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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.

"Forster's Short Stories" is the merger of two short story collections "The Omnibus" and "The Eternal Moment" written by E. M. Forster before World War I. It contains a total of twelve short stories. According to the author himself, these twelve short stories are all fantasy novels, among which "The Machine Stops" is a rare science fiction novel by Forster. In another important work, "The Eternal Moment", the author gives a detailed description of the character's inner world, and foresees that the disorderly development of tourism will have a negative impact on small mountain villages and their residents. These twelve stories contain themes that would recur in Forster's later novels, and they present a belief in liberalism, self-actualization, and spiritual honesty, qualities that might be used to defeat oppressive lies.

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.

"The Blade" is one of the most important masterpieces of novels by the famous British writer and "story master" Maugham. Larry Darrell, a young American pilot, met an Irish comrade in the army. In a battle, this comrade died trying to rescue Larry. Larry therefore felt confused about life and could not understand why there was evil and misfortune in the world. After demobilization, Larry refused to go to college or get a job, and wanted to find the ultimate goal in life. For this reason, he left his fiancée and came to Paris, then traveled around the world from Paris, and finally arrived in India. Finally he had a profound understanding of life, returned to the United States, became a taxi driver, and lived in seclusion in the city. The protagonist Larry in "The Blade" is based on the famous philosopher Wittgenstein, and vividly and profoundly explores and displays the mental journey of an entire generation of Western intellectuals in their search for the meaning of life.

"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.

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"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.

"Lisa of Lambeth" is Maugham's debut novel and his famous work. On October 3, 1892, the 18-year-old Maugham became a student at St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School in London. His five-year medical career not only gave him the opportunity to understand the living conditions of the people at the bottom, but also taught him to use a scalpel-like cold and sharp gaze to dissect life and society. His first novel, "Lisa of Lambeth," was written in a naturalistic style based on his experiences as a trainee doctor delivering babies in the slums. It describes the short life and tragic death of Lisa, a beautiful girl who lives with her widowed mother in the slums. It truly reflects the daily life of working-class Londoners at the turn of the century through a working-class adultery story. Authentic, bold, and empathetic humor.

"The Veil (Collected Works of Maugham)" is the author's representative novel. According to the author, this is a novel that starts from a story rather than a character; the title of the book refers to Shelley's poem "Don't Lift This Colorful Veil": "Don't lift this colorful veil, all living beings call it life..." In the 1920s, the beautiful and vain Katie came to this Eastern colony with her husband Walter, a bacteriologist in the Hong Kong government. Desperate for love, she fell madly in love with the seemingly romantic Assistant Colonial Secretary Charlie Townsend. After their affair was exposed, Katie discovered that her tall and handsome lover was just a selfish and vain villain. In despair, she followed her husband to practice medicine in a cholera-ravaged area. Forced by her awakening conscience, she went through the painful process of turning a cocoon into a butterfly, re-examining her life path and learning how to love...

If you feel out of place in a crowd, definitely read The Outsider! The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Camus! A masterpiece of French existentialist literature, a masterpiece of French absurd philosophy, and an immortal masterpiece in the history of literature! In the history of human literature, "The Outsider" shows the absurdity of the world from its unique perspective, and has become a great work of epoch-making significance in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. The "outsider" has thus become the most classic character image and one of the most important keywords in the entire Western literature\u002F philosophy. Top 10 classic openings in literary history: Today, my mother died. It could have been yesterday, I don't know. Meursault, a clerk in the company, was accused by the court of murder, but he was sentenced to death because he "did not cry when his mother was buried." In our society, anyone who does not cry at his mother's funeral is liable to death.

