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On the vast Asian continent, there are Chinese civilization in East Asia, West Asian civilization, Sanskrit civilization in India, and Japanese civilization. Various heterogeneous civilizations are connected through transportation links, compete with each other, and compensate for each other, thus unfolding a grand picture of the development and evolution of Asian history. From this, we can further understand the true history of all mankind. In the book, the author puts forward the "theory of West Asian civilizations flowing eastward" and opens up a new field of "Asian history", focusing on examining the transportation connections between civilizations. Through the transfer and changes of transportation lines, he reveals the historical trends of the rise and fall of civilizations and the evolution of the times.

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"Postwar European History" is the most important representative work of Tony Judt, the most respected historian and thinker in the world today. It took 20 years to conceive and 10 years to write. It extensively uses documents in 6 languages, covers 34 countries, and takes into account Western and Eastern Europe. Covering the whole of Europe, it is the first master-level historical masterpiece that comprehensively displays the political, economic and cultural changes in modern Europe over the past 60 years. It is highly recommended by European and American political leaders such as President Barroso of the European Commission, President Schulz of the European Parliament, and the visiting Uzbekistan. From brutal genocide to the advocacy of human rights values, from fascism sweeping the world to the disintegration of the Soviet Eastern European socialist bloc, from free capital markets to big-government welfare states, from arms races to the establishment of the European Union for mutual assistance and cooperation, from tariff barriers to the unified currency Euro... Europe is a laboratory of human activities. It has experienced the baptism and experimentation of various political systems, ideologies, social systems, economic orders, and cultural trends of thought. No wonder, Tony Judt said: "Like a fox, Europe knows a lot." For the modern public, "it is impossible to understand the world without understanding Europe." "Postwar European History" is a masterpiece that Tony Judt, the top contemporary historian, has worked on for more than ten years. From the end of World War II to the beginning of the 21st century, this book shows the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Europe, comprehensively and concisely reproduces the reality and spiritual process of Europe's reconstruction on the ruins of the war, and reveals Europe's future path toward unity and self-reliance. Tony Judt used keen observation, profound humanistic care and superb narrative ability to refine the sixty years of European history from 1945 to 2005 into a fascinating, significant and deeply personal work. "Postwar European History" has received rave reviews since its publication and won numerous awards. It has been hailed as "the best book on postwar European history" and "a great book that cannot be surpassed in the short term". It has become a "must-read classic for the public to understand the modern world."

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"Kojiki" systematically records Japanese myths and legends, and launches a tour of Japan's origins and style in ancient and unrestrained stories. The book is divided into three volumes. The first volume records the origins and myths and legends of Japanese gods, focusing on the formation of Japan's territory and the beginning of the emperor. The middle volume and the second volume are the records and legends of the thirty-three generations of Japanese emperors from Emperor Jimmu to Emperor Suiko. Historical facts are mixed with fiction. The records mainly focus on the Japanese emperor's conquests and quelling chaos, administrative structures, royal family legends, etc.

"The Bathhouse of the Floating World" was written between 1809 and 1812. The book consists of two volumes. The first part describes the scene in the men's section of the bathhouse, which lasts from early morning to afternoon, with a lively and noisy atmosphere. There are dozens of characters among the bathers, including the paralyzed Dou Qi, a 70-year-old reclusive old man, Kinbei with his child, a quack doctor who plays nonsense, a stranger who mistakes someone else's underwear for a towel, a drunkard, a blind man, and 19 small scenes. The second part describes the women's section of the bathhouse, which is equally lively. There are women of various identities in the bathhouse, including geishas, ​​maids, daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, mothers-in-law, wet nurses, etc., With a wide age range, and a total of 16 small scenes. The characters of each of the men, women, and children who come to bathe are vivid and interesting through dialogue. In the mist-shrouded bathhouse, the families are mixed up, and the world is mixed, weaving all kinds of interesting aspects of the life of the common people in Edo.

