1, Andersen's fairy tales
Andersen's fairy tales are a collection of fairy tales created by Danish writer Andersen, which consists of 166 stories. Distinguish between love and hate, enthusiastically praise the working people and praise their good and pure character; Ruthlessly expose and criticize the stupidity, incompetence, greed and cruelty of princes and nobles. Among them, the famous stories are: Little Mermaid, Ugly Duckling, Little Match Girl, Thumbelina and so on.
2. grimm's fairy tales
Grimm's Fairy Tales is a German folk literature work collected, arranged and processed by German linguists jacob green and william green. There are more than 200 stories in Grimm's fairy tales, most of which come from folk oral legends, among which Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and Frog Prince are more famous.
3. Happy Prince
The city outlined in The Happy Prince is the epitome of Victorian English society.
Wilde put all kinds of ugly phenomena in the real society into the story, mercilessly lashed and exposed the cruel society at that time, and expressed deep sympathy for the charitable relief activities of the sympathetic happy prince and swallow and their ultimate failure. At the same time, the story itself implies the author's ideal social system tendency, which fundamentally questioned the moral standards of the society at that time.
4. Arabian Nights
According to legend, there was a Sasan kingdom between ancient India and China. King Ruyal was cruel and jealous, so he killed the queen because of her bad behavior. After that, he married a girl every day and killed her the next morning as revenge.
Scheherazade, the daughter of the Prime Minister, volunteered to marry the king to save the innocent woman and attract the king by telling stories. Every night, at dawn, the king couldn't bear to kill her and allowed her to continue talking the next night. Her story has been told for 1001 nights, and the king was finally moved to grow old with her. Gorky praised it as "the most magnificent monument" in the history of world folk literature because of its rich content and large scale.
5. Alice's adventures in the mirror
Alice's Adventures in the Mirror is a children's literature work by lewis carroll, a British writer and a mathematics lecturer at Oxford University in the19th century. Published in 187 1, it is a companion piece of Alice in Wonderland.
The story describes the magical and illusory experience of the little girl Alice in her dream. She walked into the world in the mirror and met the pretentious and stupid queen of red and white chess; It's good to talk to flowers, animals and insects ... When Alice walked into the mirror, time went back and there were many strange scenes:
Originally silent flowers and animals also spoke; Sheep are knitting sweaters with glasses; In the eyes of those monsters, talent is the truly ridiculous and incredible monster. According to the basic principle that the image in the mirror is contrary to the real image, Carol designed the place where Alice's dream happened in the mirror. Everything in the mirror is upside down, creating a very absurd effect.