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Under the Cherry Blossom Tree
Yusa, the successful president of a publishing house in Tokyo, develops a relationship with Kikuno, the proprietress of a long-established restaurant in Kyoto whom he met on a business trip. Ryoko, who witnessed the love story between her mother and Yusa, was at the age when she first fell in love, and fell passionately in love. In the end, the ancient legend about cherry blossoms became a reality for those who were addicted to emotions...
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Goddess
"Goddess" is an essay that deciphers the mysteries of gender. Starting from the origins of men and women, Watanabe Junichi conducted in-depth discussions and excavations on the relationship between the sexes. Taking the different physiological structures, psychological states, ways of thinking and other aspects of the sexes as the entry point, he analyzed the spiritual trajectories, thought routines and behaviors of the "goddesses" in many aspects, and gave a detailed and exquisite interpretatio
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Woman's Hand
A collection of Junichi Watanabe's most loving and witty short stories. These stories may be weird, mysterious, or ordinary... Watanabe tells them in his usual aesthetic style, showing the changes and eternity of love between men and women from different perspectives. This book mainly tells about the divorce between Zheji and his wife, which can be said to be sexual incompatibility or lack of love for each other. In his interactions with different women, he has different sexual experiences and i
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Shadow Painting
In adolescence, Nobuo Takamura was full of curiosity about the opposite sex, which brought him both mental and physical distress. The growth story is sometimes interesting and sometimes bitter. In contact with women of different personalities and ages, the boy gradually loses his youthfulness and grows into a real man.
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Incarnation
Qiuye, a fifty-three-year-old man with a successful career, meets Kiriko, a simple and shy country girl. He taught her elegant dress and conversation, helped her learn to enjoy the joy of life and love, and even helped her have an independent career. Under the careful carving of Qiuye, Wuzi gradually transformed into a charming woman with various styles. However, is the awakened canary still willing to stay in the cage? Finally, the bird with full wings flew into the free sky; and the former bir
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Periodic Table of Elements
"Periodic Table of Elements" is the most intense collection of essays by Italian writer Primo Levi. It has autobiographical elements, but also combines fables, imagination, and even history. By explaining the characteristics of twenty-one elements, the author narrates his own growth and life before and after World War II, and conducts a profound and moving inquiry into the hidden relationship between human morality and the material world. The two identities of chemist and Auschwitz survivor coex
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A Room of One's Own
If girls want to be independent, they need financial support and a room of their own. ◆Life, for these men and women - I watched them shoulder to shoulder, running on the sidewalk - is equally hard, equally difficult, and a never-ending struggle. ◆Hate men? There's no need because they can't hurt me anymore. To please a man? It's not necessary either because I don't need anything from them. ◆You don't have to rush for success, you don't have to be sharp, you don't have to imitate others, just be
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House of Fantasy
The enthusiastic Angkartell couple entertained guests at the Fantasy Manor for the weekend as usual. Guests came from all directions, some full of expectations, some embarrassed to attend the appointment, some shouldering heavy responsibilities, some confused and uneasy... The guests with their own concerns were already a mess, but they did not expect to welcome another uninvited guest - the famous female movie star Veronica, who once had an affair with a married doctor who came to spend the wee
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Five Little Pigs
Young Miss Carla was informed of her life experience on the eve of her wedding - her father was killed sixteen years ago, and her mother was regarded as a murderer and died in prison. While greatly shocked, she also received a letter left to her by her mother before she died, in which she insisted that she was not the murderer. Confused, Carla goes to Poirot to find out the truth. Poirot interviewed five witnesses from that year and reconstructed an intriguing picture from their narratives...
