Various classic literary works

The most classic one is of course "Gone with the Wind"! !

"Gone with the Wind" tells a love story with the American Civil War as the background.

The protagonist of the novel, Scarlet O'Hara, is the daughter of a wealthy and well-established plantation owner in Georgia, USA.

Father Gerald is an immigrant from Ireland. When he first arrived in Georgia, Gerald was penniless and won the ownership of the Tarot Manor through gambling. So he started to start a business in this red land and weave his American dream. It wasn't until he was 43 that he married 15-year-old Ellen, the daughter of French immigrants from the East Coast. Gerald is kind-hearted but has a bad temper, while the young wife has a good family education and strict moral values. She personally handled the daily affairs of the entire manor, and even treated the black slaves in the manor and delivered babies. Therefore, the couple were respected by the surrounding white manor owners and also deeply loved by the black slaves. Daughter Scarlet grew up slowly in this environment.

In April 1861, relations between the North and the South of the United States were already very tense. Men in Georgia were talking about the inevitable war. However, 16-year-old Scarlet had no interest in this. In addition to the dance and outings, what she was thinking about was the group of admirers surrounding her. When she heard that Ashley Wilkes would announce her engagement to Melanie at the outdoor party the next day, she was shocked. She has always liked Ashley's gentlemanly demeanor, and believes that she is much better than Melanie in every aspect. With her charm, she can definitely convince Ashley to elope with her.

But at the banquet the next day, Scarlet never found a chance to talk to Ashley alone, because Ashley had been with Melanie. Together. Out of a sense of revenge, Scarlet easily attracted Melanie's brother Charles to her side. In a few words, this shy, inexperienced and in love man The young man was fascinated. After the banquet, the male guests were arguing fiercely about the current situation. Gerald had a particularly heated argument with a stranger named Rhett Butler. Leiter believed that the South had no industrial resources and would definitely lose in a war; but Gerald and his friends believed that the Yankees could defeat the enemy in one or two battles without fighting. They surrendered.

In the afternoon, Scarlet finally seized an opportunity to discuss her idea with Ashley, but Ashley politely refused. Scar

Leiter felt "abandoned" by Ashley. She angrily slapped Ashley.

News of the war came and the dance that night was cancelled. Scarlet suddenly decided to marry Charles because

it could save her own face and stimulate Ashley and her suitors. In this way, the willful Scarlet became Charles's wife two weeks later.

Two months later, Charles died of illness at the front, and Scarlet suddenly became a widow. To make matters worse, she found out that she was pregnant. A few months later, her son Wade was born.

The life of a widow makes the lively Scarlet unbearable. At this time, Ashley also went to the front line. His wife Melanie wrote from Atlanta, inviting her to stay at Charles's aunt's house temporarily. Scarlet left the tower with Wade. Rowe Manor,

comes to Atlanta.

The change in environment made Scarlet's mood slightly better. Fortunately, her late husband Charles left her a estate and several shops in the city.

As the war became more and more intense, women in Atlanta were mobilized to go to local hospitals to care for the sick and wounded brought back from the front

and to provide support for the Confederacy. The army sewed munitions. However, as Scarlet is a new widow, she cannot attend the balls and parties held for

the soldiers on the warpath.

Once, the hospital held a fundraising dance. Due to a shortage of manpower, Scarlet was called in to help. At the ball, Scarlet once again met Leiter, who had debated with her father at the Tarot Manor. Now, Leiter has become Atlanta's most famous businessman who stole supplies across the northern blockade to provide supplies to the southern army. Every time he came back from the north, he also brought the fashionable clothes and fabrics that the upper-class women in Atlanta liked. Therefore, Leiter was very popular with ladies. When the dance began, Leiter invited Si Carret to be his dance partner. Scarlet finally couldn't bear the temptation and stepped onto the dance floor in mourning clothes.

As the war situation continues to worsen, the rules and regulations in life gradually fade in people's minds. Scarlet returned to her original appearance, frequently participating in various entertainment activities, flirting and joking with the officers. But she still couldn't get Ashley out of her mind.

