Library

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. It vividly exposed all kinds of bourgeois characters and became a realistic picture of French society in the 19th century.

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.

The novel is set in the French society during the Restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty. It tells the story of the two daughters raised by Goriot, who made a fortune in business, with all his efforts. After marriage, under the influence of the upper-class lifestyle, they squeezed their father's property, damaged their dignity, and tortured their father's emotions until they had nothing and died of physical and mental exhaustion. Intertwined with this main line is the experience of the provincial young man Rastignac breaking into Paris's upper class society and recognizing all the temptations and dangers involved. The main characters in Balzac's masterpiece "The Human Comedy" appear one after another in this novel, thus opening the prelude to the "Human Comedy".

"How Steel Was Tempered" was written in 1933. The young Paul Korchagin was expelled from school for getting into trouble. Forced by life, he walked into the "human world". Hard life, heavy labor, naked cannibalism, and the dark bottom of society tested and tempered this stubborn young man... This is the process of training and growth for a new generation of young people, and it is also a wonderful story of "a boy grows into a man"!

"Gulliver's Travels" tells the story of surgeon Gulliver's experiences after he was shipwrecked on four voyages. The book is divided into four parts, which respectively introduce Gulliver's experiences and experiences in strange countries such as Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island, Wizards, Science Fiction, Longevity, Japan and Shenma. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize and satirize the British society and human society at that time, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class. The organic unity of fantasy and reality is the greatest feature of this work.

The protagonist of this book, Robinson Crusoe, was born in the middle class. His father often taught him the philosophy of contentment and wanted him to be satisfied with the happy life of the middle class. But he couldn't resist the temptation of the new world overseas. He went to sea several times and finally got trapped on a desert island. Faced with the threat of death, he relied on perseverance to start from scratch in the wilderness, building houses, cultivating fields, growing food, taming wild beasts, fighting cannibals, and seizing merchant ships controlled by rebellious sailors. After going through countless hardships, he finally escaped danger, gained considerable wealth, and became a legend of the era.

"Notre Dame de Paris" was such a success that when Michelet wrote "History of the Middle Ages" in 1833, he mentioned this ancient church and wrote: "Someone left a deep lion's paw print on this building. From now on, no one will touch it rashly."... Esmeralda, Claude, Frollo, and especially Casimordo have all become legendary figures almost like Jean Valjean.

"Gulliver's Travels" is a satirical travel novel by the British writer Jonathan Swift. It tells a series of absurd and bizarre stories that happened when the protagonist Captain Gulliver traveled around the country of Lilliput, the country of adults, the country of flying islands and the country of Hui Ma. The author uses fictional and fantasy techniques to satirize the real society in Britain in the first half of the 18th century, reflecting the ignorance and decadence of the British ruling class.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is a heroic and tragic novel full of fighting spirit and profound implications. It tells us a very impactful story in extremely concise and neat language. Hemingway said: "I tried to describe a real old man, a real child, the real sea, a real fish and many real sharks. However, if I can write realistic enough, they can also represent many other things." A person can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated - this is the spirit to be conveyed in "The Old Man and the Sea".

This book mainly records Anne Frank's secret life and physical and mental growth before her death. The first part was written on June 12, 1942, and the last part was written on August 1, 1944. In the secret room life shrouded in an atmosphere of depression and fear, although Anne was sometimes as depressed as adults, she always had hope. She used the diary "Gitty" as the imaginary recipient and expressed her inner feelings in letters. The diary not only records Anne's likes and dislikes of family members (especially her mother), her analysis of the internal debates in the secret room, her views on the war, and even her views on women's social status. It also records Anne's longing and desire for ideal love, and her profound exploration of human nature and life... Through constant self-reflection and self-encouragement, Anne gradually became independent and autonomous.

Romain Rolland's novel "Jean-Christophe" is a series of stories about a young man who constantly pursues his dreams and struggles with society for his dreams. This is the first volume of this book, which describes John-Christophe's boyhood and youth: as a boy, Christophe has been living in the small world of his family and hometown-until he passed a test. The young man got enlightenment from the test, constantly brandishing Don Quixote's spear, and went on a rampage to conquer the lies of society and art at that time, attacking mule drivers, clerks, wind wheels of mills, and festivals in Germany and France. He bravely walked out of the small world of his hometown and pursued his dreams on a larger stage.

