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400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. "The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's important early work and a highly satirical comedy. In order to help his friend Bassanio get married, the Venetian merchant Antonio borrowed three thousand gold coins from the Jewish loan shark Shylock. Because Antonio lent money to others without interest, which affected his business and insulted him, Shylock took the opportunity to retaliate and wrote in the loan agreement that if the money was not paid at the end of three months, he would cut off a pound of Antonio's flesh to pay off the debt. Antonio was unable to repay the money as scheduled due to a shipwreck, so Shylock filed a lawsuit and asked Antonio to fulfill the loan agreement...

400 years after Shakespeare's death, his works are unparalleled in popularity and influence among all other classic writers. The English vocabulary and classic sayings he created have rewritten the entire history of world literature and influenced hundreds of millions of readers for several generations. "Hamlet" is one of the world's famous tragedies and Shakespeare's most famous play. It tells the story of Prince Hamlet of Denmark who was studying abroad when his uncle Claudius poisoned King Hamlet, usurped the throne and married Queen Gertrude. After Hamlet returned home, his father's ghost told him the cause of his death. He followed the ghost's instructions and decided to take revenge. At the same time, the king began to doubt Hamlet. On the advice of the minister Polonius, he used the minister's daughter and Hamlet's lover Ophelia to test him. He also ordered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to test him, but he found out. Hamlet took advantage of the opportunity of a troupe to perform in the palace, confirmed the ghost's words, and decided to act. However, in a series of actions, the story turned towards tragedy...

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"King Lear" is one of Shakespeare's four famous tragedies and an ancient British legend. The story itself took place around the 8th century. Later, many plays were compiled in the UK. In addition to Shakespeare, there is also an earlier unknown work among the existing plays. It is generally believed that Shakespeare's King Lear was adapted from this play. The story tells that after the aged King Lear abdicated the throne, he was driven into the wilderness by his eldest daughter and his second daughter. The third daughter, who became the Queen of France, led an army to save her father, but was killed. King Lear died sadly beside her.

"Hamlet" is a representative work of Shakespeare's tragedies. This work was written in 1602. It has reached unprecedented depth and breadth in ideological content, profoundly revealing the sins and essential characteristics of late feudal society. Among them, plots such as the father being killed by an evil uncle, the throne being usurped, the mother marrying the murderer in incest, the crown prince trying to take revenge and pretending to be crazy, etc., Can all be found in ancient Nordic legends. Shakespeare belongs not only to one era but to all centuries. His plays are like the Big Dipper in the bright starry sky, guiding people in the direction. "To survive or not to perish, this is a question worth considering." He raised this question as a basic proposition of philosophy.

Includes 7 historical plays by Shakespeare "The Tragedy of Richard II" (Richard II) "Henry IV" (Part 1) "Henry IV" (Part 2) "Henry V" "The Martyrdom of the Queen" (Antony and Cleopatra) "The Murder of Caesar" (Julius Caesar) "The Heroic Treason" (Coriolanus)

The story takes place in the Southern Song Dynasty. Du Bao, the governor of Nan'an, had a daughter, Du Liniang. One spring day when she was 16 years old, Du Liniang visited the garden for the first time. When she was sleepy, she dreamed of a scholar who broke willow trees. When I woke up from a spring dream, the scholar was gone. Du Liniang never became ill. Before she died, she asked her family to hide her self-portrait under the Taihu stone in the Peony Pavilion. At this time, the Jin soldiers named Li Quan King of Liujin and attacked the Huaiyang area. Du Bao buried Du Liniang in Meihua Temple, and was quickly transferred to Huaiyang to guard it. The scholar in the dream is Liu Mengmei from Lingnan. His family was in decline and he decided to leave his hometown and go north to seek fame. When passing by Nan'an, I picked up Du Liniang's self-portrait by chance. At night, he saw the woman in the painting - it turned out that Du Liniang, with the permission of the King of Hell, left the city of Fusi. Her soul came to Plum Blossom Temple and had a tryst with Liu Mengmei at night. Liu Mengmei was not afraid after learning that Du Liniang was a ghost. He managed to obtain the elixir, dug up the grave, and brought Liniang back to life. However, the play in ancient times did not end until the first prize was won. Liu Mengmei and Du Liniang went to Lin'an to take the exam together. When the list was unveiled, Li Quan's rebellion happened again, and Du Bao was besieged. In troubled times, can Du Liniang, who has broken through the two realms of yin and yang, be reunited with her parents and finally get married to Liu Mengmei... There is a bold emotion in Du Liniang. In Liu Mengmei, there are intellectual ideals and grievances. Tang Xianzu, who left officialdom at the age of 49, wrote about his understanding of life in "The Peony Pavilion".

