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Maupassant's "Beautiful Friend" tells the story of Paris at the end of the 19th century, which was like a masquerade, and success favored the sanctimonious. Duroy, a junior officer of the French colonial army in Algeria, came to Paris alone after being discharged from the army. After being introduced by a friend, he became an editor of "La Vie Française" and began his adventure. He relied on his beautiful appearance and ability to please women to gain power, wealth and fame one by one. Maupassant has always been famous for his short stories, and his writing style is concise and concise. The social reality reflected in "Pretty Friend" is still thought-provoking even today.

"Water Margin" is my country's first classical vernacular novel and the pioneering work of ancient heroic romance novels in my country. With its shocking green forest theme, fresh and exciting heroic stories, heroic and brave characters, and superb and skillful artistic techniques, it is deeply loved by the masses and has become a well-known literary masterpiece in ancient my country.

This book is a full-length historical novel written by Polish writer Sienkiewicz in 1896. It reflects the struggle between paganism and Christianity in Rome during the reign of the Roman tyrant Nero in the 1st century AD, revealing the theme of Christian martyrdom. In order to appreciate the fire, Nero ordered the city of Rome to be burned. Afterwards, the Christians were blamed, and they were rounded up and taken to the Colosseum to be devoured by wild beasts. The tyrant ordered the Christian Princess Lygia to be tied naked to the horns of a bull, and then ordered the warrior Welsh to fight the bull. The young general Vinicius flew into the Colosseum and called on the citizens to uphold justice and save the life of the princess. Amid the clamor of the citizens, Nero had to agree. Afterwards, he still secretly searched for Christian Peter. Peter encountered Christ on his way out of Rome. He knelt on the ground and asked, "Lord, where are you going?" Christ replied, "Because you have left my people, I am going to Rome to erect the cross again."

From controversial erotic novels to modern literary classics! This book is one of the most controversial works in the history of British fiction and was banned for more than 30 years. In the UK in 1960, the publisher Penguin was even sued, triggering the Penguin Trial that shocked the publishing industry, and the great writers E. M. Forster and Richard Hoggart also testified in court. After the court ruled that the book was "not guilty", it was widely published in the UK. It has since topped the bestseller list and continues to be sold today. This book tells the story of Tangni who married the aristocratic landowner Chatterley, but soon he was injured in the war and paralyzed from the waist down for life. In their hometown, although their lives were carefree, they were lifeless. The gamekeeper at the manor rekindled Tangni's love and desire for life. She often secretly came to his cabin for trysts and enjoyed a primitive and passionate sex life. Tangni is pregnant and goes to Venice on vacation to hide her pregnancy from others. At this time, the hunter's undivorced wife suddenly returned, exposing their affair. The huge social gap forced Tangni to marry someone else first in order to give birth to a child, leaving the hunter to wait silently for the birth of her child.

"Minna - Nobel Prize in Literature Collected Works" is one of the "Nobel Prize in Literature Collected Works" series, and includes the 1917 award-winning "Minna" by Danish writer Carl Adolf Guillelupe. Brand-new translations, real award-winning inside stories, and detailed and vivid introductions of writers and works not only show the creative trajectory of the writer, the style and characteristics of the works, but also reveal the inherent laws of literature. With a wide range of themes and different techniques, people can not only enjoy the charm of art, but also gain varying degrees of enlightenment in various ideological realms, thereby understanding the true meaning of life.

"Verne's Science Fiction Trilogy: Captain Grant's Sons and Daughters, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and The Mysterious Island" is a collection of three representative works by Jules Verne, the "father of modern science fiction". It tells three stories of maritime adventures, and the characters are intertwined. As the originator of science fiction novels, Verne had rich imagination, delicate writing style and ingenious conception. What is commendable is that his imagination is not whimsical, but based on science; contemporary readers can learn rich knowledge about marine life, meteorology, geography and other aspects from the book.

Hemingway has many works. In addition to "The Old Man and the Sea", our selection also includes another "tough guy style" work "The Invincible Man" and his "stream of consciousness style" masterpiece "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The latter is not easy to read, but it can reflect another side of Hemingway's literary style.

