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The four sisters of the Ma family have completely different personalities but love each other. They have been living a happy life despite poverty, but there is an undercurrent quietly buried in the happiness... The third sister Beth and her father who is serving in the military are both ill and their lives are in danger; the sisters meet the people they like and the dreams they want to pursue one after another. How do different difficulties and choices make them gradually transform into mature little women?

This is the best of times, this is the worst of times. This is a story that takes place in two cities, Paris and London. One is a well-educated French exiled aristocrat, and the other is an unruly British prodigal. Two people with completely different personalities have similar appearances, and they also fell in love with the same beautiful girl... The French Revolution broke out, and the people who had been persecuted by the nobles for a long time rebelled, and the country was filled with blood and hatred. In this great era, what will be the fate of these two people?

"Tears of the Lone Star" was originally called "Les Misérables". It tells the story of a poor peasant Hua Shang who was arrested for stealing a bag. After being released from prison, he was subjected to discrimination. Later, he was inspired by a kind bishop and determined to be a good person, do good deeds everywhere, and adopted an orphan girl Cosetti. The young girl Cosetti and the young Marius fell in love at first sight, but revolutionary activities broke out at that time, and Marius was shot and injured while protesting on the streets. How did Hua Shang rescue Marius? Can Cosetti and Marius meet again?

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. The heroines in the novel all 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.

"Little Women" was influenced by Emerson, a great thinker at the time, and emphasized the concepts of personal dignity and self-reliance. 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.

"The Blade" is one of the most important masterpieces of novels by the famous British writer and "story master" Maugham. Larry Darrell, a young American pilot, met an Irish comrade in the army. In a battle, this comrade died trying to rescue Larry. Larry therefore felt confused about life and could not understand why there was evil and misfortune in the world...

"The Moon and Sixpence" is one of the most important novel masterpieces by the famous British writer and "story master" Maugham. The British painter in the novel is based on the French post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin. The protagonist was originally a successful securities broker, but became obsessed with painting when he reached middle age. He suddenly abandoned his home and went to Paris to pursue the ideal of painting. He finally chose to abandon the civilized world and escape to the isolated island of Tahiti in the South Pacific...

"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. Margaret 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.

"The Outsider" is one of Camus' famous and representative novels. It can be called one of the most epoch-making and famous novels in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. "The Outsider" has thus become one of the most classic characters and one of the most important keywords in Western literature and philosophy.

"The Count of Monte Cristo (Set of Volumes 1 and 2)" is a masterpiece by the famous French popular historical novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Captain Dontes, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was commissioned to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party. He was framed by two despicable villains and a judge, and was sentenced to death. The inmate Father Faria taught him all kinds of knowledge, and before his death, he told him the secrets of a group of treasures buried on the island of Monte Cristo. After escaping from prison, Dontes found the treasure and became a millionaire. From then on, he was known as the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies...

"The Counterfeiter" is Gide's last and only novel. It is the product of the most mature period of his thought and art. It can be said that it represents the highest and most comprehensive achievement of Gide as a thinker and artist. Several misguided children committed the crime of using counterfeit money. They kept groping in a society with sinking morals and lost values, but they kept getting lost, growing from youth to maturity. The work combines growth, ethics, psychology, "meta-fiction" and other styles. It has profound and delicate thoughts, clear and exquisite writing style, broad vision, and rich life content. It has a milestone significance in the history of literature.

In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, poor employee Nick breaks into the secret world of the spendthrift tycoon Gatsby. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the other side of the river - in the flickering light, lives his beloved Daisy...

"The Eve" created the image of "new people" among civilian intellectuals on the "eve of the Russian serfdom reform" and reflected the historical trend of social movements at that time being promoted by new activists. "Father and Son" reveals the contradiction between civilian intellectuals and aristocrats in a period of social change. Both novels were important works that exposed the contradictions of Russian society at that time and revealed the direction of social development. They caused controversy in Russia when they were first published, but they have been loved by Chinese and foreign readers to this day.

"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 decided to join 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...

Goethe (1749-1832), a German literary giant. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is his most important early work. This is an epistolary novel, and the author was only twenty-five years old when he wrote it. The novel describes the experiences and feelings of progressive young people towards the despicable German society at that time, and expresses the author's reaction to the feudal moral hierarchy and his strong demand for individual liberation. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" came out in 1775. Its publication is considered an epoch-making event in the history of German literature.