"Hunter's Notes" depicts various portraits of landowners. These portraits can be said to be a continuation of the paintings created by "naturalist" writers represented by Gogol. Each landlord has his own story, including the conservative and cruel Stegunov landlord ("Two Landlords"), the "elegant" villain landlord Binochkin ("The Steward"), and the calm and wise independent landlord Ovsenikov ("The Independent Landlord Ovsennikov"). Turgenev's elegant writing style reveals the edge of irony and humor in the landowner.

This book tells the adventure story of the protagonist Robinson who was shipwrecked at sea and drifted to an uninhabited island. He had to survive alone and persisted in living on the island for nearly twenty-eight years. Finally, he miraculously returned to his hometown. In the article, Robinson never gave up the pursuit and persistence of his ideals and beliefs. With his amazing perseverance and courage, tenacious self-protection ability, rich life experience, superhuman wisdom and creative spirit, he devoted himself to the struggle against nature. In the end, he became the master of nature through his actions. His spirit of never being satisfied, constantly pursuing, constantly making progress, and having the courage to fight against difficulties is worth learning from each of us.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the masterpiece of Jonathan Swift, the most outstanding British political commentator and satirical novelist in the 18th century, and a great satirical novel in the history of world literature. The novel uses Captain Gulliver's voice to narrate the experience of traveling around Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the Flying Island Kingdom, and the Houyhnhnms Kingdom. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize the British political system, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class.

This book tells the story of Jane Eyre, whose parents died young. She suffered discrimination and abuse from her aunt since she was a child, and was eventually sent to an orphanage. With her self-reliant character, she found a job as a tutor at Thornfield Manor, and fell in love with Rochester, the owner of the manor. However, when they were about to get married, someone testified that Rochester was already married. For equality and self-esteem, Jane Eyre left Rochester resolutely. When she returned to Thornfield Manor, she discovered that Rochester's mad wife had set fire to the house and fell to his death. Rochester was also injured and disabled. Eventually, Jane Eyre married him and got her ideal happy life. The work is simple and vivid, embodies the European Romantic literary tradition, and shows the author's rich imagination and poet's temperament.

This book is a novel by Soviet writer Boris Pasternak. It narrates a series of major historical events before and after the October Revolution. The writer describes social changes with his unique vision and thinking. Although it was banned by the Soviet authorities, it caused a sensation around the world and won the author the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Dickens (1812-1870) was a famous British realist novelist in the 19th century. "David Copperfield" is his semi-autobiographical novel. It depicts a broad social picture through the narration of the unfortunate experience of an orphan. It creates a series of typical characters with superb skills and shows the author's generous and broad humanistic feelings. It was once praised by the literary giant Tolstoy as the best British novel.

"Jane Eyre" is Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. This is a work with a strong autobiographical flavor. It successfully creates an image of a woman who adopts a positive attitude toward love, life, society, and religion, and who dares to fight and strive for freedom and equal status. It explains the theme of "human value = independent love", which is the first in the history of British literature. The publication of "Jane Eyre" once caused a sensation in the literary world of the 19th century. It is regarded as a classic work handed down from generation to generation all over the world.

"Robinson Crusoe" describes the adventures of the navigator Robinson through a thrilling and tortuous storyline. Robinson was born in a wealthy businessman family. He did not have much ambition since he was a child. He only fell in love with sailing after a sea trip instigated by a friend. He secretly ran away from home many times, experienced pirates, terrible tropical storms and other hardships, and finally encountered a shipwreck during a long sea journey. All the sailors and passengers who were traveling with him were killed. Only Robinson survived and drifted to an uninhabited island alone. On the desert island, he grew his own food, tamed wild animals, made his own bread machine, ceramic tools, and made a canoe. Finally, with his amazing perseverance and courage, tenacious self-protection ability, rich life experience, superhuman wisdom and creative spirit, Robinson finally miraculously returned to his hometown of England after 28 years of living on the island after 35 years of absence.

"Tender Is the Night" is Fitzgerald's last novel. The last stage of his life was the darkest and most difficult period, with a serious financial crisis in his life and his wife Zelda also suffering from mental illness. Through this work, Fitzgerald explores his inner journey and depicts the advent of the "Great Depression" and the disillusionment of the American dream. Everything comes and disappears so quickly, like a short dream.

