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Interviews between Philip Roth, the leading figure in American literature, and his colleagues. Writers talking to writers, facing the existential crisis of an era. "Jargon: A Writer, His Colleagues, and His Work" is one of two critical collections in the complete works of Philip Roth. The main part consists of interviews and several critical articles. As a curious reader and tricky colleague, Philip Roth interviewed seven outstanding Jewish writers from around the world - Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfield, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera and Edna O'Brien - starting with these writers' growth experiences, creative motivations and the environment in which they lived, and asking them very direct questions.

This is unlike any book about the Great War. "Following the Somme" describes the author Jeff Dyer's experience of visiting old battlefields and war memorials, and displays a number of images, videos, poems, and texts related to the war. Jeff Dyer analyzes them and deconstructs them, trying to find clues to how the war is narrated and presented. He found that the collective memory of the war was already being shaped by official discourse before the war even began. Jeff Dyer uses sentences that are sometimes complex and sometimes simple like a long poem, taking readers into the trenches of the past and unraveling the mysteries and rhetorical structures of the memory of the Great War. In his own way, he shows us the various relationships between modern humans and the aftershocks of the Great War, and how we should carefully understand these relationships.

"Preface and Postscripts" is an important collection of essays in "Auden's Collected Works". The essays included in "Collection of Preface and Postscripts" were written from the 1940s to the 1970s. The content involves literature, theology, philosophy, art and even daily household affairs. The materials are detailed and rigorous, and the writing style is comprehensive. They have extremely high academic value, historical value and aesthetic value. "Preface and Postscript" is a collection of prefaces and postscripts to poems written by the author W. H. Auden. The preface and postscript of these poems reflect the author's creative thoughts, creative process and creative feelings. For example, regarding the long poem "Spain" written in 1937, he wrote in the preface that as an ambulance driver, he participated in the anti-fascist armed struggle in Spain in 1937. In the preface to "Battlefield" (1939), he expressed his feelings about going to the battlefield in China to interview with the novelist Yi Xiuwu De. These prefaces and postscripts about creation will help readers understand the full picture of Auden's creation.

"Gitanjali", "Crescent Moon Collection", "Bird Collection", these are the well-known poet Rabindranath Tagore. But this time, he may have another identity: a walker, a recorder, and a thinker. Britain, Russia, Japan, China... Tagore's footprints are scattered all over Asia and Europe. He used letters, diaries and speeches to clearly describe the process of traveling to various places. In his travel notes, he profoundly expressed the differences and connections between national culture and foreign culture, and the East and the West.

The famous Russian writer M. M. Prishvin (1873-1954) was a "poet and philosopher" who sang about nature. The nature he writes is vibrant, colorful, full of fun, and full of refreshing poetry and philosophy. His lyrical works are clear and smooth, with meaningful artistic conception, and contain a kind of musical rhythm, which makes people put it down after reading. The five anthologies collect his philosophical lyrical essays and short stories, and "A Sunny Night: Notes on the Far North of Russia and Norway" is Volume 4. "Sunny Nights: Notes on the Far North of Russia and Norway" is the result of Prishvin's second trip to the north. It marks Prishvin's shift from the path of ethnography, or as it is fashionable today - anthropology, to the camp of "silver", which illustrates the attraction and influence of the "decadents" on him.

In the summer of 1839, Thoreau and his brother sailed on the river for two weeks in a homemade boat. In 1842, his brother died of illness. In memory of his deceased brother, Thoreau wrote "A Week on the River." In this book, Thoreau condensed his two-week journey into one week, with one chapter per day, describing the flowers, birds, insects, fish, mountains and rivers he observed, as well as his thoughts on topics such as religion, poetry, and history. In nature, Thoreau tried to get rid of the mundane disturbances, transcend the boundaries of time, and find inner peace.

"Walden" is a record of the American writer Thoreau who lived alone by Walden Pond, describing what he saw, heard and thought during more than two years. It is a model of American nature literature and the prose classic with the largest number of readers in the contemporary United States. It has influenced Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and others, thereby rewriting the destiny of some nations and countries. Character, his work "Walden" is a classic of American literature and world literature. On July 4, 1845, 28-year-old Thoreau came alone to the shores of Walden Pond two miles away from Concord, built a cabin and lived there. In the book, he describes in detail the two years and two months he spent in a regenerated forest on the shores of Walden Pond and his many thoughts during this period. This is a masterpiece of wisdom that brings peace of mind and full of hope. When people gradually lose the tranquility of the countryside, it is read and missed by the whole world.

