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"The Non-Existent Knight" is one of Calvino's "Our Ancestors" trilogy. The "Our Ancestors" trilogy includes: "The Non-Existent Knight", "The Viscount Split in Two" and "The Baron in the Trees". These three stories represent the three stages leading to freedom, and are about the experience of how people realize themselves: strive for in "The Non-Existent Knight" Survival, the pursuit of a complete life that is not ravaged by society in "The Viscount in Two", and a path to wholeness in "The Baron in the Trees" - a non-individualistic wholeness achieved through unswerving efforts towards personal self-determination. Agilulfo, a model soldier, exists in an empty armor, but he is the embodiment of a perfect knight. He is the only one who makes the armor meaningful. When his world-famous achievements are challenged, questioned, and about to be obliterated, can his existence still be established?

"Notes from the House of the Dead" is one of the most important and influential works published by the great Russian writer Dostoevsky in the 19th century during the Russian serfdom reform period. Based on his own personal experience, the author described what he saw during hard labor in a calm and objective style. The whole book is composed of independent chapters such as memories, essays, close-ups, and stories, which vividly displays the terrible situation and mental state of various types of convicts, and outlines the unique personalities of various characters.

"The Sun and Iron" is a long prose written by Mishima Yukio in his late period, and it is also a rare autobiographical work in his creative career. In this book, Mishima uses poetic language full of symbolism to elaborate on inner contradictions and conflicts from various angles. He condensed his own beliefs into the sun, and the sun was the external glory of the muscle shape, reflecting the muscles. Iron is the form of the inner strength of muscles. Only after experiencing the training of the sun and iron can the body maintain its eternal glory and bear all value. "The Sun and Iron" is an important work in which Mishima Yukio reveals his inner thoughts and aesthetics. It is also a key text in interpreting the mystery of his death.

This book is one of Haruki Murakami's essay series, with a total of 16 essays. It is an essay written by the author during his lectures in the United States from 1991 to 1992. The contents are all based on the author's personal experiences in the United States. The subject matter is rich, covering a wide range of topics, and it also describes the current social and cultural situation of the United States. The narrative includes an analysis of the cultural differences between the United States and Japan through specific events, a variety of interesting anecdotes about the author's life in the United States, and a review of his boyhood, love and marriage, opening a bar to make a living before becoming famous, family life, husband-wife relationships, etc. The style of this book is just like his novels, which are vivid, witty, humorous, and full of in-depth thinking. It is an interesting little book with strong readability.

"How to Find the Whirlpool Cat" is one of Haruki Murakami's essay series, a total of 16 essays, written during Murakami's lectures in the United States from 1994 to 1995. The content can be divided into three categories: first, the author's experiences, joys and troubles while living in the United States; second, interesting talks about animals; and third, his travels around the world, including the little-known trip to Northeast China. During this period, Murakami's calm and serious comments on American society were already written in "The Ultimate Sad Foreign Language", and "How to Find the Way of the Whirlpool Cat" focuses on his daily life. To this end, Murakami deliberately changed the tone of his writing, making the writing casual and unrestrained. This new edition adds 17 large-scale illustrations by Murakami Haruki's old partner, the painter Mizumaru Anzai, and 54 photos taken by Murakami's wife Yoko Murakami.

In a future world, the glass bead game has become a symbol system evolved from music and mathematics, and is all human knowledge and spiritual wealth. Due to the complicated politics and wars, human civilization is facing the threat of destruction. In order to save and promote this spiritual culture of mankind, a certain religious group is making unremitting efforts. Knecht was an orphan who was raised by this religious group. He was talented and intelligent. With his outstanding talents and superior organizational skills, he continued to rise in this elite group until he reached the top of the group and became the master of the glass bead game. But as he grew older, he gradually became dissatisfied with this isolated spiritual kingdom and felt that it was impossible to contribute to the people in this kind of ivory tower. So he came to the real world and tried to use education to improve the entire world. However, before his career was completed, he unfortunately drowned while swimming. This book is the crystallization of the spiritual experience of the elderly Hesse looking back on his life. The work was written from 1931 to 1934, almost simultaneously with Hitler's rise to power and his demise.

