the serious title of editor-in-chief, for me, this job is as happy as walking in a sea of ​​flowers." When I jumped into the giant footprints of Matsumoto Seiharu, I saw colorful flowers blooming freely in the footprints that were almost as deep as me. Matsumoto Seicho said: "I only write stories that I like." Reading should start from what you love in your heart. I believe that through "Bad Women", Matsumoto Seicho and Miyabe Miyuki's creative joy and reading experience will be shared with you one by one.

"British History II: Britain's Wars 1603-1776" is a history of British wars. In this volume, Simon Schama evokes the horrors of war, famine, and plague, burning cities, and the tragedy of broken families, where father and son are forced to choose opposition. But he also seized on the intimacy of palace and parliament and the lure of profit and pleasure. In the contradictions and conflicts, the life of the British aristocracy is shown. These conflicts were fought between Ireland and Scotland, between Parliament and the Crown. Thousands of people lost their lives trying to break the illusion of a "United Kingdom". A greater proportion of the population than died in World War I. When religious passion gives way to profit-generating consumerism, it has the potential to transform Britain into a collective Britannia held together by a commitment to being a "successful business." After several generations of management, Britain expanded rapidly, and it was accumulating energy to become a powerful empire rarely seen in world history.

"British History III: The Fate of the Empire (1776-2000)" starts from the 1870s. How can one allow oneself to be free from too many areas of the world. A country that did not trust its own military became a military power. With the help of ambition, slaves, and brave explorers, Britain built a powerful empire and planted its flag across the globe. It controlled the colonies through its addictive trade in tea, sugar and coffee. The British Empire promised peace, stability and prosperity. But both Ireland and India were similarly plagued by violence and famine. At the end of the book, Simon Schama falls into meditation on the past history of Britain in the 20th century. It explores Britain's fate in the two world wars and the depressing and uneasy post-war peace.

A History of Britain I: At the Edge of the World? (3000BC-AD1603)" covers over 1,500 years of British history, from the first Roman invasion to the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth. The perspective of this book starts from the birth of civilization to the Norman Conquest, from the religious wars, the dark Middle Ages to the national turmoil of Henry II; the outbreak of the Black Death, which almost destroyed half of the population of Europe, the intricate conflicts of the Tudor Dynasty, and the conflict between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots constitute the main content of this volume. Through the story itself, a network of interrelated themes is explored - why a nation-state was formed, the struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed, and the internal driving forces of history are all evident during the period.

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In this novel, McEwan describes a ferocious and mysterious "animal" that is darker than the night, with red eyes, like burning coals, coveting the remains of dying European civilization, and devouring reforms and beliefs. The bottom line of morality, grasping the Achilles heel of civilization, trying to reverse the nature of good and evil - a typical McLean black, on the stage haunted by ghost black dogs, violence, true love, evil, redemption, interpreting a thrilling fable about our times.

Like McEwan's other novels in recent years, "Sweet Tooth" is the kind of work whose plot is particularly closely aligned with the era in which it is set. As the only "female literary youth" in the Five Divisions who is keen on reading novels, and who "happens" to have a figure and appearance that seems to have come directly from a novel, Selina accepted a special task: "Operation Sweet Tooth" aims to indirectly and covertly fund writers who are ideologically aligned with British interests and have influence on the public. The person Selina is responsible for approaching and luring them to join is the only novelist in this operation, Tom Haley. Tom and Serena fell in love with each other, and they loved each other step by step, they loved each other true and false, and they survived desperate situations. But if you guess the beginning, you may not be able to guess the end.

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"Only Love Strangers" is a highly skilled short novel, a masterpiece of the "Horrible Ian" period. It focuses on exploring the infinite possibilities of human desire and tells a story about how a pursuer of beauty destroys the object of beauty to death in order to satisfy his own desires. A pair of lovers who are inseparable but seem to be inseparable are on vacation. From the first day they entered this bustling but weird tourist city, they have been followed and secretly photographed. The eyes in the dark follow each other like a shadow, tempting the lovers to seek fresh excitement and solace from so-called strangers, and ultimately make them devote themselves wholeheartedly to a trap of lust and death that is deliberately set for them. The novel contains countless metaphors, is highly intertextual with many classic texts, and is full of meaningful quotations or parodies of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" and E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View." It is known as one of McEwan's two "mini-masterpieces."

