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Hermann Hesse, originally from Germany, became a Swiss citizen in 1923 and lived in seclusion in the Swiss countryside for a long time. He is known as the last knight of German Romanticism. His masterpiece "Steppenwolf" has caused a sensation in Europe and America, and was hailed as "Germany's Ulysses" by Thomas Mann. In 1946, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "because his inspired works are powerful and insightful, and also provide an example of lofty humanitarian ideals and noble style." "Siddhartha" describes the life of a Brahmin noble young man who seeks the true meaning of life. Siddhartha, an aristocratic young man in ancient India, was handsome and intelligent, and had everything that people envied. In order to pursue spiritual peace, he embarked on a journey of seeking Taoism alone. He listened to Buddha Gautama's teachings in Savatthi City, met the famous prostitute Kamala in the bustling city, and became a wealthy businessman. The enjoyment of his soul and body reached its peak, but it made him tired of and despised himself to the extreme. After making love with Kamala for the last time, he abandoned all worldly things and came to the river to end his life. At that most desperate moment, he suddenly heard the eternal voice of the river of life... After almost a lifetime of pursuit, Siddhartha finally experienced the harmony and unity of all things, the indestructible nature of all life, and finally integrated himself into the eternity of the moment. The novel is hailed as the essence of Hesse's thought and literary works, and is a successful work with worldwide influence.

Flaubert was a master of French realist literature in the 19th century, and "Madame Bovary" is his famous and representative work. The heroine of this book, Emma, ​​is the daughter of a wealthy farmer from another province. She spent her youth in a monastery. She learned the conversational manners of aristocratic women and read a lot of romantic works. Later, her bankrupt father married her to Bovary, a mediocre and slow town doctor. This made Emma, ​​who was obsessed with romantic life, uncomfortable at home, so she became the mistress of the landowner Rodolphe and the clerk Leon successively. In order to please Leon and maintain a luxurious life, she squandered her husband's property and took out loan sharks. Later, Leon became tired of her and her creditors pressed her for debt. She was desperate and committed suicide by taking arsenic.

The Sherlock Holmes created by the British writer Sir Conan Doyle has already transcended his era, nationality and even his author, becoming an image of an invincible, invincible, eternal and immortal detective, and has even become a common noun. This book is based on more than a dozen "best" works selected by Sir Conan Doyle during his lifetime. It also selects a total of 21 excellent detective works with different characteristics, compiled into "Selected Sherlock Holmes", and is accompanied by more than a hundred exquisite original illustrations. With one volume in hand, you can see the essence of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, and it is worth collecting and appreciating.

Jules Verne, a famous French science fiction novelist and "the father of science fiction". "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is one of his important novels. In this ocean novel, Verne uses his magic touch to guide readers to follow Professor Aronnax to visit the library and museum of Nemo, the captain of the Nautilus, walk on the undersea plains, enjoy all kinds of marine life, try hunting in the undersea forest, cross the Arabian underwater passage, attend the funeral of the undersea coral cemetery, visit the ancient city of the Atlantic Ocean sunk at the bottom of the sea, and witness the salvage of treasures from a Spanish shipwreck. It takes readers ten months and 20,000 miles to get to know this mysterious and unknown underwater world.

