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Yuan Haowen was a famous poet and literary theory critic in the Jin Dynasty. He had unique insights into poetry, advocated nature and purity, opposed stacking and carving, and advocated the restoration of the fine tradition of poetry since Jian'an. His "Thirty Poems" is a famous group of poems following Du Fu that uses the form of quatrains to elucidate the theory of poetry more systematically. It comments on many famous writers and schools from the Han and Wei dynasties to the Song Dynasty, indicating the author's literary views and having an important influence on later generations.

That is A Journey to the Center of the Earth, now translated as: Journey to the Center of the Earth. Science fiction. A determined, courageous and dedicated scientific explorer, together with his nephew and guide, followed the guidance of predecessors and conducted a three-month scientific expedition underground, revealing a magical underground world. In 1906, Lu Xun translated this novel into Chinese, which played a catalytic role in the emergence of science fiction novels in China, which was still in a chaotic state.

That is Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts jours, today's translation: Around the World in Eighty Days. Science fiction. A British gentleman made a bet with his friend that he would travel around the world in 80 days. After careful planning, he traveled through the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, India, Singapore, Japan, the United States and other places, overcoming various difficulties and obstacles, and successfully returned to London. While introducing the local customs and geographical knowledge, the author also criticized various barbaric, backward and ignorant social status quo.

Who can say that there will not be a consistent spirit or consistent desire between climbing the ravines and peaks in one's youth and entering the real world in one's prime? In the process of thought, there are so many incredible peaks and realistic human situations! If you look at the early literary and artistic lives of Gorky and Lu Xun, you will find that they were obsessed with Nietzsche, but they were still pioneers of the times, so you can roughly know the news during them. Nietzsche's life is a life in the mountainous highlands of southern Europe and Italy, and his books are books about the mountainous highlands, "books from high altitudes." The human world is far below him, the distance is said to be "six thousand feet." Therefore, he is far away from the reality of the world. This is what he himself has said. What he gave to the world was only the colorful iridescence in the clouds, the light and hope in the distance, and the adventurous spirit of walking between "peaks and peaks".

Not all people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, clothes to stretch out their hands, and food to open their mouths. ; Not all people are born with stunning beauty, and not all people are born with extraordinary talents, talents, and smooth speaking. However, everyone hopes that they can be rich, beautiful, and talented, right? Debut novel, the author intends to devote all his efforts to Bo Xiaoqiang's pleasure

At the isolated crime scene, the suspects continued to make deductions and overturned each other. Who can become the famous detective to crack the truth, and who is the hidden murderer? There is a lady with drug delusions, a mysterious call at midnight, a strange death message on a luxury cruise ship... The diary of the father of the young child in the kidnapping case contains anomalies that are thought-provoking and chilling! A museum that collects unsolved cases, and a pair of partners who solve murder plots. The president who disappeared into an abandoned villa, the female student who mysteriously fell from the building, the 5-year-old suspect... The victim who came back from the dead, the murder in his sleep, the three lines of footprints in the snow... The murderer used the loopholes in time to create almost perfect alibis one after another! There is a mysterious man who will appear quietly whenever a secret room murder occurs. In a locked classroom, a music teacher was shot and killed; in a sealed room, a dead body mysteriously fell from the building...

Charles Strickland is a British securities broker with a successful career and a prominent family. What puzzled everyone was that in middle age, he suddenly abandoned his wife and children and came to Paris penniless to study painting. In a foreign country, he was poor and sick, but he became more determined and persistent in his dream. After experiencing various bizarre encounters, he came to an isolated island in the South Pacific, married a local girl, had children, and successfully created a series of stunning masterpieces. At this moment, he was struck down by terminal illness and blindness. Before he died, he made an astonishing decision... The protagonist of this novel is based on the famous French painter Gauguin. The novel mainly expresses the contradiction between dreams and survival, the contradiction between responsibility and self, and the contradiction between genius and madman. "There were six pennies all over the ground, but he looked up and saw the moon." Charles has been pursuing a kind of pure and shocking beauty throughout his life. Perhaps this kind of beauty is the real value of life. May you and I both be the ones who always chase the moon.

