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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an important work by the famous American writer Mrs. Stowe. This novel is not only a classic in the history of world literature, but also has a profound impact on American history and the process of world civilization.

Maupassant is one of the world's leading short story masters. The publication of "Ball de Suif" in 1880 made him famous in one fell swoop. The story has also become a classic in the history of world literature.

"Don Quixote" is a satirical novel about chivalry and an epoch-making masterpiece during the European Renaissance. The protagonist Don Quixote is addicted to chivalry novels and decides to go out on adventures and become a chivalrous knight.

The story takes place in England at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Due to the power struggle within the royal family, the aristocratic Guan Bocang was disfigured by child traffickers when he was a child, turned into a "Laughing Man" and abandoned on the coast on a cold winter night.

"Les Misérables" mainly tells the story of Jean Valjean, a convict. Jean Valjean, a poor worker who had been in prison for 19 years for stealing a piece of bread, still could not get rid of the label of a hard labor prisoner after he was released from prison.

The pinnacle of Japanese story literature, it comprehensively presents the historical features and court life of Japan's Heian period. "The Tale of Genji" is a masterpiece of Japanese classical literature. It has had a huge impact on the development of Japanese literature. It is the peak of Japanese classical literature and opened the era of "mono-sorrow" in Japan. The novel takes Genji's life experience and love story as the main line, describes the style of Japan's Heian period, reveals the complexity of human nature and cruel court struggles, and reflects the palace life of the Heian period.

In the history of human literature, "The Count of Monte Cristo" can truly be called a great life-changing novel. It has brought hope that cannot be weakened by any setbacks to people who have been insulted and damaged for thousands of years.

More wrote "Utopia" in 1516. He took a very serious attitude and used Latin that was popular in the academic world at that time. However, the names of people, places and other proper names in the book were all made up. His era was a great era of geographical discovery. New shipping routes, new land, and new people all emerged, opening Europeans' horizons, breaking their prejudices, and liberating their minds. In such an atmosphere, More narrated a Utopia from a navigator. It is indeed difficult to distinguish the true from the false, just like a fairyland that can confuse people. The original book is divided into two parts. The first part talks about an irrational society. People familiar with this period of British history will know at a glance that this refers to the British society in which More was exposed. This part attacks the darkness of British politics and society. However, the author cleverly touches on the story, uses vague words, and uses the insinuation method that complements the false and the true, so that the stubborn and stubborn King of England has no way to accuse the author. The second part describes Utopia, an ideal country, which is in sharp contrast to the content of the first part. All the author's ideas about the perfect society in the future are included in this part.

This book artistically reproduces the historical reality of the reign of French King Louis XI more than 400 years ago, how the court and the church colluded to oppress the people, and how the people fought heroically against the two forces. This book is set in France in 1482. It focuses on the relationship between the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the young and handsome guard captain, the sanctimonious archdeacon, and the deformed and ugly bell ringer. It enthusiastically praises the noble humanity of the gypsy girl and the bell ringer, and deeply denounces the hypocrisy and despicability of the guard captain and the archdeacon. The novel embodies Hugo's artistic expression principle of "contrast between beauty and ugliness". Its publication broke the shackles of pseudo-classicism and marked the complete victory of romanticism.

This book 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.

This book selects 25 fairy tales written by Andersen in different periods, including "The Ugly Duckling", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Little Match Girl", "The Daughter of the Sea", "The Emperor's New Clothes", etc. Andersen's fairy tales are full of poetry and fantasy. Birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers, trees, the whole nature and even the furniture and dolls in the home are given life, injected with thoughts and feelings, lively and fascinating. Bold fantasy transcends the boundaries of time and space, curious thirst for knowledge penetrates the secrets of nature, the ugly duckling turns into an elegant swan, the little mermaid turns into a beautiful girl for love, the nightingale's wonderful song subdues death...