"Collection of Bacon's Essays" has a total of fifty-nine articles, covering all aspects of human life. The article's language is concise, the writing is beautiful, the reasoning is thorough, and the aphorisms are repeated. It has been loved by readers from all over the world for hundreds of years. Bacon was knowledgeable and well-versed in the world, and had thought-provoking and unique insights into the issues he discussed. The translation adopts the version by the famous translator Cao Minglun.

As has been his habit for a long time, Calvino always strives to deeply understand the connotation of things, observing from the perspective of anthropologists and cybernetics, such as the operation of the American social system; but during his sojourn, he also completed the task of Aeginaudi Publishing House and introduced the works of American writers such as J. D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow to Italy. He turned his travels into long letters written to Turin. These letters were somewhere between diary and reportage, and some of them also became a series of articles published in weekly magazines. "An Optimist in America" ​​is a compilation of these materials. Following Calvino's footsteps, we discover a different and more "simple" America than we imagined. ...

"Walden Pond" records the author's strange journey of living in seclusion on the shores of Walden Pond, blending in with nature, perceiving nature and reshaping himself in pastoral life. This is a quiet, tranquil and wise book. In analyzing life and criticizing customs, the language is astonishing, the words are sparkling, the insights are unique and thought-provoking. Many pages are vivid descriptions, beautiful and detailed, like the purity and transparency of lakes, and the dense greenness of mountains and forests; there are also some pages that are thorough, insightful and enlightening. This is a fresh, healthy, and uplifting book with extremely moving descriptions of spring and dawn. Here we have the clean air provided by nature without the environmental pollution caused by industrial society. Reading it, readers will naturally feel the purity of the soul and the sublimation of the spirit.

This book is a unique lakeside narrative that explores the relationship between man and nature. It is the culmination of Thoreau's two years of living by Walden Pond. In this large prose, Thoreau described in detail his frugal life in the woods, the beautiful nature in his heart, and his wise thinking. He observes nature in detail and records vivid animals, plants and scenery of the four seasons in a natural, smooth and poetic writing style. Many beautiful natural pictures often move readers. The literary master F. S. Fitzgerald once said: "After reading Thoreau's articles, I realized how much I had lost by living away from nature!" "Walden" was published more than a hundred years ago and is still regarded as a classic. Thoreau lived in a society of industrial civilization, but opposed the mainstream culture of the time. The "simple, independent and noble life" he pursued is now regarded as a model of the ecological protection movement, and this book is also regarded as the "green Bible". The translator spent several years polishing the translation and included old woodcut prints.

This book is a minimalist record of Thoreau's life when he lived alone by Walden Pond. It depicts the natural scenery of Walden Pond with beautiful brushstrokes. It records what the author saw, heard and thought over more than two years, and expresses his profound thinking about man and nature, society and life. Since its first publication in 1854, "Walden" has broken the limitations of time and space and continued to influence the world. In the field of literature, it created and triggered the writing trend of natural literature. In the field of philosophy, Thoreau and Emerson are urged to be regarded as the two giants of transcendentalism. It also directly gave birth to the idea of ​​​​environmental protection and is the true origin of the contemporary minimalist aesthetics and lifestyle that are in the ascendant. The general illustrated edition contains a large number of fine illustrations, intuitively presenting Thoreau's philosophical thoughts, allusions in the text and related natural history knowledge, and pioneeringly provides a set of "knowledge encyclopedia" that is essential for understanding "Walden".

Why is Jane Austen's novel "The Husband-in-Law" spread by word of mouth? What are the little-known secrets in the private life of literary giant Tolstoy? Why do famous literary figures such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Muriel Spark remain timeless? Doris Lessing uses humorous and precise writing to share anecdotes from the literary world, introduce famous works from all over the world, comment on major events of the times, and write about her experience in raising cats. "Traces of Time: Viewpoints and Commentary" collects the essence of Lessing's essay writing over many years. It shows how she continued to interpret the world through literature during her writing career that spanned more than half a century.

