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"Swan" a strange dish of lime vanilla ice cream, a pair of old friends chatting on the bench. Summer is coming to an end. For a moment, he saw the fleeting swan. "Lone Walker in the Dark" On a foggy winter night in 2053, Leonard was walking at night as usual when he was suddenly intercepted by an unmanned police car. Just because of his walk, he was accused of being abnormal and taken to an unknown place. In the night, the streets returned to deathly silence.

This book is the fifth volume in the series "Collection of Edogawa Ranpo Mystery Masterpieces". "The Ghost on the Island" is a novel that combines elements of reasoning, suspense, heterogeneity and curiosity. It is Edogawa Ranpo's debut novel and a typical embodiment of his "Ranpo fun". The novel tells the love story of the protagonist Miura and Kizaki Shodai. The story unfolds from an old manuscript and a mysterious island. The protagonist goes to the island based on the manuscript and discovers the unusual scene in the mansion and island described by Shodai during his lifetime, and reveals the mystery of Shodai's life experience. The novel involves suspenseful plots such as secret room murders and stabbings in the crowd, showing the complex relationship between human desire and family ethics. "The Ghost on the Island" is not only a mystery novel, but also a work that integrates social gender awareness, human exploration and literary innovation, demonstrating Edogawa Ranpo's literary achievements as the father of Japanese mystery novels.

"The Song of the Sad Cafe" collects seven of McCullers' legendary works, including his debut novel "The Prodigy" published at the age of 19, and six short stories and short stories published by McCullers in different periods. The novella "The Song of the Sad Cafe" is the most famous. There used to be a café in this town, an old boarded-up house that was unlike any other. There used to be tables covered with tablecloths, colorful paper bags fluttering in front of electric fans, and it was even more lively on Saturday nights. The cafe has been closed long ago, but everyone still remembers the stories that happened in the cafe...

This book is divided into two categories in terms of content, detective reasoning and bizarre stories. Category 1: Detective mystery novels, with interlocking plots and infinite reversals, which are amazing. Evidence pointing to the truth is hidden everywhere in the text, making the reader's confusion gradually disappear while reading. It can be called a textbook-style introductory book on character reasoning, and a must-read for suspense reasoning enthusiasts. Edogawa also created the character of Kogoro Akechi, a genius detective with an eccentric temper. He always solves bizarre cases with unexpected methods. His name is almost a household name in Japan. Kogoro Mori in "Detective Conan" is named after Kogoro Akechi. ; Category 2: Bizarre tales, which go deep into the spiritual world of criminals, unfold a phenomenon-level analysis and examination of human nature, and use delicate brushstrokes to describe the struggle and confusion of human nature when faced with temptation. Each story uses a limited length to convey profound meaning, which is thought-provoking and intriguing.

"Let me live like a rocket taking off, let myself burn up, and let the night sky gain instant light." Mishima Yukio's thirteen short stories between the ages of seventeen and thirty-one are the masterpieces of Mishima's creative career. The elegance and passion behind his violent death. This book collects thirteen short stories written by Mishima Yukio between the ages of seventeen and thirty-one. When the opening chapter "Moon in the Water" was completed, Mishima was only seventeen years old. The full text consists of seven letters. The unfolding first-person narrative style makes the dialogue between the two parties closely connected and inseparable. The delicate and full psychological monologue is gripping. "Goat Head" reflects the subtle and dramatic changes in the protagonist's heart by describing whether a man can see the transformation of a goat's head when he interacts with different women before and after the war. The combination of realistic scenes and allegorical images brings the story to an abrupt end when it takes a major turn. Mishima's surprising expressiveness and distinct control of rhythm are impressive. In the title work "The Death of Radiguet", Radiguet, a talented writer whom Mishima had admired since his boyhood, passed away under the protection of Cocteau, ending his life at the age of twenty, as predicted: "Within three days, I will be shot by a magic weapon."

