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The representative work of Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Booker Prize-winning novel; The End of Days is an elegy for the decline of an empire and a love that passes by. The film of the same name (also translated as "Farewell") was nominated for multiple Oscars and British Academy Film Awards, starring British actor Anthony Hopkins and powerful actress Emma Thompson. "The End of the Day" is a work by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro that won the Booker Prize in 1989. It is also Ishiguro's most important masterpiece. The novel unfolds with the memories of butler Stevens, telling the various experiences he had during his more than thirty years of service to Lord Darlington. Although he reached the peak of his career, Stevens suppressed his own emotions too coldly and pursued perfect performance of his duties. He missed the last time his father was on his deathbed, and then missed love. Through the protagonist's memories, the novel unravels a person's life journey in front of the readers' eyes. It also reflects the international political landscape during the extraordinary period between World War I and World War II.

The first part of the "Sea of ​​Plenty" series. Qingxian, who was born in a marquis family, did not have the courage to accept the marriage proposal of the earl's daughter Satoko. After Satoko was ordered by the emperor to propose marriage to the third prince of Dongyuan Palace, Zhixian, they kept in touch through the old servant Tateko. Satoko was pregnant, and her father was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he asked his daughter to go to Nara Tsukishuji Temple to hide from the wind. However, Satoko became a nun at Yuexiu Temple. With the help of his friends, Kiyoaki went to Tsukishuji Temple to meet Satoko, but was rejected by Satoko. He returned to Tokyo and passed away the next day due to mental and physical exhaustion. Kawabata Yasunari praised it as "the modern "The Tale of Genji"".

During a war, a servant who was kicked out of his home by his master was wondering whether to starve to death or become a robber. He happened to come to a place called Rashomon where dead bodies were piled everywhere. He plucked up the courage to go in and find some belongings. As a result, a ragged old woman was found pulling hair from the body of a young woman... "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of people and his helplessness, pessimism and despair about life.

It includes two novellas: "Pink Bus" and "I Had Many Dreams Last Night". "Pink Bus" uses delicate writing to directly face the inner feelings of pregnant women, the mental journey of worrying about gains and losses, and the hesitation and struggle when facing choices. "I Had Many Dreams Last Night" mainly expresses the author's thoughts on death and insights on life through the description of the characters - death is the continuation of life; life is the flourishing of death.

"Selected Novels of Akutagawa Ryunosuke" includes 15 novels by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Hell Transformation" and "The Nose". Among them, "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of people, their helplessness and despair. Although it is short, the plot is simple, and the characters are sparse, the time, place, characters, and ending are all vividly displayed in front of the readers.

After reading "Tattoo", I realized: I am not an alien, I am just different from you. A representative work of Japanese aestheticism literature and the budding work of demonic aesthetics! A Japanese aesthetic classic that profoundly influenced Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Yukio Mishima, and Yasunari Kawabata. Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of modern Japanese literature, was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature 7 times in his life! The starting point of Tanizaki literature! Both Tanizaki himself and literary critics regard "Tattoo" as his true debut novel. The new hardcover collector's edition of "Tattoo" presents the literary world of Junichiro Tanizaki in a diverse way! Exclusive must-have reasons: (1) Select 14 short stories by Junichiro Tanizaki, covering all the author's short story masterpieces in the early stages of creation. (2) A brand-new translation by the well-known Japanese translator Tan Jinghua, with many short stories translated and introduced to China for the first time. (3) Specially included comics adapted from the story "Tattoo", allowing you to understand the story in a different way. (4) Includes the chronological chart of Junichiro Tanizaki, allowing you to understand Tanizaki's life in one picture. (5) Includes critical essays by the famous Japanese writer Karika Nagai, interpreting Tanizaki's early works from the perspective of the master.

"Fu" is a bold counterattack and subversion of the traditional British classic novel "Robinson Crusoe", and has a strong intertextuality with "Robinson Crusoe". Some see it as an allegory for the "South African condition". The novel uses Susan's personal experience of the event as an individual, using a small history to counter the grand history that has become an ideology. This not only helps us understand the multifaceted nature and complexity of history itself, but also shows a path to deconstruct history.

