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Lovecraft expert Donald R. Burleson called the story "one of his stylistically and conceptually finest short stories." He extends terror into the universe. The film of the same name starring Oscar winner Nicolas Cage premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2019 and will be released in the United States in January 2020. The story begins with an unknown surveyor from Boston, told from the first-person perspective. The surveyor came to Arkham to conduct surveys to help build a local reservoir. Later, through the narration of the locals, he gradually uncovered a dusty history and terrible secrets - about a place called the "Blighted Wasteland" that was avoided by the locals in Arkham. The locals are tight-lipped about the so-called "blighted wasteland". So the surveyor couldn't get any information from the townspeople, but he did learn that a man named Old Ami Pierce knew the details. So the surveyor found an Ami Pierce - he looked exactly like the local residents said, a crazy-looking old man. After hard work, old Ami Pierce told the surveyor a personal experience and the story of the farmer Gardner family who once lived on the cursed land. Ami claimed that it all started when a meteorite fell on the Gardner property in June 1882. But then, the color it brought not only took away the lives of the Gardner family, but also gradually caused nature to take on otherworldly and otherworldly tones. Under its influence, all bright and beautiful things became mutated, corrupted, turned gray and brittle, until they disappeared.

Why do we fight? In order to preserve the fire of survival, protect human beings and provide them with a safe haven. What price do we bear? The cost is irrelevant, humanity must survive. We are tasked with saving the nation, and all other ideas are just a drop in the ocean. The world is approaching destruction, the storm has reappeared, and the glorious knights who have abandoned their oath have no intention of saving mankind. And the servants who have been enslaved by humans for a long time are summoning another brand new storm. Xu Du, who possesses ancient power, is about to reappear in the world. Will human civilization end as a result?

A book of odes that describes the consequences of dystopia, a virtual future where collectivism has triumphed. "Carol" found no publisher willing to publish it in the United States, so it was first published in England.

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, probably written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This epistolary novel was Jane Austen's early completed work, but she never submitted it for publication. It describes the widow Lady Susan's plan to find a new husband for herself and her decision to marry off her daughter as well. The Watsons is an unfinished novel written by Jane Austen. She began writing the work around 1804 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. The work has 5 chapters. The Watsons is the story of a widowed pastor and his four daughters. Sanditon, also known as Sandand Sandition, is a work that Jane Austen began writing in 1817, but the author did not complete it, and the full text of the book was not published until 1925. It is said that Austen's original intention was to tell the story of a series of profound social changes taking place on the southern coast of Sussex, England, through the eyes of the heroine Charlotte Heywood.

This book is the sequel to Herland. In the sequel, the couple begins traveling around the world outside "her country", interviewing people, taking photos and taking notes, discussing history, religion, war, raising children, the role of women, how to treat immigrants, women's suffrage and more. Charlotte P. Gilman, a pioneering American feminist writer and social reformer, described an isolated female utopia in "Her Country". There, they reproduce through parthenogenesis. Their society is stable, free from wars and disputes, and free from domination and being ruled. In the story, three young male scientists found this place during an expedition. After experiencing various adventures, two of them were expelled, and the wife of one of them, a member of "Her Country", chose to follow him out. The three returned to the outside world.

The story mainly takes place in the town of Sweetwater along the Burlington Railway in the western United States. It tells the story of the heroine Marianne Forest's fateful twists and turns from one marriage to another. The smart, beautiful, noble and charming Mrs. Forest lives a prosperous life in Sweetwater Town with her husband, who is 25 years older than her. The guest Frank is her secret lover. When the national financial crisis hit, the family experienced a serious financial crisis, and Mr. Forest's health plummeted as a result, and he died of a stroke not long after. The young descendant Ivy Peters, who has coveted everything in the Forrester family for a long time, took advantage of the opportunity, causing Mrs. Forrester to deviate from the principles of life when her husband was alive, join in the vulgar people, go astray, and finally abandon everything here and leave Sweetwater Town. The novel expresses the dimness of the ancient pioneering spirit under the impact of material civilization and expresses the author's dissatisfaction with the increasingly materialistic and money-oriented western society. It is considered an elegy for the pioneering era.