"Homer's Epic" is said to have been written by the blind poet Homer of ancient Greece. It is an immortal heroic epic of ancient Greece and the cornerstone of Western classical culture. The entire poem "Iliad" is divided into 24 volumes and 15,693 lines. It mainly tells the story of the Greek coalition's siege of Troy, a city in Asia Minor. It centers on the quarrel between the Greek coalition commander Agamemnon and the Greek hero Achilles, and focuses on what happened fifty days before the end of the war. The Greek hero Achilles refused to fight in anger because he had a female prisoner taken by his commander Agamemnon, and the Greek coalition suffered a setback. After his friend Patroclus died in battle, Achilles went into battle again and finally killed the Trojan general Hector, turning defeat into victory for the Greek coalition. The Odyssey consists of 24 volumes and 12,110 lines. It tells the story of Odysseus, the hero of the Greek coalition and King of Ithaca, who drifted on the sea for ten years after the Trojan War. After going through hardships and dangers, he finally returned to his homeland and reunited with his wife. Odysseus was brave and resourceful, and used the Trojan horse trick in the Trojan War, and the Greek coalition finally won. He went through many hardships and dangers on his way back home, and subdued the Cyclops and witches. He was also allowed to stay on the island for 7 years by the fairy Calypso. Finally, he asked the prophet Teiresias for directions before he could return to his hometown. At that time, his wife Penelope was suffering from the entanglement of suitors from all over the world, so he disguised himself as a beggar, shot all the suitors to death, and finally reunited his family.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's representative work. After eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone. However, the fish was so big that he dragged his boat on the sea for three days before exhaustion. He killed him and tied him to the side of the boat. On the way back, he was repeatedly attacked by sharks. When he finally returned to port, only the head, tail and a spine were left. Although this is a work with a simple story and a small length, it is rich in meaning. Many teachers use it as a teaching material on heroism education and recommend it to students, making it an enduring bestseller.

The works of Alain de Botton, a British genius, lifestyle leader, and speaker, include a preface specially written by de Botton for Chinese readers. The essence of prose that blends sensibility and rationality, random thoughts and philosophical thoughts. Discover philosophy and beauty in ordinary life. Starting from the space that evokes secret consciousness, we can observe the beauty and dreams that fall around you and me. Alain de Botton, British best-selling author. He is good at using small metaphors to describe big things, exemplifying daily trivial matters and explaining life philosophy. Use simplicity to control complexity, add color at will, and lead people to draw inferences. His writing is euphemistic and elegant, concise and elegant, and captures the interest of classical British prose. "The Charm of Boredom" is a collection of essays with concise language and deep writing style. It tries to find the theme of happiness in the details and smiles. How sadness can become happiness; how airports can become scenery; how boredom can become happiness; harvesting happiness in all unexpected places is De Botton's consistent pursuit. With his rich imagery and overflowing talent, de Botton blends sensibility and rationality, random thoughts and philosophical thoughts. Readers may use the brilliant writings of British talents to adjust their mentality, change their horizons, relieve the pressure of life, and realize the true meaning of life.

Defoe, a famous British novelist, "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" is his masterpiece. Robinson was born in the middle class. His father often taught him the philosophy of contentment and asked him to be satisfied with the status quo. But he still couldn't resist the temptation of the new world overseas. He went to sea several times and finally got trapped on a desert island. Twenty-eight years of living on an isolated island still failed to stop his adventurous spirit. With perseverance, he built houses, cultivated fields, planted food, and raised livestock on the desert island, and finally built a paradise on the desert island. Finally, he escaped from danger and returned to Europe.

This book contains a total of 13 short stories and short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying for the first time the author's understanding of people, his helplessness and despair.

"Gone with the Wind" can be regarded as one of the most classic love masterpieces in history. The film starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable has also become the "insurmountable" most famous love movie classic in film history. The novel is set against the background of the American Civil War. The main plot of the novel is the love and hatred between the strong and willful manor lady Scarlett and the entanglement between several men. Along with this are major changes in society and history, and the disappearance of everything familiar in the past... "Gone with the Wind" is not only a swan song of human love, but also a grand historical picture that reflects the huge and profound changes in many aspects of social politics, economy, and morality.

