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"A Tale of Two Cities" is a long historical novel written by the British writer Charles Dickens and set against the background of the French Revolution. It has a touching plot and is one of the world's classics. The story connects the two major cities of Paris and London, and revolves around Dr. Manette's family and the Saint-Antoine district headed by the Defarges. The novel describes how the nobles corrupted and harmed the people. The people's deep hatred for the nobles accumulated in their hearts, which led to the inevitable French Revolution. The main idea of ​​the book is self-sacrifice for love, and the "Twin Cities" in the title refer to Paris and London.

"The Little Prince" is a famous French children's literature short story written by the writer Saint-Exupéry in 1942. The protagonist of this book is a little prince from an alien planet. The book uses a pilot as the narrator to tell the story of the various adventures the little prince experienced during his journey from his own planet to the earth. With the child-like vision of the little prince, the author reveals the emptiness, blindness and foolishness of adults, and writes in simple and innocent language the loneliness of human beings and the fate of wandering in the wind without a foundation. At the same time, it also expresses the author's criticism of money relationships and his praise of truth, goodness and beauty.

Tess is a beautiful country girl, pure, kind, resilient and able to distinguish between good and evil. Because his family was poor, he worked for the d'Urberville family, a noble family with the same surname as himself. As a result, she was seduced by her master's son, Alec d'Urberville, and gave birth to an illegitimate son. Because of this "sin," Tess is despised. Under tremendous pressure and with the death of her child, Tess left home to work in a dairy farm and met Angel Clare, the pastor's daughter-in-law. The two fell in love and got married. But on their wedding night, Tess confessed her past to him, and Angel abandoned her and went to Brazil alone. Living in poverty and being humiliated, Tess waits for Angel's return to no avail, and becomes Alec's mistress. At this moment, Angel came to Tess with a feeling of repentance and wanted to be with her again. At this point Tess kills Alec. On their way to escape, Tess was caught by the police and sentenced to death.

This book is one of the trilogy by the famous French science fiction novelist Jules Verne, the other two being "Captain Grant's Children" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". The book tells the story of five northerners who were trapped in the southern army during the American Civil War. They were waiting for an opportunity to escape by balloon. They encountered a storm on the way and were thrown to an island in the South Pacific. Relying on their own wisdom and extraordinary perseverance, these castaways overcame various difficulties and not only survived tenaciously, but also built the island into a prosperous paradise. The plot of the whole novel is ups and downs, full of descriptions of the strange and colorful nature, and it integrates various knowledge into the thrilling story. Therefore, even though it has been published for more than a hundred years, it is still highly praised and loved by readers all over the world.

"The Call of the Wild" mainly tells the story of a domestic dog who turns into a wild wolf. The protagonist of the novel is a dog named "Buck". Before being trafficked, he was a pampered domesticated dog in Judge Miller's family and lived a carefree life; however, after being trafficked to the harsh north, he had to face a completely different world. In an extremely harsh real-life environment, it showed a strong desire to survive, and was dominated by this desire. It managed to overcome all unimaginable difficulties and became a sled dog that adapted to the laws of survival and competition in the wilderness. In the end, it responded to the call of the wilderness and returned to nature.

This novel describes the process of a petty bourgeois woman's gradual degradation because she is not satisfied with her mediocre life. 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. What is written here is a love affair that is very common both in life and in literary works, but the author's writing touches on sensitive areas that others have not yet touched. Emma's death is not only a tragedy for herself, but also a tragedy for that era. The author uses a very delicate writing style to describe the process of the protagonist's emotional decline. The author works very hard to find the social roots of this tragedy.