This book consists of two masterpieces by Jane Austen. "Pride and Prejudice" tells a love story between young men and women. The male protagonist Darcy behaves arrogantly, causing the heroine Elizabeth to always be prejudiced against him, which also makes their love journey full of hardships. The work truly reproduces the common views on love, marriage and values ​​of the middle class in British rural society at that time. "Sense and Sensibility" takes two sisters with very different personalities as the protagonists and tells the story of their love experiences. Using contrasting techniques, it shows the rationality and calmness of sister Eleanor and the passion and sensibility of sister Marianne. Thus it reflects the value orientation of secular human relationships and love and marriage in British rural society at that time.

This book is a collection of the most famous masterpieces of the three Brontë sisters. The three Bronte sisters are a wonder in the history of human literature. The eldest sister, Charlotte Bronte, created a little woman like a wild rose for us in "Jane Eyre". She told us with her actions that "human value = dignity + love"; the second sister, Emily Bronte, wrote "Wuthering Heights" intertwined with the confusing love and resentment; the younger sister, Anne Bronte, used delicate writing to show us a contrasting social ecological picture in "Aconis Grey".

This book is a collection of two of the most sincere masterpieces by the famous British writer Dickens. "Oliver Twist" is a realistic novel. The novel is set in foggy London and tells the tragic life and experiences of orphan Oliver. He grew up in an orphanage, experienced an apprenticeship, escaped with difficulty, and was forced to work with vicious thieves after accidentally falling into a den of thieves. After going through many hardships, he finally found out his life experience and gained happiness with the help of kind people. "Great Expectations" tells the story of orphan Pip who has lived with his sister and brother-in-law since he was a child. His brother-in-law has always been very kind to him. An unexpected fortune enabled him to go to London and enter high society. In pursuit of his "Great Future", he slowly lost his ability to judge right from wrong. Fortunately, in the end he realized his mistake and understood how to pursue his own happiness.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther (Selected Novels and Short Stories by Goethe)" selects two short stories and short stories by Goethe. In addition to "The Sorrows of Young Werther", there is also a lighter work that tells a pleasant story - "A Bizarre Pair of Neighborhood Children". "The Sorrows of Young Werther (Selected Short Stories by Goethe)" is one of the "Time Library" series.

This book is set in France under the rule of Louis XI in 1482. It focuses on the relationship between the gypsy girl La Esmeralda, the young and handsome captain of the guard, the sanctimonious archdeacon, and the deformed and ugly bell ringer. It enthusiastically praises the noble humanity of the gypsy girl and the bell ringer, and deeply denounces the hypocrisy and despicability of the captain of the guard and the archdeacon. This book's commentary on Notre Dame and Paris is very exciting, fully demonstrating the author's romantic aesthetics.

Throughout the world of literature, there are many miser images, among which Shylock in Shakespeare's comedy "The Merchant of Venice", Abagon in Molière's comedy "The Miser" (also translated as "The Stingy Man"), Plyushkin in Gogol's novel "Dead Souls", and Grandet in Balzac's novel "Eugénie Grandet" are the most representative. These four images of misers were created in three countries and were created by four famous figures. They involve social existence for several centuries and summarize the historical development process of Europe in the past four hundred years from one perspective.

At the last moment of her life, a strange woman, full of lifelong infatuation, wrote a long and sad letter, revealing her desperate love to a famous writer. The novel uses a woman's most painful experience to describe the depth and devotion of love. A man received a letter without a signature or address on his 41st birthday. This letter was from a dying woman and told an unforgettable love story. The hero of this story, the man who received the letter, knew nothing about it. This wishful love began 18 years ago when she first met a man when she was still a child. She then experienced the obsession of a girl, the passion of youth, and even a life in the world, but she never changed her love for the man. She did not decide to confess her love until she died. She was lying on the deck of a desolate fate, and the white foam pushed her into nothingness...

Pushkin's works are of lofty ideological nature and perfect artistry. Expressing his love for freedom and life, and his firm belief that light will defeat darkness, he "uses words to light up people's hearts." His poems such as "Queen of Spades" and "Gypsy" were adapted into important opera scripts; his lyric poems were composed into songs, which became more popular; in addition, some of them became immortal ballets on the stage. This book contains novels written by him.