F. S. Fitzgerald, one of the most outstanding American writers of the 20th century, sang a gorgeous elegy for the "Jazz Age" with the temperament of a poet and dreamer. In his short life of forty-four years, he experienced many ups and downs, and he saw all the hardships of the world in the Vanity Fair. At the end of the 20th century, American academic authorities selected one hundred of the best novels in the century-old English literature. The novel "The Great Gatsby", which embodies Fitzgerald's extraordinary talent, ranked second. In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, the poor clerk Nick breaks into the secret world of the spendthrift tycoon Gatsby. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the other side of the river - in the flickering light, lives his beloved Daisy. However, reality cannot tolerate misty dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the earthly world. When all the truth is revealed, Gatsby's tragic life is like fireworks. The brilliance is only for a moment, and the disillusionment is eternal.

"Memories", one of the "Cao Ying's Translations of Leo Tolstoy's Short Stories", takes the title of one of the works as its title and includes five self-narrative works by the author, including the autobiographical trilogy "Childhood", "Boy" and "Youth" written when he first entered the literary world, "Memories" written at the invitation of a French publisher in his later years, and "Fertile Soil" excerpted from a diary. The publication forms of these previous works are basically fixed: "Childhood", "Boyhood" and "Youth", either published as a series or as an article in an anthology. "Memories" and "Fertile Soil" mostly appear in Tolstoy's translation collections. In short, they are all fragmented. Combining these five articles this time can focus on showing Leo Tolstoy's spiritual growth as a person and creative growth as a writer.

The third part of "Cao Ying's Translation of Leo Tolstoy's Short Stories and Short Stories" - "The Two Hussars", is titled with the main title of one of them, and includes seven of the writer's military-themed works, including the author's autobiographical Sevastopol series "Sevastopol in December", "Sevastopol in May", "Sevastopol in August 1855", as well as the separate "Assault", "Logging", "Two Hussars" and "Singing in the Village". From the passionate praise of the patriotism and romanticism of soldiers in "The Raid" in 1852, to the doubt in "Logging", and finally to the return to the recruiting scene in "The Village Song" in 1909, this new combination helps readers see the writer's almost lifelong thinking about war and peace.

"Three Deaths", the fourth of "Cao Ying's Translation of Leo Tolstoy's Complete Novels and Novels", takes the title of one of them as the title and includes seven of the writer's death-themed works, including "Three Deaths", "Polikushka", "Hostomir: A Horse and Life Experience", "Does a Man Need a Lot of Land", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "Crock Alyosha", and "Diary Published After the Death of Elder Fedor Kuzmich". Tolstoy thinks about death from different angles, from the death of nobles to the death of civilians, from the death of animals to the death of plants, from before death to after death. Tolstoy's concern for death is another expression of his concern for life.

The second part of "Cao Ying's Translation of Leo Tolstoy's Complete Novellas and Short Stories" - "Memories of the Caucasus" takes the title of one of the works as its title and includes four of the author's Caucasus-themed works, from "Memories of the Caucasus: A Demoted Officer" in 1856 to "Haji Murat" in 1896, and in between there are "Cossacks: A Story from the Caucasus in 1852" and "Captives of the Caucasus". These previous works were basically published in collections and scattered in various volumes. This volume, with the Caucasus as the theme, clearly demonstrates Tolstoy's continuous thinking on the Caucasus issue for forty years. The writer's humanitarian thoughts also show consistency and development.

"Selected Poems of Lermontov" was created by the famous Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. He is recognized as the successor of Pushkin. His poetry is majestic, with delicate language and sincere feelings. This book contains 100 lyric poems and 3 narrative poems by Lermontov, covering the entire period of the poet's creation, reflecting his main themes of poetry creation, and reflecting the poet's main creative characteristics. These representative poems established the poet's important position in the history of Russian literature and even the history of world literature, and at the same time reflected the historical and cultural features of Russia at that time. The translation is by Yu Zhen and Gu Yunpu, both professors of Russian language at Peking University. They have long studied Russian literature and have been engaged in the translation of Lermontov for a long time. Yu Zhen was not only the first among the first generation of Lermontov translators in China, but also trained the next generation of Lermontov translators, including Professor Gu Yunpu. The translation has stood the test of time and can be called a masterpiece.

