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Nekhludoff met Maslova, the adopted daughter of a relative, and they fell in love with each other, but he seduced her and abandoned her. After Maslova became pregnant, she was kicked out and became a prostitute. Later, she was involved in a murder case. In the court jury, there happened to be Nekhludoff. He fell into guilt and ran around for her in order to atone for his sins. In the process, the two dusty souls gradually awakened and moved towards resurrection.

The story told in the novel took place in Georgia during the American Civil War. It takes the love journey of several young men and women as the main line, and reflects the rise and fall of several southern families as well as the Civil War and post-war reconstruction in the south. The heroine Scarlett was originally a pampered manor lady. After experiencing the war, she finally transformed into a strong, self-reliant businesswoman. Her character has multiple characteristics such as selfishness, greed, determination, daring to love and hate, etc. She is one of the richest, fullest and most classic female images in American novels. The alluring love in the novel has become the most romantic and legendary love story in the history of American novels.

Hardy, the master of novels, is a world-renowned literary masterpiece and a highly regarded classic translation, especially with exquisite illustrations. The illustrated collection of "Tess" is the most famous novel masterpiece by the British novel master Hardy. The poor and beautiful heroine Tess loses her virginity to Alec, a bad boy from a rich family because of her youth and ignorance. She suffers mental and material torture, and loses her true love Claire because of it. Finally, she kills Alec out of grief, anger and despair, and walks to the gallows calmly. The great charm and courage of Tess's humanity and soul make her one of the most touching female images in the literary gallery. Hardy vividly demonstrates his deep-rooted tragic outlook on fate and broad and profound humanistic compassion through the tragic experiences of the pure and beautiful Tess's short life. This book contains a complete set of more than 30 exquisite woodcut illustrations created for the novel by the famous British female illustrator Agnes Miller Parker, which is of great collection value.

"A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) occupies a special position in Dickens's works. It can better reflect the development of the author's thoughts and summarize the spirit of the times more deeply and broadly. The novel is set against the background of the French Revolution. It reflects the persecution of the people by the feudal aristocrats through the experience of a doctor, Manette, who was imprisoned for 18 years for exposing the crimes of the aristocrats, and the plot of a peasant child who died under the aristocrat's carriage, and foreshadows the inevitable coming of the revolution.

This book revolves around the story of Uncle Tom, a black slave who endured many hardships, and describes his experiences with those around him - all slaves and slave owners. This sentimental novel profoundly depicts the cruel nature of slavery; and believes that Christian love can overcome the harm caused by enslaving fellow human beings.

John Christopher, who was born into a poor family, had amazing musical talent since childhood. However, after his grandfather passed away and his father became an alcoholic, the entire burden of the family fell on his weak shoulders. As an adult, Christophe went to Paris alone, eager to defeat fate with his talent and hard work, but the fist of fate knocked him to the ground again and again. Broke out of love three times, suffered repeated humiliation; lost a close friend, lost a close friend; was isolated and slandered; suffered ridicule and cold treatment... Is there fairness in the world? What is the meaning of life? John-Christophe stumbled and was bruised all the way. He finally recognized the cruelty of fate, and his love for life became more and more surging.

Manette, a young doctor, never dreamed that late that night, he would witness a murder of a powerful man. He was determined to seek justice for the victims, but what awaited him was an unexpected prison sentence. Manette disappeared out of thin air, and his wife was struck down by pain. Before her death, she entrusted her friends to raise their daughter Lucy. Eighteen years later, when Lucy grew up, she suddenly received news about her father. She rushed from London, England to Paris, France, and finally met Manette. On the way back to London, the Mannettes and their daughters met the young man Dani and received his careful care. Dani and Lucy accompany each other all the way, and their love gradually grows. However, Dani happens to be the son of the powerful man who framed Manette. The real test has just begun...