This book is a famous science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It tells a story: The British gentleman Fogg bet 20,000 pounds with his friends to travel around the world and return to London in eighty days. He and his servants overcame many difficulties and obstacles on the way, passing through the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, traveling to India, Singapore, Japan, the United States and other places, and even married an Indian wife. Finally, he traveled around the world and returned to London in eighty days, even completing the task one day early. Along the way, Fogg was witty and brave, showing a complete gentlemanly style. The book describes in detail the bizarre experiences of Mr. Fogg and his party on the way and the difficulties and dangers they encountered. The plot is twists and turns and fascinating.

"Mother" is one of the best works of the great Russian proletarian writer Gorky. This novel profoundly reflects the magnificent revolutionary struggle of the masses under the leadership of the Russian proletarian party in the early 20th century, and for the first time created the image of a proletarian hero with socialist consciousness. The novel describes the life of the old fitter Mikhail Vlasov and the changes in his son. Through the experiences of this family, it shows how the working class moves from spontaneity to consciousness. The image of the mother is very important in this novel. The mother's awakening process fully reflects the historical trend that the masses will inevitably move towards the road of revolution under the education of the party.

"Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying for the first time the author's understanding of people, his helplessness and despair. There is a mountain of books and a sea of ​​barnyards, and a garden of literature and history. I sink and play in it, and the hook is not hidden, and it is written in a day. It comes naturally at random, randomly, vertically and horizontally, and cannot be suppressed. From high-ranking officials in temples to ordinary people in the city, from the depths of Zichen to the distances of rivers and lakes, everything he writes about comes to mind immediately and leaps onto the page. Akutagawa is sensitive by nature. Generally speaking, he does not focus on description but focuses on exploration. He pays little attention to narration and focuses on enlightenment. He is less light and unrestrained and more depressed and desolate. This is easily evident from his works.

During World War I, pilot Larry met an Irish comrade who died trying to protect him. Facing the cold corpses of his comrades, Larry had doubts about life for the first time: "When a person dies, he really dies completely." After the war, Larry did not go to college to complete his studies, find a decent job after graduation, get married and have children, as everyone expected. The search for life made him leave everything behind, starting from Paris, traveling around the world, and walking on the path of self-cultivation following the thoughts of selflessness and renunciation. He has no ambitions and no desire for fame or fortune; no matter what kind of social celebrity he becomes, he is disgusted; therefore, he may be very satisfied with the life he has chosen, and it is enough to just be himself.

"How should a person's life be spent?" Nikolai Ostrovsky, who was only 29 years old and blind, raised this question for young people all over the world on a cold night in Sochi, creating a beacon that guides generations - "How Steel Was Tempered". The underage Paul was kicked out of school by a tyrannical priest and stepped into this chaotic world. In this year, the tsarist nobles who had ruled this huge empire for hundreds of years were on the verge of collapse. That year, under the leadership of that mentor, the firebrand known as the Bolsheviks started to spread across the prairie fire. That year, the young man named Paul Korchagin had not yet encountered the red flag. In the future, the heroic warrior who will be regarded as the hardest steel cornerstone of this red flag will become a role model for countless young people. His life has begun...

E

F

Osamu Dazai: "I wanted to make the book "Okagakuji" into a plaything so that people who are struggling to get through difficult times can get a moment of solace in their busy schedules. Therefore, although I have been in poor health recently and have a low fever, I still have to write it down little by little while taking care of business and dealing with the aftermath of the disaster at home.

"John-Christophe" is a novel by the famous French writer Romain Rolland. It tells the story of the protagonist John-Christophe's life of struggle and resistance for music, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. This book is divided into three volumes, representing the three periods of the protagonist respectively: the first volume is about Christophe in childhood, adolescence and youth; the middle volume mainly tells about the life of John Christophe in Paris as a young adult; the second volume can be summed up as the end of the journey.

"The Three Musketeers" is a story about justice and ideals. D'Artagnan, a rural boy from a grassroots background, went to Paris to join the army with the dream of becoming a musketeer. By mistake, he became life-and-death friends with three legendary musketeers of the King's Guard, practicing the knight's declaration of "everyone for one, one for everyone." In order to thwart the conspiracy of the villain Cardinal, the Musketeers brothers, who are resourceful, brave and each with their own strengths, embarked on a thrilling adventure...