"Guwen Guanzhi" is a selection of ancient prose selected by Wu Chucai and Wu Tiaohou of the Qing Dynasty. This book was compiled as a teaching material for students and was an enlightenment reading for scholars at that time. In the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi's reign (1695), it was officially engraved and printed. The title of the book "Guwen Guanzhi" means that the articles included in the collection represent the highest level of classical Chinese, and the study of classical Chinese stops at this point. The selected essays range from the pre-Qin period to the late Ming Dynasty, and generally reflect the general outline and main features of the development of prose from the pre-Qin period to the late Ming Dynasty. This time, professional scholars were invited to make detailed annotations for each article, along with explanations. The annotations are accurate and the explanations are civilized. It is an important reference book for learning ancient Chinese.

"The Wall" is one of Sartre's masterpieces. Includes Sartre's famous works "The Wall" and "Nausea", as well as "A Life in Letters" which is considered to represent his highest artistic achievement. The five works collected in the short story collection "The Wall" put forward a basic proposition of existential philosophy: "People are free, and their destiny depends on their own choices." "Nausea" puts forward another basic proposition of existential philosophy in a literary form: "Existence without essence is equal to nothingness." The popular explanation is "To live in confusion is equal to a blank." The autobiographical novel "The Literary Life" tells the author's own process of self-recognition and self-realization in a witty and interesting way, explaining the starting point of existential thought and the entire theory.

"Go Down, Moses" is a novel written by William Faulkner in 1942. It consists of seven related parts. Each part is relatively independent but also integrated into a complete picture. The author examines the complex and changing relationship between whites and blacks, man and nature from multiple angles, and uses unique modern writing techniques to weave a novel with a compact structure, rich connotations and implications. "Go, Moses" was originally the title of a famous black spiritual song.

Faulkner is a master of novels and an excellent short story writer. The articles included in this collection are all outstanding works of Faulkner's short stories, representing the literary style and main achievements of Faulkner's short stories. Faulkner's short stories and his novels are basically in the same vein, no matter in terms of subject matter, content or technique. Most of his short stories are still set in Yoknapatawpha County, describing the vicissitudes of that kingdom and the world's human conditions, exploring issues such as family, women, race, class, etc., And expressing "the inner conflicts of human beings."

"As I Lay Dying" is the representative work of the American writer Faulkner published in 1930 and one of the important novels of the "Yoknapatawpha Lineage". It tells the story of Bundren, a farmer in the southern United States, who led his family to transport his wife's body back to his hometown for burial in order to keep his promise to his wife. The novel is completely composed of fifty-nine inner monologues of the Bundren family, neighbors and related personnel. The story is told from multiple perspectives. It is another masterpiece of the author's use of multi-perspective narrative methods and stream-of-consciousness methods.

A great world begins, spiritual energy suddenly bursts out, human beings are trapped internally and externally, time and space are connected, all races are fighting, and the blood of men is spreading to the heavens!

This book selects Hemingway's most representative short and medium-length works, including the best short and medium-sized novels such as "The Old Man and the Sea", "Snows on Mount Kilimanjaro", "Mountains Like White Elephants", "In Northern Michigan", "A Day's Wait" and other classics. "The Old Man and the Sea" is the most important and influential work of Ernest Hemingway. It is a handed down work of tough guy literature. It creates an upright and unyielding spiritual image with a sharp and concise style. These works of Hemingway have influenced and encouraged generations of readers for decades.

"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, the reality is full of conspiracies. Poor Bangs suffered from 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.

The novel is based on the life of the French upper class in the mid-19th century, and takes the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé's family as the main line. It tells the story of how the baron, driven by crazy passion, betrayed his pure wife step by step, hurt his innocent daughter, ruined the family's reputation, tarnished the army's reputation, and was ultimately ruined. Various characters, intricate plots, and thrilling battles between soul and flesh, love and hatred, good and evil, constitute a vivid tragicomedy in the world, a colorful history of civilization, and an endless elegy for the inevitable collapse of upper class society.