I risked my life for my dream and became a lunatic and a fool in the eyes of others, but I finally found my true self and finally lived out the meaning of life! One early morning in July, before dawn, Don Quixote put on his ancestral armor, quietly left his hometown where he had lived for more than 50 years, and embarked on the adventure he had dreamed of. --Since he was a child, he has been addicted to knight novels. He firmly believes that the adventure stories in the books are true. He looks forward to one day that he can travel around the world and do chivalry. For his burning dream, he finally took this step! Following him were only a thin old horse, a rusty spear, a follower named Sancho, and all kinds of challenges... This book has been published for more than 400 years and has been best-selling for more than 400 years. With its great imagination, it has influenced generations of readers and has become a recognized classic among classics. In 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Norwegian Reading Club in Oslo organized a vote of 100 writers from 54 countries and regions, and "Don Quixote" was selected as "the greatest novel in human history." Oakes said: "If there is any book you should read in life, it is "Don Quixote"." Zhang Guangsen, a famous Spanish translator, has a beautiful and smooth translation of the classic. It has been a best-seller for 20 years after its publication and is known as a model of Chinese translation.

"The most precious thing for a person is life. Everyone has only one life." How should a person spend his life? When he looks back on the past, can he not regret that he wasted his years? Not ashamed of your inaction? The hot-blooded young man Paul Korchagin finally found the answer after traveling through the October Revolution, civil war, and economic recovery period in Soviet Russia...

The Southern Mail Line is thrilling. Can we really believe this tranquility? The trade wind blows constantly to the south, blowing through this desert like silk, making a rustling sound. The winds in continental Europe are swirling and lingering; the winds here are not. The oncoming wind was like the wind encountered by a speeding train, pressing heavily on our heads. Sometimes, the night is cruel to us, and when we turn to face the north, we can actually lean against this wall of wind, as if we are about to be blown up by the wind and go upwind to an unknown dark place. What a swift wind, how disturbing!

Apart from the Bible, it is one of the most widely circulated and translated books. It is known as one of the three greatest religious-themed literary masterpieces in the West. It is listed as the three major allegorical works in world literature along with Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Spencer's "The Faerie Queene". It is regarded as "a guide to life pursuits" and "a guide to the journey of the mind" - " "The Pilgrim's Progress" is known as an epic existence in British literature. It is a masterpiece that was condensed from the prison blood of seventeenth-century British writer John Bunyan. It has been translated into many languages ​​and is constantly reprinted around the world. It is one of the most widely circulated and translated books besides the Bible, and is read by people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. The Pilgrim's Progress published this time adopts the translation by the famous translator Mr. Xihai. The translation is plain and accurate, and reproduces the simple and clear writing characteristics of John Bunyan.

To improve your writing skills, read Chekhov. A word is an image, a sentence is a story. The new curriculum standards recommend reading, and the selected articles "The Man in the Trap" and "The Chameleon" are required readings in the "Chinese" textbook. The brand new version combines test points, reading expansion, Chekhov research experts review the full text, and analyzes the test points of key chapters of "Chameleon" and "The Man in the Trap". In the history of human literature, "the world's master of short stories" Chekhov raised the art of short stories to a new level with his concise and powerful writing style. The book selects 18 representative works of Chekhov's novels, including "The Chameleon", "The Man in the Trap", "The Death of an Official" and other famous works. The police officer who adapts to the wind; the conservative and stubborn teacher; the timid official... Each of Chekhov's novels is like a miniature world. Reading Chekhov is reading our own lives. In the history of human literature, Chekhov, the world's master of short stories, used concise and powerful writing methods to deeply observe the daily lives of ordinary people and created a new literary form.

The story takes place in 1888, which is also known as the "Year of the Three Emperors" in Germany. Although Wilhelm II, the last emperor of the Second German Empire, flaunted his reform after ascending the throne, he actually clung to the old tradition of autocratic monarchy. Correspondingly, the novel's protagonist Joachim, who was born in a traditional Junker family, was also influenced by old and new forces, wandering between tradition and modernity. According to the Junker tradition that "the eldest son inherits the family business and the youngest son must join the army", Joachim was forcibly sent to Kulm Military Academy by his parents when he was ten years old, and he has been homeless since then. Twenty years later, when he became a lieutenant, he fell in love with Ruzena, a waitress whom he met by chance. However, after his brother Helmut, the intended heir to the manor, died in a duel with a Polish landowner, he faced a major life decision: inheriting his father's inheritance, taking over the manor, and proposing to the baron's daughter Elizabeth. However, during the decision-making process, sharp conflicts arose between father and son, which eventually led to his father's mental breakdown.

