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"Petro Goriot" [France] Balzac download (194k)

Balzac's creation is the pinnacle of French realism in the nineteenth century. His novels are divided into three categories That is, custom research, philosophical research and analytical research. This article is an early masterpiece. It describes private life. The protagonist makes a living by selling food. He raises a daughter but is abandoned by her daughter and dies in pain. It reflects the money in capitalist society. The law that governs everything

"The Abandoned Woman" [French] Balzac download (33k)

It is the sequel to Balzac's most influential novel "Petro Goriot" , was included in the second volume of "Human Comedy", "Scenes from Private Life". It describes a Parisian noblewoman, the Marquise de Beauseant, who was abandoned by others. After leaving Paris to live in seclusion in Normandy, she fell in love again due to the pursuit of a young baron, and staged a new round of shocking love tragedy.

"Eugenie Grandet" [France] Balzac download (140k)

This article is the most vivid and energetic one among Balzac's satires A masterpiece. The image of the miser Grandet has become an ugly manifestation of the obsession with money. The desire for money extinguished all human emotions in Grandet. He neither understood love nor knew that he had destroyed his daughter's happiness with his own hands. The novel criticizes the naked relationship between money.

"Aunt Bette" [France] Balzac Download (338k)

Balzac's novel describes life in Paris. It describes the protagonist Aunt Bette's life in Paris at various times. The different days they lived reflect the decline of the nobility in capitalist society and the arrival of new social situations that make people at a loss what to do. It shows that the nature of the bourgeoisie is the same as that of previous rulers. People can only rely on themselves for their lives.

"Uncle Bangs" [France] Balzac download (293k)

This novel creates the image of a loan shark miser, which summarizes the most disgusting aspects of private psychology. Features. The protagonist was once a passionate and ambitious person, but after many vicissitudes of life, he concluded a shameless creed: money is everything. The corrosive effect of money reduces its own masters to slavery.

"Disillusionment" [France] Balzac Download (611k)

Money not only destroys the most beautiful emotions of mankind, but also corrodes the innocent souls of young people. Balzac through this novel , showing how talents are destroyed in bourgeois society and how literature and art become the objects of shameless transactions. Balzac returned to the theme of the fate of young people seeking fame in Paris and created a typical image.

"The Rise and Fall of the Courtesan" [France] Balzac Download (460KB)

This is another work in Balzac's satirical novels. It narrates that the prostitute Esther secretly fell in love with the young poet Lucien. At a masquerade, she was recognized and wanted to commit suicide to cover up her life experience. Vautrin, an escaped convict disguised as a Spanish priest, rescued her and took her under his control. Vautrin also became Lucien's master because he saved Lucien's life, and attempted to take revenge on the ruler through him. In order to have enough money to support Lucien into the ruling class, he forced Esther to return to her old career and serve as the mistress of the financier Nucingen. Esther committed suicide out of hatred. Lucien and Vautrin were implicated and imprisoned. Soon, Lucien also committed suicide in prison, and Vautrin suffered a huge mental blow. After a fierce fight with the powerful figures in prison, he finally surrendered to the government and became the director of the security department of the Paris Police Department. The author describes the rise and decline of a socialite, describing the upper-class circles in her ears. The ugly face of the character. When she was prosperous, everyone wanted to call her grandma, but when she declined and left miserably, no one expressed sympathy. The author criticized the naked carnal relationship in society.

"Donkey Skin" [France] Balzac downloaded 283k

"Lily of the Valley" [France] Balzac downloaded 242k

"Notre Dame de Paris" "[France] Victor Hugo Download (443k)

"Notre Dame de Paris" (1831) is Victor Hugo's first large-scale romantic novel.

It uses bizarre and contrasting techniques to tell a story that took place in France in the 15th century: Claude, the vice-president of Notre Dame de Paris, was sanctimonious and vicious, loving first and then hating, and persecuting the Gypsy girl Esmeralda. The ugly but kind-hearted bell ringer Quasimodo sacrifices his life to save the girl. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, praises the kindness, friendship and self-sacrifice of the lower working people, and reflects Hugo's humanitarian thoughts.