"Red and Black" has outstanding achievements in the shaping of typical characters in typical environments, symmetrical artistic structure and the use of line drawing techniques. The reason why Stendhal is called "the father of modern novels" by critics is because he showed outstanding psychological description genius in "Red and Black". Realist writers all emphasize the authenticity of details, but Stendhal is different from Balzac. What he focuses on depicting is not the objective environment, but the meticulousness and verisimilitude of the inner activities of the characters. The author often explains the characters' actions and surrounding environment in a few words, while the inner activities are eloquent, sparing no effort in pen and ink, and the psychological description of love is meticulous and touching. Julien, the protagonist of the novel, is the son of a carpenter. He is young, handsome, strong-willed, shrewd and capable. He has hoped to join the upper class society through personal efforts and struggle since he was a child, and has launched a series of actions to this end...

A sad and sad love story, a song of compassion for heaven and earth. Jenny, the eldest daughter of a poor German-American, works as a domestic servant and falls in love with Senator Blanche. Soon, Bronte died of illness unexpectedly, leaving behind a posthumous daughter. Later, the rich man Rist fell in love with Jenny and lived with her, but he could not make up his mind about marriage. Later, he was troubled by the obstruction and opposition from his brothers and sisters. He broke up with Jenny under the pressure of his family, returned to the upper class, and finally married Lottie Bess. The two were in love but their work separated, and Jenny spent her middle age alone. After Reiss confided his heartfelt words to her before his death, he died painfully in her arms.

"Around the World in Eighty Days" is one of the most popular works by French science fiction writer Jules Verne. The protagonist Ford made a bet with his friends that he would travel around the world and return to London in 80 days. He and his servant Lu Lutong tried every means to overcome various difficulties on the road. Accidents and thrills continued one after another, and there were many difficulties, but Fokker was always very calm and decisive, but in the end he was still 5 minutes late...

"Sister Carrie" is one of the important works of the American realist writer Dreiser, and is the companion piece to "Girl Jane". "Sister Carrie" describes the story of a rural girl Carrie who came to the big city of Chicago to find happiness. In order to escape poverty, she sold her virginity and lived with a salesman and a hotel manager successively. Later, she became a singer with her beauty and singing voice. With Carrie as the representative, the writer profoundly exposed the cruelty of the American capitalist system's oppression of poor people and the corrosiveness of the bourgeois lifestyle on petty bourgeois elements.

Amber, a descendant of the noble family, lives in the countryside. She is naturally beautiful and outstanding. This girl, who was originally pure but unwilling to live in seclusion, gradually realized the way to transcend inherent social norms and gain independent status as a woman in London's materialistic and cunning society. She was in trouble several times and encountered disasters such as marriage fraud, poisoning, robbery, and plague. In the process, she not only showed herself to be brave, independent, strong and confident, but also sacrificed her youth and kindness, contaminating the greed, selfishness, indulgence and unscrupulousness of the male-dominated society. After experiencing all these rich and tortuous experiences, Amber was finally forced to give up everything and leave London for the American continent in order to pursue her true love. The stories described in this book will be a good warning and reference, thus guiding them to have a good mentality and correct values, and lay a healthy foundation for a happy life in the future.

"From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon" contains two of Verne's masterpieces, "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon". The two novels together tell a complete space adventure. The first "From the Earth to the Moon" tells the origin of the experiment and the preparations for people's journey to the moon, as well as the entire process of successful launch. The second part, "Around the Moon," talks about the various adventures in space after the "Cannonball Car" was launched. The plot of the novel is fantastic and thrilling, full of the author's scientific assumptions, and these assumptions have been verified and realized almost one after another in the future.

It has been published in more than 100 languages ​​​​around the world, and its sales volume is second only to the "Bible", and hundreds of millions of people have been moved by it. This is a beautiful fairy tale full of poetry and warmth. It tells the story of a French pilot who met a strange, strange, innocent and pure little prince in the vast Sahara Desert. He came from a small distant planet and traveled to 6 planets inhabited by kings, vain people, drunkards, businessmen and geographers. The author satirizes the absurdity and hypocrisy of the adult world through the little prince's travels. The plot is unique and tortuous, and the writing is full of poetry and philosophy. The lines contain the author's deep understanding and understanding of major propositions such as love and life, which makes people have endless aftertaste after reading it.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is one of Hemingway's representative works and one of the famous novellas in the world.