In 1880, Maupassant published the short story "Ball de Suif", which became a blockbuster and immediately became a new star in the French literary world. This novel tells a story: During the Franco-Prussian War, a French carriage was about to leave enemy-occupied territory, but was detained by a Prussian officer. The car was full of distinguished people, and there was also a prostitute named Ball of Suif. The Prussian officer asked Ball-of-Fat to stay with him for the night, otherwise the carriage would not be allowed to pass. This request was flatly rejected by Ball-of-Fat, but the people in the car begged her and forced her to sacrifice herself to save everyone, and Ball-of-Fat finally had to give in. But when the carriage was released the next morning, no one thanked the prostitute. Instead, they distanced themselves from her and despised her. Some ladies even called her "bitch"...

"The Black Horse" is the most popular work of British female writer Anna Seaver, and it is also the only novel in her life. The novel became a global sensation as soon as it was published. The author narrates the bitter experience of the black horse's life in the first person. It was a good breeding horse with a gentle personality and high energy. However, it had an unfortunate fate and changed its owner several times. At first, it was well treated by the noble manor owner. However, the good times did not last long. Changes occurred in the owner's family and the black horse was sold. As it grew older, it was sold again and finally became a coolie horse, experiencing the ups and downs of the world. Fortunately, the black horse in his later years has a good ending. After this book came out, it has been popular in Europe and the United States, influencing generations of readers and arousing people's care for animals.

This book is a love novel written by the great French writer Hugo in 1831. It uses bizarre and contrasting techniques to tell a story that happened in France in the 15th century: Claude, the vice-president of Notre Dame de Paris, was sanctimonious and vicious, he loved first and then hated, and he persecuted the Gypsy girl Esmeralda. The ugly but kind-hearted bell ringer Quasimodo sacrifices his life to save the girl. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, praises the kindness, friendship and self-sacrifice of the lower working people, and reflects Hugo's humanitarian thoughts. Hugo's first novel with widespread influence.

The various thrilling adventures described in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" can simply touch people's eyes and hearts. Among them, the submarine shuttles freely in the sea. Sometimes the seabed is full of dangers and dangers, and sometimes the scenery is beautiful and intoxicating. The wonderful and spectacular underwater world is full of exotic sentiments and strong romanticism, embodying mankind's longing for heaven and earth and flying freely since ancient times. In fact, Verne had never been to the bottom of the sea, but he wrote about the scenery on the bottom of the sea so vividly and fascinatingly that it made readers immersed in the scene, which shows that he had extraordinary imagination. The protagonist of the story, Captain Nemo, is a mysterious figure. The submarine he built secretly on a desert island is not only extremely strong, but also has an ingenious structure. Able to use the ocean to provide energy.

"A Dream of Red Mansions" is a monument in the history of Chinese and even world literature. Through the sentimental love tragedy of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, the work exposes and criticizes the sins of the four families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, represented by the Ningrong and Rongfus, and predicts the inevitable demise of feudal rule. The plot of the story is tortuous, vivid and touching, the writing is exquisite, the language is interesting, there are many characters, each with their own appearance, the content is rich and all-encompassing, and it is an encyclopedia for studying the society at that time.

The protagonist Christophe emerged on the music scene at the age of 6, served as a court musician at the age of 11, and became a striking young musician. He is upright and has the courage to resist. This made his music career full of ups and downs and misfortunes. Secular prejudice, oppression from the powerful, and criticism from public opinion made him a lonely rebel. In a foreign country, he tenaciously fought against fate and faced adversity and setbacks with a brave and optimistic attitude.

"King Solomon's Treasure" describes an extraordinary treasure hunt story. The narrator of the story is Alan Quartermaine. By chance, he met Sir Curtis and Colonel Goode, and worked with them to find Sir Curtis's long-lost brother, who had gone to the Kingdom of Kukuana to search for King Solomon's treasure. Accompanying them was Ambopa, their locally hired servant. The group passed through an extremely terrifying desert and almost froze on the top of the mountain. After a long journey, they finally reached their destination. Unexpectedly, the true identity of the servant Ambopa turned out to be the legitimate heir to the local king. With the help of everyone, he defeated the evil usurper king. Finally, King Solomon's treasure was found, but the cunning witch doctor Gagur designed to trap them deep in the underground tomb. After a difficult escape, they found Sir Curtis's brother and returned to civilized society.