Roam around the world in ten directions, collect the fruits of practice, and become one. Ancient Chinese martial arts, modern martial arts, classical Liaozhai, the world of Confucianism and Taoism, the revival of spiritual energy, the world of immortality, the world of wizards, the inner world, the world of Shenxiu Lord, the world of gray mist... This is the story of Su Daozhi traveling through the troubled times of martial arts, traveling through the heavens through the magical gates, and jumping out of the sea of the universe.

Reborn as Douluo, he became Dai Mubai, the evil-eyed white tiger! At the beginning, the bloodline of the holy beast White Tiger was awakened, Davis was defeated, and sisters Zhu Zhuqing were engaged! Start a battle at the Spirit Hall, brutalize Yu Xiaogang, and acquire Shrek Academy! Become a disciple of Kendo Chen Xin and bravely enter the killing city! Dai Mubai + Zhu Zhuqing, martial soul fusion skill: Netherworld White Tiger! Dai Mubai + Ning Rongrong, martial soul fusion skill: Resurrection Divine Light! Dai Mubai + Qian Renxue, martial soul fusion skill: Six-winged White Tiger! Ning Fengzhi: This boy is a monster. I have never seen such a powerful martial soul! Yu Xiaogang: Although the White Tiger Spirit is powerful, it can only be ranked second compared to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Spirit! Yu Xiaogang pawn! ... The First Martial Spirit: The Divine Beast White Tiger Second Martial Spirit: Pluto Sword

"Mary, dead people don't speak." Deep in the desolate and uninhabited swamp, in a remote coastal area far away from the sky, lies the Jamaica Hotel. Although it is a hotel, the doors and windows here are locked, and even the coachman will speed up when passing by and never stop here. 23-Year-old Mary came here alone to seek refuge with her aunt. However, as soon as she arrived, she received a warning from her uncle "not to meddle in other people's business." The weirdness doesn't end there: a carriage procession coming in the middle of the night, various sneaky visitors, a piece of rope hanging from the beam... Mary is unknowingly involved in the center of evil. How will she bloom the flowers of justice in this soil of evil?

Don't think about the vast world, just live for yourself. Being able to be yourself is really a rare and happy thing! Every moment of life is ordinary but also special, because we are new ourselves every moment, and it becomes interesting to experience the progress of life over and over again. The main character, Mimoto Mibu, is a twenty-year-old girl who works in the university library. I like to stay in bed in the morning, like cheese cakes, Polumeng snacks, and books. Others around her described her as "always in a daze", "always eating like crazy", "a little fool", etc. However, Sanbu is very good at connecting the things he likes in his normal daily life, making his life dazzling and enjoyable. This kind of three-step makes people feel very friendly. From the world of three-step, we can see the purity and touch that we don't notice in daily life. Perhaps, those lives that seem boring at first glance are shining brightly every moment if we look at them with a microscope.

"National King" Jiro Asada's short story collection, starting with the work of the same name "Angel Reflected in the Sunset", includes 6 selected works including "Ticket", "Special Day", "Amber", "White House on the Hill" and "Man in the Sea of ​​Forest". Describes ordinary things that happen on extraordinary days, and extraordinary things on ordinary days.

"1984" is Orwell's masterpiece. It is both a political allegory novel and a fantasy novel. In the book, the author shows us his amazing imagination, great creativity, and profound insight, and uses his unique style and superb skills to depict a "horrible world" for us. The human living conditions depicted in the book are like a warning label that will never fade, warning the world to guard against the expected darkness becoming a reality.

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"The Sherlock Holmes" is a wonderful detective novel in human history and a popular work in the world of literature. The protagonist created by the author, Holmes, is calm, brave, and intelligent. Each of his crime-solving stories has become an eternal classic.

"The Sherlock Holmes" is a wonderful detective novel in human history and a popular work in the world of literature. The protagonist created by the author, Holmes, is calm, brave, and intelligent. Each of his crime-solving stories has become an eternal classic.

"In Search of Lost Time" is a novel written by the 20th century French writer Marcel Proust and published between 1913 and 1927. This is a novel that is different from traditional novels. The book consists of seven volumes, with the narrator "I" as the main body, integrating what he sees, hears, thinks and feels. It is not only a true description of social life and human relations, but also a record of the author's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. In addition to narrative, it also contains a lot of reflections and discussions. The whole work has no central character, no complete story, no ups and downs, only plot clues throughout. This set of books includes the first volume, the second volume, the fifth volume and selected works translated by the famous French translator Mr. Zhou Kexi.