The writing date of "The Story of Luoka" is generally believed to be around the end of the tenth century. The author is unknown and is presumed to be a man of relatively low status. The story describes that the daughter of Minamoto Tadayori Nagoya was neglected by her stepmother and was forced to live in a low-lying house, known as "Lokaku". Luokawa met a major general, and they lived a happy life after marriage. The stepmother held a grudge and severely attacked the servant who had pulled the strings. After Tadayori Minamoto passed away, her stepmother completely lost power. The major general forgave her when he saw that his stepmother had repented. "The Story of Rakubo" completely adopts the creative method of classical realism and faithfully reflects a corner of aristocratic life. On the one hand, it promotes the idea of ​​karma and retribution that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil. On the other hand, it also proposes a new moral code and values ​​​​for aristocratic society, highlighting the valuable spirit of loyalty to love.

"The Cat, Shozo and Two Women" is a classic collection of novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aestheticism, and includes representative short and medium-length novels such as "The Cat, Shozo and Two Women", "Boy", "Horror", "Ex-Con" and "Yanagi Bathhouse Incident". The novella "The Cat, Shozo and Two Women" was written during the period when Tanizaki was translating "The Tale of Genji" (1935-1938). It uses the similarity between women and cats as a metaphor to tell the subtle, complex and interesting relationship between men and women through a cat, allowing men who are overwhelmed by the situation to perform a family comedy with them that makes people laugh. The world of Tanizaki's novels is full of absurdity and weirdness, seeking beauty in ugliness, affirming goodness in praise, and thinking about the meaning of survival in death. Whether it is the world of beautiful snow that expresses his demonic "ugliness as beauty" or the oriental culture that pursues Japanese classical traditional beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki's works are permeated with a strong sense of human emotions and psychology. Yukio Mishima once evaluated Tanizaki Junichiro's works as "the peonies blooming brilliantly against the gloomy background of naturalistic literature".

110th anniversary commemorative edition of William Golding, Nobel Prize winner for literature and author of the novel "Lord of the Flies". A monster spire that can never be completed, an obsessive and confusing sacred dream, a masterpiece of philosophical fiction where absurdity and reality intersect. "The Church Spire" is Golding's important masterpiece, which deeply explores the intricate mixture of human faith and despair, ideals and reality. The novel tells the story of Patriarch Jocelyn of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary who truly felt the call of the Lord, asking him to build a church steeple as high as four hundred feet for the glory of the Lord. He naively believed that as long as he was "pious" and had a firm "will", God would definitely help him build a spire that reached heaven on the ground. This grand construction without a foundation ended in failure. In "Church Spire", Golding places the hope of mankind in seeking an ideal state, and also reveals the real living conditions in which ideals are eventually shattered; noble aspirations and ugly reality, the struggle for good and sinful desires are intertwined; through the intertwined images of absurdity and reality, and the artistic technique of using both symbol and metaphor, the author profoundly reveals the truth of human nature and society.

Nobel laureate Handke's creative new work is an epic journey into the interior of France and an image of French social reality. Written for young people who cannot gain a foothold in society: Go to the wilderness to find your true self. At the beginning of the novel, on a beautiful day in early August, an old man living in the suburbs of Paris left his peaceful suburban residence in Paris, an "uninhabited bay" surrounded by forests, and went to his country house in Picardy. As he walked, observing his surroundings, he occasionally mentioned a young woman he called "the fruit-stealing girl" who seemed to be on a similar journey to northern France. This "fruit-stealing girl" is 25 years old and has been "eager to escape" since adolescence. She just returned from Siberia and immediately went out to find her mother. In retracing her footsteps (whether real or imagined) through the interior of France, the narrator is writing about her in his own way, and thus the novel is born.