"Macbeth" is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. It tells the story of the Scottish general Macbeth who received a prophecy from three witches that he would become king. Out of ambition and the instigation of his wife, Macbeth assassinated King Duncan and proclaimed himself king. Fear and suspicion make Macbeth more and more evil and cruel. In the end, faced with the siege of Duncan's son and the English reinforcements he invited, Macbeth finally ended up bowing his head. The period from 1590 to 1613 was the golden age of Shakespeare's creation. His early plays, mainly comedies and historical dramas, reached their peak of depth and artistry in the late 16th century. By 1608, he was mainly writing tragedies. Shakespeare advocated noble sentiments, and his tragedies often described sacrifice and revenge, including "Othello", "Hamlet", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", which are considered among the best examples in the English language. Towards the end of his life, he began to write tragicomedies, also known as romance plays.

"Shakespeare's Tragedies" contains Shakespeare's four representative tragedies, including "Romeo and Juliet" (1595), "Hamlet" (1601), "Othello" (1604), "Macbeth" (1606), etc. Among these four works, although "Romeo and Juliet" ends in tragedy, its comedic atmosphere makes the script "full of youth and spring"; "Hamlet" embodies less and less romanticism, and the realistic description becomes more and more prominent; "Othello" makes a profound and powerful criticism of the evil forces in real society; in "Macbeth" and other works, ideal and glorious positive characters no longer appear, and Shakespeare's humanistic ideals are increasingly shattered. These works all profoundly exposed the social problems and human tragedies that existed at that time, and represented Shakespeare's most outstanding achievements.

"The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's early comedy work. The book tells the story of Antonio, a kind and loyal Venetian businessman, who borrowed usury from the ruthless Jewish businessman Shylock on behalf of his friend Bassanio, and used his merchant ship as a mortgage. Shylock wanted to take the opportunity to cut Antonio's flesh and agreed. But something happened to Antonio's merchant ship, and Shylock took Antonio to court. In court, the clever Portia promised Shylock that he could cut off any piece of Antonio's flesh, but if a drop of blood was shed (the contract only stated one pound of flesh, but did not promise to give Shylock any drop of blood), his life and property would be exchanged. In the end Antonio is rescued and everyone gets a happy ending except Shylock.

"The Baron in the Trees" 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. A stubborn resistance made Cosimo decide never to leave a tree since he was twelve years old. From then on, he lived in trees all his life, but connected his life more closely with the earth. Is it true that you have to distance yourself from others before you can finally be with them?

The first edition of "Invisible Cities" was published in November 1972 by Einaudi Verlag in Turin. At the time of the book's publication, from late 1972 to early 1973, Calvino had spoken about it in several newspaper articles and interviews. The following is an introduction to this new edition of the "Oscar" series using the words of Calvino's lecture at the Master of Writing Class at Columbia University in New York on March 29, 1983. The lecture was originally in English, but the Italian text is used here. It is based on two interviews conducted in 1972 and 1973 and has mostly not been published in Italy. There is no recognizable city in "Invisible Cities". All the cities are fictitious; I gave each of them a woman's name. The book is organized into short chapters, each of which should provide an opportunity to reflect on a particular city, or cities in general.

"Awakening the World" is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty. This book collects 40 stories in different styles since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Some of these stories come from historical biographies, some come from notes and novels of past dynasties, and the most fundamental sources are directly from folklore stories and from the actual life of society. Through these storylines and characters, the social life and people's wishes at that time are reflected from different angles and to varying degrees. It is rich in content, some reflecting love and marriage; some praising feudal officials and exposing the darkness of officialdom; some praising chivalry and denouncing ingratitude. The plot of the story is bizarre and twists, the characters have distinctive personalities and are full of interest.