"Faust" is a long poetic tragedy that Goethe based on folklore and created with sixty years of hard work. It is called the crowning work of Enlightenment literature. It is also called the four major European classical literary masterpieces along with "Homer's Epic", "The Divine Comedy" and "Hamlet". In the book, in order to explore the meaning of life, Faust signed a contract with the devil Mephisto and exchanged his soul for youth. He pursued knowledge, love, beauty, and achievements, and finally realized that only those who strive for freedom and survival every day are worthy of enjoying freedom and survival.

"The Magic Mountain" is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. The novel is centered on a sanatorium and describes many feudal nobles and bourgeois figures in Europe, including Prussian officers, Russian ladies, Dutch colonists, Jesuits... They are all parasites of society. The entire sanatorium is filled with a morbid and dying atmosphere, symbolizing the decline of capitalist civilization. The work reveals the kinship between decadence and fascism through the ideological conflicts between the characters.

In the monastery, Narcissus was extremely talented and was deeply loved by Dean Daniel. The new student Goldmund lost his mother when he was young and determined to serve God. Narcissus and Goldmund became friends. Narcissus found a temperament in Goldmund that was completely contrary to the spirit of the monastery, and advised him to abandon the shackles of asceticism and discipline, return to the nature given to him by his mother, and become an inspired person. After an unexpected encounter, Goldmund was shocked to realize his romantic nature and decided to start a wandering life. He wandered around, experiencing joy and hardship, and his wandering made him gradually mature. One day, Goldmund was shocked by the beauty of a statue of the Virgin, which inspired his deep creative talent. He began to study under a teacher and immersed himself in the art of sculpture. Finally, he returned to his close friend and mentor Narcissus. The two inspired each other with inspiration and reason respectively, and finally Goldmund mastered the art rules of turning moments into eternity and carved a perfect statue. However, his romantic nature still drives Goldmund to chase love and his last fantasy. Goldmund once again goes out on a parade to find his lover. On the way he fell seriously ill. Narcissus expressed his friendship to him before his death, which made him die with a sense of happiness.

"The Magic Mountain" is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. The novel is centered on a sanatorium and describes many feudal nobles and bourgeois figures in Europe, including Prussian officers, Russian ladies, Dutch colonists, Jesuits... They are all parasites of society. The entire sanatorium is filled with a morbid and dying atmosphere, symbolizing the decline of capitalist civilization. The work reveals the kinship between decadence and fascism through the ideological conflicts between the characters.

When Alyosha was three years old, his father died of cholera, and his mother took him to live with his maternal grandfather. In this family, fathers and sons, brothers, and husbands and wives often quarrel and fight over property and even over trivial matters. My grandfather was moody and had a bad temper. He beat my grandmother fiercely and beat Alyosha unconscious. My grandmother was very kind to Alyosha, telling him legends, fairy tales and folk stories, and she endured all the pressures of life without complaining. The mother was forced to remarry and died of tuberculosis a few years later. After his grandfather went bankrupt, Alyosha was forced to live in the world and began to make a living independently. This book truly describes Alyosha's miserable childhood, and profoundly outlines a true and vivid picture of the vulgarity, selfishness, emptiness and boredom of the Russian petty bourgeoisie in the 19th century. At the same time, it also shows the integrity, simplicity, and diligence of the lower class working people. The image of the grandmother created in the book is one of the glorious and poetic images in Russian literature. This book is the first of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, and it is also a work written by Gorky with great devotion and charm.

This book opens a window for readers to observe and understand ancient Greek and even European culture. It has experienced rich changes of the times and historical events, and has become the basic material for almost all literary and artistic activities in Greece and even Europe. It moved from legends to songs, from songs to stories, from stories to dramas, and finally to epic poems that were popular throughout Greece, and also took root in Roman culture.

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Arsene Robin is not only a detective as famous as Sherlock Holmes, but also a "rogue" with a strong sense of justice and compassion. He hates evil as much as he hates it, robs the rich and gives to the poor, and specializes in eliminating the most evil villains from society. Not only that, he also solved problems for women and children chivalrously and generously, and was full of patriotism. Therefore, those powerful and evil forces regard him as a terrifying devil, while the vast number of kind-hearted civilians regard him as the embodiment of justice. The story in this book, which is based on the two main lines of Arsene Robin's rogue and detective, is strange, thrilling, exciting, touching, and often makes people forget to eat and sleep.