"Chinese Classical Literature Masterpiece Series: The Complete Biography of Fenzhuanglou" is one of the sequels to "The Later Biography of the Tang Dynasty". The novel tells a story: descendants of Luo Cheng, Cheng Yaojin, Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong and others who were the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty gathered to revolt. Luo Cheng's descendants, the hereditary Duke of Yue, Luo Zeng, and his two sons, Luo Kun and Luo Can, were framed by the treacherous Prime Minister Shen Qian for no reason and were forced to have no choice. So they gathered together with other founding heroes in Jizhao Mountain to form their own alliance, and jointly led the army to defeat Wudao. In the end, Shen Qian's traitorous party was killed, and Emperor Qiande of the Tang Dynasty was helped to revitalize the imperial court. The author compiled it into a portrait novel with a total of 80 chapters based on the official history, unofficial history, as well as popular stories and folklore. The novel inherits the narrative skills of commentators since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The writing is easy to understand, jumpy and lively, and expresses freely. It has a strong market atmosphere and is highly artistically expressive. The plot has ups and downs and is fascinating. The characters are vivid and distinctive, with great individuality. The artistic style is simple and rough, and the language is clear and clear. "Chinese Classical Literature Masterpiece Series: The Complete Biography of Fenzhuanglou" has spread rapidly since its publication, arousing strong repercussions. Even the script version of the Peking Opera "Fengzhuanglou" compiled by later generations has been continuously performed.

"Chinese Classical Literature Masterpiece Series: The Scholars" mainly includes "Zang Zhufu seeks talents and inquires about his career, Ma Chun goes out of his way to save wealth," "Zang Gongsun's bookstore sends his good friend Ma Xiucai to meet the gods in the cave," and "Buries the gods and the gods Ma Xiucai" Kuang Tongsheng paid tribute to his grieving parents, paid tribute to his filial son in Daliuzhuang, married a beloved scholar from Xianzai in Yueqing County, Kuang scholar returned to his old place where Dr. Zhao was a high-ranking poet, and made an appointment with famous poets to visit a friend's bookstore with Kuang and Pan San, etc.

"Chinese Classical Literature Masterpiece Series: Biography of the Later Tang Dynasty" mainly tells the story of the heroes of Wagangzhai who gathered together to rebel against the Sui Dynasty and assist the founding of the Tang Dynasty. It reproduces the turbulent era when the Eighteenth Route Army rebelled against the king and the Sixty-fourth Route was ashes. Representative characters include the chivalrous and righteous Qin Qiong (Qin Shubao), the young hero Luo Cheng (Luo Shixin in history), the rough, humorous, and honest Cheng Yaojin (Cheng Zhijie), etc.

This book is based on a real event. It mainly describes the male protagonist Nekhlyudov seducing his aunt's maid Maslova, making her pregnant and driving her out of the house. Later, she became a prostitute and was tried for murder. The hero appeared in court as a juror and was deeply condemned by his conscience when he saw the woman he had seduced in the past. He ran to avenge her and asked to marry her to atone for his sins. After his appeal failed, he accompanied her into exile in Siberia. His actions touched her and made her fall in love with him again. But in order not to damage his reputation and status, she finally did not marry him and married a revolutionary.

"Life of Pi" is a masterpiece by the famous writer Jan Martel. It describes the magical story of an Indian boy and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker who were reborn after drifting in the Pacific for 227 days. The novel is about adventure, hope, miracle, survival and confidence. It is a story that can make people believe, and at the same time, it also allows readers to re-understand literature and believe in the power of literature. The book's realistic and imaginary maritime adventures and the contradictions of human nature that coexist with innocence and cruelty are ingeniously combined, creating a constant climax of reading surprises.