The turning point of my unfortunate life happened on the day I stepped into my aunt's yard alone. After my mother passed away, I completely lost the protection of my family. I was forced to make a living independently and felt deeply humiliated by my situation. I spent the night in a desolate place under the night, thinking that the dark warehouse was my destination. I had nothing on my body, almost as when I came into this world naked... I decided to seek refuge with my aunt I had never met. Unexpectedly, I would have a code worth following for my whole life: never be humble, never be numb, never be hypocritical, and always be honest!

"The Waves" is Woolf's work at the peak of her creative power and was published in 1931. This highly poetic, abstract, and stylized experimental work does not have a story in the strict sense, but is more like a musical work composed of nine movements: each introduction is an exquisite prose poem, using the ebb and flow of the sun and waves to correspond to the ups and downs of life; following each introduction are the momentary inner monologues of six highly formalized characters without surnames in their respective life stages-from childhood, studenthood, youth, middle age, to old age. The introduction and the main text map each other, opening up unprecedented and nuanced channels for the readers' senses, and getting closer to the essence of life, time, consciousness and feeling to the maximum extent. This is a work that occupies an important position in modern literature and palaces. To this day, it still stirs our souls with its exquisite text structure and poetic style.

This book contains 17 stories written by Akutagawa Ryunosuke with Chinese elements as the background. It not only restores the famous historical allusion of the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, but also uniquely adapts it based on strange people and strange events in the late Qing Dynasty. It has a unique perspective and far-reaching ideas, and profoundly presents the literary giant's exploration and thinking of human nature. This is China in the eyes of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and the words reveal a Japanese literary giant's love and admiration for Sinology.

This book contains a total of 11 short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The works represented by "Hell Transformation" express the life tragedy of a lonely person "art for art's sake". To achieve the ideal of "art supremacy" through self-destruction, behind this heavy price is the painful roar of a lonely soul. Starting from a unique narrative perspective and narrative structure, the author sternly observed the Japanese social psychology of that time where "others are hell". This abnormal individual psychology gradually evolved into a habitual social psychology, which is thought-provoking.

This manuscript is a collection of short stories by the famous modern literary writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke. It is the fifth of his eight short story collections published from 1917 to 1927. It contains a total of 18 short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Aryu and the Children", "Autumn", "Omo no Shinichi", "Dance", etc. These works have their own characteristics in terms of subject matter, content and artistic conception. Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a well-known Japanese novelist and a representative writer of the new school of thought. His creations have both romanticism and realism tendencies. His works are widely known and have wide influence. They are well-known in China and have literary value. His literary creation has influenced a large number of domestic writers including Lu Xun and is a treasure in the field of short stories.

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style.

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There are houses in certain provincial cities that look like the gloomiest monasteries, the most desolate moors, the most desolate ruins, which makes people unhappy. Perhaps this kind of house has a little bit of the silence of the monastery, the monotony of the wilderness, and the decay of the ruins. The daily life inside is so quiet. If it weren't for the sound of strange footsteps on the street, a man with a face like a monk would suddenly poke out of the window and remain motionless, staring at the strangers with his dim and cold eyes, foreign guests might regard those houses as empty houses without anyone living in them.

Lin Shu, a famous translator in the Republic of China, is known as the founder of modern Chinese literary circles. His translations use ancient Chinese, and all of them adopt the form of joint translation, that is, with the cooperation of other people's oral translation, "the sound has stopped when the ears are followed by the hand." With his excellent classical literacy, skillful expression skills and fluent writing style, he has formed a unique style, which is favored by Qian Zhongshu, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren and others, and is rated as better than the original work. This article is a legendary novel, translated today by David Copperfield. It tells the story of the protagonist's life from childhood to middle age. Taking the birth of "I" as the source, the sincerity and darkness of friends, the childishness and impulsiveness of love, the sweetness and triviality of marriage, and the conflicts and harmony of family members are gathered into a stream that slowly flows on the river bed of fate and eventually merges into the tolerant and magnificent sea.

