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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.

"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.

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"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.

"Resurrection" is based on a real event. It mainly describes the hero Nekhludoff seducing his aunt's maid Maslova, making her pregnant and driving her out of the house. Later, she became a prostitute and was tried for murder. The hero appeared in court as a juror and was deeply condemned by his conscience when he saw the woman he had seduced in the past. He ran to avenge her and asked to marry her to atone for his sins. After his appeal failed, he accompanied her into exile in Siberia. His behavior touched Maslova and made her fall in love with him again. But in order not to damage his reputation and status, she finally did not marry him and married a revolutionary.

"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 Old Curiosity Shop" (The Old Curiosity Shop) is a novel published by the British writer Dickens in 1840-1841. Turrent, the owner of an old antique shop, and his beautiful, kind-hearted granddaughter Little Nell depend on each other. In order for his granddaughter, who was under 14 years old, to live a happy life after his death, Torent wanted to get rich through gambling, but fell into the clutches of Daniel Quilp, an upstart loan shark. The greedy Quilp used loan sharking to not only take away all the property of the old antique shop, but also wanted to take away the beautiful little Nell. The grandfather and grandson were forced to flee London and live a life of begging. In the end, Xiao Nai'er, who was physically and mentally injured, died due to mental exhaustion. "The Old Curiosity Shop" is known as "Victorian melancholy".

"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.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is the famous masterpiece of American writer Ernest Hemingway. The story tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who drove a small boat alone and caught a particularly large marlin. After being dragged by the big fish at sea for three days, the big fish was exhausted and killed by the fisherman. On the way back, he was attacked by a shark. In the end, only the remains of the backbone of the big fish were left. This work shows a powerful and indomitable spiritual force, for which Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition to "The Old Man and the Sea", this book also includes some of Hemingway's best short stories. For example, "The Old Man and the Sea", "Snow on Mount Kilimanjaro", "Mountains Like White Elephants", etc., The translations are all classic interpretations by senior British and American literary translators.

"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.

It tells the story of the struggle between the abolitionist Burbank family in the South during the American Civil War and the Texans of Spanish descent who were opportunists during the war. Dekesa repeatedly designed to frame Burbank, but failed. In the end, Burbank revealed the secret of Dekesa escaping legal sanctions several times. It turned out that Dekesa was a twin brother who did not commit crimes at the same time and could provide each other with alibi. In the end, the Northern Army defeated the Southern Army, rescued the Burbank family, freed the slaves, and punished the Texan brothers.

"Chasing Lost Time" is a novel that is different from traditional novels. The whole book takes the narrator "I" as the main body and integrates 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 writer's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. In addition to narrative, it also contains a lot of reflections and discussions. This book is an excerpt from "In Search of Lost Time". In order to allow readers to appreciate the charm of Proust's unique style as much as possible, French translator Zhou Kexi adopted a "large-span" excerpting method. He first selected the essential paragraphs in each volume of the novel.

"In Search of Lost Time", also translated as "In Search of Lost Time", is divided into 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. The whole work has no central character, no complete story, only complex 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.

"Entanglement" is Tagore's novel describing urban life and the bourgeoisie. The author originally planned to write a trilogy about the lives of three generations of a capitalist family, entitled "Three Generations", but he only wrote the first part and published it under the name "Entanglement". Gumdini, a beautiful girl from a prominent family, marries the rude and frivolous millionaire Madusuna. The latter tries to control Gumdini by repeating the old trick of imposing his will on people and machines, but is defeated by Gumdini's strong personality and self-esteem. The novel chastises the empty and humble spiritual soul of capitalists, outlines the historical trajectory of capital's fortune and development, and truly describes the Indian bourgeoisie and its spiritual characteristics in the nineteenth century.

"Petro Goriot" takes Paris in late 1819 and early 1820 as the social background. Through the story of the noodle merchant Goriot and his two daughters, as well as the "history of struggle" of the young college student Rastignac, it describes the bizarre and bizarre life of Paris society.