This book is the second monumental novel by the great writer Tolstoy. The protagonist Anna is an upper-class lady. She is young and beautiful, pursuing individual liberation and freedom of love, while her husband is a "bureaucratic machine" with an indifferent temperament. A chance encounter with a young military officer made Anna fall in love, and she resolutely left her husband and children to live with her sweetheart. But the longing for her son and the pressure from the surrounding environment made her fall into pain and uneasiness, and she gradually discovered that the sweetheart around her was not an ideal lover with single-minded affection. After experiencing a series of blows such as the loss of her son and a love change, Anna found that she could no longer live in this hypocritical society. In despair, she chose to commit suicide by lying on the train. The novel profoundly exposes the ugliness and hypocrisy of the Russian upper class in the 1860s and 1970s. It also expresses the author's moral and ideological exploration during the period of social transformation.

"Looking at Art from Another Eye" includes 17 art essays published by Barnes in "Modern Painters", "Times Literary Supplement", "London Review of Books" and other journals, as well as 50 relevant full-color masterpieces by the painter, with a special appendix of the author's preface. Beginning with Gericault's "The Beach" art review (included in "Chapter 101\u002F2 World History"), writer Barnes turned his attention to the field of art and has since written a series of art essays with a unique style. Starting from the unprecedentedly prosperous French painting scene in the nineteenth century, Barnes leads us through the stories of seventeen artists - Géricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fontaine-Latour... Leading us all the way to romanticism, realism, and then modernism.

Tom was originally a little boy who was a chimney sweep. He didn't know who his parents were and was abused by his master every day. An accidental experience, with the help of a fairy, Tom became a water child and lived a carefree life. Tom, who became a water child, experienced a strange and interesting journey. For example, the history of Xiaoyao Kingdom made Tom understand the good and evil of human beings. Finally, under the education of fairies, Tom overcame the flaws in his character and bravely rescued his master Grimm, who had done many bad things.

This book includes three biographies: "The Biography of Beethoven", "The Biography of Michelangelo" and "The Biography of Tolstoy". The work emphasizes the spirit of freedom and allows the world to "breathe the breath of heroes." The three biographies of this book are all extremely talented and great figures in human history. Their lives are rich and colorful, their works are profound and magnificent, and their influence lasts for generations. Romain Rolland firmly grasps these three artists in their respective fields. The similarities between them are focused on depicting their mental journeys of enduring hardships and ups and downs without changing their original intentions in the troubled life journey, highlighting their noble personality, fraternal emotions and broad mind, thus composing another "heroic symphony" for us.

Mark Savoie is drawn into a life-and-death battle, all stemming from an unsolved Cold War mystery involving his first love, and a time when Russia is in the midst of change. Mark Savoie, the former CIA station chief in Azerbaijan, was newly married and his daughter was just born. His spy leasing business in Central Asia was also very successful. Then he received a call from the U. S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. One of his spies, 72-year-old Larry Bland, had died of a heart attack in the hotel. He boarded a plane to Tbilisi, then entered the hotel room where Bran died, and was surprised to find an oil painting, which showed a woman he was very familiar with... The next four days were the most violent and thrilling four days in his life: he must fight against the nightmares of the past and protect himself and the future of the country he loved.

Nobel Prize in Literature The Collected Works of Hermann Hesse. Hesse spoke the language of young people, and he is the most read German writer. Hesse represents an old, true, pure and spiritual Germany. His writing is full of humanitarian spirit and love for mankind.

This is a strange book in the history of French literature. It seems absurd and full of nonsense. In fact, it is rich in connotation and covers a wide range of topics. It can be called an encyclopedia of French humanist thoughts during the Renaissance. The book is divided into five parts: the first and second parts expound the various propositions of humanistic theory by narrating the birth, education and great achievements of Gargantua and Panguay; the latter three parts use Panguay, Baruch and other partners to search for the sacred bottle and travel around the country to study marriage problems as clues, showing a broad picture of medieval society, exposing and criticizing the various shortcomings of the society at that time.

