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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.

The novel closely focuses on the main line of the protagonist Julien's personal struggle and ultimate failure. It extensively displays "the social atmosphere brought about by successive governments that weighed on the French people in the first 30 years of the 19th century" and reflects some essential issues in the political and social life of France in the early 19th century.

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.

It tells the story of Prince Hamlet of Denmark who avenges his father. Although the tragedy is based on Danish history, it profoundly exposes the sharp struggle of corruption and degeneration within the palace of feudal society.

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.

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 novel takes the life experience of the heroine Margaret as the main line, and truly and proactively describes the tragic story of a prostitute who looks as holy and beautiful as a camellia in her heart. The novel pioneered the "Lady in Distress" series in French literature, focusing on the social issue of love corruption. It had a profound impact on the emergence of realist issue novels and the rise of realistic genre dramas in Europe in the second half of the 19th century.

After the protagonist d'Artagnan came to Paris, he joined King Louis XIII's musketeers and formed sworn friends with the other three musketeers. Queen Anna gave a diamond pendant to British Prime Minister Buckingham, but the queen's enemies wanted to steal the two diamonds on the pendant and make the queen embarrassed at the ball. Dartagnan then volunteered to go to England with three friends. After many twists and turns, he finally retrieved the pendant and saved the queen's reputation.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is a novella written by Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It is one of Hemingway's most famous works. It tells the story of an elderly Cuban fisherman who fights a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream far offshore.

The protagonist Yelena comes from a wealthy and aristocratic family, and has several enthusiastic suitors around her, but none of them are satisfied. Later, she met Insarov, a Bulgarian who actively fought for the liberation of the motherland and was prepared to fight for his whole life. She admired and loved him very much and married him despite the opposition of his parents. He went with him to Bulgaria to participate in the national liberation movement against Turkish slavery.

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.

"The Possessed" is a novella published by Dickens on Christmas Day in 1848. Chemist Ledlow had a rough life. His young lover and his sister who accompanied him in his struggle both died unfortunately. He encountered a ghost on Christmas Eve, and under the guidance of the ghost, he asked it to deprive him of all memories. At the end of the story, Ledlow accepted the rescue of Tianmilie, recovered his forgotten memories, and regained the warmth of humanity.

Baron Minhausen is a mysterious knight who is witty, brave, upright, passionate, and humorous. He is good at hunting, exploring, traveling, and fighting, and regards bragging as an honor. He often told his friends about his adventures and boasted about his abilities. Baron Minhausen's stories are absurd, ingenious, and full of bold imagination, making you laugh when you read them.

"The Old Man and the Sea" tells the story of an old man who 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, who lacked helpers and tools, killed several sharks, the swordfish was eaten by other sharks. When he entered the harbor, only a pair of bones were left in the swordfish.

"Breeze in the Willows" is a prose work that uses anthropomorphic animal images to describe pastoral life in England. The writing style is delicate and elegant, the description of nature is rich and smooth, and the story is interesting and full of philosophy. It is known as a model of British prose works. The novel creates a group of vivid animal images: the reckless but kind-hearted toad, the down-to-earth but poetic river rat, the loyal but innocent mole, the stubborn but fatherly old badger, and so on. Each of these vivid images retains the unique habits of animals, but the characters, thoughts, and behaviors of animals have been personified and socialized. The author's focus has transcended animal life and animal souls and invested in human life and spiritual world. Therefore, readers can gain an understanding of human life experience and value.

Goethe (1749-1832), a German literary giant. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is his most important early work. This is an epistolary novel, and the author was only twenty-five years old when he wrote it. The novel describes the experiences and feelings of progressive young people about the despicable German society at that time, and expresses the author's reaction to the feudal moral hierarchy and his strong demand for individual liberation: the young Werther fell in love with a girl named Lotte, who was already engaged to someone else. The setback in love made Werther devastated. Later, Werther committed suicide because he was incompatible with feudal society and felt that his future was hopeless. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" came out in 1775. Its publication was considered an epoch-making event in the history of German literature; it shocked the hearts of an entire generation of young people in Germany and even Europe.