Zhivago, a surgeon who came from a family of intellectuals, served in the Tsarist army during the First World War. He saw the weakness of the Tsarist and the corruption of the old army. His intelligent mind foresaw the maturation of the revolutionary power. He expected that the revolution would bring new life to the country and the people, and supported the new regime with positive actions...

"Spring Tide" tells the story of the young American writer Scripps O'Neill's wife and daughter who ran away one after another, and a series of strange things happened in the northern mountain town of Michigan, which formed the interesting core plot of Hemingway's early novella "Spring Tide". "The Old Man and the Sea" tells the story of an old fisherman's struggle with a big fish. It has a profound theme and won Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. It has long been widely popular in our country.

Is there such a kind of love, even if there is no hope, a person can keep it in his heart for a long time; even if life blows it every day, it can never be blown out...? In "The Narrow Gate", Gide pushes the mystical experience in love to the extreme, telling us a love story that is pure and hot, but also contains boundless loneliness and infinite bitterness. When love sprouted, he and she secretly fell in love with each other. With all their innocence and enthusiasm, they only wanted to become better people for each other...

In a future world, the glass bead game has become a symbol system evolved from music and mathematics, and is all human knowledge and spiritual wealth. Knecht was an orphan who was raised by this religious group. He relied on his outstanding talents and superior organizational skills to become a master of the glass bead game. But as he grew older, he gradually became dissatisfied with this isolated spiritual kingdom and felt that it was impossible to contribute to the people in this kind of ivory tower...

Flaubert was a master of French realist literature in the 19th century, and "Madame Bovary" is his famous and representative work. The publication of "Madame Bovary" in the Paris Magazine in 1856 not only marked a turning point in the history of French novels in the nineteenth century, but also influenced the literary genre of novels around the world. The novel describes the tragic life of a wealthy farmer's daughter in mainland France.

This book uses trees as a metaphor to introduce a family destiny of a small character in modern times. From the crown to the trunk to the roots, the story follows from grandchildren to fathers to grandparents. Three generations, three histories. The young grandchildren show how modern people live, which is casual and natural, while still protecting traditional emotions, such as filial piety and love. The narration of the father's generation runs parallel to the narration of the grandfather's generation, focusing on the life of the grandfather who was once a beggar and the grandmother who was once a lady - this incredible couple, and cleverly integrates them with the times, the fate of the family, etc...

This is the life experience, erotic experience, political experience and survival experience of human beings in the world. These experiences tell us that there are gold-rimmed ones. "Tailless Dog" was written five years ago and revised six times. Perhaps it is more than just the survival and dignity of a rural and urban resident in North China for decades. Human beings can bend and stretch, go up and down, grow and shorten, enter and exit, soft and hard, and the same is true for the spongy body. The spongy body is as timid as a rat. Only Adin has completely restored the human cavernous body. After reading this, we will find that there is really no better metaphor that can symbolize human beings, a species that lives on the earth. Ardin proves his ability when faced with narrative difficulties.

This is a touching love story. This is a sad and tragic epic. The story is written by Mr. Zhang Henshui, the "master of popular literature" - the whole book is based on the tragic story of Jin Yanxi, the youngest son of the Prime Minister, and Qingqiu, a commoner woman, from free love, marriage to separation. It depicts the rise and fall of a wealthy family and the human condition of the world. It can be called a classic, and it still has immortal artistic charm when I read it today. It is known as the "Dream of Red Mansions" in the 20th century. This book is known as the "Dream of Red Mansions" in the 20th century. This love epic that touched countless people comprehensively presents the Chinese society intertwined with family status, power and money in the first half of the 20th century. The work takes the love and marriage tragedy of Jin Yanxi, the son of the Prime Minister of Beiyang, and Xiaojiabiyu Leng Qingqiu as the main line. It describes the feudal family's wives and concubines, and the decadent and declining life of their children's debauchery. It reveals the darkness and transformation of human nature in a complex environment, just like a history of the rise and fall of wealthy nobles in the turbulent years.

