"How Steel was Tempered" is a novel written by Nikolai ostrovsky, a writer of the former Soviet Union, at 1933.

By narrating Pavel Colta King's growth path, the novel tells people that only by defeating the enemy and himself in the hardships of revolution and linking his pursuit with the interests of the motherland and the people can he create miracles and grow into an iron warrior.

2. Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a novel by Charlotte Brontexq, an English woman writer. This is an autobiographical work. The work tells the story of an English woman who became an orphan from an early age, constantly pursued freedom and dignity, persisted in herself, and finally achieved happiness through various hardships.

The novel shows the ups and downs of the love experience of the hero and heroine, praises getting rid of all old customs and prejudices, and successfully shapes a female image who dares to resist and strive for freedom and equal status.

3. The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by Hemingway in Cuba on 195 1 and published on 1952. This work revolves around the story of an old Cuban fisherman fighting a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream off the coast.

Although Hemingway's old man is tragic, he has the characteristics of Nietzsche's superman, accepting failure and facing death bravely. These "tough guys" embody Hemingway's philosophy of life and moral ideal, that is, the fighter spirit and positive and optimistic attitude towards life that human beings will never bow to fate and never give up.

4. Ordinary world

Ordinary World is a million-word novel by China writer Lu Yao. This is a novel with a panoramic view of China's contemporary urban and rural social life, consisting of three books. First published in February, 1986.

The book is set in China in the ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, centering on two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, and depicts the images of many ordinary people in all walks of life at that time. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined.

It profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. 1991March, Ordinary World won the third Mao Dun Literature Prize in China.

5. Who is who

Whose Biography is a biographical work written by romain rolland (1866~ 1944), a famous French critical realist, at the end of 1903, including the Biography of Beethoven (1903) and the Biography of Michelangelo (or translated)

Known as "The Legend of the Three Heroes", also known as "The Legend of the Giant". Now I have selected the second volume of the eighth grade Chinese classics published by People's Education Press. This book is also a very good proof of an old saying in China: Those who have achieved great things in ancient and modern times must have perseverance and perseverance.