He depicts the Middle Ages and recreates life in fifteenth-century Paris. He is good at combining facts and imagination, narration and description, and arranges devastating endings for the simple and kind-hearted bell ringer and gypsy girl, the evil and cunning priest and the captain. This novel also made Hugo famous.

"Les Misérables" [France] Hugo download (1588k)

This is another handed down work by Hugo, creating a modern French social life and political life long history. "Les Misérables" best represents Hugo's ideological and artistic style. With his outstanding artistic charm, he showed the cruel reality of capitalist society enslaving working people and forcing girls into prostitution. However, the writer firmly believes that only moral influence is the cure for social disasters. Although the novel does not lack elements of realism, it is still a masterpiece of romanticism in terms of the creation of characters, description of the environment, and the use of symbols and contrasting techniques. Hugo portrayed the lives of all classes in France and firmly defended the people's right to live a happy and free life. The tragic experiences of the central characters, Jean Valjean, a prisoner in exile, and Fantine, a woman living on the street, embody the tragedy of the poor.

"Ninety-Three Years" [France] Hugo Download (267KB)

This novel is Hugo's last historical novel. The novel describes the Jacobin** *The heroic struggle of the Republic of China against the Wangdai rebellion. This rebellion was supported by British counter-revolutionary forces. The author admitted that revolutionary terror methods against human enemies were just, but he could not stand the ruthless and decisive characteristics of this terror. This reflects Hugo's contradictory side. This novel is Hugo's last historical novel. The novel describes the heroic struggle of the Jacobin Revolution against the Vendéi rebellion. This rebellion was supported by British counter-revolutionary forces. The author admitted that he was targeting the enemies of mankind. The means of revolutionary terror are just, but he cannot bear the ruthless and decisive characteristics of this terror, which reflects Hugo's contradictory side.

"The Man Who Laughs" [France] Hugo Download (455k)

"The Man Who Laughs" is another romantic masterpiece by Hugo. The protagonist of the novel, Gwynplaine, is a descendant of a knight. He was sold to child traffickers since he was a child and became a victim of palace conspiracy. After he fell into the hands of child traffickers, he was forced to undergo disfigurement surgery, so his face always looked like he was smiling strangely. Later, he was adopted by a kind-hearted wanderer in Sousse. From then on, he followed Yusus to perform everywhere. Before meeting Yusus, Gwen Pulan also rescued the blind girl Di on the snow. Several of them wandered around the world, suffering from poverty and misfortune, but they did not succumb to the environment. They were full of sincere feelings for each other. In the wandering life, love gradually developed between Gwen Pulan and the blind girl Di. Later, Gwynplaine had the opportunity to regain the title of knight, but he hated the aristocratic life. After the parliament denounced the crimes of the nobility, he returned to his companions. At this time, Di was already dying of illness and finally passed away. Gwen Pulan was so sad that she committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea. Gwen Puland's face is ugly, but his heart is extremely beautiful.

"In Search of Lost Time" [France] Marcel Proust download 2722k

This is Marcel Proust, the French modern novelist and pioneer of stream-of-consciousness novels 's masterpiece. This is a novel with a unique style. It not only reproduces the objective world, but also shows the narrator's subjective world and records the narrator's inner feelings about the objective world. The story of this novel is not coherent, with various reflections, discussions, and flashbacks often inserted in the middle. The language has a unique style and is endlessly memorable. This work changed the traditional concept of novels and innovated the subject matter and writing techniques of novels. Proust left his name in the history of world literature as the originator of the stream-of-consciousness novel genre.

"The Three Musketeers" [France] Alexandre Dumas Download (615k)

The best and most famous historical novel by Alexandre Dumas.

It describes the story of three swordsmen, Porthos, Athos and Triamis, who help the protagonist d'Artagnan pursue love and revenge in the era of Louis XIII. The novel is characterized by vivid characters, touching plots, and wit.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" [France] Alexandre Dumas Download (1096k)

"The Count of Monte Cristo" is one of Alexandre Dumas's major works, published in 1844. It describes the story of sailor Dantès (Monte Cristo) taking revenge. He was framed and sent to death row. After he escaped from prison, he changed his name to the Count of Monte Cristo. With a large amount of treasures provided by his fellow prisoners, he repaid the benefactor who had been taking care of his father and punished the three people who had framed him and now became the ruling group of the July Dynasty. Kaname's enemy. The novel corrects the good and eliminates the evil, and has a clear pro-Napoleonic political tendency. The plot is tortuous, legendary, and has strong artistic charm.

