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"You can never recognize yourself in the mirror, because there is only the shadow of a stranger." Sidney Sheldon, "the best storyteller in the world," was an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter before he started writing novels. He has been immersed in the film and television industry for many years. He combines his deep understanding of Hollywood, insights into human nature and superb narrative skills to provide readers with this thrilling and embarrassing story. Before the luxury cruise ship across the Atlantic Ocean set sail, many incredible things happened. The door to the screening room is open and blood-stained; millionaire David Kennevin has abandoned ship; the widow of star Toby Temple is in grief. The bitter experience of an actress struggling at the bottom of Hollywood, the tragic life of a comedy star... Sidney Shelton wrote this wonderful and thought-provoking work based on his many years of experience in Hollywood.

The plot of "The Doomsday Conspiracy" is tense and gripping. It is a rare science fiction story from Sheldon, the best storyteller in the world. Dan Brown, who became popular around the world with "The Da Vinci Code", admitted that it was "The Doomsday Conspiracy" that set him on the path to writing popular novels. In the beautiful Swiss mountains, ten tourists witnessed shocking events; in Maryland, the United States, "Operation Doomsday" began; Navy intelligence officer Lieutenant Colonel Bellamy was seconded by the National Security Agency to track down the whereabouts of the ten tourists, and at this time he found that he was also being hunted by an evil force... Every step is gripping, making you so nervous that you don't even have time to drink water!

The aristocratic young man Raphael was disheartened after going bankrupt and was about to commit suicide when an antique dealer gave him a magical donkey skin. This donkey skin can grant any wish, but once the wish is fulfilled, the donkey skin immediately shrinks and the user's lifespan is also shortened. After that, Rafael began to use this donkey skin to obtain money to satisfy his desires, and the donkey skin symbolizing his life also shrank, leading him step by step to death...

"Little John" is a philosophical novel with profound meaning and broad imagery. It uses transparent, pure, soft and bright language to describe a beautiful natural paradise. A child named Little John travels through the fantasy world of nature, listening to flowers talk, talking to fireflies and earthworms, dancing with butterflies, swimming with eels, and flying side by side through the sky with pigeons... He is looking for the "Book of Truth" that answers life's questions. This novel seems to be written for children, but even for adults, its content and artistic conception are full of profound and wise philosophical thinking. In the book, reality and illusion are reborn, bondage and separation coexist, time and life and death are accompanied, love and knowledge are intertwined, conveying people's profound thinking and questioning about the world, the value, meaning, ideal and responsibility of life.

After one of the most famous works of the famous 19th century British writer Emily Bronte. The novel describes the story of Heathcliff, an abandoned gypsy boy who was adopted by the old owner of the mountain villa. Due to humiliation and failed love, he went out to get rich. When he came back, he took revenge on the landowner Linton and his children who married his girlfriend Catherine. The whole novel is filled with a strong fighting spirit against oppression and striving for happiness, and is always shrouded in a bizarre and tense romantic atmosphere. It was initially regarded as 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 phenomenon in Britain, it was soon highly recognized by critics and warmly welcomed by readers. The film and television works adapted from this novel have been popular for a long time.

Jane Austen's most popular masterpieces (6 novels) Sun Zhili's translation is currently recognized as the best in China. Many classic pen drawing illustrations by famous illustrator Hugh Thomson. Wonderful introduction by famous poet Austen Dobson and literary history expert George Saintsbury.

"Faulkner's Selected Works Series" is a series of literary masterpieces. Specific titles include "The Sound and the Fury", "Go, Moses", "As I Lay Dying" and "Absalom, Absalom!" "The Temple", "The Intruder in the Grave", "August Light", "A Rose for Emily" and "Faulkner's Essays" are nine kinds. This publication selected classic translations that are generally recognized by experts in the literary field and readers. Some of the titles and chapters were revised by the translator.

Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's famous work "Pancake Flat" is Steinbeck's early work. It was published in 1935 and tells the story of a group of homeless people enjoying life after World War I. This was Steinbeck's first major success, and he began to attract critical attention. It was also from this work that Steinbeck firmly reflected life, portrayed characters, and described the lives of people in the middle and lower classes of society in a delicate style. "Jianbingping" highlights the carefree mood of the homeless people and praises their simplicity and simplicity in extreme poverty. They do not yearn for wealth and hate "the pressure of having property on their backs." All this is in sharp contrast to the greed-ridden capitalist society. When some readers criticized the hobos as an eccentric bunch, Steinbeck responded: "They are people I know and like, good and honest people."