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Dancer of Izu
In my lonely youth, you were half of the poem in my heart. "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is a poignant, romantic and sad novel written by Kawabata Yasunari based on his personal experience. The work describes a high school student "I" who traveled to Izu alone and met an innocent dancing girl, and then developed a beautiful and regretful innocent love. By describing the beautiful scenery of the green mountains and green waters of Izu, the author highlights the pure love between the two people, combi
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Ancient Capital
In 1968, Kawabata Yasunari won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his three masterpieces: "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand Cranes". This book includes "Ancient Capital", as well as Kawabata's famous work "Izu Dancing Girl" and the early post-war masterpiece "Reunion". "Izu Dancing Girl" tells the story of a relationship that ended in vain. The whole story is filled with youthful poetry and lyricism, and has the reputation of "the world's best first love". "Ancient Capital" describ
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Mysterious Island
During the American Civil War, five people who were captured by the Confederate Army took the risk of escaping in a hot air balloon and landed on a volcanic island. With nothing, they relied on their wisdom and faith to survive on the desert island. They made pottery, smelted iron, hunted, planted, tamed smart chimpanzees, and even built ships to sail on the sea. They built a prosperous and happy life with their own strength, and recreated human civilization on the deserted island. However, ther
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Where the Crickets Sing
One by one, family members left. From the age of ten, she lived alone in the desolate wetlands of the North Carolina coast, driving a small boat and making a living by hunting and collecting wild animals to sell to people at the dock. She only went to school for one day and was what the town residents called a "wetland girl", a wild girl outside of civilized society. When the town's most popular playboy is found dead in a wetland, suspicion is immediately cast on her. A natural wetland biologist
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Shanyueji
This book selects 11 classic short stories by the Japanese writer Nakajima Atsushi, including "The Story of the Mountain Moon", "The Disciple" and "Li Ling". The stories are all based on ancient Chinese classics. The author reinterprets the stories of Li Zheng, Zi Lu, Li Ling, Su Wu, Wu Jing and other characters, injecting modern people's thoughts into historical figures. The cold characters in the classics are suddenly resurrected and become flesh-and-blood, resonant and dramatic characters. Th
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Capture Santa Claus Alive
The protagonist of the story may be the most ill-fated Santa Claus in history. A cruel war is coming, and Santa Claus will be captured alive! How should he get out of this predicament and deliver Christmas gifts to the children? "Although the war is cruel, the novel is warm and touching. Even in the midst of war, the children still have hopes and expectations for Christmas: Evelyn wants dolls, Charlie wants uniforms and small swords, Bob and Luan know that their father who is on the battlefield
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Well Done, Dick!
"Well done, Dick!" "" Is a classic book about "struggle", "friendship" and "knowledge", and an eternal inspirational work. Dick, a 14-year-old boy who lost his parents, had all kinds of ailments and his life seemed to have no tomorrow. But when he met the "Peter Pan" in his life, everything changed! "Peter Pan" awakened Dick's sleeping heart and dreams, and rekindled Dick's hope for a better life and dreams. Through hard work, hard study and the help of friends, Dick finally realized his dream!
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Sparkling Life
As the 11th generation descendant, Hatoko Amamiya inherited the Shancha Stationery Store and conveyed the unspeakable words hidden in the heart to customers. Letters written by an invisible boy to his mother, letters written by a deceased husband to his wife, letters written by parents who lost their young son to relatives and friends... Hatoko always uses the most complicated but also most sincere way to help guests solve their doubts. Everyone has a different story in their life, and everyone
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The End of the World and Grim Wonderland
"People do not achieve immortality by extending time, but achieve immortality by decomposing time." Haruki Murakami is that kind of writer. Before you read him, and after you read him, you will be completely two different types of people. ★Fresh and strange urban fable, a masterpiece of Murakami's dual-line writing. As long as you have the heart, you will lose nothing wherever you go. ★The major Chinese publishers of Haruki Murakami's works and the translator Lin Shaohua join hands to jointly pr
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Chronicles of Strange Birds
"Once hatred takes root in the heart, it is even harder to eradicate it than to climb to the sky." "The Journey of Strange Birds" is Haruki Murakami's largest novel, and the original book is a trilogy. The story is divided into two main lines, one is the historical line and the Battle of Nomonhan; the other is the realistic line, telling the story of the protagonist Okada Toru who has been missing for a week at the request of his wife Kumiko. He met all kinds of people on the way to find the cat
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Her and Her Cat
I love this world, and I think she is the same as me. A series of four stories centered on adopted cats. A girl living independently in the city accidentally picked up a cat one day. She is not good at expressing her inner feelings with words, but the cat is guarding her clumsiness. There was a conflict with a friend, and since then, the smile disappeared from her life... No matter when, she is always so innocent, So beautiful and living so hard. ——Quoted from the original text The black-and-whi
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Fuyuan
The elderly apartment located in Ginza, Tokyo, was built by the operator, Kurusu, with the desire to allow the elderly who are no longer bound by work and worldly life to live happily, casually and enjoy life. In the apartment filled with a free and relaxed atmosphere, the established concept of "aging" was completely broken. Revolving around the "love" and "sex" of the elderly, stories that were either tender, desolate, funny or bitter happened one after another...
