There was a gambler who always dreamed of becoming a rich man by gambling one day. By chance, his only lady knows a secret that can predict gambling. He tried his best to meet the lady, but the lady said it was just a joke. The gambler didn't believe it and killed the lady by mistake.
Later, the gambler had a dream. I dreamed that the lady said to herself that she could tell herself the secret. But there are two conditions, one is that you can only use it once in your life, and the other is to gamble all your property.
Gamblers act according to what they say in their dreams and their plans. Bet in the order of 3, 7 and A as my wife said. I won the first two times, and I won a sum of money, which is enough to become a rich man. He could have chosen to stop, but he didn't. Greed finally destroyed him.
The third time, the card was A, and the gambler said, I won. The dealer said, you lost. Because the gambler's card became the queen of spades, the gambler seemed to see your wife become the queen of spades and smiled at him. As a result, he not only lost everything, but also went crazy.
The plot of Pushkin's novels is very compact and touching, and the ending is quite meaningful. Many people can live a rich life, but it is greed that ruins everything.
Lady Agatha, an Icelandic fisherman: Author: (French) pierre loti. Type: Icelandic fisherman: love; Mrs. Agatha: Travel.
Icelandic fishermen: In a seaside town in France, generations have been fishing in Iceland for a living. The sea swallowed countless young people, but they still set sail.
The heroine Goth fell in love with the handsome fisherman Yann at first sight at a dance. Yann was a little interested in her at first, but in the following years, she was cold to her. This makes Goth very sad.
Young's best friend Sylvester is Goth's brother. Sylvester really wants them to be together. Yann said that he would never get married unless one day he married the sea. ...
Sylvester went to Vietnam for military service (actually fighting for the war of aggression), was shot dead in Vietnam, and left this native land where he grew up forever, and was buried far away.
During this period, Goth's father went bankrupt and died. Goth lived a very poor life and lived alone with Sylvester's grandmother. For two years, Goth has never forgotten Yann.
Goth's life is miserable, and grandma's consciousness is getting more and more unconscious. Finally, one day, Yang En came to Gothic home and said, "I just got paid. If you don't mind (I thought he wanted to borrow Gothic money, but he didn't), let's get married. "
All the misfortunes disappeared again. There was never any reason why Yann didn't love Goth. It was only because everyone wanted them to be together that Yann rebelled. Because Yann will go to sea again soon, they held a wedding before going to sea. After six days as husband and wife, I had to part. Goth also wanted Yann to give up this dangerous career, but Yann loves the sea so much.
It's time to return. All the boats are back. However, Yann's boat never came back, and Goth waited day by day with fear, anxiety and anxiety. After a long time, Goth even hoped that the unfortunate news would come soon and he would no longer suffer from this kind of pain.
Yann never came back. One day, he married the sea because he was eloquent.
Although the stories of Goth and Yann are sympathetic, there is no deeper theme in the book. Discrimination against the yellow race is more obvious in Mrs Agatha.
Mrs. Agatha: This movie has no plot. It should be a real experience about the author. The writer is a French officer who has traveled to many colonies. After he arrived in Japan, he rented a woman named Agatha. Lived together for several months, but paid her a sum of money and left.
The most unbearable thing is that the author always thinks that he is a higher person, looks down on any oriental, and laughs at oriental culture very much (indignation! )。
There is really nothing touching about this story. I really don't know how Mrs. Butterfly was born.
Odyssey: Author (ancient Greece) Homer. Type: epic.
This is a long narrative poem. If you want to understand it, you must master some knowledge of Greek mythology.
Odysseus is a hero who sacrificed his Trojan horse to capture Troy. However, after the victory, the result was not as good as returning home with clothes, because Poseidon vowed to avenge the killing of Poseidon's son. Odysseus can't cross the sea anyway, but he can only wander outside for ten years.
At the same time, Odysseus' wife and son were harassed by the rich, and all suitors came to propose to Odysseus' wife. They still live in Odysseus' house, eating and drinking for nothing, because Odysseus didn't come back, and no one can drive them away.