"The Golden Fen Family" is Zhang Henshui's first chapter novel out of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School, and it is also his first popular masterpiece with modern significance. The novel takes as the main line the tragedy of marriage between Jin Yanxi, the seventh young master of the Jin family, the Prime Minister of Beijing, and Leng Qingqiu, a woman from a poor family. It focuses on the depiction of the decay of the wealthy and powerful family. It is neither a mere exposure nor an indulging in the rendering of a gorgeous life. Different from other popular works, the story tries its best to explore the understanding of society and life. It is full of a moral ideal and the sadness caused by the ruthless destruction of this moral ideal by reality. The detailed description of the characters in the book, the beginning of the flashback, and the semi-open ending of the million-word novel all go beyond the structure of ordinary chapter novels and are connected with new literary works. As a novel about a large family, "The Golden Family" is often compared not only with "A Dream of Red Mansions" but also with Ba Jin's "Family".

"The Troubled Winter" is an important result of Steinbeck's new exploration in his later period of creation. In this novel, he describes how a man from a New England family changed from a kind and sincere person to a snob who abandoned his ideals under the pressure of reality. The novel ruthlessly but truly shows the transformation process of human nature in capitalist society. "The Winter of Troubles" was first published in 1961. It is one of Steinbeck's works that is most closely related to real life. It powerfully exposes and criticizes the ills of capitalist society, the coldness of relationships between people, and the distortion of human nature at a new height and depth. It has been praised by many critics, especially the judges of the Swedish Academy. It left a deep impression on the judges of the Swedish Academy. They believed that Steinbeck had returned to the high level when he wrote "The Grapes of Wrath" and contributed greatly to his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year.

"The Old Man and the Sea" was created in 1951 and is one of Hemingway's most famous works. It tells the story of an old fisherman's heroic fight with a huge marlin in the sea. Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone after eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish. However, the fish was so big that he dragged his boat on the sea for three days before exhaustion. He killed it and tied it to the side of the boat. During the return trip, he was repeatedly attacked by sharks. When he finally returned to port, only the head, tail and a spine were left. During the days when old Santiago was at sea, his long-lost friend Manolin had been waiting loyally at the seaside, welcoming his return with confidence. Although this novel is short in length, it is rich in meaning. It creates a typical tough guy image in the history of literature, promotes the spirit of struggle that is not afraid of hardships, and brings Hemingway's simple and clear writing style into play. It has received numerous praises since its publication and established Hemingway's unshakable position in the British and American literary circles of the twentieth century.

Lenny is two meters tall and frighteningly strong, but has the mind of a child and often gets into trouble. His only friend is George, whom he grew up with. George took him around doing odd jobs to make a living. They have a dream, hoping to one day have their own small piece of land, a cabin, a cow, a rabbit hutch, and some chickens. However, such a humble request is nothing more than a dream. This time, they wandered to a farm. The never-ending wandering life has finally come to an end, but so has the dream. George finally helped Lennie find a place. There, Lenny will never get into trouble again, never be hurt again, never need to run away again... "Of Mice and Men" was first published in 1937. It is one of John Steinbeck's masterpieces. The title of the book comes from the British poet Burns's poem "The best arrangements of mice and men are full of accidents," which implies the tragic fate of little people.

"The Moon Has Gone" is a novel by Steinbeck published in 1942. The novel takes the German occupation of a Nordic country (an allusion to Norway) during World War II as the historical background. It describes the story of the anti-fascist people in a small town led by Mayor Oton who resisted the Nazi occupying forces. What is different from general anti-fascist works is that in this novel, Steinbeck's descriptions of the positive and negative characters try to show the two sides of human nature: the heroic (or fascist) side and the ordinary side. He did not exalt the anti-fascist people and write about them as "high and mighty", but highlighted their love for freedom and their various forms of resistance as they could not bear the aggression of the occupying forces. He also did not demonize the German occupying forces in his description. In his writing, these invaders were weak and even full of humanity.

"Go, Moses" was published in 1942. It is one of Faulkner's most famous works and an important part of the "Yoknapatawpha Lineage": McCaslin, the owner of the southern American manor, had a daughter with a slave girl, and later gave birth to a son Tyrell with this daughter. Tyrell later married Tanney, the slave girl of another manor owner, Bushchamp, and their children all bear the surname Bushchamp. 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 leadership 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 author examines the complex and changing relationship between whites and blacks, man and nature from multiple angles, and depicts the history of the development and change of the American South.