The book "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" contains eleven of Hemingway's short stories. The leopard on the snowy mountain, the fisherman by the river, the old man in the cafe... Eleven seemingly indifferent stories contain untold vicissitudes of life. Hemingway's unique "iceberg" writing style is best presented in his short stories. There are people who inspire me to take life seriously. But if I did that, I might cause a lot of people to strangle themselves.

"Wuthering Heights" expresses the spiritual oppression, tension and conflicts of people in the capitalist society of the 19th century in the form of artistic imagination. The novel describes two love stories between two generations, with different natures and different endings, which adds to the charm of the novel. This novel is like a powerful magnet, tightly grabbing the hearts of hundreds of millions of readers.

"Sheldon: Star of Destiny" tells the story of how a small-town girl in the past transformed into the queen of the New York real estate kingdom? She is an idol worshiped by the public, an unscrupulous businessman, a mystery, a legend, and a woman who longs for love. Is the stable and reliable male assistant, the protector who straddles the black and white lines, her strong backing or the fuse that triggers destruction? Her unbearable childhood has already laid the biggest foundation for her life. When she gained perfect love, her world quietly slipped into an unprecedented danger...

"The Sun Also Rises" (The Sun Also Rises) is Hemingway's first novel. The author became the spokesperson of the "Lost Generation" and created a unique Hemingway style of writing with this book. The American young man Barnes suffered a spinal injury in World War I and lost his sexual ability. After the war, while working as a reporter in Paris, he fell in love with the British Mrs. Ashley. She pursued pleasure blindly, while he could only drink to drown his sorrows. The two went to Pamplona, ​​Spain, with a group of male and female friends to participate in the bullfighting festival in pursuit of spiritual stimulation. The lady rejected the pursuit of the Jewish young man Cohen, but fell in love with the 19-year-old bullfighter Romero. However, after getting along for a period of time, due to the huge age gap between the two parties, and Mrs. Ashley could not bear to ruin the future of the innocent young man, the relationship ended sadly. The lady finally returned to Barnes, although both parties knew that they could never truly be combined...

This book is the famous and representative work of Charlotte Bronte, a 19th-century British realist literary writer. The novel truly reproduces the rough experience and brave pursuit of the little character Jane Eyre for thirty years, and delicately describes the heroine's difficult living conditions and complex psychological activities. It opposes the suppression and destruction of human nature, and praises women's independent, self-respecting and self-reliant spirit. It is a realistic work. The work also fully expresses the author's subjective ideals and expresses his passionate personal feelings. It has extremely rich imagination in plot construction, character portrayal, psychological revelation and scenery description.

One of Sheldon's most engrossing works, it appears on the New York Times' annual bestseller list. In Spain, a land full of passion and blood, the ascetic and reclusive monastery seems out of place. A government manhunt forces four nuns beyond the walls that once protected them: one is the daughter of an Italian mafia boss, one is the orphan of an American industrial oligarch, one is stunningly beautiful, and one has the voice of an angel but is as ugly as salt. Taking their own secrets with them, together with several Basques who were keen on independence, they began their great escape across the country...

Poets have different destiny, and the charm of their works is different. For example, Li Bai's "The water from the Yellow River comes up from the sky" shows the style of the Tang Dynasty; Du Fu's "Every time I lean on the Big Dipper to look at the capital" reflects his sincerity for the prosperous Tang Dynasty; Du Mu's "Smoke cage with cold water and moon cage with sand" is based on The beautiful and sad scenery sets off the feeling of the rise and fall of the six generations, and this poem is known as the last song. Li Shangyin's "Last Night Stars and Last Night Wind" expresses his thoughts about his beloved by describing the spring breeze last night.

Tang poetry is the most precious cultural heritage of the Han nation and a pearl in the treasure house of Han culture. It also has a great impact on the cultural development of surrounding ethnic groups and countries.

