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Gogol (1809-1852), an outstanding representative and founder of Russian critical realist literature in the 19th century, is known as the "Father of Russian Prose". "Dead Serfs" is his masterpiece. "Dead Serf" is also translated as "Dead Soul". Dead serfs were actually empty serfs who had died but had not yet been written off the tax rolls. The novel describes Chichikov, a businessman who specializes in fraud, who came to a remote provincial city and became the guest of the local bureaucrats with his extravagant flattery. He also went to buy dead serfs from the landlords in an attempt to use them as collateral to buy and sell short and make huge profits. After the scandal was exposed, he fled. The novel deeply depicts the ignorance, greed, despicability, and vulgarity of bureaucrats and landlords. Its immortal characterization and pungent satire can be regarded as a classic in the history of Russian literature.

Gorky (1868-1936), a famous Russian writer, "Childhood", "In the World", and "My University" are his autobiographical trilogy. "Childhood" recalls the difficult childhood that the protagonist Alyosha spent at his grandfather's house. "In the Human World" describes the rough experience of young Alyosha who was expelled from his home by his grandfather and went to the "human world" to make a living on his own. "My University" tells the story of Alyosha, who has just entered his youth and came to Kazan with the desire to go to university. However, he learned knowledge in the "social university" that could not be learned in a walled university. He broadened his horizons and raised his awareness. After painful ideological exploration, he finally grew into a revolutionary intellectual. The trilogy shows the social life of Russia at the end of the 19th century. It is an excellent work with profound educational significance and great artistic charm.

"How the Steel Was Tempered" is an excellent novel that describes the growth process of new people and reveals their excellent qualities, written by the author based on his personal experience. It reflects the broad picture of struggle before and after the October Revolution, the period of civil war, the period of national economic recovery and the early stage of socialist construction. It creates the noble character of the protagonist Paul Korchagin who is persistent in his beliefs and perseveres. Paul Korchagin was seriously injured in the war, and later contracted typhoid fever and pneumonia, and finally became blind and paralyzed. With a high degree of political awareness and tenacious revolutionary will, he overcame the unbearable pain for ordinary people, persisted in self-study, engaged in literary creation, and made valuable contributions to the cause of socialism. The novel tells people that revolutionaries are made into steel through struggle, and one's life should be spent like Paul Korchagin. Paul Korchagin's famous saying, "The most precious thing for man is life..." Has inspired generations of readers to strive for the cause of human progress.

The protagonist Gwynplaine in "The Man Who Laughs" is a descendant of a noble family. He fell into the hands of human traffickers when he was young and was disfigured and mutilated. His face always seemed to be smiling strangely. The kind-hearted entertainer Yu Sousse adopted him as his adopted son, and also adopted the blind girl Di that Gwen Pulan rescued from the snow. A few of them wandered around the world and made a living by performing arts. Later, due to accidental factors and the needs of the British political arena, Gwynplaine was able to regain his title, but he refused this dirty gift, preferring to return to his companions in distress; by this time Dee was seriously ill. After the blind girl passed away, Gwen Pulan was so sad that she threw herself into the sea and committed suicide.

The beautiful boy Dorian Gray faced the portrait painted by his friend Hallward and said: "If I could stay young forever and let this portrait grow old... I would trade my soul for youth!" This absurd wish formed the basis of the plot of "The Picture of Dorian Gray", the only novel by Oscar Wilde, a representative writer of aestheticism. Unexpectedly, as soon as this statement came out, it became a prophecy. As a result of the influence of environment and the pursuit of pleasure, Gray fell deeper and deeper into the quagmire of self-indulgence until he was completely destroyed. The book also includes two of Wilde's masterpieces, basically covering the essence of Wilde's novels.

Hugo (1802-1885), a famous French novelist and poet. "Notre Dame de Paris" is his masterpiece novel. The gypsy girl Esmeralda is a street performer, and Froed, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, wants to take possession of her. Later, it was discovered that she had another lover, and she assassinated her lover and framed the blame on her, resulting in her being sentenced to death. Quasimodo, the ugly bell ringer who was full of love and humility for her, rescued her and took refuge in Notre Dame. Froed kidnapped her and forced her to give in to his bestial desires. After being refused, Froude handed her over to the officers and soldiers and watched her being hanged upstairs in Notre Dame. In despair, Quasimodo angrily pushed Froude, who had raised him, off the attic and fell to death. He went to the Eagle Mountain Crypt to hug Esmeralda's body and died with her, completing the "wedding".

Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. The heroine makes reasonable speculations and judgments based on superficial phenomena. Although careful readers may have various doubts from time to time, their thoughts will naturally develop with good observations. When the final result appears, it will be completely different from the superficial phenomena, resulting in an unexpected comedy effect. If you read it over again, you will find that the factors that lead to the inevitable result have already been seen between the lines. The plot of the novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the bad habit of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status in the British social trends at that time, and the ugly fashion of focusing on family status and ignoring women's feelings and human rights.

"Resurrection" is a masterpiece that Tolstoy worked on for more than ten years in his later years. It is also the pinnacle of his life's thoughts and art. The plot of this novel is based on a true story. In his innocent boyhood, the aristocratic young Nekhlyudov fell in love with his aunt's maid Maslova, seduced and abandoned her. After being hurt, the innocent and beautiful girl had no choice but to suffer humiliation and torture. Her beautiful soul was distorted and she became a prostitute. Eight years later, during a court hearing, fate reunited these two people who had forgotten their past by chance. Maslova was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to hard labor in Siberia. Nekhlyudov actively rescued her in a state of self-blame, regret and conflict, and worked hard to mediate between courts, prisons, churches, government agencies and even the palace and other upper-class societies in order to restore her innocence. During this process, Nekhlyudov's spiritual humanity constantly defeated his bestial humanity through constant self-reflection.

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.

"Little Women" was influenced by Emerson, a great thinker at the time, and emphasized the concepts of personal dignity and independence and self-discipline; the content is plain but delicate, the structure is simple but profound, and it is full of strong appeal. This book shows you this classic work of "women's self-civil war, the battle between tradition and freedom" in the form of a Chinese-English bilingual abbreviation.

Jules Verne (1828-1905), a famous French science fiction novelist and "the father of science fiction". "Around the World in Eighty Days" is one of his important novels. Fogg and members of the Reform Club bet £20,000 on whether they could travel around the world in eighty days. Then he set off from London with his servant nicknamed "Passepartout" and began an incredible journey around the world. In the end, after experiencing natural and man-made disasters, in the 19th century when there were no airplanes or ocean ships, he actually completed this fantasy-like circumnavigation of the earth. Not only did he win a bet, but he also gained love. This book combines scientific knowledge, creativity, art and fun, and has a wide range of readers around the world.

The author uses unusual imagination to describe all kinds of strange things that the protagonist Gulliver encounters when he travels to "Lilliput", "Adult", "Huiyin" and other places. For example, in the "Lilliput Kingdom", he can freely play with all kinds of people from kings to common people in the palm of his hand; while in the "Adult Kingdom", he can be controlled by others like a child; after arriving in the "Hui Yin Kingdom", the horse has become a symbol of wisdom, and people have become inferior animals. Through such interesting stories, the author satirized various ills of British society at that time, such as the intrigues of politicians and the greed of the rich. While readers admire the author's fantastic ideas, they can also have a general understanding of the situation in Britain at that time.

Famous Translations: The most classic Chinese translations of classic Western masterpieces. "Anna Karenina" (translation classic) uses two clues: the tragedy of the noble woman Anna's failure in pursuing love, and the reform and exploration of the manor owner Levin in the face of crisis in the countryside. It depicts a vast and colorful picture of Russia from Moscow to the provincial countryside during the transition between the old and the new. The story takes place in St. Petersburg in the 19th century. The heroine Anna meets the young officer Vronsky during a trip and falls in love. After the incident is discovered by her husband Karenin, Anna's request for divorce is rejected and she is threatened that she will never see her beloved son again. Anna then eloped with Vronsky and lived a short and happy life, but the indifference and boredom after passion caused the final blow to her unfortunate fate.

"Gone with the Wind (Part 1)" is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. The main plot is the love-hate relationship between the strong and willful manor lady Scarlett and several men. It is accompanied by major changes in society and history, and the disappearance of everything familiar in the past... "Gone with the Wind" is not only a swan song of human love, but also a grand historical picture that reflects the huge and profound changes in many aspects of social politics, economy, and morality.

