Must-read classics for eighth graders in the second volume:

1. "How Steel Was Tempered"

The author of this book - Nicholas Os Trovsky, 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 to liberate all mankind."

2. "Robinson Crusoe"

The author of this book is the British writer Defoe, a 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 his works describe the "philosophy of love" around maternal love, childlike innocence and natural beauty. His representative works include "Superman" and "Bored". 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. "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk"

This book is a collection of reminiscence essays written by Lu Xun (original name: Zhou Shuren) in 1926, with ten articles in total. 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”.

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