Hemingway won the 54th Nobel Prize for Literature for this work, which caused a huge sensation after its publication. An old man fished alone at sea and had no harvest for several months. Later, he caught a large swordfish, fought with it for two days and two nights, and stabbed it to death with a spear gun. However, he was attacked by a shark on the way back. Although the old man lacked helpers and tools, he killed several sharks, but the swordfish was eaten by other sharks. When he entered the harbor, only a set of bones was left in the swordfish.

French novelist Marcel Proust won the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary award, for this book. No matter how time passes and the scene changes, my mind will always go back to that time and place, just to take a look at me and her at that time, when we secretly dated. Even though I have met countless celebrities and attended countless banquets, what I longed for most was to walk into her living room and become a member of her "little tea party."

A representative work by the outstanding British satirist Swift, he uses the voice of a surgeon Gulliver to narrate his experience of being shipwrecked on a voyage and drifting to several strange countries.

The reason why Hemingway is called a "literary giant" is that he brings readers into a fictional art world, allowing human beings to fully understand themselves, and to absorb the good wishes and power of improving life and cultivating sentiments in life. A world without literature must be a barbaric and desolate world, and Hemingway won immortal reputation with his unique artistic style and language expression.

The biography records that Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty led his troops to enter the pass through a detour, broke through Xifengkou, trapped Zunhua, Shunyi, and Liangxiang, passed Jizhou, and surrounded the capital. The Ming governor Yuan Chonghuan rushed to the rescue at starry night. The generals You Shilu, Mangui, and Zu Dashou fought hard to defeat the enemy, and the Qing troops retreated.

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. However, Anna cannot move towards the life she longs for...

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.

It describes the story of a young man from a humble background but with outstanding talent who pursues a dreamy ideal and how he ultimately fails and becomes decadent and depressed.

Buck was originally a pet dog of Judge Miller's family. After being civilized, he has been living in a warm valley in southern California. He was later sold to the cold, remote and gold-rich Alaska in the northern United States and became a sled dog.

On the surface, the novel tells the story of an amateur chess player defeating the world chess champion on a ship from New York to South America. In fact, it tells the story of the torture and destruction of the human soul by Nazi fascism. As a humanist, Zweig used this novel to express his hatred of Nazi fascism. This book also includes several other famous novels by Zweig, such as "Letter from a Strange Woman".

Moon Gem - A diamond passed down from generation to generation in India. A British officer snatched the gem from an Indian Buddhist temple, and this priceless gem spread to England. The cursed gem has since claimed the lives of many of its owners. The looming figure of the formidable Indian pursues the gem.

A classic world love novel that cannot be missed. The heroine Jane Eyre is a pure-hearted and thoughtful woman who lives at the bottom of society and suffers many hardships. But she has a stubborn character and the courage to pursue equality and happiness. Her love is a deep love rooted in mutual understanding and mutual respect.

This novel unfolds as a family history. The first generation is represented by Tom Brangwen. Tom was sent to a grammar school by his ambitious mother, who awakened his curiosity for strange and mysterious things. He fell in love with Lydia, the widow of a Polish patriot, and they finally married.

"Wuthering Heights" is the work of Emily Brontë, one of the Brontë sisters, a British female writer. The novel describes the story of Heathcliff, an abandoned gypsy boy who was adopted by the old owner of the mountain villa. Due to humiliation and failed love, he went out to get rich. When he came back, he took revenge on the landowner Linton and his children who married his girlfriend Catherine.

The novel describes the story of Carrie, a rural girl who came to the big city of Chicago to find happiness. In order to escape poverty, she sold her virginity and later became a singer with her beauty and singing voice.

Through the growth path of Paul Korchagin, the novel tells people that only when a person defeats the enemy and himself in the hardships of the revolution, and only when he connects his pursuit with the interests of the motherland and the people, can he create miracles and grow into a steel warrior.

Huckleberry is a smart, kind and brave white boy. He fled to the Mississippi River in pursuit of a free life. On the way to escape, he met Jim, a black slave. Jim was a hard-working, simple, enthusiastic, honest, and loyal black slave. In order to escape the fate of being sold again by his master, he ran away from his master's home.

The protagonist Don Quixote is addicted to chivalry novels and decides to go out on adventures and become a chivalrous knight. He found Sancho Panza, a farmer from the same village, as his attendant. He went on adventures three times and did many ridiculous things. In the end, he was defeated by his friend who disguised himself as the Knight of the White Moon. He gave up his knightly travels and fell ill shortly after returning home. Before he died, he realized that he had been superstitious about chivalry novels.