The more people understand and pursue, the lonelier they become. In a hot and depressing southern town, the quiet deaf-mute John Singer has become the target of everyone's talk: a poor girl with a musical dream, a black doctor who pursues fairness all his life, a fanatical worker who hopes for reform, a cafe owner who has lost his passion for life... Everyone has found comfort from the mute, but no one can relieve his loneliness.

"The Silence of Angels" is one of the most important post-war works by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll. It was written in 1949 after the end of World War II. The writer himself experienced the war and was captured in a US prisoner of war camp. After Germany was defeated in 1945, he was freed and returned to his devastated hometown of Cologne. It can be said that this work is equivalent to a spiritual portrayal of the writer during that period. This book vividly reproduces the real life and suffering experience of the German people in the early post-war period through a series of encounters of a German soldier who returned from defeat in the process of searching for home, food, etc., And expresses the mental state of the German people in a specific period. The writing is delicate, cold, profound, and extremely realistic. It can be called a representative work of "ruin literature".

"Setting Sun" is set in the chaotic and depressed Japanese society after World War II and describes the decline of an aristocratic family. The mother and her daughter Kazuko, who were born in the aristocracy, were unable to survive financially, so they moved to Izu to live. The mother and daughter depended on each other and lived quietly. The return of his younger brother Naoji, who was soon drafted into the army, broke the originally peaceful life... The alcoholic and drug-addled younger brother Naoji overprinted the author's early years, and his sister Kazuko, who was determined to risk everything for "love and revolution", highlighted the author's depressed spiritual world during the war... And the mother vaguely entrusted the author's aristocratic feelings and aesthetic ideals, like a ray of sunset passing through the miserable wind and rain, which is also the symbol or incarnation of the "setting sun". Translated by the famous translator Lin Shaohua.

This book tells the story of a group of Kuomintang veterans and their families who came to Taiwan from the mainland from the late 1940s to the early 1950s and went through many hardships. Their experiences are intertwined with separation due to war and personal relationships between children. They embody heroic complex and national integrity. Most of them come from the children of workers and peasants. They have deep feelings for their hometown, motherland, and Chinese culture. They are the most determined force to defend one China and oppose "Taiwan independence."

Deep-rooted love can sometimes turn into shackles, fettering all a person's happiness and extinguishing any hope. While he is in the world, his soul sinks into purgatory. After Meng Ye lost his beloved Xia Muxue when he was young, he has been using boxing to vent his pain, like a wild beast. Just as the seven stars are shining through the sun, time and space intersect, and the ending of the sad story has been wiped out, and it has become a feeling of reminiscence or a relationship that can be renewed. What choice should Meng Ye make at this time, whether to redeem himself or fulfill his lover. Distant thoughts are extremely poisonous. Only those who can survive without dying can understand the taste of love.

This book is a work of realism. The author describes the struggles and struggles of migrant workers in the city in a delicate way, telling the youth story of a generation of Shenzhen people, which contains the warmth of family, love and friendship, as well as the growth of young people who are constantly struggling in the development and changes of the times. There are both the impact of the influx of large numbers of migrant workers on the city, the initial resistance of local people, and the slow process of integration between the two. The growth environment and growth experience of the hero and heroine are traced through flashbacks. The second half of the book focuses on the heroine's unfortunate marriage and discusses bad habits such as domestic violence and son preference. From this, one can feel the heroine's gradual awakening of female consciousness.

This book tells the story of a group of "post-90s" who grew up in Shenzhen from ignorant youth to maturity. It takes the love story of the protagonists Ye Yunxi and Gao Yumeng as the main line and tells the growth trajectory of this group of "post-90s" in study, work and life. It is full of persistence, confusion, rebellion and struggle in the process of growing up. During this period, they experienced laughter, tears, separation and reunion. Shenzhen is the place where their dreams began and the place where they finally realized their dreams. Here the protagonist and his friends rely on their own hard work to realize their ideals in life.

In 1937, the Battle of Songhu broke out, and the whole of China fell into an all-out war of resistance. As the war situation changes, Chen Wen, a bank clerk who is well versed in Go, is pushed to his destiny. Chen Wen, who had lost his wife and children, resolutely joined the army. He used his chess skills in combat, outsmarted Japanese special warfare expert Shi Yuan, annihilated the bloody "Chrysanthemum Sword" special forces, and launched a surprise attack on Hongkou Airport... And eventually became the famous "Ghost Hand General".

