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Various life stories that unfold through food. Slowly savor the power and meaning of rebirth that each delicacy brings to people. The mother actually called grandma Xiaohua, saying that grandma had returned to the state of a child. Grandma first erased my mother's existence from her memory. Not long after, Mayu was also forgotten by her grandmother. Grandma, who became strange, suddenly remembered the natural shaved ice that looked like Mount Fuji. The boyfriend, who is about to be transferred to Canada, takes his girlfriend to visit an inconspicuous but delicious restaurant that his father frequented during his lifetime. Here he will confess to his girlfriend the most important thing in his life. The couple who were about to divorce decided to arrange a farewell trip, enjoy delicious matsutake dishes together, and go to hot springs separately. ...Food plays a down-to-earth and reliable role in these people's lives. Food is an important emotional nutrient, a comfort that can't bear sadness, an addition to happiness, and a force that supports people to go on bravely.

Gentle and unpretentious, Ogawa Ito tells her daily life in more than 50 essays. She is both a writer and a lifer. Being able to spend every day calmly and peacefully is such a hard-won life. Please remember this rare happiness. There are some burdens to bear in life, some of which cannot be easily told to others, some of which make oneself regretful, and some which make oneself feel guilty. Surviving is by no means a simple matter. Many times it doesn't work out. For a whole day, without deliberately doing anything special, just because of the food, singing, dancing, silence, and talking and laughing, my heart will be filled to the top and extremely happy. Life is slowly managed along these small blessings. Take off the burden on your shoulders and see the scenery that you couldn't see if you were just trying to be brave. Living life as usual is the most powerful resistance to the cruel world.

There must be many things hidden in this world that I can find if I keep looking. Ogawa Ito's words are just right and restrained, implying deep feelings, making people want to seriously cherish every moment of light in life. "If I can harvest grapefruit in my garden in the future, that will be enough to make people cheer. There should be a long, long way to go before that day." Ogawa Ito wrote an essay about his life spanning a year with his usual delicate words. Ogawa Ito's ability to create atmosphere is extremely strong, making people feel that everything is a beautiful fragment of life. Ogawa Ito deconstructs simple daily life, every word and sentence is concise and gentle, full of just the right amount of elegance and affection. No matter which page you turn and which paragraph you read, you will feel beautiful but not excessive. In monotonous days, Ogawa Ito chooses to decorate his life with different rewards. Living every day well is the greatest reward for yourself.

[Best-selling author Ogawa Ito returns with heart-warming following "Camellia Stationery" and "Sands Day at the Lion House"] In spring, feel the warmth from the heart, stand under the blooming cherry blossoms, and be a serious flower viewer. On a hot summer day, the sun shines on the lake, putting peaches into the cool lake water. Thousands of light and shadows soothe people's hearts. In the season of falling leaves, make your favorite pastries with your own hands, stay in the kitchen all day, and enjoy a pleasant cooking time. The breath of winter is coming, brew a pot of hot tea, and use chestnuts in the middle of the night to eliminate all mediocrity and fatigue. The bits and pieces that are repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated constitute life itself. It is in this daily life that I write one story after another and listen to them fall to the ground.

In order to escape from the worries of the world, a painter left the city in early spring and went into the mountains, where he stayed temporarily in a hot spring house called Nagujing. In the middle of the night on the first day of his stay, the painter was awakened by a burst of singing. He stood up and looked around, and saw a woman vaguely appearing in the attic outside the house like a phantom, and then disappeared again. The next day, he got up early and took a bath, wondering whether what he saw and heard last night was a dream, but he saw the "phantom" walking towards him serving tea. It turns out that this graceful "phantom" is the daughter of the master of this family. She appears in front of the artist's eyes like a fairy in the painting, showing a hazy and mysterious beauty. Afterwards, the painter went to a nearby barbershop for a shave. The owner of the barbershop said that the hot spring master's daughter, a girl named Namei, was divorced and had a "crazy" temper, and asked him not to get too close. A young monk who came to the barber shop to have his head shaved retorted that Namei was a very wise adult. The beauty that everyone talks about, the beauty that seems absurd and simple in conversation, has become an otherworldly and "inhuman" existence in the artist's heart. The artist feels that every move she makes is like the person in the painting, and imagines that if he develops feelings for her, can this feeling be called "inhuman"?