For a time, Leiter became a guest in many homes in Atlanta. However, he quickly became annoying because of his constant ridicule and sarcasm of the Confederacy. Only Melanie agreed with Leiter's analysis of the war, because her husband Ashley also believed in the letter that the Confederacy could not win the war at all.

In July 1863, the troops commanded by Confederate General Robert E. Lee were defeated in the northern state of Pennsylvania. Many of the boys who grew up with Scarlet were killed in that fierce battle. On Christmas Eve, Ashley returned from the front line and rested at home for a few days. When they were alone, Scarlet told Ashley the real reason why she married Charles and admitted that she still loved him. However, Ashley has lost his past passion after suffering in the war. At the beginning of the next year, Melanie received a notice from the front saying that Ashley was missing. Later, through Leiter's northern connections, it became clear: Ashley was not dead. He was wounded, captured and imprisoned in the Rock Island Concentration Camp in the north.

In the summer of 1864, the Northern Army approached Atlanta, the capital of the Confederacy. The city was under siege, and many families in the city, including Charles' aunt, fled Atlanta. But because Melanie was about to give birth, Scarlet had no choice but to stay by her side.

In the meantime, Leiter once visited and asked Scarlet to be his mistress, but Scarlet refused.

At the end of August, the sound of siege artillery suddenly fell silent. Legend has it that the Confederates had decided to abandon the city. At this time,

Melanie’s son was born. At this time, the city of Atlanta was in chaos and there was no doctor at all. In desperation, Scarlet delivered the baby herself, saving the lives of Melanie and her son. That night, the last batch of Confederate troops withdrew from Atlanta. The Northern Army would soon enter the city. In desperation, Scarlet had no choice but to turn to Rhett for help. Leiter used a stolen horse carriage to transport her, Melanie and her son out of the city, and rushed to the Tarot Manor at night.

The scenes along the way made Scarlet panic. Many familiar manors were burned to ruins, with only a few ruins standing there. After a rough day, they finally arrived at Tarot Manor. Unexpectedly, Tarot's white building was still intact. But the only people who came out to greet them were their father Gerald and a black slave housekeeper; Scarlet's two sisters were seriously ill in bed, and her mother passed away yesterday. The old Gerald barely recognizes his own daughter

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The burden of the entire family suddenly fell on the shoulders of Scarlet, a 19-year-old widow. In addition to himself and his children, the whole family also includes his father, two sisters, Melanie and her newborn, as well as the only three black slaves on the manor, so there are total needs

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Maintain the livelihood of 10 people. At this time, she remembered the stories she heard from her father when she was a child, about those Irish fathers who started their families with their own hands.

The first problem before us is to find something to eat. So Scarlet carried the basket to dig in the fields and pick up from the ruins every day. Her two younger sisters were both delicate young ladies who couldn't be counted on. Even the three black slaves emphasized that they only did housework and never worked in the fields. The hard life has tempered Scarlet, but it has also made her ruthless.

Everyone in the family is a little afraid of her. From this moment on, Scarlet had a strong desire to restore Tarot Manor

to its former glory: the dining table was filled with silver tableware, translucent wine glasses and sumptuous food. Horses were tied up in the stables, luxurious four-wheel carriages were placed in the carriage house, and groups of black slaves were picking cotton in Tarot's fields...

One day, A Union soldier broke into the manor on horseback. Scarlet killed him with a pistol and obtained a horse and a sum of money found in the soldier's pocket. This relieved her urgent need.

On Christmas Eve, sister Sue Ellen's fiancé Frank Kennedy came to the manor with a Confederate food collection team.

Of course, Scarlet would not give them the food they had worked so hard to obtain for free.

In April 1865, the Confederate Army surrendered, and the war finally ended. Many Southerners wept over their defeat

. In Scarlet's mind, the more important question is how to save Tarot Manor.