"Hey! What was knocked off just now?" "Well, a Western-style plate, bought for a dime." "Huh, a plate bought for a dime? You probably think that the plate is only worth a dime, so it will be knocked off, right? But you don't know that whether it is a dime or a dollar, these are the prices that people temporarily mark at their will. To me, the value of that plate is more than a dime. Even a plate is worth a penny. It's so precious. Oh, please sit down. You have knocked down five plates in one month. You were not thinking about the plate, so the plate got angry and fell from your hand. You really shouldn't be thinking about Tokyo at all. You don't understand the richness of this quiet pastoral life. "

Po Qing has long believed that I will be rich and powerful and become a big shot in the future. She firmly believes that the people she likes will definitely become big shots, and the people she hates will definitely live in poverty for the rest of their lives. I once asked Qingpo: "What kind of person will I become?" Unexpectedly, Qingpo didn't seem to have a clear idea. She just said: "You will definitely take a private rickshaw and build a house with a beautiful gatehouse." She made a big plan for me there alone: ​​"You have to erect a swing in the yard, and a Western-style room in your house will be enough..." And so on. At that time, I didn't want any house. Western-style houses and Japanese-style houses are of no use to me, so I always answer Qing Po: "I don't want that kind of thing." Guess what? Po Qing praised me again and said, "You have few desires and your heart is pure." Po Qing, no matter what I say, she always praises me.

"Faust" is the representative work of Goethe, the famous German dramatist, poet and literary theorist, and has always been a classic of Western literature. "Faust" is based on the ancient German legend of an alchemist who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and youth. Goethe used it contrary to its meaning, demonstrating the vast, profound and noble content of life, and sang a triumphal song for the enterprising spirit of human self-improvement that has resounded throughout the world.

"Absalom! Absalom! "" Is Faulkner's ninth novel, published in 1936. This extremely epic novel is a work that he is very satisfied with. He also specially provided a chronology and character genealogy for the novel. The title of the novel is taken from the Bible and tells the story of a family from its rise to its decline before and after the Civil War - Sutburn brought a group of black slaves to Jefferson Town and built a plantation. He has a son, Charles, with his ex-wife of black descent, and a son, Henry, and a daughter, Judith, with his current wife. Judith became romantically involved with her half-brother Charles. In order to avoid scandal, Henry killed his half-brother, and the once-splendid manor quickly declined. Sutben, who returned from the war, tried to revitalize his family business, but ultimately failed and died under the knife of others. The novel fully displays the sufferings, joys and sorrows of several generations of people in the American South from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, reflects the social and historical outlook at that time, and reveals the difficult situation and destiny of human beings.

"Chunming Foreign History" is Zhang Henshui's famous work. It began to be serialized in "World Evening News" on April 16, 1924, and was not completely serialized until January 24, 1929, which lasted for five years. The novel had thirty-nine chapters when it was serialized, and was later divided into eighty-six chapters when it was published, with nearly a million words. The protagonist Yang Xingyuan lives in Peking and makes a living by selling literature. He falls in love with Li Yun, a brothel girl, at first sight. However, the beauty's fate was poor, and Li Yun died soon after they met. Later, Yang Xingyuan met Li Dongqing, a down-and-out talented girl, and they exchanged poems and poems, and their relationship became deeper and deeper. However, due to a hidden illness, Li Dongqing finally had a hard time getting married, so he wanted to make the marriage between Shi Kelian and Yang Xingyuan possible. Shi Kelian knew that Yang Xingyuan had been deeply in love with Li Dongqing for a long time, so she wisely stayed away. After many twists and turns, Yang Xingyuan became disheartened about marriage and turned to Buddhism. The so-called "Chunming" was originally a city gate in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. Later generations used it to refer to the capital in general, so "Chunming Foreign History" means "A Grand View of Beijing's Strange Current Situation". The author takes society as the warp and romance as the weft, "using the method of "A Dream of Red Mansions" to write "The Scholars"". It has a broad background and touches all walks of life, showing the various human emotions of the three religions and nine streams in Beijing. It is a genre painting and shady picture of Beijing in the 1920s.