"La Traviata" [France] Xiaozhongma download (131k)

"The Red and the Black" [France] Stendhal download (417k)

France The representative work of the writer Stendhal is subtitled "Chronicles of 1830". The novel describes the social life in the late reign of Charles X in the 1820s and reveals the intricate social contradictions of the Restoration Dynasty. Repeated avoidance is the basic theme of the work. The protagonist Julien is a typical image of a petty bourgeois individual striver during the French Restoration period. The clue of the novel is Julien's love story with the mayor's wife and the noble lady. Through the world of love, the author not only reveals the corrupt and hypocritical social atmosphere of the upper class, but also reveals Julien's contradictory character of sometimes resisting and sometimes compromising. In the end, Julien was sent to the guillotine, which showed that the Restoration Dynasty could not tolerate a commoner young man. The novel's vivid depiction of real life and the creation of typical characters in typical environments are its most important achievements in art, and they also reveal the psychological activities of the characters.

"The Abbey of Parma" [France] Stendhal Download

This novel describes Italy. It echoes the clarion call of Italy's national liberation struggle and tells the story of the nineteenth century. The life of a small manor in northern Italy in the early days, through the fictional character Ernest Centurion IV, allows us to understand the life under the autocratic monarchy system throughout Europe during the Restoration period, and depicts some typical ugly images. .

"Farnina Fanini" [French] Stendhal download (18k)

"Johan Christophe" [French] Romain Rolland download (820KB )

This masterpiece has 10 volumes, taking the life of the protagonist John Christopher as the main line, describing the growth, struggle and ultimate failure of this musical genius. Through the life of John Christopher, we can fully feel the power of morality, that is, the power of generosity, kindness and friendship. The characters in the whole work are meticulously portrayed, full of passion, and full of music. The delicate and excellent psychological description makes people read it sincerely, making people fully appreciate the resonance of the heart and soul. Called a "long narrative poem" by Gorky, it is hailed as the greatest novel of the 20th century. The whole book is like a huge symphony. Each volume is a movement with different musical ideas, moods and rhythms. Beginning with "Johan Christophe", Romain Rolland created a unique novel style. This masterpiece won the French Academy Literary Prize in 1913 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.

"The Stranger" [France] Camus Download 73k

"The Stranger" is a Canadian novel Miao's famous work is also a representative work of existential literature. It vividly embodies the concept of "absurdity" in existential philosophy; due to the separation of man and the world, the world is absurd and meaningless to man, and man is powerless against the absurd world, so he has no hope. Indifferent to everything.

"The Plague" [France] Camus Download 213k

"The Plague" and the author's first novella "The Stranger" are Camus' most powerful masterpieces, 1940 After Paris was occupied by German fascists, Camus had planned to use the form of allegory to depict the horrific era when fascists were devouring the lives of millions of people like the plague.

The novel is quite unique in its artistic style. It has a rigorous structure, a strong sense of life, and distinct characters. It depicts the psychological and emotional changes of the characters in different situations in depth and detail. The novel is full of epic stories of people fighting against the god of plague. The chapters, the touching elegy about life and death, the beautiful poems about friendship and love, and the fantastic pictures of the Mediterranean seaside make this work have a strong artistic charm.

"The Myth of Sisyphus" [France] Camus Download (4k)

This is a philosophical short story by Camus, the author is the object of argument for the tragedy of the Myth of Sisyphus , analyze the well-known tragic story from another angle, and give this tragic hero a new understanding. Through the author's discussion, we know that it is a kind of happiness to work tirelessly for one's own goals. Only a fulfilling life has the joy and value of living, and is meaningful.

"Beautiful Friend" [France] Maupassant download (311KB)

"Two Brothers" [France] Maupassant download 106k

"Dead Love" [France] Maupassant download 76k

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