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  1. Chao Sao (Guomai Classic) (Japan) Written by Mishima Yukio; Translated by Ye Yi67k Wordscompleted "Chao Sao" is a masterpiece of youth literature by Mishima Yukio. It has been selected as a Chinese language textbook for middle schools designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. It is the first winning work of Xinchaoshe Literature Award. After Yukio Mishima traveled to Greece, he vowed to write a Japanese-style legendary love novel based on the excellent pastoral legendary love novel "Daphnis and Heroa" by Langos in ancient Greece to praise simp 36Reads9.2Score—Shelves
  2. Gaotai House Seicho Matsumoto101k Wordscompleted This book is a collection of novellas by Matsumoto Seicho, including two novellas: "The House on the High Terrace" and "The Female Prisoner Without Prison Clothes". "House on a High Terrace" tells the story of a mansion on a high terrace, where an elderly couple and the widow of their son who died young lived. The young and beautiful widow would summon young men to her home every night to talk loudly about art. But my father-in-law held a tacit attitude towards this. One day, a young man sudden 34Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  3. Sanin Arzhibasuifu232k Wordscompleted The representative work of the famous Russian decadent literary school writer Arzhibasif, the most peculiar work in the history of Russian literature; translated by the famous translator Liu Wenfei; a work of a Russian writer highly respected by Lu Xun; the bright and beautiful description of scenery and the dark and twisted analysis of human nature complement each other, forming a strong contrast; it marks the awakening of personal independence, and represents the questioning of inherent tradit 33Reads9.2Score—Shelves
  4. Die in the Afternoon Hemingway241k Wordscompleted Hemingway published a long article on Spanish bullfighting in 1930. Based on this, he published the "Bullfighting Book" "Death in the Afternoon" two years later. In the book, he gave a very detailed and in-depth introduction and discussion of bullfighting, pointing out that the matador's life and death performance in the bullring has a strong appeal, "can make people intoxicated, make people feel immortal, and make him fascinated." "Although this enchantment is short-lived, it is as profound as 33Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  5. Lolita Prototype [US] Written by Sarah Weinman; Translated by Ma Yuhe159k Wordscompleted This book tells the true investigation process of a girl kidnapping case that shocked the world: In 1948, 11-year-old Sally Horner was kidnapped by a 53-year-old habitual child molester and forced to go on a 21-month "travel around the United States." This real-life incident is full of mystery and gripping, and inspired Nabokov to write the classic novel "Lolita". Vladimir Nabokov firmly denied this during his lifetime, and the "Lolita prototype" has become one of the biggest public cases in the 33Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  6. Canterbury Tales (Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series) Geoffrey Chaucer248k Wordscompleted "The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of verse stories, mostly written in rhymed verse. The book contains a general quotation and twenty-three stories. It tells the strange stories that a group of pilgrims told to relieve their boredom on their way to Canterbury. This group of people come from all walks of life, including priests, warriors, nuns, college students, craftsmen, etc. Their stories also broadly reflect the social scene at that time. The work is based on humor and satire, depicts cha 32Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  7. Metamorphosis Kafka (Anchor: Zhuhai Peanut, Xue Ruizi)ongoing "When Gregor woke up in the morning, he found that he had turned into a beetle. No one cared about his life after transformation. His father smashed an apple into his back, his mother screamed and fainted in fright, and his sister regarded him as a burden. Even though he was a beetle, he was still thinking about what to do. Supporting this family. Under the hypocritical love, he appears innocent and helpless, clumsy and humble. The brokenness of self and the despair of waiting for death finally 31Reads7.9Score—Shelves
  8. Oblomov (Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series) Goncharov356k Wordscompleted The creation of the novel "Oblomov" began in the 1840s. It is the representative work of the outstanding Russian realist writer Goncharov. It was not completed until 1859 and occupies an important position in the history of Russian literature. The novel creates an image of a character who is upright, kind, and gentle, but also lazy, obsessed with fantasy, inactive, and conservative. Oblomov, a landowner and intellectual, was pampered and regarded labor and public service as unbearable burdens. A 31Reads9.2Score—Shelves