The novel "The Wine of Loneliness" was first published in 1935. The autobiographical text is both cold and hot. Nemirovsky used the protagonist Elena in the novel to tell the story of his disgusted childhood: a Russian middle-class family that suffered changes, endless escapes, a speculative businessman father, a greedy and selfish mother, absent family ties, abnormal love, and an isolated situation where only the tutor was warm. After her mother drove away her tutor, the precocious girl decided to use love to avenge her mother. When successful revenge could not stop the absurdity of her original family, she made another choice... "I am lonely, but my loneliness is bitter and intoxicating." About the author The legendary female writer Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was born in 1903 in Kiev to a family of Ukrainian Jewish bankers. After the October Revolution, she moved to Paris and entered the French literary scene with her debut novel "David Goedel". Her powerful writing style made it difficult for readers to believe that the author was a young woman. Later, she wrote many novels such as "The Ball", "The Kurilov Incident", "Isabel" and "Prey". After the outbreak of World War II, Nemirovsky began to flee, and creation became both difficult and dangerous. In the summer of 1942, she was murdered in Auschwitz. The unfinished and ambitious work "Suite Française" followed her eldest daughter Denis through the war. It was published in 2004 and won the Renaudot Literary Award that year. Nemirovsky became the only writer to win this award with a posthumous work.

"Mansfield Park" was started in February 1811, two years before the publication of "Pride and Prejudice", and was completed "shortly after June 1813". It is speculated that it should be published at the end of May 1814. Like several other Austen novels, "Mansfield Park" takes the love and marriage of young men and women as its theme, but the plot is more complex, the emergencies are more concentrated, and the social satire is more intense, revealing the artificiality and absurdity of the British upper class. Judging from the publication time, "Mansfield Park" is only one year later than "Pride and Prejudice", but the tone and atmosphere of the two works are quite different. "Pride and Prejudice" is both light and bright, while "Mansfield Park" is more solemn and has a more obvious moral preaching color. However, it has a major breakthrough in psychological description and narrative skills. It is a milestone in the history of the development of British novels, indicating that Jane Austen was already a quite mature female writer when she wrote "Mansfield Park".

"Shakespeare's Sonnets" is a representative work of poetry by the famous British poet and dramatist William Shakespeare. Liang Zongdai's translation of "Shakespeare's Sonnets" is a model work of Shakespeare's sonnet translation. Taiwanese poet Yu Guangzhong believes that "Liang's translation has a deep understanding of the original text and a euphemistic interpretation... It goes in deeply and comes out very pure." This book is bilingual in Chinese and English, making it convenient for translation enthusiasts, poetry lovers and researchers to read and study the original text.

The novel "The Prey" was first published in 1938. It is a Stendhal-style novel. Jean-Luc, a young man from the bottom of society, marries a rich girl for love, hoping to rise through the ranks through his talents. After hitting the wall in the upper class, he alienated the rich lady and turned to work for a smooth politician to seek social status. However, just before he became famous, love struck again in another form, causing Jean-Luc to lose everything. The hunter eventually becomes his own prey. Although Nemilovsky is a woman, she writes about the life of a crazy and ordinary man. "It's so difficult to live alone these days. It requires a lot of courage and a lot of love..."

The novel "Isabel" was first published in 1936. Isabel is the character Jezebel in the Old Testament. She was the queen of King Ahab of ancient Israel. She persecuted the prophets because of her belief in pagan gods and became synonymous with vicious women. The protagonist of the novel, Gladys, also committed an irreparable crime due to her twisted fanaticism: in court, the beautiful and enchanting Gladys was accused of killing a promising college student. The crowd stared at her every move: she was old but well-maintained; she had a lover from the upper class, but she refused to get married; the dead poor student might have been another lover of hers; why did such a charming woman have to kill someone? Following "David Geddel", "The Ball" and "The Wine of Loneliness", Nemilovsky concentrated on and thoroughly portrayed the image of a witch and the morbid desire for youth.

After more than half a century of silence, Nemirovsky's posthumous work "Suite Française" was finally published in 2004, and won the Renaudot Literary Award that year. The prize, awarded for the first time to a late author, also brought Nemirovsky's legend back into the public eye. The novel was supposed to be composed of five different "movements" (see Appendix 1 "Manuscript Notes" of this book), but Nemilovsky only had time to finish writing the first two movements before he was killed by the Nazis. The first movement "June Storm" depicts the great escape from Paris in 1940, grimly outlining the various behaviors of capitalists, civilians, soldiers and farmers on the escape route. The second movement "Adagio" moves from the road to a small town, where a subtle confrontation and affection unfolds between the small town residents and the German soldiers. The fate of each named person, the undelivered bad news, the unfinished love, and the unacted awakening all push the narrative charm of the realist novel to its peak. Now here's a more prosaic question that I've never been able to find an answer to: Don't people forget the characters from the previous book when they read the next one? It is to avoid this that I am going to write a work of a thousand pages instead of one consisting of several volumes. --Jelena Nemirovsky

"Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel. The first draft was the epistolary novel "Eleanor and Marianne" written in 1796. It was later rewritten into "Sense and Sensibility" in November 1797. For more than ten years, "Sense and Sensibility" became silent. It was not until March 1811 that Austen revealed in a letter that she was in London looking at the proofs of the book. The book was published on October 30 of that year. The novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the unhealthy trend in British society at that time of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status, as well as the ugly fashion of focusing on family status regardless of women's feelings and human rights. Both heroines in the novel pursue equal communication and exchange of thoughts and feelings with men, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on independent observation, analysis, and freedom to choose men. In Britain at the time, this was almost a cry of defiance. As the title of the book reflects, the story focuses on the conflict between "reason" and "emotion". The heroine Eleanor is both emotional and rational, which represents the author's ideal on this issue, that is, people cannot be without emotions, but emotions should be restricted by reason.

After the Nanjing Massacre, Zhang Henshui submitted a request to the government to fight guerrillas in the mountains. After getting no results, he put his strong patriotic fervor and loneliness on paper and created a large number of realistic and spiritual works. "Eighty-One Dreams" is one of the outstanding works. It is a social satire novel completed by Zhang Henshui in 1943. In fact, he wrote a total of fourteen dreams. He used the technique of "Nineteen fables, entrusted to dreams" to make a unique observation of all the ugly phenomena in the rear during the national crisis, and severely criticized the corruption in power and the ugly national character without mercy. The novel is written in a smooth and smooth way, full of strange and mysterious suspense, and has the meaning of "condemning novels". The literary world praised the book as a "wonderful book". After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang government, which retreated to Chongqing, sent a large number of officials to various places to take over the real estate left by the Japanese invaders and traitors. These officials collected large amounts of wealth by accepting bribes, making false accounts, and colluding with local dignitaries and bankers to resell gold and real estate. "Five Sons Admitted to the Imperial College" is a microcosm of that period of history. The novelization uses the allusion of Dou Yanshan's five sons who were admitted to the imperial examinations in the Five Dynasties, and the family history of Jin Ziyuan, the reception commissioner in Peking, as a clue. It makes a bitter mockery of a series of shameless and shameless behaviors of the Kuomintang reception officials who frantically demanded and possessed "gold, houses, cars, women, and money." It is a "officialdom record" on the eve of the collapse of the Kuomintang regime.

The first draft of "Pride and Prejudice" was written from October 1796 to August 1797. It was originally called "First Impression". More than ten years later, it was rewritten and renamed "Pride and Prejudice" and published on January 28, 1813. This novel takes love entanglements as the main line and describes the emotional entanglements between Darcy, an arrogant single young man, and Elizabeth, who is prejudiced against him. It fully reflects the author's view on marriage and emphasizes the impact of economic interests on love and marriage. The plot of the novel is full of comedy and the language is witty and humorous. It is the most popular of Austen's novels. Austen once claimed that "Pride and Prejudice" was her "favorite child". The famous American literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) once said: "Over the past 100 years, there have been several taste revolutions in the history of British literature. The renovation of literary tastes has affected the reputation of almost all writers. Only Shakespeare and Jane Austen have endured." Austen's six novels have been praised by generations of readers after two hundred years of time, and all of them can be called excellent works. In particular, the popular "Pride and Prejudice" is a rare treasure in the world library. No wonder Maugham listed it among the top ten novels in the world.

"The Grave Intruder" is a "detective novel" written in the late period of Faulkner's creative career. It was first published in 1948. The novel tells the story of the murder of a son of a wealthy family in the town. Lucas, a black man, was suspected and imprisoned. Chike, a white boy who had been helped by Lucas, did not believe that he was the murderer. By chance, he, a friend and an old white lady got involved in the case. They found another body from the deceased's grave, providing strong evidence to rule out Lucas' suspicion. At the same time, Chike used the facts to convince his uncle, a lawyer with serious racist ideas, and helped Lucas clear his name. The novel exposes the problem of racial discrimination in the United States through such a case and reflects the author's attitude on the issue of racial conflicts and racial integration in the South. It is an important work that reflects Faulkner's thinking on racial issues.