After five years, Ryu Murakami published "The Story of Loss", his first novel in his later years. Follow Murakami Ryu into the labyrinth deep in consciousness, and travel through a "lucid dream" in the ruins of life's memories. Tender nostalgia and compromise flow throughout the novel, and his thoughts are as weak as babble and full of self-doubt. This is the first time in Ryu Murakami's nearly fifty-year writing career that he has taken off the armor of verbal violence and opened the door to his inner world to readers for the first time. This book is similar to a psychiatric clinical record, but also has the characteristics of a private novel. One day, "my" domestic kitten suddenly spoke and directed "me" to an actress named "Mariko". The actress and "I" seemed to be old friends, but we both had completely different memories of the past. The actress took "me" to a restaurant "Cherbourg" that was clearly closed in my memory, and then her mother suddenly appeared in front of her. Mixed with various voices, a large number of memory fragments began to intertwine and emerge: my mother's experience in North Korea, the alienation of the painter's father from the family, "I" and the actress's travels in Rome, as well as German shepherd dogs, azaleas... "My" consciousness fell into a maze, wandering in the ruins of memory, unable to distinguish between past and present, reality and imagination, and the boundaries between advancement and retreat. Finally, guided by my mother's voice, "I" finally remembered the reason why I became a novelist: "Depression is like a twilight that never ends. I can only rely on fiction to continue to survive."

This is a black comedy murder mystery novel at the end of the 20th century. The background is at the end of the upcoming millennium. Nicola Sixx, a beautiful, sexy prostitute with the ability to foresee the future, foresaw that she would be murdered on her thirty-fifth birthday, so she made step-by-step arrangements for the arrival of this day. Who will kill her? Is it the dirty and shameless liar Keith Tallent, or the rich, tall, romantic banker Guy Clinch? But there was no definite answer to this question until the end. What's even more incredible is that she actually used her beauty to seduce the novel's narrator, Samson Young, and made this second-rate writer suffering from cancer change the plot of the story and become a super accomplice in this murder game. The "London Ground" is both a place within the city of London and a symbol of the desolation of the postmodern Western world. The death that occurs here is the death of the body, the death of the spirit, the death of faith, and the death of the soul.

This is a true story in human history, a story about how plague shaped our cities and even the world today. In the 19th century, during the era of Queen Victoria in England, London, as a modern metropolis, suffered from disease pandemics every few years, with each outbreak claiming thousands of lives. Doctor John Snow conducted a series of studies and discovered and proved that cholera exists in water. When no one believed it, the Reverend Henry Whitehead helped Snow plot the number of people who drew water to drink versus the number of people who did not draw water to drink on the same graph and label the number of deaths in each neighborhood. It was found that the further away from the water pump, the fewer deaths occurred. It turned out that the water pump was the source of pollution. This great discovery saved the city of London from the last cholera outbreak in Britain. This neighborhood map has deservedly become one of the most influential maps in history, as important as Columbus's early maps that led navigators around the world. It created a new way of life, and people began to build sewer systems, create urban public facilities, and ensure clean water for the benefit of everyone. And this period of history that ushered in a new era of medicine is also deeply recorded in the immortal monument of the progress of human civilization.

There is a book I want to write for you, about Tokyo. I'm sorry, time and resources don't allow me to take you slowly. However, after reading this book and buying a ticket, you should be able to discover your own Chuo Line, your own personalized Tokyo. --Arai Kazusan Perhaps you have been to Tokyo once and visited Odaiba, Asakusa, and Disneyland with a tour group; perhaps you have been to Tokyo many times and visited Ginza, Roppongi, and Kanda Jimbocho on your own; perhaps you have not been to Tokyo yet... In any case, you cannot know the whole picture of Tokyo; because this city is really big. On the map of Arai, there is an orange horizontal line, which is the JR Chuo Line railway track. The Chuo Line starts in Tokyo and runs through the city in an inverted S-shape, from Shinjuku to the west to Takao. Chuo Line, which retains its bohemian cultural atmosphere, has attracted cultural people of all ages since the Edo period. Kawabata Yasunari wrote "Women's Body" in the ancient Tokyo STATIONHOTEL. The rocker's yakiniku shop "Ebi" is the favorite resting place of Tokyo men. The musical instrument street and Jimbocho old bookstore street at Ochanomizu Station, the public bath "Yutopia" at the north entrance of Ogikubo Station, the cultural salon at Nakamuraya at the east exit of Shinjuku, Kichijoji where the concentration of Japanese cartoonists... Welcome to the Chuo Line Cultural Circle!

The three divine swords of "memory, sorrow and thorns" gathered in Hehot. The Storm King was wiped out in ashes. The Northern Ghosts suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat to their far north home. However, Duke Aquinas led the mortal army in hot pursuit, intending to avoid future troubles forever. Fight or surrender? The North Ghost is in a dilemma, and the holy mountain Naqika is their last barrier...