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"War and Peace" by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is an immortal masterpiece in the history of world literature. The most outstanding artistic achievement of the novel is its majestic, grand and complex structure and strict and orderly layout. Tolstoy used a genius to navigate between war and peace, psychology and society, history and philosophy, marriage and religion, with clear priorities and unique ingenuity. The novel "War and Peace" uses the lives of the four aristocratic families of Kuragin, Rostov, Bolkonsky and Bezukhov as the plot clue, and magnificently reflects the major historical events of Russian society from the early 19th century to the 1920s.

"John Christopher" is a majestic epic. It describes how a strong and resolute heart overcomes the cowardly and despicable dark side of the soul, from childishness to maturity. It is an epic describing the journey of the soul. "John Christopher" tells the story of how a sincere musician resists the hypocritical and impetuous society, thereby sublimating and perfecting himself in the struggle against social reactionary forces. It is the adventures of the protagonist Christopher. "John Christopher" is another musical epic. The author uses his deep understanding of the spirit of music to describe the struggle between morbid and degenerate art and healthy and progressive music, and praises a musical concept full of vitality. "John Christopher" also reflects the fusion and impact of different national spirits through music. It uses grand and beautiful artistic techniques to vividly express the struggle and passion of the generation in the early 20th century. It is a true portrayal of the spirit of the times.

"Tomcat Moore's View of Life" is the author's masterpiece, marking the peak of Hoffmann's creation and an excellent work of the German Romantics. The novel consists of two parts: a biography of Tomcat Moore and a biography of bandleader Kreisler. Judging from the title of the novel, the former is the main body of the work. In fact, the latter is the core of the novel. The form is loose, but the theme is consistent. They both deal with the relationship between artists and society. The short stories and novellas selected in this book are all masterpieces of Hoffmann. Among them, the novella "Miss Scoudeli" is set in Paris during the reign of Louis XIV in the 17th century. It tells a bizarre story about an eccentric artist. It was hailed by some critics as "the first important detective novel" in German literature and had a certain influence on future generations of such novels. "Beautiful Mandala" tells a bizarre marriage and love story of a young college student. "Cousin's Corner Window" is a conversational novel about an episode in the life of a seriously ill, quadriplegic writer in his twilight years. "The Golden Vase" and "The Legend of Zack the Dwarf" are both artistic fairy tales. The former uses a humorous style to describe how a college student escapes from the depressing philistine environment and escapes to a whimsical and wonderful kingdom; the latter criticizes the current social ills and the corruption of the feudal court through the experience of a character who has no real talent and only knows how to cheat and bluff. It is Hoffmann's most cherished masterpiece and the most important satirical work of the German Romantics.

The world-famous translation library: Rousseau (a total of 3 volumes) contains: "Rousseau: Confessions", "Rousseau: Reveries on a Walk", "Rousseau: New Héloïse (Part 1 and 2)". Introduction to episode content: "Rousseau: Confessions" is Rousseau's autobiography. The book is divided into two parts. The theme is to reflect some kind of cruelty and oppression of people by society through Rousseau's own rough life. In this book, which is called "a strange book in the history of literature", Rousseau analyzes himself as a human specimen. He presents his soul to readers sincerely and nakedly, and his level of frankness is unprecedented. Because of the spirit of individual freedom reflected in the work, the work is regarded as a precursor to romantic literature in the 19th century. "Rousseau's Collection: Reveries on a Walk" is Rousseau's posthumous work and the sequel to "Confessions". Rousseau's works advocate self-expression, express feelings, and love nature. These characteristics are more prominent in "Ramble" than in other works. The Rousseau in this work is Rousseau in his most innocent state. This work is the product of his intimate conversation with his own soul, and is an analysis and dissection of his own soul. "Rousseau: New Héloïse (Part 1 and 2)" is an epistolary novel written by Rousseau in 1761 and is known as the most important novel in the 18th century. The book is divided into six parts. The plot of the novel is from 1732 to 1745 and consists of 163 letters. The title of the book is borrowed from the love tragedy of the 12th century girl Heloise and her teacher Abelard. The novel tells the story of the love tragedy of the heroine Julie and her teacher Saint-Preux who fell in love but failed to do so. This book is the first novel in the history of French literature that praises love as a noble sentiment of human beings and describes the beautiful scenery of nature. It had a huge influence on subsequent French literature.