Si Jiong in "Mushroom Circle" has gone from an era of political absurdity to the present, experienced many changes in personnel, and faced the vagaries of the times with a pure power of survival. The novel follows Alai's consistent observation of "people" in Tibetan areas, with a very poetic writing style, blending reality into ethereal time, embracing the history of a nation with ordinary life, and revealing Alai's "rooted love" for people in Tibetan areas.

"Short Classics by Mao Dun Literature Award-winning Writers: Dance of the Soul" is a collection of short stories by Mao Dun Literature Award-winning writer Alai. "Short Classics by Mao Dun Literature Award-winning Writers: Dance of the Soul" includes: Fish, Silversmith in the Moonlight, Forever Galu, Savage, Dance of Souls, Gela Grows Up , Bungarus snake, red fox, locust flower, Agudunba, old house, sound, boundary, the sound of conch in the morning, the legend of Zanla toast, the legend of Wori toast, the end of the world toast, remembering an ancient man, camping under the stars, from the countryside to the city, visiting an elm tree, the falling dust and other articles.

Maugham's father was a lawyer who worked at the British Embassy in France. Maugham lost his mother at the age of eight and his father at the age of ten. He was later sent back to England to be raised by his uncle who was a pastor. With books as his companion, he developed a lonely and melancholy temperament in his character. Later, he studied at the Royal College of Canterbury. He was discriminated against because of his stuttering defect, which left a psychological shadow. When he was in college, he studied medicine, but gradually developed a strong interest in literature. Based on what he saw and heard while working as a trainee doctor in the slums of London, he wrote his first novel "Lisa of Lambeth", which received good reviews and embarked on the path of literary creation. While he was writing, he traveled around the world to collect materials for writing, but the novels he initially wrote did not cause much response until "The Shackles of Humanity" was fully recognized. He wrote many plays, among which "Lady Frederic" was finally staged after being rejected by seventeen theater troupes. It was a great success and started his first step towards great fame and wealth.

"Carmen" tells the story of Carmen, a free and uninhibited bohemian woman, and her adventures in smuggling. The protagonist Carmen is beautiful, straightforward and daring. She seduced the soldier Don Jose, causing him to be expelled from the army, and also induced him to commit smuggling crimes with her. Later, Carmen fell in love with another woman, and the conflicts between Don Jose and her continued until she paid for it with her life. The work was adapted into an opera and was widely circulated.

"Colomba" tells the story of the Gaussian islanders' custom of "collecting blood debts" of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, interspersed with a love story. The article is lively, lively and full of laughter, which contrasts well with the original sentiment and bloody smell of the story.

"I don't want to be entangled with others, especially I don't want to listen to others' orders; what I want is freedom, to do whatever I want..." This is a kind of strange and wild beauty, this is a face that will surprise you when you first see it, but you will never forget it. Her eyes, in particular, had an expression both sensual and fierce that I had never seen in anyone else's eyes since. --"Carmen" Mérimée's novel creations are few but precise, short and beautiful. The achievements of his short stories alone are enough to occupy a place among the world's short story writers. "Matteo Falcone", "Etruscan Vase", "Venus of Il", "Colomba" and "Carmen" translated in this book are undoubtedly the most wonderful and representative ones.

Dedicated to every young man who never compromises! A must-select translation of domestic portraits, the well-known translator Huang Yisi has newly revised 606 parts of the text. Oxford University Press introductory edition (with an introductory page of a comprehensive analysis of Joyce by an Oxford University professor). Selected into the Top 3 of Random House's "100 Novels of the 20th Century". The pioneering work of stream-of-consciousness novels, it is a century classic praised by Yeats, Woolf, Beckett and other masters. Prequel to "Ulysses". Stephen, a young artist born in Dublin, has been sensitive and thoughtful since he was a child. In his childhood, he was ignorant, but he actively studied but was beaten; in his youth, he was impulsive and enthusiastic, but he strayed into the path of desire; in his youth, he finally became mature and rational, but in the end he chose to live in exile. He said: "Ah, life! I am ready to come into contact with the reality of experience for the millionth time."

