To Kill a Mockingbird is a recognized classic of American literature, but its significance in the field of education has pushed its borders and become one of the most famous coming-of-age novels in the world. "To Kill a Mockingbird" has a huge influence in the Western world, is a must-read list in American primary and secondary schools, the most borrowed book in the library, and the favorite book of British teenagers, and in the most recent poll, it even overwhelmed the Bible and became the "most revealing book".
The valuable thing about "To Kill a Mockingbird" is that it shapes the model of human family education and provides highly operable examples and demonstrations. Unlike many fictional stories that want to keep children's pure hearts, it focuses on teaching children how to practice demeanor in tribulations, accumulate righteousness in injustice, how to shape their moral bottom line in a world full of ugliness and problems, and maintain spiritual decency. In addition, the civilian heroic father of The book provides an educational manual for confused parents: how to identify children's problems, which are caused by age, should give them time to grow, which problems are the key to growth, are issues of principle, must intervene in time; what kind of image parents should be, in a complex society, which aspects should be adapted to conform, which aspects should adhere to their positions, even if they have to pay a price.
It can be said that the subject of "Kill a Mockingbird" is eternal, it is to break through the limitations of the times, it is the struggle between faith and reality, it is also the basis for creating a better world, and it is also the confidence of human beings in themselves. This is one of the reasons why "The Mockingbird" has been so prosperous.
"Absolute Scream" is a speculative novel created by The Japanese emerging social reasoning writer Ye Zhenzhongxian, which tells the story of the heroine Yoko's secret ups and downs and criminal life under the appearance of mediocrity and cowardice. The book exposes social problems that are often overlooked, profound and thought-provoking, depicts the changes in the characters' thoughts delicately and to the point, and uses Yoko's bizarre experience to intersperse various microcosms of Japan's social changes in the past forty years, and is a representative and excellent speculative novel in Japan in recent years.
The book caused great repercussions in Japan as soon as it was published, and was shortlisted for the 68th Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, the 36th Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Newcomer Award, the 27th "This Mystery Novel Is Great" Award, the 12th Bookstore Award, the 11th Kaibundo Award, and the Weekly Bunchun Annual Speculative Fiction List.
Heartbreaking but powerless true story.
A Literary Singing of Death The annual Chinese novel that has touched thousands of readers.
It is an astonishing and special novel, and the author of the novel is both highly sensitive and a close witness, so that the whole thing is preserved like a "surviving specimen". The whole book repeatedly, from the point of view of the victim, is directly confronted with the pain of "someone else taking away something precious from you"—and the person who plunders it takes pleasure in it.
The first full translation of the original Lolita in fifty years Chinese. Nabokov's most famous and controversial masterpiece of fiction.
"The Plague" is the representative work of the French existentialist writer Camus, and is considered to be Camus's influential and socially significant work. The novel tells the story of the residents of Oran, represented by Dr. Rieux, who face the sudden plague and the threat of death, and bravely resist the enemy.
With rich details, the book vividly shows the living daily life in the small town, and also clearly depicts the struggle and struggle of ordinary people at the time of the outbreak of the plague, showing the attitude of people in distress and their pursuit of truth and justice.
"Les Misérables" is another magnificent work created by the famous French Romantic writer Victor Hugo after "Notre Dame de Paris", which is a long novel representing Hugo's thought and artistic style.
The book is expressive in its artistic excellence through the tragic experiences of Jean Valjean and others and a series of touching deeds made by Jean Vall after being inspired by Bishop Bian Furu. It shows people a brilliant picture of modern social and political life in France from the French Revolution in 1793 to the Paris People's Uprising in 1832, profoundly exposes and criticizes the decadent nature and evil phenomena of The french feudal autocratic society in the 19th century, and expresses compassion and sympathy for the exploitation, fraud and cruel persecution suffered by the poor people under the pressure of feudalism.
The novel reflects Hugo's humanitarian thoughts, full of Hugo's concern for the fate of human suffering and unswerving belief in the future, has a shocking artistic appeal, and is known as "the encyclopedia of human suffering" and "the spiritual epic of human nature for good", and is a model of the combination of realism and romanticism in the history of world literature.
"Crime and Punishment" is a novel written by the Russian writer Dostoevsky, and it is also his masterpiece. The novel depicts Raskolnikov, a poor college student, poisoned by anarchist ideas and believing that he can do whatever he wants. Forced to make a living, he killed Ariana, an old loan shark, and her innocent sister, Lizaveda, in a murder case that shocked the whole of Russia.
After a painful confession, he finally surrendered himself under the advice of the Christian sophia girl and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on the psychological changes of the protagonist after committing a crime, revealing the miserable life of the russian lower class.