This book is the second book in the End of the Line series. As a link between the past and the next, it not only details the appearance of Christopher, who adheres to traditional morals in the rear troops, but also details his personal emotional struggles and life dilemmas in the context of the First World War. Personal awakening, emotional collision, and the interweaving of fate are all clearly reflected in "The End of the Queue II: No Longer Queue". What is beyond words is a reflection on traditional morality and the old order. This is not only a literary work, but also a picture of the times, which is of great help to us in understanding the world and ourselves. The classic works of the founders of British modernism, Auden, Graham Greene, Julian Barnes, Anthony Gibbs, and Tom Stoppard are highly praised for their excellent works and were selected into the "Top 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century".

"Night and Day" is one of Virginia Woolf's novels, published on October 20, 1919. Set in Edwardian London, the story contrasts the daily lives and romances of two heroines, Catherine Hilbury and Mary Datchett, and explores the relationship between love, marriage, happiness and success. Unlike Woolf's later work "The Lighthouse", the characters' dialogue, psychological description and behavioral description occupy the same space in this book. The story has four protagonists: Catherine Silbery, Mary Datchett, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. They explore life hard, pursue the true meaning of love, and find their true selves. "Night and Day" mentioned issues such as women's suffrage, whether love and marriage can coexist, and whether marriage is a prerequisite for happiness. Themes that appear throughout the book include the stars, the Thames and the Shiner Walk. In the book, Woolf quotes Shakespeare's works many times, especially "As You Like It".

This book is a novel written by American writer Theodore Dreiser. The novel takes Jenny's tragic experience as the main clue and describes the encounter between Jenny, a poor hotel maid, and Senator Brand, who is in the upper class of society. Brand was infatuated with Jenny and promised to marry her, but unfortunately died before the marriage, leaving the pregnant Jenny alone. After giving birth to her daughter, Jenny worked as a maid for a wealthy family to make ends meet, and met Kane, the son of a wealthy manufacturer. Facing the opposition of the Kane family and carrying the secret of their illegitimate daughter, how will the love story between Jenny and Kane end? This book is a companion piece to "Sister Carrie". It is about the love-hate entanglement between a lower-class woman and an upper-class young man. What kind of unique flowers will Dreiser's wonderful pen produce?

"The Voyage" is Woolf's first novel. Woolf began writing this novel, originally titled Melymbrosia, in 1910. During the creation period, she suffered from mental illness. After a long period of deliberation and several changes, "The Voyage" was finally officially published in 1915. Many characters in the novel are derived from people around Woolf in real life, including herself. It is worth mentioning that the heroine Rachel Wenleith was twenty-four years old when she appeared, which was exactly the same age as Woolf when she started writing. The Euphrossini, called "her" in the story, seems to be the incarnation of Rachel Wenleith. The voyage from London to Santa Marina Island in South America is not only a journey in space, but also a journey of her own exploration. This inexperienced young woman was educated but grew up in a very traditional and conservative environment. During a journey to a foreign country, she experienced freedom and self, learned about the relationship between men and women, and tasted the taste of love. However, her life came to an abrupt end when it was about to be completed.

The story takes place on a small island off the coast of Busan, South Korea during the Taisho era. A "major incident" occurred in the seemingly peaceful coastal area. The protagonist Todoroki revealed the truth of the incident to his old friend Saiki who came to visit him. Power and financial interests are intertwined, let's listen to the protagonist slowly... Yumeno Kusaku (January 1889-February 1936), a famous Japanese fantasy literature writer and a master of change-style reasoning, is known as the "monster writer". His representative work "Hell in the Brain" (1935) is called one of the four wonders of Japanese mystery novels.