A boy who has a crush on the girl next door, but doesn't know how to say it and is suffering; a girl who has found her ideal partner and longs for a new life, but lacks the courage to change her current situation; a man who is already in his thirties but has accomplished nothing and faces a boring job and a busy family all day long; 15 stories, 15 kinds of deep loneliness. From boyhood, youth, adulthood to old age, this book illuminates the loneliness that has nowhere to go at all stages of life. No matter who you are, how old you are, or where you are, you can find yourself in it.

"Dublins" is James Joyce's prestigious short story collection, which can be regarded as the most famous short story collection in the entire West in the 20th century. Published in 1914, it was set in Dublin in the 1920s and 1930s. It captures a cross-section of the lives of the middle and lower class people, a group of people at a moment, and fifteen stories gathered together. It is like an impressionistic painting, with concise brushwork and scattered pieces. It emerges a desolate world, distant, cold, but exquisite, which is the best.

In the first chapter of the novel, the young protagonist Stephen appears, but he cannot describe his world with complex vocabulary. He does not care about the causal relationship of the world around him, so the world in front of him presents a chaotic and unorganized situation during his experience. A few years later, Stephen became obsessed with religion. At this time, his thinking ability seemed to have greatly improved, and he was able to think about the world with clearer logical thinking and a more adult way of thinking.

Short stories are a literary genre that Rabindranath Tagore is good at. The book "Bubbles" selects 29 of his best works, which show the living conditions of people of all walks of life in India in a wide range of life. The writer brings rich poetry into the creation of novels, while constructing moving plots, or portraying characters or describing psychology. Famous works such as "Stairs by the River", "People of Kabul", "Bubbles", "Suba", "The Hungry Stone", etc. Are closely related to national culture and reveal the truth in human life.

Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. The heroine makes reasonable speculations and judgments based on superficial phenomena. Although careful readers may have various doubts from time to time, their thoughts will naturally develop with good observations. When the final result appears, it will be completely different from the superficial phenomena, resulting in an unexpected comedy effect. If you read it over again, you will find that the factors that lead to the inevitable result have already been seen between the lines. The plot of the novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the bad habit of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status in the British social trends at that time, and the ugly fashion of focusing on family status and ignoring women's feelings and human rights. The heroines in the novel all pursue equal communication and exchange of thoughts and feelings with men, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on independent observation, analysis, and freedom to choose men. In Britain at the time, this was almost a cry of defiance.

The young writer Tanabe returned to his hometown of Sapporo and once again saw the photos and paintings of Junko, his first love. Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Junko chose the most brutal and poignant way to commit suicide and fell in the ice and snow of Lake Akan; twenty years later, Tanabe, still lingering on his first love, determined to find out the truth about Junko's death. Why did she end her life in her most beautiful years? Who is her favorite person? After Tanabe visited several people who had a close relationship with Junko one by one, he gradually restored the true appearance of the girl hidden under the aura of the talented painter...

When her father died two months after passing the teaching qualification exam, Anne Ernault used this as an opportunity to tell the story of one man's life. Born at the turn of the century, he had to leave school early and worked first as a farmer, then in a factory, and later as the owner of a small grocery store in Normandy until his death in 1967. He exercised self-restraint, worked hard, was cautious in his words and deeds, and tried hard to maintain his position as a man in society, but he could never get rid of the fear of slipping back to the lower class. The author uses cold observation to reveal the shame that plagued her father throughout his life, as well as the alienation and pain between father and daughter caused by class restrictions. This biography of a father is also the story of an intellectual's daughter's betrayal-of her parents, her upbringing, the schism between affection and shame, between belonging and alienation.