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Professor of Desire
When David Kepsh was young, he pursued absolute personal freedom, followed the call of desire, and indulged himself. This kind of life made him physically and mentally exhausted. And when he got the chance to return to the right path of life, he hesitated, fearing that his freedom would be imprisoned by marriage. Later, he became a professor of comparative literature. While he was preparing to open a course to teach about desire in European novels, he was thinking about life: he believed that he
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Shen Shixi's Beloved Animal Novel Series: 4. Call of the Wild
Buck could have lived a leisurely and prosperous life in a civilized human society, but he was sold to a dog dealer, beaten and tortured. His past pride and self-esteem were strongly impacted, and the wildness deep in his soul was gradually awakened. The experience of being in a pack of dogs, the harsh environment, survival of the fittest, competition is everywhere. As the civilization of human society drifts away, the call of the wild becomes stronger and stronger. Buck finally follows his hear
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Between the Sheets
"Between the Beds" is McEwan's second collection of short stories after "First Love, Last Rites" and is the author's important and famous work. This book contains a total of seven short stories, which are in the same vein as "First Love", but are more mature, bolder, sharper, more gloomy and desperate, more realistic and more magical. It is also closer to the truth that you refuse to see, and it digs into the desires and fantasies hidden in the deepest depths of your consciousness. An out-and-ou
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Possessed
When the ghost of a notorious murderer takes over the body of an upper-class young man, London's preeminent psychic Emily Chambers must exorcise it before it does evil. As if this wasn't enough to worry about, she also had to restrain her feelings for Jacques Beaufort. Unlike this melancholy ghost, the new Theodore Hyde who appeared in her life was a handsome, handsome man. With her life and reputation both on the line, Emily discovers that manipulating poor people in London's suburbs in search
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Hunger for Love
In a remote manor, the newly widowed daughter-in-law Etsuko lives. In the trough of jealousy and desire, she fell in love with the gardener Saburo, and took big steps every time. She doesn't want to be rescued, but wants to pursue the deepest feelings in the world. Perhaps, everyone has an impulse. Faced with loneliness, we desperately ask for love. But love is like flowing water, what you get is just luck, and what you lose is life.
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The Moon and Sixpence
It is undisputed that the British painter in "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on the French post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Gauguin also worked as an agent before he decided to engage in painting; Gauguin's life was also very bumpy and poor; Gauguin finally arrived in Tahiti and was buried on a desolate island. But apart from the broad outlines of life, Maugham created an entirely different character.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha christie The undisputed queen of detective stories and the greatest writer in the history of detective literature. It ranks third in global sales, behind the Bible and Shakespeare. The undisputed queen of detective stories and the greatest writer in the history of detective literature. 1 Luxury carriage + 1 dead person + 12 suspects = Agatha's most famous work. "This train is really packed!" This book is based on the sensational real-life case "The Kidnapping of Lindbergh's Sons" in 1932.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Everyone who has read "All Quiet on the Western Front" will unconditionally oppose all wars! Anti-war classic! The true description of the war by Remarque, a witness of World War I! It specially includes historical photos of World War I and quotes from participants of World War I, allowing you to experience the cruelty and sorrow of war! The war broke out, and 19-year-old Paul and his classmates were sent to the battlefield. On the front lines, all you can see is blood, limbs and death. The war
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Animal Farm
"It is a history of revolution, but it goes astray, and every deviation is justified." The author said this when the book was published in 1945. "Animal Farm" tells the story of a group of animals on the farm who successfully carried out a "revolution", driving out Jones, the human farmer who had been exploiting them, from the farm, and established an equal animal society without oppression and exploitation. However, their new animal leaders, the pigs, eventually suit up and usurp the fruits of
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Robinson Crusoe
The novel "Robinson Crusoe" was first published in 1719. It is recognized as the foundation of British realist novels and enjoys a high reputation in the history of world literature. The novel tells the bizarre and tenacious survival legend of the protagonist Robinson Crusoe from a first-person perspective. Robinson was dissatisfied with the mediocre middle-class life, and went against his father's orders to go to sea for adventure. During a voyage, he encountered a storm and the ship crashed. A
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The Great Gatsby
"The Great Gatsby" is the masterpiece of American literary giant Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, which profoundly analyzes the glory and disillusionment of the "American Dream". The story takes place in Long Island, New York, USA, where the economy was booming in the 1920s. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby held grand banquets every night in his luxurious villa, which was full of splendor and filled with guests. However, behind all these extravagant carnivals is his persistent pursuit of an ol