The whole book consists of 57 diaries. The Chancellor was a beautiful three-masted, nine-hundred-ton sailing ship that sailed commercially from Charleston, South Carolina, to Liverpool, England. During the voyage, the captain changed the route and decided to sail from the direction of Bermuda. This ominous place seems to have triggered a series of disasters on the Chancellor. First, the cotton in the cabin spontaneously ignited, then it was discovered that there were high explosives in the cabin, and then the Chancellor ran aground, and the disaster for the victims had just begun.

"The Time Machine" is a science fiction novel published by the famous British novelist Herbert George Wells in 1895. This book is also Wells' first science fiction novel. Some critics identified the publication of this book as "the first year of the birth of science fiction." The work describes a scientist who travels to AD 802,701 through a time travel machine. At this time, the earth was full of palace-like buildings. Humanity evolved into two categories: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The author will describe the elegant nobles as animals raised by Moloch and also used as food, showing a gloomy scene of human degradation.

This is a work by the famous French writer Jules Verne. For readers who like Verne's works, this book is worth reading. The protagonist Kelabang is a tobacco merchant with a stubborn and old-fashioned nature. He was going to his nephew's house across the strait to attend a wedding. In order to express his dissatisfaction with the unreasonable tax policy, he decided to lead people along the Black Sea to the other side of the strait, and experienced numerous difficulties and obstacles. Their carriage was bitten by mosquitoes, besieged by wild boars, and encountered volcanic eruptions of gas underground in the prairie. They almost died. In addition, he also had to deal with the machinations of the Turkish dignitaries... With his profound geographical knowledge, Verne vividly described the beautiful scenery along the Black Sea coast, the lively scenes of Constantinople, Turkish customs, and the traditional customs of the Kalmouk nomadic tribe.

"Father of Science Fiction" Jules Verne is an eternal classic! The movie of the same name won three US Oscars! The story begins in 1866. At that time, people discovered a huge and terrifying sea monster in the sea. When the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation all over the world. French naturalist Aronnax was invited to participate in the capture operation. However, he and his servant accidentally fell into the sea and accidentally swam onto the back of the "sea monster". Embarked on a fantasy and interesting adventure: it turned out that the "sea monster" was a diving ship with a strange structure, named the Nautilus. Captain Nemo invited Aaron Nax and others to travel with him on the bottom of the sea. They set out from the Pacific Ocean and passed through coral islands, the Indian Ocean, The Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and finally the Atlantic Ocean, along the way I saw various astonishing underwater wonders and a variety of marine animals and plants... "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" not only has a confusing plot and the characters' fates change rapidly, but also contains a wealth of scientific knowledge like an encyclopedia. Therefore, the book has been carefully compiled and expanded knowledge points in various aspects such as marine biology, physics, culture, meteorology, geography, history, etc., So that readers can read more easily and gain more knowledge while reading.

A rare collection of short stories by Higashino Keigo, consisting of 12 short stories. The author Keigo Higashino said: Every time before writing "something that makes people laugh," I would seriously think about "why people laugh." I couldn't help but think of the vagaries of the human heart, so I focused on the funnyness and ugliness of human beings. "The Novel of Poisonous Laughter" is such a work. Summary of the story of "Poison Laughter Novel": I killed my wife and came to the police station to surrender. The police did not arrest me, but they kept saying: "Your wife was killed. We deeply sympathize. Now we are fully investigating and will definitely arrest the murderer." I am a single man. One day I received a call from a kidnapper claiming to be: "I kidnapped a child. This has nothing to do with you, but the kidnapping of the child's parents makes me feel guilty, so I decided to ask you to pay the ransom." "Alas, Japan is almost dead."