Yu Dafu is one of the most active writers in my country at the beginning of the 20th century. He has excellent works in novels, essays, old-style poetry and criticism. His novel creation challenged traditional moral concepts and pioneered the lyrical and romantic form of autobiographical novels, which had a profound impact on a generation of writers.

Dostoevsky is a writer who transcends time and space and is also a writer full of contradictions. Just as the world is complex and people are complex, Dostoevsky himself is also complex. Now, a new knowledge has quietly emerged in Russia and the world - Dostoevskyology. Dostoevsky himself is an enigma, and so are his works. Deciphering this mystery is a basic topic studied by Dostoevskyists all over the world. Experts generally divide Dostoevsky's life and creation into two periods: before Siberia and after Siberia. The book "The Insulted and Injured" (1861) is between these two periods and has an obvious transitional nature: it not only retains the ideas, content and style of the works of the 1940s, but also connects the past and the past, creating a precedent for the writer's later socio-psychological-philosophical novels that mainly explore social secrets and the secrets of the human heart.

"Knowledge Exploration Series: Pandora's Mystery Collection" is divided into Pandora's Box, Back to the Past, Pyramid Tomb Theory, Three-Dimensional Games, etc.

"A Farewell to Arms" is a masterpiece of Hemingway's war-themed works. In this semi-autobiographical work, his unique writing style becomes more sophisticated, marking the maturity of Hemingway's artistic style. Henry, an American young man who volunteered to participate in the European War, and Catherine, a British nurse, fell in love on the battlefield and fled the battlefield together to find a quiet life. However, tragedy struck, leaving Henry alone and enduring the endless pain left by the war. No matter how necessary the war is and how justified it is, never think that war is not a sin. --Hemingway

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is regarded as the most important novel of the Sturm und Drang era. This novel had a very high print run of that era and triggered a "reading craze". The novel is written in the form of an epistolary letter and adopts the first person point of view. It tells the story of Werther's "wonderful joy" when he first arrived in Valheim, the respectable and lovely villagers and priests around him, and his heartbeat and pure emotions when he first met Lotte. Everything is so beautiful that it makes people have the urge to cry. However, Lotte was already engaged, and Werther followed the advice and found a small position in the official residence. However, he could not stand the minister's faultfinding, and was judged as arrogant by the people around him because of his unworldly thoughts. In the end, he was humiliated at a party, so he resigned and returned to Walheim. But the lovely and innocent old acquaintance was gone forever, but Werther was trapped in a fruitless love for Lotte and couldn't extricate himself, and finally committed suicide by drinking a bullet.

This book is the eighteenth volume of the Harvard Classics Series - "Modern British Drama". The "modern" referred to here refers to the era division method of the era in which the author of this book lived. Now called "classicism". "The Rumor School" is Sheridan's most famous comedy and an excellent example of British comedy. In this comedy, Sheridan contrasts the patriarchal morality of the "state of nature" with the moral corruption of the "civilized" upper class. He describes Sir Diesel, who married the daughter of a poor country squire who dreamed of entering the upper class. After arriving in London, she gradually became infected with some bad habits in the social circle, spent extravagantly, gossiped, and almost lost her virginity. Finally, she repented and reconciled with her husband.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's most famous novella, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel creates the image of a civilian hero in the history of human literature: Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, went to sea for eighty-four days and caught nothing, but he did not despair and finally caught a big fish. He fought with the big fish at sea for three days before killing the fish and tying it to the side of the boat. On the way back, the big fish was repeatedly attacked by sharks. Santiago fought fiercely with the sharks with the only tools he had, and finally defeated the sharks. However, when he returned to port, only the spine and tail of the fish he caught were left.