This book is one of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's important feminist works. Published in 1911. In this work, the author analyzes various unfair phenomena in society with an objective and fair perspective and writing style, as well as a common cause behind these phenomena. The book is divided into 15 chapters, which explain how excessive masculinity reverses the laws of nature and causes various abnormal and distorted phenomena in human society from the aspects of human nature, family, health, art, literature, sports, ethics and religion, education, fashion, law, government, crime, war, economy, etc. There is a serious imbalance in the status of the family and society. Men and women do not enjoy equal rights as a human being. Men, as the dominant gender, have long suppressed and distorted the development of women, which has greatly harmed women, harmed the true development of mankind, harmed the progress of society, and also harmed men themselves. We live in such a "world made by men" but don't even know it.

"The Years" is Woolf's last novel published during her lifetime and her best-selling novel. It spans more than 50 years from 1880 to the mid-1930s and tells the history of three generations of the Padgett family. Although it covers such a long period, the book focuses on some aspect of each character's personal life. Except for the first chapter, each chapter tells what happened on a certain day that year from the perspective of a different character. Historical events loom as the background, and the stories of three generations of the Padgett family become a microcosm of the external world, running through the author's thoughts on survival and the meaning of life.

French suspense novel of the year. The French version of "The Hidden Corner" reveals the criminal psychology of juveniles. If I had made different choices at that time, my life might have been completely different. Following "Alex Must Be Found", Lemaitre has created another blockbuster suspense work. It was published in France and printed 150,000 copies a week, with more than 60 editions distributed around the world! It has been translated into 20 languages ​​and has occupied the best-selling list for 26 consecutive weeks! Three-time Dagger Award winner Lemaître's blockbuster new work is on the 2018 "International Dagger Award" shortlist. The whole town held its breath. In an ordinary French town, a 6-year-old child suddenly disappeared. Only the boy next door knew what happened. How long can he keep this terrible secret secret? How will just three days change his life?

The god of time and space fell, and the time and space storm came. Time and space are disrupted, endangering the human world. The God Realm sent Yang Jian and others to retrieve the time and space artifacts scattered in the world. In this way, they came to a world full of spiritual power-Lingyuan Continent. Yang Jian vowed to calm the storm, restore time and space, and return to the divine world!

She was originally the daughter that the general's palace held in the palm of his hand. Once the court was ruined, after several battlefields, he dominated the world. But he never proclaimed himself emperor and contented himself with taking a back seat. "I am not a god or a Buddha. I cannot be compassionate and compassionate to save all sentient beings!" So, I just want to... Cross myself and you. So, I dirty the whole world, leaving only my home and yours. But you refused to return to secular life, so I had no choice but to convert. So, the monastery became our home. --Warm reminder: It's a bit cruel~

As a soul supporter, she thought she would be able to overcome the storm with her own strength, but she never imagined that her fate would be so troubled... What kind of people did she meet? "Sir, what are you doing?"

Xiaotuanzi Mu Ruxia took her system to the book. The system told him that his father was an actor and his family owned a mine. If he hugged him, he could reach the top of his life. Xiaotuanzi remembers this sentence firmly, calls the police all the time, and blows rainbow farts every day on her father's lap. ......... (?Ω\u003C )★ Mu Ze, the main villain in the book is a movie star. He is bad at everything, unlucky in everything, has a vicious tongue and is a mysophobic. Everyone in the circle knows a woman who has been soloing for 28 years and especially hates girls. She is simply a female insulator. One day, someone saw President Mu carefully coaxing a little girl and letting her ride on his neck. So the hot search came up the next day "Shocked! President Mu actually has an illegitimate daughter." #"President Mu Da actually allowed a little girl to sit on his neck. Did the day change or the sow climbed into the tree?" (～￣▽￣)→))*￣▽￣*)O Mu Ze, at first, was the kind of person who was admired, envied, and shunned by everyone in the circle. However, ever since he met Mu Ruxia, a little dumpling, he was slapped in the face. Good luck will follow, and life will be much more comfortable than before! So he doted on Xiaotuanzi to the sky!

As an ideal student, When I was debating whether to study liberal arts or science, Suddenly the world changed. From now on there are two days, The evildoer appears in this world, The rise of academic scumbags.