The book begins with an exploration of familiar imagery from the French Revolution, from Dickens, Baroness O'Shea, and Tolstoy, as well as the legend of "if there's no bread, let them eat cake" and the tricolor flag. Then, through a brief examination of the ancien régime and its collapse, Doyle analyzes how revolutions come about: how they become obsolete and how achievements fail to satisfy ambition. Doyle strives to make readers realize that the French Revolution destroyed long-lasting culture, institutions, and social structures in France and beyond, and that we are still living with the legacy of this revolution today. The final part of the book considers why this revolution caused so much controversy.

This book is Freud's classic work on psychohistory about Leonardo da Vinci's childhood memories. It analyzes the psychological subconscious state presented in some of Leonardo's paintings. This was his only large-scale foray into the field of biography. The themes he studies range from Leonardo's emotional life from his early years, the conflict between his artistic and scientific impulses, the trajectory of his psychosexual history, to equally important sub-themes: the psychological nature of the creative artist, the origins of a special type of homosexuality, the concept of narcissism, which is of particular importance for the study of the history of psychoanalytic theory. These are all presented to the reader completely without exception.

"New Yorker" reporter Elizabeth Colbert has personally experienced global ecological scenes one by one, interweaving three centuries of scientific knowledge and the latest ecological perspectives to draw an outline of today's world for readers: We are indeed living in an extraordinary era, and the sixth mass extinction of species has begun. There are thirteen stories. The American mastodons, great auks and ammonites mentioned in the previous stories have become extinct. This part mainly introduces the ancient mass extinction and its tortuous discovery process. Part Two lays out the realities of the present, in the increasingly fragmented Amazon rainforest, on the slopes of the rapidly warming Andes, and in the outer waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The scope of the great changes is so vast that with the right guidance, extinctions can be found anywhere. Finally, there is a story about an extinction that pretty much happened in my backyard-and maybe in yours at the same time. As the story progresses, readers can gradually realize, like scientists, that the source of the current round of mass extinction lies in humans themselves.

"Chrysanthemum and Sword (Sparks Collector's Edition)": A tasteful visual feast, with a free Sparkle Collection, containing more than 600 exquisite sparkles, covering everything secular in modern Japan, and has collection value. It also selects dozens of master illustrations such as "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" and "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon", painted by Katsushika Hokusai, Tsukioka Yoshitomo, etc.

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"Journey to the Center of the Earth" was first published in 1864 and is one of Verne's early famous science fiction novels. The story tells that the German geologist Lidenbrock, influenced by a coded letter from his predecessor, took his nephew and guide on an adventure trip through the center of the earth. They descended from a volcano crater in Iceland, overcoming difficulties such as lack of water, getting lost, and storms along the way, and finally returned to the ground along a volcano in Sicily. This work has a tortuous plot and fluent language. With its extraordinary imagination, it presents readers with a fantasy world that transcends time and space.

The story takes place in 1864. During a voyage, Sir Glenarvan, the owner of the cruise ship Duncan, got a drift bottle, which contained clues about the Scottish navigator Captain Grant who was in distress and disappeared two years ago. In order to rescue Captain Grant in distress, Sir Glenarvan took his wife, his sailors, Captain Grant's children, and the geographer who accidentally entered the cruise ship on a journey to find Captain Grant. Floods, wolf attacks, scams... They experienced numerous hardships along the way, overcame all dangers with wisdom and courage, and finally rescued Captain Grant on a small island.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" tells the story of naturalist Professor Aronnax who accepted an invitation to participate in tracking the so-called narwhal. Unfortunately, he fell into the sea together with his follower Conseil and whaler Ned Rand. They were lucky enough to swim to a floating "island", which was the "narwhal" they were tracking - the submarine Nautilus. Captain Nemo allowed them freedom on the boat, but did not allow them to leave. In this way, they followed the Nautilus and began a fantastic underwater exploration journey. They crossed the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Antarctic and Arctic Oceans, saw the wonderful and spectacular underwater world, experienced various thrilling dangers, tried to escape many times but failed, and finally survived the desperate situation and returned to land. The submarine Nautilus was missing. Professor Aronnax makes his ten-month adventure public.