"Grandma" is a masterpiece that is most loved by the Czech people. Nemtsova writes in the book about the author's grandmother's life of wandering and suffering. The image of grandma is the embodiment of the virtue and wisdom of the Czech working people. The work depicts a picture of Czech rural life, with simple folk customs and picturesque scenery all presented in the book. The author uses delicate writing to lead readers into the Czech countryside, allowing people to realize the diligence, simplicity, bravery and friendship of the Czech people.

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The masterpiece of American romantic writer Melville is also one of the best novels in the history of world literature. It is known as the "encyclopedia of the whaling industry" because of its description of sea voyages and the complicated whaling life. "Cambridge Literary History" calls it one of the greatest maritime romance novels in the history of world literature. In terms of its literary value, it is also known as the American "Hamlet". It tells the story of Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship "Pequod", who is determined to hunt down the ferocious and intelligent white whale Moby Dick who bit off one of his legs. After sailing almost all over the world, he finally encounters Moby Dick after many twists and turns. After three days of tracking, the harpoon was finally used to hit the white whale, but the ship was hit by the white whale. Ahab was entangled in the rope on the harpoon and was taken into the sea. They all fell into the sea, but only the sailor Ishmael was saved. The white color given by the author to the white whale symbolizes innocence and terror, and the white whale symbolizes the mixture of good and evil. This is the basic condition of the human world. Ahab wanted to catch Law's challenge. His death along with that of the entire crew was an inevitable outcome. This novel has become an outstanding work with its rich ideological content, epic scale and mature and thoughtful writing style.

"Ninety-Three Years" (1874) is Hugo's last novel. The novel creates three central characters: the Marquis de Lantenac, the leader of the Vendée rebels, his grandnephew, Guo Wen, the commander of the Republican Army who suppressed the rebellion, and Simourden, Guo Wen's tutor and commissioner of the Public Security Commission. An intricate plot unfolded around them, vividly describing the historical scene of the life-and-death struggle between the bourgeoisie and feudal forces in 1793. At the end of the novel: Lanternac, who had narrowly escaped death, returned to the burning castle to rescue three children due to his conscience. Guo Wen was moved by his uncle's humanitarian spirit and was willing to trade his own head for Landenac's life; Simulden shot himself while Guo Wen's head fell to the ground. "1993" Can be said to be the most perfect expression of Hugo's writing art and humanitarian spirit.

In order to get a house, she faked a marriage with someone, but fell in love with her "husband's" brother. What should I do if I help direct a blind date show but attract the old lover of my crush? Guo Yuntian, a professional woman, has been working hard to become a rich woman, but she encountered the "confusion of turning thirty" at the age of twenty-eight. Because Guo Yuntian wanted to buy a house for himself, but he really had no money. She heard that the bungalow where her colleague Sun Du lived would be demolished in half a year, so she faked a marriage with Sun Du, which also led to a dispute in life and love. After some vicissitudes of life, Guo Yuntian figured out one thing, that is, taking shortcuts is actually a dead end.

This book focuses on a black family that was almost torn apart due to poverty, drugs, and racial discrimination. It uses poetic prose to comb through their life history, sing out the unspeakable pain in their hearts, and reveal the hidden historical truth of the American South. Yoyo is a thirteen-year-old boy of mixed black and white race. He lives with his sister Michaela, his grandfather, and his mother in a small town in Mississippi. Her mother, Leonie, was often away from home and became addicted to drugs in order to escape the grief of losing her late brother. On Yoyo's birthday, Leonie planned to take her two siblings to the state prison to pick up their white father, Michael, from prison. On this day, a group of people traveled on the country road. Mississippi's past and present were intertwined, blurring the boundaries between reality and magic. They set off with hope, but the dark past quietly followed them home...