"The Great Gatsby" is a short story written by the American writer F. S. Fitzgerald in 1925, set in New York City and Long Island in the 1920s. The background of the novel is set in the white circle of the middle and upper classes of modern American society, and is unfolded through Calloway's narration. It shows the disillusionment of the "American Dream". This novel denounces the American privileged class represented by Tom as being selfish and arbitrary and doing whatever they want. It describes Gatsby's tragedy with a sympathetic attitude and points out that his tragedy comes from his fantasy of life and love and his lack of understanding of upper-class characters.

My golden finger is the dark world. The connection between reality and other worlds has led to the emergence of many extraordinary lives. However, I don't panic because I can fight monsters and level up in the dark world. After being reborn with a golden finger, I set a small goal for myself, for example: first become a god~ The dark world, the real world, the other world, this is a brand new beginning and the starting point of the legend.

There are five novels in "Christmas Stories": "A Christmas Carol", "Church Bells", "The Cricket on the Fireside", "The Battle of Life", and "The Possessed Man". These Christmas stories were published between 1843 and 1848. In "A Christmas Story", Dickens used fascinating artistic techniques to publicize both the poor and the rich, asking for an improvement in the "destiny" of the poor and a transformation of the moral character of the rich. From a humanitarian perspective, the writer exposed the evils of the ruling class, expressed deep sympathy for the homeless and unemployed workers, and expressed great anger towards the oppressors.

"Anna Karenina" is the representative work of the famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Through the two clues of the heroine Anna's tragedy of pursuing love, and Levin's reform and exploration in the face of crisis in the countryside, this book depicts a broad and colorful picture of Russia from Moscow to the countryside in other provinces. It has described more than 150 characters and is a social encyclopedia-style work.

"Oliver Twist", also translated as "Oliver Twist", was published in 1838 and is the author's first social novel. Set in the foggy city of London, it tells the story of an orphan's tragic life experience and experiences. The protagonist Oliver grew up in an orphanage, experienced an apprenticeship, escaped with difficulty, fell into a den of thieves by mistake, and was forced to work with a vicious murderer. After experiencing countless hardships, he finally found out his life experience and gained happiness with the help of kind people. The work exposed the miserable life of people at the bottom of society through the tragic experience of the orphan Oliver, which aroused great repercussions at the time.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a popular historical novel and the representative work of the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Dontès, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was entrusted by the captain to deliver a letter to the Bonapartists. He was framed by two despicable villains and a judge, and was sentenced to death. The inmate Father Faria taught him all kinds of knowledge, and before his death, he told him the secrets of a group of treasures buried on the island of Monte Cristo. After escaping from prison, Dontes found the treasure and became a millionaire. From then on, he was known as the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies. This book is full of romantic legend, and the chapters are unique, novel and fascinating.

"Women in Love" is Lawrence's most important work and represents the highest achievement of Lawrence's novel creation. The novel takes the love stories of Ursula, Gudrun and their respective boyfriends as the development context. It explores the essential role of independent and complete personality and perfect sexual relations from the relationship between men and women, men and men, and women and women, and seeks eternal value from the essence of life and physical faith. At the same time, the novel revolves around pure destructiveness, and from the rushing death impulse, it launches discussions on philosophy, life, love, death and other fields, showing the profound modernity of the work. The works are detailed, beautiful and profound.

"Rambles" is Rousseau's posthumous work and the sequel to "Confessions". Rousseau's works advocate self-expression, express feelings, and love nature. These characteristics are more prominent in "Ramble" than in other works. The Rousseau in this work is Rousseau in his most innocent state. This work is the product of his intimate conversation with his own soul, and is an analysis and dissection of his own soul.