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This travelogue is a ruthless and comprehensive criticism of British society in the first half of the eighteenth century; in particular, it heartily exposes and ruthlessly criticizes the rulers' corruption, incompetence, boredom, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance. This kind of critical voice even reaches a sharp and extreme level in Houyhnhnms' Travels. Swift directly points the finger at the sinful, stupid, dirty, and irrational human beings as a whole. The Houyhnhnm country composed of horses was his ideal utopia. Gulliver was exiled by the wise and rational Houyhnhnms. Full of melancholy, he returned to the homeland that gave birth to him but disgusted him. He had to spend the rest of his life with a group of "yahoos" in anger and helplessness.

"How Steel Was Tempered" is a novel written by the author based on his personal experience, which reflects the fierce struggle of young people in the 1920s and 1930s to participate in establishing and consolidating the Soviet power and rebuilding the national economy. The protagonist, Pavel Korchagin, was seriously injured in the war and later became paralyzed and blinded. In order to return to the post of building the country, he studied hard on his own, read a large number of literary works, gradually improved his writing skills, and finally wrote a touching novel, continuing to make outstanding contributions to the people.

This book is a classic of British humorous novels and has been loved by people since its publication at the end of the 19th century. Three young men from London took their dog on a boat trip along the Thames. The three young people are simple in nature, enthusiastic and cheerful, but also self-righteous and ignorant of the world, so they can find fun everywhere and make fools of themselves everywhere. The language of this book is witty, the writing style is relaxed and easy, and it is hilarious.

"I Am a Cat" is the representative and famous work of Japan's "national master" Natsume Soseki, which has a profound influence on Japanese literature. The writing angle of "I Am a Cat" is very novel. It observes the people and things around it from the perspective of a cat. This cat lived in a teacher's home and met all kinds of literati: Mi Ting, who was heartless and nonsensical, and was afraid of the world being in chaos; Han Yue, who was rigid and meticulous, a little inflexible; idealistic, a lonely fairy who only had theory but no practice... Of course, there was also the cat's owner, the pedantic and impatient Kushina, who only took three minutes to do things and was self-righteous. In the eyes of cats, these people gather together to discuss meaningless things all day long. They are dissatisfied with the reality and only complain. They are like the novice monks who suffered miserably from the pranks played by the students in the private school and were laughed at by their neighbors, but they were helpless.

"Sense and Sensibility" is one of Jane Austen's most humorous works. It mainly tells the story of the complicated love and marriage of two sisters, Elinor and Mellie, who live in a British squire family. The elder sister Elilo is good at controlling emotions with reason, while the younger sister Melia is full of fantasies about love. Therefore, when they face love, they have completely different reactions. Through this humorous comparison of "reason and emotion", the novel raises the issue of moral and behavioral norms, which is thought-provoking. "Sense and Sensibility" and the author's other masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice" can be called companion works, and have been adapted to the big screen many times.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" written by Goethe tells the tragic story of love and life of a young man named Werther. As a young man who still doesn't know his life goal, Werther comes to W City and falls in love with the beautiful girl Lotte, but Lotte is already someone else's fiancée. Later he left the city to avoid Lotte and worked for an embassy for a while, but the rigidity of affairs and the restraint of etiquette destroyed his hopes, and he could not identify with the upper class of society and the life of the aristocracy. He returned to W City disappointedly. At this time, Lotte was already married, and Werther immediately fell into great distress. At the same time, Werther was troubled by love and seemed out of tune with the secular society. Under the pressure of double despair, Werther finally chose to commit suicide.

"The Little Prince" is a beautiful fairy tale full of poetry and warmth. It has been translated into more than 100 languages, and its sales volume is second only to the "Bible". It tells the story of "I" meeting a weird, strange, innocent and pure little prince in the vast Sahara Desert - he came from a small distant planet and traveled to 6 planets where kings, vain people, drunkards, businessmen and geographers lived. The author satirizes the absurdity and hypocrisy of the adult world through the little prince's travels. The plot is unique and tortuous, and the writing is full of poetry and philosophy. The lines contain the author's deep understanding and understanding of major propositions such as love and life, which makes people have endless aftertaste after reading it. In the author Saint-Exupéry's own words, it is a literary work that was written for adults "when he was still a child."