Most of the author Tolstoy's novels reflect the real life of Russian society in the 19th century, describe all kinds of Russian characters, and create many models with distinctive personalities. Reading Tolstoy's novels, we seem to be in the Russian environment at that time, and we can really say that we are immersed in it; we come into contact with characters of various identities and personalities, as if we see them and hear their voices; at the same time, along with their joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, we naturally have a strong resonance with their experiences. Literary and artistic works mainly move people with emotion. By reading excellent literary and artistic works, you can unknowingly gain beneficial influence, and thus have thoughts about the world and life. Tolstoy's life was mainly concerned with caring for people, sympathizing with the suffering of unfortunate people, and thinking about how to fill the world with sincere love between people, which is to promote the spirit of humanitarianism. It is this great personality that has moved and continues to move the hearts of all upright people around the world. No wonder his works have been translated into the most languages ​​in the world and have always ranked first among classic works in terms of number of prints. The protagonist of this autobiographical novel, Nikolenka, was born in an ordinary aristocratic family in Russia. She lived in a spacious and gorgeous mansion, had groups of servants, had a dedicated tutor, often attended banquets and dances, went hunting in the suburbs, and lived a life full of food. Despite living in a greenhouse, acute social problems are still inevitably exposed, such as Karl, who has a miserable life experience, the serfs who depend on others and are exploited but do not know how to resist, the hypocrisy of university professors, the indulgence of university life, the favoritism of government officials, the corruption of the conscription system, etc.

"Diary of a Hunter" is Turgenev's famous work, and it was also the work that put him in prison. The book tells twenty-four stories using a hunter's hunting as a clue. These stories seem independent and unrelated, but they all have a strong local Russian flavor, and they directly touch on the poor life of the people at the bottom of Russia, fully exposing the cruelty of serfdom. Turgenev used a unique writing technique to depict Russia's honest folk customs and changing natural scenes vividly, like a rich and colorful oil painting: the grass shines like the light of green jade; "Diary of a Hunter" is the first work in the history of Russian literature to expose serfdom in such a detailed and naked way, which is why it is a world-famous work.

"Fathers and Sons" is a novel written by Turgenev in 1861. In this work, Turgenev describes the conflict in values, social ideals and life paths between the weak people in the 1850s who had good intentions but did nothing and the new, powerful, "nihilistic" young revolutionary generation. The novel combines the facts, pictures, and characters' inner thoughts into real, concise, and natural behavioral descriptions and dialogues, and creates a series of vivid characters such as Bazarov, the "first awe-inspiring figure" in Russian literature. It fully displays the model paradigm of the evolution of the times, and the confusion and confusion at the transition between the new and the old era...

This is a story about survivors, the ultimate debate between "lucky" and "unlucky". "My" maternal grandparents were Jews who survived concentration camps during World War II. Grandfather Jakub was a young doctor of law who was captured in Theresienstadt shortly after the war began. Because of his profound knowledge and the help of his former colleagues, he began to participate in organizing books and materials, and became a "privileged" person. Not only was the ration sufficient, but he could also help his relatives. Grandma Daza and her sister were of mixed Jewish descent. The two weak girls lived in Theresienstadt, relying on the food their mother occasionally mailed from outside and the help of their grandparents. But this "peace" did not last long - they were soon sent to Auschwitz, a place full of poison gas and crematoriums. Starvation, torture, death, all kinds of dirty things were performed in Auschwitz, like a carnival before the Holocaust. Because supplies were insufficient, the hungry Jakub ate his mother's supplies and his mother's hope of survival... After the war, the surviving maternal grandparents immigrated to Australia. These past events were also buried in the dust until they passed away. By chance, a report mentioned my grandfather and the "Museum of Extinct Races", and this period of history was reopened and rewritten... Perhaps, those who survived the war were not only lucky, but also endured humiliation and even found it difficult to talk about it.

A dark family history full of revenge and deceit, repression and sadness, a dense forest intertwined with countless plots; a classic translation that has been out of print for many years, and precious original illustrations to reproduce Dickens's great classic. "The Little Society," published in 1857, is one of Dickens's greatest late works. The novel is set in Marshall West Gaol, a famous debtor's prison in London during the Victorian period. It tells the bitter and bumpy growth process of the "prison daughter" Little Dolly, and reveals the dark family history of Clennan, the hero, full of revenge and deceit, oppression and sadness. The story and characters are so complex that critics call it a "dense forest intertwined with countless plots". Reading it is like peeling off a cocoon, making readers sigh and find it difficult to put down the book. The book's broad depiction of British society in the Victorian era, its profound exposure of the greedy nature and filthy souls of capitalists hidden under the cloak of hypocrisy, and its ruthless mockery of the corrupt officialdom embody the characteristics of Dickens' later works: his ideological content tends to be more profound and rich, and his ability to control characters and plots tends to be more mature.

"Robinson Crusoe" describes the story of the protagonist who encountered a shipwreck at sea and drifted to an deserted island alone. In order to survive on the island, he had to abandon his previous living habits and live a return to nature. The book is beautifully written and vividly expresses the social ethos of advocating adventure and encouraging individual struggle. The novel has been translated into many languages ​​and circulated around the world, and is favored by readers.

