Introduce a good book in English, preferably a foreign masterpiece, not too abstruse. Thank you.

English introduction of four classic novels;

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How the Steel Was Tempered

How the Steel was Tempered is an epic semi-autobiographical novel by Nikolai ostrovsky, which is the only book he finished before his untimely death due to illness at the age of 32 (1936). Ostrovsky was a young soldier of the Red Army during the civil war, and then continued to work in the Komsomol, and frequently appeared in Soviet magazines and radio stations.

Pavel korchagin, the hero of the book, begins the story with a boy who works in the kitchen of the Ukrainian railway station restaurant under the rule of the war-torn czar. This book not only tells the growth process of Kozakin, but also tells the story that socialism developed from the ruins of the First World War and experienced the victory of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution until the start of the Soviet planned economy in the late1920s. In "Work and War", ostrovsky's famous saying describes Kochakin's view of life:

"Our most precious property is life. It only gives us once. We must live like this, so that we will not feel painful regret for the wasted years, and we will never know the shame of the despicable and trivial past; So alive that we can say: all my life, all my strength has been dedicated to the greatest cause in the world-the struggle for the liberation of mankind. "

Although ostrovsky's novel is one of the most popular novels in the world and has been printed in millions of copies in many countries in many languages, it has naturally never been regarded as a great literary work by bourgeois critics. Its theme and its immortal message, that is, the working class and the press can and must seize and consciously shape their own destiny, as always, shining on the pages and years, which means it can't be a great work of art of these people. "How Steel was Tempered" has no literary conceit or incomprehensible paragraphs, but this does not mean that it is poorly written, nor does it mean that its description is not artistic.

How the Steel was Tempered is often dismissed as a pure propaganda novel, but it does convey a powerful message, but it is not a cynical work of a hacker. Ostrovsky was knocked down by a terrible degenerative disease, which took away his limbs and eyesight. He made great efforts to continue the struggle for human liberation through his novels, most of which were painfully written with the help of waxed paper. Like Nikolai ostrovsky, pavel korchagin didn't let anything break his spirit. Until the last moment of his life, he maintained a positive outlook on life.

As for what you said, it's simple, but it's quite difficult. The above items are not long enough. You can cut it yourself.