This book is Jane Austen's masterpiece. The author uses humorous writing to tell readers several dramatic love stories around the marriages of several daughters of the Bennet family. The most exciting one is the emotional entanglement between the arrogant young man Darcy and the prejudiced second daughter Elizabeth of the Bennet family. The plot of the book is tortuous and fascinating, the language is vivid and interesting, and the writing style is brisk, giving readers a wonderful artistic enjoyment. In this book, Jane Austen celebrates the beauty of love and also shows the importance of abandoning misunderstandings and stereotypes in the pursuit of true love. This book not only presents a wonderful love story, but also vividly depicts the rural life and social conditions in Britain at that time, which has high reading value.

1. Books recommended by the Ministry of Education and must-read in the new Chinese language curriculum standards. 2. Mr. Wang Junming, a special teacher in Beijing, was specially invited to write the preface for this series of books, and the famous translator Mr. Li Yumin wrote the foreword. 3. Jointly recommended by many top teachers from famous schools. 4. This series of books selects domestic modern classics, as well as authoritative translations of foreign classics by famous translators such as Song Zhaolin, Li Yumin, Chen Xiaoqing, Gao Gaofu, Luo Xinzhang, Li Huifan, and Zhang Er. Interpret the classics in a comprehensive and simple way, and create high-value reading materials for young people with professional quality. 5. Promote intensive reading of classics and guide young people to return to the essence of reading. 6. It profoundly reveals the nature of money and human nature, and opens the prelude to the "human comedy". It is the product of the perfect combination of realism and romanticism, and has had a profound influence in France.

If you are experiencing setbacks, "The Old Man and the Sea" will give you the courage to face it! Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize! Hemingway said: "I can never write a better work than this!" It contains an original Hemingway biography, a special collection of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature award speech, and a special collection of Hemingway's acceptance speech. It's been 84 days and the old man hasn't caught a single fish. On the 85th day, the old man decided to go to sea again. After two days and two nights of hard work, he finally caught a big fish, but on the way back he was eaten by a shark and came ashore with a set of fish bones. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a simple story with only 40,000 words, but it touches the limit of human willpower and makes us realize how much courage people can have when facing setbacks.

All this time, we've only read a third of The Little Prince! "The Little Prince" is only the final chapter of a trilogy. Its prequels, "Sand Stars" and "Night Flight", bury the true and deep meaning of "The Little Prince". Only by reading the complete "Little Prince Trilogy" can you truly understand "The Little Prince". In the common spiritual world of mankind, "The Little Prince" writes about the innocence, sincerity and loneliness of the soul. It has topped the list of "Classic Readings in Human History" and is known as "the book of the soul that everyone must read". It has been translated into more than 300 languages ​​and has more than 400 million readers. Its reading rate is second only to the Bible. And "The Little Prince" is actually just the final chapter of the "Little Prince Trilogy". Without its prequels "Sand Stars" and "Night Flight", we would never have met "The Little Prince"! "The Little Prince Trilogy 2: Wind, Sand and Stars" is a collection of autobiographical essays by Saint-Exupéry. It describes his adventures, travels and philosophy of life when he was a pilot in delicate and sensitive words. It won the 1939 French Academy Novel Grand Prix and the U. S. National Book Award. The fox, rose, and planet B612 in "The Little Prince", including the little prince, can all find their prototypes in "Sand Stars". "The Little Prince Trilogy 3: Night Flight" describes the story of three great pilots fighting storms, brushing against death, and finally achieving the pioneering feat of night flight. It won the French Femina Prize for Literature, and Nobel Prize winner Gide wrote a preface to the book. The various images and thoughts in the book later gradually transformed into the plot of "The Little Prince".