The American young man Frederick Henry volunteered to join the Red Cross as an ambulance driver in the late World War I, rescuing the wounded on the northern Italian front. During a mission, Henry was hit by a cannonball and injured. While recovering from his injuries in a Milan hospital, he was cared for by British nurse Catherine, and the two fell in love. After recovering from his injuries, Henry returned to the front line. When he retreated with the Italian troops, he witnessed the cruel scenes of the war. He resolutely left the army, joined Catherine and fled to Switzerland. As a result, Catherine died in childbirth. By describing the love between the two, the novel sings a sad and moving tragedy, revealing the absurd and cruel nature of war. "A Farewell to Arms" was first published in 1929 and is Hemingway's early masterpiece. This work marks Hemingway's artistic maturity.

"Danfeng Street" is a long masterpiece written by Zhang Henshui during the Anti-Japanese War. It was originally called "Biographies of Negative Vendors". From the title of the book, it can be seen that the author wanted to write biographies for the lower class hawkers. The novel tells the story of a group of self-reliant vegetable vendors and bartenders on Danfeng Street headed by Tong Laowu. They are not afraid of power and are willing to go bankrupt and run around just to rescue the poor girl Chen Xiujie who was sold by her uncle to Deputy Chief Zhao as his concubine. Underneath the poor and rough appearance of the protagonists, there is a chivalrous spirit of magnanimity, sincerity, and promise. Although the novel is not about martial arts, it uses folk ideas of "chivalry" throughout. From the title to the story content and the spoken dialect in the book, "Danfeng Street" is full of pure Nanjing flavor. In the long corridor of Chinese new literature, there is no novel that can vividly depict the urban culture and customs of Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, like Zhang Henshui's "Danfeng Street". "Danfeng Street" shows its skill in the description of genre paintings, style paintings and landscape paintings. It is the "Along the River During Qingming Festival" in Nanjing during the Republic of China.

"The Little Red Horse" is a collection of short stories published by Steinbeck in 1937. It consists of four short stories: "The Gift", "The Mountain", "The Promise" and "The Chief of the People". The child protagonist Jody writes about the birth, old age, illness and death of the horse, various labors, the process of moving westward, and the fate of the elderly in their old age. All of this left a mark on Jodi's young mind, either with joy, worry, longing, or sadness. In this collection of short stories, Steinbeck created a children's world in which there are no fairies or giants. Children can see colors more clearly than adults, experience them more intensely than adults, and children's momentary sadness also appears more unique. The work exudes the earthy atmosphere of the countryside, intertwined with the subtle changes in children's mentality, achieving a refreshing and gratifying effect.

Jack Barnes, an American young man, was seriously injured in World War I and lost his sexual ability. He fell in love with the beautiful woman Brett Ashley. However, because Ashley could not accept a marriage without sex, Barnes could only helplessly let her become someone else's fiancée, and even arranged for her to have trysts with other men. The two went to Spain to watch a bullfight with several friends. Brett Ashley fell in love with the young bullfighter Romero at first sight, but when Romero proposed to her, she resolutely rejected him. The age gap made her "not want to be a bad woman who ruins the future of young people." Eventually, she returned to Barnes, but both parties knew that they could never truly be together. "The Sun Also Rises" was first published in 1926. It is Hemingway's first novel. It condenses and brings together the young Hemingway's own thoughts, emotions, reason, pain and his glimpse of the future. It is an in-depth extension of Hemingway's own life experience and philosophical thinking. After the publication of the novel, the term "lost generation" spread immediately and spread more and more widely, and then evolved into a conceptual literary term - it not only represents the main creative tendency of the young generation of writers after the war, but also became a marker to refer to the thoughts and emotions of this generation.

"The Temple" was published in 1931 and was Faulkner's first novel to gain a large readership. In the 1920s, there was a group of bootleggers headed by Goldfish Eyes in a southern town. Temple, a naive female college student, was abandoned by her boyfriend and got mixed up with the gang. She was raped and sent to a brothel in Fes by Goldfish Eyes. After Goldfish Eyes killed someone, he put the blame on Godwin. Attorney Horace did a lot of evidence collection work to save Temple from the fire pit. However, Temple has been driven insane by Jinyuyan's perverted sexual behavior, causing her inner imbalance. In the end, she committed perjury, allowing Jinyuyan to escape the law. Although the novel uses the narrative mode of popular detective novels, it also has naturalistic descriptions. It is an excellent work both in terms of theme and expression.

