At first open a book, some for the author, some for the title. Not all the classics can be read further. Some books do not attract me at first. I am moved by a...

Cross is one of Henry Barbisse’s famous short stories on the subject of war. The novel takes a war of aggression against Africa launched by France in the 19th century as the background, and...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a coming-of-age novel. The novel’s protagonist, a young girl named Francie, lives in a poor family in Brooklyn in the early 20th century. My mother was a cleaner...

“Whenever you feel like criticizing someone,” he told me, “remember that not everyone in the world has the advantages that you have.” That’s the advice Nick Callaway, the first-person character in the great gatsby,...

After reading “Madame Bovary”, it is the afternoon time, around four o ‘clock, the sun is shining outside the window, cicada called unbridled, my heart is very trance, sadness like a river flowing. All...

Nineteenth-century English literature was a star-studded affair, and Charlotte. Bronte is certainly one of the brightest. The short, plain-looking woman writer, who had not lived to the age of forty, deserved to become one...

Before the war, every Sunday Morisau would set out at first light, catch the train from Argenteuil with a bamboo fishing rod in his hand and a white tin can on his back, alight...

With the last blow, everything was destroyed, and he had won it all. It took me a week to finish The final cut and see the end of Urquhart. Regardless of the merits of...

Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov’s most popular work. Most of its length is the confession of Humbert on death row. It tells the story of a middle-aged man and an underage girl’s strange love. The...