The little prince lives on an asteroid called B612. His daily life consists of cleaning three volcanoes, cleaning harmful baobab saplings, and watching the sunset. One day a rose grew on his planet. The little prince took great care of her, but he often had conflicts because of his emotional ignorance. The little prince ran away sadly and traveled around. He came to the earth, met the fox and the pilot, and also saw the garden of five thousand roses. After seeing and learning a lot, the little prince decided to go back to B612 and his unique rose. What children see in this story is their imagination of the adult world, and what adults see in this story is the value of a beautiful childlike innocence. Every time I reread The Little Prince, it is a reflection on growing up.

"In the World" is the second part of Gorky's autobiographical novel trilogy. The novel describes the life of the protagonist Alyosha from 1871 to 1884. In order to make a living, he and his grandmother picked wild fruits and sold them to make a living. He also worked as an apprentice to a draftsman, a dishwasher on a ship, and an apprentice in an icon workshop. On the road of life, he went through many ups and downs and interacted with people at the bottom of society. At the same time, he also had the opportunity to read a lot of books. Life experience and a lot of reading broadened Alyosha's horizons, and he was determined to "be a strong person and not give in to the pressure of the environment." With this belief, he left his hometown and went to Kazan.

The masterpiece after "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by García Márquez, "Autumn of the Patriarch" is the highest literary masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner García Márquez. It condenses "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Love in the Time of Cholera" and other works into it, and takes magical realism to the extreme. It is known as "the greatest novel in all languages ​​​​in the past 50 years." "Autumn of the Patriarch" uses colorful images, bizarre plots, and overwhelming sentence structures to tell the story of the "autumn" of a dictator who is omnipotent but lonely. He enjoyed all the glory for countless years, but was unable to change his fate of being "incapable of love." So while he used the sin of power to compensate for this shameless fate, he became a lonely sacrifice to himself in a palace with only cows. In "The Autumn of the Patriarch", Marquez incorporates his deep feelings about loneliness: the loneliness of the patriarch is a reflection of Marquez's lonely heart under the aura of fame.

"The Story of Donkey Skin" is one of Balzac's top ten classics. Human desires are like a piece of donkey skin. The more desires we have, the less life we ​​have! Observe the various aspects of life with a smile and read all the customs of the world! "Donkey Skin" is Balzac's first full-length philosophical novel. The novel ingeniously uses a donkey skin to symbolize the contradiction between human desires and life, and uses this to summarize his life experience and philosophical thinking. It tells the story of Valentine, a young man from an aristocratic background who went bankrupt and threw himself into the social scene. When he was desperate, he was about to commit suicide by drowning when an antique dealer gave him a magical donkey skin. This donkey skin can fulfill any of his wishes, whether they are good or evil thoughts, but once the wish is realized, the donkey skin will immediately shrink and his life span will be shortened.

"The Great Gatsby" is a novel by American writer Scott Fitzgerald, set in New York and Long Island in the 1920s. The novel describes how Gatsby, who was born in poverty, went through all the hardships and unscrupulous means to acquire wealth, and later became a "great" rich man in people's hearts. He also struggled to pursue the lover he lost due to poverty in his first love. It reproduced the social reality of the "Jazz Age" in the United States in the 20th century and revealed the temptation and disillusionment of the "American Dream". The novel's text is short and concise, its structure is well-proportioned, and it uses typical scenes and actions, concise and lyrical language to provide readers with a "particularly touching American tragedy" full of charm and beauty.

"Childhood" tells the story that Alyosha's father died of cholera when he was three years old, and his mother took him to live with his grandfather's house. In this family, fathers and sons, brothers, and husbands and wives often quarrel and fight over property and even over trivial matters. My grandfather was moody and had a bad temper. He beat my grandmother fiercely and beat Alyosha unconscious. My grandmother was very kind to Alyosha, telling him legends, fairy tales and folk stories, and she endured all the pressures of life without complaining. The mother was forced to remarry and died of tuberculosis a few years later. After his grandfather went bankrupt, Alyosha was forced to live in the world and began to make a living independently.