  9. The Collected Works of Saint-Exupéry (Four Volumes) Saint-Exupery297k Wordscompleted "Collection of Saint-Exupéry" (four volumes in total) includes five works including "Southern Mail", "Night Flight", "Earth of Man", "Combat Pilot" and "The Little Prince". Among them, "The Mail of the South" is Saint-Exupéry's pioneering work. The novel describes the ambivalence of the pilot Berni wandering between emotion and action. It also alludes to the author's failed romance with Vermoulin. In "The Little Prince", the author uses the child-like vision of the little prince to see through t 31Reads8.5Score—Shelves
  10. Remarque in Wenjing (Set of 10 Volumes) [Germany] Written by Remarque Translated by Ding Na Translated by Zhu Wen Translated by Guo Li Translated by Li Qinghua and Others2.3M Wordscompleted This set of books includes ten classic works by the German-American novelist Remarque. Erich Maria Remarque was born in a working-class family in Germany in 1898. At the age of 18, he volunteered to participate in the First World War and was injured on the front line. After the war, he worked as a teacher, reporter, editor and other jobs. In 1929, his novel All Quiet on the Western Front was published, causing a sensation and being quickly translated into more than 20 languages, making him a wor 31Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  11. Biography of Xiang Di Lawrence Stern457k Wordscompleted The full name of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Tristram, Gentleman" is "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Tristram, Gentleman", but there is no detailed life story of the protagonist in the book, nor his profound insights. The novel starts with "reviewing" his own conception in the mother's body, and most of the novel uses Tristram's mouth to tell the lives and opinions of others, mainly his father and his uncle. As for Tristram's life, there are only a few infrequent mentions of Tristram's 30Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  12. Gingerbread Man J. P. Donleavy211k Wordscompleted An Irish-American, speaking with an upper-class London accent, studying law at Trinity College Dublin on a U. S. Veterans' scholarship, with a graduation thesis that will never be finished, a family, but no greasy plates or dirty children's butts. In spirit, he is suave like Don Juan and artistic in Bohemian style, but physically he is performing scenes of black farces that are absurd, embarrassing, and even contrary to common sense. This self-contradictory, soulless libertine is like the ginger 30Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  13. Chua Lam Fireworks Gas Set 2 Volumes [New]cai Lam184k Wordscompleted "Cai Lam Fireworks Set 2 Volumes": "Mountains and rivers are not important, the important thing is to meet a close friend" "Things in the heart can be solved with the tip of the tongue" "Mountains and Rivers Are Not Important, What's Important is Meeting a Confidant" Cai Lan personally taught him how to make friends, and recounted interesting stories about his interactions with friends such as Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, Jackie Chan, and Stephen Chow! "Things in the Heart, Explained by the Tip of the To 30Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  14. Miss Benson's Beetle Rachel Joyce196k Wordscompleted Miss Benson, 46 years old, single. She doesn't get along well with humans, but she loves studying small, inconspicuous, and even screaming beetles. In her mind, the gods existed in the insectarium of the Natural History Museum. Her lifelong dream is to find the golden beetle her father once told her about. Enid, 26, has all the qualities of a blonde beauty. She is happy, caring, and chatty, as if silence and depression never come. She has no grand dreams, she just wants to be a mother. "We are l 29Reads9.0Score—Shelves
  15. Undertaker Aoki New Gate64k Wordscompleted After the down-and-out poet Shinmon Aoki dropped out of Japan's prestigious Waseda University, he entered the funeral industry by chance and has been doing so for nearly forty years. Seeing all kinds of dead people every day, as well as their relatives who are separated from them in life and death, Aoki went from fear at first, to calmness, to compassion, and finally realized the boundary between life and death. Using both hands to allow the deceased to say goodbye to his relatives and friends w 29Reads9.1Score—Shelves
  16. Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett152k Wordscompleted Mary, a 10-year-old girl, came from a good family since she was a child. However, her parents were busy with work and entertainment and neglected to care for their children. As a result, Mary was withdrawn and stubborn, had a bad temper and was petty. In a sudden disaster, Mary became an orphan and was fostered in her gloomy and eccentric uncle's house. Her uncle's house was an old large manor, and Mary was usually only accompanied by a maid. Mary often had nothing to do and soon became bored. S 27Reads9.0Score—Shelves