One of Keigo Higashino's short story masterpieces, it consists of 13 interesting short stories. Life seems to be full of dissatisfaction, but in fact, when I think about it, many of the difficulties and embarrassments are trivial things. Life is long, the world is vast, and after broadening your horizons, you may find that you can also have smiling eyes, open-minded behavior, and a self-consistent heart. When I woke up, everything inside and outside my house was smoking, but no one else could see it. Am I crazy? I anxiously went to my father for help, but he just said calmly: "Yes, you are 28 years old, you should have such symptoms."

"Japan's Di Renjie" He Wangdong x Jin Wuwei Xiao Guan Yao Da Jing. The classic CPs join forces to solve the case and happily compose the legend of the prosperous era. Why was a strangely dressed corpse discovered in the guest room of the envoy sent to Tang Dynasty? What is the relationship between the death of the black-and-white counselor and the stunning Persian woman? The mysterious and tragic death of a casino owner's guest was an accident, or was it human weakness at work? A wealthy man's business opportunities have been stolen. Who is the butler, the diva, the servant? What is the relationship between Chang'an City's top craftsmen and a secret room murder case many years ago? Is there any unknown secret and pain behind this? Faced with so many cases involving treacherous tactics, can He Wangdong and Yaoda Whale find a way to clear the air? Can He Wangdong uncover the mystery of his life experience?

The world-famous detective Poirot meets his most powerful opponent! They are a team, four people, whose identities are unknown and each has their own unique skills. Just like Sherlock Holmes encounters Moriarty, Poirot will also have a showdown with them this time! However, in the eyes of loyal Hastings, the elderly Poirot makes every mistake and his defeat seems to be certain. From London to Paris, and then to the mysterious East, is Poirot led by the "Four Devils", or is everything under control?

Edogawa Ranpo's mystery novel collection includes six classics such as "Ghost on the Island", "Banshee" and "Black Lizard", covering 35 Ranpo long, medium and short stories. The published books "Ghost on the Island" and "Banshee" have been well received by readers since their release. The gangster thief Black Lizard attempts to abduct Iwase Shohei's beloved Sanae, and also wants to take possession of Iwase Trading Company's treasure "Egyptian Star". Iwase, who repeatedly received threatening letters, begged Akechi Kogoro to protect his daughter and gems, but the great detective failed again and again. Sanae was kidnapped, the "Star of Egypt" fell into the hands of the enemy, and he himself almost drowned in the sea...

Grant Myler, a young hop merchant, is frightened and angry by his new neighbor, while his wife, Ephesus, begins to behave strangely. Mailer made certain observations and actions, thinking that there must be a problem between his wife and his neighbor, and something made him feel uncomfortable. In order to solve the mystery, in order to completely understand the face, as well as his wife's strange behavior and uneasiness, he asked Holmes for help.

Four simple and bright detective stories. Mrs. Allen, who was about to remarry, was found dead at home by her roommate early in the morning. It looked like a suicide but was full of doubts; an important military document was stolen, and the two gentlemen at the scene actually contradicted each other. What was even more suspicious was that someone claimed to have seen a ghost at the time of the crime; Poirot was... Invited, they came to the mansion of an aristocratic gentleman in the evening, but the gentleman shot himself. The broken mirror at the crime scene made the detective suspicious; a common love triangle occurred on the famous Greek resort island, and the women talked about it, but Poirot was worried.

Bobby Jones is an unknown young man. One day, he found someone falling off a cliff on the golf course. When he rushed over, the person was already dying. He struggled and left an inexplicable sentence before death: "Why don't they look for Evans?" Bobby didn't think much, but was attempted murder afterward. When he came back to his senses, his life seemed to be an exciting detective novel: an idyllic life with hidden dangers, a newly opened mental sanatorium, an evil doctor, a drug-addicted husband, and scandals in the corners...

The always calm and composed Hercule Poirot is facing the most difficult case in his detective career - the motive of the crime? Doesn't exist. Poison? Not knowing where to end. Mr. Satterthwaite, that spectator on the stage of life, reappears and steals much of the limelight from the great detective. An innocent girl who doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth, two gentle older gentlemen, and three innocent dead people who have no connection with each other. Similar dramas are staged alternately, and the tragedy begins with a banquet of thirteen people that is destined to turn into a curse, and slowly begins...