"Demons" is the most controversial work of the great Russian writer Dostoevsky. The work created a portrait of the old liberal intellectuals in the 1840s and the radical youth in the early 1970s. Liberal intellectuals represented by Stepan Trofimovich had social conscience and advocated truth, goodness and beauty, but at the same time they were timid and mediocre; social radicals represented by Peter Verkhovinsky opposed the old social order and despised the powerful, but at the same time they were cunning, vicious and shameless. The other protagonist, Stavrogin, is a typical Dostoevsky character. He has a dual personality. On the one hand, he is despicable, dissolute, and an extreme hedonist. His soul and body are far away from Christ, and he lives a devilish life; Stavrogin has a strong sense of guilt, but he is unable to bear his own sins and cannot redeem himself, so he can only eliminate his sins by annihilating his own body-committing suicide. In this world full of evil, there is always some sense of goodness, and a faint light shines brightly or covertly in everyone.

"The Insulted and Injured" was serialized in issues 1 to 7 of The Times in 1861. Because it is a long series, in order to attract readers, the plot of the novel must be fascinating, with ups and downs, climax after another, and it must be interrupted suddenly when it reaches the climax, so that people can continue to read the next issue. Therefore, this type of novel was called "essay-style novel" at that time, and it was famous for its tense and tortuous plot. This book is the first important work Dostoevsky completed after returning to Petersburg from exile. The novel describes the tragedy of two families caused by the bourgeois adventurer Valkovsky. First, he embezzled the only farm belonging to the poor and declining Ikhmenev noble family, and ruined the marriage between Ikhmenev's daughter Natasha and his son Alyosha in order to marry Katya, who had a millionaire fortune, as his daughter-in-law. The other is the old man Smith's family. His daughter was abandoned by Valkovsky from beginning to end, defrauded of her property, and died of poverty and illness. Smith eventually died of poverty. Smith's granddaughter cannot forgive her father, Valkovsky. Her stubbornness and crazy spirit of resistance arouse people's sympathy for those who are "insulted and damaged" and their hatred for the dark society, which shows the realism power of the novel. In the novel, these unfortunate people are often resigned, showing a sense of despair with no way out.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is one of Dostoevsky's masterpieces. 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 and lustful, monopolizing the inheritance left by his wife to his sons, and was jealous of a woman with his eldest son Dmitri. One night, Dmitry 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 he fled in panic, the old Karamazov's illegitimate son Smerdyakov, who was hiding in the dark and pretending to be ill, secretly killed the old man, causing a complicated and confusing murder that shocked the whole of Russia, and triggered a series of thrilling events. The work shows an intricate tragic theme of society, family, morality and human nature, and embodies superb artistic techniques.

This book is an anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories and short stories, including thirty short stories and short stories such as "The Secret Agent", "The Man of Kabul", "Skeleton", "The Hungry Stone", "Four People" and "Two Sisters".

This book is Dostoevsky's masterpiece that integrates social novels, suspense novels, psychological novels and other types of novels with educational novels. In this noisy and impetuous world, the protagonist of this book faces a changing society that lacks faith and ideals. Due to lack of experience, he is extremely confused and hesitant. He has gone through twists and tribulations, encountered many tests and spiritual pain. Fortunately, he has always had a positive and persistent pursuit, and later received many good influences. After experiencing the struggle of exploring "good" and "evil", he finally woke up and completed his spiritual growth.

"Steppenwolf" shows the consequences of the division of human nature in modern society through the narration of personal mental illness. Homeless, Harrell is hunted mercilessly like a wolf and tortured by mental illness. In his interactions with several important figures such as Hermina, Pablo, and Maria, Harrell faced a dilemma in life and fell into a desperate situation. In the end, he was inspired by the lofty thoughts of "immortals" such as Goethe and Mozart, got rid of despair, and returned to real life. The novel is rich in fantasy and has profound symbolic meaning, and is known as Germany's "Ulysses".

"The Tin Drum" is a novel written by Nobel Prize winner and German writer Günter Grass. It is the first part of his "Danzig Trilogy". In 1980, a film of the same name based on the novel was adapted for the screen and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. When the Swiss Academy of Literature awarded Grasse the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1999, it said that "The Tin Drum is one of the most important works of world literature after World War II." The whole book consists of three parts and forty-six chapters. The author uses flashback techniques to allow the protagonist to narrate the events that occurred on the border of Germany and Poland and the Danzig area for more than half a century in the first-person "I" tone on two planes of time and space. The first plane is from 1952 to 1954, when the protagonist Oscar Matzerath squatted in a mental hospital and wrote his memories because he took responsibility for his crimes. The second plane is the content of Oscar's memories: he wrote from the wedding of his maternal grandparents in 1899 until he entered the hospital in 1952.