"The Rebel" is one of the masterpieces of Camus, the French literary master of absurd existential philosophy. In this well-referenced essay, Camus adopts a frank and honest attitude and re-examines the spirit of resistance that has emerged in the long history of mankind: the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution at the historical level; the thinkers include the Marquis de Sade, Saint-Just, Nietzsche, and Marx; and the ideological trends from nihilism to surrealism, from anarchism to liberalism. Camus' critical spirit revealed in "The Resistance" ultimately established the book's classic status.

The book is adapted from a real patricide case, describing the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, as well as the court trial of the patricide case. The whole novel has two levels: on the surface, it is a case of patricide, and the victim's sons are suspected of conspiracy to some extent; but on a deeper level, it is a drama about the human spirit, telling a moral battle between lust, faith, reason and free will. The work shows an intricate tragic theme of society, family, morality and human nature.

"Selected Works of Calvino" includes the following 23 works: "The Baron in the Trees", "The Viscount in Two", "The Non-Existent Knight", "The Invisible City", "Why Read Classics", "If on a Winter Night, a Traveler", "American Lectures", "The Complete Collection of Cosmic Curiosities", "Italian Fairy Tales (Set of 3 Volumes)", "The Hermits in Paris", "Short Stories", "Crazy Orlando", "The Castle of Crossed Destinies", "Palomar", "The Path to the Spider's Nest", "Smoke and Cloud" "Argentine Ants", "Before You Say Hello", "Under the Jaguar Sun", "The Way of Saint John", "The Traveler Who Collected Sand", "Literal and Non-literal Worlds", "The Literary Machine" and "On Fairy Tales".

Do you remember the first time you heard a fairy tale? Is it "Once Upon a Time" written by your grandparents on an autumn afternoon, or is it the story your parents read to you before going to bed? Only when I grew up did I realize that the way I dealt with life contained the shadow of these fairy tales: bravery, tenacity, kindness, honesty... Hesse's fairy tales also have these qualities, but at the same time, they are many different. Hesse, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, uses poetic language to deconstruct fairy tales, just like a movie script, showing the other side of fairy tales around the world and the details that we have ignored. While constructing fairy tales, it also presents the truth of life. Brave adults, please open this "Hesse's Fairy Tales".

This book contains a total of more than 1,200 wisdom stories from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. The book contains not only grand strategies in politics, military affairs, and diplomacy, but also miraculous wisdom in the daily lives of soldiers, drifters, servants, monks, farmers, painters and other small figures. The classics involved in the book cover almost all official history before the Ming Dynasty and a large number of notes and unofficial histories. Therefore, this book about wisdom and strategy has important data and collation value. In addition, the general narration and sub-narration before each section in the book, the comments after each chapter, and the comments in the text are all written by Feng Menglong. They express Feng Menglong's political attitude, life values, love and hate in the most direct and concentrated manner, and are first-hand materials for studying Feng Menglong's thoughts.

This book is the latest and largest of the "Three Words" compiled by Feng Menglong. The whole book consists of forty volumes and contains forty novels. Judging from the dynasties in which the story takes place, there are "Han Affairs II, Sui and Tang Affairs Eleven", "Song Affairs Eleven" and "Ming Affairs Fifteen" (Lu Xun's "A Brief History of Chinese Novels"). Judging from the subject matter, it involves family, marriage, love, officialdom, business, public cases, chivalry, gods and monsters, anecdotes, etc. It is difficult to determine the specific authors of these works, but judging from the general harmony and unity of the style and style of the whole book, most of these works have been polished and processed by the editor Feng Menglong. Some deleted redundant words, modified the text, and changed the title based on the old version of the Song and Yuan Dynasties; some only retained the outline of the story in the old version, rewritten it, and laid it out into chapters; some works that reflect the life of the Ming Dynasty may be the creations of Feng Menglong.

What is a night boat? Astronomy and geography, antiques and strange utensils, rare birds and animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects, various schools of thought, gods and ghosts, rituals, music and laws, this is a night voyage. The book has a total of twenty volumes, divided into 20 major categories and 125 sub-categories, and contains more than 4,000 items. It tells all-inclusive knowledge about Chinese culture. An ups and downs literary encyclopedia, a cultural encyclopedia that perfectly combines fun, knowledge and storytelling, and is a must-have guide for chatting through ancient and modern times. Only those who know how to play can live with great interest. Reading it does not mean that you are full of knowledge, but just to become interesting.