"I Am a Cat" is a famous work by Japan's "national writer" Natsume Soseki, which has a profound influence on Japanese literature. The novel adopts humorous, satirical and comical techniques, and from the perspective of a cat, it describes the daily life of its owner Kushamana and his friends, as well as various phenomena in the human world as seen by the cat. This cat is self-righteous, witty, humorous and witty. The author used his words to ridicule the empty spiritual world of the intellectuals in Meiji society, and exposed the snobbish, vulgar, and ferocious nature of Kaneda and other bourgeoisie and their accomplices.

"On Literature" is a famous work by Natsume Soseki, a great modern Japanese writer and national writer. It is the author's lecture notes at the University of Tokyo. It is also the world's first work on literary principles written from the perspective of psychological aesthetics and reader acceptance. It has both textual characteristics and wide influence worldwide. "On Literature" can be said to be a collection of British literary criticism. Starting from social psychology and aesthetics, Natsume Soseki believed that the content of literature consists of "cognitive" elements such as concepts, reason, and impressions (Soseki used F) and emotional elements (Soseki used f), and created the literary formula F+f, thus unfolding his literary view. Many later Japanese writers and scholars spoke highly of "On Literature". They pointed out that such a self-contained tome on literature as "On Literature" was the only one in Europe at that time.

Natsume Soseki's unique and gorgeous work is a long masterpiece of haiku written in a series of beautiful words. It is a confrontation between modernity and classics, and the confrontation between glitz and simplicity. Blooming in silver, and fading in silver. This flower is poppy poppy. In Japan after the Meiji Restoration, amidst the tremendous social changes, the confrontation between tradition and modernity, morality and utilitarianism was extremely fierce. A group of young men and women each chose a different life: the poet Ono was born in poverty, and he was extremely vain and tried to completely change his life by marrying a rich girl; the philosophy graduate Kono was world-weary and pessimistic, and decided to leave the hypocritical family; the beautiful but arrogant rich girl Fujio hoped to get rid of her original engagement and find another good relationship... In the end, these young people met their unexpected but reasonable endings. In the last chapter of the novel, on the silver screen in the deceased Fujio's room, there is a poppy with verdigris stems and red and purple petals, which "blooms in silver and withers in silver", gorgeous but disillusioned. Natsume Soseki took this flower as his title and used it as a metaphor for people. People are "busy making trade-offs between this way of living and that way of living." They are satisfied with the comedy of existence full of frolic, noise, deception, contempt, and trampling, but ignore the great tragedy of life under the decline of morality.

This book collects Natsume Soseki's life in the UK or his works based on British literature and history, including "The Carlyle Museum", "Tower of London", "Phantom Shield" and "Xiaolu Xing". "Carlyle Museum": "It is this face that has been soaking in this bathtub that is about the same height as a radiator, lying on this simple bed for forty years, always complaining about the noise outside." Soseki's travel notes describing Soseki's visit to Thomas Carlyle's former residence. "Tower of London": "The Tower of London is like the focus of dreams in my previous life." This work is written based on Soseki's own experience of actually visiting the Tower of London and his unique vision of fantasy. It incorporates Soseki's views on Western painting. "Phantom Shield": "This is the world in the shield. However, William is the shield." This is a tragic love novel depicting the knights William and Clara in ancient times. William and Clara are like Romeo and Juliet. "The Dew Walk": It is a work with strong British literature. The story is based on the legend of King Arthur and describes the secret love between the legendary Knight of the Round Table Lancelot and Princess Guinevere. The name is quoted from the unknown poet's work "Song of Dew" in the ancient Yuefu ballads of the Han Dynasty in China.

