The four great masterpieces in addition to the Dream of the Red Chamber can look at, and then you can read some of the simple chapters on the Guanzhi, you can also read some foreign novels, like the "Old Man and the Sea" and so on, here is a standard requirements of the masterpieces, to give you a reference:

Textbook appendix guide to the masterpieces: (****17)

First year of the first book:

1.The Flourishing Star 2. Spring Water" 3. Aesop's Fables

Next book:

4. Childhood 5. Robinson Crusoe 6. The Book of Insects

The first book of the second year:

7. The Pilgrimage 8. Camelot 9. How Iron and Steel are Made

Next book:

10. Journey to the West 11. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 12. Biographies of Famous People

First Book of the Third Year：

13.《Water Margin》14.《Fu Lei's Letters》15.《Bacon's Essays》

下册：

16.《Gulliver's Travels》17.《Jane Eyre》

Extra-curricular Recommended Masterpieces：（Language Teachers' Self-recommendation）

1.《Biography of Madame Curie》(France)艾夫-居里

1. Curie

2. "Shishu Xinyao" (New Sayings of the World), Southern Dynasty. Song Liu Yiqing

3.The Analects of Confucius by Nan Huaijin

4.Siege of the City by Qian Zhongshu

5.The Ordinary World by Lu Yao

6.The Grass House by Cao Wenxuan

7.The Little Prince by St. Exupery

8.Eugène Grandet by Balzac

9. Wuthering Heights

10. Selected Short Stories of O. Henry

11. Hamlet (English) Shakespeare

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