The little prince on a distant planet quarreled with the beautiful and proud rose and ran away in anger, starting a journey through the universe alone. While roaming around the planets, the little prince met all kinds of people: arrogant kings, drunkards, profit-seeking businessmen, and dogmatic geographers. Finally coming to the earth, he became good friends with a fox. After a series of wonderful and amazing things, the little prince found the cure for loneliness and pain-responsibility. From the perspective of a child, the author reveals the emptiness, blindness and foolishness of adults, and writes about human loneliness and wandering destiny in simple and innocent language. At the same time, he also expresses criticism of money relationships and praise of truth, goodness and beauty.

"Wuthering Heights" is the work of Emily Brontë, one of the Brontë sisters, a British female writer. It is one of the representative works of British literature in the 19th century. The novel describes the gypsy abandoned child Heathcliff who, after being adopted by the old owner of the villa, went out to get rich due to being humiliated and frustrated in love. After returning, he found that his girlfriend Catherine had married the landowner Linton, and a story of revenge against the landowner and his children followed. The whole novel is filled with a strong fighting spirit against oppression and seeking freedom, and is always enveloped in a bizarre, tense and romantic artistic atmosphere. At first, the work was called a naive fantasy of a young female writer that was divorced from reality. However, combined with the fierce class struggle in the region it describes and the social phenomena in Britain at that time, it was soon highly recognized by critics and warmly welcomed by readers.

Two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, were born into a decent British squire family. The elder sister is good at controlling her emotions with reason, but the younger sister is often emotionally unrestrained. Therefore, when they encounter setbacks in love, they have different reactions: the elder sister endures humiliation and is always kind to others; the younger sister is arrogant and almost collapses... The relationship between the fate and love of the protagonist is related to the fate of the protagonist. The idle squire wife, the snobbish and ruthless brother-in-law family, the hypocritical distant sisters of the philistine, and the three lovers in the girl's heart who are either morally corrupt or upright and weak all appear. The book starts with a comedy, develops into a tragedy, and ends in a comedy. It is a classic story about the marriage and love of a girl without a wealthy dowry, which is known for its delicate writing and vivid dialogue.

The publication of "Ball of Suet" in 1880 made Maupassant famous in one fell swoop, which represented Maupassant's outstanding achievements in short story creation. The author compares "Ball of Suif", a prostitute who is at the bottom of society and is discriminated against, with all kinds of sanctimonious so-called upper-class figures, fully showing the former's beautiful soul with a strong sense of justice and compassion and the latter's extremely selfish, shameless and ugly soul.

"My University" is the last part of Gorky's trilogy of autobiographical novels. "My University" describes Alyosha's life in Kazan. When he was 16 years old, Asha left his hometown with his dream and went to Kazan to study. The hard life forced him to work day and night. In the courtyard of the Tsarist Russian army, on the ship, together with the working people of the lower class, and with all kinds of small citizens and thinkers, they fought tenaciously against the hard life. He tried every means to read and absorbed knowledge eagerly. In this social university without walls, he withstood various hardships and hardships and eventually grew into a determined warrior.

"Hunter's Notes" is a feature collection with a unique form. His first feature "Hory and Kalinich" was first published in the first issue of the Russian magazine "Modern Man" in 1847. Most of the subsequent chapters were also published in the same magazine one after another. Until 1852, the author compiled twenty-one features that had been published successively, plus an unpublished new work "Two Landlords", and published a separate volume under the title "Hunter's Notes". By 1880, the author added three more chapters that were later written: "The End of Chertopkhanov" (1872), "The Sound of the Wheels" (1874), and "The Withered Woman" (1874), totaling twenty-five chapters, which became the final version before and after the author's lifetime. It is this final version that we are basing our translation on today.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells the story of Dorian Gray, who was extremely handsome and kind-hearted. He saw the portrait made by the painter Hallward and discovered his amazing beauty. Under the temptation of the painter friend Lord Henry, he made a wish to the portrait: he would remain youthful forever, and all the vicissitudes of the years and the sins of youth would be borne by the portrait. At first, he didn't take it seriously, but when he toyed with an actress's feelings and caused her to commit suicide, he discovered that the self in the portrait had undergone evil changes. After that, the portrait became ugly day by day, but he remained beautiful. Eighteen years later, Dorian Gray murdered the painter Hallward out of hatred for the painter's work and disgust for his own soul. Later, the actress's brother came to seek revenge, but died unexpectedly. It was the death of the actress' brother that awakened Dorian Gray's conscience. He stabbed the portrait with a knife, but he died mysteriously...