Sanshirō, a young man who went to university in Tokyo from a small place, had three worlds in front of him. The first world is hometown, an old world that although people feel familiar with, no one wants to go back to. In the second world, there are libraries, dim laboratories, and a stable but monotonous campus world. The third world is like a bright spring, with electric lights, silver spoons, bubbly champagne, and outstandingly beautiful women, so close yet seemingly out of reach. A classic that spans a century, it vividly portrays the ignorance and confusion of young people in a small town when they face the dazzling modern city for the first time. A hometown that cannot be returned to, a city that cannot be integrated into, every young man is a lost lamb.

This book contains a total of eleven short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. It is a collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's representative works from different periods. It profoundly shows the game between human nature and desire, the choice of good and evil, and the helplessness of life. Among them, "Hell Transformation" tells the story of a highly skilled painter, Yoshihide, who, in order to pursue the highest realm of art, cruelly sacrificed his daughter to complete a "Hell Transformation" screen that shocked the world. Ryunosuke Akutagawa uses a unique layout to push the protagonist in the article to the extreme situation of life and death test, thereby showing readers the opposition between good and evil and conveying his understanding of human nature.

This collection of novels can be said to be the "original point" of inspiration for Tsunoda Mitsuyo's genius creation. It consists of three short stories about "growth". "Happy Game": Two men and one woman who are neither lovers nor blood related formed a strange but warm "home". Haori and Liren left their "home" one after another to explore the world, but "I" still stubbornly fantasized about continuing to stay in this warm nest... "Carefree Angel": "I" faced an old man, and talked about a man who was wandering in the present. A story between reality and fiction: My mother is seriously ill and hospitalized. "I", my sister and my father fill the emptiness in their hearts with ever-expanding material desires. Life seems to be no longer under their control... "Public Bathroom": "I" is out of tune with the world and refuses to open up to the world. One day, I am cured by a little girl I meet by chance in a public bathroom...

Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, continues to write about the loneliness and struggle of wanderers in foreign lands, perfectly interpreting what is meant by "a hometown that cannot be returned, a foreign country that cannot be integrated". Focusing on the identity crisis encountered by the descendants of immigrants, it reveals the damage caused by ethnocentrism to the human soul and attempts to explore the way out. Attached is the unabridged translation of Gurna's acceptance speech, giving a glimpse into the secrets of growth and writing that span two continents and blend with multiple civilizations. "The Last Gift" is a companion piece to his other novel "In Praise of Silence". The story tells the story of the protagonist, Abbas, who abandoned his wife and children at the age of nineteen due to low self-esteem and suspicion, fled his hometown of Zanzibar, became a sailor, traveled to major ports around the world, and lived a life of no fixed abode. It was not until fifteen years later that he fell in love at first sight with Maryam, a black mixed-race girl who was abandoned after birth in Exeter, England. The two decided to settle in Norwich and start an ordinary life of having children. However, life is not happily ever after. The humble status of British immigrants always haunts the family like a nightmare. And Abbas's silence about Zanzibar has made a pair of children like rootless duckweeds, losing themselves in the issue of identity. Abbas suffered a stroke at the age of sixty-three, and remained sick until his death. During these final years, the distant homeland that he had spent most of his life trying to forget became increasingly clear in his mind, making him dream about it. With the encouragement of his wife, he finally told a tape recorder his complete life story, leaving the last gift of his life to his children.