However, things have changed. With Athena's help, Odysseus set foot on his way home. Odysseus' son Telemarcos also went out to look for his father.
The main part of the book is about Odysseus' wandering experience, so I won't describe them here. Odysseus went home and killed all the suitors, and the husband and wife were reunited. Husband and wife meet is very well written. Odysseus' wife deliberately said that their wedding bed had been moved in those years in order to verify that he was really Odysseus. Odysseus was surprised because he built the bed himself. One of the bedposts was a stump, and no one could move it. Then they recognized each other.
However, due to the limitations of the times, after all, it is about slave society, so many behaviors of people in the book can not be accepted by modern people, as if heroes are measured by the number of murders. However, the plot is still very beautiful, at least it makes people feel magnificent.
Collection of short stories by Allan Poe: Author (America) Allan Poe (pure nonsense). Type: horror, detective, absurdity, etc.
Edgar Allan Poe is a little-known writer. His fame is far less than that of jules verne, Conan Doyle and Wilde. However, if these three writers all got nutrition from Poe's works before writing their masterpieces, would you believe it?
Edgar Allan Poe was a genius, but the fate of genius was always ill-fated. This is also reflected in his works, no matter what type, it seems that people can't see a trace of sunshine.
The Collapse of Houses in Hubei Province tells the thrilling story of a man coming to a haunted house. Really serve every word as the center, making people feel as if they are in that gloomy and horrible Hubei government. Many of these bridges have been imitated by many literary and film works in later generations and become a means to render the atmosphere of terror.
Glasses tell a strange story. Simpson refused to wear glasses because of his high myopia. The result was played by his great-great grandmother, who almost married an 80-year-old woman, but the ending was still very happy.
The image of Dobbin in Murder in Mao Mu Street, The Mystery of Mary Logue and The Theft of Letters is the predecessor of Sherlock Holmes. In fact, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle also expressed his respect for Poe through the mouth of Sherlock Holmes. Although Holmes looks down on Dobbin in the book, it is obvious that the author's intention can be seen. And this set of roads was later imitated by many detective novels. By the way, Dobbin's idol is Victor, a famous French detective (Chinese businessman and Javert in Les Miserables, Dunglas prototype in The Count of Monte Cristo), Dobbin is the predecessor of Sherlock Holmes, who is the idol of detective Conan. In order to pay tribute to the idol Conan Doyle, G?sh? Aoyama specially named the hero in his cartoon Conan. I like to find the context of this kind of literature.
Ailionora tells a story very similar to a fairy tale. The protagonist and his lover, Ai Leonora, live in a "beautiful grass valley" and live an isolated life. One day, however, arianna died, and the protagonist promised her that she would never marry again in this life. However, the lonely hero, looking at every grass and tree in the splendid grass valley, misses Allehaut Nora all the time. One day, he couldn't stand the pain of missing, left the splendid grass valley and came to the secular society.
The hero fell in love with a woman in the world of mortals and married her (a man or ...). arianna forgave him and stopped taking the oath.
Portrait of the Oval tells the story of a painter who paints with his own life. It's really bizarre, but it's touching.
Dorian Gray: Author: (English) Wilde. Type: love.
This book was written under the influence of Portrait of the Oval and another short story by Poe. Dorian was a handsome young aristocrat who fell in love with Shakespeare's playwright Sybil. And engaged to it, Sybil's younger brother James hates the aristocratic class, because Sybil's brother and sister are illegitimate children of a noble, and they have no birthright because of their mother's birth. James is going to be a sailor soon. Before leaving, he said that if the nobles failed Sybil, they would tear him to pieces.
Dorian was originally a kind-hearted young man, but his life was completely changed because of a painting. His painter friend painted a portrait for him. He is so pure in his paintings that Tao Ren can't help being jealous, because portraits can never be changed, but a person's youth is so short. When he is old, he will be sad to see this painting. So at that time, he made a wish that he would regret for life in the future: let the portrait bear the vicissitudes of time and let himself be young forever.
