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One Thousand and One Nights
According to legend, a long time ago, there was an island country called Sasan between China and India. King Shanruyar had been in power for 20 years. He governed the country well and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. One day, the king accidentally discovered that the queen was having fun with her slaves. He was furious and suspected that the queen was disloyal to him, so he killed the queen. From then on he hated women and vowed to take revenge on all women. He decided to ma
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Celebration Is Pointless
"Celebrating Meaninglessness" is Milan Kundera's latest novel after a ten-year gap in novel writing. It is an "unexpected summary of the writer's entire work. A strange summary. A strange ending." The whole novel is like a comedy, a farce, and the Luxembourg Garden in the Latin Quarter of Paris is the stage. Four good friends, Alain, Ramon, Charles and Caliban, took turns to appear on the stage. Following their footsteps, their life stories, and their conversations in twos and threes, it led to
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Caress the Water, Caress the Wind
In 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Elisha Pomarantz, a mathematician and watchmaker, fled into the forest, leaving his beautiful and intelligent wife Stefan behind to face the great changes alone. Perhaps there were no farmers, no witches, and no roast geese. Elisha lived in the forest in a purely spiritual state without any material needs at all; Stefan stayed in the small town, accompanied by two old Siamese cats named Chopin and Schopenhauer. They survived the war, Elisha went to Israel hoping
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Fall in Love with Romance
Based on an uncomplicated love story, many interesting and exquisite thoughts about love are based on it, giving people space to think deeply and resonate. With the appearance of Eric, love hits Alice. She abandons her independence and embraces passion, sweetness, and love; she humiliates herself and ignores Eric's self-centeredness of greed and cowardly commitment. But love still exists, but romance will eventually overdraft. At this time, Philip's appearance makes her fascinated again... When
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Ancient Capital (Kawabata Yasunari)
"Ancient Capital" is a novella written by Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari. The title of the book "Ancient Capital" refers to Kyoto, Japan. The work was serialized in "Asahi Shimbun" from October 1961 to January 1962, and published in January 1962. In this novel, Kawabata Yasunari uses light and delicate writing to describe the joys and sorrows of the twin sisters Chieko and Miaozi, as well as the loneliness in the world. The author gives them his attention, sympathy and lament, writes about th
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War and Peace (4 Volumes in Total)
If the world could introduce itself, it would be what War and Peace would look like! In the history of human literature, "War and Peace" uses 559 characters to complete a magnificent narrative and lift up the entire human civilization. It is called "the great epic of this era"! When Haruki Murakami was 15, he had read "War and Peace" three times! Selected as a recommended must-read for the new curriculum standards and a recommended reading series for "Chinese Language" compiled by the Ministry o
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Siddhartha
This book is the masterpiece of German writer Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This lyrical novel tells the story of the growth, development, and maturity of a gifted Indian young man. Through a lifetime of exploration and discovery, he finally realizes his ideal in his twilight years. It is a well-known "bildungsroman" throughout the world. Regardless of language or expression techniques, simplicity is like sketching or sketching, only seeking to achieve the desired effect.
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Anna Karenina
The work tells the story of Anna, an aristocratic woman, who pursues love and happiness, but is defeated by Karenin's hypocrisy and Vronsky's indifference and selfishness. She eventually ends up committing suicide by lying on a train and leaving her body in a station. The manor owner Levin opposed the private ownership of land, resisted the capitalist system, and sympathized with the poor peasants, but he could not get rid of the aristocratic habits and fell into an inextricable contradiction. C
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Another World Izakaya (4 Volumes in Total)
Ashin and Xiao Ren work hard to run an izakaya, but for some reason, the front entrance of the store is connected to a town in a different world. Here, they met the lazy soldiers, the serious tax collector, the picky earl's daughter, the timid girl, the squadron leader who was afraid of squid... These guests who came to the izakaya accidentally were impressed by the food here, forgot the worries in life, and became good friends of the izakaya... Izakaya is a warm place in this other world.
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A Piece of Snow
Iori, the director of an architectural firm, fell deeply in love with Axia, a housewife with elegant temperament and a good life. His secretary Shengzi, who had always been emotionally involved with him, accidentally discovered his new love affair, and the relationship with him reached a deadlock. Love is as beautiful and illusory as snowflakes. Iori, who pursues happiness with all her heart, only wakes up when she loses all love...