The masterpiece of Gurner, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize long list and the Los Angeles Times Book Award short list. Revenge and forgiveness, two lonely and cold hearts, two helpless and desperate strangers completed their respective redemptions of blood and tears in Western civilization. Specially included is the unabridged translation of Gurna's award-winning speech, giving a glimpse into the secrets of growth and writing that span two continents and blend with multiple civilizations. "By the Sea" is one of the masterpieces of the 2021 Nobel Prize writer Gurner. It was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize long list and the Los Angeles Times Book Award short list. The novel tells the story of Saleh Omar, a middle-aged man who came to the UK from Zanzibar to seek political asylum at the end of the 20th century. After arriving in the UK, Omar was arranged to live temporarily in a seaside town. Because he used the name of his former hometown enemy Rajeb Sherbon when entering the country, his son Latif actually came to visit him, which triggered the grudges between the two families. Living together in a foreign country that was riddled with hostility, Omar and Latif opened their hearts and recalled the family grudges of the year. The truth gradually emerged and the two finally reached a reconciliation. The novel uses flashbacks, interludes and other methods to explain the reasons why the protagonist Omar left his hometown, which leads to various memories, ranging from family feuds to Zanzibar's colonial independence history. The constant changes in narrative angles, the overlapping of memories and forgetting, form Gurna's unique narrative art. "By the Sea" demonstrates Gulner's deep concern for the situation of refugees, especially those caught between different cultures.

The work of Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer, is a contemporary women's coming-of-age novel comparable to "Jane Eyre". Focusing on identity and racial conflicts, and seeing the big from the small, it presents a vivid picture of the British post-colonial era. The work has skillful narrative skills and a thought-provoking theme. "Dottie" is the third novel in the creative career of the 2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdul Razak Gulna. It is also his only literary work so far with a female protagonist. This work continues the theme of refugees that he has always been concerned about and is good at, accurately depicting the living conditions of African refugees in the UK, focusing on identity and racial conflicts, and showing a vivid picture of the post-colonial era in Britain. Dottie in the story is an African-American woman living in the UK. By recording her interactions with all kinds of people in her life (including relatives, lovers, co-workers, landlords, social workers, teachers, doctors, etc.) - There are both tender mutual comfort and support, as well as profound misunderstandings and betrayals - it vividly outlines the image of a young woman who was born at the bottom of society. In the process of continuous learning, thinking and struggle, she gradually became full-fledged and achieved class crossing. The work's narrative skills are skillful and its themes are thought-provoking. It is a rare and excellent female coming-of-age novel.

The work of 2021 Nobel Prize winner Gurna, a fascinating story about identity, memory and immigration. A tragic song for the dispersed, a "pilgrimage road" for foreigners. Specially included is the unabridged translation of Gurna's award-winning speech. Tanzanian student Dawood came to the UK after experiencing political turmoil in his homeland. For years, he tried to hide his past. But when he meets Catherine, he is determined to tell her about the horrors of his teenage years and the torn feeling of being a "foreigner" in the face of provincialism and racism. Structured as a pilgrimage, "Pilgrim's Way" guides Daoud to immerse himself in the pain and beauty of his past and move forward with a new understanding of his life in exile, a captivating story of identity, memory and migration.

The seventh novel of Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer and shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, is one of the writer's masterpieces, with a clear autobiographical flavor. This poignant and moving love story has successfully created two African female characters belonging to different eras. The portrayal of the characters' psychology is very delicate and highly contagious. The novel "Abandonment" was first published in 2005. It is one of Gurna's masterpieces and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Award. It tells the story of the love tragedy of two generations who cannot tolerate the secular world. The first story takes place in the British colony of Kenya at the end of the 19th century. Martin Pierce, a British writer, traveler and orientalist, was in danger in the desert and was discovered and rescued by a Muslim young man, Hassanali. After being rescued, Pierce came to thank Hassanali and met Hassanali's sister Rihanna. The two fell in love at first sight and came together regardless of colonial and religious restrictions. The second story takes place in Zanzibar and London, England, before and after independence in the mid-20th century, telling the story of two brothers, Amin and Rashid. His brother Amin fell in love with Jamila, a young and beautiful but not well-known local woman - she is the granddaughter of Pierce and Rihanna in the previous story. However, due to the firm opposition of her parents, they were forced to break up. Since then, they have lived with the guilt and regret caused by "abandoning" each other. His younger brother Rashid won a scholarship to study in the UK and "abandoned" his hometown in turmoil.