The original movie "Atonement" was rated 8.4 On Douban, starring James McAvoy, Kate Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, and Benedict Cumberbatch. In the summer of 1935, Briony, a 13-year-old girl from a well-off British family, had just begun to try writing and had a rich imagination. One day, she secretly discovered that there was an affair between the housekeeper's son, Robbie Turner, and her sister, Cecilia. Briony's rich imagination invented all kinds of terrible things and imagined them. When her cousin Lola was raped, Briony arbitrarily determined that he was the criminal and testified against him, and Robbie was imprisoned. But Cecilia, who firmly believed that Robbie was innocent, did not hesitate to sever ties with her family and fell in love with him persistently. "Atonement" is the representative work of British writer Ian McEwan. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Film and the original novel of the same name, and the British Booker Award nomination.

Parallel Worlds: The Neanderthal Trilogy. Primitive people (translated by Niu Zhenyu), humans (translated by Xia Xing), and hybrids (translated by Dai Yuan). In another parallel world, Neanderthals lived. Neanderthals reached a level comparable to ours in culture and science, but their development history, social customs and philosophy of life were completely different from ours. Ponte Budit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally crossed the passage between two worlds and came to a completely unfamiliar world. After he was identified as a Neanderthal, he was isolated and studied, feeling very lonely and helpless. But here, he still found friends who shared weal and woe, and developed a special relationship with Mary Vaughn, a Canadian female geneticist.

"Don't Lose, Never Forget" is a dystopian science fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and the American Book Critics Circle Award. In Hailsham School, deep in the English countryside, three good friends, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, grew up here. They were carefully cared for by their tutors and received a good education in poetry and art. However, Hailsham, which seems like a paradise, hides many secrets. After the three Caseys grew up, they gradually discovered that the beautiful growth process in their memories was full of untraceable confusion and terrifying question marks...

Graham Greene divides his works into two categories: "serious novels" and "pleasure novels". "The Power and the Glory" is one of the most famous "serious novels" and one of Green's most highly praised by experts and readers. It is based on the two months the author spent in Mexico in March and April 1938. Five weeks of these two months were spent alone and exhausted traveling between Tabasco and Chiapas in the south for two weeks. Containing un-British Roman Catholic elements while being steeped in Manichean darkness and a faithful depiction of suffering, it can be called Green's most ambitious work.

Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American writer who was recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Lolita", which he wrote in 1955, received great controversy and honors. "The Prototype of Laura" is Nabokov's unfinished work and the last manuscript in his later years. The novel tells the story of Philip Wilde, an extremely bloated scholar who married Flora, a slender, beautiful but promiscuous ballet dancer. On the one hand, he had to endure his wife's lies and betrayal, and on the other hand, he was addicted to the pleasure of self-destruction.

"Silent Spring" is the masterpiece of American female writer Rachel Carson and one of the most influential books in the world in the past 50 years! In Silent Spring, Carson describes in detail and in detail the huge and irreversible harm caused to our environment by the widespread use of pesticides represented by DDT with the vivid writing style unique to female writers. Not only that, Carson also sharply pointed out that the deep root of environmental problems lies in human beings' arrogance and ignorance of nature. Therefore, she called on people to re-correct their attitude towards nature and rethink the development path of human society.

This book contains a total of thirteen short stories and short stories by Akutagawa. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying for the first time the author's understanding of people, his helplessness and despair. There is a mountain of books and a sea of ​​barnyards, and a garden of literature and history. I sink and play in it, and the hook is not hidden, and it is written in a day. It comes naturally at random, randomly, vertically and horizontally, and cannot be suppressed. From the high-ranking officials in the temple to the ordinary people in the city, from the depths of Zichen to the fate of the rivers and lakes, everything he writes about comes immediately and leaps onto the page. Akutagawa is sensitive by nature. Generally speaking, he does not focus on description but focuses on exploration. He pays little attention to narration and focuses on enlightenment. He is less light and unrestrained and more depressed and desolate. This is easily evident from his works.

How many bodies does a person have? Perhaps we have all heard, and many people believe, that people have more than one body. People can be separated, resurrected, and reincarnated. In addition to the flesh and blood body, humans also have a spiritual body, which is called a "spiritual body" in the Bible. Pavich tells us at the beginning of the novel that he has passed away. After his death, he (his second body) told us a story of a double body.