"The Brothers Karamazov" is one of the representative works of the great Russian writer Dostoevsky in the 19th century. "The Brothers Karamazov" depicts the sharp conflict between the elder Karamazov and his three sons, two generations, through a real father-killing case.
The elder Karamazov was greedy and lustful, monopolizing the inheritance left by his wife to his sons, and competing with his eldest son, Dmitry, for a popular woman. One night, Dmitry suspected that his lover had gone to meet the old man, so he broke into the house, and in a fit of rage, almost smashed the old man to death. After he fled in a hurry, Spilgakov, the illegitimate son of the old Karamazov who was hiding in the shadows, quietly killed the old man, causing a mysterious bloody case that shocked all of Russia, thus triggering a series of thrilling events.
The work shows the tragedy of a complex social family, morality and human nature, and embodies the highest artistic achievement of the writer's life.
William Golding (1911-1993), one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth century, whose novels are rich in allegory and widely integrated into classical literature, mythology, Christian culture and symbolism, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983 for his novels "with clear realist narrative art and the diversity and universality of myths, revealing the state of human nature in the world today".
"Church Spire" is Golding's important masterpiece, a masterpiece that deeply explores the intricacies of human faith and despair, ideals and reality. Sheikh Joslin of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore really felt the Lord's call to build a four-hundred-foot-tall church spire for the glory of the Lord. He naively thought that as long as he was "pious" and had a firm "will", God would certainly help him build a steeple up to the heavenly court on the ground, and the result was, of course, a failure. In "Church Spire", Golding places his hope on human beings to seek the ideal realm, and also reveals the reality of the ideal to be destroyed; the lofty desire and the ugly reality, the struggle for the good and the desire for evil are intertwined; through the intersection of absurdity and reality, symbolism and metaphor, the author profoundly reveals the truth of human nature and society.
The age of television flourished, television changed the content and meaning of public discourse, politics, religion, education, sports, business and any other public sphere of content, increasingly appeared in the form of entertainment and became a cultural spirit, while human beings became silently vassals of entertainment, without complaint, even willingly, with the result that we became a species that entertained to death.
George Orwell predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four that humanity would suffer from external oppression and lose its freedom; Huxley expressed another concern in Brave New World: people would fall in love with the entertainment and culture brought about by industrial technology and stop thinking.
What "Entertain to Death" wants to tell everyone that may become a reality is Huxley's prophecy, not Orwell's prophecy; what destroys us is not what we hate, but exactly what we love!
This book is a collection of speeches, interviews and reviews by Mr. Chen Jiaying from 2007 to 2018.
There are different paths, there were different paths in the past, there are different paths now, and there will be different paths in the future. The important question is not to find the only way, but how to echo, how to communicate, how to fight between these different paths. If you insist that philosophy wants the only system of truth, then I have to say that philosophy is dead.
Philosophy, especially today's philosophy, is not missionary, not a missionary mission of wisdom and inferiority. What we ask for is not first of all to let others understand, but to ask ourselves to understand.
"What I personally want is to think seriously, to express these thoughts seriously, and to summon people who love to think together."
Tocqueville was a well-known French political thinker, and after the publication of his masterpiece "On Democracy in the United States", it was immediately and universally praised, making him famous overseas. The first and second volumes of this work were not written in the same period, but were separated by 5 years, so the tone, structure, and narrative differed.
The first part of the first volume deals with the political system in the United States, and the second part provides a sociological analysis of democracy in the United States. The next volume is divided into four parts, using the United States as a background to develop its political philosophy and political sociological ideas.
The Opium of the Intellectuals is a book by Raymond Aron in the early days of the Cold War, a book by the French people who reflected on French disease in response to the situation in France, especially the French intellectuals at that time.
In the book "The Opium of Intellectuals", the author analyzes and criticizes the French intellectuals themselves who prefer to go to extremes, which is an important reference for the study of the history of modern French thought and a famous work of sociology of knowledge.
In many cases, deep thought tends to take a one-sided stance, as is the work of the left, and it is also true of the works of the right. So, even after decades, when we read Aaron's book again, we will still marvel at the sobriety and sharpness of it.
This book was originally a series of lectures by Isaiah Berlin at the BBC's third programme in 1952. Proceeding from the basic ideas of liberalism, he discusses the views of the famous thinkers in the history of modern thought, such as Elvision, Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Saint-Simon and Meister, on freedom and human history.
According to Berlin, with the exception of Meister, who was a blatant opponent of human freedom, these thinkers were all positive about human freedom, but their understanding of freedom led to historical consequences against freedom.
