(1) Ancient times (before the May 4th Movement) 10.
1. Wronged by Yuan Guanhanqing. Guan Hanqing is the founder of China Opera, and Dou Eyuan is Guan Hanqing's tragic masterpiece.
2. Master Wang Yuan's The West Chamber is a realistic masterpiece of China's classical drama.
3. The Peony Pavilion by Tang Ming Tang Xianzu is Tang Xianzu's masterpiece and the most famous romantic masterpiece in the history of China opera.
4. The Romance of Three Kingdoms by Ming Luo Guanzhong is the first Zhang Hui novel in China and the most successful historical novel in China.
5. The Water Margin, co-authored by Shi Ming Naian and Luo Guanzhong, is known as a "heroic legend", and it is an excellent work combining realism and romanticism, which has a great influence on later generations.
The Journey to the West, co-written by The Journey to the West and Wu Ming and Cheng En, is regarded as the best representative of China's fairy tales.
8. Qing Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is an excellent collection of short stories famous for its enchanting flowers, foxes and monsters. It is known as "the literary treasure of China and the pearl of world literature".
9. Qing Wu's The Scholars is Wu's masterpiece and an outstanding representative of China's ancient satirical novels.
10. A Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Qing Xueqin is regarded as an immortal literary masterpiece, which pushed China's classical novels to the peak.
(2) Modern (after the May 4th Movement and before the founding of the People's Republic of China) 10.
1. Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman is the foundation stone of China's modern novels.
2. The True Story of Ah Q written by Lu Xun. Lu Xun's masterpiece is the peak of Lu Xun's novel creation.
3. Guo Moruo's Goddess is the pioneering work of China's new poetry and the first monument of China's new poetry.
4. Midnight by Mao Dun is the first outstanding revolutionary realistic novel in the history of modern literature in China, and it is a masterpiece with epic value.
5. The book "Home" written by Ba Jin is the first, the most wonderful and mature one of Ba Jin's masterpiece "Riptide Trilogy".
6. Lao She's Camel Xiangzi has created one of the most successful images of workers in the history of modern literature in China, and it is a world-renowned masterpiece.
7. Cao Yu's Thunderstorm is an outstanding realistic tragedy in the history of China drama. It is Cao Yu's debut, masterpiece and masterpiece.
8. Shen Congwen's Border Town is Shen Congwen's masterpiece and is called "the elegant fairy in the novel".
9. Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu, known as The New Scholars, is a long satirical novel comparable to the world's satirical masterpieces.
10. Sun Li's Lotus Lake is known as a prose poem novel and is Sun Li's most famous short masterpiece.
(3) Contemporary (after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC)) 10
1. Qu Bo's Lin Yuan is a legendary and readable masterpiece, which shows the heroic behavior of revolutionary soldiers in the revolutionary war years.
2. Yang Mo's Song of Youth is the first readable work in New China that positively describes and shapes the image of revolutionary intellectuals.
3. Ouyang Shan's "Three Alleys" is the first of Ouyang Shan's masterpiece "Romantic Generation", and it is also an outstanding masterpiece reflecting the theme that young intellectuals are on the revolutionary road.
4. The Red Rock, co-authored by Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan, has successfully created a number of upright and upright revolutionary heroes. This book is called "Revolutionary Textbook", and its publication has become an unprecedented event in the history of contemporary literature in China.
5. Jin Jingmai's Song of Ouyang Hai is a famous novel reflecting the heroic and noble spiritual character of contemporary revolutionary soldiers. The publication of this book has produced a strong sensation.
6. Liu's Class Teacher is the origin of "scar literature" in the new period.
7. furong town by Gu Hua is a masterpiece of "reflective literature" in the new period.
8. Jiang Zilong's Appointment of Director Joe is the beginning of "literature reform" in the new period.
9. The Legend of the Condor Heroes written by Jin Yong is a masterpiece of martial arts novels.
Second, the foreign part.
(a) in ancient times (before the 5th century AD) 3
1. Homer's epics (including Iliad and Odyssey) written by Homer in ancient Greece are called the artistic treasures of human childhood.
2. The Old Testament (the first volume in the Bible) is a collection of ancient Hebrew literature and a precious heritage in the treasure house of ancient world literature.
3. The ancient Indian Carida's Shagongdaro is a model of Indian classical drama, which created an image of Shagongdaro as "the embodiment of beauty and goodness, a typical combination of rigidity and softness" and reached the peak of world literature at that time.
② Middle Ages (6th ~/kloc-0th/3rd century).
1. Italian Dante's Divine Comedy (including Hell, Hell and Paradise) is a long narrative poem, which is regarded as a great poem with epoch-making significance.
2. The Tale of Genji, written by the Department of Records of Murasaki, Japan, is the earliest novel in the history of world literature and a model of Japanese story literature in the Middle Ages.
3. Arabian Nights is a collection of folk stories in the Arab region in the Middle Ages, the crystallization of the wisdom of the Arab people and a string of bright pearls in the treasure house of world literature.
③ Renaissance (14 ~16th century) 4.