As a plane explodes in the sky, criminal forensic scientist Lincoln Rhyme and his beautiful companion Amelia Sachs are given a new challenge - to track down the mysterious killer responsible for the incident, who can disguise himself faster than the next victim can appear. The only clue they have is a tattoo depicting death and beauty dancing on a coffin. With only forty-eight hours left, they need to stop two murders. Amelia, who insisted on rushing ahead, almost stepped into a death trap, and even Lincoln Rhyme seemed to have fallen into another bigger trap...

The "Math Girls" series unfolds in the form of a novel, focusing on describing the process of a group of young people exploring the beauty of mathematics. The content is from the shallower to the deeper, and the mathematical explanation part is very exquisite. It is called "an excellent popular science book on mathematics". "Mathematical Girl 6: Poincaré's Conjecture" takes the century-old mathematical problem "Poincaré's Conjecture" as its theme. Starting from the Cosburg Seven Bridges problem, it explains in detail mathematical knowledge such as topology, non-Euclidean geometry, manifolds, differential equations, Gauss's wonderful theorem and Fourier expansion. It restores the exploration process of Poincaré's conjecture and leads readers to pursue "the shape of the universe". The whole book is written in one go and is very suitable for middle school students, high school students and adults who are interested in mathematics to read. Please open this book and join the protagonists on their journey of exploration.

The "Math Girls" series unfolds in the form of novels, focusing on a group of young people exploring the beauty of mathematics. The content is from the shallower to the deeper, and the mathematical explanation part is very exquisite. It is called "an excellent popular science book on mathematics". The protagonist "I" is a high school boy who likes mathematics. His hobby is discussing calculation formulas. He often thinks about mathematical problems alone at his desk. After entering high school, he met Mirga, a genius girl who is good at mathematics and smart, Tedora, a school girl who is curious, energetic and hard-working, and Risa, a taciturn computer expert. In addition, Yuri, a cousin with a flexible mind and gradually fell in love with mathematics under the guidance of "I", several young people traveled in the world of mathematics together and discovered the beauty of mathematics.

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"Pillow" was the first of Japanese essay literature. It was written around 1001. It is the representative work of Seishonagon, a female writer during the Heian period in Japan. It is as famous as "The Tale of Genji" and is known as a double gem in Japanese Heian period literature. It is also known as the three major essays in Japanese literature together with the two books "Abbot's Chronicle" and "Turancao" that appeared later. The book is divided into 20 volumes and has a total of 305 paragraphs. It is divided into three parts: collection, diary and random thoughts. Most of them are what she saw and heard during her tenure in the palace. The emotions are delicate, the writing is light, and its authenticity and randomness can be seen everywhere. The so-called "reading starts from the page where the wind blows" is the charm of this book.

After World War I, Larry returned to the United States after fighting bravely. What greeted him was a seemingly magnanimous life. But the cruelty of the war and the death of his comrades made him doubt the meaning and value of life. He gave up his regular work and life and moved from Paris to Germany and India. During the journey, he met all kinds of people: the miner who hid his identity as a political prisoner, who seemed vulgar and hypocritical, but was proficient in philosophical knowledge; the mistress who was obsessed with painting, and after absorbing the artistic styles of all painter lovers, he became a painter herself; the mysterious Indian master, who used incredible methods to practice hard and treat diseases... The strange life gradually extended his thinking about the meaning of life. What will Larry get from it, and what choice will he make?