  17. The Old Man and the Sea (FLTRP Bilingual Reading Library) (U. S.) Ernest Hemingway150k Wordscompleted "The Old Man and the Sea" is a novella written by Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. "The Old Man and the Sea" is one of Hemingway's most famous works. It revolves around an elderly Cuban fisherman fighting a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream far offshore. "The Old Man and the Sea" established Hemingway's prominent position in world literature and played an important role in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Later there were movies, animations, songs and other works 27Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  18. The Price of Justice Lawrence Limmer132k Wordscompleted Corporate greed, judicial corruption, government inaction... The business elite colludes with the power elite to trample on the lives of ordinary people. Does justice still exist? Two human rights lawyers, one from the bottom of society and the other from a family of lawyers, came together with their belief in upholding judicial fairness. However, their opponent is Blankenship, the head of the coal empire. In this lawsuit, which lasted for fourteen years and went through many twists and turns, h 27Reads9.0Score—Shelves
  19. Imaginary Zoology Huang Jinyan75k Wordscompleted "Imaginary Animals" is a collection of stories co-written by the Argentinian poet, novelist, critic, and translator Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero, masters of Spanish literature. The collection of stories depicts various creatures imagined by humans, various rare birds and animals, and even some unclassifiable beings, such as Abao Aku, metaphysical animals, Kafka's imaginary animals, plant sheep Borametz, hundred-headed fish, ghost-eating monsters, clones, dragons, phoenixes, gluttons, 26Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  20. Cherry Osamu Dazai103k Wordscompleted Although I secretly really like things that suit my personality, I feel very scared if I want to continue to like them and express them as my own. When I see the pink dusk slowly drifting away and disappearing among the trees, walking on the road and stroking the grass, I will think excitedly with tears in my eyes: I love all of this! The desire for life and infinite love of "wanting to live a beautiful life" will arise. This is the joy and sorrow in the "Cherry" collection, which is included 26Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  21. How Steel Is Made (Famous Translation Series) Nikki Ostrovsky299k Wordscompleted Ostrovsky's novel "How the Steel Was Tempered" is one of the most brilliant masterpieces in Soviet socialist literature and has become a classic in world literature. It was translated and introduced to China and has been popular for more than half a century. It is regarded as a life textbook, a road sign of life and a spiritual tonic, and has been passed down by generations of readers. In a mass voting event held last year for "Fifty Books That Touched the Republic", the book "How Steel Was Temp 25Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  22. Jane Eyre [English] Charlotte Brontë275k Wordscompleted "Jane Eyre" is Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. It tells the story of Jane Eyre, whose parents died when she was young, and was fostered in her aunt's house, where she suffered discrimination and bullying. After that, he was sent to a charity school and spent eight years. Then he went to Thornfield Manor to work as a tutor and met the owner of the manor, Rochester. Two unique souls fall in love here. But Thornfield always hides a terrifying secret. Finally, the secret was revealed at their weddin 25Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  23. Wind Written by Qingshan Qihui; Translated by Cai Mingyan59k Wordscompleted This book is a collection of short stories published by Japanese writer Nanae Aoyama in 2014. It includes four short stories, "Premonition", "Dancing", "Two People" and "Wind". Each story ranges in length from 1,000 to 30,000 words. It was originally published in magazines such as "New Wave" and "Literary Art" from 2012 to 2014, and was later collected into a volume. The four short stories included in this book focus on some isolated individuals in the crowd. Some of them live alone, and when th 25Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  24. The Brothers Karamazov: All 2 Volumes (Selected Works of Dostoevsky) Dostoevsky36 Wordscompleted "The Brothers Karamazov" is one of the masterpieces of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the great Russian writer of the 19th century. The novel "The Brothers Karamazov" uses a real patricide case to describe the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, that is, two generations. The work shows an intricate social family, moral and human tragedy, and embodies the highest artistic achievement of the writer's life. 24Reads8.5Score—Shelves
  25. Countercurrent Huysmans176k Wordscompleted Desseinte was tired of the hypocrisy and exaggeration of Paris, so he took refuge in the small town of Fontenay and lived a solitary life. He decorated his residence according to his personal aesthetics and taste, immersed himself in the spiritual and material world he created, and resisted the trends of the world. Each chapter revolves around a theme, involving paintings, gems, flowers, literature, etc. Huysmanns interpreted his decadent aesthetics through the mouth of this anti-heroic protagon 24Reads9.3Score—Shelves