It truly reproduces the bumpy experiences and brave pursuit of the little character Jane Eyre for thirty years, delicately describes the heroine's difficult living conditions and complex psychological activities, opposes the suppression and destruction of human nature, and praises women's independent, self-respecting and self-reliant spirit. It is a realistic work. The work also fully expresses the author's subjective ideals and expresses his passionate personal feelings. It has extremely rich imagination in plot construction, character portrayal, psychological revelation and scenery description.

"Jane Eyre (English-Chinese Bilingual Famous Classic Collection Edition)" written by Charlotte Bronte truly reproduces the bumpy experiences and brave pursuit of the little character Jane Eyre for thirty years, delicately describes the heroine's difficult living conditions and complex psychological activities, opposes the suppression and destruction of human nature, and praises women's independence, self-respect and self-improvement. It is a realistic work. The work also fully expresses the author's subjective ideals and expresses his passionate personal feelings. It has extremely rich imagination in plot construction, character portrayal, psychological revelation and scenery description.

"How the Steel Was Tempered" is an excellent novel. The book vividly describes the growth experience of Paul Korchagin, and uses it to explain a truth to people. If you want to defeat a powerful enemy, you must go through arduous struggles and challenge yourself. Only by combining your own personal interests with the collective interests of the country and the people can miracles happen and your heart become truly strong. The book's language is vivid, full of rich flavor of life, conveying soul-stirring spiritual power and profound philosophy of life.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the representative work of British writer Swift. It is a satirical novel in the style of travel notes, which expresses the author's thoughts in a relatively perfect artistic form. This book is written in the form of Captain Gulliver's autobiography. It mainly describes Captain Gulliver's strange experiences in Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island and Houyhnhnm. Through the form of a novel, it comprehensively satirizes and criticizes British social life in the first half of the 18th century, with distinctive democratic ideological characteristics.

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The book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells the fantasy adventure story of an innocent and lively little girl, Alice, and includes two parts: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass". These two stories are full of wild imagination. The strong and optimistic Alice always maintains her innocence and true heart in every adventure. In the face of those absurd and bizarre people and things, she was always able to stay awake, adhere to her inner value judgment, not be influenced by others, not follow the crowd, maintain her own dignity, and keep the kindness in her heart. She also taught people not to lose themselves in this complex and ever-changing world, and to maintain their dignity and original intention. This book adds new sections such as famous teacher guidance, famous reading, five-dimensional integration, golden sentences, simulated test points, notes, etc. To help young readers better understand the content of the story, so that young readers can gain spiritual food from reading while improving their reading ability and mastering core test points.

"The Little Prince" tells the story of a little prince from an alien planet who ran away from his planet because of a conflict with his rose. In the story, the little prince is an innocent and friendly child. One day, a rose grew on his planet. He kept watering the rose with all his heart. Because of the little prince's careful care, the rose became very proud. The little prince couldn't stand the pride of the rose, so he sadly left his planet and began to travel in the universe. He went to six asteroids and met domineering kings, vain people, drunkards, businessmen, lamplighters, and geographers. In the eyes of the little prince, these people were all strange people. He didn't understand why these people were busy and what they were pursuing. Later, the little prince came to the earth, and met a snake, a small flower with only three petals, a rose garden, a fox, a switchman, a businessman selling thirst-quenching pills, and a pilot... This is a story full of symbolic meaning. This book is full of calm reflections on life. After the author retired from the Air Force, he engaged in various professions and even had a few brushes with death, which made him see life more thoroughly. In the story, he satirized the vanity, superficiality and profit-driven adult world, and warned teenagers to always maintain a pure heart and find the true meaning of life.

"Pride and Prejudice" is a novel describing love and marriage. The novel revolves around the theme of how Mrs. Bennett married off her five daughters. Darcy is rich and proud, representing arrogance; Elizabeth is smart and willful, representing prejudice. Finally, true love finally breaks this pride and prejudice, and "Pride and Prejudice" ends in the wedding ceremony.

"Pride and Prejudice" is listed as one of the ten most enduring novels in the world. This novel uses the love entanglement between the hero and heroine Darcy and Elizabeth due to pride and prejudice as a clue, and writes a total of four marriages. The plot of the novel is tortuous and dramatic, the language is fresh and fluent, and full of wit. It is one of Austen's most popular novels. The author's creative style has lasted two hundred years and still influences some writers in the world's literary world. The novel takes love entanglements as the main line and describes four comedic marriages. The writing is spicy, funny and thought-provoking.