After the war, some soldiers passed by Tarot Manor every day on their way back to their hometown. One day, Scarlet found an unconscious young man lying at the door and rescued him. Under everyone's care, the young man named Will gradually recovered to health. Will was homeless, so he settled in Tarot and slowly took on many management tasks of the manor.

Ashley finally came back alive. His clothes were ragged, his appearance was haggard, and his original temperament had completely disappeared. In the spring of the next year, the new government ordered Tarot Manor to pay the new surtax within a time limit, otherwise the manor would be auctioned to offset the tax. It turns out that Jonas, the butler who was expelled from the Tarot Manor due to his mistakes a few years ago, became the leader of the newly established Committee for the Liberation of Black Slaves. Now, he is trying to embezzle the Tarot Manor, so he came up with the idea of ??forcing additional taxes to be paid. Scarlet and Will were at a loss, hoping Ashley could help them find a way, but Ashley's cowardice and incompetence disappointed them.

In despair, Scarlet suddenly remembered Leiter. If Scarlet is willing to spend money to keep the Tarot Manor, Scarlet is willing to marry him or be his mistress. The next day, Scarlet came to Atlanta to look for Leiter. Only then did he learn that Leiter had been imprisoned on suspicion of embezzling a large amount of funds from the Confederacy. The depressed Scarlet accidentally met her sister Sue Ellen's fiancé Frank. He is now the owner of a store and has a lot of money. Scarlet suddenly comes up with a plan and lies that Suellen is married, and then easily gets Frank into her arms. . Two weeks later, they were married.

Tarot Manor is saved! But it was soon discovered that Frank had no business acumen and turned a deaf ear to other people's advice.

As a result, the business was not running well. At this time, Leiter was released through various personal connections. He lent Scarlet a sum of money, and Scarlet bought a failed wood processing factory behind Frank's back and ran it on his own. For a woman to run a business and make money like a man was unprecedented in Atlanta. This incident caused a great stir.

Scarlet is pregnant. She wanted to make more money before production in case of urgent needs, so she bought a second lumber mill.

During this period, Scarlet drove to and from the lumber mill by himself every day, without any friends except Scarlet. One day, Ray specially advised her to be careful on the road, implying that if she was attacked by a black man, the Ku Klux Klan would take revenge on her. At that time, the military-controlled government in Atlanta that was implementing the "Reconstruction Act" was thinking about how to wipe out the Ku Klux Klan and all suspected southerners.

In June, Scarlet rushed back to Tarot Manor to attend her father's funeral. After the funeral, the Scarlet family, including Ashley, Melanie, and Will, moved to Atlanta and bought a dilapidated house to live in. Melanie quickly gained trust in the women's community and became a respected figure. Although Ashley was entrusted by Scarlet to manage a lumber mill, his management was very poor.

Scarlet gave birth to a daughter, and within weeks she was once again traveling between the two lumber mills. At this time, Atlanta's security situation continued to deteriorate. One night in March 1867, Scarlett was attacked by a white man and a black man while driving home. Thanks to the protection of a black slave, she suffered no harm. That night, the Ku Klux Klan attacked, but they fell into a trap set by the army. During the exchange of fire, Frank was killed and Ashley was wounded. Thanks to Leiter's advice, a group of other white people who participated in the Ku Klux Klan's actions were saved. A few months later, despite the dissuasion and opposition of relatives and friends, Scarlet and Leiter got married. Their honeymoon was spent in New Orleans, and the new home, designed by Scarlet herself, was soon completed and was the most luxurious home in Atlanta. For Scarlet, it seems that she has achieved her ideal at Tarot Manor. Leiter gave her great satisfaction in any material requirements she had. She really had everything she wanted. Soon,

their daughter Bonnie was born. Leiter devoted almost all his efforts to Bonnie. The reason why Leiter worked hard to change his image in the eyes of Atlanta residents was entirely to establish Bonnie's future status in Atlanta.