"Gone with the Wind (Part 2)" is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. The main plot of "Gone with the Wind (Part 2)" is the love-hate relationship between the strong and willful manor lady Scarlett and the entanglement between several men. Along with this are major changes in society and history, and the disappearance of everything familiar in the past... "Gone with the Wind" is not only a swan song of human love, but also a grand historical picture that reflects the huge and profound changes in many aspects of social politics, economy, and morality.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a masterpiece reflecting the black slavery system published in 1852 by the American female writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. The publication of this novel set off the climax of the abolition movement in the United States and played a great role in promoting the outbreak of the American Civil War. It has been translated into many languages ​​over the past 100 years and has had a profound impact on people around the world's fight against racial discrimination and their struggle for freedom and democracy.

"Gone with the Wind (Set Volume 1 and 2)" is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. The main plot is the love-hate relationship between the strong and willful manor lady Scarlett and several men. Along with it are major changes in society and history, and the loss of everything familiar in the past... "Gone with the Wind" is not only a swan song of human love, but also a grand historical picture that reflects the huge and profound changes in many aspects of social politics, economy, and morality.

"The Gadfly" is the representative work of the British female writer Voynich. After being introduced to China in the 1950s, it became very popular and became one of the favorites of young people at that time. Arthur, an Italian young man, was born into a wealthy businessman family, but he resolutely joined the revolution as an adult. Due to negligence, he leaked the secret, which led to the arrest of his comrades in arms, misunderstood his childhood sweetheart girlfriend Gemma, and painfully discovered that he was the illegitimate son of Father Montanelli, whom he had admired for a long time. Under the harsh reality education, he used fake suicide as a cover and ran away angrily. After 13 years of wandering abroad, he became a determined revolutionary under the pseudonym "Gadfly". He returned to his country to organize armed forces, smuggled arms and actively prepared for the uprising. In the end, he was unfortunately arrested. Faced with threats from the military and his biological father's persuasion to surrender, he remained unmoved and died calmly. "Gadfly" also tells the story of the snow-like pure and innocent love between Gadfly and the girl Qinma, as well as the intertwined love and hate for his father. It is very sad to read.

The work "The Decameron (Part 1)" tells the story of ten young men and women who took refuge in a villa during the plague epidemic in Florence in 1348. They feasted all day long and each told a story every day. They told a hundred stories in ten days, hence the name "The Decameron". Many of the stories are based on historical events and medieval legends. In "The Decameron", Boccaccio praised real life, praised love as the source of wisdom and beautiful sentiments, condemned asceticism, and made a powerful satire on the depravity of the feudal aristocracy and the shameless debauchery of the Catholic Church. The work adopts a frame structure to connect one hundred stories together, making the whole book coherent. The language of the work is concise and humorous, and the characters and objects are described with subtlety.

The work "The Decameron (Set Volume 1 and 2)" tells the story of ten young men and women who took refuge in a villa during the plague epidemic in Florence in 1348. They feasted all day long, each telling a story every day, and told a hundred stories in ten days, hence the name "The Decameron". Many of the stories are based on historical events and medieval legends. In "The Decameron", Boccaccio praised real life, praised love as the source of wisdom and beautiful sentiments, condemned asceticism, and made a powerful satire on the depravity of the feudal aristocracy and the shameless debauchery of the Catholic Church. The work adopts a frame structure to connect one hundred stories together, making the whole book coherent. The language of the work is concise and humorous, and the characters and objects are described with subtlety.

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. Not long 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...

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), one of the most outstanding writers in the United States, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is one of his major works. Robert Jordan, an American young man, volunteered to join the Spanish government army and engage in blasting activities behind enemy lines. In order to cooperate with the counterattack, he was ordered to contact local guerrillas to complete the task of blowing up the bridge. In the midst of the raging war, he fell in love with Maria, a little girl who had been raped by the enemy, thereby smoothing out the trauma in Maria's soul. In three days, Robert experienced the conflict between love and duty and the test of life and death, and his humanity continued to sublimate. On the way to retreat after the bridge was blown up, he gave up his hope of survival to others, but his thigh was broken by a cannonball. He stayed alone to stop the enemy, and finally gave his young life for the Spanish people.