In 2009, Orhan Pamuk was invited to give six speeches at Harvard University, the famous Norton Lectures. This is the collection. Pamuk said that after completing "The Museum of Innocence", he felt as if he had returned to the origin after thirty-five years of being a novelist. He also realized that this origin was not his starting point (this is also the consensus of many people). He slowly developed an image in his mind of the literary journey he had been on, and he felt it was time to talk. "I hope to talk about my novel writing journey, the stops along the way, the novel art and novel forms I learned, the limitations they imposed on me, and my struggles and attachments to them. At the same time, I want my lectures to be essays or meditations on the art of fiction, rather than a trip down memory lane or a discussion of my personal development."

"A Man's Journey" contains ten essays written by Thoreau during his wanderings, about mountains, streams, and landlords; about winter snow, forests, and squirrels; and about autumn maples, wild apples, and the moon! Through these words, Thoreau's image emerges vividly on the page. His simple lifestyle is also the most avant-garde concept of the 21st century: pursuing the most basic material needs and the richest spiritual aspirations.

"Portrait of a Lady" The American Civil War ended in 1865 with the goal of liberating the productivity of black slaves, and began a period of reconstruction with rapid economic development. Thirty years later, the total industrial output value of the United States ranked first in the world. During this period, capital was rapidly concentrated in the United States. The "kings" of various industries were amassing money and spending money like water. Bribery and corruption were common in official circles and business circles. The working people were unwilling to be humiliated and rose up to resist. Every inch of the barren land in the West seemed to be filled with gold... These all-encompassing pictures of life provided rich and colorful themes for the development of realist literature...

In 1998, the editorial board of "Contemporary Library" of Random House in the United States selected "One Hundred Outstanding English Novels of the 20th Century". Joseph Conrad was selected with four works: "Lord Jim", "Heart of Darkness", "Nostromo" and "Spy", surpassing famous European and American novelists such as Joyce, Faulkner, Lawrence and James. Conrad's position in the history of modern Western literature is evident. "Conrad's Letters" (1983-2007) is a collection of letters between Conrad, the most outstanding British writer in the 20th century, and his family, friends, writers, publishers, sponsors, etc. During his lifetime. It has become the most important achievement in the field of Conrad research.

In 1922, when Maugham was achieving great success as a playwright, short story and novelist, and even a socialite, he put it all aside and made a long and arduous trip to Southeast Asia. Maugham accidentally read a passage from Herzlitt's "On Travel" on the boat going up the Irrawaddy River to Bagan: "Wonderful! Break free from the shackles of the world and public opinion - leave our entangled, annoying, endless self-identity in nature, be a person of the moment, and eliminate all burdens --Only a plate of offal to sustain everything, and owe nothing except the night's wine debt. No longer seeking applause and being despised, only known by the title of the gentleman in the drawing room!" I was so enlightened that I decided to write such a travelogue and titled it "The Gentleman in the Drawing Room". However, it was not until seven years later that he actually wrote the book, and confessed in the "Preface": "This book is not an accident like "On the Chinese Screen". The journey described in the book was my wish; but I had intended to write it as a book from the beginning. I had fun writing "On the Chinese Screen". I want to try my craft again on the same subject, but on a more refined scale and in a form that I can give a clear pattern. This is an exercise in style."

"Grass Pillow" is one of Natsume Soseki's early important masterpieces. The novel writes about "I": In order to escape the worries of the world and seek a world of "inhuman" beauty, a young painter came to a remote mountain village and what he saw, thought and heard there. The work focuses on describing the people and scenery in the mountain village, interspersed with a large number of "my" monologues about art theory and aesthetics, and comparing the differences between Eastern and Western art. The most core point in these monologues is "inhumanity". The so-called "impersonal feelings" are a realm that transcends morality or human feelings, a worldly realm that transcends the secular world, and is also an artistic aesthetic. For example, the "I" in the work believes that the artistic conception conveyed in Tao Yuanming's poems is deeply "inhuman". Therefore, "The Straw Pillow" is more like Natsume Soseki's treatise on art than a novel; and the description of the mountain village style and the occasional haiku and poems make this work like a beautiful travel prose. In short, "The Straw Pillow" is a unique work and well worth reading.