This book is a volume of the "Liao, Western Xia, Jin, and Yuan" series of "China's History" published by Kodansha in Japan. This volume is written by Masaaki Sugiyama, an expert in this research field in Japanese academic circles, and highly recommended by Professor Yao of Fudan University. It directly involves the history of about five hundred years from the second half of the 9th century to the end of the 14th century. The author does not present the history of China from the 10th to the 14th century AD according to the main line of historical changes of "Tang - Five Dynasties - Two Song Dynasties - Yuan" as Chinese people are usually accustomed to accept; on the contrary, the Xia, Liao and Jin, which many people take for granted as blocking and destroying the great cause of national unification that should have been achieved by the two Song Dynasties, are no longer just Several dissonant variations or interludes that appear in the musical drama all play an active and positive role in this book. They run through the process of Chinese history from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. The author believes that the entire history involved in this book is the beginning of the six hundred years of encounter and confrontation between the world history of Eurasia and the history of China.

In 1922, Count Rostov was deemed an unrepentant nobleman and sentenced to house arrest in the Metropolitan Hotel opposite the Kremlin. This gentleman, who had never worked a day before and whose only priority in life was the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge, could only live in the attic of this five-star hotel since then, watching the great changes unfolding in Russia under the wheel of history from a unique perspective. His life has also opened a new chapter. Mysterious actresses, quirky girls, chefs and waiters with different personalities... All kinds of encounters and interactions made him experience diverse, subtle and rich emotions. The limited space of the hotel allowed his spirit to enter a broader world.

This book is the "Qin and Han Empire" volume in the "History of China" series published by Kodansha in Japan. This volume is written by Kazuyuki Tsuruma, an expert in this research field in Japanese academic circles. The author reconstructs the four hundred years of the rise and fall of the Qin and Han Dynasties through document analysis and field investigation, and analyzes the historical process of the Qin and Han Dynasties developing and growing through conflicts with other regional groups, annexing other countries, and ultimately creating the Qin and Han empires. This book particularly focuses on the perspectives of China and Japan in East Asia. Compared with China, the Japanese archipelago society during the Qin and Han Dynasties was quite backward. This was a fact at the time. However, even so, the author believes that it is undesirable to take China as the center and view the border as barbarians from a Chinese perspective. Therefore, we can see that the narrative in this book is not centered on Huayi thought, but pays attention to regional diversity and attempts to understand Chinese history from the perspective of ancient world history.

"Harvard Chinese History 5: The Struggling Empire: Yuan and Ming" is the fifth volume in the "Harvard Chinese History" series. The famous sinologist Bu Zhengmin is unique in narrating the development, rise and fall of the Yuan and Ming empires from the perspective of climate and environmental history, highlighting two major characteristics of this era: the new political order in the East Asian continent after the Mongol conquest and the social survival dilemma caused by environmental changes, thereby presenting China's first coherent ecological history. At the same time, he also discussed a series of important issues such as autocracy, social complexity and commercialization in ancient China.

"Harvard History of China 1: Early Chinese Empire: Qin and Han" is the first volume of the "Harvard History of China" series. Just like ancient Greece and Rome to the West, the two empires of Qin and Han constituted the "classical" era of Chinese civilization. The author Lu Weiyi observes the two early empires of Qin and Han in the overall perspective of global history and Chinese history, and conducts an in-depth discussion on the five main characteristics of this classical era. The book is divided into ten special topics, each of which is ordered by time evolution, comprehensively and systematically showing the overview and evolution of China's Qin and Han dynasties.

"Requiem" is the representative work of Russian poetess Akhmatova. This long lyric poem, composed of fourteen short poems, is one of the most important works in the life of the female poet and one of the rare masterpieces in the history of Soviet poetry. The female poet used this long poem to mourn all the innocent people who died unjustly during the expansion of counter-revolutionary suppression in the 1930s.