1V1 Shuang Jiewen (a collection of contemporary novels)~ -- Small theater: Chen Xinyu went out to play and broke his mobile phone. Gu Zheng couldn't get in touch and became anxious. He found Chen Xinyu and a father and son talking and laughing happily in the restaurant of the aquarium. Gu Zheng exuded the aura of death and successfully scared away the father and son. Then, Gu Zheng took Chen Xinyu to buy a mobile phone. That day, they visited many stores and looked at many models of mobile phones. In the end, Gu Zheng chose the most fall-resistant one for Chen Xinyu... -- From now on, every good night he says will be only to you. There is abuse and sweetness, different characters, different love.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Solzhenitsyn triggered a "nuclear explosion" in the literary world and even the entire society with his short stories and novellas. After that, he was restrained by large-scale works, and returned to the short genre after half a century: the novel collection "Apricot Jam" was the last literary work created by the writer in his later years, including eight short stories and one novella. The fate of the characters in the book range from generals to reform-through-labor prisoners, from priests to modern bankers, from engineers to farmers, and their fates are powerfully ground in the millstone of history. Therefore, the grand trajectory of the "red wheel" of history can be completely described in the short story. The writer's innovation in the short story genre was also completed at the same time: the counterpoint melody and "Gemini" structure allow the different fates of one character, or the fate of two unrelated characters, to be contained in one short story at the same time, thus forming a mysterious metaphor for history and prompting readers to feel and reflect more deeply on Russia's harsh fate in the 20th century.

The successful Nathan Zuckerman came to Prague in the mid-1970s. Here he discovered a completely different literary predicament and experienced a series of fantastic and poignant adventures. "Prague Carnival" presents Zuckerman's sojourn life with the exiled artists in the form of a diary, and tells the struggle of these morally bankrupt artists in a totalitarian society: while they indulge themselves in carnival and exile, they are also using their bodies to resist the constraints of their spirits. Philip Roth uses this book to explore the difficult fate and living conditions of intellectuals in harsh political situations, and his writing reveals profound concern and sympathy.

This book collects 12 short stories and short stories by Dickens. Dickens's short stories and novellas, like his novels, embody the great writer's unique creative ideas and aesthetic pursuit of brown literary attainments. At the same time, they profoundly reflect the contradictions of real society and vigorously promote the humanitarian ideas he advocated throughout his life.

Maugham created more than 150 short stories in his life. The more representative short story collections include "A Trembling Leaf", "The Casuarina Tree", "Akin", "People Who Are Home Around the World", etc. His short stories can be divided into three broad categories: "Western stories" set in Europe, "Eastern stories" set in the South Pacific, Southeast Asia and China, and Ashingdon spy stories. These short stories are so witty and ingenious that we can start reading them from any story anytime, anywhere, whether it is a cold winter night alone or a moment sitting on the subway. As soon as you turn the page, you will immediately enter another world. Those oriental-themed stories with a strong "exotic" atmosphere make readers unable to put it down. This book selects twelve representative short stories by Maugham, which are humorous and full of irony.

"Hell Change" contains a total of seventeen short stories and short stories by the Japanese literary giant Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Among them, "Hell Change" and "The Nose" are representative, starting from a unique narrative perspective and narrative structure, they grimly 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. In addition, works represented by "Hell Transformation" express the life tragedy of a lonely person who is "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. All in all, Akutagawa's novels are rich in subject matter and diverse in form. They are good at looking at the past and the present. They are especially good at deconstructing stories and lashing out at human nature from the perspective of Zen philosophy. It is truly a masterpiece, profound and grim.

This book is based on the life of French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. A broker of the British Stock Exchange who lived a stable life suddenly abandoned his wife and children and went to Paris to pursue his ideal of painting. In a foreign country, he not only suffered physically from poverty and hunger, but also endured mental pain in search of expression techniques. After some bizarre encounters, the protagonist finally leaves the civilized world and escapes to the isolated island of Tahiti, where he finds the tranquility of his soul and an atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament. This book triggers people's thinking about breaking away from secular society and finding a spiritual home.