"The Biography of Fu De" is one of the 12th volume of Fu Lei's translation collection. It permeates the translator's thoughts and feelings. He allows us to "breathe the breath of heroes" and challenge the tragic fate. We know that life is suffering and tragedy, but we must also struggle and perform in a vivid way.

"Love and Sacrifice" is the work of the famous French biographer and novelist Mauroa (now translated as Mauroa). This book was translated by Fu Lei in his early years. It aims to strengthen life cultivation and improve the quality of the people. "It can give some hope to the decadent people and add some courage to the fighting heroes." It is a rare self-cultivation reading today.

The book "Uncle Bangs" tells that Uncle Bangs is an honest and noble musician. He had a very high artistic taste and would do anything to enrich his collection of paintings. When people didn't know he had these treasures in his house, no one took him seriously. When people learned of the value of these famous paintings, people from the upper class, led by the president's wife, tried every means possible to gain his wealth.

"Gulliver's Travels" is a novel that combines satire and adventure. In the fictional country of these authors, there are strong traces of the British society in the 18th century. Through the protagonist's travels through different countries, the author reveals the various contradictions in British society at that time and makes a bitter satire on the British political system. Because he encountered a storm during a sea voyage, the surgeon Gulliver accidentally broke into a strange place, and his incredible adventure began: he encountered a war in the Lilliputian country, successfully defeated the enemy and became a hero worshiped by thousands of people; he was treated as a doll in the adult country, and he escaped with a narrow escape; in the flying island country, the strange phenomenon of black self-inversion and confusion of right and wrong makes people laugh and cry... The story is full of whimsical ideas, which makes people laugh and think at the same time. The focus and innuendo on real life also won "Gulliver's Travels" a high honor, making it one of the representative works of British satirical novels.

"The Autobiography of Franklin" has influenced several generations of Americans and is still one of the most important and most widely read autobiographies in the United States. This book contains many insights on how to achieve success through hard work, as well as many moral truths and warnings to the world. It is considered an excellent book in the United States that has changed the destiny of countless people. "The Autobiography of Franklin" is one of the most important and most widely read autobiographical works in the United States to date. It has epoch-making significance both from the perspective of autobiography and from the perspective of American intellectual history. Franklin narrated his experiences of success and lessons of failure in a homely way. The entire autobiography has sparks of wisdom and philosophy from time to time in the easy-to-understand narrative, creating a fine tradition of American biographical literature and making autobiography a new literary genre. "The Autobiography of Franklin" was published while readers were eagerly waiting for it, and it was sold out as soon as it came out. Young people all over the world want to learn the secret of Franklin's success, and they regard this book as a "life guidance" reading.

"Walden" is a collection of essays written by American writer Henry David Thoreau. In the book, the author describes in detail the two years and two months he spent in a regenerated forest on the shores of Walden Pond and his many thoughts during this period. The book begins with spring, goes through summer, autumn and winter, and ends with spring. Just like a cycle of life, the end is also the starting point, and life begins to recover. The whole book is full of tranquility, tranquility and wisdom. In analyzing life and criticizing customs, the sentences are astonishing, the words are shining, the insights are unique and thought-provoking. After reading it, readers will naturally feel the purity of the soul and the sublimation of the spirit.

"Nalan Ci" is a collection of poems written by Nalan Rongruo, a famous poet in the Qing Dynasty. The themes involve love, friendship, scenery and other aspects. Whether writing about scenery or chanting history and recalling the past, they are all sentimental, elegant and thoughtful. They have left an indelible mark in the history of Chinese literature and have a very high status and special influence. This book selects one hundred and fifty-four of Nalan's poems, with translations, annotations, and reviews, supplemented by fifty-seven beautiful classical paintings. The poems and paintings complement each other, striving to perfectly present to readers the beautiful sentiments written by a generation of talented people.