Scarlet still has feelings for Ashley. One night at the lumber mill, Scarlet and Ashley had a very interesting conversation. Together they recalled the outdoor party 10 years ago. Ashley admitted that he and Leiter are actually very similar, but they have chosen different directions in life. Recalling the past gave Scarlet a sudden feeling of fear, and she fell involuntarily into Ashley's arms. Rhett and Melanie soon learned about this. A few days later, Leiter took Bonnie on a long trip. After he left, Scarlet immediately went to Melanie to confess her fault to her. But Melanie stopped her. She repeatedly emphasized that Scarlet was her closest relative.

Soon, Scarlet discovered that she was pregnant again. At this time, she began to miss Leiter and hoped that he would come back soon. On the day when Leiter arrived home, Scarlet specially greeted him at the stairs.

She wanted to tell him about the pregnancy, but when she saw his sarcastic look, Scarlet couldn't get angry. As a result, he lost his footing and fell down the stairs, breaking his ribs. Leiter was filled with regret and cried like a child in front of May

Lenny, confessing his mistakes.

Leiter seems to have changed since then. He completely severed ties with his "old friends" from the past military administration and joined the Democratic Party, preparing to unseat the federally appointed governor with a group of Civil War veterans in Atlanta.

On Christmas 1871, the power of the state government finally returned to the hands of the Southerners.

The black mother suggested buying four-year-old Bonnie a pony so that she would no longer have to ride on the same horse as Rhett. Unexpectedly, the restless Bonnie encountered an accident while riding a horse over the fence. After Bonnie's death, Leiter drank all day long and treated Scarlet as a fellow traveler.

Melanie ignored the doctor’s advice and got pregnant again. Her health deteriorated rapidly after her pregnancy. Before she died, she handed over the responsibility of taking care of Ashley to Scarlet. At this time, Scarlet suddenly realized that Melanie, who had always been thin, was actually the sword and shield that protected her.

When Melanie died, Ashley seemed to have lost his backbone. He was more scared than Scarlet. Only then did Scarlett believe what Leiter had been telling her for years, that Ashley was indeed not worthy of love. In fact, she herself did not love Ashley in real life. From then on, the two major spiritual pillars in her life disappeared.

In the thick fog, Scarlet ran home desperately. In the fog, she seemed to be reliving a nightmare that had troubled her many years ago.

Finally, she saw the lights of her house, and for a moment she felt that she had seen hope, because there was still Lei Te in the world, and the one she really loved was Lei Te!

However, it was too late. Leiter has decided to abandon his family and leave Scarlet forever. At this moment, for Scarlet, all the light in life disappeared. Her only way out was to return to Tarot Manor.

She felt too tired and her brain could no longer bear the pressure. She said to herself: "Let's leave it to tomorrow...

...Anyway, tomorrow is a new day..."

Also, "Monte Cristo" count"! !

At the end of February 1815, Edmond Dantès, the young acting captain of the ocean-going cargo ship King of Egypt, returned to the port of Marseille. The old captain died of illness on the way. He asked Dantès to sail the ship to a small island to meet Napoleon in captivity. Napoleon entrusted Duncans with a secret message to his confidants in Paris. It can be said that Dantès is very proud of his return to China this time: he is ready to marry his girlfriend who has been in love for many years, and then go to Paris together.

But he did not expect that a bad luck was waiting for him. Danglars, who works as a escort on a cargo ship, wants to replace Dantès as captain. Dantès' love rival, Fernand, is jealous and hateful of him. As a result, the two men colluded, and Fernand delivered a snitch note from Duncan Russ to the authorities.

In May, just as Dantès was holding his wedding, he was arrested. The case was tried by acting prosecutor Wilfer, who discovered that the recipient of the secret letter was his father. In order to ensure his future, he declared Dantès to be an extremely dangerous political prisoner and put him on death row on an isolated island.

Dantès spent 14 years on death row. At first, he believed in his innocence, always thinking that the prosecutor would one day appear in front of him and declare him innocent. However, as time went by, he became disappointed and even had thoughts of suicide. Only the longing for his fiancée supported him.