"She Wants to Buy Her Own Flowers" is a companion piece to "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf, a master of the British stream of consciousness and a standard bearer of feminism. It is intertwined with her representative essays and parts of her diaries. It contains both sharp social insights and delicate self-examination, presenting readers with the dual aspects of a thinker and a living person. In this book, Woolf pushes feminism from the external demands of "be rich and have your own room" to the inner revolution of "killing the 'angel in the house'". She not only reminds us to seize the freedom of material and space, but also guides us to face the shackles hidden in our hearts and break away from the shackles of virtue imposed on women by traditional society. She calls on women to gain true freedom and creativity only after cutting off these internalized shackles. The inner spiritual bloody breakthrough of "killing the angel in the house" is a more fundamental and more arduous liberation for women than winning the outer room and money--

This book consists of three clues: a well-known old writer was invited by a publishing house to write a book of opinion called "Warning", which was an opportunity to express social concern; in the community laundry room, he met a charming young woman Anya, and he gave her a job typing his manuscript; Anya's boyfriend Allen is an investment consultant, and he is quite disgusted with Anna wasting time in the antiques downstairs. However, some of the writer's personal affairs aroused his interest, so he began to conceive of a conspiracy... This book is stylistically experimental in nature and was written after the author immigrated to Australia from South Africa.

There is a place near London, isolated from the world, with beautiful scenery, and a small river called the Bride flowing quietly. Brideshead Manor, an ancient mansion built in the mid-to-late 18th century, has experienced silence and long years of care. It is just a house locked in the world and experiencing changes and decline. Sebastian, the "beautiful boy under the tree", and Charles, the "reckless lover", met while studying in Oxford and spent a carefree and heavenly youth together in their lives. Then, Sebastian drifted through the lives of relatives, lovers, and passers-by, brilliant and gorgeous, but disappeared as quickly as soap bubbles; Charles experienced unhappy love one after another, and the quiet and ambiguous false happiness with Julia finally gave way to God's grace, adding a bit of mystery to the book. "The Cloth Garden Revisited - The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder" by Evelyn Waugh is not a love story, but it tells the story of love.

"The Man Who Drinks the Horizon" follows "The Sword and the Spear" as prisoners of war are boarded for Portugal, where they are displayed along the coast and in Lisbon to show the colonial empire's victory. Then Imani and the Gaza royal family were exiled to an island in the Atlantic Ocean, where King Gaza died. Imani returned to Mozambique in his later years and lived there with his children and descendants such as Sergeant Mello.

A collection of masterpieces by William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize, the master of fables in contemporary British literature. It is highly recommended by Stephen King and Luo Xiang. It is a must-read classic literature in the post-epidemic era and an immortal masterpiece that has influenced generations of people. Golding's charming allegorical novel style reveals the master's representative symbolism, formal symmetry and philosophical exploration; the intersection of absurdity and reality, the struggle between light and darkness, tearing apart the fragility of civilization, confronting the evil of human nature, inspiring a large number of literary and artistic works, and the creative source of future generations of practitioners. The inspiration for the movie "A Good Show" and the literary projection of "Battle Royale". A collection of masterpieces by William Golding, the great British novelist of the 20th century. With a genius-like writing structure, Golding leads readers to mourn the lost harmony and unresolved chaos, profoundly revealing the cruel truth of human nature and society, transcending life and death, and questioning good and evil. This set contains a total of five volumes of "Lord of the Flies", "Church Spire", "Pyramid", "Dark Revealed" and "Pincher Martin".

Qingshan Qie's collection of fantasy short stories exposes the dark side of urban life and pokes fun at the tired social life. A modern woman has a long day full of sweat and tears, encountering all kinds of weird things: difficult customers, weird bosses, a mysterious organization that steals my personality even when I drink coffee, and even being entrusted with important tasks by aliens... In this world like a mud ship, if you want to live a serious life, your mood will turn bad.