One of the masterpieces of South African writer John Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature. "Shame" is a very readable novel with rich layers of content and implications. Fifty-two-year-old Professor David Lurie is divorced; he is full of desire but lacks passion. After an affair with a student leaves him unemployed, he is shunned by his friends and ridiculed by his ex-wife, forcing him to retreat to his daughter Lucy's small estate. Professor Lurie's brief visit turns into a long stay as he tries to find meaning in his only remaining relationship with others. However, an unimaginable violent incident forces the father and daughter to face their conflicts as well as the complex racial situation in the new South African society. The novel reflects South Africa's social contradictions and past racial conflicts, and touches on contemporary attitudes towards romantic passion and ethics.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) is the first "black novel" and created a new genre of "black novel". By describing the fate of the upright old black slave Tom and other characters, the novel exposes the brutality of black slavery and the suffering of black people in the southern plantations of the United States, and praises the black people's struggle to resist oppression and fight for freedom. After the novel was published, it received a strong response and effectively promoted the anti-slavery struggle in the United States. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had such a huge impact on American society that in the early days of the Civil War, when Lincoln met with Mrs. Stowe, he said: "You are the little woman who started a great war." Later, this sentence was quoted by many writers.

The set contains 3 volumes, namely: "The First Day of the Rest of My Life", "You Will Understand When You Grow Up" and "It's Time to Light Up the Stars Again". "The First Day of the Rest of My Life": How difficult is it to escape from a life you can see at a glance? Many times, Mary felt that her life was boring. She threw herself into life with all her enthusiasm and dedicated everything to her family, but she only lost herself. Finally one day, on her husband's 40th birthday, she decided to give him a surprise: she embarked on a cruise around the world alone, hoping to escape from the life she saw and give herself a chance to be reborn. "You'll Understand When You Grow Up": 32-year-old Julia had to learn to face separation. Drinking, shopping sprees, and overeating, Julia used depraved behaviors to fight against the pain in her heart. Until one day, an unexpected job opportunity made her become a psychiatrist in a remote nursing home called Tamariu. She battles wits and courage with these "old partners" every day, and she doesn't even realize that she has changed. She has become less afraid of separation and loss, and has become shining and full of strength. "It's Time to Light Up the Stars Again": Anna felt that she was a bit of a failure. As a single mother with foreign debts, she had just been informed that she was fired. The estrangement between the eldest daughter Chloe and the youngest daughter Lily seems to be getting deeper and deeper recently. The terrible reality gave her a crazy idea - to go to remote Scandinavia to watch the aurora with her daughters! So, a second-hand RV that creaked and could break down at any time set off. Can they find their love for each other? Can he break his own predicament and move towards a broader life?

The book consists of seven volumes, with the narrator "I" as the main body, integrating what he sees, hears, thinks and feels. It is not only a true description of social life, human relations and the world, but also a record of the author's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. There is no central character in the whole work, no complete story, only plot clues throughout. It generally takes the narrator's life experience and inner activities as the axis, interspersed with descriptions of a large number of characters and events, like a large tree with intertwined branches. A main novel is derived from many other independent novels. It can also be said to be a huge symphony intertwined with several theme songs. The novel is hailed as one of the most important literary works of the 20th century. It is popular around the world for its outstanding description of spiritual pursuit, grand structure, delicate characterization and excellent stream-of-consciousness techniques, and has established its position in contemporary world literature.

"The Prisoner" is the fifth volume of "In Search of Lost Time". It was published in 1923, the second year after Proust's death. It has a special status in the whole book. The protagonist imprisons his girlfriend Albertina in his home until he wakes up one day and finds that she has escaped. The story is based on a major emotional twists and turns in the author's life. Although Albertine has already appeared in the second volume, "In the Shadow of the Girl's Flowers", it is in this volume that she comes to life and stands out, becoming the central character throughout the fifth volume "The Female Prisoner" and the sixth volume "The Missing Albertine", and even continues to the last volume "The Time Found". "Chasing the Lost Time" is composed of seven interconnected and independent novels. The stories are not coherent, and various reflections, discussions, flashbacks, etc. Are often inserted in the middle. It has a unique style that changes people's traditional concepts of novels and innovates the themes and writing techniques of novels.