"Doctor Zhivago" is a novel by the Russian poet Pasternak, which records the extraordinary experience of an ordinary Moscow doctor during the historical changes in Russia in the first half of the twentieth century. "Doctor Zhivago" truly restored the appearance of Soviet society and the true thoughts of the people - this made the Soviet authorities particularly frightened, and Pasternak's award touched their sensitive nerves even more. The government spared no effort to retaliate, but the author finally became unbearable and "voluntarily" gave up receiving the award. Pasternak also became the first writer to give up accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature since its establishment. Although he was oppressed by power, he was not afraid. Just like Doctor Zhivago in his novel, he stayed true to his sincerity and conscience until death. He said: "We owe a huge debt to our contemporaries. For many years, I only wrote lyric poems or engaged in translation. After that, I felt it was my responsibility to tell our times with novels."

This is a collection of lyrical prose with a strong philosophical nature, which embodies all Gibran's efforts and is the pinnacle of his literary and artistic creation. It is eye-catching. The entire work is rich in philosophy and wisdom. It is a book of aphorisms about life, art, love, and human nature, and is worth reading again and again. The book is full of pictures and texts, and the exquisite translation is accompanied by Gibran's own paintings and illustrations, bringing endless reading pleasure to people.

"Gitanjali" means "poetry" in Hindi. It consists of 103 poems, which were selected by Tagore when he was 50 years old from his three collections of poems - "Navidya", "Kaya", "Gitanjali" and poems scattered in newspapers and magazines since 1908. Tagore integrated modern Western humanism and scientific thought with traditional Indian religion, devoted himself to absorbing the positive meanings of various Indian teachings, and combined modern Western civilization with the spirit of Indian classical philosophy to create a unique "poet's religion." The profound connotation of this philosophy of life is fully reflected in "Gitanjali". As a representative work of pantheism, "Gitanjali" describes the poet's praise of God, his desire for God's arrival, his disappointment in missing God, and his carnival in union with God. It embodies the poet's yearning and contemplation of the infinite world. Isha, Old G's translation enables readers to feel the poet's life passion and invisible power from the lines of poems, guiding readers into the world of passion and love built by the poet.

"The Collection of Flying Birds" was created in 1913. At first glance, this collection of prose poems with dots of thoughts seems to be all-encompassing and covers a wide range of topics. However, in the expression of his thoughts on nature and life, the poet wrote down his philosophical thoughts on nature, the universe and life with lyrical colorful pens, thus giving people many aspects of life enlightenment. Day and night, streams and oceans, freedom and betrayal, all merge into one in Tagore's writings. Isha, Lao G's translator gave this collection of Birds the translation characteristics of a spoken-word poet. The short sentences convey a profound philosophy of life and lead the world to explore the source of truth and wisdom.

In the picturesque countryside of London, five strangers rushed to rescue a hot air balloon accident. However, perhaps it was just a moment of hesitation and selfishness that led to the death of a living person right in front of their eyes. The fragility and perishability of life ignites the protagonist's crazy and persistent love, which also leads to complete chaos and disorder in the world of the other two people. In this book, McEwan, whose creations have matured and become better, uses a detailed presentation of a spiritual crisis and a mental illness to seriously and profoundly explore the infinite possibilities, fragility and helplessness of human emotions, emotions, consciousness and even human nature itself.

After World War II, Leonard, a young British electronic engineer, was sent to Germany to participate in British-American cooperation in intelligence projects. Post-war Berlin was devastated, but the kind and simple Leonard met the beautiful and gentle German woman Maria here, and was involved in a crazy world full of love and sex. Just when the two were inseparable, an accidental murder finally caused the two to pass each other by each other, regretting it for the rest of their lives. This is a romance during the Cold War, a spy war after World War II, and a thrilling criminal psychological novel... As always, McEwan perfectly blends elements such as love, war, suspense, crime, sex, and black humor. What he writes is a desolate and desperate Berlin city, where pure and innocent people have no place to stay, and fear and coldness surround them everywhere until they move into the endless night.

The story of "Saturday" takes place on Saturday, February 15, 2003. The protagonist of the story, Henri Perroin, is a successful man - a famous neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and has a harmonious relationship with his grown-up children. However, the situation in the world he lives in makes him worried - the war in Iraq is approaching, and the general gloom and pessimism are spreading from New York and Washington... On Saturday morning, Perroian passed through the thousands of anti-war demonstrations that filled the streets of London and rushed to play squash with the anesthesiologist. In a minor incident, he had a minor run-in with a thug named Baxter. Perroian relied on his professional sensitivity to see that this guy had a brain malfunction - he had encountered a mental patient. He wanted to get rid of Baxter as soon as possible, but he didn't know that Saturday's troubles would start from here and get out of control...