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Veil
After reading "The Veil", I realized that you can do without love, but don't lose yourself! The representative work of "Story Master" Maugham in his mature creative period is a novel based on his personal experience after traveling to China in 1920. It uses the story of a British woman who came to China in a turbulent era to explore the meaning and value of women's existence in the world. It has been adapted into movies three times, touching countless fans, and is known as "a classic for women's
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Kilimanjaro Snow
Hemingway, double winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, and one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century, has a collection of selected short stories. The book contains representative short stories such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Mountains Like White Elephants", "In a Foreign Country", "A Clean and Bright Place", "The Good Lion", etc. It is a perfect interpretation of Hemingway's minimalist writing style and "Iceberg Theory". Hemingway uses c
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Niedochka: a Woman's Life (Gomai Classic)
Literal translation from Russian, full unabridged version. Full-color illustration personally authorized by the Russian Art Museum. Wang Xiaobo: "People should commemorate Dostoyevsky for this." The story tells the story of the protagonist Niedochka's three different lives from a female perspective - "childhood", "new life" and "mystery". Yefimov, the typical character in the book, has a strong autobiographical temperament. At that time, Tuo Shi had not yet become famous, and he was equally arro
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Carol
"Carol" is the original novel of the 2015 critically acclaimed movie "Carol" starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Patricia Highsmith, the author of "The Talented Mr. Ripley", is a lesbian novella published anonymously in 1952. It is a story about the pursuit of another true love. "Carol" tells the story of Therese, a young girl who pursues her dream of being a stage designer in New York, but can only work as a sales girl in a department store. One day, she and Carol, a middle-aged housewife
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Narrow Gate (Guomai Classic)
Alyssa and Jerome are cousins since childhood. Alyssa often read poetry and literature with Jerome on the bench behind the garden, and the two spent a long but carefree childhood in the countryside of Normandy. Love gradually took root among several boys and girls of the same age. At first, they secretly fell in love with each other, each hiding their secrets and worries, just like all teenagers who are just starting to fall in love. When they are deeply in love, their spirits blend together a
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Collection of Nobel Prize in Literature Works (Set of 5 Volumes in Total)
This set includes five Nobel Prize-winning works: "The most beautiful thing in the world is pure joy", "All maverick people mean strength", "Why people live", "The meaning of life" and "The food of the world". "The Best Beauty in the World Is Pure Joy" is a collection of essays about the philosophy of life. It is the most essential nutrient condensed from his rich life journey, and it is the most dazzling brilliance in life. The book "All Mavericks Mean Power" covers Camus's important works thro
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I Am a Cat
"I am a Cat" established Natsume Soseki's position in literary history. The novel adopts humorous, satirical and comical techniques, using the vision, hearing and feeling of a cat. It takes the daily life of the protagonist, middle school teacher Jinno Kusami, as the main line, interspersed with the conflicts of neighbor capitalist Kaneda who fails to marry a girl and plots to retaliate against Kusami, making it laugh. It explores the empty spiritual life of intellectuals in the Meiji era, and s
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Small Town and Wall of Uncertainty
After six years, Haruki Murakami's new novel has attracted everyone's attention! Born out of the "Phantom Works" that has never been published separately in 40 years, it took 3 years of hard work to write! 71-Year-old Murakami rewrites the uncertain love of a 17-year-old! The famous translator Shi Xiaowei translated it with all his heart, restoring Murakami's beautiful world! At the end of the article, there is a rare postscript by Haruki Murakami himself, describing the origin of the book. Haru
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The Wind Has Risen
"The Wind Rises" is Hayao Miyazaki's final original novel. The male protagonist accompanies his fiancée Setsuko who is seriously ill, and goes to the mountains to recuperate and spend the last period of Setsuko's life together. In the isolated Yatsugatake foothills, abandoning the hustle and bustle of the world, only each other remained in their lives. Love becomes more profound in this beautiful scene. Together they appreciate the happiness of life, and are saddened by the fact that this happin
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Maltese Eagle
One commission, two murders, three parties chasing and four forces. On a foggy night in San Francisco, private detective Spade is involved in a deadly scam surrounding a priceless Black Hawk statue. Beauties, liars, killers, wealthy businessmen, everyone has their own evil intentions and murderous intentions at every step. When the truth tears away the disguise, and when love collides with principles, he must make the coldest choice. There is no tenderness, no redemption, only hard-core truth.