British national writer McEwan's latest novella, When Kafka Encountered "Brexit", is a tribute to "The Metamorphosis"; a bilingual masterpiece, an authentic appreciation of McEwan's elegant and wise writing style; exquisite structure, bold innovation, inheriting the legacy of Jonathan Swift. "Cockroach" is McEwan's latest novella, which describes the magical experience of a cockroach: after crawling from the Houses of Parliament to the Prime Minister's residence, after waking up, the cockroach found that it had occupied the body of Prime Minister Jim Sams, and at the same time became the most powerful man in Britain. As the British Prime Minister, Jim Sams's mission is to realize the will of the people - to implement "reversalism" in the UK and even to promote it around the world. Neither opposition outside the party, dissidents within the party, nor the principles of parliamentary democracy can hinder the new prime minister from completing his mission. In addition to the novel's obvious tribute to Kafka's classic work "The Metamorphosis", McEwan also inherited the mantle of Jonathan Swift and used the ancient form of political satire to express his feelings about the dilemma of Britain's "Brexit" and brought the art form of irony to an unparalleled height. At the same time, this novella, which is exquisitely structured and boldly innovative, still displays typical McEwan wisdom and smooth writing style. The bilingual text in Chinese and English allows readers to appreciate McEwan's elegant and wise words in an original way while appreciating the Chinese translation.

This book vividly describes the disasters caused by the civil war launched by warlords through the various experiences of college student Zeng Bojian who was forcibly raped by warlords. It is a novel describing the melee between warlords.

"Aunt Bei" is a novel written by French writer Balzac in his later years. The story takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The Baron had served as a military auditor and director of munitions in the republican era. Now he was the head of one of the most important departments of the War Department, and was also a counselor of state. He was awarded the second class of the Legion of Honor. The novel describes how, driven by crazy passion that lost his reason and morality, he gradually ruined the reputation of his family and the honor of the army, embarked on the criminal path of speculation, fraud, and embezzled military funds, and finally lost his reputation. Hulot is a very symbolic character. His fall means the end of the glory of the old era and reflects the moral corruption of the entire upper class.

"The Moon and Sixpence" is a masterpiece from Maugham's heyday, based on the life of the French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. The protagonist was originally a securities broker. After reaching middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and gave up everything to live with the indigenous people in Tahiti in the South Pacific. After gaining inspiration, he created many artistic masterpieces. Maugham deeply explored the contradictions and interactions between life and art in his novels, and expressed his thoughts on ideals and reality.

"A Clock Without Hands" is an impressive novel by Carson McCullers. A dying pharmacist, a white judge, his rebellious grandson and two black men live like clocks without hands, frantically searching for themselves. These people, who each have their own privacy, act as bystanders in each other's lives. Their intersection is not because they like each other, but only because of excessive loneliness. Loneliness may be due to the absence of the soul. If there is a soul present, can loneliness be tolerated? There is nothing terrible about losing anything, only losing yourself.

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"My Life" is a collection of Lao She's novels. It includes several very representative short and medium-sized stories by the "humorous novelist" Lao She, such as "This Life", "Crescent Moon", "Soul-Destroying Gun", "Under the Red Flag" and other classics. It reflects the author's work styles in different periods and genres. The language is simple and elegant, both refined and popular, subtle and meaningful. The small characters reflect the big era.

The Borgia family, also translated as the Borgia family, is a noble family from Spain. Since the 15th century, the Borgia family has become prominent in Italy. Especially during the reign of Pope Alexander VI, the Borgia family was quite influential in religion, military, and politics. However, the Borgia family was also famous for greed, murder, debauchery, and incest. Alexander VI had many mistresses. His most famous son, Caesar Borgia, was known as the "Poison Duke" and was a ruthless careerist, the prototype of "The Prince"; his daughter Lucretia was a "beautiful woman" who had three political marriages. According to legend, she had an affair with her brother. The story of the Borgia family has appeared in countless literary and artistic works, such as the American TV series "The Borgias", the game "Assassin's Creed" and so on. This book is the first in Alexandre Dumas's "Famous Crimes" series, detailing the thrilling story of the Borgia family.