The protagonist Don Quixote is addicted to chivalry novels and decides to go out on adventures and become a chivalrous knight. He found Sancho Panza, a farmer from the same village, as his attendant. He went on adventures three times and did many ridiculous things. In the end, he was defeated by his friend who disguised himself as the Knight of the White Moon. He gave up his knightly travels and fell ill shortly after returning home. Before he died, he realized that he had been superstitious about chivalry novels.

The two families have been enemies for generations, but their children Romeo and Juliet fell in love at first sight. Forced by a feud between families, the two held a secret wedding. Later, Romeo was exiled because he stabbed Juliet's cousin to death in revenge for his friend. Juliet also faced the dilemma of being forced to marry, so she took sleeping pills and pretended to be dead. Romeo rushes back, not knowing the truth, and commits suicide. After Juliet woke up and saw that her lover was dead, she also ended her life in grief.

The protagonist of the novel was originally an ordinary working woman who was resigned to the situation. Under the influence of her son Baweier, who was engaged in the revolutionary cause, her thoughts matured rapidly and she gradually grew into a proletarian revolutionary warrior. This novel profoundly reflects for the first time the revolutionary struggle of the masses under the leadership of the proletarian party in the early 20th century, and the historical process of the workers' movement from spontaneous to conscious.

This is one of Hardy's best works. The male protagonist is only eleven years old, his parents are dead, he is poor, lonely and sentimental, but his young heart has deep ambitions to seek progress. Xi De's experience is a reflection of the desire of a generation of educated young workers to change their status after rural education gradually became popular in Britain in the second half of the 19th century.

The protagonist Emma is a beautiful, intelligent and wealthy girl, and she is also an out-and-out dreamer. She enthusiastically pays attention to the romantic stories around her, but stubbornly believes that she will never fall into them. She took it upon herself to direct love affairs again and again for the orphan Harriet. When Harriet mistakenly thought she was in love with the magistrate Mr. Knightley, Emma was shocked to realize that she was also in love with Mr. Knightley.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is Dostoevsky's last novel and his pinnacle. The novel was serialized in the "Russian Herald" for two years and was completed in 1880. Dostoevsky himself passed away just four months after writing this masterpiece. The novel uses a real patricide case to describe the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, that is, two generations. The old Karamazov was greedy for money and lustful. He monopolized the inheritance left by his wife to his sons, and was jealous of a romantic woman with his eldest son Dmitri. One night, Dmitri suspected that his lover was having a tryst with the old man, so he broke into his home and almost beat the old man to death in a rage. After Dmitry fled in panic, the old Karamazov's illegitimate son Smerdyakov, who was hiding in secret and pretending to be ill, secretly killed the old man, causing a complicated and confusing murder that shocked the whole of Russia...

Tulliver, a miller in the town of St. Og by the Floss River, got into a lawsuit due to debts. After he lost the lawsuit and went bankrupt, the lives of his children Tom and Maggie changed significantly. After several years of hard work, the smart and diligent Tom finally saved enough money to pay off his debts and buy back the mill. However, Maggie's love suffered frequent setbacks due to Tom's opposition. When the two reconciled in crisis, the ferocious flood eventually swallowed the brother and sister...

One of the 37 world literary masterpieces recommended by Mao Dun for Chinese readers to read, and selected into the "Ideal Book Collection for Chinese Readers". One of the personal ideal books recommended by the French "Reading" magazine in 1999. The protagonist Emma committed adultery in pursuit of a romantic and elegant life. Eventually, she was ruined because she was in debt and could not repay it, and committed suicide by taking poison.

Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective novels "The Complete Sherlock Holmes", including "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four", "A History of Adventures", "Memoirs", and "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

The works selected in this book come from the two periods before and after Chekhov's creation. Among the early works, in addition to "Chameleon" which is familiar to Chinese readers and has a certain realistic criticism, there are also some light-hearted and purely humorous novels. "The Man in the Trap" is the most famous of Chekhov's later novels selected in "Selected Short Stories of Chekhov". This novel expresses the dull and depressing atmosphere of the times and satirizes the generally rigid and restricted mental state of Russian society.