Geoffrey Chaucer's beautiful wife Philippa fell ill. In order to treat her illness, he set out to the famous pilgrimage site Canterbury to pay homage. On the way, he stayed at the Tybald Inn with the pilgrims to Canterbury. The next day, the shopkeepers and pilgrims set out with him. The innkeeper proposed that each of them tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back, and the one who was recognized as the best storyteller could have a sumptuous supper for free on the return. So, under the auspices of the shopkeeper, the noble knight began to tell the first story...

This book is Paul Heizer's most representative collection of short stories and short stories, which not only describes pure love, but also praises beautiful human nature. The plot has ups and downs, and almost every work is rich in rare classical drama and romantic legend.

Jane Eyre, who was born into a poor family, fell in love with Rochester when she was working as a tutor. At their wedding, Jane Eyre discovered a mad woman hiding in the attic of Rochester's house, and she turned out to be Rochester's first wife. Jane Eyre left angrily. Soon, the mad woman burned the manor, and Rochester became blind and fell into poverty. Just when he was desperate for life, Jane Eyre came back to him.

There are twelve novels in "The Collected Works of Hemingway" including "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Capital of the World", "The Light of the World", "Happy Gentlemen", "The Big Change", "You Will Never Do This", "The Mother of a Homosexual", "Salute to Switzerland", "Three Days of Wind" and "Farewell". "Weapons", among which "The Old Man and the Sea" is a masterpiece of Hemingway's unique style. The old man's perseverance, his generosity and kindness, and his full love for boys all symbolize the beautiful character of mankind. The anti-war novel "A Farewell to Arms" published in 1929 had a strong social effect and also brought Hemingway great reputation.

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This book is a representative work of Balzac, the famous French novelist in the 19th century, and is included in the "Private Life Scenes" of "A Study of Customs" in "Comedy Humane". The protagonist in the book, Old Man Goriot, is an old noodle seller in Paris, France. For the sake of his two vain daughters who strived to live a decent life in the upper class, he spent all his last property and died alone and desolately without the company of his relatives. The tragedy of Old Man Goriot unveiled the tenderness of family in capitalist society and revealed the naked nature of money transactions. This important work shows the French society in the first half of the 19th century, reflecting the decadence and luxury of the aristocratic life at that time, and also reproduces the life styles of all social classes at that time.

The incident occurred during the Anglo-French North American Colonial War from 1755 to 1763. Major Duncan Hayward, a young British officer, accompanied the two girls to defect to their father. On the way they met a hunter nicknamed "Eagle Eye" and his two Mohican friends. Led by Hawkeye and others, Hayward and others finally arrived at Fort William Henry...

"David Copperfield (Volume 1)" is a long masterpiece with more than 800,000 words, centered on the open-minded intellectual David Copperfield. Through the daily life, studying and making a living, making friends and love, and travel writings of various people in the book, it fully expresses the humanitarian views advocated by the author throughout his life, and also depicts a series of eye-catching stories. Unforgettable characters: the gentle and intelligent ideal female Agnes, the eccentric Miss Trowu, the simple and kind Peggotty brothers and sisters... Among all Dickens's works, "David Copperfield" covers the widest range of social life content, shows the most complex and rigorous story structure, and is unique in the history of world literature.

Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" caused widespread sensation after its publication. This work won the 54th Nobel Prize for Literature. The old man fished alone at sea and had no harvest for eighty-four days. Then on the eighty-fifth day, he caught a very big fish, fought with it for two days and two nights, and stabbed it to death with a spear gun. However, on the way back, he encountered a shark attack. Wave after wave of sharks came to snatch food. Although the old man, who lacked helpers and tools, killed several sharks, the big fish was also eaten by other sharks. When he returned to the port, only a set of bones was left in the big fish.

The story of "The Noble House" takes place in 1842 and eight years later; the protagonist Lavretsky is the last representative of the nobility who has lost the "enthusiasm" of the serf owners. The decline of the noble house is irreversible, and the collapse of serfdom is inevitable; but who will inject new vitality into Russian society, and where should Russia go? Neither Lavretsky nor the author himself can give a clear answer. Lavretsky just vaguely felt that he should do something useful and that the future should be bright. As the last representative of the serfdom aristocracy, looking back on the past, Lavretsky felt that his life was wasted. "Extinguish it, this useless life!" Lavretsky lamented helplessly in the lyrical "Epilogue".