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is the second part of Verne's trilogy, telling a vivid and mysterious collection of marine encyclopedia knowledge! The novel begins with the appearance of "monsters" on the sea and frequently attacks ships from various countries, causing people to panic, and ends with the Nautilus being swallowed by the Atlantic whirlpool. The whole novel is full of suspense and interlocking. Although the underwater scenery shown in the novel is charming, the reader, or the protagonist, is always confused by a mystery. He is always thinking and trying to solve this mystery: Who is Captain Nemo? Why does this talented engineer and knowledgeable scholar hate human society so much? What is the purpose of his roaming under the sea? When is the journey? The terminal point? The repeated escape efforts of Aronnax, Gong Saiyi and Ned Land seem to have been inadvertently frustrated. Can they return to the earth and gain freedom? How will this underwater journey end? The old mystery has just been solved, and new confusions are in front of them. The whole novel unfolds in this atmosphere of unrest and rising.

"How Steel Was Tempered" tells the story of a proletarian hero. Paul was born into a poor railway worker family. He was naive and naughty since he was a child, and had a strong sense of resistance. With the help of underground watchman Zhu Helai, Paul gradually embarked on the road of revolution. After he went to the front line, he fought bravely, made several meritorious service, and was injured several times. He had to leave the front line because of blindness in his right eye. At the local level, Paul continued to fight on the construction line, working hard day and night regardless of injuries. On the freezing road construction site, Paul and the members of the Communist Youth League struggled against cold, hunger, disease and gang attacks. After suffering the heavy blow of being blind and paralyzed in bed, Paul was not thinking about the length of his life, but how to return to combat duty as soon as possible. He finally found a way to fight with laughter instead of swords, and realized his longed-for ideal of rejoining the team.

Joseph K. Was a bank assistant. He was suddenly arrested one day, but the charges were not announced and he was still free to move. He ran around and met many people, including lawyers, maids, businessmen, painters, priests... In order to clear his name, he experienced many weird and incredible things that seemed very "reasonable". Kafka, who was trained in law, used K's experience to depict the cruelty and decay of the modern Western state machine. He used various seemingly bizarre behaviors and language to show the absurdity and fear that ordinary people have nowhere to escape, and to show a "trial" that has no reason, nowhere to escape, and no solution.

"Tess" is one of Hardy's important masterpieces. The novel takes the experiences of the heroine Tess as the main line, describing the conflict between the beautiful poetic image and the surrounding gloomy reality. It vividly describes the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy after capitalism invaded the British countryside at the end of the 19th century and the painful process of individual farmers heading towards poverty and bankruptcy. Through the description of the double persecution suffered by a pure woman both mentally and physically, it reveals the rich and profound spiritual world of a woman, and boldly and ruthlessly exposes and accuses the laws, religion, ethics, marriage system and the essence of capitalism in capitalist society.

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" is the last novel by the famous British novelist Lawrence. The work describes the love story between Connie, the wife of British nobleman Clifford, and May, the forester, after World War I. The protagonist of the story, Connie, is a young married woman, but soon after her marriage, her husband Clifford was injured in the war and was permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Facing the cruel reality, the kind-hearted Connie had to accept it silently. However, the frustration of her unsatisfied sexual life led her to meet a forest guard of the manor... An erotic entanglement began between the young woman and the two men, which deeply demonstrated the true humanity that is cleverly disguised in real life.