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The Old Man and the Sea (Guomai Classic)
The story tells of an old man who was fishing alone at sea and had no harvest for several months. Later, he caught a large swordfish, fought with it for two days and two nights, and stabbed it to death with a spear gun. However, he was attacked by a shark on the way back. Although the old man, who lacked helpers and tools, killed several sharks, the swordfish was eaten by other sharks. When he entered the harbor, only a set of bones was left in the swordfish.
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The Old Man and the Sea (2018)
"The Old Man and the Sea" tells the story of an old man who fished alone at sea and had no harvest for several months. Later, he caught a large swordfish, fought with it for two days and two nights, and stabbed it to death with a spear gun. However, he was attacked by a shark on the way back. Although the old man, who lacked helpers and tools, killed several sharks, the swordfish was eaten by other sharks. When he entered the harbor, only a pair of bones were left in the swordfish. This seemingl
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The Old Man and the Sea (Guomai Classic)
The story tells of an old man who was fishing alone at sea and had no harvest for several months. Later, he caught a large swordfish, fought with it for two days and two nights, and stabbed it to death with a spear gun. However, he was attacked by a shark on the way back. Although the old man, who lacked helpers and tools, killed several sharks, the swordfish was eaten by other sharks. When he entered the harbor, only a set of bones was left in the swordfish.
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My Name Is Red: Collector's Edition
The story takes place in the Ottoman Empire in the late 1590s, when the Sultan secretly commissioned a great book to celebrate his life and empire. Four outstanding miniaturists of the day gathered in Istanbul to paint a book that was said to shake up religion and society. At this time, young Hei, who had been away from home for twelve years for love, finally returned at the call of his lover's father. What greeted him was not only love, but also murders that followed, and the clues were hidden
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Old Man and Sea
This book tells the story of a fisherman. After eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone. However, the fish was so big that it dragged his boat on the sea for three days before exhaustion, and he killed it and tied it to the side of the boat. On the way back, he was attacked by a shark again. When he finally returned to Hong Kong, only the head, tail and a spine were left. During the days when old Santiago went to s
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Old Man and Sea
"The Old Man and the Sea" tells the story: After eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone. However, the fish was so big that he dragged his boat on the sea for three days before he was exhausted. Although this is a work with a simple story and a small length, it is rich in meaning. Many teachers use it as a teaching material on heroism education and recommend it to students, making it an enduring bestseller. Once th
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The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway Collection)
An old Cuban fisherman fought alone with a giant marlin at sea for three days and finally subdued it. However, he was attacked by a shark on his way back. After fighting day and night, he finally returned to the seaside with an empty fish bone. People can be destroyed, but they cannot be defeated. All the profound meaning of life is contained in this tough guy and his fish bones.
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The Old Man and the Sea (Collected Works of Hemingway)
Select 200,000 words of representative works of short stories and short stories by Ernest Hemingway, the most important American writer of the 20th century, including his most distinctive works such as "The Old Man and the Sea", "Snow on Mount Kilimanjaro" and "A Day's Waiting" to fully demonstrate Hemingway's artistic achievements and literary value in short stories and short stories.
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Selected Series of Hemingway's Works: the Old Man and the Sea
"The Old Man and the Sea" was created in 1951 and is one of Hemingway's most famous works. It tells the story of an old fisherman's heroic fight with a huge marlin in the sea. After eighty-four consecutive days without catching a fish, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally caught a big marlin alone. However, the fish was so big that it dragged his boat on the sea for three days before exhaustion, and he killed it and tied it to the side of the boat. During the return trip, he was repeatedly
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Old Man and Sea
"The Old Man and the Sea" is a novella written by the American writer Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. The story revolves around an elderly Cuban fisherman who fights a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream far offshore. Although the old man in Hemingway's works is tragic, he possesses Nietzsche's "superman" qualities. He accepts failure calmly and faces death calmly and bravely. These "tough guys" embody Hemingway's philosophy of life and moral ideals, that is, human beings do not bow
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The Old Man and the Sea (English Original Version)
"The Old Man and the Sea (English Original Version of Whale Song)" is a novella written by Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It is the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway and published while he was still alive. One of his most famous works, it revolves around an elderly Cuban fisherman fighting a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream far offshore. Although it has different literary evaluations, it is noteworthy in 20th century novels and Hemingway's works, establishing his p
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Old Man and Sea
The campus bookshelf series selects classics and traditional Chinese cultural stories, combining text and pictures to provide children with a wonderful reading experience.