Turgenev's full name is Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. He was born in 1818 and died in 1883. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Chinese at the University of Petersburg in Russia, and studied philosophy, history, Greek and Latin at the University of Berlin in Germany. He belonged to the liberal faction during the fierce political and ideological struggles and conflicts in Russia in the mid-19th century. He opposed the serfdom system, but did not agree with the views of Chernyshevsky and other Russian revolutionary democrats at the time. He pinned his hope on top-down reforms. However, due to his deep sympathy for the vast number of serfs and lower-class working people, as well as his literary talent, his works truly and profoundly reflected the reality of Russian society at that time, and were widely recognized and loved. Even the tsarist government and those who advocated violent revolution had to admit that he was a great writer, appreciate his beautiful writing, and appreciate his humanitarian spirit.

This book includes the Austrian writer Kafka's works such as "The Metamorphosis", "The Castle" and "The Trial". Kafka is a famous European Expressionist writer. He lived in an era when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was about to collapse, and was deeply influenced by the philosophies of Nietzsche and Bergson. He always had a bystander attitude towards political events. Therefore, most of his works used deformed and absurd images and symbolic intuition to express isolated and desperate individuals surrounded by a hostile social environment.

Fifteen-year-old girl Cadence is the first heir to the Sinclair family, a family that has been wealthy for generations. Her grandfather owns a private island. Every summer, extended family members gather on the island. Cadence, her cousin Johnny, her cousin Mirren, and her friend Gate have spent almost every summer here happily since they were eight years old. However, suddenly one day, Cadence found herself trapped in selective amnesia and migraines, unable to extricate herself. What happened on the fifteenth summer that is missing from memory? To make the whole family keep silent about her and to make three close friends lose contact with her? She tried to piece together what happened. The fifteenth summer is getting clearer and clearer, but I find that my friends are moving away. "The Liar" is a sad and regretful story, and it is also the first sigh for innocent and sunny teenagers to open the door to the adult world.

"Insects" accurately records the scientific experiments conducted by Fabre. It is a rigorous scientific work, but it is not obscure and boring. Fabre uses prose and lively writing to reveal many secrets of insect life and living habits, which is really interesting to read. Not only can people gain knowledge and ideas from it, but reading itself is also a unique aesthetic process. As Mr. Lu Xun said, this book is a model for "telling insect stories".

"Myths and Legends of Ancient Rome" narrates ancient Roman myths and legends into three parts: ancient Roman myths and legends, the legend of Aeneas, the origin of Rome, and early historical legends. In the myths and legends section, due to the close relationship between ancient Roman mythology and ancient Greek mythology, in addition to introducing the mythology itself, this part of the narrative focuses on comparing the two myths and emphasizing the similarities and differences between the two myths. The legend of Aeneas has been compiled and processed by writers and poets, especially through Virgil's conception and processing, and has become a systematic legend. The narrative in "Myths and Legends of Ancient Rome (Two-color Illustrated Youth Edition by Famous Translations)" basically maintains its integrity. The origins of Rome and early historical legends are mainly based on the relevant works of Livy, Dionysios and Plotarch, and also refer to some other works, with appropriate research and explanations to facilitate the understanding of the relevant legends.

The novel tells a story about the trade of dead souls. Dead souls are those serfs who are actually dead but are still legally alive because their status has not been cancelled. The protagonist of the novel, Chichikov, is a pretender who loves money as much as his life, a polite liar. He visited and bribed local officials at all levels, and bought dead souls from all kinds of landowners, intending to hand over these serfs who did not really exist to the Supervisory Committee for mortgage, so as to defraud large sums of mortgage money.