Ma Shitu takes ten poor officials in the old Chinese officialdom as the protagonists. Through the unique narrative method of ten people taking turns telling stories, and using seemingly unimaginable but very real anecdotes, we not only see the intrigues and betrayal of officialdom in the old society. The ugly behavior of Fu Jue, the miserable life of ordinary working people, especially the tragic experience of women being insulted and harmed, and the cold human world of the old society, the hypocrisy of ethics and morals, and the danger of social relations between people. "Ten Notes of a Night Story" adopts a story-telling narrative format that can firmly grasp the readers. It allows ten extremely boring clerks to take turns setting up the dragon gate formation every day. This structural form and certain legendary color of the work enhance the readers' interest in reading. In addition, the work's humorous tone, sharp satire on the reactionary rule of the old society, and emotional descriptions in many places also make this work more attractive.

"Old Things in the South of the City" is Lin Haiyin's classic autobiographical novel, which was selected into Asia Weekly's "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century". The work observes the joys, sorrows, joys and sorrows of the adult world through the childish eyes of Jae Young-ja. The customs and customs of the south of Beijing during the Republic of China are perfectly integrated into the text, setting up a clear time and space background for readers. The writing style is pure and fresh, and the story is warm and friendly, with a touch of sadness, which has moved generations of readers.

The novel revolves around the construction of the pyramids by Pharaoh Khufu in ancient Egypt, creating a wrestling match between the king and his ministers. The pyramid was regarded by the subjects as an undisputed symbol of eternal power, but for the king, it meant his own death. Thus, a big debate began about whether to build the pyramids...

In the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire sent troops to besiege Albanian castles. Pasha led thousands of troops to garrison the city. Various strange siege methods were performed in turn, and endless factional struggles between military committees emerged one after another. The soldiers who set foot on the battlefield for the first time hurriedly charged into battle, and the sound of rain drums heralding rain was like the roar of God...

A classic work by Roddy Doyle, Ireland's "Novelist Laureate", and a Booker Prize-winning work. Bright and sad childhood memories, touching memories lingering in the heart, a classic work that embodies deep affection in the ordinary. In an Irish town in 1968, 10-year-old Patrick Clark was experiencing the pain of growing up. The breakdown of his parents' relationship forced him to face the cruelty of the adult world in advance. The fragmented narrative style of the novel is like the protagonist's wild thoughts, while the Irish humor complements the innocence of children. Patrick also had a happy childhood, but those days of lawlessness, laughter and play began to fade as the conflicts between his parents intensified. He is scared, nervous, unable to sleep, smokes, skips school, and is isolated from his former friends... But no matter how hard he tries to figure out why his lovely mother and interesting father no longer love each other, the answer he gets is just the departing figure of his father outside the glass window. The tone of "Childhood Past" is bright and sad. The confusion that has settled in the heart, the tears that melt into the night, and the long-lasting thoughts about growth, marriage, and family are like the snowflakes flying in the sky in the North, floating into the childhood memories of each of us.

For the first time introduced in translation into the Chinese world, Philip Roth's unique novel The Adventures of President Dixon continues the political satire tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, and directly attacks the corrupt social and political phenomenon of the Nixon administration. The cover of this book is the inspiration for the collection of caricatures "Poor Richard" by contemporary artist Philip Guston. When Slippery feels confused or distressed at night under the weight of the presidency and cannot sleep, he will often get up, tiptoe through the White House, to the bomb-proof underground athletes' locker room, and then "go into battle" and put on his football jersey. Just like during the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State University shootings, simply putting on shoulder pads, cleats, a helmet, pulling his comfortable shorts up over his leather lower body, then turning his head to look in the mirror and glancing at the number on his back over his broad shoulders was enough to fill him with confidence that the actions he was taking for the benefit of 200 million Americans were justified.

In order to solve the mystery of Homer, two amateur scholars from the United States went to the remote mountains of southern Albania to search for the only remaining ancient heroic epic. Unexpectedly, they were regarded as spies when they first arrived, and were closely monitored by people from all walks of life. They were also involved in unexpected ethnic conflicts and contradictions. "Kadare skillfully placed the classical myths in a modern context, inherited Gogol's provincial comedy mode, and tightly woven the multi-layered themes up and down, and made it filled with a sense of light banter.