Sybil's play is a mess because she loves Dorian. Dorian scolded her angrily and left in spite of her entreaties. After that, Dorian felt nothing and wanted to save it, but it was too late. Sybil thought Dorian would never love herself again and committed suicide in despair.
Knowing this fact, Dorian regretted it. But inadvertently, he found a trace of coldness in his portrait. This surprised Dorian. He never thought that his wish would come true. No matter what he does, people will never find a stain on his appearance. For this reason, Dorian's conscience was broken, and he became as evil as his friend Henry, having fun, finding some ordinary girls, playing with their looks and then abandoning them. The fate of these women is naturally tragic.
Unconsciously, eighteen years have passed. Dorian is as young and handsome as he was eighteen years ago, and Henry has become a half-bad old man. Dorian has a mysterious hobby, that is, after every evil deed, he will look at the portrait and become old and evil again and again, but he is still so young and full of vitality, and he enjoys it. He doesn't allow anyone to look at this portrait, so people don't know its secret.
One day, Dorian got entangled with a woman he had abandoned before, and this woman was abandoned by Dorian and became a prostitute. Inadvertently, a man was surprised when he heard the woman call Dorian "Prince Charming". This man is Sybil's brother James. For eighteen years, he has been looking for the killer of his sister. However, he didn't know the name of the noble, only that his sister called her lover "Prince Charming".
James caught up with Dorian and threatened to kill him. Dorian desperately denied it. Finally, Dorian said, "Look at my face in the light!" " "Because Dorian's appearance is only in his early twenties, James thinks he can't be the man who was eighteen years ago. Dorian survived. However, James learned from subsequent conversations with women that Dorian was already a "charming prince" 8 years ago.
Later, the author of the portrait came back to visit Tao Ren, because Tao Ren had a bad reputation and the painter didn't believe it. One night, the painter came to Tao Ren's home alone, and Tao Ren told him the secret of the painting. The painter was heartbroken. He couldn't believe that his hard work was destroyed by Tao Ren. He thinks that Tao Ren ruined the painting. Tao Ren said, you are wrong. It was this painting that ruined me. After that, Dorian began to hate all this and killed the painter himself.
In order to destroy the body, Dorian threatened Campbell, a chemistry enthusiast, with something in his hand. Campbell was forced to destroy the painter's body. No one knows what happened that night. People want to know where the painter went. Anyway, Dorian is safe.
Dorian went on holiday somewhere else. On the way, he found that James had been following him. Dorian had to be on tenterhooks for fear that he would die. However, his worry is unnecessary. In the process of hunting, James died unexpectedly, and no one came to Dorian to kill him.
Dorian turned over a new leaf. This time he didn't touch the little girl who fell in love with him. However, when he returned to his room, he found that the portrait had not changed at all. No matter what he does, nothing can make up for what he did in the past. Dorian wanted to destroy the portrait because it was evidence of his crime. But in the end, the portrait was intact and Dorian killed himself by mistake.
When people found Dorian's body, no one believed that the old and disgusting man would be the young man who stayed young forever the day before, but the portrait was restored to its original appearance.
Perhaps, only Tao Ren's death can make atonement and restore the portrait to its innocent face.
The author begins by saying, "Youth is nothing but it!" It is precisely because Dao Lian agreed with this view that he took youth so seriously, which ruined the youth of many people and made his youth meaningless. It is impossible to go back in time. It is precisely because youth is perishable that we cherish it more. Besides spending a lifetime in love, we can also have many meaningful things to give. After reading so many books, anyone who values love above all else is often very fragile. Just as Sybil can live, Tao Ren may not have such a tragic ending, although Tao Ren deserved it.
Youth is really precious, but it is not the only thing. In order to stay young forever, Tao Ren lost the happiness of his life.