What are the must-read classics for the first grade of junior high school?

1. "How Steel Was Tempered"

2. "Robinson Crusoe"?

3. "Gulliver's Travels"< /p>

4. "Stars. Spring Water"?

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

"How Steel is 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 to liberate all mankind."

2. "Robinson Crusoe"

The author of this book - British writer Defoe, novel. The protagonist - Robinson Crusoe, and the native "Friday".

Main plot: More than 200 years ago, there was a Scot named Selkirk who worked as a sailor on a British ship. One day in September 1704, Selkirk was abandoned on an uninhabited island in ancient Latin America because of a conflict with the captain. Selkirk was in a bad mood, but he gradually got used to it. He caught goats for food, built two small houses with wood and sheepskins, used nails to make needles, and took apart torn socks to make threads for sewing. He lived on a desert island for two years and four months. On February 12, 1709, a British navigator rescued him from the island. After Selkirk returned to Scotland, he often told people about his extraordinary life in hotels. experience.

3. "Gulliver's Travels"

The author of this book - Jonathan Swift, an eighteenth-century British novelist.

Main plot: This is a work with absurd plot, strange imagination and funny story. This book tells the story of the British surgeon Gulliver's sailing adventures. He was in danger on his first voyage and drifted to Lilliput, where he was regarded as a "giant" and a "human mountain". Five or six little people could dance with his palms; he could eat a meal brought by the little people. Fifty carts of meat and wine. The second time he was in danger on his voyage, he was caught in the adult country. Da Renguo is over seventy feet tall. There he was treated as a "little man", a "dwarf" and a "monster". He was taken to various exhibitions and experienced many dangers.

4. "Stars. Spring Water"

The author of this book - Bing Xin (October 5, 1900 - February 1999), whose original name was Xie Wanying.

"Stars" is a collection of poems, consisting of 164 short poems. Bing Xin believed in the "philosophy of love" throughout her life. She believed that "with love, there is everything."

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

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

Main plot:

Lu Xun's "Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk" is a collection of memory essays, including ten pieces.

These ten essays are "memories" "The Narrative" relatively completely records Lu Xun's life path and experiences from childhood to youth, and vividly depicts the life picture of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It is an important artistic document for studying Lu Xun's early thoughts and life as well as the society at that time. These chapters, written in a profound and meaningful way, are classic works of modern Chinese prose.