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a novel full of children's interest and a very representative work of the American humor master Mark Twain. The story takes place in a small town along the Mississippi River. The young protagonist Tom Sawyer is innocent, lively, unfettered, and pursues freedom. He hates boring homework and a rigid and vulgar living environment, and dreams of living a pirate-style adventure life. In an accident, he and his good friend Huckleberry witnessed a murder case, and overcame their fear, bravely stood up to expose the brutal criminal, and protected the innocent townspeople. In the process, they used their cleverness and wit to solve the mystery of the robbers' treasure and found the treasure, winning the appreciation and admiration of the townspeople.

"Sea Wolf" is one of Jack London's masterpieces. The novel describes a touching fight and an unforgettable love story that took place on a sailing ship named "Ghost" that hunted seals for a living. The "Sea Wolf" in the novel is not only the name of Captain Larson, but also synonymous with Superman for the author. Through his works, the author leads readers into the bold and rough wilderness, experiences the ruthlessness of wild life, and feels the brutal dark side of life and the glory of primitive life; at the same time, he also exposes the underbelly of capitalist society, expressing his praise of the tenacious will of working people and his sympathy for the suffering life.

The character of Carmen comes from the writings of the 19th-century French writer Mérimée. Her alluring charm is world-famous and she is regarded as one of the most mythical female characters in the West. This book also includes nine short stories and short stories, including "The Vision of Charles XI" and "The Capture of the Bastion".

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"The Old Man and the Sea" is the famous masterpiece of American writer Ernest Hemingway. The story tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who drove a small boat alone and caught a particularly large marlin. After being dragged by the big fish at sea for three days, the big fish was exhausted and killed by the fisherman. On the way back, he was attacked by a shark. In the end, only the remains of the backbone of the big fish were left. This work shows a powerful and indomitable spiritual force, for which Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. This book also includes some of Hemingway's best short stories.

"Mother" is a panoramic work that reflects the revolutionary struggle of the Russian proletariat from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. The work shows the entire historical process of the Russian workers' movement, the spread of Marxism, the growth of workers' groups, and the awakening of the people. The transformation of revolutionary struggle from spontaneous to conscious, from economic struggle to political struggle, from urban to rural development, the significance of worker-peasant alliance, the role of revolutionary intellectuals, etc., Are all clearly reflected in the novel. As a result, "Mother" became "a very timely book." At that time, "many workers would unconsciously and spontaneously participate in the revolutionary movement. It will be of great benefit to them to read "Mother" now."

"I Am a Cat" is a famous work by Japan's "national writer" Natsume Soseki, which has a profound influence on Japanese literature. The novel adopts humorous, satirical and comical techniques, and from the perspective of a cat, it describes the daily life of its owner Kushamana and his friends, as well as various phenomena in the human world as seen by the cat. This cat is self-righteous, witty, humorous and witty. The author used his words to ridicule the empty spiritual world of the intellectuals in Meiji society, and exposed the snobbish, vulgar, and ferocious nature of Kaneda and other bourgeoisie and their accomplices.

The novel tells from the perspective of young writer Sal that he, Dean and others took four road trips across the American continent. During the chaotic and exciting, sincere and crazy journey, they got acquainted with homeless people, farmers, workers, and ethnic minorities. These people are also in the "golden age", but the promised "American Dream" is submerged in illusions and bubbles. Sal and Dean indulge in jazz and sex, opening the door to experiencing life and its endless possibilities. They burn themselves and explore the world to their heart's content, pursuing the true meaning of life and the freedom of the soul. This book is an autobiographical novel by Kerouac. In 1951, Kerouac, who was nearly thirty years old, wrote this book in one breath on a scroll of more than thirty meters in just three weeks. After repeated rejections, "On the Road", which he revised six times, was finally officially published in 1957. Afterwards, the book became a sensation in the United States and became popular around the world, becoming a timeless literary classic. Kerouac was also regarded as the spiritual leader of the new generation, inspiring countless young people to follow his footsteps and find the true meaning of life.