Maupassant (1850-1893), a famous French writer. "Beautiful Friend" is his masterpiece novel. It caused a sensation after it was published in May 1885 and was reprinted more than thirty times within a few months. Duroy, a junior officer in the French colonial army in Algeria, came to Paris and was introduced by a friend to work as an editor at La Vie Française. He relied on his good looks and ability to please women to seduce upper-class women, and used this as a springboard to embark on the road to success. In the end, he kidnapped the daughter of the newspaper owner, forced the owner to marry his daughter to him, and became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. The end of the novel also hints that he will soon become a senator and cabinet minister, and his future is still bright.

"Dangerous Liaisons" tells the story of the Marchioness de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, both celebrities in Paris's social circle. Both of these two experienced lovers have vowed to no longer be bound by love and only want to play in the world. The beautiful, charming and scheming Madame de Merteuil asks Valmont to seduce his former lover, Count Gercourt's fiancée Cécile, in order to avenge his betrayal, but Valmont is preparing to attack the kind and loyal Madame Tourville. The author has worked hard on this novel. As a novel, the epistolary form and content of "Dangerous Liaisons (Selected Translations of Masterpieces)" are perfectly coordinated. Each letter is not only a narrative device, but also embodies and promotes the development of the plot.

"Crime and Punishment" is one of the masterpieces of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the great Russian writer of the 19th century. The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student who wanted to become a Napoleonic figure and believed that he was a superman. He was poisoned by anarchist ideas and forced by life. He killed the old landlady who was a loan shark and her innocent sister, and committed a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sonia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on the protagonist's mental state of being condemned by his conscience and feeling deeply lonely and fearful after committing a crime, and depicts his psychological changes before and after the crime. On the one hand, the novel depicts the miserable life of the lower class people in Russia and exposes the evils of aristocratic society; on the other hand, it also promotes the idea of ​​accepting one's fate and seeking liberation from religion.

This book is his famous work. The first generation in the book is Walter Morel and Gertrude. Walter was originally full of energy, optimistic, and lovable; but later his temper became bad, he drank alcohol and beat people, and became a walking zombie. The wife, who was disappointed with her husband, pinned her hopes on her son. However, her beloved eldest son William unfortunately died young, and she developed strong feelings for her second son Paul. However, Paul's two girlfriends have different views on love, leaving him at a loss as to what to do. After his mother died, Paul decided to leave his hometown and go to the city. As for Paul's future life path, Lawrence did not tell us the answer. And such an ambiguous ending reflects Lawrence's equally confused mentality: the relationship between the sexes he explores, and then extends to the relationship between people, are all confused.

The heroine Nana in the novel was spotted by the entertainment theater manager, and her starring role in "Venus Blonde" was a success. The men of Paris's upper class fell under her skirt. She was successively supported by the banker Steine ​​and the Queen's attendant Count Miffat. She became a popular socialite in Paris, eating up the money of the men who pursued her, making them bankrupt one by one. Some even died in hell. She eventually died of smallpox, just as the Second Empire was about to collapse in the Franco-Prussian War. The rise and fall of Nana's life became a portrayal of the corrupt and degenerate society of the Second Empire.

In 1866, the whole world was talking about a strange thing - a huge "sea monster" appeared in the sea. Professor Aronnax is a French naturalist. When he was preparing to return after an expedition, he received an invitation from the U. S. Department of the Navy, so he boarded the destroyer "Abraham Lincoln" to participate in the mission of eliminating "sea monsters". But contrary to expectations, the "sea monster" was not eliminated, and the destroyer was crashed by the "sea monster". Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian whaler Ned Land became the captives of the "sea monster"... What kind of secret does this "sea monster" hold? Can Professor Aronnax and the three finally escape? What kind of adventure did they encounter? The protagonists are placed in the gorgeous and fantasy seabed and embark on thrilling adventures.

The novel is set in the upper class life of Paris, France, in the mid-19th century, and takes the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé's family as the main line. It narrates the whole process of how the baron, driven by crazy lust, betrayed his pure and loving wife step by step, hurt his innocent daughter, ruined the reputation of his family, tarnished the reputation of the army, and was ultimately ruined. Various characters, intricate plots, and thrilling battles between spirit and flesh, love and hatred, good and evil, constitute a vivid tragedy and comedy in the world, a colorful history of civilization, and an endless elegy for the inevitable collapse of upper class society.