When Su Ming woke up, he found that the world had changed Spiritual energy is revived, ghosts are reborn, and strange invasions occur! Fortunately, it is bound to the Bookstore of All Heavens to connect all realms and all heavens. You can extract the skills from the book by reading it. Then the whole world changed. Duan Yu holds two ak "Look at my Six Meridians Divine Sword" Xiao Longnu chased Yang Guo with two watermelon knives because... I saw Tang Monk standing at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain and gently waving his fist. In an instant, the mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, and rocks pierced through the air!

The rule of survival in the doomsday is that the strong survive and the weak perish. If you want to survive, then climb up with all your strength...

After the death of the five people, they traveled to another world and built a new empire. The five people discovered that unknown powers could be cultivated in the other world. Five forces established by the five of them rose up one after another. In the end, one of the five forces stood out, and the king of this force became the overlord of the other world.

It has been adapted into the TV series "The Love You Give Me" of the same name, starring Wang Yuwen and Wang Ziqi, and has been completed on August 28, 2022. An exchange of life and death, an unfinished list, and a wrongly executed last wish. Two girls who had never met each other had their lives changed by a chance encounter. Min Hui: "For me, falling in love with you is a very risky thing." Xin Qi: "Not loving me is even more risky."

There are five major sects in the world. Saint Jiang Jiu Fengtian and the Azure Dragon Demon Emperor Yao Tian co-founded two major sects. However, Yao Tian's identity requires the major sects to jointly arrest him. How can the relationship for many years be broken off? But the two have become gods. Everyone worked together to use the soul-pressing cauldron to remove him from the position of god, but how could the relationship between them end here...

An old man claims to be himself fifty years later, and he asks Ling Hen to save the world? This method of fraud is getting more and more special. Uncle, uncle, I have no money and I am very busy. Can you please deceive other people? Maybe others are a little stupider than me and let you make money. As the old man appeared, a terrifying scene happened later, which reminded Ling Hen of what the old man had said before, so clearly. What happened to this world?

"The Mayor of Casterbridge" is one of Hardy's masterpieces. This is his only novel not set in a rural setting. It tells the story of Henchard, an unemployed haymaker who sold his wife and daughter after being drunk. He woke up with regrets and became angry from then on, becoming a grain merchant and mayor. The wife returns with her daughter. Soon after, Henchard had a quarrel with his partners, his wife died, the scandal of selling his wife was revealed, his career failed, his daughter was taken away by her biological father, and he died alone in a hut in the wilderness. The author uses the story's various mishaps and dramatic conflicts to express the sentiment that "character is destiny" and "happiness is just an accidental episode." Among Hardy's fourteen novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" not only embodies Hardy's consistent creative style, but also creates unique artistic features, which also shows the essential difference between a great artist and a mediocre prolific writer. As for the content of this novel, whether it is in terms of history or current social cognition, it still has vivid significance. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is a monument in the history of British literature. His creations established his immortal status in world literature, making him as famous as Shakespeare, Dickens and other world-famous writers. He is a writer spanning two centuries. His early and middle creations were mainly novels, inheriting and carrying forward the literary tradition of the Victorian era. In his later years, he pioneered 20th-century British literature with his outstanding poetry.

"Celtic Dawn" is a collection of essays by W. B. Yeats published in 1893. It is a representative work of his early romantic gorgeous style and a representative work of the "Irish Literary Revival Movement". It is a collection of folktales and myths from the west of Ireland. This collection of essays ends with a poem "Into the Dawn". It is because of this collection of essays that the "Irish Literary Revival" is also known as the "Celtic Dawn". W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats, June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939), an Irish poet, playwright and essayist, a famous mystic, the leader of the "Irish Literary Revival" and one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre. Yeats's poetry was influenced by romanticism, aestheticism, mysticism, symbolism and metaphysical poetry, and evolved its unique style.