The plot of "The Key" revolves around the private diaries of a middle-aged couple, alternately presenting their repressed psychology and twisted desires in marriage. The husband arranged for his son-in-law Kimura to seduce his wife, while the wife pretended not to know and cheated on her to arouse her husband's jealousy. The two used this to add fun to an ordinary and boring marriage and revitalize it. "Swastika" tells the story of Sonoko, who got married early, and Mitsuko, a young girl who takes a painting class together, who are attracted to each other. The ambiguous relationship between them is discovered by Sonoko's husband Kotaro and Mitsuko's boyfriend Mitsuki. Out of jealousy and revenge, they also intervene between Sonoko and Mitsuko. The relationship between the four people, which was constantly being cut off and messed up, gradually got out of control and eventually led to destruction. "Key" and "Swastika" are both masterpieces showing Junichiro Tanizaki's demonic aesthetics. In these two works, he vividly displayed the secret and weird world of love between the sexes through delicate psychological descriptions, and deeply portrayed the subtle and treacherous side of human nature.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Merchant of Venice", "Twelfth Night" and "As You Like It" are known as Shakespeare's "four great comedies" and are the most famous chapters in the history of human literature and even the history of civilization. The four major comedies represent the highest achievements of Shakespeare's comedy art. Its basic theme is to celebrate love and friendship. In the work, the author praises the spirit of friendship and benevolence, mercilessly criticizes the feudal clan concept, patriarchal autocracy, criticizes asceticism and obscurantism since the Middle Ages, and expresses the humanistic ideal of life in his praise of love freedom and individual liberation. "Shakespeare's Four Comedies" is an important achievement of the research and translation of Mr. Zhu Shenghao, who is the earliest and most translator of Shakespeare's works in China.

Flannery O'Connor, an icon of American literature, the most outstanding writer in the American South after Faulkner, and the author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find", is among the "100 Greatest Novels" selected by The Guardian. The novel is set in a city called Tokingham in Tennessee in the mid-20th century. It describes the protagonist Hazel Motz's attempt to eradicate the influence of Jesus on him, and embarks on a path of spiritual disillusionment mixed with sadness and joy.

A brilliant, innovative novel that keenly captures the presence and absence of the sacred. "To Take", first published in 1960, is a milestone in the history of American literature - Flannery O'Connor's work is a dark and fascinating example of gothic sensibility and sharp irony. In the novel, orphan Tarwater and his uncle Reb defy their dead uncle's prophecy that Tarwater will become a prophet and baptize Reb's son Bishop. Tarwater engages in an inner struggle with his deep-seated beliefs and the voices calling him to be a prophet, while Rebbe attempts to guide Tarwater into a more "reasonable" modern world. Both are grappling with the legacy of lost loved ones. O'Connor observes it all with a breathtaking combination of irony and empathy, humor and pathos.

The most famous representative work of American literary figure Philip Roth, "American Trilogy", has won many literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the Faulkner Literary Award, the WH Smith Award, and the National Jewish Book Award. Roth was once one of the most popular novelists on the odds list for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kundera, Haruki Murakami, Rushdie, Trump, and Xu Zhiyuan were all his loyal readers. The "American Trilogy" is three literary explosions about terrorists, political persecution, and racial discrimination, witnessing the degeneration, degeneration, and madness of the American dream, and running through Celina's nihilism and anger. Lifting the veil of bright humanity, breaking the gentle family taboo, and reaching into the dark heart of the United States, it can be called the epitome of contemporary American history; it uses carnival game state and serious social care to reshape the confrontation between private life and public discourse, and write the customs and spiritual history of modern mankind. Collects three volumes of "American Pastoral", "Betrayal" and "The Filth of Human Nature".

Margaret Atwood, author of Booker Prize winner "The Handmaid's Tale," is a work of self-transcendence. It took ten years to create a grand narrative that presents a dystopian "post-apocalyptic" world. The Chinese version is assembled in its entirety for the first time, and includes a new preface by the author. Hulu is about to adapt a TV series to reconstruct the parallel universe of "The Handmaid's Tale". "Antelope and Crake" tells the story of a future world where the abuse of biotechnology has caused disasters and "corporations" control the lifeblood of all resources. A super infectious disease of unknown origin swept the world, and very few people survived. "The Year of the Flood" follows the encounters of two women and retells the other side of the story: Toby, who was in danger several times but survived tenaciously, and Ryan, who seemed weak and drifted with the crowd. In this world where biotechnology is wantonly abused and dominated by capital and men, how can they control their destiny in their own hands? "Mad Adam" reunites the characters from the two previous works and tells the story of how the survivors in the post-"flood" era try to understand the past and rebuild a new civilization and meaning on the ruins of the past.