One day, he suddenly heard the sound of someone digging nearby. It turned out that it was the old priest in the cell next door who was digging a tunnel. However, due to a miscalculation, the exit of the tunnel was in Dantès' cell. After the two met, the old priest helped him analyze his experience, and Dantès began to realize who the enemy was who framed him.

Under the priest's teaching, Dantès also learned several languages ??and learned a secret: a huge wealth was buried on an island called Monte Cristo. One day, the old priest died of illness. Dantès had an idea and got into the sack containing the priest's body, but the jailer threw him into the sea as a priest. Dantès cut open the sack with a knife and swam to a nearby island. The next day, a smuggling boat rescued him, and he quickly became friends with the crew.

He took advantage of the opportunity of wandering around and discovered treasure on Monte Cristo Island: a large cabinet was divided into three parts, containing ancient gold coins, gold nuggets, diamonds, pearls and gems. Dantès instantly became a billionaire. He has only one goal now, and that is revenge. For this reason, he has to return to society to regain status, power and prestige. In this world, only money can enable people to obtain all these. Money is the most effective and powerful way to control human beings. The greatest power.

At this time, Dantès was already a new man: with profound knowledge, elegant manners and countless wealth, profound foresight, and full of hatred in his heart.

Before taking revenge, Dantès decided to repay the favor. The owner of the King of Egypt was a loyal, brave and passionate man. He once ran around for Dantès when he was in trouble, and also took care of Dantès' old father. Later he went bankrupt and in despair, he prepared to commit suicide. After Dantes found out, he paid off his debts, gave his daughter a generous dowry, and also gave him a new King of Egypt.

Then, Dantès said: "I have repaid the good people on behalf of God. Now the God of Vengeance has given me his power and ordered me to punish the evil people!" After repaying the kindness he had given him in times of crisis, After defeating the people he selflessly helped, Dantès began to prepare his revenge plan step by step.

Through various inquiries, he confirmed the details of how Danglars, Fernand and Wilver framed him, and learned that his fiancée had married Fernand and that his old father was ill. Died of depression, his fire of hatred is getting stronger and stronger, but he still has to make a lot of preparations for revenge!

Eight years later, Dantès returned to Paris. He assumed the alias Count of Monte Cristo and his identity was a banker. At this time, Villefort was the prosecutor of the Paris Court, Danglars became a banker, and Fernand became an earl and parliamentarian. All three of them were prosperous and had prominent positions.

The Count of Monte Cristo’s first target was Fernand. It can be said that Fernand has done all kinds of bad things in order to seek personal gain. At this time, he changed his name and lived a pampered life. The Count of Monte Cristo had long figured out his history, and now, under the guise of someone else, he disclosed in the newspaper the fact that Fernand betrayed and killed Governor Ali in Greece in the 1920s, which aroused questions from the parliamentarians.

At the hearing, the daughter of Governor Ali, adopted by the Count of Monte Cristo, testified, revealing that in the shameless deal with the Turks, Fernand not only gave up the castle, but also gave up his benefactor. The crime of killing the benefactor and selling the benefactor's wife and daughter as part of the loot for 400,000 francs. The review committee concluded that Fernand was guilty of treason and brutal persecution, which made Fernand's reputation disgraced and in a state of embarrassment.

Fernand originally hoped that his son would fight the Count of Monte Cristo in order to avenge his "shame", but his wife (Dantes' fiancée) had long recognized the Count of Monte Cristo as Dantès. , she told her son the truth. In the end, the son disregarded his reputation, made peace with the Count of Monte Cristo, and decided to abandon the blood-stained property with his mother and leave without saying goodbye.

In desperation, Fernand had no choice but to go to the Count of Monte Cristo for a duel. During the duel, Count Monte Cristo said mockingly in a very cold tone: "Aren't you the soldier Fernand who deserted on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo? Aren't you the Lieutenant Fernand who served as a guide and spy for the French army in Spain? ? Aren’t you the Lieutenant General Fernand who betrayed, betrayed and murdered his benefactor? And aren’t these Fernands together the one you are now as a member of the French aristocracy?” Finally, the Count of Monte Cristo spoke out about himself? 's true identity.