The new article "Guide to the Star Husband" is being serialized ~ "Ultimate Class One" fanfic. PS: Two million completed fairy tales "On the Counterattack of the Second Generation of Immortals" have been completed. There are no continuous update records, so you can rest assured that you will be disappointed~

[Sister-brother love x sweet article] Baishan has liked the junior boy next door for a long time. Even the passers-by could see the clues, but the junior boy remained indifferent. However, Baishan, who has always had a strong third sense, felt that the junior boy was always flirting with her intentionally or unintentionally... (Fast-paced, super sweet, the female protagonist is one year older than the male protagonist, the whole story is 1v1, no nonsense, no misunderstanding.)

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"Caesar and Christ" is the third volume of the "The Story of Civilization" series of "Utopia Classics Hall". The fall of the Roman Empire was neither due to the invasion of barbarians nor the rise of Christianity. In fact, when the barbarians invaded and Christianity flourished, only an empty shell remained of the Roman Empire. The basic reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire lay in its people, its moral ethos, class struggles, the decline of commerce, bureaucratic despotism, heavy taxation, and costly wars. By taking a panoramic view of the intricate activities, we can compare each stage or aspect of each situation with our own cultural trajectory in terms of time and causes, and learn from each other. This "Caesar and Christ" can also be said to be about our own history.

"Elegant Coolness" is a work about Cesare Borgia, the brother of Lucrezia Borgia, a character who appears in "Renaissance Women". Cesare and Lucrezia were both illegitimate sons of the Pope, but he cleverly used this relationship to ambitiously become the overlord of Italy. The work presents the sensuality and cruelty of Cesare, a young man. Although it is a very early work, it is very much Shiono's style.

Were the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion an authorization for Nazi genocide? Was the German army defeated in World War I because they were "stabbed in the back"? Were the Nazis behind the 1933 Reichstag fire? Did Nazi Deputy Head of State Rudolf Hess fly to Scotland in 1941 to make a "peace proposal" to Britain on behalf of Hitler? Did Hitler die in Berlin in 1945, or did he escape from the bunker and go into exile in South America? In "Hitler in Conspiracy Theories," renowned Third Reich scholar Richard J. Evans explores the above five conspiracy theories involving Hitler and the Nazi Party, dissecting the paranoid imagination associated with the Third Reich. This is a book about imagination, fiction, lies and fallacies. It is also a historical work about "post-truth" and "selective facts".

This book is the novel in which Dazai Osamu spent a long time collecting materials, considering the structure, and studied the most based on Lu Xun when he was a student at Sendai Medical College. It had a subtle influence on "Disqualification in the World". Osamu Dazai got rid of the decadence in the early stage of creation and created a transparent and warm world with tranquility and sincerity. However, as this effort was unfortunately shattered, it finally inevitably led to panic and despair, which eventually evolved into the tragic ending of "Aye" in "The Human Disqualification". The book does not pursue a detailed account of Lu Xun's experience studying in Japan. It focuses on showing a young man's journey through loneliness and confusion in pursuit of his ideals and finding the correct value and direction of life. It entrusts Dazai Osamu's expectations for freedom and happiness, and encourages young people to bid farewell to the gloomy life of the past and meet the beauty of the future through their own efforts.

This book is the second in the series of "Ming Dynasty Market Weekly". It excerpts some classic passages from the Chinese classic "Three Words and Two Patterns", re-translates and edits them, uses modern language to interpret classic literature, reproduces the style of the Ming Dynasty market at that time, and shows the various life styles of people from all walks of life at that time. "Three Words and Two Patterns" is the pinnacle of Chinese classical short stories in vernacular. It tells a secular story at a time and is called the ancestor of modern lace magazines. This time I re-edited the excerpts and found the author to rewrite it into a more modern language, but at the same time retained the classical charm of the original work. It is also to promote the classics of Chinese studies and let more people appreciate the charm of Chinese culture.

"Save the Cat 2: Analysis of Classic Movie Scripts" is the second volume in script mentor Blake Snyder's "Save the Cat" series. This book continues the efficient, practical, and humorous writing style of the first volume. By reviewing various classic films in film history, it thoroughly and meticulously introduces the types and structural elements necessary for successful films. The book divides mainstream commercial films into 10 types, and lists 50 representative films, including masterpieces such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Alien", as well as film history gems such as "Little League" and "The Dark Knight." The author skillfully analyzes the structure and story rhythm of these films, clarifying their commonalities and originality, helping screenwriters find genre boundaries for their own stories, and make breakthroughs and innovations. For novice screenwriters, this is a special training course to quickly learn from previous experience; and for movie fans, this is a rich and interesting movie list to add color to your movie journey.