This is a heart-warming novel about "loneliness and love", a masterpiece of reasoning intertwined with sadness, tenderness, terror, youth and evil. Revealing the gentle, bright, lonely and unknown side of "Baek Yiyi". "Bai Yiyi" series of pure love works, see how Yiyi plays with healing reasoning. "Happy Baby" How does he live in the same room with the dead and look for opportunities for rebirth? "Maria's Finger" I hid her "disappeared" finger, but who was the murderer? Why did a girl from a wealthy family sleep with a kidnapper in "The Missing Holiday"? Cut out words from the magazine and spell them out as a kidnapping letter, then secretly send it home. Starting today, my stepmother's harsh words, my father's betrayal, and the fact that this family can continue to function without me, all don't matter to me. On January 4th, the weather was fine, and I kidnapped-myself! A teenager who is afraid of being forgotten, afraid of being hurt, and refuses to contact the outside world. Every time he holds his breath and disappears, he actually tries his best to shout, "Actually, I am here!" He disappears in order to be found by someone. "Missing Holiday" is a missing person notice written by Yiyi for each missing person. So believe that no matter how secretly you hide, someone will find you.

Know the urban legend of the Summer Ghost? It is said that whenever fireworks are lit on a summer night, the ghost of the young woman will appear from the abandoned airport runway. Tomoya, who is unable to move towards the life he loves, Aoi, who cannot find a place to live, and Ryo, whose days are numbered in the future - three teenagers who want to commit suicide, come to the airport with different moods. They hope to see the deceased and ask them: "What does it feel like to die?"

One, two, buckle the shoes; three, four, close the door; five, six, hold the branch; seven, eight, straighten it; nine, ten, the fat hen; eleven, twelve, explore deeply; thirteen, fourteen, the female courting; fifteen, sixteen, the cooks; seventeen, eighteen, waiting; nineteen, twenty, finally dispersing. How scary is going to the dentist? When the great detective Poirot went to Dr. Morley's clinic for a dental check-up, his self-confidence dropped to zero. Unexpectedly, Dr. Morley committed suicide in the consulting room a few hours later. Why did a dentist commit suicide during a busy working day? A shoe buckle becomes the key to solving the case. Now, true to the nursery rhyme, can Poirot pick out useful branches and build them into a bird's nest?

A pair of golden pupils, silently looking at the gap in the heart, a boring military camp, a peeping young soldier, two couples who seem to be inseparable, humiliation and betrayal, maybe death is the best ending for love. Carson McCullers is a classic that transcends an era, and Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor star in the movie of the same name. Alienation, loneliness, unavailable love, sudden death...

The British luxury yacht "Duncan" rides the wind and waves on the vast sea. The ship rises and falls. In a moment, the port of London is in front of you.

This book is the first part of Jules Verne's trilogy. It tells the story of Sir Glenarvan, the owner of the "Duncan", who after picking up the distress bottle sent by Harry Grant, organized a small rescue team and led everyone through hardships. With unparalleled perseverance and courage, he finally found Captain Harry Grant on a desert island in the Pacific.

This book includes a total of 4 Verne classic works: "Around the World in Eighty Days", "Green Light", "Beacon Island" and "Five Weeks in a Balloon". The book not only contains thrilling adventures, but also various strange customs and customs. The protagonists in it not only have superhuman wisdom and strong perseverance, but also have a perseverance spirit. Their lofty ideals, strong characters, excellent qualities and noble sentiments are worth learning from.

Keigo Higashino's masterpiece of short stories, contains 9 interesting stories, and also rarely includes Keigo Higashino's own explanation of each story in the book. Keigo Higashino pokes fun at current social hot issues such as buying a house, chasing stars, and education. His imaginative story settings, witty and funny dialogues, and profound insights into the issues make people smile from time to time. The police commissioned me to develop a gas that would cause people to tell their true feelings shortly after inhaling it. During the evening rush hour, I squeezed onto the tram with a bottle of gas. When I got off the train dozens of minutes later, I discovered that the bottle was leaking. Ah, everything should be fine, right? An unknown body suddenly appeared in our neighborhood, and if word got out, housing prices would plummet. Damn it, how can this work! The owners unanimously agreed to secretly dump the body in a nearby neighborhood where housing prices were rising. Taking advantage of the darkness, several representatives drove off...

Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature 21 times, the true "Uncrowned King" of the Nobel Prize, Graham Greene's classic masterpiece, a master of the 20th century British novelist, a masterpiece of "serious fiction", has been twice adapted into an award-winning film of the same name. Green divided his works into two categories: "serious novels" and "entertainment novels". "Brighton Lollipop" is one of the most famous "serious novels". The so-called seriousness means that the work explores certain issues in life that are worth pondering. Greene's novels focus on exploring crises of faith and crime, and their popularity has endured. In this book, Green uses a gangster-detective novel as a shell to stage a spiritual tragedy that explores sin and redemption.

This book is one of the masterpieces of Verne, the world-famous French science fiction writer. The author lets readers board the "Nautilus" and travel under the sea for nearly ten months at an average speed of twelve kilometers per hour. Captain Nemo and his "guests" enjoy the ever-changing strange landscapes and various creatures on the seabed. The voyage has climaxes, such as undersea hunting, visiting undersea forests, exploring the ruins of Atlantis under the sea, salvaging treasures from Spanish shipwrecks, witnessing the funeral of the Coral Kingdom, fighting giant spiders, sharks and octopuses, repelling the siege of indigenous people, etc. In the second half of the 19th century, "exotic scenes" were favored by many writers, painters and sought after by readers. The wonderful journey of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" opened up a new way for exotic scenes, which was refreshing. This is why this "ocean novel" not only became a bestseller when it was published, but also became popular among generations of readers in the future.

There are many volumes of Verne's works. This set of works includes Verne's representative works "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Captain Grant's Sons and Daughters", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in Eighty Days", "The Mysterious Island", "The Five Hundred Million Frans", "Green Light", "Beacon Island", "Fifteen Boys" and "Machine Island". It concentrates the essence of Verne's works and is very suitable for a wide range of readers.

Hans, who was born in a small town, was extremely talented and had excellent academic performance since childhood. After passing the state examination he was able to enter the seminary. In the seminary, the taciturn Hans was a solitary person, often attending classes alone. By chance, he met Hermann, and they had a good rapport. Unlike Hans, who was conscientious and obedient, Hermann was rebellious by nature and frequently had verbal conflicts with teachers, so he was expelled from school. After that, Hans felt lonely and the depressive life made him at a loss. After a serious illness, he chose to drop out of school and go home to become an ordinary worker...

During World War I, American young man Larry's comrades died trying to rescue him. This experience completely changed Larry's thinking. He began to ask his inner questions: Since there is good in the world, why does evil also coexist? After the war, he stubbornly pursued the answer. He first went to Paris to study philosophy, and then came to a monastery in Bonn. However, Christian doctrine failed to provide him with a satisfactory answer, so he went to Spain and tried to find the true meaning of life through art. After getting no results, he ran to India and stayed there for five years before finally finding his true faith in Indian religion. "The Knife's Edge" is Maugham's full-length work published in 1944. It is based on the famous philosopher Wittgenstein. It profoundly shows the mental journey of an entire generation of Western intellectuals in their search for the meaning of existence, and presents a picture of life in the Western world after World War I. , From the United States to Europe and India, from Paris and London to Chicago and New York, from the city to the seaside, from the upper class to the lower class, the author provides us with a group of vivid and flesh-and-blood characters in a broad geographical and social background.

"Eugenie Grandet" is a novel written by the French critical realist novelist Balzac. It narrates a story about money destroying human nature and causing family tragedy. The whole book takes Eugenie's love and marriage tragedy as the center of the conflict. Through a plot without poison, no sharp knives, and no bloodshed, it profoundly exposes Grandet's ugly way of getting rich, creates an image of a greedy, cunning, stingy, and cruel upstart, and nakedly shows how money can lead to the destruction of human nature. In this work, Balzac used comic exaggeration, personalized language and detailed character descriptions to perfectly portray the immortal image of the miser in the history of world literature, and profoundly demonstrated the endless greed and ruthlessness of capitalists.

Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man, is a simple man. One day, a painter friend created a lifelike portrait for him. In the praise of Dorian, he realized that he had amazing beauty. Under the constant influence of his friends, Dorian began to worry about losing his youth and appearance, and felt miserable about it. He even made a wish to let the portrait bear the crushing time of time on his behalf. Dolin, who wanted to be beautiful all the time, was lost in hedonism and sexual carnival, and the dark sides in his heart were exposed one by one...

In the French literary world of the 19th century, Maupassant was known as the "King of Short Stories". Maupassant's best subject matter is the Franco-Prussian War in which he personally participated, his ten-year clerkship career, and his life in his hometown in Normandy as a teenager. These three environments provide extremely rich themes for his short stories. These works extol the people's patriotic enthusiasm, express rural customs and world conditions, and truly reflect the monotonous and stereotyped life of small clerks. They have their own artistic characteristics and are not the same. They are like the various schools on a gemstone, which jointly reflect brilliant light.

The characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe's novels are "elevating the funny to the grotesque, the terrible to the horror, the wit to the mockery, and the strange to the weird and mysterious." In order to achieve this effect, he always crafted and constructed cleverly in his creations. In subjects such as abnormal psychology, the horror of death, and resurrection from the dead, he used this method to heighten the atmosphere and make readers feel a thrilling and strong horror effect. They are concerned with associations with the beauty, joy and cruelty of death at its highest level. The protagonists of the story are all shrouded in the shadow of death. They are seriously ill and unable to escape.

This book includes "Martin Paz" and "Ghost in Mexico" and "Dr. Cow". "Martin Paz" tells the story of Indian Martin Paz who fell in love with Sarah, the daughter of Jewish businessman Samuel, and he kidnapped her at Sarah's wedding. Between love and national rights, Martin Paz faces a life-or-death decision. "The Ghost of Mexico" describes that on October 18, 1825, an elaborate Spanish warship "Asia" and another brig "Constanzia" equipped with eight cannons unmoored and set sail on Gezhen Island. Gedrang Island is part of the Mariana Islands. The sailors on the ship were poorly fed and poorly paid. Exhausted from the six-month voyage to Spain, they were secretly plotting a mutiny. How are things going... "Dr. Niu" tells the story of Dr. Niu and the small town of Kuokuandong. Dr. Niu and his assistant came to the quiet and peaceful town of Kuokuandong. They installed hydrogen and oxygen power generation equipment for the town and conducted scientific experiments. Unexpectedly, the quiet town suddenly became noisy, impetuous, and even on the verge of war. The experiment was over, and the town returned to its former tranquility. The storyline is ups and downs and fascinating.

This book selects seven of Faulkner's most representative short stories, telling the story of the great impact and transformation that the traditional culture of the South and the values ​​of the North experienced after the outbreak of the American Civil War. It uses strange and twisted language to describe the conflict between the declining aristocracy and the common people in this special environment. Most of Faulkner's novels and short stories take place in Yoknapatawpha County, known as the "Yoknapatawpha Line". Its main context is the story of several generations of families belonging to different social classes in Yoknapatawpha County, from 1800 until after World War II. There are more than 600 named characters in the lineage that appear alternately in various novels and short stories.

"Dancing Girl of Izu" tells the story of a boy from Tokyo who encounters a group of touring entertainers and is attracted by the innocent and charming little dancer Kaoruko, who gradually becomes attached to the boy. As the highest masterpiece of Kawabata Yasunari, "The Dancing Girl of Izu" fully describes the sweetness, sourness and meaningfulness of first love. "Snow Country" tells the story of Shimamura and geisha Komako getting acquainted in the Snow Country. After a brief relationship, the lonely Komako began to look forward to the annual date with Shimamura. On the third train trip to Snow Country for an appointment, Shimamura met a woman named Ye Zi and was deeply attracted by the beautiful reflection of Ye Zi on the car window. "A Thousand Cranes" tells the story of the fourth year after his father's death. The protagonist Kikuji encounters his father's former lover Mrs. Ota at a tea party. Mrs. Ota misses her old lover and actually empathizes with her son Kikuji. Kikuji also accepts this love that violates morality... The novel narrates the conflict between love and morality in a very beautiful style and depicts a story of abnormal love involving two generations.