Mary, a willful and lonely rich girl, became an orphan due to a sudden plague and was sent to a relative's home in England for adoption. There is a large, walled and locked garden in this old manor that no one has entered in ten years. Mary was deeply attracted by this secret and tried every means to break into this deserted garden that had been closed for a long time... Unexpectedly, there was also a boy living in this big house who everyone thought was going to be disabled. His birth and growth were related to this secret garden...

"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is a famous collection of short stories in classical Chinese in ancient my country. The content is mixed, but it mainly satirizes the imperial examinations, feudal maladministration and praises the free love between men and women. The image of the flower demon and fox charm created by it is particularly vivid and touching. The author is known for his concise writing, accurate summary, and compact narrative. The "Complete New Notes on Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" published by our company has now become a popular product and is reprinted almost every year. This anthology is equipped with illustrations, and the selections are all recognized as the best.

A novel from the Qing Dynasty, with 100 chapters in total. It uses rich imagination and humorous style to show all kinds of world phenomena. It prominently depicts women's talents and embodies the idea of ​​respecting women's rights. The most significant thing about literary history is that it uses fantastic writing techniques to reveal various customs and moral depravity in human society, and embodies thinking about social issues, which is of practical significance.

Greek myths and legends are precious heritage in the treasure house of world literature. They have had a huge impact on world civilization and have been praised by mankind since ancient times. They have inspired novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and musicians of all generations to recreate. Western culture has two pillars, one is the Bible and the other is "Greek Mythology". Being familiar with these two pillars will help understand the origin and development of Western culture.

Tsvetaeva's poems take the themes of life and death, love and art, the times and the motherland as their themes. They are known as immortal and monumental poems and occupy an important position in the history of world literature in the 20th century. She devoted her life to poetry. Her poems express a woman's abundant emotions and love for the world, the sensitive soul of a poet, and the profound insight of an intellectual. Her writing is characterized by delicacy, sharpness, passion, pain and simplicity, and her artistic charm is unique in the history of world poetry.

"The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" is divided into four volumes. It completely collects 4 novellas and 56 short stories in the "Sherlock Holmes" series written by Conan Doyle in the chronological order of creation and publication. It also contains 482 exquisite illustrations based on the original British magazine, fully presenting the most classic images that created the "golden age" of mystery novels - the cold and rigorous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and the warm-hearted retired military doctor John Watson. Readers can follow this golden pair and return to England in the Victorian era, and personally experience the suspenseful, thrilling, strange and brain-burning exciting cases hidden under the fog of England.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American writer, founder of American critical realism literature. He created a lot of works throughout his life. Most of his works were set along the Mississippi River, reflecting all aspects of American society in the late 19th century. His writing style was humorous and humorous, and he pointed out the current ills in a profound and accurate way. "Selected Novels and Novels by Mark Twain" selects thirty-five of the author's most popular works and arranges them in chronological order. These works are extensive in content and profound in meaning, and each one is full of humorous satire.

"The Moon and Sixpence" was written in 1919 and is one of Maugham's most influential masterpieces. The novel narrates the entire story in the first person, and the plot is based on the life of French post-impressionist painter Gauguin. "The moon" is a symbol of lofty ideals, while "sixpence" is a symbol of petty gains. Whether a person looks up at the moon and aims high, or looks down at the ground and pursues small profits, these are two completely different outlooks on life. The author interprets the novel's profound theme through the conflict between a talented artist and the reality he is trying to escape.

This book tells countless short stories that happened in school and life. It tells our readers that a person should not only learn various cultural knowledge well from childhood, but also learn something more important than this, which is love and respect for the motherland, hometown, people, parents, teachers, classmates, and everyone around them. The author of this book explains the true meaning of "quality education" through these stories. "Love" is the source of educational power and the foundation of educational success. This book is considered by educators around the world as a "must read" for life growth.