A deck of tarot cards that can predict the future! A transshipment book that can be read in infinite reincarnations! A magical and peerless book! Pavic depicts the experiences of two Serbian families who worked for Napoleonic France and anti-Napoleonic Austria respectively, representing Serbia's choice between the two forces of East and West. However, no matter which side they fight for, they are not fighting for the future of Serbia, but for things that have nothing to do with their own nation. At the same time as the Napoleonic Wars, Serbia's revolution to break away from Turkish rule was also in progress. This major event was consciously ignored by the author and was almost never mentioned in the book. This highlights the characters' indifference to their own nation and the absurdity of the war. It does not have an ending in the traditional sense. Everyone in the book is driven by the wheel of fate. While struggling and resisting, they have to accept the guidance of fate.

"Dunhuang" is one of the important historical novels based on China created by the Japanese literary giant Yasushi Inoue. It has won the Mainichi Art Award. The numerous scriptures in the Mogao Grottoes are now a treasure that is admired by the world, but who buried these scriptures and why, and how many mysteries are there behind the unnamed scripture collector? Inoue Yasushi used his earth-shattering "Dunhuang" to guide people to rush to that magical land. During the Tiansheng reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, scholar Zhao Xingde went to Beijing to take the exam, but missed the exam because of sleepiness. He was lost and wandering around, and accidentally got a piece of Xixia cloth that he had never seen before. The breath of the Western Region instantly changed Zhao Xingde's fate, and also left a thousand-year-old mystery for future generations...

Critics in the book "Old Man Goriot" call Goriot Goriot the modern King Lear. The character in Balzac's works is not just a character, but a typical example of the times. The factors of tragedy are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the promiscuous and corrupt social environment. The struggle of careerists seeking fame and fortune, intertwined with Goriot's desperate fatherly love, make the content of the novel more bizarre and touching. This book is a particularly serious and exciting one among Mr. Fu Lei's translations.

As winter approaches, Subei has the same idea as in previous years: to go to his beloved "island", which is Blackwell Prison, to "escape from the cold." Nowadays, the benches in Madison Square are no longer suitable...

This book is a novel written by E. M. Forster in 1913. It tells the story of Maurice and his Cambridge lover Clive after they separated. In despair, he met the gamekeeper Alec, broke the taboo and stayed together.

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"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a story about revenge. The young and handsome captain Dantès, after experiencing a long period of unjust imprisonment, has mastered all the essentials and rules of survival in the darkness with superhuman patience and wisdom, and carries out the prison escape and revenge plan. He took his first breath of free air and let out his first inspiring cry. From that moment on, the name Edmond Dantes was destined to become legendary. For more than a hundred years, this book has had countless readers and ever-increasing editions, and with its unique charm, it still influences the creation of many literary, film and television works.

After Han Meow is brutally attacked on the head in the garden of a London pub, his wife and daughter find themselves living with a stranger - an elusive, violent, vengeful man with amnesia: "His condition is like the twenty-first century: one wants to wake up from it." While it may come as a shock to his family, Han Mio's new personality fits perfectly with the city and era in which he lives. Because this is the vicious London of tabloid journalist Clint Smoker, whose daily reports of sexual illicit relationships and outrageous scandals are as false as the noose around his neck. In this world, the King of England keeps a Chinese mistress in Paris and tries to prevent a video of his 15-year-old daughter having an affair in a bathtub from spreading on the Internet. In this world there are killers, pornographers, tycoons and displaced royalty. This is a world where smart people do unspeakable things and bodyguards offer no protection. "Yellow Dog" is Martin Amis's best work: humorous, intense, cunning, and profound. Consistently, Amis explores the entire edifice of patriarchy and masculinity; the violence that engenders between men; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanishing dreams that could protect our future and our descendants.

Nabokov began writing "Despair" in Russian in Berlin in 1932, and serialized it in a Russian exile publication in Paris, France two years later; at the end of 1936, Nabokov rewrote the novel in English, making it his first English novel created for "artistic purposes." In this novel, Nabokov conducted a fruitful exploration of the psychological operating mechanism of mass society. In Nabokov's view, the crazy pursuit of identity is the source of despair for unique individuals in mass society.