The Third Reich Trilogy (Utopia Translation Series 038-040) includes the prequel to Nazi Germany in "Utopia Translation Series 038 The Arrival of the Third Reich" and the history of the collapse of the Weimar Republic. Completely analyze the reasons for the rise of the Nazis and vividly restore the process of Hitler's seizure of power. "Utopia Translation Series 039 The Third Reich in Power" reproduces how the Nazi Party in peacetime used brutal and bloody dictatorial methods to cleanse, mobilize, and arm the German nation step by step, transforming Germany into a war machine with full sprint. "Utopia Translation Series 040 The Third Reich in Wartime" details the Nazis' military conquests and extreme genocide through a macroscopic description of the war and ordinary people's wartime experiences. Reproduce how Germany ignited the flames of war and completely changed the world situation and historical development in the 20th century.

This is a fluent and beautiful collection of "stories" with vivid narration and is very popular around the world. This set contains volumes 1-5, including "Heritage of the East", "Greek Life", "Caesar and Christ", "The Age of Faith (Volume 1 and 2)" and "Renaissance".

"The Age of Faith" is the fourth volume of the "The Story of Civilization" series of "Utopia Classics Hall". The medieval era from AD 325 to 1300 saw the convergence and excitement of four different cultures: Byzantium, Islam, Judaism and Western Europe. Vast areas of the world continued to live under the banner and rule of faith, while Western Europe sailed into a remote sea of ​​reason. People in the Middle Ages were first victims of barbarism, then became barbaric conquerors, and then became the creators of new civilizations. The end of the completely rich phase of its civilization in the Middle Ages was the basis of the Renaissance and the Reformation. The medieval legacy contains both good and evil. We have not recovered from the Dark Ages. In this sense, modernization is a coat worn on medievalism.

"Renaissance" is the fifth volume of the "The Story of Civilization" series of "Utopia Classics Hall". From Petrarch to Machiavelli, from Leonardo da Vinci to Michelangelo, Italians are tired of original sin, recognize the health and loveliness of life, praise joy, and no longer care about death. The sunshine of the Italian spirit penetrated the thick fog of the north, liberating men and women from the prison of medieval fear, admiring beauty in all its forms, filling the air with the joy of resurrection. This great revival lasted for centuries. It was not until the 16th century that the Renaissance withered in Italy, and revival blossomed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, England and Spain. The Renaissance is not a period in time, but a way of life and thought that spread from Italy to all of Europe through the influence of commerce and war.

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"Heritage of the East" is the first volume of the "Story of Civilization" series of "Utopia Classics Hall". Durant outlines the original appearance of human civilization from the eight major elements of civilization - labor (farming, industry, transportation and trade), government, morality (customs and etiquette, conscience and conduct), religion, science, philosophy, writing, and art, combining Sumer, Egypt, and Babylon , Assyria, Judaea, Persia, India, China, Japan and other regions or nations, showing the splendid cultural pictures of Egypt and Eastern Asia one by one, explaining why ancient Eastern civilization is the background and cornerstone of Greek and Roman culture, and why it is the source of modern human civilization.

"Historical Records" is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in Chinese history. It records a history of more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. "Historical Records" is listed as the first of the "Twenty-Four Histories", and together with the later "Hanshu", "Later Hanshu" and "Three Kingdoms", they are collectively known as the "First Four Histories". It has had a profound impact on the development of later historiography and literature. His pioneering method of chronicling historiography was passed down by the "official histories" of subsequent dynasties. "Historical Records" is also considered an excellent literary work, playing an important role in the history of Chinese literature. It was praised by Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians, the unrhymed "Li Sao"" and has high literary value. Liu Xiang and others believe that this book is "good at explaining things, argumentative but not flashy, and qualitative but not slangy".

"This Fleeting World: AShort History of Humanity: From the Big Bang to the 21st Century" is a brief history of mankind with a grand vision and clear context. It tells the development trajectory of modern Homo sapiens in the past 100,000 years. Starting from the Big Bang, against the magnificent background of 13.8 Billion years of cosmic evolution, it overlooks the entire process of human history from scratch, and constructs a big picture of human history.