Feinan returned home in despair, and met his wife and son who had run away from home - one went to live in seclusion in the countryside, and the other joined the army. Extreme fear and despair made him shoot himself.

The second enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo is Danglars. Danglars made a fortune by supplying munitions when the French invaded Spain, and his bank now had millions of francs at its disposal. In order to gain Dunglars' trust, the Count of Monte Cristo took out three letters from major European bankers and opened three "unlimited overdraft" accounts with Duncan Lars, which convinced Dunglars. Afterwards, he bribed employees of the telegraph office and sent a telegram falsely reporting military information, inducing Danglars to sell bonds and lose a huge sum of money.

The Count of Monte Cristo then dressed up a fugitive, the illegitimate son of Welfe and Mrs. Dunglas, as the son of an Italian prince and introduced him to Dunglas. In order to avoid the collapse of the bank, Danglars married his daughter to the "son of the prince". At the wedding, the gendarmes arrested the fugitive, making Danglars embarrassed. In desperation, Danglars stole 5 million francs from the poor institution and fled to Italy. On the way, he fell into the hands of the Count of Monte Cristo's robber friends.

They first starved him to death, and then sold him a meal for 100,000 francs until all his 5 million francs were drained. Dunglars was forced to repent for his crimes. At this time, the Count of Monte Cristo appeared, disclosed his identity to him, and said: "I am the person who was betrayed and slandered by you. My fiancée was forced to remarry, and my father was starved to death by you. I should have let him You died of hunger, but I will forgive you." Danglas yelled and fell to the ground and huddled. Subsequently, the Count of Monte Cristo gave him 50,000 francs to make a living on his own. Dunglars was so tortured and frightened that his hair turned completely white.

The Count of Monte Cristo's biggest enemy is Villefort, and he decided to use more cruel means to completely destroy everything in Villefort. He first bought one of Wilver's former residences, where Wilver once attempted to brutally bury alive his and Mrs. Dunglass's illegitimate son. Then he cleverly led the two of them here and pointed out their scandalous past. As a result, Mrs. Dunglass fainted on the spot, and Wilver had to lean against the wall to breathe.

After a contest, Wilver had doubts about the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo. He found two close friends of the Count of Monte Cristo to ask, but these two close friends were played by the Count of Monte Cristo alone. Of course he found nothing.

At this time, the Count of Monte Cristo noticed a flaw within the Wilfer family: Wilfer's second wife attempted to let her children inherit the inheritance alone. So he pretended to accidentally reveal a poison formula to her, and the latter used the poison to poison Vilver's ex-mother-in-law and old servant, and conspired to poison his ex-wife's children. Due to their past relationship, the Count of Monte Cristo secretly protected the latter and allowed her to secretly observe the process of her stepmother's poisoning. Finally, the Count of Monte Cristo sent the child to the island of Monte Cristo.

In the trial of the fugitive murder case that almost became Dunglars' son-in-law, the prosecutor was Wilver. Under the instruction of the Count of Monte Cristo, the fugitive told his life experience in public. Vilver knew that he had fallen into the hands of a vengeful god, and was forced to admit that "no evidence is needed, what this young man said is true... From this moment on, I will listen to the next prosecutor." At this time. , Vilver's face was as pale as a death, and his teeth were chattering like a man with a cold.

Emperor Thalun returned home and wanted to find a safe haven here, but he found that his wife had taken poison and had poisoned his beloved son because his crime was exposed. Under the huge blow, Wilfer went crazy.

The Count of Monte Cristo had his revenge, and he thanked God deeply. In his mind, everything he did was in accordance with God's will. He said: "Now my work is completed and my mission has ended. Farewell, Paris!" So Heidi, the adopted daughter of Governor Ali, flew away.