The story tells the story of a brother and sister named Matthew and Marilla who lived in a farmhouse called Green Gables in Avonlea, Canada. Due to their old age, they planned to adopt a boy from the orphanage as a helper in the farmhouse. Unexpectedly, by some strange combination of circumstances, what was sent from the orphanage was an eleven-year-old girl with red hair, freckles, and chattering all day long-Anne. She lost her parents when she was young, and her life was full of hardships, but she was still optimistic, lively, passionate and romantic, and had a very rich imagination. Although she often got into trouble and made mistakes, her smart, straightforward and kind-hearted character gradually gained her sincere friendship and the love of her teachers. Her strong will and hard work also helped her successfully pass the Queen's College, and obtain a first-class teaching certificate and a university scholarship. But she couldn't bear to leave Green Gables and Marilla, who had been together day and night, and resolutely gave up the opportunity of university and chose to stay in Green Gables, repaying her kindness and never forgetting her original intention.

"Around the World in Eighty Days" is a very famous science fiction work by Jules Verne, the "father of science fiction". It tells the story of Phileas Fogg and his servant "Master" who went through various difficulties and obstacles to complete a circumnavigation of the world in 80 days in order to win a bet of 20,000 pounds. The book not only describes in detail the various bizarre experiences of Mr. Fogg and his party on the way and the numerous difficulties and dangers they encountered, but also makes the characters' personalities gradually more distinct as the plot unfolds. The novel begins with a bet, and is interspersed with love stories and humorous stories. The layout is clever, sometimes bringing readers to a poetic and picturesque realm, sometimes bringing readers into thrilling scenes, making people unable to put it down.

It tells the love story of a poor couple: In order to buy a Christmas gift for their lover, they did not hesitate to sell their most precious things - the wife sold her beautiful long hair to buy a watch chain, while the husband sold his ancestral gold watch to buy a tortoiseshell hair comb. This unexpected and unreasonable ending makes people full of emotions. This is also the most obvious, well-known and praised feature of O. Henry's short stories. "The Gift of the Sage (Youth Edition with Famous Translation and Two-Color Illustrations)" is a collection of short stories by O. Henry. In addition to "The Gift of the Sage", it also includes "The Policeman and the Hymn", "The Last Leaf" and other short story classics that are loved by readers all over the world.

"The Moonstone" is a masterpiece of detective novels by British literary master Collins, and a masterpiece in the history of world detective novels. This is a detective story with twists and turns caused by a huge diamond. At the end of the 18th century, a British colonel won the world-famous moon gem in a war. Later, before his death, he made a will and gave the moon stone to his niece Rachel. Unexpectedly, on the night of Rachel's birthday party, the gem suddenly disappeared mysteriously. Focusing on the search for the whereabouts of the moon gem, the work unfolds a battle between life and death, good and evil. The novel reveals the harsh reality of society, exposes the hypocrisy of religion, and exposes the truth about charity. Condemned the crimes of the invaders.

Through the observation of water rats and moles, The Wind in the Willows presents the idyllic life scenes and humanistic features of the British countryside. Through the story of Toad's distress and escape, it shows the ridiculous and cute weaknesses of heroes in the eyes of the world. The story of three friends helping Toad regain his home and the happy ending in which Toad finally grows up expresses the author's expectations for loyal friendship and perfect humanity. The story has an unhurried pace and can be read leisurely. There is no tension to read to the end to see the ending, but it has the attraction of eliminating distracting thoughts and calming down. Reading one chapter a day to your children or yourself is a very comfortable reading experience.

Through the bright eyes of a little prince from an alien planet, the work shows us all kinds of ridiculous living beings living on the earth. The pure words reveal a touch of sadness and thought-provoking philosophy. This most widely circulated fairy tale in the 20th century has been translated into more than 100 languages ​​since its publication in 1943 and has been sold all over the world. "Cinderella" is selected from "Bello's Fairy Tales". In addition, "Cinderella" also includes famous fairy tales such as "Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" and "Little Red Riding Hood". The themes mostly originate from folklore in France, other European countries and some Eastern countries. The French writer Bellot processed and transformed them into the earliest literary fairy tales.