The biography "Chekhov's Life" was first published in 1946, telling the "fireworks" life of Russian literary master Anton Chekhov. Chekhov was born in poverty and initially wrote novels just to make a living, until he met an older Bole who guided and encouraged him through letters. Literary successes and failures came one after another, and illness and loneliness often accompanied him, but he always maintained sincerity and goodwill towards the people around him. The turbulent words written by Nemilovsky actually calmed down and softened when describing Chekhov. "However, among the indifferent crowd, Chekhov's wife and mother cuddled tightly and supported each other. Among all the people in the world, they were the only ones Chekhov ever truly loved deeply." Only when you see this and close the page can you really understand what is "mixed with fun, sadness and quiet disappointment" and what is "crystal indifference." Behind the fatigue and loneliness, I always hope to capture a glimmer of pure beauty that lights up the world - this is Chekhov written by Elena Nemirovsky, and it is also Elena Nemirovsky herself. --Yuan Xiaoyi

The story takes place on a seaside street in Monterey Bay, California before World War II. In the early 1940s, the production of canned sardines was the main feature here, so it was called Cannery Row. The central character of the novel is a marine biologist named "The Doctor". Being highly educated, he did not look down on his neighbors - gamblers, traders, prostitutes, and homeless people. In his eyes, these people were "very healthy and surprisingly clean." Another group of characters, Mark and his friends, are a group of penniless vagrants with no ideals or pursuits. They live happily in Cannery Row. Their lives are simple. They neither hide their desires nor let money corrupt their souls. They are sincere and helpful. The 1930s and 1940s were a turbulent decade in American history. The sudden economic crisis put pressure on all social strata and shook Americans' cultural values. The entire society fell into a spiritual crisis. This ideal state of life in "Cannery Row" is the value system established by Steinbeck for Americans in crisis. "Cannery Row" was first published in 1945 and is one of John Steinbeck's masterpieces. It shows the mental outlook of the lower class in Monterey during the Great Depression.

The novel "Autumn Flies" was first released in 1931 and was written based on Nemirovsky's personal experience. The protagonist Tatyana is a loyal and capable servant and a wet nurse for several children of the Kalina family. After the Russian Revolution broke out, the Kalina family began to flee. She stayed behind to look after the house, buried the Kalina family's youngest son Yuri, who died tragically, and traveled thousands of miles to deliver jewelry sewn into clothes to the owner's family. Later, she settled with them in Paris. However, just as the Kalina family began to enjoy their new life, Tatyana's obsession with the old days became increasingly redundant, struggling feebly like a fly in autumn... The killer Leon M received the task of the Revolutionary Committee to eliminate the Minister of National Education Kurilov. He had to wait patiently for nine months and take action to trigger a big reaction when the Prussian Emperor came to visit. As a result, the killer disguised himself as a Swiss doctor and lurked around Kurilov. For nine months, he listened to Kurilov's heartfelt conversations, observed Kurilov's family and staff, and even eavesdropped on their conversations. Can enough understanding offset hatred? Will the complexities of human nature get in the way of the mission? In short, after nine months, Kurorive must die.

"As I Lay Dying" is one of the important novels of Faulkner's "Yoknapatawpha". It was published in 1930 and made Faulkner famous in one fell swoop. The novel consists of fifty-nine stanzas of inner monologues, telling from multiple perspectives the "suffering journey" of Bendren, a farmer in the southern United States, who leads his family to transport his wife's body back to his hometown for burial in order to keep his promise to his wife. The entire ten-day trip was full of disasters: the water almost washed away the coffin, the mule pulling the cart drowned, and the fire almost incinerated the body. As a result, the eldest son lost a foot, the second son went to jail for setting fire to a barn, the third son lost his beloved horse, the daughter failed to have an abortion but was bullied by the pharmacy clerk, and the mentally retarded younger son did not get the little train he longed for, while Bundren got dentures and married a new wife. The whole novel constitutes a true picture of the challenges to the poverty, backwardness and traditional moral values ​​of the American South after the Civil War, and is a metaphor for the sufferings of real life.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, also known as "Master of Seijiangdo" and also known as "My Ghost", is a Japanese novelist. Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short stories are short in length, with novel materials and novel and even weird plots. His works focus on the ugly phenomena of society and state them with cold words and concise and powerful language, making his novels not only highly artistic but also a microcosm of the society at that time. His representative works such as "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Spider Silk" and "Hell Picture" have become his classic works.

In the spring of 1922, Nick, a clerk, left his hometown in the Midwest and came to the East. By chance, he lived next door to the rich Gatsby. He found that Gatsby's huge mansion was full of music and music day and night, but he himself was full of thoughts and always stared across the water at the shining green light at night in the residence on the other side... His first love, Daisy, lived there. Gatsby walked a long way to stand on the lawn of this mansion. When he recognized the green light of Daisy's house for the first time, he felt that his dream seemed so close that it was almost impossible not to catch it. He didn't expect that that dream had already been left behind in the boundless chaos behind the city...