"Notes from the Underground" is a collection of Dostoevsky's novellas, which selects five of Dostoevsky's representative novellas: "The Poor Man", "White Nights", "The Resident of Stepanchikovo", "Notes from the Underground" and "The Crocodile". "Notes from the Basement" is about a retired civil servant who is about 40 years old. His heart is full of pathological inferiority, but he often analyzes himself. The book mainly consists of two parts: The first part is a long monologue by the man in the basement, which discusses philosophical issues such as free will, human irrationality, and historical irrationality. The second part is about the basement man tracing his past and how he met Lisa, a prostitute.

"Uncle Bangs" is Balzac's masterpiece and is known as the "highest peak of his art". Uncle Bangs lived in poverty and lacked understanding of real life, but he was full of sincere love for art. He loved collecting antiques throughout his life and did not hesitate to spend money for it. However, in reality, there are conspiracies everywhere. From the concierge to his nephew-in-law, from antique dealers to doctors to litigation attorneys, countless villains appear on the stage, all plotting to carve up Uncle Bangs's rare collection. Only his friend Schmuke gave him comfort and hope. Poor Bangs suffered a lot of mental torture and eventually died of poverty and illness. Through Uncle Bangs, Balzac vividly presents to us the greatness and nobility of mankind, as well as the humbleness, ugliness and filth of mankind.

"Eugénie Grandet" is Balzac's most famous work and "one of the most outstanding pictures" in "The Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of a family destroyed by money. The innocent and beautiful Eugenie is the only daughter of the stingy and shrewd rich man Old Grandet. She falls in love with her penniless cousin Charles from Paris. For his sake, she does not hesitate to anger her money-loving father and spends all her private savings to help him go to India. As a result, the relationship between father and daughter broke down, and they lost their father and wasted their youth in the agonizing wait. In the end, what they waited for was a heartless man who made a fortune from human trafficking.

This book describes another "Norman Conquest" that took place in Italy during the Middle Ages. In the 11th century, the Normans living in France came to southern Italy by chance. They were originally mercenaries, but gradually became an important political force. They continued to grow in the complex political situation of southern Italy, and finally unified southern Italy and Sicily, and established the Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century. Centered on the two brothers Robert Guiscard and Roger, this book tells the development of the Normans before the establishment of the Kingdom of Sicily. It clearly shows the interaction between political forces such as the Pope, Germany, Byzantium, Lombards and Arabs and the Normans, and outlines a grand yet detailed historical picture for readers.

After the establishment of the Kingdom of Sicily, it was once a powerful country in the Mediterranean region. It profoundly affected the political situation in Italy and even sent troops to fight overseas. The kingdom prospered in an atmosphere of tolerance. However, the Norman dynasty only lasted for about 60 years, and finally perished in tragic circumstances. This book tells the history of the Norman dynasty from its establishment to its demise, vividly describes its interaction with Germany, the Papal State, Byzantium, the Crusaders and other forces, and shows how a prosperous medieval kingdom gradually perished amid internal and external troubles. The author writes in a popular, humorous and slightly pitiful style, allowing readers to feel not only the glorious achievements of the Norman dynasty, but also the bitterness and helplessness in the decline process.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the nutmeg produced on an unknown island in the Pacific became the focus of competition among European countries in the spice competition. This triggered a fierce and bloody struggle between the Dutch East India Company and a small group of British spice merchants led by Nathaniel Courtop. This struggle eventually ended with the Netherlands and Britain reaching a deal with a far-reaching impact in history. The British ceded control of Lanyu Island to the Dutch, and in return received Manhattan. This book tells a wonderful adventure story. The author selects several representative spice merchants and vividly reproduces a legendary history for readers through their stories.

In 1870, the Franco-Prussian War broke out. French Emperor Napoleon III was quickly defeated and captured in Sedan. However, the collapse of the empire did not end the war. The newly established national defense government still held firm in Paris. The people of Paris suffered from shelling and hunger, and the French army's breakout and siege operations suffered disastrous failures. The defense government finally chose to humiliate Prussia and sue for peace. Anger and disappointment triggered the Commune Uprising that shocked the world. The author uses a large number of unpublished first-hand materials in this book to describe the climax of these dramatic 10 months. His shocking and superb writing skills and the direct records left by countless parties involved in the book make that distant history come alive again.