The main character in Reading Plato's Book 1 is Socrates, but it is Plato who really expresses his opinion, and Plato stands on the basis of Socrates' theory and criticizes the views and ideas of the Greek rulers and nobles at that time.
In Reading Plato's Book 1: Reading Plato, Plato insisted on building his ideal kingdom, which was the philosopher's ideal plan for statecraft, hoping to give advice to the rulers of Athens at that time to restore Greece to its ideals of order.
This book makes extensive use of the Qing Dynasty recitals collected by the First Historical Archive of China, the Sino-British negotiating documents collected by the British, the compilation of materials compiled by Japanese scholars, etc., and examines and reconstructs a large number of basic historical facts related to the war in detail. The author captures several main characters to unfold the narrative for clues. From weapons and equipment, fortifications, soldier training to the use of combat tactics; from logistics, troop mobilization, and mobilization of troops to the source, collection and distribution of military expenditure, it is more related to the economic strength that belligerents can use for war, the mentality of the personnel responsible for planning, their concept of war (from the cultural level), the tactical view (from the military point of view) and so on. These faces have either been overlooked or obscured in past Opium War studies, but are fully illustrated in this book.
The Opium War had a great impact on China's modern history, and it was also the beginning of China's century-old national humiliation, which brought great psychological trauma to the Chinese nation, and the evaluation of people and events at that time in this book was judged from the identification of facts, especially the serious review of the Heavenly Dynasty mentality presented in the Qing Dynasty's compromise, pointing directly to the deep causes of China's defeat. The book's rigorous arguments to break through the academic nature of past mistakes and the strong patriotic sentiment of avoiding the mistakes of history are shocking and moving to read.
This book seeks to provide the most thorough interpretation of the deepest crime in human history, using a specific place as a starting point: Auschwitz.
History is not a script, and there is never more than one truth. Auschwitz is not an extermination camp dedicated to the killing of Jews, nor is it related only to the "final settlement"—Auschwitz, the history of the struggle of Nazi officials such as concentration camp commander Hoth; the emotional purgatory of Poles, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses; it is the story of an eight-year-old German girl who gets up one day and suddenly finds herself a gypsy and is thrown into Auschwitz; it is the story of a post-war survivor who returns home and finds that the outside world is worse than Auschwitz... The book is not alone, and every word spoken comes from more than two historical records, including declassified archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union and interviews with witnesses.
"People ask me, what did you learn at Auschwitz? I guess I can only be sure of one thing: no one really knows themselves. In November 1944, Himmler demanded that Eichmann stop the expulsion of Hungarian Jews, saying: "So far you have been exterminating the Jews, but I now order you to become a supporter of the Jews from today onwards." The fact that human behavior and beliefs can be reversed in an instant, evolving in an unexpected direction in response to one's own situation, is precisely the so-called "human nature."
Auschwitz is a much bigger story that we never really understood. There are many stories involved here that allow us to better understand ourselves.
This book is a memoir of sebastian Hafner's youth, a famous German political commentator and historical monographist.
The book begins in the summer of 1914 on the eve of the outbreak of World War I and ends at the end of 1933, when Hafner passed "worldview education" in the "alternate civilian camp", the year of the first year of the Third Reich. In this book, Hafner focuses on a duel between two rivals of great disparity: a powerful and unscrupulous state on one side, and a small and unknown civilian youth on the other. As an ordinary German youth who grew up between the two world wars, the author vividly describes the growth process, psychological state of that generation of teenagers, and the changes in the country and society they experienced.
This masterpiece... The insoluble mysteries of Hitler's Reich almost stunned modern tirades on the same subject.
Hannah Arendt's controversial book, a comprehensive summary of Nazi Jewish policy in World War II, proposed the famous concept of "banal evil," and sparked a fifty-year debate in Western intellectual circles
● Record the whole process of the trial of Nazi war criminals in detail, restore the historical scene, and explore the legitimacy of the post-war trial
●The full translation of the unabridged Chinese Simplified was published for the first time
● Special collection of Arendt's German edition of the self-prologue and German historiography giant Hans Monson's introduction
In 1961, the Jerusalem District Court conducted a protracted trial of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal and a key enforcer of the "final solution to the Jewish question." Hannah Arendt wrote five reports on the trial for the New Yorker, which were later compiled into a book. Eichmann in Jerusalem chronicles in detail the entire process of the trial, which attracted global attention, and combines the analysis of a large number of historical sources to propose the concept of "banal evil". The embodiment of evil is not necessarily a violent demon, but also an ordinary, dedicated, and loyal little civil servant. Eichmann's sins committed because of his thoughtlessness and blind obedience could not be forgiven under the pretext of "acting on orders" or "acting by the state."
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