1. Boccaccio's decameron is the first truly realistic literary masterpiece in the history of world literature.
2. Don Quixote by Cervantes of Spain is the first novel with realistic tendency in Europe, which is a milestone in the history of European literature development.
3. Twelfth Night *, written by Shakespeare in England. Shakespeare is the most outstanding representative of humanist writers in the European Renaissance, and he is the "greatest drama genius" who transcends the times and national boundaries (in the Marxist sense). Twelfth Night is his comedy masterpiece.
Hamlet, written by British Shakespeare, is Shakespeare's masterpiece of tragedy.
(d) Classical period (17th century) 2.
1. Miser, by Moliere, France. Moliere is a master of classical comedy in the17th century and the most outstanding representative of classical writers. The play is his early masterpiece, which successfully shaped the typical miser Abagong in the treasure house of world literature.
2. The hypocrite by the French writer Moliere is the most important masterpiece in Moliere's life. The play successfully created a typical hypocrite in the treasure house of world literature-Dard Yev.
(5) Enlightenment (18th century) 2.
1. Goethe's Young Werther. Goethe was the most outstanding representative writer of the European Enlightenment in the18th century. This book is an epistolary novella and Goethe's early masterpiece.
2. Faust * written by Goethe, Germany, is an epic poetic drama, the peak of Goethe's life creation, and represents the highest achievement of European enlightenment literature.
(6) Romantic period (from the end of 18 to the beginning of 19).
1. Notre Dame de Paris by Hugo, France. Hugo is the most outstanding representative writer of European romanticism. His works have shocking artistic power and occupy a first-class position in the history of world romantic literature. Notre Dame de Paris is Hugo's early masterpiece and the first novel that brought him world fame.
2. Les Miserables * by Hugo of France is the most important masterpiece in Hugo's life and the most famous novel in the world's recognized treasure house of human literature.
(7) 10 critical realism literature (19 after the 1930s).
1. Red and Black by Stendhal. Stendhal is the founder of French and European critical realism literature. Red and Black is his masterpiece, and its appearance marks the official beginning of criticizing realistic literature.
2. Gao Laotou *, Balzac, France. Balzac is the most outstanding representative of critical realism in western Europe and occupies an extremely important position in the history of world literature development. He built an unprecedented literary building in the history of human literature-Human Comedy (96 works). Gao Laotou is regarded as the prelude of human comedy and the most important masterpiece of Balzac's life.
3. Balzac's Grandet is another important masterpiece of Balzac.
4. A Tale of Two Cities written by British Dickens. Dickens is the founder of English critical realism literature, and A Tale of Two Cities is his masterpiece.
5. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontexq, England. Charlotte Brontexq is one of the outstanding representative writers of critical realism in Britain, and the autobiographical novel Jane Eyre is his masterpiece.
6. Dead Soul, by Russian Nikolai Nikolai Gogol. Nikolai Nikolai Gogol is one of the important representative writers of Russian critical realism, and is known as "the master of satirical literature". Dead Soul is his masterpiece.
7. Being bullied and insulted *, Dostoevsky, Russia. Dostoevsky is one of the famous Russian critical realism writers, and is recognized as a literary master who is good at describing the inner world of characters. Being bullied and insulted is his early masterpiece.
8. Anna karenin *, Tolstoy, Russia. Tolstoy is the most outstanding representative writer of Russian critical realism and one of the most influential writers in the history of world literature. Anna karenin is a masterpiece that established Tolstoy's reputation as a world writer.
9. The Resurrection written by Tolstoy, Russia, is called the summary of Tolstoy's life exploration and the most important masterpiece of Tolstoy's life.
10. Indian Tagore's Chittaglia. Tagore is the greatest Indian patriotic poet who enjoys the world reputation in contemporary times, and the first writer in Asia who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His masterpiece "Chittaglia" shines with charming brilliance in the treasure house of world literature and has enduring artistic charm.
(8) proletarian revolutionary literature (19 after the 1930s) 2.
1. Mother *, Gorky, Russia. Gorky is an outstanding representative of Russian and Soviet proletarian literature and a great writer who initiated a new era of world proletarian literature. Mother is the most important masterpiece in his life, which successfully shaped the typical image of the first proletarian revolutionary hero in the history of world literature.
2. How Steel was Tempered, by ostrovsky, Soviet Union. Ostrovsky is a heroic warrior of Bolshevik and a great proletarian writer of Soviet Union. His masterpiece How Steel was Tempered is called a textbook of productism, and it is an autobiographical novel with world influence.
(9) Modernist literature (1after the 1960s) 2.
1. The Memories of Lost Years by Proust, France. Proust is a pioneer writer of stream-of-consciousness novels. Remembering the past is his famous work and masterpiece, and it is also the foundation work of stream-of-consciousness novels.
2. Waiting for Godot, Beckett, Ireland. Beckett is the most outstanding writer of the absurd drama. Waiting for Godot by Nobel Prize in Literature is his masterpiece and a classic of the absurd drama.