In the popular version of "Water Margin", the heroes of Liangshan did justice for heaven, but in the end they were recruited. Most of them were killed in the battle against Fang La, and the surviving heroes rarely died well. Such an ending made many readers who loved "Water Margin" feel dissatisfied and confused. That's why the young novice Huailin said that Song Jiang was a "real robber with fake Taoism", while Jin Shengtan called it "a dog's tail that continues the mink" and simply cut him in half. In fact, in the real ancient version of "Water Margin", the heroes of Liangshan carried out the uprising to the end. However, after hundreds of years of changes, it is difficult for people to have the opportunity to see this version again. In this sense, Mei's collection of "Water Margin" is a "Water Margin" that deserves more attention and more anticipation.

"Unworthy of the World" is a comprehensive interpretation of the famous line of the Japanese writer Osamu Dazai - "I am sorry for being born as a human being". It is also Dazai Osamu's final work. One of the top three best-selling literary miracles in Japanese history. Osamu Dazai - hailed as a national-level writer by Haruki Murakami, Shunji Iwai once made a movie to pay tribute to him. In the common spiritual world of mankind, "Disqualification" dissects everyone's self, loneliness and confusion. It is a representative work in the history of modern Japanese literature. Critics call it "the immortal pyramid of Showa literature". The book contains four important works of Osamu Dazai in his later period of creation, which can be called the masterpiece of Osamu Dazai's later aesthetics. "Disqualification in the World" comprehensively interprets Osamu Dazai's famous line "I'm sorry to be born as a human being" - the protagonist Oba Yozo, as a "marginal person" who can't figure out the rules of human beings, continues to self-exile and gradually "loses the qualifications to be a human being".

On a rainy evening, women hold umbrellas and wait at the station for their husbands to return home. The loyal wife waited painfully twice. The first time she handed the umbrella to her rival's husband, and the second time she handed the umbrella to her former lover. "This has become a market for women to wait for their respective men, a marriage market where makeup and romance have been removed."

"Waltz of Flowers" is a collection of Kawabata Yasunari's classic short stories. Together with "The Dancing Girl of Izu", it is known as "the most beautiful first love in the world". Its name comes from the group dance of the Candy Fairy and other fairies in Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker". Xingzhi and the orphan Suzuko developed a close attachment because of ballet. The beautiful youth of the girls is like twin flowers, vying for beauty in the spinning and jumping dance steps. At this time, Nanjo, whom Suzuko had been waiting for, returned home miserably, and regained life because of Hoshizhi's dance. All the seemingly absent love is entangled in a waltz...

This book selects 10 works from Osamu Dazai's works that are narrated from a female first-person perspective, and takes the famous one "Girl Disciple" as the title. It also sorts out the order of each article by comparing the life trajectories of women in each story - boyhood, youth, adulthood, and old age, recalling their youthful days.

This tragic work is the representative work of the British novelist Hardy. It tells the story of Tess, a poor and beautiful peasant girl who goes to work in the landlord's manor house. She loses her virginity to Alec, a bad boy from a rich family because of her youth and ignorance, and returns to her hometown pregnant. After her child died, she fell in love with Angel Clare, the son of a pastor. However, on their wedding night, she confessed the truth about losing her virginity and was not tolerated by her husband, who fled to Brazil. After Tess was abandoned, she went to work in a dairy factory. Alec, a young landowner, pesters Tess again and again. When her father died, her mother fell ill, her siblings were out of school, the family lived on the streets, and there was no news from Claire, Tess had no choice but to sacrifice her life to save her family and agreed to live with Alec. Unexpectedly, Claire changes her mind and comes back from Brazil to look for Tess. Tess was filled with regret and stabbed Alec to death. During the escape, Tess and her husband spent a few days living happily, and were finally caught and sentenced to hanging. As one of Hardy's "Wessex Series", this book is the most typical of his "character and environment novels". Its remarkable artistic feature is that the environment and the protagonist respond, set off and are closely connected with each other - the character's joy, anger, sorrow and the changes in the mood and color of the environment form an inseparable whole, and the environment predicts the character's fate and emotions.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by Kawabata Yasunari. It especially includes the famous "Dancing Girl of Izu" and 18 exquisite short stories such as "Bonfire", "Hot Spring Hotel" and "Diary of Sixteen Years Old". On the sunny and rainy Izu Mountain Road, a boy from Tokyo encounters a group of traveling entertainers and is attracted by the innocent, honest and beautiful little dancer Kaoruko. Kaoruko gradually becomes attached to the boy. The two of them never said a word of love to each other from beginning to end, and their feelings for each other were somewhere between being aware of and not aware of each other, and all their words and deeds were very indifferent and reserved. The time of departure is approaching, but I have left behind a song of the most beautiful first love in the world.