  26. Probation Patrick Modiano35k Wordscompleted It was a two-story house with ivy covering the front wall. A raised window, known in the British as an oriel, extends the length of the living room. In the depths of a terrace in the garden lies Dr. Guillotin's tomb, hidden among the clematis. Did he ever improve his guillotine here? The young "I" and my brother lived in this villa belonging to three women. The adult world around us is full of mysteries: Why is there no male owner of the house? Why did Ani cry all night? What's that gang doing i 24Reads8.5Score—Shelves
  27. Camus Trilogy: the Outsider Camus52k Wordscompleted One day, my mother died. The people attending the funeral sat across from me, shaking their heads, as if they were here to judge me. I shot a man five times on the beach. In the court, the judge was sitting upright, reporters were whispering to each other, and a dark crowd surrounded me. They really came to judge me. They seemed to exclude me when the case was being heard. None of the steps were taken without my involvement, and they decided my fate without consulting me. It may sound ridiculous 24Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  28. The Count of Monte Cristo (Two Volumes) Alexandre Dumas933k Wordscompleted "The Count of Monte Cristo (Set of Volumes 1 and 2)" is a masterpiece by the famous French popular historical novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Captain Dontes, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was commissioned to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party. He was framed by two despicable villains and a judge, and was sentenced to death. The inmate Father Faria taught him all kinds of knowledge, and before his death, he told him the secrets of a group of treasures buried on the island of Monte Cr 24Reads9.3Score—Shelves
  29. Walking with Walser Written by Carl Zelich and Translated by Jiang Yongjun84k Wordscompleted In 1929, the Swiss German writer Robert Walser hid in a mental hospital and stayed away from the world for the rest of his life. In 1933, Walser closed the book. He said that he was not here to write, but to go crazy. If he wanted to write, he would not come here. He turned to another favorite activity: hiking. Starting in 1936, Carl Zelich visited regularly, walked with Walser, and wrote a diary, which became the only true record of Walser's last twenty years of life. During the long walk, Zeli 24Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  30. Red and Black Color Illustration Book Stendhal8 Wordscompleted This book tells the story of Julien, the son of a carpenter, who had an affair with the mayor's wife when he was working as a tutor in the mayor's house. After being discovered, he was sent to the seminary and later became the secretary of a marquis. He induced the marquis' daughter to commit herself to him and forced the marquis to agree to the marriage. However, this was destroyed by the letter sent by the mayor's wife to the marquis. So he looked for an opportunity to kill the mayor's wife, w 23Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  31. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (2014 Edition) Jane Austen203k Wordscompleted "Pride and Prejudice" is the most popular masterpiece of British female writer Jane Austen and one of the most influential classic literatures of the 19th century. The novel truly and deeply explores the relationship between women's marriage, social status and economy, and sheds light on the entire social structure and human world at that time. Among them, the classic characters Elizabeth and Darcy written by Jane Austen occupy an important position in the hearts of readers of every generation, 23Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  32. Last Person Mary Shelley287k Wordscompleted This book is an apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley. The story tells the story of Europe at the end of the 21st century. The Black Death quickly swept across the world, eventually causing Europe to be devastated. Humanity is on the verge of extinction. It also includes a discussion of the British state as a republic, with Shelley attending meetings of the House of Commons to gain insight into the system of government of the Romantic era. The novel contains many fictional 23Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  33. Petersburg Stories (Gogol's Three Major Novels) (Russian) Written by Gogol, Translated by Man Tao160k Wordscompleted "Stories of Petersburg" is a series of seven works written by Gogol in the 1830s and 1840s. It is named because the stories all take place in Petersburg. Another main line of this series of works is that the protagonists of the stories are all minor characters. This collection of novels contains seven works: "Nevsky Prospekt", "The Nose", "Portrait", "Coat", "Carriage", "Diary of a Madman" and "Rome", which express the writer's more mature worldview and literary outlook. Chinese readers are more 23Reads9.1Score—Shelves