A young lecturer at a famous medical school, Yusuke Naoe, is academically superb, but suddenly quits his job at the university to work in a little-known private hospital. Because of his cold face and unique personality, he attracted the attention of many women in the hospital. From colleagues to the dean's family and even patients, they all have ambiguous relationships with him... Is it his self-destruction, or is there something else hidden? As X-rays of bones are discovered one after another, the mystery gradually emerges...

This book contains a total of 6 short stories by Akutagawa. "Kappa" tells the story of the Kappa Kingdom through the autobiography of patient No. 23 In the mental hospital, which is both contrary to and similar to human society. Although it is a fictional world, the clever satire and sharp criticism throughout the novel point to reality. On the contrary, it depicts the true and essential side of Japanese society in the 1920s more accurately and vividly than many realist works of the time. In the kappa country, all concepts are mocking people in real society. They understand humans better than they understand themselves. Once you master their unique language and accept their weird thoughts, after leaving this utopia, you will immediately fall into the trouble of extremely disgusting human beings. The protagonist of the story finally returned to the human world, but because he could no longer adapt to human life, he was regarded as a madman.

The story of "Prohibited Property" is very simple, but the ending is very surprising and shocking. Everything seems to be in the author's writing, and in the eyes of the readers, a kind and upright person will definitely get a happy ending, because as a judge, Bobino is an honest judge. Finally, after careful investigation, it was discovered that the courtesan Marquise accused her long-separated husband, the Marquis, of being a lunatic and asked for an injunction. It was a scam. She was moved by the fact that the noble Marquis was in fact, and she held the Marquis's hand tightly and promised that she would never let the Marquis get an injunction. Unexpectedly, when I was writing the report and preparing to submit it, I was called to the office by the president of the court...

1. Books recommended by the Ministry of Education and must-read in the new Chinese language curriculum standards. 2. Mr. Wang Junming, a special teacher in Beijing, was specially invited to write the preface for this series of books, and the famous translator Mr. Li Yumin wrote the foreword. 3. Jointly recommended by many top teachers from famous schools. 4. This series of books selects domestic modern classics, as well as authoritative translations of foreign classics by famous translators such as Song Zhaolin, Li Yumin, Chen Xiaoqing, Gao Gaofu, Luo Xinzhang, Li Huifan, and Zhang Er. Interpret the classics in a comprehensive and simple way, and create high-value reading materials for young people with professional quality. 5. Promote intensive reading of classics and guide young people to return to the essence of reading. 6. It profoundly reveals the nature of money and human nature, and opens the prelude to the "human comedy". It is the product of the perfect combination of realism and romanticism, and has had a profound influence in France.

1. Recommended books by the Ministry of Education, must-reads in the new Chinese language curriculum standard. 2. Specially invited Beijing special teacher Wang Junming to write the preface for this series of books, and the famous translator Li Yumin to write the foreword. 3. Jointly recommended by many special teachers from famous schools. 4. This series of books selects domestic modern classics, as well as authoritative translations of foreign classics by famous translators such as Song Zhaolin, Li Yumin, Chen Xiaoqing, Gao Gaofu, Luo Xinzhang, Li Huifan, Zhang Er, etc. Interpret the classics in an all-round way and create high-value readings for teenagers with professional quality. 5. Promote intensive reading of classics and guide teenagers to return to the essence of reading. 6. "One of the most outstanding pictures" in the "Human Comedy" series by literary master Balzac, exposing the evil of money and the greed of human nature, and successfully creating one of the famous miser images in the history of literature - Grandet.

"Alpe Savaron" tells the story of a young man who graduated from law, Albert Savaron, who fell in love with the Italian princess Francesca Colonna. In order to be able to match his beloved, after more than ten years of hard struggle, he was finally separated by others, abandoned the world and entered a monastery.