"Colonel Chabe" includes three tragic novellas with themes between couples: "Colonel Chabe", "Honoline" and "Confinement". Like all the author's works, each novella contains a strong contrast between good and evil, right and wrong, beauty and ugliness. Gentlemen and ghosts and monsters are mixed side by side, which makes people laugh and cry after reading it. Only in this way can we realize the profound significance of "The Human Comedy".

"Insect Diary" combines science and literature, which also means that it has both scientific rationality and literary sensibility. The book reveals witty words from time to time, puts forward in-depth thinking on the value of life, and attempts to incorporate deeper meanings into science. The rational component in "Insects" is reflected in the author's research and thinking. In his observation and research on insects, Fabre conducted repeated experiments and verified various materials. He dared to question mainstream academic opinions, explored and pursued the truth, and did his best to continuously explore and supplement the knowledge structure. He did not easily draw conclusions about his own observation results, and at the same time showed his skepticism and his own limitations. While expressing his thoughts while observing insects, he clearly realized the arrogance of human beings and the barbarism of mechanized society. He often ridiculed the rigid prejudices of human beings in his words, and carefully thought calmly about the current situation of society.

"Alpe Savaron" tells the story of a young man who graduated from law, Albert Savaron, who fell in love with the Italian princess Francesca Colonna. In order to be able to match his beloved, after more than ten years of hard struggle, he was finally separated by others, abandoned the world and entered a monastery.

"Aunt Bei" is a novel written by French writer Balzac in his later years. The story takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The Baron had served as a military auditor and director of munitions in the republican era. Now he was the head of one of the most important departments of the War Department, and was also a counselor of state. He was awarded the second class of the Legion of Honor. The novel describes how, driven by crazy passion that lost his reason and morality, he gradually ruined the reputation of his family and the honor of the army, embarked on the criminal path of speculation, fraud, and embezzled military funds, and finally lost his reputation. Hulot is a very symbolic character. His fall means the end of the glory of the old era and reflects the moral corruption of the entire upper class. The typical example of Aunt Bei belongs to Balzac's style and also shows the deepening of Balzac's creation. This is a "paranoid" character, and a complex full of contradictions: city and countryside, civilization and barbarism, rebellion and decadence, are cleverly intertwined, integrating rich life connotations and social consciousness.

People who act solely on instinct are at a disadvantage in front of smart people, that is, they will be seen through very quickly. Thoughts based on instinct are too simple, too dazzling, and can be easily understood at a glance. It is no better than understanding scheming thoughts. Both parties must be equally intelligent.

"Eugénie Grandet" tells a story about money destroying humanity and causing family tragedy. Centering around the central event of Eugenie's love tragedy, the novel is connected by three intertwined plot threads: the waves caused by the autocracy within the Grandet family, the open and secret fights between the bankers and notaries outside the family, and Eugenie's love for Charles Grandet, and the painful human experience of Charles' betrayal.

Critics in the book "Old Man Goriot" call Goriot Goriot the modern King Lear. The character in Balzac's works is not just a character, but a typical example of the times. The factors of tragedy are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the promiscuous and corrupt social environment. The struggle of careerists seeking fame and fortune, intertwined with Goriot's desperate fatherly love, make the content of the novel more bizarre and touching. This book is a particularly serious and exciting one among Mr. Fu Lei's translations.

"The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau" tells the story of a pollen dealer who seemed ordinary in all respects. Because of his ridiculous ambition, he plummeted from the peak of prosperity and turned into a pauper who lost all his money. However, his "extremely honest" virtue and his efforts to atone for his sins gave his suffering a brilliance of martyrdom. The golden age was his unlucky beginning, and when the final victory came, his life also came to an end. In this way, Birotteau, who was not easily interested in readers, finally became one of the important characters that has been tested for a long time and has not become outdated on the stage of "Human Comedy". The work is not only a commercial novel with historical significance, but also a very interesting bourgeois genre painting.

