The foreign classics include:
1. Notre Dame de Paris: a novel written by French writer victor hugo, which was first published on January 14th, 1831. 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 thought.
2. Red and Black: The novel created by French writer Stendhal is also his masterpiece. The work tells the story of the protagonist Julien, the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was a tutor at the local mayor's house. After the incident was revealed, he fled the mayor's house and entered the theological seminary. Recommended by the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris as a private secretary to Marquis larmor, the backbone of the ultra-royalist party, and was quickly appreciated and reused by Marquis.
3. Les Miserables: A novel published by French writer victor hugo in 1862, which covers the Napoleonic Wars and more than ten years after that. The main line of the story revolves around the personal experience of the protagonist Jean Valjean, a prisoner in Toulon, and integrates French history, revolution, war, moral philosophy, law, justice and religious belief. This work has been adapted and interpreted into film and television works for many times.
4. Gone with the Wind: a novel written by American writer margaret mitchell, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1937. The novel takes Atlanta and a nearby plantation as the story scene and depicts the life of southerners in the United States before and after the Civil War. The works depict the images of many southerners in that era, among which Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley, Melanie and others are typical representatives.
5. Childhood: the first of the trilogy of autobiographical novels created by Maxim Gorky, a writer of the former Soviet Union, based on his own experience (the other two parts are On Earth and My University respectively). This work tells the story of Alesha (Gorky's birth name)' s childhood life from the age of three to ten, vividly reproduces the living conditions of the lower class people in the former Soviet Union in the 197s and 198s, and writes Gorky's understanding of suffering and unique views on social life, with an endless longing and strength between the lines.
Reference: Top Ten World Classics-Baidu Encyclopedia