Fitzgerald is the most outstanding and popular writer in the United States in the 20th century. 2016 Coincides with the 120th anniversary of the author's birth. Shanghai Translation has launched a new edition of the collection, which is more comprehensive and detailed than Fitzgerald's works in the market. This is the fifth volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. It discloses Fitzgerald's essays and letters for the first time, showing a portrait of the famous writers and literary figures of the Jazz Age. It acutely and accurately summarizes the spirit of the "Jazz Age" and reveals the essence of New York, an international metropolis. "Echoes of the Jazz Age" and "My Lost City" keenly and accurately summarize the spirit of that "Jazz Age". Especially for those of us living in this era, some of the descriptions may even make us feel a little bit sympathetic. Although we have never had the opportunity to experience such an era of shocking wealth, we know very clearly what "young people are exhausted both mentally and physically early - they live a difficult and exhausted life at the age of twenty-one, and no one contributes anything." Something new..." He revealed the essence of New York as a model of a modern cosmopolitan city: "... Behind the vast amount of entertainment that the city pours into the country, there are just many people who are both lost and lonely. The world of movie actors is similar to our own world in that it is in New York, but it is not New York. It has almost no self and no core..."

In 1959, a kind-hearted widow, Florence Green, took her only property and decided to open a bookstore. It was the only bookstore in town. This seemingly unrealistic idea eventually succeeded, but it also aroused the hidden malice of the people in the small town. In order to enrich the daily life of the neighborhood, she offended Madame Gamart, a powerful lady in the town. Florence's warehouse kept leaking, seeping into the cellar, and then the bookstore followed suit. She finally began to wonder: a town without a bookstore might not want one.

"The Pat Hobby Series" contains a total of 17 short stories, all of which were serialized in "Esquire" magazine. The first article, "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish," was published in January 1940, and the last article, "Pat Hobby's College Years," was published in May 1941. The author's language is humorous and satirical, and the work is compact and interesting, microscopically recreating the style of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.

This book contains some of Fitzgerald's letters. Most of these letters are about his literary activities and literary interests. The first part is his letters to his friends, and the second part is his letters to his daughter.

Fitzgerald is the most outstanding and popular writer in the United States in the 20th century. 2016 Coincides with the 120th anniversary of the author's birth. Shanghai Translation has launched a new edition of the collection, which is more comprehensive and detailed than Fitzgerald's works in the market. "Tender Is the Night" is the author's most painstaking autobiographical novel and one of the 100 greatest English works of the 20th century selected by Modern Library. This book is the fourth volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. Actress Rosemary meets the protagonist Dick Diver, a psychiatrist, on the beach in Cannes. His wife Nicole is his past patient and suffers from schizophrenia. He was gentle and courteous, and Rosemary quickly became smitten with him. Although she repeatedly expressed her feelings to him, Dick remained unmoved. After returning to Paris, his loyalty to his wife Nicole seemed unwavering, but in fact he was involuntarily attracted to Rosemary. In order to get rid of his fantasy about Rosemary, Dick began to write a monograph, trying to be as gentle and considerate as possible to Nicole, who had relapsed into hysteria and was still mentally unstable. While on vacation in the Alps, he met his former friend Franz and used part of his wife's considerable fortune to set up a clinic with him. At this time, Nicole received a letter accusing Dick of adultery with a patient. Her condition worsened and she deliberately crashed the car during an outing. Dick was extremely depressed and went on vacation alone to relax. On the way, he met Rosemary by chance, but only realized that their short-lived love was irretrievable. In the end, he drank to drown his sorrows, and his wife left him. He was once the epitome of this romantic era, but in the end he became a self-pitying loser. The novel witnesses the disillusionment of the "Jazz Age" in which Fitzgerald spent most of his life, and to a large extent achieves what the author himself calls "a thorough and painful understanding of life."

A series of self-analytic and self-reflective essays written by Fitzgerald. In 1936, it was divided into three articles and published in the February, March and April issues of Esquire. The opening line reads: Of course all life is a process of breaking down. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940), American novelist and "Poet Laureate" of the Jazz Age, is known as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, represented by "The Great Gatsby". He has written four novels and more than 160 short stories. His works mainly explore themes such as youth, despair and the times.