"Burmese Days" was published in 1934 and is George Orwell's first novel. The British India described in the novel is such a picture: the white master spends his time drinking and having fun, and is corrupt; the white lady is uneducated and greedy for vanity; the natives are intrigues and flattery; but there is such a white master, Sabu (master) - Flory, who hates imperialism and can't stand his people being kings and dominators in other people's land; but the cowardice in his bones makes him cower and dare not stand up to resist. Because he was afraid of "losing the whole world in order to redeem his soul," he could only "watch his life wasted and corrupted in this shameful and terrible futility."

"Stories Retold" is a collection of Hawthorne's short stories, first published in 1837. From this work, Hawthorne began to officially sign his name. The title of the book "The Story Retold" is taken from a line in William Shakespeare's historical play "King John": "Life is as dull as a story retold, which makes one's ears tired and drowsy." Edgar Allan Poe was very interested in "The Story Retold" and wrote many reviews, praising Hawthorne as a true genius. Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864), the greatest American novelist in the first half of the 19th century, graduated from Beaudoin College in Maine, USA. Hawthorne's works are rare classics in the history of world literature. His representative works include the short story collection "Moss on the Old House" and "The Story Retold", and the novels "The Scarlet Letter", "The Attic with the Seven Spires", "The Legend of Fortune Valley", "The Jade Figure" and so on.

This article is Dazai Osamu's rare "Sunrise Work". Through the description of the "journey to find roots", he explores his own nature as a Tsugaru person, and indirectly expresses his rich customs through stories with his friends. While showing his love for the countryside, he also faintly reveals a desire to stay away from the hustle and bustle. In the context of the time, it was also a rare masterpiece in pursuit of tranquility. Dazai Osamu (だざいおさむ), whose real name is Tsushima Shuji (つしましゅうじ), is a Japanese novelist and a representative writer of Japanese post-war rogue literature. His major works include the novels "Retrograde", "Setting Sun" and "Disqualification in the World". Dazai Osamu had wanted to become a writer since he was a student. At the age of 21, he attempted suicide by throwing himself into the sea with a waitress at a Ginza cafe. In 1935, the work "Retrograde" in the book "Late Years" was listed as a candidate for the first Akutagawa Prize. After getting married, he wrote works such as "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji" and "Setting Sun" and became a popular contemporary writer. Late at night on June 13, 1948, he and Yamazaki Furei, a female reader who admired him, committed suicide by jumping into the Tamagawa River. He was 39 years old and left behind works such as "Disqualification in the World".

You may have read the novel "The Master" by the famous Irish writer Colm Tóibín (this novel won him the 2006 Dublin International Literary Award), and you may have also read "The Author, the Author" by David Lodge, known as the British money writer, but you have probably not really appreciated the true style of the works of Henry James, the subject of these two novels, a master of novels. You can start with this book "Daisy Miller" - the beginning of a perfect journey.

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is Hardy's masterpiece and one of the "Wessex Series". It describes the tragic fate of a rural girl. Hardy called the heroine "a pure woman" in the novel's subtitle, openly challenging the hypocritical social morals of the Victorian era. Zhang Guyuo is famous for his successful translation of three of Hardy's novels: "The Return of the Native", "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", and "Jude the Obscure". Among them, the translation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is the most popular among readers.

This book includes German poetry classics from the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century, including Vogelwield, Sachs, Dach, Günther, Claudius, Herder, Bürger, Goethe, Lenz, Schiller, Arndt, Holderlin, Works by Brentano, Chamisot, Uhland, Eichendorf, Müller, Platon, Heine, Faresleben, Lenau, Murikat, Heber, Herwick, Storm, Keller, Wirth, Meyer, Rilke, Hesse, etc.

Oscar graduated from high school and went to the suburban areas to look for job opportunities. Because of his vanity, Oscar boasted about his close relationship with the count on the public carriage, thus causing great trouble. His mother begged relatives and friends, which gave him the opportunity to go to Paris to study law and become an assistant in a notary office. But he couldn't resist the temptation, lost public funds in gambling, and was fired by his boss. Desperate, Oscar had no choice but to join the army, lost an arm in the war, received awards for meritorious service, and became a modern middle-class figure. The novel describes two common mistakes made by young people who have just entered society: talking nonsense and spending money randomly. It is still of educational significance today.