"The Concrete Garden" is one of McEwan's two "small masterpieces" and one of his most acclaimed masterpieces. This story told by a fifteen-year-old boy who was in the rebellious period of youth is indeed a bit sensational from a secular perspective. After their parents died one after another, the four children - Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom - were trapped in the cement garden like prisoners in the vast world, like survivors on an isolated island. In an isolated world, they interpret the conventional ethics between parents, brothers and sisters, and children, as well as stories that transcend ethics, are shocking yet reasonable.

This is McEwan's first book for children. It tells the story of the daydreams of a ten-year-old boy, Peter. Through seven carefully linked episodes, the grown-up Peter uncovers the mysterious journeys, transformations and adventures of his childhood. Living between dreams and reality, Peter experienced an unprecedented Metamorphosis... In the United Kingdom and the United States, "Peter the Dreamer" was published in the form of an illustrated children's book, while in many other countries, it was published in a more serious form for adults to read. McEwan once again demonstrates his boundless imagination - and a children's book written for adults is born.

Chasing the Sun is McEwan's most ambitious and controversial novel in recent years. Theoretical physicist Michael Beard, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics when he was young but has since been gradually reduced to an academic role, encountered family changes when he entered his twilight years: his fifth wife had an affair and openly had an affair with the home decorator. Beard never expected that things would get out of hand - in a typical "McEwan moment", love turns to blood, stealing turns to murder, and the story takes a sudden turn, which is both shocking and reasonable, reviving Beard's already doomed life chess game. The long-lost ideal light of "saving the earth" actually shined into the dark room of his soul again through a conspiracy that was both accidental and despicable - thus, the good, the bad, the abysmal, the ridiculous, were all forced to be exposed in front of the readers...

Whenever you feel down, watch "John Christopher"! Nobel Prize in Literature classic masterpiece! Romain Rolland took 20 years to write it, and Fu Lei translated it twice and revised it six times, which took ten years. It is recognized as a superior standard for translation. Romain Rolland: "In this chaotic era of endless disasters, I hope that Christophe will become a strong and loyal friend, so that everyone can have the joy of life and love in their hearts, so that everyone can live and love regardless of everything!" Romain Rolland personally ordered four volumes in 1921. The first volume includes the life of Christophe as a boy (Dawn, Morning, Boy), describing the awakening of his senses and emotions. The second volume (Resistance, Festival) is written about Christophe's naive, arbitrary, extreme, and rampant crusade against the social and artistic lies of the time. The third volume (Antoinette, Indoors, Girlfriends) contrasts with the passion and hatred of the previous volume. It is a gentle and quiet atmosphere, a lament for friendship and pure love. The fourth volume (The Burning Bush, Fudan) is about the great difficulties in the middle of life. Almost everything is about to be destroyed, but the result still tends to a clear and lofty state, revealing the dawn of another world.

Fu Lei spent ten years carefully translating it twice, and it is recognized as the preferred translation of "The Biography of Celebrities"! Fu Lei: "I occasionally read the biography of Beethoven, and after reading it I couldn't help crying. I felt like I was illuminated by a divine light, and I suddenly gained the power of new life. I suddenly cheered up like a miracle. This is a major event in my spiritual life." "Celebrity Biography" includes three heroic biographies written by Romain Rolland: "The Biography of Beethoven", "The Biography of Michelangelo" and "The Biography of Tolstoy". The three people in the biography, one is a musician, one is a sculptor and painter, and the other is a novelist, each has his own garden. The three biographies all focus on recording the great genius who dedicated his life to creating immortal masterpieces that can express truth, goodness and beauty on the journey of life's hardships and hardships. The reason why they can persist in their arduous journey depends entirely on their love and confidence in mankind. Romain Rolland called these three great geniuses "heroes".