This book is the eighth volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. It contains the essence of Fitzgerald's short stories. It has been selected as the number one work in textbooks and various anthologies. It is a collection of short stories with highly cited witty sayings. It is recognized as the author's most sonorous and powerful short story collection with the most artistic merit. Phil's third collection of novels, including "The Rich Man", "A Winter's Dream", "Baby Shower", "Absolution", "Pauper Martin Jones and the Prince of Wales", "The Wise Move" and "Gerry's Forty Blinks". "Winter Dreams" can be said to be a prelude or abbreviation of "The Great Gatsby". It uses a sad tone to describe love and marriage that have been distorted by money and material desires. There is a trickle of sadness and sadness flowing between the lines, making people and the author understand and appreciate this dream-like life and chaotic world. "The Rich Young Master" conducted an in-depth analysis of the nature of "very rich people". The discussion about "rich people are completely different from you and me" caused quite a shock in the literary world at that time and became a fashionable topic at the time. "Absolution" describes the fierce conflict between a teenager named Rudolf and a priest named Schwap over moral principles, religious beliefs and the pursuit of beautiful things. "Pauper Martin Jones and the Prince of Wales" uses romantic writing to describe modern women's bold and passionate pursuit of a better life. It is a bizarre and wonderful romantic story of the Jazz Age. "A Wise Move" describes the personal experience of the author and his wife Zelda. It describes the love and marriage of this literary couple in a tearful way, and truly records the author's reflections on his own unique marriage.

The story of "Tender Is the Night" takes place in Europe, but the novel still shows the social life of the "Jazz Age" in the United States. Dick Diver is a young and promising psychiatrist from the American Midwest who conducts pathological research on mental illness in Zurich, Switzerland. He was involved in the treatment of rich girl Nicole Warren, who became mentally ill as a result of incest with her millionaire father. The main content of "Tender Is the Night" introduces strong nostalgia, regret, lost hope, shattered illusions, and split personality. It is a highly autobiographical novel that explores a process of emotional and mental breakdown that is very similar to that experienced by the author.

"The Great Gatsby" is one of the most important works in the history of twentieth-century American literature. It tells the story of Nick, a clerk who left his hometown in the Midwest and came to the East in the spring of 1922, and accidentally lived next door to the rich Gatsby. He found that Gatsby's huge mansion was full of music and music day and night, but he himself was full of thoughts and always stared across the water at the shining green light at night in the residence on the other side - where his first love, Daisy, lived. Gatsby walked a long way to stand on the lawn of this mansion. When he recognized the green light of Daisy's house for the first time, he felt that his dream seemed so close that it was almost impossible not to catch it. He didn't expect that that dream had already been left behind in the boundless chaos behind the city...

"Tales from the Jazz Age" is Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, including a total of eleven short stories. Each chapter has a vivid plot, profound meaning and strong artistic sense. It records and depicts the young generation's dreams, pursuits, love, pain, disappointment, hardship, confusion and other complex life experiences. It reflects the splendor of the dazzling Jazz Age and highly dramatizes the fierce conflicts between modern consciousness and traditional concepts. Some, such as "Camel's Back" and "Rejuvenation", have been adapted into movies by Hollywood.

A landmark classic in the field of feminist literature. Susan Cuba, a well-known feminist scholar and co-author of "The Madwoman in the Attic", provides a 20,000-word introduction. A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928. In 1929, Woolf combined the two speeches into one, entitled "Women and Novel", and published it in the American magazine "Forum". It was later published as a book under the title "A Room of One's Own", which caused a sensation. The style of "Room" is humorous, quirky, and full of quotations. It uses sharp words to interrogate the injustice and oppression of "women" as the second gender in legal and social history, and eloquently puts forward the importance of economic foundation and independent space to women's mental freedom. There is also a wonderful discussion on the idea that "great souls are androgynous". Woolf encouraged women to break the cage in their minds, bravely go to the outside world, cultivate free habits, and create to their heart's content.

"You must have money and a room of your own." Woolf is a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and critic. She has a wide range of genius and a sharp vision, which laid the foundation of modern literature in the twentieth century. The Hogarth Book Company she co-founded with her husband published many avant-garde masterpieces that transcended the times. The most eye-catching among them is her own work. As a dazzling star in the "Bloomsbury literary circle", her talent has been admired by Eliot, Forster, Russell and other famous writers. Her famous line "Have a room of your own" is still a stirring declaration, telling everyone that being yourself is more important than anything else. "Collected Works of Woolf, Volume 1 (Set of 4 volumes)" includes the first four types of the new Shanghai translation of "Collected Works of Woolf": Mrs. Dalloway, the foundational work of stream-of-consciousness novels, "To the Lighthouse", the immortal "Lighthouse" of stream-of-consciousness writing, "Orlando", a shocking work about "The Second Sex" from a literary perspective, and "The Ordinary Reader", a selection of Woolf's literary criticism. This translated version is an authoritative classic and the selection is highly representative. It is the best choice for understanding and reading Woolf.