"The Master of Petersburg" is a novel by the South African novelist and Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee, with the great Russian writer Dostoyevsky as the protagonist. In the novel, in October 1869, due to the death of his stepson Pavel, Dostoevsky came to the city of Petersburg, where he met a series of characters and intertwined with their fates. All these experiences were transformed into elements in his writing through suffering and suffering, becoming the opportunity and nourishment for him to write "The Demons". By reshaping Dostoevsky's life story and interpreting it in an indistinguishable way, Coetzee shows readers the unfathomable imaginary world in his study.

"The Piano Lesson" is McEwan's latest novel and his most autobiographical work. The novel's rich themes and wide time span surpass McEwan's literary career. Roland's wife Alyssa mysteriously disappeared, which presented a series of colorful individual memories intertwined with major historical events of the 20th century: Roland's special sexual enlightenment experience in adolescence - an inextricable forbidden love with Miriam, a female piano teacher; Alyssa's mother went to post-World War II Germany with a dream of being a writer to pursue the "White Rose", a cultural organization that resisted the Nazis; Roland and Alyssa knew each other and fell in love, got married and had children, until Alyssa resolutely ran away, escaped from the marriage cage to pursue her dream of being a writer, and bravely broke through the life trajectory of the previous generation... The novel takes the life of the protagonist Roland as the main line, stringing together the life experiences of many people around him. Reality and memories are intertwined, creating a vivid and real ordinary individual who is struggling in the torrent of the times. The timeline of the novel spans more than half a century - from World War II to the COVID-19 epidemic, and involves a series of major historical events such as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Thatcher's coming to power, the Falklands War, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the Chernobyl nuclear leak, the election of the Labor Party, and Brexit. Everyone is a participant in history, and McEwan composes a chronological history with vivid individual narratives.

"Tears and Laughter" is Gibran's first collection of prose poems, and it is also one of his most beautiful collections of prose poems. "Tears and Laughter" has shown Gibran's most concerned literary themes from the beginning: love and beauty, nature, philosophy of life, humanism, social criticism, the poet's mission and loneliness, etc. All the prose poems in this collection have foreshadowed Gibran's creative direction in his life, and also reflect the development trend of Gibran's artistic style. There are many chapters in "Tears and Laughter" that directly target the injustice and evil in human society, and also involve the themes of nationalism and patriotism. They are a concentrated display of Gibran's values ​​​​and life ideals.

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is a novel by the British writer Hardy, one of the "Wessex Series". The novel tells the story of the heroine Tess, who was born into a poor hawker family. Her parents asked her to go to a rich old woman's house to meet relatives. As a result, she was seduced by the young master Alec. Later, she fell in love and got engaged to Claire, the son of a pastor. On their wedding night, she confessed her past misfortune to her husband, but she was not forgiven. The two separated, and her husband went to Brazil. A few years later, Tess met Alec again, who pestered her. At this time, she had to live with her enemy due to her family's financial difficulties. Soon after Claire returned from abroad, she expressed regret to her wife for her past ruthlessness. In this case, Tess painfully felt that it was Alec D'Urberville who made her lose Angel for the second time and she killed him angrily. Eventually she was captured and hanged.

There is a monster in Ethiopia with a human face, human ears and blue eyes. The body is like a lion and red like blood. The tail is like a scorpion and can sting the enemy. Its cry is like an ensemble of reed flutes and trumpets. There is a poisonous animal in the Indian sea called sea hare. When a pregnant woman sees a female sea hare, she will immediately feel nauseated just by looking at it, which may lead to miscarriage. In the area near the source of the Ganges River in eastern India, there lives a race called the Astomi. They have no mouths and live by inhaling air and fragrance through their nostrils... In "Natural History of Imaginations", Japanese dark aesthetic master Shibusawa Tatsuhiko uses "Natural History" written by Pliny, known as "the classic among classics", as the entrance, and selects a labyrinth and a sundial. , Ethiopian monsters, sex and the diaphragm, sea hares and sea animals, miracles in the world and other 22 themes. With its unique quotations and witty remarks, it not only vividly presents Pliny and his philosophy of life, but also brings us into a strange world where it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and weird and imaginary.