"The Wizard of Oz" is a famous work by American children's literature writer Baum. The kind-hearted little girl Dorothy was blown by a tornado to a strange and magical country-the Land of Oz, and lost her way home. There, she met the brainless Scarecrow, the heartless Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion one after another. In order to realize their respective wishes, they helped each other, worked together, went through hardships and encountered many strange and strange things. In the end, with their extraordinary intelligence and tenacious perseverance, they all fulfilled their wishes. This book pioneered American "magical fairy tales" and established Baum's position in the American literary world.

An old man named Geppetto had no children. He carved a puppet out of wood and named him Pinocchio. Although Pinocchio always wanted to be a good boy, he could not change his bad habits. He skipped school, lied, made bad friends, was fooled several times and refused to change his ways. Later, a fairy taught him that every time he lied, his nose grew longer. He lied three times in a row, and his nose grew so long that it was impossible for him to even turn around in the room. At this time, Pinocchio began to wake up, but he still couldn't resist the temptation of the bad boys and followed them to the "Land of Toys" again. A few months later, a pair of donkey ears sprouted from Pinocchio's head, and he soon became a full-blown donkey and was sold to a circus. Soon, Pinocchio broke his leg during the performance, and was sold by the circus owner to a businessman to skin the drum heads. At the critical moment, it was the fairy who rescued him. Pinocchio decided to change his ways and finally one day became a child of flesh and blood.

The classic work of Mrs. F. H. Burnett, the world-famous children's literature writer, has been adapted into movies many times. It once starred the famous child star Shirley Temple and was rated as one of the best children's films in the 1990s. Sarah Crewe is a strong and precocious girl who is sent to boarding school in London. Because her father, Captain Crewe, is very rich, Miss Qin, the principal of the boarding school, regards her as a "model student" in the school. At Sarah's eleventh birthday party, she was shocked to learn that her father had died in India and had not left her a penny. Sarah's princess world collapsed and she became a homeless orphan. Seeing that she could not get any benefit from Sarah, the snobbish Miss Minchin sent her to work as a little coolie. In difficult circumstances, Sarah always held on to her fantasy of life, and remained graceful, tolerant and loving in the face of poverty and humiliation. With the help of the Indian uncle who lived next door, she finally made her dream come true. Not only did she overcome her own difficulties, but she also helped the poor friends around her.

Tagore vividly explained his outlook on life in the language of poetry, pointing out that love is the driving force for progress on the road of life. He highly summarized his extraordinary life in nine words: "I have loved others, and I have also been loved by others." He analyzes complex social phenomena, denounces falsehood, ugliness and evil, and praises truth, goodness and beauty, giving people profound inspiration. His insights on life help readers decipher the profound book of life. Bai Kaiyuan's compilation of "Life in the Works of Rabindranath Tagore" can inspire young readers to understand life.

The world of Dylan, a 15-year-old single-parent girl, is in a mess: she always has nothing to say to her mother, she is often teased by her classmates at school, and her only close friend left because she transferred to another school. All of this made Dylan feel extremely painful. She decided to visit her father whom she had not seen for a long time, but a traffic accident occurred on the road. After she desperately climbed out of the train wreckage, she was horrified to find that she was the only survivor, and there was a wasteland in front of her. At this time, Dylan saw the figure of a boy on the hillside not far away. The boy took her away from the scene of the accident. However, Dylan soon realized that the boy was not just a random passerby. He seemed to be waiting there on purpose. Their fate has taken an unpredictable turn from the moment they met... This is an epic and moving story that is exciting, scary, warm, returning to humanity, and thought-provoking.

Tagore regarded the development of national education as an important way to save the country. He emphasized that schools should be a pure land and strived to establish a new teacher-student relationship that transcended money in the school he founded. In decades of educational practice, he attaches great importance to cultivating students' imagination and image thinking abilities, and has created unique educational methods. His incisive discussion of education still has practical significance. "Education in Rabindranath Tagore" edited by Bai Kaiyuan is helpful to our country's educational circles in studying Tagore's educational thoughts, and has some enlightenment for our country's educational reform.