"Dickens' Speeches" contains seventy-four speeches given by Dickens on various occasions. Dickens was not only a great writer but also a great speaker. Through Dickens's speech, we can deepen our understanding of Dickens's works, and also deepen our understanding of the literary situation in the Victorian era, especially the situation of novels, and further enhance our understanding of Dickens's literary outlook. It can be said that the academic value of Dickens's speeches goes far beyond the scope of literature.

"A Woman of Thirty" is an important work in Balzac's "Human Comedy". This book is actually a combination of six short stories published at different times. When included in "The Human Comedy", the author unified the names of the protagonists of the six stories and changed the overall title to "A Thirty-Year-Old Woman". In this book, for the first time, the author connects private customs with the era of characters' lives. The conflicts in private life and the conflicts in social life are integrated and complementary to each other. Love life, family life and public life are interdependent and harmonious with each other. In addition, this book also includes "The False Mistress".

"The Peasant" is Balzac's masterpiece. The novel describes the conflict between the land ownership of aristocratic large estates and the small land ownership of the bourgeoisie, and the peasants are in the middle of these two social forces, just like "a bug is caught between a hammer and an anvil." The loan shark businessmen Gaubertin and Li Gu, who represented the interests of the bourgeoisie, defeated General Mongonay, who represented the interests of the aristocratic large landowners. However, the peasants who were attracted by the loan shark businessmen and rich peasants to this cruel struggle gained nothing. They just fell into a new kind of slavery and met a more vicious master. Balzac here describes the poverty situation in the countryside after the bourgeois revolution under the double exploitation of landlords and bourgeoisie, the farmers' strong hatred for the exploiters, and the farmers' dependence on loan sharks determined by their economic status at the time.

"The Return of the Native" is a representative "novel of character and environment" written by the famous British writer Thomas Hardy. The work is set in the Egtown Wasteland in Wessex, southwest England, and describes the different tragic fates of five young men and women. The heroine Eustacia is one of the most successfully described heroines in contemporary British novels, and Egtown Heath, where the story takes place, is a model of landscape description. It is an important sign that Hardy's novel art begins to mature, and is one of Hardy's important works.

"Jude the Obscure" is Hardy's masterpiece. The novel mainly describes the study experience of a young man named Jude and his short life encounters. It also depicts the customs and folk customs of the British countryside at the end of the 19th century, presenting a picture of secular customs in front of readers.

This book is a collection of Mérimée's short stories and short stories. It includes six masterpieces of short stories and short stories that best represent his novel achievements and embody his artistic characteristics, such as "Kalman's Love and Death", "Da Mango's Bloody Story at Sea", "Matteo's Killing of His Son", "Federigo's Resurrection", "A Gamble Lost and Eternal Hate" and "Venus Stuns the City of Illuminati".

"The Immoral" is a collection of Gide's trilogy of novels, including "The Immoral", "The Narrow Gate" and "Pastoral Symphony". It is called Gide's "moral trilogy" or "love trilogy". "The Immoral" tells the story of the protagonist Michelle, who has married according to her father's order, but does not control her desires and violates ethics. Under the double blow of illness and heart disease, his wife Marceline soon died of depression and passed away in a foreign land. "The Narrow Gate" tells the story of the protagonist Jerome who has been in love with his cousin Alyssa since childhood. Although Alyssa also had the same feelings for Jerome, she abided by the Puritan self-restraint and buried her feelings deeply in her heart. In the end, she became ill and died unfortunately. "Pastoral Symphony" tells the story of a priest who adopts a blind girl and enlightens her culturally. Later, the pastor and the pastor's son fell in love with her at the same time. The blind girl was cured of her eye disease, but after she regained her sight, she discovered the subtle relationship between the three of them. Tortured between love and justice, she finally committed suicide by jumping into a river...