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Jude the Obscure
The novel narrates the tragedy of the life of rural young Jude in a tragic tone. Jude was studious, thoughtful and diligent in self-study, but he was always rejected from the university. The heroine Shu is smart and beautiful, and more importantly, has an independent personality and thoughts, and despises secularity and rigid religion. However, her love with Jude is not tolerated by the church and despised by the world. Jude's ambition was unrewarded, he had no way to find a job, and he had no w
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The Hobbit: the Complete Translation with Color Illustrations (Reprinted from the Original Edition, Field Research on Tolkien's Rare Manuscripts)
"The Hobbit" is a world-renowned fantasy classic. This book tells the story of a hobbit named Bilbo. One day, the dwarves suddenly visited, breaking Bilbo's originally peaceful and comfortable life. Bilbo finally chose to join their adventuring team. On the way, he accidentally obtained a magic ring, and helped his companions defeat the evil dragon occupying the treasure and regain their castle. The entire expedition is full of thrills. They are helped by nobles such as the gray robe wizard Gand
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Madame Bovary
The work tells the story of Emma, a peasant girl who received an aristocratic education. She looked down on her husband Bovary, a rural doctor, and dreamed of a legendary love. However, her two affairs not only failed to bring her happiness, but also made her an object of exploitation by loan sharks. In the end, she accumulated so much debt that she had no choice but to commit suicide by taking poison.
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The Decameron (Volume 2)
Most of the stories in "The Decameron" are true events that happened. Some praise life in this world, some praise love, and some praise the value of freedom. At the same time, there are also stories aimed at exposing the cruelty and tyranny of officials, the hypocrisy of church priests and nuns, etc. Of course, there are also stories about the control of the spiritual world by the power of fate and the control of the spiritual world by the power of human will. Some stories also reveal the deceit
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The Decameron (Volume 1)
The work tells the story of a plague epidemic in Florence, Italy in 1348, and 10 men and women took refuge in a villa in the countryside. They played and entertained all day long, and each told a story every day. They lived for 10 days and told hundreds of stories. These stories criticized the Catholic Church, ridiculed the church for teaching darkness and sin, praised love as the source of talent and noble sentiments, condemned asceticism, ruthlessly exposed and lashed out the depravity and cor
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Journey Home
"Journey Home" is yoga master Radhanath Swami's classic masterpiece exploring the soul. The author recalls his transformation from young seeker to renowned spiritual director. Through "Journey Home", readers can follow Swami's footsteps, traveling from Chicago to Europe, from Europe to India, and finally deep into the caves of the Himalayas to visit the yoga saints. "Journey Home" intersperses the author's many near-death encounters, his experience of practicing with an advanced yogi, and variou
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Wings of Heart
"Wings of the Heart" is a novel written by Yi Fu based on his own travel and life experiences. It took eight years to gradually complete. This book reflects the author's thoughts on life and death, emotion, materiality, spirit, religion, life and other propositions through the protagonist's experience, and awakens readers' thinking on the meaning and value of life. In addition, the various exotic cultures and adventures described in the book are also extremely fascinating. The author not only co
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A Romance Novel
As an unprecedented short story writer in Japan, most of Akutagawa's works included in "A Love Story" are short stories, with only "Theft" being a novella. In order to show the development of the writer's views on love, marriage, and women, this book attempts to arrange it in a time context and select 14 love-themed short stories from Akutagawa's more than 140 novels. Among them, "Adventures" and "Epilogue Letter" are placed at the beginning of the volume, allowing readers to appreciate Akutagaw
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The Life of the Despised Matsuko
Kawajiri Sheng was enjoying college life in Tokyo. One day, his father suddenly visited and told him that his aunt Matsuko, who disappeared more than 30 years ago, had recently been murdered in Tokyo. Sheng, who was responsible for sorting out his aunt's belongings, began to investigate Songzi's life. From a middle school teacher to a fashionable girl, Songzi has been pursuing the thing called love all her life. She has been driven away by her family, abandoned by her lover, and humiliated by fa
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Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea
The story of the whole book is caused by a "sea monster". Professor Aronnax and his companions finally fell into the hands of this "sea monster" - the "Nautilus" submarine, and began a ten-month journey under the sea. The sights you see at the bottom of the sea can be said to be all kinds of strange, including walking through undersea forests, stepping on undersea coal mines, admiring large pearls worth tens of millions, fighting with large sharks, chasing manatees, having bloody battles with oc
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Selected Short Stories by Hemingway
"Selected Short Stories of Hemingway" collects many of Hemingway's most representative short stories, including "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Mountains Like White Elephants", "Indian Camp", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "Cat in the Rain", "The Boxer", "The Doctor and his Couple", etc. Among all Hemingway's works, it was not his novels that made him famous the earliest, but these extraordinary short stories. These short stories are mainly declarative sentences, with precise descripti
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Greenhouse at the End of the Earth
Due to climate deterioration and frequent extreme weather, the earth has entered the "dust age" and familiar animals and plants have become extinct one by one. Human physique also changed. One type developed antibodies to dust and was captured and traded. The other type became half-man, half-machine, used and discarded by their former compatriots. To isolate the dust, humans split into different groups. One group built a "dome city" protected by a huge glass cover in the city, while a small numb
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Mansfield Park
This book is one of the author's major works. The kind-hearted and sensible Fanny was fostered in the home of her wealthy aunt since she was a child because her family was poor. Although her aunt's two cousins were smart and beautiful, they were both arrogant and willful. Thanks to the kind care of her cousin Edmund, she found comfort and happiness in the life of being dependent on others. As an adult, Fanny often attended social gatherings with her cousins. They met the charming young man Cra
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Persuade
This book is the author's last novel and creates one of the most noble characters in his writings. Time was passing from Anne's body, and when she was in her prime, she finally parted ways with her lover, Colonel Wentworth, because she accepted the "persuasion" of others. Although she is no longer young and suffers from the indifference of her vain father and sister, her noble kindness makes her the most popular person among her relatives and friends. The two met again eight years after they bro
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), a famous British female writer and one of the representatives of stream-of-consciousness novelists. "Mrs. Dalloway" is her masterpiece. "Mrs. Dalloway" describes the daily activities of a parliamentarian's wife. The book takes the protagonist as the core and her birthday dinner as the pivot, and prominently creates two completely different models: Bradshaw, the "great doctor" who represents the upper class society and customary forces, and Smith, who was born as a com
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Hot Night Dream
In the 19th century, on the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi River was the dream of all boatmen. Countless steamships chase each other on this arterial waterway, competing for money and honors, with long whistles and white smoke billowing. Just when a snow disaster almost destroyed Captain Abner Marsh's shipping career, he received a letter from a mysterious man. The promise of gold and a magnificent new ship that could make history made Captain Marsh irresistible. Joshua York came to seek
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Five Declines of Heaven and Man
Beauty keeps the world from spiritual decay. Yukio Mishima, a modern master who cannot be ignored in the contemporary Japanese literary world, was twice shortlisted for the Nobel Prize, but passed away in a tragic way. [Introduction to the content] "This is an unsurprisingly quiet and bright garden. The chirping of cicadas like counting rosary beads has occupied the entire courtyard. There is no other sound, and it is extremely lonely. There is nothing in this courtyard. Honda feels that he has
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Crow (Gomai Classic)
The book selects 25 representative works of Edgar Allan Poe, covering his masterpieces in the fields of thrillers, detective novels, science fiction and humorous satirical novels, including the familiar ones such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Black Cat", "The Golden Beetle", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "Manuscript in a Bottle", "Spectacles", "The Rise and Fall of the Moscone Whirlpool", and "A Barrel of Monterey White Wine", etc. It is translated by Cao Minglun, an expert on Poe's works. I
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Eternal Garden
Ogawa Ito, the representative writer of Japanese healing system. This is another novel masterpiece after "The Camellia Stationery Shop" and "Sweet Day at the Lion's House". In the eternal garden, camellias bloomed, and Towako and Joey (a guide dog) spent the winter together for the first time. In her first life, Towako had been trapped in darkness, and she was often involved in uncontrollable turbid currents. Originally, there were only herself, her mother and "Wednesday's dad" in her life. For