  34. Selected Works of Somerset Maugham (All Five Volumes) (UK) Maugham, Translated by Yao Wang, Yao Junwei, Huang Yonghua, Wang Jinhua, Huang Shuiqi1.1M Wordscompleted "The Moon and Sixpence" A broker on the stock exchange has a stable job and a happy family, but he is obsessed with painting. He feels like he is "possessed by the devil". He suddenly abandons his home and goes to Paris to pursue his artistic ideals. After some bizarre encounters, he finally left the civilized world and escaped to the isolated island of Tahiti in the South Pacific, where he injected all the value of life into the gorgeous canvas. "The Veil" Kitty, a beautiful but vain British wo 23Reads8.9Score—Shelves
  35. The Outsider (Camus' Masterpiece) Camus58k Wordscompleted "The Outsider" reveals the paradoxes in the modern judicial process through the true feelings of a clerk. By completely excluding the client from the judicial process, he is placed in an outsider status of being "replaced" and "excluded", and ultimately the client is sentenced to death. The social significance of "The Outsider" lies in its profound revelation of absurd reality. 22Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  36. Siddhartha Hermann Hesse182k Wordscompleted As one of the 13th series of our company's "Most Classic English Library", this book selects the classic work "Siddhartha" by the famous German writer Hermann Hesse. This is Hesse's ninth work, published in Germany in 1922. Through the description of the two "selfs" in the protagonist Siddhartha - the rational infinite "self" and the emotional limited "self" - Hesse explores the issue of how individuals pursue the infinite and eternal realm of life in a limited life. Readers can not only gain an 22Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  37. Selected Novels and Dramas by Gogol (Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series) Gogol, Man Tao236k Wordscompleted It includes Gogol's representative works, the novels "Taras Bulba", "Nevsky Prospekt", "Portrait", "The Overcoat" and the drama "The Imperial Envoy". Gogol uses ordinary daily life as the theme to describe the misfortunes of small people, which is permeated by the author's exposure and criticism of the social roots that cause the tragedies of small people. "The Imperial Envoy" is the representative work of the Russian satirist Gogol, which was published in 1836. The story describes a playboy, Kh 21Reads9.2Score—Shelves
  38. Oh! Dad (Japan) Kotaro Isaka192k Wordscompleted Yukio, an ordinary high school boy, plays basketball well, learns first-level baseball, is liked by beautiful girls, and can play mahjong well. How did you educate such a perfect boy? Because he has four dads. One has a strong physique, making him a good athlete; one is rational and smart, making him a top student; one can please women, making him charming; one has good gambling luck, teaching him some things that he doesn't know... It sounds really powerful, but Yukio is a little melancholy in 21Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  39. The Little Prince (Recommended Chinese Reading Series) Saint-Exupery35k Wordscompleted "The Little Prince" is the most influential work by French writer Saint-Exupéry. He tells us a dream-like story that happened in the Sahara Desert of Africa: In the Sahara Desert, a pilot who made an emergency landing met a little prince from an alien planet. This cute little man is looking for friendship everywhere. He has visited six planets, but he has never found the love and friendship he dreamed of. So where can we find love and friendship? The fairy tale ends with a revelation: love and f 19Reads9.0Score—Shelves
  40. Pride and Prejudice (English Original) Jane Austen561k Wordscompleted The story revolves around the marriages of several daughters of the Bennett family. Mr. Bingley, a wealthy bachelor newly moved from London, falls in love with the gentle and beautiful eldest daughter Jane, while his friend Darcy falls in love with his second daughter Elizabeth. Because she listened to the slander of the young officer Wayne and was prejudiced against Darcy, the marriage progressed very slowly. After a series of interesting twists and turns, the misunderstanding was finally elimi 19Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  41. The Lost World the Lost World (English Original) Conan Doyle341k Wordscompleted Editor's recommendation: "The Lost World (Foreign Literature Classic) (Illustrated Edition)", a world bestseller that was introduced to China very early, has influenced a whole generation. Later, those wonderful and fascinating detective stories continued to be popular around the world in the form of TV series and movies. I believe that when you read "The Lost World (Foreign Literature Classic) (Illustrated Edition)", you will definitely follow the author to experience a sufficiently exciting ad 19Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  42. Nobel Prize Master Short Classic Guomai5k Wordscompleted "Nobel Prize Masters' Short Classics" is a collection of short stories and short stories compiled from the representative short story works of twenty Nobel Prize winners in literature. It brings together Camus, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hesse, Bunin, Thomas Mann, Romain Rolland