The novel describes the story of French naturalist Professor Aronnax and Captain Nemo traveling deep under the sea. They have traveled to many oceans around the world, enjoyed the ever-changing strange landscapes and various creatures on the seabed, and experienced various dangers. The novel is full of suspense, frequent climaxes and full of interest. The fascinating story contains vivid love and hate and extensive geographical knowledge, allowing readers to enjoy spiritual enjoyment while feeling the magic of nature and the power of science.

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

"Treasure Island" is the most widely circulated masterpiece among all Stevenson's works. Its storyline originated from a map drawn by the author. The novel describes the process of Jim Hawkins, a daring, witty and lively young man, discovering a treasure map and how he outsmarts pirates. After going through many hardships, he finally finds the treasure and returns victoriously. It is said that everyone who reads this book, especially boys, wants to go on an adventure trip to find Treasure Island.

O. Henry is good at using romantic techniques to describe ordinary characters, especially the lives of ordinary people. His writing style is humorous, his stories are strange, often have unexpected endings, and his tasks are lifelike and flesh-and-blood. This book selects his short stories such as "The Gift of the Magi", "The Last Ivy Leaf" and "The Policeman and the Hymn", which fully demonstrate the author's literary value. The translation by the famous translator Wang Yongnian adds a bit of artistic charm to the work.

"How Steel Was Tempered" is a novel written by the former Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky, written in 1933. By narrating 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.

"Silent Spring" is the representative work of American female writer Rachel Carson and one of the most influential books in the world in the past 50 years. The beginning of "Silent Spring" depicts the mutation of a beautiful village to us, describing that humans may face a world without birds, bees and butterflies, and comprehensively reveals the dangers of chemical pesticides. It was this unusual book that attracted people's attention to wild animals and aroused people's environmental awareness around the world. It is recognized as the foundational work that started the world environmental movement. Carson's main argument is based on science. Carson spent four full years collecting and reviewing a large amount of data and literature surrounding pesticides, insecticides and other harmful modern chemicals. The book ends with a "primary information list" that is dozens of pages long. The list includes dozens of scientific reports, the author's interviews with leading experts in various fields, and various related academic papers. From a scholar's perspective, this not only shows that the materials used by the author in writing almost exhaust the scientific research on the hazards of chemicals that could be searched at that time, but also shows that many scientists were aware of the hazards of chemicals and started research accordingly. This book has added curriculum content.

"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese from the Qing Dynasty that is well-known at home and abroad. Pu Songling used his concise and vivid writing style and romantic and unrestrained imagination to create nearly 500 bizarre stories about humans, ghosts, foxes and demons, creating a large number of bizarre artistic images and becoming a representative work of Chinese classical Chinese novels. There are many editions of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". Among them, "New Annotations from a Chinese Studio" edited by Mr. Zhu Qikai (People's Literature Publishing House, October 1989 edition) has a relatively complete collection and rigorous editing. Mr. Li Boqi also participated in the annotation work, so it is used as this book. From the original version, nearly fifty chapters that can be regarded as artistic masterpieces were selected, supplemented by accurate annotations; People's Literature Publishing House also selected exquisite illustrations from "Detailed Notes on Strange Pictures and Odes of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" published during the Guangxu period, with both pictures and text, perfectly showing the style of the original work. With this volume in hand, readers can enter the beautiful artistic world of flower demons and foxes created by Pu Songling, appreciate the crossing of emotions and thoughts between real life and fantasy imagination, and appreciate the elegant, concise and vivid expressive power of classical Chinese.

A novel from the Qing Dynasty, with 100 chapters in total. It uses rich imagination and humorous style to show all kinds of world phenomena. It prominently depicts women's talents and embodies the idea of ​​respecting women's rights. The most significant thing about literary history is that it uses fantastic writing techniques to reveal various customs and moral depravity in human society, and embodies thinking about social issues, which is of practical significance. After this book was included in the selected reading list for the seventh grade of middle school Chinese textbooks, our agency included this book in the "Chinese Recommended Reading" series, adding an introduction, knowledge links and other content. This is an upgraded version based on the "Chinese Recommended Reading" series. It adds curriculum content that is more closely related to classroom teaching and more detailed, and is more in line with the reading needs of middle school students.