This is the story of two professional women in their 30s who finally break through the cocoons that symbolize emotional constraints and move towards a new life. The strong Mai who commits violence against her husband appears to have the upper hand, but in fact she blames herself for not being able to treat her husband as an equal due to the guilt of the abuse, and is deeply controlled by her husband who gains self-esteem by mentally dominating others without realizing it. However, Kiko's feelings for her boyfriend are also obsessed with a reciprocal relationship. She is trapped in the beautiful fantasy she spun and cannot extricate herself. In the game of mutual control with her boyfriend, all she gets in the end is disillusionment. At the end of the novel, after several struggles, the two women, Mai and Kiko, finally emerged from their cocoons together. The scene of them looking up at the falling snowflakes side by side is thought-provoking. What kind of relationship will the two women who can't stand their male partners form in the future? This open ending gives readers more room for imagination. The author raises unanswered questions such as "What is an equal relationship?" "What is legitimate equality?" "Is there equality between men and women?" "Can obsession with equality maintain the relationship between men and women?" And other unanswered questions, leaving it to the readers to find the answers themselves.

A pair of twins, the disliked one survived, but the other died in the ruins of the earthquake. He looked at his name engraved on the cold tombstone, but buried under the tombstone was his sister. Do you want to live in the name of another person? Do what she likes to do and eat what she likes to eat? People who "died" in the earthquake were reborn on the southern island. Four people with different destinies met in the same place. On that island, tomorrow is closer than elsewhere, and the light is a little longer than the darkness. We regained our shattered hopes on that island. In order to survive, for you, I work hard alone. There is an island in everyone's life, where the courage and hope of life are hidden.

Twenty years ago, ghost ships appeared one after another on coastlines around the world, with the bodies of unknown men on board. At the same time, a beautiful woman named Yan Rushuang came to Wufengdu and opened an inn called "Dukou Xishi". One day, a young couple came to the inn. The man had delicate features and the woman had a big belly. After that, Yan Rushuang and her young couple disappeared together, leaving only traces of the tragic fight and blood on the ground. After twenty years of reincarnation, Daqian Mountain is overflowing with evil spirits. What is hidden in the mysterious Ghost Lotus Pond? What kind of horror will Bai Xiaoyan and others encounter on the way to Ghost Lotus Pond? A large ship sailed to the Pacific Ocean, with Duanmu, Bai Xiaoyan, Zhang Xin, Fatty Shi and others sitting on it. Blue sky and blue sea, chatting and laughing, everything seems perfect and happy. However, at this time in the Beiming Islands, a greater crisis is waiting for them to resolve. All the excitement is in the fantasy series "Face Changer"...