and other literary giants. Most of these writers are good at novel writing (especially short story writing). Their literary styles are diverse and represent a high level of literary creation. Specially invited translators, suc 19Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  43. Miss Keaton and the Other Beasts (Short Classic Collection) Teresa Colon75k Wordscompleted Published in 2015, this book is the first narrative work of Andorran writer Teresa Colón, a collection of short stories composed of five stories: "Miss Croque", "Caterina", "The Mortensen Boys", "The Gravedigger's Son" and "The House of Dicerchapon". Each story begins with the birth of a child and ends with the death of the child. According to common sense in life, the plots are "unbelievable" and impossible to happen in real life. However, in the spiritual world and psychological desires, they 18Reads8.5Score—Shelves
  44. Innocent Person Gabriele D'annunzio167k Wordscompleted ★One of the works in the "Rose Trilogy" series by Gabriele D'Annunzio, a representative figure in Italian aestheticism literature. ★A story about confession, a completely rebellious character, a cynical and ruthless confession, a work worthy of inclusion in the European literary landscape. ★Visconti's movie of the same name, which expresses a delicate and gorgeous aristocratic elegy. [About the author] Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) was an Italian poet, novelist, and playwright. He was one of t 18Reads9.3Score—Shelves
  45. The Lord of the Rings (Part 3: the Return of the King) J. R. R. Tolkien332k Wordscompleted "The Return of the King" The Dark Lord's minions spread everywhere and the harm became more widespread. Humans, dwarves, elves and Ents united to fight against it. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam are still in Mordor struggling to accomplish the heroic feat of destroying the Ring. The grand conclusion of Tolkien's classic masterpiece, following "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers", this volume contains appendices and a newly revised full-text index. "The Lord of the Rings" is a great epic a 18Reads9.1Score—Shelves
  46. Jane Eyre (Illustrations from the Famous Translation Series) Charlotte Brontë369k Wordscompleted "Jane Eyre" is a novel with very unique ideological content and artistic form. It uses a lyrical and romantic writing style to describe the deep love between the female governess Jane Eyre and the manor owner Rochester. It successfully created the first female image in British literature to adopt an independent and positive attitude towards love, life, society and religion. It is regarded as a model of "modern women's novels". 18Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  47. A Farewell to Arms (Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series) Hemingway192k Wordscompleted "A Farewell to Arms" is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1929. The novel is narrated from the perspective of Lieutenant Frederick Henry, an American ambulance driver who fought in the Italian army in World War I. In refined language and with World War I as the background, the novel criticizes the absurdity, nihility and irrationality of war. 18Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  48. Spring Birds: a Collection of Kunikida Doppo's Classic Works [Japan] Kunikida Doppo125k Wordscompleted "In the final analysis, it is because I have never been able to understand life, and my lofty ambitions weighed me down, making me extremely depressed." This book is a masterpiece of short stories by Doppo Kunikida, the pioneer of Japanese naturalistic literature. It includes 14 works including "Musashino", "Mr. Tomioka" and "The Sorrow of Painting". Kunikida's life was only thirty-seven years, and he wrote dozens of short stories and a large number of poems. He did not achieve success in the se 18Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  49. The World's Classic Fairy Tale That Most Touches Children's Hearts·one Thousand and One Nights Sharuo Changes20 Wordscompleted Once upon a time, there was a kingdom of Sasan. The king found out that the queen was unfaithful to him, and he hated all the women in the world. He married a woman every day and killed her early the next morning. Several years later, many innocent women died. Scheherazade, the prime minister's daughter, voluntarily married the king in order to save the innocent woman. She told the king stories every night, but when she got to the exciting part, it was already dawn. In order to continue listenin 17Reads8.5Score—Shelves
  50. A Year of Living Alone John Owen355k Wordscompleted Each member in this story is somewhat "abnormal" and they have been looking for another possibility outside of their current lives: Mother Marion, in order to forget the pain of losing her son and her husband's betrayal, sparked a spark with Eddie, a boy who was twenty years younger than herself; Ted, the father, wrote weird children's books while wandering into the arms of various women; Eddie, the boy, was lost in the passion of year-old love and has never been able to fall in love with a woma 17Reads8.7Score—Shelves