David Copperfield (1850) is a semi-autobiographical novel that surpasses all other Dickens works. Through the unfortunate experience of an orphan, it paints a broad and colorful social picture, exposing the exploitation of working people by the bourgeoisie, the dark corruption of the judiciary, and the oppression of the people by the parliament. The novel still ends with everything being successful, showing the author's consistent thoughts.

Keigo Higashino's female protagonist's perspective is the only one! The original Japanese drama "The Corridor Pavilion Murder Incident", starring Zhang Xincheng and Deng Jiajia, is currently being filmed! I was awakened from my coma by severe pain. Seeing the bandages all over my body, I gradually thought of the fire in the Cloister Pavilion Hotel a few days ago and how he was devoured - the only man who fell in love with me in my 32 years of life. I risked my life to save him, but it was all in vain. The tears flowed dry, and the thought in my heart was extremely clear: someone lit the fire deliberately. The wounds on my body were getting better day by day, and I decided to erase my identity from this world to avenge my lost love. I came to the Cloister Pavilion again. Soon, many people will come here, and the murderer I think about day and night is among them.

A villa in Pitchfort Village has been abandoned for five years. The previous owner of the villa stipulated in his will that his heirs could not freely dispose of the villa until five years after his death. However, recently, someone heard some strange noises when passing by his cemetery. The surrounding soil seemed to have been disturbed not long ago. Dr. Twist and Detective Burns entered the villa together and found the body of the former owner on a chair in the living room! All the doors and windows in the villa were locked, and there was a thick layer of dust on the ground without any traces. There were more than a thousand pairs of old shoes of various kinds scattered on the ground...

The story takes place in London in April 1946, a time when the panic caused by air raids still lingered in the hearts of London citizens. After losing his beloved wife in an air raid, Ralph Conroy passed the time by racing and betting on horses. One night, he received a strange letter from his friend Philip Macdonald, asking him to go to a remote neighborhood in London overnight for an inexplicable date. He also asked him to "play it by ear and not to confront anyone." Ralph followed the instructions in his friend's letter one by one... And didn't want what was waiting for him to be a complete nightmare. His behavior aroused the suspicion of a police officer, and he had to use force to escape; in a mysterious blue Ford car, one of the passengers seemed to be his late wife of five years, Josephine; in the end, the owner and guests of the date place actually mistook him for another person...

On a foggy night in London, Ralph Tierney lost his way in London and accidentally entered an alley called Kraken Street, where he witnessed an ongoing murder: when the woman stabbed the man with a dagger, darkness struck. When the light returned, he saw the woman lying on the floor. After escaping, he turned around to look for the alley again, but no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find it! What's even more incredible is that everything that happened that night seemed to be real events nineteen years ago! This phantom alley seems to be able to travel through time and space...

The novel focuses on the protagonist Julien's personal struggle and description of his two love experiences, revealing the magnificent class struggle during the Restoration Dynasty and reflecting the broad life picture of political darkness, church corruption, aristocratic reaction and the bourgeoisie's greed for profit. Julien's two love motives are all based on love and possession as the starting point, and ultimately achieve his own political goals. The structure of the novel is rigorous and well-proportioned, the language is concise and fluent, the characters and their personalities are closely connected with the environment, and it is good at revealing the characters' inner conflicts and instant changes in thoughts and feelings, so as to highlight people's personality characteristics. This is the greatest artistic feature of this book.

Although Bunin won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a novelist, his literary career began with poetry, and he himself has always called himself a poet. In addition, Bunin's essay writing is unique among Russian writers, with elegant style, profound artistic conception, eternal significance, and still has great reading value today. "Selected Poems of Bunin" selects Bunin's poems and essays, and readers can experience the writer's delicate emotions and profound thoughts.

It reveals the inside story of the literary and journalistic circles, and concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deep feelings about life. It is one of the most valuable works in "Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and had their ideals shattered. The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution.