This book is a collection of Wilde's classic fairy tales, including "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Happy Prince", "Friends", "The Great Cannon", "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Spanish Princess", "The Fisherman and the Soul", "The Star Boy" and "The Selfish Giant". Wilde's first adult fairy tale has a unique style, ingenious conception, rich imagination, light and alert language, and a lot of irony. Every story told is full of sympathy for society. Fairy tales contain richer social content than fables. When he told fairy tales to his son, he once cried and said: "Really beautiful things make people sad."

In 1895, the 41-year-old Wilde was already well-known in Britain and was in the limelight. Due to his relationship with his friend Percy, he was sued by Percy's father. In prison, Wilde wrote this "Letter from the Abyss". The monologue-style text revealed his feelings for Percy, with hatred mixed with love and tenderness. The book also recorded the views of this spokesperson of aestheticism on beauty, art, and life. Five years later, Wilde died, and this book became his final masterpiece in this world.

The work mainly tells the story of the protagonist Robinson Crusoe, who was born in a middle-class family and aspired to travel around the world throughout his life. Once while sailing to Africa, he encountered a storm and drifted alone to an uninhabited desert island, where he began to live an isolated life. With his strong will and unremitting efforts, he survived on the desert island and returned to his hometown after 28 years, 2 months and 19 days.

Tom lost his mother when he was young and was adopted by his aunt. The smart and naughty Tom couldn't stand the control of his aunt and school teachers, and often skipped school and got into trouble. Late one night, while playing in a cemetery with his good friend Huckleberry Finn, he accidentally witnessed a murder. Fearing that the murderer would discover that they knew about it, Tom and Huckleberry fled to a desert island with another friend and became "pirates". The family thought they had been drowned, but they turned up at their own "funeral". After a fierce ideological struggle, Tom finally stood up bravely and testified against the murderer. Soon after, during a picnic, he and his beloved girl Betsy got lost in a cave. They were hungry and cold for three days and nights, and faced the threat of death. Later, he finally escaped from danger and found the treasure buried by the murderer with his friend Huck.

As the most important representative work of Adam Smith, the "father of modern economics" in the 18th century, this book not only summarizes the experience of capitalist economic development in various countries in the early modern period, criticizes and absorbs the important economic theories of the time, but also provides a systematic theoretical description of the operation process of the entire national economy. It is known as the foundation work of modern economics.

"The Story of the Fox" is a long French animal story poem with a fox as the protagonist. It is the most important and representative work in medieval citizen literature, and is also the most accomplished and influential work of similar story poems in France. It assumes the animal world, endows animals with human actions, language, thoughts and feelings, uses animals as metaphors for humans, and alludes to human society. It vividly expresses the complex contradictions and struggles of medieval French society, and exposes the ugliness and corruption of the feudal ruling class. It has had a great impact on French and even European literature. Its satirical and comedic features are not only the direct source of the works of the famous French fable poet La Fontaine in the 17th century, but also opened the way for realistic novels in the 18th century and critical realist novels in the 19th century.

1. Recommended books by the Ministry of Education, must-reads in the new Chinese language curriculum standard. 2. Specially invited Beijing special teacher Wang Junming to write the preface for this series of books, and the famous translator Li Yumin to write the foreword. 3. Jointly recommended by many special teachers from famous schools. 4. This series of books selects domestic modern classics, as well as authoritative translations of foreign classics by famous translators such as Song Zhaolin, Li Yumin, Chen Xiaoqing, Gao Gaofu, Luo Xinzhang, Li Huifan, Zhang Er, etc. Interpret the classics in an all-round way and create high-value readings for teenagers with professional quality. 5. Promote intensive reading of classics and guide teenagers to return to the essence of reading. 6. "One of the most outstanding pictures" in the "Human Comedy" series by literary master Balzac, exposing the evil of money and the greed of human nature, and successfully creating one of the famous miser images in the history of literature - Grandet.