Anne Frank, a German Jewish girl, died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15. "Annie's Diary" is a record of Anne's life and emotions when she was hiding in a secret room two years before her death. "Annie's Diary" records a growing girl's emotions and experiences such as war and racial persecution, self-growth and positioning, and seeking freedom, showing amazing courage and perseverance. It will arouse shock and resonance in your heart, and let you face the troubles of growing up.

"The Moon and Sixpence" is Maugham's masterpiece novel. This is not a mediocre popular novel, and the plot developed in the conflict with traditional moral concepts is not a flat moral education story. The story line of the novel is not complicated: Strickland, a middle-aged stockbroker, gave up his job and family, went to Paris to learn painting, and finally hid on an isolated island to paint for the rest of his life. After his death, he became famous and became a successful painter recognized by the world. This novel is not just a simple choice between "Moon" and "Sixpence". It is not a biography of the painter Gauguin. It just uses this character prototype to tell about the choices that almost everyone may encounter in life. Stripping away the main line, Maugham, as the narrator of the story, "I" intersperses those "digressions" in the middle of the story, those argumentative texts that explore ultimate issues such as whether spirit is greater than matter, whether personal pursuit is superior to social morality, etc. In fact, they are the essence of the entire book.

"In the World" is a long autobiographical novel written by Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. It is the second part of his autobiographical trilogy. The novel describes the life of the protagonist Alyosha from 1871 to 1884. During this period, he made a living by picking wild fruits with his grandmother and selling them. He worked as a draftsman's apprentice, as a dishwasher on a ship, and as an apprentice in an icon workshop. On the road of life, he went through many ups and downs and dealt with all kinds of people at the bottom of society, but he read a lot of books whenever he had the opportunity. Life experience and a lot of reading expanded Alyosha's horizons. He was determined to "be a strong person and not give in to the environment." "In the World" is Gorky's mellow writing style about his life as a boy. He used his personal life experiences to reflect some typical characteristics of Russian social life and the customs and sentiments of the society at that time.

This book collects two novels by Balzac. "Petro Goriot" tells the story of a young man named Rastinac who came to Paris to study law alone and met the orphan Vinedolina. Later, he got into the upper class society with the help of his cousin's wife and got acquainted with two noble ladies, namely Goriot's two daughters. It describes their conflicts of interests and people. "Eugénie Grandet" tells the story of the banker De Grasan and the Crouch brothers (notary public and priest) in Saumur City who are interested in Grandet's million-dollar fortune, a wealthy businessman in the city. The two families started a fierce struggle to compete for Grandet's only daughter, Eugenie Grandet, and thus inherit his family property. Old Grandet regarded wealth as his life and used his daughter as bait to grab money. Eugenie has lived a closed life since she was a child. The arrival of her cousin Charlie from Paris ignited the flame of her love. For this reason, she suffered all kinds of torture and suffered all her life.

This book is set in England in the 16th century, and describes a fairy-tale story in which a prince and a pauper exchange identities. By chance, the identical-looking prince Edward and the pauper Tom exchange clothes, which leads to a reversal of fate. The former little beggar became the prince's "stand-in", and the real prince lived abroad, suffering bullying and ridicule. Later, the prince finally returned to the palace after experiencing various disasters; and Tom also returned the throne that did not belong to him to the prince. After this "exchange of identities", both teenagers learned a lot...

The clever Siddhartha is the son of a Brahmin with excellent morals and learning. In order to pursue his own value and his own truth, he left his Brahmin family and began his journey of seeking Taoism alone. In his life, he experienced love, success and other material and desires that could be achieved in earthly life, but the huge spiritual emptiness that followed made him extremely disgusted and despised himself. After making love with Kamala for the last time, he abandoned all worldly things. 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.

Werther is a young man who yearns for freedom and equal life. He is sentimental, frank and lovely, and has extreme thoughts. He met Lotte at a dance and fell in love with her at first sight. However, Lotte was already engaged and deeply in love with her fiancé Albert. Werther fell in love irresistibly. This love that had no results from the beginning made Werther struggle so hard that he could hardly bear the misery. In the end, Werther committed suicide by drinking a bullet with the belief that "if you cannot live for love, you will die for love."

"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.