The protagonist d'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers (Part 2)" is a son of a provincial nobleman. After coming to Paris, he joined the musketeers of King Louis XIII and formed sworn friends with the other three musketeers. Queen Anna had an affair with British Prime Minister Buckingham, and Anna gave Buckingham a diamond pendant. However, Prime Minister Richelieu, who was an enemy of the queen, sent people to England to steal the two diamonds on the pendant, hoping to make the queen embarrassed at the ball. Dartagnan volunteered to go to England with three friends. After many twists and turns, he finally retrieved the pendant and saved the queen's reputation.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), one of the most outstanding writers in the United States, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. "A Farewell to Arms" is one of his major works. In the late stages of World War I, American young man Frederick Henry volunteered to drive an ambulance for the Red Cross and rescue 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. Based on his own experience in the war, Hemingway sang a sad and moving elegy with war and love as the main lines. It has been adapted to the screen many times and can be called a classic of modern literature.

"Black Tulip" is based on the fierce political struggle and turbulent life during the Dutch bourgeois revolution in the seventeenth century. The protagonist, Cornelius Van Belle, is a young doctor who is completely apolitical. He likes to cultivate tulips, and is trying to cultivate a large black tulip without any variegation, because the first person to cultivate a black tulip will receive a considerable bonus. Van Belle's neighbor Boxtel also wanted to cultivate black tulips in order to get the bonus. He was very jealous of Van Belle and was afraid that Van Belle would get the first advantage. He unscrupulously monitored Norm Bailey's actions and secretly destroyed the tulips he cultivated. Later, he falsely accused Van Belle of hiding letters that were detrimental to the Dutch governorship, which resulted in him being imprisoned innocently and almost being guillotined. The whole book depicts thrilling and tear-jerking scenes around Black Tulip.

"I Am a Cat" is the representative work of the famous Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki. It is a literary work with humor, satire and comedy as its main characteristics. As a cat, the protagonist looked down at the Japanese society at that time and the so-called modern civilization in the twentieth century, while making all kinds of ridicule and ridicule. Through the life of the protagonist Kusama, the work uses humorous language, delicate writing style and sharp writing to describe a group of literati and snobs who are accustomed to talking about the past and the present. It vividly exposes and ridicules the capitalists and rulers, criticizes the society where money talks and blindly worships the Western lifestyle, and creates the image of a group of self-proclaimed and cynical intellectuals.

Balzac was a French literary giant of the 19th century. His novels are collectively called "Human Comedy", among which "Eugenie Grandet" and "Petro Goriot" are his masterpieces. "Eugenie Grandet" vividly reproduces the provincial life in France in the 19th century and creates various characters, especially the cunning and stingy upstart Old Man Grandet, which reveals the money relationship between people in society at that time. "Petro Goriot" tells the story of what happened in Vauquer's apartment in a remote neighborhood of Paris, describing the bizarre and bizarre aspects of Parisian society. The author examines and judges life with superb artistic means.

This book is a collection of works by the famous French writer Stendhal in the 19th century. The protagonist of the novel, Julien, is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife and became an adulterer. After the affair was exposed, he was forced to enter the seminary. Later, he worked as a personal secretary for the Marquis Larmour in Paris, and was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, he had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine. This book was translated by the famous translator Mr. Hao Yun, and the translation is smooth and faithful.

The American young man Barnes suffered a spinal injury in World War I and lost his sexual ability. After the war, while working as a reporter in Paris, he fell in love with the British Mrs. Ashley. She pursued pleasure blindly, while he could only drink to drown his sorrows. The two went to Pamplona, ​​Spain, with a group of male and female friends to participate in the bullfighting festival in pursuit of spiritual stimulation. The lady rejected the pursuit of the Jewish young man Cohen, but fell in love with the 19-year-old bullfighter Romero. However, after getting along for a period of time, due to the huge age gap between the two parties, and Mrs. Ashley could not bear to ruin the future of the innocent young man, the relationship ended sadly. Madame eventually returned to Barnes, although both parties knew that they could never truly be together.