"Selected Novels of Dazai Osamu" includes 16 short and medium-length novels, including "Disqualification in the World", "Setting Sun", "Good Bye" and "Cherry". They are the author's masterpieces from different periods and styles. Read these words, go deep into Dazai Osamu's heart, feel the sadness under the hustle and bustle, and find hope in loneliness. This is the fate of every modern person, and it is also the tolerance and comfort that Dazai Osamu offers to everyone.

"Collected Works of Camus 3: The Anti and the Right Wedding Summer Collection" is the third volume of the "Collected Works of Camus". The prose collection "The Anti and the Right" narrates childhood life; "The Wedding" and "Summer" express the love of life and the fear of death; the attached "Swedish Speech" is a speech delivered by the author after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist and dramatist, one of the representative writers of existentialism, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Before the 1950s, Camus was always regarded as an existentialist, although he denied it many times. After Camus published his philosophical essay "The Rebel" in 1951, it triggered a year-long debate with Sartre and others, and finally broke with Sartre. Only then did people discover that Camus was a representative figure of the philosophy of the absurd and its literature.

This book was written during World War II. Shrouded in the smoke of war, the author's family had no choice but to enter a small air-raid shelter to avoid air raids. In order to appease his restless little daughter, the father adapted Japanese legends and told them to her, and this is how the classic "Ogakuji" was created. "Life is always a story like this. This is the so-called tragedy and comedy of human nature." Osamu Dazai adapted it based on familiar Japanese legends such as "Tumor Removal", "Urashima Taro" and "Tongue-cut Sparrow", showing reflections on human nature and real destiny, but the style has changed from the past gloomy decadence to relaxed and peaceful. "Ogakashi" is a rare tender work written by Osamu Dazai. In addition, this book also includes "Bamboo Green" and "Wei Yong's Wife".

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 emotions 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 reflection of the weak striving to make progress from the perspective of a small character.

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This book consists of thirteen novels about cats, including "Dick Baker and His Cat" by Mark Twain, "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Sorrows of an English Cat" by Balzac, etc.

To be disqualified in the human world is to lose the qualifications to be a human being. This is the last work in the life of Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, and it is also his most important work. The book is composed of the author's preface, postscript, and three letters written by the protagonist Oba Yezang. It describes the protagonist's continuous sinking from adolescence to middle age in order to escape reality. He experienced self-exile, alcoholism, suicide, and numbing himself with drugs, and finally walked towards himself step by step. The tragedy of destruction, in the process of self-denial, expresses the deep depression in his heart and the desire to be loved... He was tortured by the most real pain of being a human being. He spent his whole life seeking love and avoiding love under self-weariness, and in the end he could only destroy himself. This edition also selects several other masterpieces by Osamu Dazai: "The Setting Sun", "The Schoolgirl" and "Cherry".

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To be disqualified in the human world is to lose the qualifications to be a human being. "Disqualification in the World" contains eleven representative works of Dazai Osamu. In addition to "Disqualification in the World", it also includes the author's final work "Good-bye" and other relatively rare versions of "The Standard Bearer of the 20th Century", "Villon's Wife", "Lantern", "Wish Fulfillment", "Beautiful Man and Cigarette", "Skin and Heart", "Cricket", "Cherry", etc. It also has a special appendix of Dazai Osamu's chronology and Dazai Osamu's suicide note to his wife. Dazai Osamu cleverly hides his life and thoughts in his works. The decadence revealed in the details can give a glimpse of the face of a clear and three-dimensional master of the "rogue school".