"Artificial Beauty" is a collection of 39 works by Hoshi Shinichi, including "Artificial Beauty", "Ministry of Life Support", "Man in Love", "Identity Recognition Machine", etc. These short stories have novel themes, fresh knowledge, novel imagination, and unexpected endings; at the same time, they have profound intentions that make people reflect after reading them. The bar owner built a beautiful robot to attract business, but a customer fell in love with her... The future is peaceful and peaceful, and everyone has a broad living space and can live leisurely and leisurely, thanks to a special organization - the Ministry of Living Support. The doctor invented a potion that makes the other person fall in love with him automatically. Can he taste love as he wishes? High-precision identification machines were invented and became an indispensable part of social life. The manufacturer of the machine has a monopoly on the market and maintains impeccable confidentiality. However, an accident threw everything into chaos...

This book is a short fantasy novel in classical Chinese written in the form of notes by Qing Jiyun. It mainly collects and compiles various folk stories about foxes, ghosts and gods, karma and retribution, admonishing good and punishing evil, etc. That were circulated at that time, or strange anecdotes that have been heard personally.

[Quick Wear\u002F Funny\u002F No cp] Xu Xiaobai was so excited that he choked to death on his own saliva. From then on, we worked together with System No. 88 And wandered around the world. You are the wind and I am the sand~ (cross out). From then on, he and System No. 88 Traveled through various worlds to complete tasks in a strange style. O(*≧▽≦)ツ ~ ┴┴

"Live, make mistakes, fall, conquer, and create life from life!" Stephen was sensitive and lonely since he was a child, and was often bullied by his classmates. When he was a teenager, he encountered family changes. His father drank all day long and couldn't make ends meet. He tried to convert, but he couldn't help but have fun and blamed himself constantly. He fell in love with several girls, but they all died in vain. When he was depressed, he met a young girl playing in the water on the beach and inadvertently realized the beauty of the world. Stephen decided to break free from the shackles of life and go to Paris to find the freedom of his soul and his true self...

"One-Way Street" is the masterpiece of the legendary German philosopher Benjamin. The book is short and concise, containing 60 random remarks, aphorisms and philosophical thoughts. From Benjamin's microscopic, philosophical and poetic works, you can feel the loneliness and exploration of a genius. Everyday things sparkle in his unique narrative, refreshing your mind and moving your heart from loneliness to abundance.

Somerset Maugham, author of "The Moon and Sixpence": A Guide to Reading and Writing for Young People. The genius novelist Maugham is known as the "Master of Storytelling" and has won almost all honors in the European literary world. In his later years, Maugham personally talked about his reading experience and writing skills, and published this book to help more readers fully master: How to read a book efficiently? How to improve writing skills? How to enhance sensitivity? How to write good articles that are clear, concise and pleasant to the ears? How to write a drama to quickly win hearts and minds? How to use techniques when writing novels? How to improve comprehension and cognition through reading? Maugham uses humorous language and a sharp and concise style to explain to you the secrets of reading and writing. After reading this book, you will suddenly realize it and gain endless benefits!

"Heart": When I was in my second year of college, I met a maverick gentleman by chance during a trip, and we became close friends. At that time, I was in confusion and couldn't find my direction in life. I especially wanted to draw life wisdom and spiritual strength from my husband. As the relationship deepened, I found that my husband was an idle person and very mysterious. He often said that he was a lonely person. Not long after graduating from college, my father suddenly became critically ill. I bid farewell to my husband and returned to my hometown to take care of my father. At this moment, I unexpectedly received a long letter from my husband. He told me a secret that was deeply hidden in his heart...