Woolf's famous work is the foundation of stream-of-consciousness novels. It has many innovations in subject matter, style and writing methods. Woolf created an eternal classic with her keen perception of the moment. "Mrs. Dalloway" was published in 1925 and is known as the foundation of the stream of consciousness novel. The novel describes a day in the life of the heroine Clarissa Dalloway, detailing her preparations for a dinner party held at home. However, what readers see is not just Mrs. Dalloway's activities in a day, but her temperament, her encounters, and her relationship with her family and friends. The characters' memories and the transformation of time and space are intertwined and interpenetrated, falling like raindrops in colorful colors, making us unconsciously empathize with each other, and the picture of Mrs. Dalloway's life is slowly unfolding before our eyes.

Published in 1937, this book was Woolf's last novel published during her lifetime, and it was also her best-selling work during her lifetime. This book tells the history of the Padgett family for more than fifty years, from the unpredictable spring of 1880 to a summer night dance in the 1930s. The personal lives of the characters are placed on the stage, through dialogue and psychological activities, while various historical events serve as the background, looming. Along with the characters in the book, we grow, lose, are moved, regret, endure, and are heartbroken. Completely different from the author's previous novel "The Waves", this book focuses on the description and presentation of reality and deliberately downplays fantasy and poetry. Behind this effort is Woolf's ambition and courage to innovate in her prime years of creation.

Woolf's representative work is also a representative work of stream-of-consciousness writing. It has a profound impact on the history of literature. It uses rich and exquisite literary techniques and is full of artistic color. Mr. Qu Shijing's classic translation. "To the Lighthouse" is a work written by Woolf in 1927. It is a quasi-autobiographical stream-of-consciousness novel that has a profound influence on the history of literature. The novel describes the life of Professor Ramsay's family and a few close friends on vacation on a Scottish island after the First World War. In this novel with a very simple plot, the author explores the meaning of life and the nature of the self, pointing out that it is possible for the self to escape the clutches of the endless passage of time and survive forever despite the threat of death. The light at the top of the lighthouse symbolizes the light of Mrs. Ramsay's soul. This book's use of literary techniques is rich and exquisite. Whether it is psychological description, perspective switching, or stream of consciousness techniques, they are all full of artistic color and are amazing to read.

"Flush is a plush version of Woolf." Woolf's rare humorous work and one of the best-selling works, a warm little book written for "dog lovers", is the best introduction to reading Woolf. Flush is a puppy with a great background. His owner is Elizabeth Barrett (later Mrs. Browning), a legendary woman in the history of English literature. Flush and her went from being in conflict with each other to being inseparable, accompanying her through the years of lingering in bed, and then followed her to elope with Mr. Browning, from the cold and humid England to sunny Italy, and witnessed the happy married life of the two poets. In "Flouch", the author uses humorous writing methods to reproduce the romantic love of the poet couple that transcends time and space by writing a biography of the dog. At the same time, the author also uses a dog's perspective to reflect the social contradictions of the Victorian era and urbanites' yearning for nature and wildness. The author's unique feminist thoughts add an evocative depth to this sketch-like work. Attached is Woolf's famous essay "Remembering a Faithful Friend" in which she fondly recalls her beloved dog.

"The Waves" is Woolf's work at the peak of her creative power and was published in 1931. This poetic 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 an unprecedented and nuanced channel 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 the palace of modern literature. To this day, it still stirs our souls with its exquisite text structure and poetic style.

"Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories" is a collection of early short stories by the famous British female writer Virginia Woolf. In this work, traditional plot and character concepts are abandoned, replaced by a stream-of-consciousness, almost dreamy, experimental narrative. The short length of each novel in this work makes it easier for readers to access the so-called "stream of consciousness" novels.