"I" met a "Mr." And later received a long letter from "Mr." ("Mr." Was no longer alive at that time). The letter told that "Mr." And his friend K fell in love with the landlord's beautiful only daughter when they were in college. "Sir" designed K to commit suicide, and he got his wish. But after marriage, she often suffered from conscience and moral condemnation, and finally committed suicide.

Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Chet Baker... Legendary musicians like suffering saints. A movie montage of life scenes. Whether you're a jazz fan or not, whether you've heard those songs or not, this book will make you want to listen to them-or listen to them again. And after you hear it, you'll want to look at those sentences again. Your heart will become soft and sensitive, like a poor little animal. Sometimes you will smile, sometimes you will want to cry inexplicably, sometimes you will suddenly remember something or someone from a long time ago, and sometimes you will stand up and go to the balcony to smoke a cigarette. And when you finish reading it, you know you will read it again, you will confidently (even proudly) recommend it to your friends, and you will keep it on your bookshelf forever, hoping that one day, when you leave this world, your children - your children's children - will read it too. Because, this is a little jazz bible.

Through the experiences of two talented and ambitious young people, this book reflects the situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution. It points out that with the disintegration of the feudal system and the victory of capitalism, there will inevitably be competition between people, which will inevitably produce a poem of struggle and a tragedy of shattered ideals.

The elder sister's name is Acorn, and the younger sister's name is Guozi. A sudden disaster took away the sisters' beloved parents. The two were successively taken care of by their wealthy but rarely affectionate aunt and their eccentric grandfather. They experienced distress, sadness, and even self-destruction. In the process, the appearance of grandpa unexpectedly provided them with a good opportunity for growth. They learned many important things while taking care of grandpa. The two sisters work closely together to spend the bitter time together and not let themselves get lost in the long and vast life. The two sisters opened a communication website called "Acorn Sisters" and expressed their deep wishes in the email, "We are sisters who only exist on the web. Please keep writing us emails. Although it may take a while, we will definitely reply." The knowledge of the world through emails made the sisters more resilient.

Kiyoaki and Satoko are childhood sweethearts, both of whom came from noble families. One year when the spring snow fell, Kiyoaki kissed Satoko for the first time, and the two young people fell in love. However, Kiyoaki was indecisive and did not have the courage to accept Satoko's proposal. As a result, Satoko was betrothed to the royal family Dongin Palace. After this, Kiyoaki realized how much he loved Satoko. He threatened to publish love letters and had frequent trysts with Satoko, which eventually led to Satoko becoming pregnant. In this forbidden love, where will Kiyoaki and Satoko go? Everything comes to an end when another spring snow falls...

The novel depicts the troubled life of a simple, gentle and kind-hearted girl Yana in a simple and delicate style. Yana, who was born into a declining aristocratic family, was full of a beautiful vision of life. However, after entering the journey of life, she encountered a series of changes such as her husband's betrayal, the death of her parents, and her beloved son running away from home. In the end, she could only grow old step by step in despair. The author uses her life to tell people: You can neither have too many illusions nor completely lose hope in life.

Zhu Yawen and Jin Chen starred in the original "Ten Days Game". Business elite Sakuma's promotion plan for Sunstar Motors was rejected, and his frustration made him resentful. That night he arrived at the door of the vice president of Rixing Automobile, and unexpectedly he happened to bump into a girl climbing over the wall. This girl is Juri, the illegitimate daughter of the vice president, who ran away from home due to family problems. Out of a common desire for revenge, Sakuma and Juri directed and acted in a kidnapping case with a ransom of 300 million yen... However, what made Sakuma miscalculated was that he fell in love with Juri.

Zhou Yiwei and Wang Likun star in the original novel of the same name in "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty". Lanfang is located on the border of the Tang Dynasty. Han and Hu people live together in the city, and the folk customs are fierce. On their way to Lanfang to take office, Judge Dee and his entourage encountered gangsters. After entering the county, no one came to greet them. When they stepped into the gate of the county government, they found that the court had been abandoned for a long time and the previous county magistrate had already fled... Lanfang is surrounded by dangers. Can Judge Dee avert the danger? This volume contains four cases that Judge Dee encountered in Lanfang County: "The Maze Case", "The Phantom in the Ancient Temple", "The New Year's Eve Murder Case" and "The Prince's Coffin". Gaulopet is a Dutch sinologist, diplomat, translator and novelist. His representative works include "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty", "The Way of the Piano", "Calligraphy and Painting on Bells", etc.