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Norwegian Forest
"Norwegian Wood" is Haruki Murakami's masterpiece and his fifth novel. It has influenced generations of young people and is known as "a demure, sad, and 100% touching love novel." The 37-year-old Toru Watanabe arrived at the Hamburg Airport in Germany by plane. The background music - "Norwegian Wood" by the Beatles - was played softly from the aircraft speakers, recalling the lost scenery of youth in Watanabe's memory 18 years ago... At that time, Watanabe was entangled between the emotionally s
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Roger Mystery
"Royal Yards," one of two mansions in the village of Kings Abbot, was the residence of Mrs. Ferrars, who had just died. Shortly thereafter, her lover, Mr. Roger Ackroyd, who lived in another mansion, learned that Mrs. Ferrars had killed her husband a year earlier and eventually committed suicide out of guilt. More importantly, Roger also discovered that she had been blackmailed by a mysterious man before her death. He unfolded her last letter and tried to read the person's name, but no one heard
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Female Corpse on the Snow
This is the meal Agatha Christie prepared just for Christmas. Appetizers: "Dreamland" and "The Wrath of the Weak". A mysterious rich man has been dreaming of committing suicide repeatedly in recent days. He sought help from many sources but ultimately failed to escape the clutches of death. In a murder case that seemed to be closed, the wife of the deceased insisted that the real culprit was someone else. Main course: "The Corpse in the Snow" and "The Mystery of the Spanish Box". Poirot was invi
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Fantasy Flower
"Intricate unsolved cases, mysteries that have lasted for hundreds of years. The bodies of young couples were pierced by samurai swords; a girl who fell in love at first sight disappeared from the world; a college student jumped to his death after drinking Coke; a robber broke into a house and killed someone but only took away a pot of flowers... The yellow morning glory that once existed in modern times suddenly disappeared in modern times, leaving only the legend of the "dream flower" that "it
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ABC Murders
"Then let's see how smart Mr. Poirot is." The serial killer who goes by the pseudonym ABC carries out his murder plan step by step according to the alphabetical order of the train timetable. He arrogantly issued a challenge to Poirot, and the whole of Britain fell into panic. A: Underwall, B: Bexhill, C: Cheston... With each successful murder, the murderer becomes more confident, and Poirot always seems to be a step late.
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The Mysterious Case of Styles Manor
Mrs. Inglethorpe, the mistress of Styles Manor, holds the financial reins. In the early hours of one morning, she died of poisoning in her room, and the three doors of the room were locked from the inside. Detective Poirot discovered a series of doubts during the investigation of the case, but the biggest suspect-Mrs. Inglethorpe's husband had no evidence of absence. What troubles Poirot most is that everyone in the manor seems to be hiding something.
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Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories Collection
He is the founder of mystery, science fiction, and thriller novels! The highest award for detective suspense novels, the "Edgar Allan Poe Award" is named after him. Edgar Allan Poe is the originator of mystery novels, a pioneer of science fiction novels, a spokesman for Gothic novels, a master of thriller novels, and a rare all-rounder in the history of literature. It selects 26 representative works of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and divides them into four categories: thrillers, psychologica
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The Power of Loneliness: the Heart Is the Answer to Everything
"The Power of Loneliness: The Heart Is the Answer to Everything" selects the works of world-famous philosophers or writers such as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Rousseau, Emerson, Goethe, Kafka, Stendhal, etc., From the aspects of family, friendship, love, hometown, etc., Through detailed description and careful portrayal of the lonely situation, showing the authors' perception, reflection and exploration of their own inner world. For readers, this is not only a book to heal loneliness, but also a bo
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