Dickens is a great British writer, and this book is one of his early moving social novels. Oliver, an orphan, was bullied in a poor workhouse since he was a child. After escaping to London, he fell into thieves again. When he appealed to no avail, a group of "virtuous" capitalists extended a helping hand. At the same time, the truth about Oliver's strange life experience was also revealed step by step...

During the French Revolution, the famous doctor Manette accidentally witnessed the atrocities committed by the feudal aristocrats Evremonde brothers who took human lives indiscriminately. Because of their injustice, he was thrown into the Bastille and imprisoned for eighteen years. After being released from prison, Manette's daughter Lucy fell in love with her enemy's son Danai. As a result, in the whirlpool of the French Revolution, scenes of family grudges and hatreds were grandly staged, and good, evil, life, and death blended in the conflict, changing in an instant... "A Tale of Two Cities" has a strict structure and concise language. Dickens's in-depth thinking on revolution and human nature and his breathtaking writing talent are vividly displayed in it.

"La Traviata" has created some vivid and distinctive artistic images for us, and the most prominent and unforgettable among them is naturally the heroine Margaret. Readers must not confuse Margaret with Miss Alphonsina Plessy. Although Alphonsina's life experience is worthy of sympathy, she is indeed a fallen woman. In the words of Dumas, she is "both a pure and flawless virgin and a complete whore." But Margaret is different. She is beautiful, smart and kind. Although she has fallen into the world, she still maintains a pure and noble heart. She pursues a true love life with passion and hope, and when this hope is shattered, she is willing to sacrifice herself to help others. All this makes the image of this despised fireworks woman shine with a holy light.

"Selected Essays of Ilya" brings together the most outstanding essays of the famous British writer Charles Lamb (Carles Lamb, 1775-1834), which can be called a treasure of British literature in the 19th century. In these essays, Lamb used "Ilya" as his pen name, taking shortcuts from his daily routine and family life, and recounted his life's reflections. The themes of the essays were closely integrated with Lamb's own unique experience, and were immersed in the vast and profound humanitarian atmosphere. As Chinese writer Liang Yuchun said in the 1930s: Lamb is a "good medicine to stop bleeding" for Ding's mental trauma.

Aesop was born as a slave on the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea in the sixth century BC. He was later made a free citizen because of his outstanding wisdom and profound knowledge, and then became the envoy of the King of Lydia. While on a mission to Delphi, he was falsely accused of stealing sacred objects and was brutally killed. Aesop is known as the "father of Greek fables" and "the originator of Western fables". Aesop's fables are the oldest and most influential fables in the world. Due to their vivid images, profound implications, and rich philosophy, they have been circulated around the world for more than 2,500 years and are enduring. Reading Aesop's fables makes people more intelligent, rational and calm. This book selects 429 Aesop's fables and 100 wonderful fables by the important ancient Greek fables Phaedrus and Babrius.

The dazzling British literature of the 19th century contributed a large number of famous works to the reading world. The masterpiece "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) deserves to occupy a very prominent position in this magnificent starry sky. Becky Sharp, the daughter of a poor painter, lost her parents when she was young, but she was extremely smart. After graduating from boarding school on a part-time basis, she started out as a tutor. She seized every opportunity, sharpened her head and got into the upper class society of the Victorian era, becoming a dazzling social star. The rise of this beauty, against the magnificent historical background of the Battle of Waterloo, presents the most successful artistic image of a female adventurer in world literature. Thackeray's words are sharp, witty and humorous, and his anatomy of life is subtle.

"The Phantom of the Opera" was written by Gaston Leroux (1838-1927), a famous French detective and suspense novelist. "The Phantom of the Opera" is his most popular work. Eric was born with a deformity and was abandoned by his parents and society. The kind-hearted Madame Giry hid him in the basement of the Paris Opera House. From then on, there was no peace in the opera house: items were stolen, employees died, the manager was blackmailed... Rumors about the Phantom of the Opera spread like wildfire. With his superhuman musical talent, Eric helped Christina become famous overnight and fell deeply in love with her at the same time. But Christina already had her heart set on something. As a result, Eric kidnapped her in public on the stage, thus performing a heart-wrenching human-ghost love tragedy...