Gatsby was not rich when he was young. He fell in love with a girl named Daisy, and Daisy also fell in love with him. However, Daisy finally broke up with him and married Tom, a rich boy. Daisy was not happy after her marriage, and the satisfaction of her material desires could not fill Daisy's spiritual emptiness. Gatsby firmly believed that money made Daisy betray her chastity and determined to become a rich man. A few years later, Gatsby finally succeeded. He built a mansion opposite Daisy's mansion. Gatsby spent money like water and played the flute all night long, hoping to attract Daisy's attention and regain his lost love.

"La Traviata" is a masterpiece by the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas. The story tells a tortuous and sad love story between a young man and a courtesan from Paris's upper class society. Through the love tragedy of a prostitute, the work reveals the corrupt life of the upper class of the French July Dynasty. A bloody and tearful indictment of the hypocritical morality of the aristocratic bourgeoisie. In the history of French literature, this is the first work in which a prostitute is the protagonist.

"Notre Dame de Paris" is set in France under the rule of Louis XI in 1482. It describes the entanglement between a gypsy girl, Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, and the abandoned Quasimodo. Quasimodo, who is ugly, deaf and mute, has a noble and pure heart. Esmeralda is a beautiful and pure dancer who was framed to death by Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, because she did not succumb to his desires. Quasimodo was desperate for losing his idol, and angrily pushed Frollo from the top floor to his death. He also went to the cemetery and committed suicide next to Esmeralda's body.

"Sister Carrie" is one of the important works of the American realist writer Dreiser, and is the companion piece to "Girl Jane". Carrie went to Chicago to visit relatives and met the salesman Drouet on the train. Unable to bear the hard life in the factory, Carrie lived with Drouet and met the hotel manager Hurstwood. Hurstwood was so obsessed with her beauty that he embezzled public funds and fled to New York with her to live together. Carrie performed on stage by chance and gradually gained success, while Hurstwood gradually fell into despair. The two broke up, and Hurstwood committed suicide. In March 1900, Dreiser completed the first draft of "Sister Carrie." For a century, "Sister Carrie" has always been a masterpiece that readers can't put down, although it has been criticized by some.

"A Christmas Carol" is one of the three Christmas novels by the great British critical realist writer Charles Dickens, written in 1843. The other two are "The Bell" and "The Cricket on the Fireside". In the Victorian era when "A Christmas Carol" was published, Christmas was not known to many British people. Later, some of the plots in this story became Christmas customs, such as family reunions, gift exchanges, Christmas meals, and even the saying "Merry Christmas" became popular from this. Therefore, Dickens is called the "Father of Christmas."

The protagonist Charles in "The Moon and Sixpence" is an ordinary office worker. He is middle-aged, married, has a son, and earns a living in a down-to-earth manner. Suddenly one day, he responds to the call of his heart, leaves a note that dinner is ready, abandons everything and runs away from home. Determined to pursue his passion for painting, he went to Tahiti in the South Pacific to live with the indigenous people, despite poverty and illness, and never looked back. The wife said: Dream? His age will not last long, after all, he is forty years old, and he will be back with me soon. A friend asked him: Don't you think you have any responsibilities? Charles bravely became the unreasonable lunatic and obsessive fool in the eyes of others. Many people say that he is a fool, a waste of life, and even irresponsible, but only he knows his inner passion and the ideal he pursues. In real life, how many people just timidly look up at the moon, and then continue to lower their heads to chase the sixpence they depend on for food and clothing?

"Snow" is Tanizaki Junichiro's masterpiece and one of the outstanding masterpieces in the entire Showa literary world. The novel is a genre novel describing the love story between young men and women of the Japanese middle class. It mainly describes the life stories of the four sisters Tsuruko, Sachiko, Yukiko and Taeko of the wealthy Osaka businessman Makiko family after their separation on the eve of the Pacific War. It has created four women with different styles in daily life: the eldest daughter-Tsuruko, who contains poignancy and sadness, the sound and perfect second daughter-Sachiko, the third daughter-Yukiko who embodies all traditional beauty, and the independent fourth daughter-Taeko. Although "Snow" is a life novel, it touches on local customs, social events, foreign exchanges, etc. The work is like a long painting with bright colors and elegant style, showing the whole life of modern Japanese upper class. It is praised as "the best folk novel" with classic style and "story literature with unique talents".

In the Federal Minimum Security Adult Correctional Facility, the decadent little old man Walter Stebke is waiting for the jailer to lead him out of prison. In his past life, he was the son of Slavic immigrants, a Harvard University graduate, a former Communist Party member, a former federal government official, and a participant in the "Watergate Incident"... Soon he will also gain a new identity, a mysterious...