A history of young people's personal struggles and a picture of the people and world in old Beijing. A classic of modern literature. Translated into 17 languages, dozens of versions, and best-selling for more than 70 years. This book includes two Beijing-style classics, "Camel Xiangzi" and "Under the Red Flag", which were approved by the Lao She Research Association. A word-for-word "full text" restored based on Lao She's 1936 manuscript. Due to the influence of the times and other factors, some contents of the various domestic versions have been abridged or changed to varying degrees. This book is based on Lao She's manuscript that was accidentally discovered in recent years. It restores the deleted parts and restores the true appearance of the book. "Under the Red Flag" is an autobiographical novel secretly written by Lao She. In the late Qing Dynasty, old dreams are about to be awakened, and the building is about to collapse. The birth of a child brings a strong sense of black humor... This unpublished and unfinished work is recognized as Lao She's masterpiece and a truly great contemporary literary masterpiece.

After the high-ranking Otani Weiichiro retired, he transformed from the powerful chief executive director into an ordinary "lone boat" elderly people. The huge psychological gap, no longer being needed by society, and alienation from his family made him feel lonely and spend his days. As we age, the beautiful visions of old age before retirement turn into the desolate evening scene of being alone... After experiencing various discomforts after retirement, can the marginalized "lone boat" make changes, find themselves, support each other, and set sail again? ...

"Northanger Abbey" is different from the other five Austen novels in that it uses an open narrator and an exposed authorial narrative voice, demonstrating the author's authority. It was the first novel Austen planned to publish, and the final draft was completed around 1797, when Austen was about 22 years old. In this novel, the author first showed his talents and his writing style took shape. He used "three or four families in a village" as the life background and narrated a marriage story in a very ironic way. Austen's works reflect the various social conditions at that time through the daily dialogue and communication of gentlemen and ladies. They use humorous language to satirize the phenomena of profit-seeking and vanity. Through comic scenes, they mock people's stupidity, selfishness, snobbery, blind confidence and other despicable and ridiculous weaknesses. "Lady Susan" is Austen's first completed novel. It tells an Austen-style story through intricate letters exchanged between relatives and friends, and in this way it takes the story mode of people talking about other people to the extreme. This book tells the story of a widow, Lady Susan, who is looking for a husband for herself and her daughter. Lady Susan is a very attractive and cunning woman, which adds to the watchability of the story.

In the novel, Ayn Rand fictionalized a society in which people did not have their own names and were only distinguished by a slogan and a string of numbers. People did not even know the word "I". Whenever the concept of "I" was meant to be expressed, the plural "we" was used instead. A man named "Equality 7-2521" always had a strong vision of pursuing the truth, but was assigned to be a "scavenger" throughout his life; but still, with his keen awareness of the unknown, he finally found the unspeakable word of the unmentionable era - "I". He used this word to say "I love you" to the name "Freedom 5-3000" that made him tremble. Ayn Rand used the novel "One Person" to pay tribute to a sacred word-self, and every glorious individual who practices his own spirit throughout his life!

This book is a complete collection of Ayn Rand's plays, including three original scripts: "The Night of January 16th", "Ideal" and "Three Thoughts". "Night of January 16th": At midnight on January 16th, the famous financial dictator Faulkner fell rapidly from the top floor of his luxury apartment and was beyond recognition. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? The play designs a Rashomon trial about the guilt of the person being tried. The factual evidence of whether the person being tried is guilty or not is balanced. The audience here is the jury of this trial. Whether the defendant is guilty or not depends on the opinions of the audience jury. Each person's trial of a case is an examination of his own conscience and a choice of his own outlook on life. Judging others means judging yourself, everyone is his or her own judge! ...