Tagore adopts three narrative perspectives in "New Moon Collection": child, mother, and poet. Each small poem is a pure perspective, either a mother, a child, or the poet's own omniscient perspective; it reflects the poet's emotional feeling more than people's usual rational cognition. 20 Of the 37 songs in "New Moon Collection" are written in the voice of a child, belonging to a pure child's perspective, and 12 are expressed in the form of mother's love words, which also express the child's actions and psychology. The other five poems are written as poets who transcend mother and child, either looking down at the family love between mother and child, or as if a grown-up child is recalling a beautiful childhood; the latter two can be regarded as the alienation of a child's perspective. Isha, Lao G's translation of Tagore's "New Moon Collection" reflects more the poet's emotional feelings rather than people's usual rational cognition.

The author Ian Kershaw uses ten chapters to examine ten interrelated political decisions with huge military impact made by six major countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy and Japan during World War II from May 1940 to December 1941. From Britain's decision to persist in fighting Germany, to Germany's decision to declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor, to Hitler's decision to exterminate the Jews on the European continent, these decisions transformed two separate wars on the Eurasian continent into a truly global conflict. Although at the end of 1941, the war was still in progress for more than three years, the outcome of World War II was already determined at this time.

"Mysterious Island" describes the story of five Union prisoners who escaped from Richmond in a balloon during the American Civil War. They encountered a storm on the way and were thrown onto a desert island in the Pacific Ocean. On the small island, they united and helped each other, relying on their own wisdom and extraordinary perseverance to survive tenaciously and create a happy life. "Mysterious Island" celebrates human creativity and pioneering power to change difficult environments, and is full of inspirational power.

"Gitanjali" is a classic work by Tagore, the first Indian poet in Asia to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. "Gitanjali" is the transliteration of the Bengali word "song". This book is bilingual in Chinese and English, translated by Bing Xin, and accompanied by exquisite illustrations, with beautiful artistic conception and meaningful writing. Singing in a light and cheerful tone about the prosperity of life, the joy and sorrow of real life, and the yearning for an ideal kingdom, Tagore expresses Tagore's care and thinking about life.

"Captain Grant's Children" is a famous work by Verne, the "father of science fiction". It tells the story of the owner of the cruise ship "Duncan" who obtained a document from the drifting objects at sea and learned that Grant, the Scottish navigator who was lost at sea two years ago, was still alive. He resolutely took the captain's daughter Mary and son Robert and others to search for and rescue him.

This book tells the story of a justice rescue at sea. When the cruise ship "Duncan" was on its maiden voyage in the channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland, the sailors found a sealed bottle in the belly of a captured shark. The bottle contained three incomplete and unclear distress letters, written in English, French, and German, written by the Scottish explorer Captain Grant. From then on, the "Duncan" began its journey around the world in search of Captain Grant...

"Elegant Coolness" is a work about Cesare Borgia, the brother of Lucrezia Borgia, a character who appears in "Renaissance Women". Cesare and Lucrezia were both illegitimate sons of the Pope, but he cleverly used this relationship to ambitiously become the overlord of Italy. The work presents the sensuality and cruelty of Cesare, a young man. Although it is a very early work, it is very much Shiono's style.

"Renaissance Women" by Shiono Nanao mainly describes the fate of four women in four countries during the four periods of the Renaissance to reflect the history of these four countries and eras. This book takes the Renaissance as the main line and tells the story of four influential women in the Renaissance from the second half of the 15th century to the first half of the 16th century - Isabella d'Este, Lucrezia Borgia, Caterina Sforza, and Caterina Cornaro, as well as the lives, thoughts, and art of the Renaissance people connected by them.

"Renaissance Story 06·God's Agent" 1. Angels and Devils, God's Agent's Choice in the Renaissance. Look at the rise and fall of the Renaissance through the lens of four popes. 2. Explain the profound things in simple terms, it is both a historical work and a popular reading. Yu Minhong once said that Shiono Qisheng's historical works are not ideological and allow stories to be combined with evaluation. All eras and characters have been demonstrated and examined, so they are not fictional, but they still retain readability. Reading this book will be a deeply satisfying experience.

At its peak, the Roman Empire ruled from Britain and Spain in the west to the Euphrates River in the east. For thousands of years, the Roman Empire has been regarded as an institutional model for human rule, with a strict defense system, a well-trained professional army, a complex administrative system, and a prosperous transportation and trade network. It was believed at the time that Rome, the "Eternal City," would never fall. "The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History" will use wonderful stories and detailed details to reconstruct the last hundred years of the Roman Empire.