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A must-read for women who pursue independence! I was ambitious and decided to find myself and become myself. The second part of the classic masterpiece "The Coming of Ages" by Byatt, the world's leading literary figure and winner of the Booker Prize, has been released in Chinese for the first time. (The four parts are "Girl in the Garden", "Still Life", "Tower of Babel" and "The Whistling Woman") The author of this book is Booker Prize winner A. S. Byatt, who was named one of the 50 great British writers since 1945 by The Times. Byatt has been invited to China many times and held talks with Wang Anyi, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. Many key universities in China have set off a "Byatt research craze", publishing many academic works, and more than 300 related academic papers can be found. The simplified Chinese version has three major collection values: 1. Carefully translated by Huang Xie'an, associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Advanced Translation and Interpretation of Shanghai International Studies University, with a postscript that decodes the mental journey of the characters in detail in the book 2. Elegant oil paintings by world-renowned cross-border artist Danny McBride 3. Comes with a special volume of "\u003C Still Life\u003E Dictionary" that contains 108 art-related annotations, covering literature, painting, architecture, philosophy... To help you understand and thoroughly understand the master's classics. In the UK in the 1950s, a pair of sisters from an elite family of intellectuals entered a new stage of life: after marriage, the world of sister Stephanie became increasingly narrow: filled with her husband's tired complaints, her mother-in-law's mean and difficult things, and the overwhelming number of baby diapers, but there was no room for a volume of her beloved Wordsworth's poetry. She became "Mother" and "Mrs. Orton"... But lost "Stephanie". After entering college, her sister Frederica's life became more and more broad: from Paris to Cambridge, from Van Gogh to Shakespeare, from one man to another, through glory and humiliation, and into the unknown. She trembles, enjoys, desires, is full of energy and never stops.

If "The Hidden Book" is a "Victorian poem" that can be considered real, then "Twilight of the Gods" is a gorgeous and elegant opera. Byatt, winner of the Booker Prize and known as the "Queen of Talents," used her brilliant pen to write a story that is both true and fantasy, a strange work that integrates Nordic mythology into modern narrative. Like Alice who fell into the hole of a magical tree, the little girl who lived in the British countryside during World War II entered the mysterious world of Nordic gods through a strange book "Asgard and the Gods" and experienced many bizarre stories. Bayat uses poetic and elegant language to describe the World Tree, the mysterious sea, the arrogance and greed of gods, the free growth of monsters and their destiny to become demons. Even the extremely tragic snake-killing battle has a gorgeous flavor. The seemingly distant Nordic mythology hints at the fate of modern humans. The war not only brought about the end of the gods, but also connected the world that people knew during World War II, leaving behind the ruins of modern war. But as Wagner's opera "Twilight of the Gods" shows, all things perish together and will eventually be reborn. The war has left modern civilization in ruins, but the world will surely be reborn. Britain, the little one, is hope.

A must-read growth epic for women pursuing independence! "Quartet of the Growth of Women" is Byatt's most prestigious masterpiece, which took nearly 30 years to write. It uses the growth epic of Frederica, a British intellectual woman, to connect the historical changes in Britain in the decades after World War II.