In the history of love struggle of "Cinderella", the wild lily finally ushered in the spring. As a typical modern urban girl with ordinary appearance, average figure, poor background and average education, Miss Jane Eyre ushered in the spring of her life as soon as she entered the society - she fell in love with the gentleman Rochester! However, her love does not seem to go smoothly... She has sharp edges and corners, and his character is decisive and extreme; he is unwilling to restrain his emotions, and she cannot hurt others; he ignores secular ethics, while she pursues all equality, and their love is on the rocks... In the pull of emotion, Jane becomes deeply independent and no longer only pursues romance and fun, while Rochester becomes more passionate, bold and decisive in dealing with the world. In the process of running in, the two people accepted the test of the fire of truth. After the unspeakable spiritual torture, they fit in with each other, gradually became perfect, and ushered in spring.

"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.

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"Eugénie Grandet" is Balzac's famous work and "one of the outstanding pictures" in "The Human Comedy". The novel tells a story about money destroying a family. "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. "Aunt Bei" is an important work of Balzac. 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. "Uncle Bangs" is Balzac's masterpiece and is known as the "peak of his art". 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 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." 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. "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". "Lily of the Valley" is one of Balzac's outstanding novels and a shining pearl in the treasure house of French literature. The novel describes the young aristocrat Felix's pursuit of Countess Morserve. This is a sad and touching love song. In the story that happened in the castle, we can see the changing times. The influence of the Hundred Days Coup, the changes in the palace, the exile life of the old nobles, the fortune of the young nobles in Paris, etc., Are all deeply marked by the times. "Colonel Chabe" is an anthology of Balzac's short stories and short stories, including "The Cat Ball Shop", "Gobusek", "Double Family", "Colonel Chabe", "The Abandoned Woman", "The Atheist at Mass" and "The Privacy of the Princesse de Cardignan".

"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.

"Nana" The girl Nana was spotted by the entertainment theater manager, and her starring role in "Venus Blonde" was a success. Men from the upper class of Paris fell in love with her. The rise and fall of Nana's life became a portrayal of the corrupt and degenerate society of the Second Empire. In "The Little Hotel", the laundress Qiervise gave birth to two sons to the shoemaker Lantier when she was a minor. He was later abandoned and married to Coupeau, a house builder. After Coupeau suffered a work injury, he went in and out of the small hotel all day long. Soon, Kirvis began to drink too much and fell into depression. In the end, Coupeau died of a stroke in the lunatic asylum after drinking, and Kirvis also died in the black hole at the bottom of the stairs. "Thérèse Lacan" is a novel by Zola. It describes a woman, Thérèse, who meets and has a passionate collision with a young man, Laurent, after marrying her aunt's son, Camille. In order to escape the horrific hallucinations after the murder, the man and woman finally chose to commit suicide by taking poison. "Battle at the Mill" is a collection of Zola's short stories and short stories. It exposes the political darkness, religious hypocrisy, and bourgeois ugliness during the Second French Empire and the Third Republic. It sympathizes with the suffering of the poor, praises the greatness of workers, contrasts the loss of honor concepts of the ruling class and the heroism of ordinary people, and depicts the lives of small citizens and the activities of artists. The subject matter and content are quite extensive and rich.

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.

This book is a collection of Zweig's novellas. "Letter from an Unknown Woman" tells the story of a man who received a thick unsigned letter on his forty-first birthday. The letter was written by a dying woman. Between the lines is her unforgettable love for him for eighteen years, but the man who received the letter had no idea about it. In addition, it also includes the famous works "The Burning Secret", "Tropical Madness", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", "The Story of Chess", etc.

"The Noble House" is the second in Turgenev's series of six novels. It is the most beautiful and moving one, written in 1859. This is a deeply touching love novel and a social novel that profoundly reflects the times. The fate of each character, their love experiences, joys and sorrows, are closely related to the era and historical reality in which they live. The character traits of each character in the work specifically reflect the imprint of the times and history. The personality traits and interests and considerations they show in love are all expressions of human nature under specific social and historical conditions. It is rare in the history of world culture that the products of artistic image thinking can reach such a high level of ideological generalization. Therefore, this novel has become an immortal classic in the history of world literature.

"Pride and Prejudice" is Jane Austen's masterpiece. This work uses daily life as the material. It goes against the content and artificial writing methods of sentimental novels that were popular in the society at that time. It vividly reflects the conservative and closed-off British rural life and world conditions from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century. This social style novel not only attracted a large number of readers at the time, but also provides readers with unique artistic enjoyment today. This book has been adapted into movies many times.

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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.