1. "How Steel Was Tempered"

The author of this book - Nikolai Ostrovsky, a Russian. The protagonist of the novel - Paul Korchagin. His famous saying: The most precious thing for a person is life. Everyone has only one life. A person's life should be spent like this: looking back on the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor will he be ashamed of being mean and vulgar; on his deathbed, he can say: "My whole life and all my energy have been dedicated to The most magnificent cause in the world - the struggle for the liberation of all mankind"

2. "Robinson Crusoe"

The author of this book - British writer Defoe, novel. The protagonist——Robinson Crusoe, and the native "Friday". The novel describes that after sailor Robinson was in danger during the voyage, he drifted to an uninhabited island and lived for many years, living like a savage.

3. "Gulliver's Travels"

The author of this book - Jonathan Swift, an eighteenth-century British novelist. The protagonist of the novel - Captain Rimel Gulliver. Through the mouth of Captain Rimel Gulliver, this book narrates the strange experience of traveling around four countries (Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island, and Wisdom). However, if you read it carefully, it reveals the dark reality of British society and embodies the author's ideals.

4. "Stars. Spring Water"

The author of this book - Bing Xin (October 5, 1900 - February 1999), whose original name was Xie Wanying. His ancestral home is Changle, Fujian, and he was born in Fuzhou. Most of her works describe the "philosophy of love" around maternal love, childlike innocence and natural beauty. Representative works include "Superman", "Bored", etc.

Beginning in 1920, influenced by Tagore's "Birds", he wrote short poems "Stars" and "Spring Water", which attracted the attention of the literary world.

5. "Picking Up Flowers in the Morning and Evening"

This book is a collection of ten pieces of reminiscence essays written by Lu Xun (original name: Zhou Shuren) in 1926. The first five articles were written in Beijing, and the last five articles were written in Xiamen. (Also: All Lu Xun’s novels learned in junior high school are selected from "The Scream".)

6. "Journey to the West"

The author of this book - Wu Chengen (Ming Dynasty). "Journey to the West" was finally completed by Wu Cheng'en in the middle of the Ming Dynasty after countless folk artists and authors put in huge efforts. It is the best work among Chinese mythological novels. Strong romanticism is the basic artistic feature of "Journey to the West". The protagonists - Tang Monk, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Monk Sha.

7. "Water Margin"

The author of this book - Shi Naian. "Water Margin" is one of the four famous works in the history of ancient Chinese literature. Its author is Shi Naian, but the title of the book was given by Luo Guanzhong. "Water Margin" was originally called "The Legend of Jianghu Heroes", but Shi Naian was always dissatisfied with the title of the book. Luo Guanzhong suggested using "Water Margin", which he thought was very good. He said, "'Water Margin' means waterside and 'in the wild'", so he officially named the book "Water Margin". This book describes the peasant uprising in Liangshanbo, Shandong Province led by Song Jiang in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and truly reproduces the entire process from the occurrence, development and failure of the peasant uprising in feudal society. This book also created the heroic images of a large number of peasant uprisings such as Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong, Wu Song, and Li Kui.

(Also: Among the four major classics, only "A Dream of Red Mansions" is a work of the Qing Dynasty. The three major ones in chronological order are "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West". Note: " "Three Kingdoms" is a history book, not a novel)

8. "Camel Xiangzi"

The author of this book - Lao She (1899~1966), formerly known as Shu Qingchun, styled Sheyu, was born in Beijing A Manchu family. In 1930, Lao She embarked on his return journey. Facing the devastated motherland, his writing became heavy. "Camel Xiangzi" is a representative work of this period. It reveals the slave mentality of the "little man" and the ultimate destruction of unattainable hopes. With the suicide of Xiangzi's beloved woman, Xiaofuzi, Xiangzi extinguished the last spark of personal struggle and became a burial victim of this decaying society.

The protagonists

——The rickshaw driver Xiangzi, the owner’s daughter Huniu, and Xiao Fuzi.

Wonderful language collection of "Luotuo Xiangzi"

△Money will lead people into a bad society, put aside their noble ideals, and willingly go into hell.

△Those who work for money are afraid of encountering more money, and their loyalty is not based on money.

△There are not many truths in the world. A woman’s blush is worth a long sentence.

△The greatest sacrifice is patience, and the greatest patience is preparation for resistance.

△To love or not to love, the poor have to decide on the golden line, and "love" is only born in rich families.

△The laziness of a miserable person is the natural result of hard work but failure, and the mischievousness of a miserable man contains some axioms.

△Experience is the fertilizer of life. What kind of experience you have will determine what kind of person you become. Peonies cannot be grown in the desert.

9. "Biography of Famous People"

The author of this book - Vasari. "Biographies" is an important document of the Renaissance. The author clearly declared in the revised edition in 1568 that the purpose of the book is to describe "the process of artistic regeneration." The word "regeneration" is not only the theme of Valsalva's entire masterpiece, but also forms the cornerstone of his historical concepts and artistic judgment standards. For the first time, he treated the three arts of architecture, painting, and sculpture as a whole, instead of dealing with them in isolation like his predecessors. At the same time, he proposed a system of criticism based on style types. Distinguish between superior and inferior works of art. These characteristics make his "Biographies of Famous People" distanced from all previous works and become the first milestone in the history of Western art history.

10. "Childhood"

The author of this book - Gorky, formerly known as Alexei Maximovich Bishkov, was a proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union and a socialist The founder of realist literature. "Childhood" is the first of Gorky's autobiographical novels. The protagonist of the novel is Alyosha. In this book, Gorky truly described his difficult childhood, reflected some typical characteristics of social life at that time, and especially painted a true and vivid picture of the customs and customs of the Russian petty bourgeoisie. It not only reveals those "leaden scandals", but also depicts many outstanding ordinary characters around the author, among which the image of the grandmother is one of the most glorious and poetic images in Russian literature. It was these ordinary people who gave the young Gorky a good influence, enabling him to develop a character that did not bow to ugly phenomena, and trained him to become a strong and kind person.

The other two parts of the trilogy of autobiographical novels are "In the World" and "My University".