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Long Road
Won't people forget? Yes, people will forget what they want to keep and keep what they want to forget. When the end comes, the only way to survive is to take a torch and walk down the long dark road. An unknown disaster has left the world in ruins, and all that can be seen is desolation, darkness, wind, snow and ashes. A father and son push a cart filled with food and survival equipment, looking for a way out on the southern coast. On the long road to the end of civilization, people are fighting
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A Kiss for a Leper (Gomai Classic)
[Nobel laureate Mauriac's famous work, "Snake Knot" is newly translated by translator Gu Qijing. [Pain and loneliness in a hopeless love, he repays marriage with death, and she repays fate with youth. Nobel Prize winner - Mauriac's classic work that dissects the core of loveless marriage. It is a model of psychological analysis at the level of French literature. It influenced Camus and Sartre's "Poison Master" and wrote about the suffocation of loveless marriage with a cold writing style. When
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Cherry (Selected Collection of Osamu Dazai)
The conflict between "I" as a father and husband, and "I" as a mother and wife are intensifying. "I" is convinced that his wife wants to destroy "I"'s hope and belief in life, but my wife fully accepts such a weak "I"... Short chapters, dense writing, self and reason pull each other, penetrating the shadow of death before the desperate situation of life. This book collects a total of thirteen idiosyncratic works by Dazai Osamu in his later years, covering short stories, female monologues and ide
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Girl Apprentice (Selected Collection of Osamu Dazai)
This is an illustration of the life of a woman in the world. It contains Dazai Osamu's stunning female monologue novels, which vividly describe women's thoughts and accurately capture the human feelings of the world. This is another survival pillow book for sensitive souls. Aoki Oizo who is struggling in the quagmire of life, Meles who runs for friendship and faith, and the Aqing couple who bring light to "me"... The author boldly breaks through the traditional literary style and reveals the re
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Nightingale and Rose
"The Nightingale and the Rose" contains nine fairy tales from Wilde's early fairy tale collections "The Happy Prince" and "Pomegranate's House". Among them, "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant" are classic fairy tales that are deeply loved by readers and have been selected into English textbooks for primary and secondary schools many times. Wilde's fairy tales are unique in style, full of whimsical ideas, and overflowing with kindness, forgiveness and love.
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Orlando
The story begins in the Elizabethan era in the 16th century and ends in the "present day" when Woolf wrote in 1928, lasting four hundred years. Orlando was first an innocent aristocratic beauty who entered the court because he was favored by Queen Elizabeth. After King James ascends the throne, the Great Frost comes. Orlando meets a Russian princess and falls in love. As a result, he falls out of love and falls out of favor, and lives in seclusion in a country mansion. Orlando has been obsessed
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The House on Mango Street
"The House on Mango Street" tells the story of Esperanza, which is hope in Spanish. Esperanza, a girl who lives on Mango Street in Chicago's Latin American immigrant community, is born with compassion for the pain of others and a sense of beauty. She looks at the world around her with clear eyes, and uses a language as beautiful and tender as poetry to tell about growth, vicissitudes, the beauty and difficulty of life, and the aspirations and dreams of youth. I dream of having a house of my own,
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Dance! Dance! Dance!
"In this lonely and helpless world, dancing is the only way out!" "Dance!" Dance! Dance! " Is another important novel by Haruki Murakami. The content of this book is connected with "The Adventures of Sheep Hunting". The protagonist "I" is the same person. The novel is divided into two clues. One is about "my" old classmate Gotanda, a perfect movie star who suffered from packaging. Unable to bear the burden of reality, he killed two call girls and then threw himself into the sea. Another line in
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Pinball in 1973
"Everything must have both an entrance and an exit. There is no other choice." 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. "Pinball in 1973" is Haruki Murakami's second novel. Together with "Hear the Wind Sing" and "Sheep Hunting Adventures", it is called the "Youth Trilogy". It is a growth work that combines all the elements of Murakami's writing, writing strange stories about alienation, love and obs
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