"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" is a novel written by Yukio Mishima based on the true incident in 1950 when a monk of the Temple, Lin Yangxian, set fire to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. It mainly tells the story of Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with stuttering and came from a poor countryside to become a monk at the Kinkaku Temple. He was obsessed with the beauty of the Kinkaku Temple all day long and imagined the magnificent scene of dying with the Kinkakuji in the flames of war. However, the end of the war made this wish disappear forever. In despair, he resolutely burned the Golden Temple to the ground. By burning down the Golden Temple, Mizoguchi eliminated the demonic barriers that once existed in his mind. The alienated image of the Golden Temple no longer existed. His originally suppressed humanity was released, and his horizons shackled by phantoms were also expanded. Destruction became the path to rebirth.

"Confessions of a Mask" is Yukio Mishima's famous work, published in 1949. "Confessions of a Mask" made Mishima Yukio famous and officially entered the Japanese literary circle. "Confessions of a Mask" is an exploration of the heart, a confrontation against declining aristocratic families and declining social rules, and a battle to get rid of the shackles of traditional morality, order and values. Written in person, it first narrates the male protagonist's birth and family situation, and depicts the protagonist's psychological activities from the age of 5 to puberty. The bizarre and bizarre inner world is jaw-dropping. The protagonist feels ashamed of his natural weakness, which makes him feel weak both physically and mentally. He envies physically strong and wild people and aspires to become a spiritual giant. However, his body never grows as expected. Before he could become the "strong and wild" person he wanted to be, love sprouted and he fell in love with his classmate's sister Sonoko. However, looking at his still weak body, he always felt that he was not capable enough, and finally chose to terminate the relationship. After World War II, Sonoko is married, but the protagonist still tries to secretly date her and live a life of spiritual love.

"Fable" is Faulkner's painstaking work in his later years. It subverted Faulkner's previous "Yoknapatawpha lineage". While it won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it also caused huge controversy. The story takes place in Verdun at the end of World War I, and spans a week. A regiment of the French army launched a mutiny and openly disobeyed the order to attack the German army. At the same time, the German soldiers also stopped attacking, and the battlefield that had been noisy for four years temporarily returned to calm. The commanders of the allied forces of France, Britain, and the United States were greatly shocked. They could not tolerate this kind of calm, and ordered the 3,000 soldiers of the regiment to be taken to the Allied headquarters and sentenced to death... As Faulkner said: "If Jesus comes again in 1914-1915, he will be crucified on the cross again." Faulkner used the story of Jesus' crucifixion to express his deep thoughts on human nature and war.

In the small town of Castle Rock, gossip spreads fast. Therefore, Scott Carey, who encountered a bizarre experience, could only confide the secret to his doctor friend: He continued to lose weight, but his body shape remained unchanged. Whether he put on clothes or took off clothes, the reading on the scale was the same. Scott's new neighbors open a restaurant in town, but the restaurant is shunned by the locals because the community cannot accept the lifestyle of the lesbian couple who owns the restaurant, Deirdre McComb and Missy Donaldson. He also got into a dispute with two neighbors because their dogs often pooped on Scott's lawn. As the town prepares for its annual Thanksgiving 12,000-mile race, Scott begins to discover the prejudices the two women face and wants to help change it. They form the unlikeliest of alliances, and Scott's mysterious illness prompts people to step out of isolation and prejudice against others and show understanding and tolerance for others.

On the orders of his fiancée, Mrs. Newsome, Lambert Street went to Paris to persuade her "misguided" son Chad to return to the United States and inherit the family business. However, after arriving in Europe, he discovered that Chad's private life was not as dissolute as Mrs. Newsom imagined, and Chad had grown into an outstanding young man. After some travels, Street was completely infected by the European lifestyle and cultural charm. As an envoy, instead of completing his mission, he firmly stood on Chad's side. At the same time, his own emotional life also began to have a crisis...

"Grand Hotel" is the work of Claude Simon, the Nobel Prize winner and a representative of the new novel. They opposed the traditional creative method represented by Balzac, rejected the storyline, and ignored the characterization. Sartre once called this creative method "anti-novel". In this work, Claude Simon tried to combine text and painting for the first time. There are only a few vague characters in the text, and no clear plot line can be seen. A French college student looks at the Spanish Civil War with two sets of eyes fifteen years apart. He strives to use words as colors, notes and lenses to convey to readers not a story of joys and sorrows, but a hazy and erratic impression.