The anthology consists of four volumes, selecting classic short stories and five novels written by Maupassant. Maupassant was an extremely diligent and talented writer. Although his creative career was only a short ten years, he was fruitful and published many novels, travel notes and 306 short stories. Among them, the achievements of short stories are the most outstanding. Their exquisite artistic skills earned Maupassant the reputation of "King of Short Stories". He is recognized as the master of short stories in the world like Chekhov and O. Henry.

Bunin is a master of short story writing. He uses poetic language and complex to create short stories, and uses dramatic conflicts to structure short stories. Therefore, his short stories are actually similar to Chekhov's short stories, but the creation objects and content are different. The short stories in "Selected Short Stories of Bunin" more concentratedly reflect the characteristics of Bunin's short stories: exquisiteness, intense but soothing conflicts, light but rich complexes, and should be said to have a strong sense of modernity.

Chekhov was a writer with a strong sense of humor. In his novels, he cleverly produced laughter with subtly different emotional colors based on the different natures of the characters and events depicted. Light humor was often intertwined with bitter irony. Chekhov's novels are compact and concise, concise and concise, giving readers room for independent thinking.

In "Vanity Fair", the author mainly portrays a typical female adventurer in British capitalist society in the early 19th century. This character is neither evil nor kind, but very humane and completely a product of the times. In the novel, the author frequently communicates with readers, and the narrative is mixed with discussions, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes serious and sometimes wry, with a strong comedic effect. When readers participate in the thinking process, they can not only understand the author's intentions, but also learn a lot from it.

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"Heaven on Earth" is Fitzgerald's debut novel. It was published in 1920 due to the insight of the famous publisher Perkins. Although this novel is not as well-known as "The Great Gatsby", it is Fitzgerald's most famous work. After the publication of this book, he not only gained fame and fortune, but also won the love and marriage of the socialite Zelda. The novel successfully portrays the image of Amory Bryan as a romantic narcissist in a semi-autobiographical form. By centering on the central theme of Brian, a young man from the Midwest, his several love entanglements before and after World War I and his pursuit of fame, it details the living conditions and spiritual outlook of the young American generation after World War I. Although the novel is immature, it boldly attempts various forms and techniques, including novel narrative, poetry and drama, and the characters created are vivid and vivid on the page.

"The Age of Innocence" is a 1920 work by Edith Wharton. In 1921, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, making Mrs. Wharton the first female writer to win the award. In this work, May and Newland, a pair of golden girls from the upper class, are about to get married. At this time, the bride's cousin Ellen escaped from a bad marriage and returned to New York from Europe. She was plagued by rumors. Her arrival shook Newland's mind. At first, Newland was worried that Ellen's stain would affect the family about to get married. Soon, he began to be attracted to this woman who ignored the obsolete rules of New York's upper class society, and he had doubts about whether he wanted to marry May, the perfect product of old New York society. This is a dilemma between red roses and white roses, as well as a struggle between social stereotypes and individual freedom. Compared with "Fun House", "The Age of Innocence" is a novel with a softer and more elegant tone. In her biography, Wharton wrote that the book "The Age of Innocence" allowed her to "temporarily escape from the present, return to her childhood, and return to an America that has long disappeared... In 1914, the world I grew up in and heard was destroyed." Many scholars and readers also agree that "The Age of Innocence" is fundamentally a story that attempts to reconcile the contradictions between the old and the new world.

"1984" is the last novel written by the British writer George Orwell during his lifetime, and it is also a uniquely influential literary work in the 20th century. Since the book was first published in 1949, it has been adapted into movies many times. It has been included in the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century" and was named "one of the 100 best English novels since 1923" by the American "Time" magazine. The story of this book takes place in the future world, that is, Oceania in 1984. The protagonist Winston sticks to his beliefs in that dark social environment and strives to get rid of various shackles, but he does not expect that his fate has already been doomed... The author uses rich imagination and strict logical reasoning to show a future world that is devoid of human nature, and warns the world not to fall into such a tragedy.