The protagonist d'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers (Set Volume 1 and 2)" is a son of a provincial nobleman. After coming to Paris, he joined the musketeers of King Louis XIII and formed sworn friends with the other three musketeers. Queen Anna had an affair with British Prime Minister Buckingham, and Anna gave Buckingham a diamond pendant. However, Prime Minister Richelieu, who was an enemy of the queen, sent people to England to steal the two diamonds on the pendant, hoping to make the queen embarrassed at the ball. Dartagnan volunteered to go to England with three friends. After many twists and turns, he finally retrieved the pendant and saved the queen's reputation.

The protagonist d'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers (Part 1)" is a son of a provincial nobleman. After coming to Paris, he joined the musketeers of King Louis XIII and formed sworn friends with the other three musketeers. Queen Anna had an affair with British Prime Minister Buckingham, and Anna gave Buckingham a diamond pendant. However, Prime Minister Richelieu, who was an enemy of the queen, sent people to England to steal the two diamonds on the pendant, hoping to make the queen embarrassed at the ball. Dartagnan volunteered to go to England with three friends. After many twists and turns, he finally retrieved the pendant and saved the queen's reputation.

"The Rainbow" is one of D. H. Lawrence's two most mature masterpieces (the other is its companion "Women in Love"), and it is also his longest novel. It unfolds in the form of family history, narrating the experiences and changes of three generations of the yeoman Brangwen family; it explores psychological issues related to sex with unprecedented enthusiasm and depth in British novels, and seeks the possibility of establishing a natural and harmonious sexual relationship through the description of the normal and abnormal sexual interactions of three generations.

In the first half of the 1920s, Hemingway lived in Paris as a correspondent in Europe. The book "A Moveable Feast" records this period of the author's life at that time. However, this book was written nearly forty years later. In other words, the "scene" of the feast has long since disappeared. The author and readers are only tracing those past years in their memories. For both the author and the readers, these memories have been out of focus and distorted through the lens of time. All memories about Paris blend into a common historical memory of Paris. Among the countless fictional and non-fictional works about Paris in history, "A Moveable Feast" is one of the most famous works. The dedication on its title page - "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then she will be with you wherever you go in your life, because Paris is a moveable feast." It has become the "cultural calling card" of Paris and is widely recited.

Mrs. Bennet's lifelong ambition is to marry her five daughters decently, so she always regards the wealthy bachelors nearby as a piece of property that one of her daughters deserves. So there were several ups and downs of the separation and reunification of young men and women: the slander and misunderstanding between the wealthy son Darcy and the clever and astute second daughter Elizabeth, the lingering relationship between the wealthy son Bingley and the virtuous and kind-hearted eldest daughter Jane, the scandalous elopement of the prodigal Wickham and the frivolous and unreasonable daughter Lydia... In the end, the hero and heroine put aside their own pride and prejudice and made choices that conformed to their own morals. The work fully expresses the author's own views on marriage, emphasizing the impact of economic interests and family status on love and marriage.

This book is a collection of essays describing rural life in Russia in the 1840s and 1950s. It is the first work to describe peasants in the history of Russian literature. It is Turgenev's first realist masterpiece, and caused him to suffer imprisonment and exile. The book takes a hunter's safari as a clue and depicts many characters such as landlords, doctors, aristocratic intellectuals, and serfs through twenty-five stories. It exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of serf owners, the misery and helplessness of serf life, silently satirizes and criticizes the serfdom system, and expresses the desire and pursuit of a better life. The description of the scenery in the book is particularly praised. Whether it is natural phenomena, scenery of lakes and mountains, marking atmosphere, setting off characters, or contrasting plots, they are all interesting and charming in his writings, and they have become an indispensable part of his works. Moreover, its language is concise, beautiful, vivid, concise, and full of music, which has had a huge impact on the development of Russian literary language.

A semi-autobiographical inspirational novel that shines with patriotism and idealism, and was praised by Romain Rolland as "an ode to a fiery and heroic life." The novel takes the Russian October Revolution as the overall background. The protagonist Paul Korchagin was born at the bottom of society and suffered torture and humiliation. Under the influence of Zhu Helai, he gradually grew into a conscious, selfless and strong warrior. Although he was blind and paralyzed in bed, he still wrote with strong perseverance. The glorious image of Paul Korchagin with "iron will" and his conversion process to ideals and spirits once became a symbol of integrity, strength and self-improvement, inspiring and motivating generations of young Chinese readers.