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" is the first novel of author Carson McCullers. It is also her most famous work and her most shocking masterpiece. Published when the author was 23 years old. It ranks 17th among the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century" selected by American Modern Book Company. By changing the narrative perspective, the novel tells the story of a group of people wandering in loneliness in a small southern town in the United States. McCullers uses her unique approach to write about dreary American southern towns, the long dreary afternoons in August, the lonely people drinking cold beer in cafes at midnight, the black people's tolerance and contradictory pain for freedom, and the crazy, desperate but still determined determination of those who hope for reform to move forward... The protagonist of the story is a mute named Singer. He and his good friend Antonapoulos lived together in the town. After Antonapoulos was sent to a mental hospital, Singer began a lonely journey. His unusual silence and alienation made the people in the town feel that he had a mysterious and wise character about him. Mick, a girl who has great passion for music, Jack, an alcoholic who studies all day long to spread the truth and hopes for reform, black doctors who try to awaken the self-awareness of his compatriots, Biff, the cafe owner who hides behind the cashier all day long to observe customers, etc. In the hearts of people in the small town, Singer is "mythized" as "God". People tried to pour out their hearts to Singer, but unfortunately Singer could not understand them, and instead put all their emotional chips on Antonapoulos. Until the death of his beloved Antonipoulos, he finally lived alone in the world without feeling.

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Jonathan Swift, one of the most famous writers in the history of English literature. "Gulliver's Travels" is his masterpiece. The author uses unusual imagination to describe all kinds of strange things that the protagonist Gulliver encounters when he travels to "Lilliput", "Adult", "Huiyin" and other places. For example, in the "Lilliput Kingdom", he can freely play with all kinds of people from kings to common people in the palm of his hand; while in the "Adult Kingdom", he can be controlled by others like a child; after arriving in the "Hui Yin Kingdom", the horse has become a symbol of wisdom, and people have become inferior animals. Through such interesting stories, the author satirized various ills of British society at that time, such as the intrigues of politicians and the greed of the rich. While readers admire the author's fantastic ideas, they can also have a general understanding of the situation in Britain at that time.

World classics, selected translations by famous writers, with ingenious conception, free and easy humor, sharp sarcasm, and heart-wrenching joy, this is a nationally compiled junior high school Chinese language textbook for ninth grade students (volume 2) to expand their reading list. This book is written in a self-narrative way, mainly describing the strange experiences of the protagonist Gulliver in the country of Lilliput, the country of adults, the flying island country and the "Houyi" country. The novel realistically reproduces Gulliver's four fantastic journeys and alludes to reality through this fantasy journey. The author uses rich satirical techniques and bizarre plots of fictional fantasy to deeply analyze the social reality of Britain at that time. It is popular but not vulgar, elegant but not exaggerated, strong but not conceited. It still has the power to inspire people today. Since it was first published in Britain in 1726, it has been widely loved by readers. It has been translated into dozens of languages ​​and has been widely circulated in countries around the world. It is known as "one of the great treasures of literature" and "one of the great treasures of film".

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No family is as complex, full of noise and turmoil as the Compson family: their ancestors were once a prominent family in the town, but by Jason Compson's generation they had declined. Compson was drunk and dreaming all day long, always feeling that life was meaningless. His wife, Caroline Bascom, was selfish and cold-blooded, complaining all day long. They had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Quentin, is talented and intelligent and was admitted to Harvard University, but he has been obsessed with his sister Katie since childhood...; The second daughter, Katie, is kind-hearted but willful since childhood. She always wants to live her dream life, but always falls in love with the wrong man along the way, which is regarded as the shame of the family; the third son, Jason, is withdrawn, greedy and cold-hearted; the fourth son, Ben Jiming, is a lovely person. Pity, suffers from mental retardation. At the age of thirty-three, he only has the intelligence of three years old. He is despised by his mother and third brother Jason. Jason plans to send him to a mental hospital after his mother passes away... Open this book and you will understand the moral dilemma of the entire human race through the rise and fall of a southern manor, and see through the beauty, ugliness and desire in human nature at a glance.