"Pride and Prejudice" is Austen's masterpiece. It reflects the world customs of British society from the late 18th century to the early 19th century through the story of several middle-class girls from villages and towns talking about marriage. The plot of the novel is tortuous and full of comedy, the language is natural and fluent, and it is witty and humorous. It reveals the tragedy and comedy of life with superb skills.

The book is divided into two volumes. The main detailed contents include the small town, the mayor, the property of the poor, father and son, negotiations, depression, special affection, worldly affairs, country night, poor people with great ambitions, such a good night, a trip out, carved stockings, British scissors, cockcrow, the next day, the first deputy mayor, the visit of five officials to Veriye, lamenting the national pain, anonymous letters, conversations with the head of the family, the way of doing things in 1830, the troubles of being an official, Detailed content such as first rot, seminary, what the world or the rich lack, first monasticism, Eucharistic feast, first promotion, ambition, etc.

The protagonist of "The Night Before", the Russian girl Yelena, fell in love with a young Bulgarian who made it his mission to liberate his motherland and married him. Although her husband died of illness on their way back to Bulgaria, she stayed true to her faith and set out for Bulgaria alone. The protagonist of "Father and Son" is Bazarov, a civilian intellectual. He is strong and values ​​practical action, but denies art, poetry and people's inner feelings. However, he sincerely falls in love with the noble woman Odintsova. He expressed his love for Odintsova to her, but was rejected. Because of the failure of love, he became doubtful and pessimistic, and passed away with regret.

"Beautiful Friend" exposes the shady story of the press of the Third French Republic through the description of the rise to prominence of a shameless villain, Duroy. It profoundly reveals the complex political and economic phenomena and colonialist war policies of the Third French Republic, and can be called a historical picture of French society at the end of the 19th century.

"The Sun Also Rises" is a novel by Hemingway published in 1926. The author became the spokesperson of the "lost generation" and created a unique Hemingway-style writing style with this book. The novel is set in the historical period from 1924 to 1925 and in the famous city of Paris. It revolves around the emotional entanglements between a group of British and American young men and women who have suffered serious emotional or love trauma or suffered severe psychological or physiological dysfunction during the war. It reflects the painful and sad state of mind of this generation who have awakened their consciousness but feel that they have no way out.

Chekhov's distinctive feature is his ability to reveal the essence of life from the most ordinary phenomena. He highly downplays the plot and only intercepts ordinary daily life fragments. He uses exquisite artistic details to truly depict and portray life and characters, and to reveal important social phenomena. But he does not fall into the "quagmire" of daily life. On the contrary, his profound realist images are often sublimated into philosophical symbols.

This book is Montesquieu's only literary work, and it consists of one hundred and sixty letters. The letter contains detailed observations and sharp criticisms of the French society at that time, descriptions of bloodshed, sensuality and death, conversations between black and white eunuchs and their imprisoned wives and concubines, and lingering love words from the master in a foreign country. This is a novel that combines travel notes and political commentary, as well as a philosophical novel.

Zhang Guyuo is famous for his successful translation of three of Hardy's novels: "The Return of the Native", "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", and "Jude the Obscure". Among them, the translation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is the most popular among readers. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is Hardy's masterpiece and one of the "Wessex Series". It describes the tragic fate of a rural girl. Hardy called the heroine "a pure woman" in the novel's subtitle, openly challenging the hypocritical social morals of the Victorian era.

Satan pretended to be a foreign professor, Woland, and visited the Soviet capital Moscow in the 1930s. He met Berlioz, the chairman of the Moscow Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the young poet Ivan. They did not believe in God or the devil. Woland refuted each one and predicted Berlioz's death that day. Ivan witnessed the tragedy of Berlioz being run over by a tram, and suspected that Woland was a foreign spy. He pursued him, but was imprisoned in a mental hospital and met the master. The master is an unknown writer. His lover Margaret admires his talent and calls him the master, and he regards himself as such.

"Gulliver's Travels" is an outstanding travel satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. It expresses the author's ideas in a relatively perfect artistic form. The author uses rich satirical techniques and absurd and bizarre plots of fictional fantasy to profoundly analyze the social reality of Britain at that time. The novel is written based on the experiences of the surgeon Gulliver's four voyages and adventures. It consists of four parts.