"Anecdotes of Charles IX" is a novel by Mérimée. It takes the famous religious tragedy "St. Bartholomew's Night" during the period of Charles IX in the 16th century as its theme, and shows the darkness and cruelty of medieval feudal autocracy. The protagonist Melky is a young aristocratic Huguenot from the province. After the religious peace in 1570, he went to Paris to join the Protestant leader Admiral Collini. After Melky came to Paris, he met his brother George, who had been separated for many years and converted to Catholicism during the Civil War. Under the direct command of the king, the massacre of the Protestants began. George refused to carry out the bloody order and was thrown into prison. Melky fled Paris and took part in the revolt against the king in the Huguenot city of Rochelle.

This book is based on the life of French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. A broker of the British Stock Exchange who lived a stable life suddenly abandoned his wife and children and went to Paris to pursue his ideal of painting. In a foreign country, he not only suffered physically from poverty and hunger, but also endured mental pain in search of expression techniques. After some bizarre encounters, the protagonist finally leaves the civilized world and escapes to the isolated island of Tahiti, where he finds the tranquility of his soul and an atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament. This book triggers people's thinking about breaking away from secular society and finding a spiritual home.

"Anna Karenina" is Tolstoy's second landmark novel, written between 1873 and 1877. The work is composed of two parallel but interrelated clues: one is the family, marriage and love entanglements between Anna, Karenin and Vronsky; the other is the love life of Levin and Kitty and the estate reform carried out by Levin. Anna is a high-society lady, young and beautiful, pursuing individual liberation and freedom of love, while her husband is a "bureaucratic machine" with an indifferent temperament. Once at the station, Anna met the young officer Vronsky. The latter was attracted by her beauty and pursued her desperately. In the end, Anna fell in love and decided to leave her husband and live with Vronsky. But the longing for her son and the pressure from the surrounding environment made her fall into pain and uneasiness, and she gradually discovered that Vronsky was not a dedicated and ideal figure.

"Don Quixote" received such a high evaluation was unexpected by the author. If Cervantes knew anything underground, he would be surprised to see people regard him as Spain's greatest literary giant and a genius in the world of literature. His contemporaries would also be stunned, because in Cervantes's time he was considered only a mediocre poet and an unachieved novelist. Despite his success with novels of chivalric adventures, he did not belong to any high-brow literary salons. He lived in poverty and experienced ups and downs throughout his life. Even though Don Quixote became a bestseller, he remained in poverty. However, the publication of "Don Quixote" and the huge impact of this work made Cervantes gradually become a famous classic writer in the world literary world after his death. He was hailed as the "Father of Modern Novel" by writers such as Dickens, Flaubert and Tolstoy.

This book is the representative work of the Japanese literary master Natsume Soseki and has always been regarded as one of the world's masterpieces. The novel observes Japanese society after the Meiji Restoration through the eyes of a cat. It uses humorous and pungent language to ridicule and criticize the inherent weaknesses of human beings and the social ills of the world of money. It also quotes a lot of famous sayings from ancient and modern philosophers from the East and the West. It is full of wit and literary talent, and it is full of laughter and curses. The language of the work is a mixture of classics and slang, which can be appreciated by both refined and popular people. When reading it, one can't help but marvel in laughter.

J

The story takes place in the era of French King Louis XIII. Cardinal Richelieu was in power for a while, and power struggles inside and outside the court were constantly taking place. D'Artagnan, a young provincial nobleman, comes to Paris and joins the command of Mr. Treville, the commander of the musketry battalion. On the way, he meets the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and they become life-and-death friends in a conflict. In the complicated political whirlpool, these four partners met Richelieu's confidant - Milady, a woman as beautiful as a peach and as poisonous as a snake. The two sides competed repeatedly. D'Artagnan and his partners escaped from desperate situations again and again, thwarting Richelieu's conspiracy.

Dickens was a great British realist writer in the 19th century. "David Copperfield" is his masterpiece. The protagonist Copperfield is a posthumous son, and his stepfather abuses him and his mother. His mother died soon, leaving Copperfield an orphan. He found his aunt and started a new life under her guardianship. The world has changed, family and friendship are joyful, and turmoil and pain have tempered people. Copperfield finally became a successful writer and was happily married to his beloved. The work has humorous language, clear love and hate, twists and turns in the plot, and grand pictures, which reflect Dickens's consistent style. It is a must-read masterpiece for Dickens lovers.