He is the supreme emperor in the Nine Heavens. His joy and anger affect the whole world, but he has evil thoughts about his apprentice. Linyuan feels that this matter is very complicated, because this little guy is less than a fraction of his age, and he really can't say it! She is the little empress adopted by Tianjun. She is full of fierceness and decisiveness. She is a famous female war goddess in the heaven, but she blatantly covets her master. Cangling feels that knocking down her master and cultivating together with him is the goal she has been striving for throughout her life. One day, Xiao Diji confessed her love to the master. . . . . As the co-owner of heaven and earth, the emperor was completely boiling. . . . This excitement made the emperor's brain twitch, and he rejected the little emperor. As a result, the little Emperor Ji was demoted to the next level, and the peach blossoms around her started to bloom! The emperor finally couldn't sit still anymore, so he pinched one of the peach blossoms. The Prince of the Dragon Palace of the West Sea built a Crystal Palace for her? Demolished! The young master of the demon tribe raised the Heart Corruption Gu for her? Ruined! What? The Third Highness of the Demon Clan lost his innocence because of her? Which god did this? Cangling gnashed his teeth in hatred: "Linyuan, you old man, get as far as you can from me!" The emperor smiled lightly, showing his peerless beauty, "Cang Cang, I have already rolled to your side." . . . . . . . . In the entanglement of three lives and three lives, they forgot everything related to each other, except for the words that fell in her ears, "Cang Cang, my heart is happy for you." No matter the countless changes in the world, from the prehistoric to the present, it will always remain unchanged. He spent tens of millions of years waiting to set up a huge plan, just to wait for her to be reborn again. He said: "Cang Cang, all my first times are yours, you have to be responsible for me!" He said: "Cang Cang, come on, ravage me to your heart's content, He said, "Cang Cang, I have lived too long, the years are too long, the meaning of my existence is to love you! " At the end, Cangling knew that in order to lure her into the game, he endured the pain of breaking his bones and burning his body on the Qinglong Platform, and suffered the punishment of the gods in order to reverse the fate of his marriage. . . . She said: "Linyuan, you bastard, if you don't come back, I will forget you. "This article is 1V1, everything else is just a cloud! One day, the Emperor was sitting by the Yunlu Pond, reading a scripture with one hand and teasing the locust tree at his feet with the other, "Recently, you seem to have lost some weight. " Canghuai lay on the ground and screamed a few times, then stuck out her tongue and licked the palm of his hand. "You can't stand it either, can you?" S Canghuai hummed a few times and wagged his tail. "That little guy's cooking is really good. . . . . . " "Master, come and try the sauced elbows I made! "A girl in black clothes suddenly appeared, holding a plate of something in her hand. It was too dark to tell what it was. The Emperor looked down at the food on the plate and frowned, "Little guy, are you sure this is edible? " The girl smiled and came forward in a flattering manner, "Master, I've been making it all morning, why don't you try it. " The Emperor continued to frown. . . . . "Master, if you eat it, you will be rewarded in the evening. "The girl smiled as brightly as a flower. As a result, the emperor ate a whole plate of black stuff without any change of expression. "Father, you are so spineless." Not far away, a pink and tender dumpling rolled his eyes in disdain. "Does Ajin want to eat too? " "Well. . . Mother, why haven't you slept with Ajin these days? "Xiao Tuanzi quickly changed the topic. "Uh. . . . "This reason is really hard to explain. Cangling glanced at a man who was sitting upright, coughed a few times, and said, "Mother has been a little tired these days, and I'm afraid it will disturb Ajin's sleep. . . . . " "Nonsense, my father must have taken you away in the middle of the night! "Xiao Tuanzi clenched his fists with an angry look on his face. The emperor calmly put down the scriptures and cast a faint glance at his dumpling, "Nonsense, it's obviously your mother who is sleepwalking. " ". . . . . . . . . . " "Didn't you say there was a reward tonight? " "There is also a plate of sauced pork elbows in the kitchen as a reward for your extra meal in the evening! "Cang Ling ran away after saying that. The emperor picked her up in his arms, turned around and said to Tuanzi: "Ajin, take care of your family, my father wants to take your mother to have a weekend break. " Xiaotuanzi looked innocent, "What is a double break? " "A new spell that can promote blood circulation and promote good health. " "Ajin also wants to learn! "Xiaotuanzi yelled. However, the emperor had already disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a charming female voice floating in the air, "Lin Yuan, you are so dishonest. . . . . "

The so-called cultivation of immortality must be to stand out by standing on the bones of everyone. It is destined to be a cruel and lonely road of no return About family love, it said to her "You have to learn to be lonely. There won't always be someone behind you to support you. The only person who can be with you in these long years is you alone." It is ironic about rumors "Some people always like to trace the source and think they are right. After all, there are very few people who are truly informed, and most of the so-called truths are just fabrications." When the final fate came, Lu Yuchao laughed and cried and fought back "I can get used to not having anyone's company, but I can't have the power of heaven and remain indifferent and do nothing! Even saying expressionlessly to those who shouldn't be struggling in the abyss that this is their destiny? They are really unlucky. They were born into the world just to live for such a bad fate."

"Tagore Poetry Color Gallery" contains Tagore's most representative "Birds" and "New Moon", and selects the essence of works such as "Stories and Poems", "Travel Thoughts", "Fruit Collection" and other works. These poems have clear language and meaningful meaning, perfectly displaying lyrical and philosophical thoughts in front of readers, and can give people endless beauty.