A novella written by Kawabata Yasunari in 1956. At the beginning of the novel, the fleeting image of a rainbow is outlined with clear brushstrokes. The beauty and rootlessness of the rainbow is a symbol of the fate of the heroines in the book. The work uses the quaint customs and charm of Kyoto and surrounding areas as the background to depict the love and joys and sorrows of the three sisters' love and life.

The original novel of Hayao Miyazaki's final work "The Wind Rises". The representative work of Tatsuo Hori, the only disciple of Ryunosuke Akutagawa and the master of neopsychology. Hayao Miyazaki said: "This story is dedicated to modern people who are uneasy about the future." The male protagonist accompanies his fiancée Setsuko who is seriously ill, and goes to the mountains to recuperate, and spend the last period of Setsuko's life together. In the isolated Yatsugatake foothills, abandoning the hustle and bustle of the world, only each other remained in their lives. Love becomes more profound in this beautiful scene. Together they appreciate the happiness of life, and are sad that this happiness is tainted with the shadow of death...

"White Night" is one of the representative works of the writer's literary creation in the 1940s. It is a novella with a strong lyrical flavor. The novel describes the innocent girl Nastenka falling in love with a young tenant. The two agreed to meet on a bridge in Petersburg a year later, but the tenant did not show up. Although the girl was a little disappointed, her confidence remained. The protagonist "Dreamer", a poor intellectual from Petersburg, was deeply moved by the girl's affection, so he comforted her and waited with her by the river for four consecutive nights. At last the tenants appeared, and the "Dreamer" suppressed his newly rising love for Nasthenka and blessed them.

The young protagonist Werther comes to a small town, where the natural scenery, simple folk customs, and innocent and happy children all give him great happiness. At a dance, he met a girl named Lotte. Her every smile and every move attracted him. Lotte also liked him, but could not reciprocate her love because she was engaged to Werther's friend. Werther fell into embarrassment and pain. He resolutely left here, trying to get relief from his career and achieve something. However, the despicable environment, dirty interpersonal relationships, and the existing order that suppressed individuality and stifled freedom made him intolerable. When he returned to Lotte with no talent, he found that Lotte was married, and he decided to die for love...

"Pandora's Box" written by Osamu Dazai includes two works: "Pandora's Box" and "Villon's Wife". "Pandora's Box" reveals the deep-seated depression of the author Osamu Dazai, his consistent confusion about the future, and his thoughts about life and death. However, unlike the coldness of "Disqualification in the World", the tone of "Pandora's Box" is warm, playful and bright, with an obvious translucent brilliance, and is filled with longing for the future. "Wei Yong's Wife" is a collection of short stories by the author. The title of the book is Dazai's famous story. "Wei Yong's Wife" is a metaphor for "the wife of a wanton man". A woman kept the family together and worked as a maid to pay off her husband's debts when her husband became an alcoholic, owed money, eloped with a woman, and finally committed suicide by diving into the water. In 2009, at the 33rd World Film Festival held in Montreal, Canada, the film "Villon's Wife" directed by Negishi Yoshitaro and starring Matsu Takako and Asano Tadanobu won the Best Director Award.

Emile Sinclair has lived in a warm and beautiful world of light since he was a child, but a lie plunged him into a world of darkness. Sinclair, feeling desperate and helpless, longed for relief, but could not speak to anyone. Demian's appearance helped him overcome his inner fear. Afterwards, whenever Sinclair felt uneasy or confused, Demian would always appear in time to help him out of trouble. Demian is not only Sinclair's friend, but also his guide, leading him to overcome his fears and find his true self. From then on, Sinclair no longer hesitated, and moved more and more firmly towards his heart...