This book is a kind of "The Complete Works of Susan Sontag". This book has won the National Book Award and the Jerusalem Prize. It is one of Sontag's few novels and has brought her such honors. In the form of a historical biography, the novel reinterprets the process of self-transformation and spiritual recovery of the Polish "stage queen" Modjeska after she immigrated to the United States. It is an organic combination of historical details and modern consciousness.

A novella with the most creative characteristics of Edogawa Ranpo, a masterpiece of mystery that combines bizarreness, horror, and absurdity. It has been translated by the famous translator Lin Shaohua. Chunni's threatening letter, she was frightened and asked "I" for help. What's even more bizarre is that Jingzi's husband was also killed bizarrely. When the case became complicated and confusing, how did Hanchuan deduce the truth of the case step by step? Who was the murderer of Shizuko's husband? Who is the disappeared Dajiang Chunni? Why did Jingzi commit suicide in the end? ...

If you haven't read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," you don't know who I am. But that doesn't matter. That book was written by Mark Twain, and what he wrote was mostly true. Although some things were made up by him, they were generally believable. Of course, it doesn't matter if it's not trustworthy. With the exception of Aunt Polly, Widow Douglas, and maybe Mary, I've never met anyone who didn't tell an occasional lie. Things about Aunt Polly, Tom's Aunt Polly, and Mary and the Widow Douglas were all written in that book. The book is generally reliable, but there are parts of it that are nonsense, as I just said.

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"The Golden Pavilion" is based on the true incident in 1950 when monk Lin Yangxian set fire to the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with a stutter and was obsessed with the beauty of the Kinkakuji Temple, came to the Kinkakuji Temple to become a monk with the dream of inheriting the position of abbot of the Kinkakuji Temple and owning the Kinkaku Temple. After confirming that he could not achieve his wish, he fantasized about dying with the Kinkakuji in an enemy bombing. The end of the war frustrated his wish. In despair, he decided to find an opportunity to burn the Golden Temple to the ground. By burning down the Golden Temple, Mizoguchi eliminated his own mental demons, his suppressed humanity was released, his vision shackles by phantoms was also expanded, and destruction became the path to rebirth.

This political fantasy novel was written in 1907. Through the perspective of a wealthy lady who joined the revolution, the author fictionalized the changes in social development at that time and accurately predicted the rise of the capitalist centralized system. Although the book was published 100 years ago, it still has a warning and thought-provoking effect on today's society.

"Window Light" is Nanae Aoyama's debut novel. This work won the 42nd Japan Literary Award, known as the "cradle of the Akutagawa Prize". By describing a female college student who dropped out of school and worked in a cafe, she peered into a man's room opposite, and then went out on the street every night to peek into the lives of ordinary people. It delicately depicts the psychological world of a young woman who cannot handle real life well. "Mrs. Murasaki's Paris" describes an aunt who is a cleaning lady in an office building. When she feels uncomfortable, she thinks about the streets of Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe seen from the Eiffel Tower, etc., And at the same time imagines herself as a Frenchman born in Paris.

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During World War I, the American young man Frederick Henry came to the Italian front as a volunteer and served as a lieutenant in a field ambulance team, where he met the British nurse Catherine. During a mission, Henry was injured and was sent to Milan Hospital for recuperation, where Catherine also happened to be transferred to work. After an unexpected reunion and Catherine's careful care of Henry, the two fell in love. After recovering from his injury, Henry, who returned to the front line, became more aware of the cruelty of war. In order to escape the punishment of the so-called "AWOL" officers, he resolutely left the army and joined Catherine, and the two fled to Switzerland together. Unfortunately, after a short period of happiness, Catherine died in childbirth, and the baby also died of suffocation, leaving Henry alone in the world.