"I" was attracted to my classmate Omi. When I was young, this kind of rebellious and maverick boy always fascinated "me". However, people say that in order to be a "whole" person, one must "love" someone. So, "I" began to try to contact the opposite sex, and fell in love with my classmate sister Yuanzi. After putting on the mask, "I" began to coexist with the world cautiously and fearfully. Perhaps, everyone has a mask on their face. Hiding behind a mask, we can be ourselves carefully. But if we wear that mask for a long time, it makes us look disgusting. However, there are so many regrets and conceited thoughts, but only time cannot stop them.

The orphan Pip was raised by his sister since he was a child. He was employed by the noble Havisham and fell in love with her adopted daughter Estella. He wanted to become a "superior". A fugitive whom he kindly rescued when he was young became rich abroad. In order to repay the favor of saving his life, he cleverly arranged for him to go to London to receive a higher education and enter the upper class society. However, fate is not in line with Pip's hope: Estella marries another man, the fugitive is captured, the inheritance is confiscated, and Pip's "Great Expectations" comes to nothing in the blink of an eye. The plot of the entire novel is gripping and touching. The process of hope from birth to disillusionment has aroused the resonance of generations of readers. Many Western critics praise it as Dickens's most outstanding work.

"Wandering" is Lu Xun's second novel collection, which includes a total of eleven novels written from 1924 to 1925. The writing period of "Wandering" coincided with the ebb of the May Fourth Movement, and divisions occurred within the New Culture Movement camp. On the one hand, the author "felt lonely" and "desolate" because he "became a wanderer and could no longer form a formation", while "on the other hand, he summarized past experience, looked for new comrades-in-arms, and deployed new battles." "Wandering", which came out against this background, is more As for his first collection of novels, "The Scream," "Although the technology is better than before, the thoughts seem to be less restrained, but the will to fight is much colder." The new edition of "Wandering" completely includes eleven novels written by Lu Xun from 1924 to 1925, as well as a long postscript written by Mr. Chen Danqing specially for the new edition.

A young master from Tokyo with an upright personality came to teach in a rural middle school. Unexpectedly, everyone in this school, from students to teachers, had ulterior motives and intrigues, playing tricks on the naturally stubborn young master. However, the passionate young man with a sense of justice would not bow his head so easily. He resisted the unspoken rules of the adult world in his own way, and got acquainted with the equally upright math teacher, staged a lively and slightly sad youth drama.

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"".

"The Grapes of Wrath" tells the story of the Yoder family who were impoverished due to drought, economic crisis, and financial and agricultural changes during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and were forced to travel from Oklahoma to California in search of work, land, dignity, and future. They sold everything in their home, drove a dilapidated car, and finally fled to California. However, everything in California was not as beautiful as they imagined...

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.

"Colonel Chabe - Selected Novels and Novels by Balzac" is a collection of Balzac's short stories and short stories, including "The Cat Ball Shop", "Gobusek", "Double Family", "Colonel Chabe", "The Abandoned Woman", "The Atheist at Mass" and "The Privacy of the Princesse de Cardignan".

"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.

At dusk, under the Rashomon Gate, a slave was waiting for the rain to stop. When he was at a loss as to whether his life or death would be decided, he came across an old woman who made a living by pulling out the hair of dead people. The desperate slave became evil and determined to abandon suffering and follow evil. He took off the old woman's clothes and escaped from Rashomon.

Qiuye, a fifty-three-year-old man with a successful career, meets Kiriko, a simple and shy country girl. He taught her elegant dress and conversation, helped her learn to enjoy the joy of life and love, and even helped her have an independent career. Under the careful carving of Qiuye, Wuzi gradually transformed into a charming woman with various styles. However, is the awakened canary still willing to stay in the cage? Finally, the bird with full wings flew into the free sky; and the former bird keeper finally let go after some struggle.

"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 book "Walden" records in detail the writer's daily life and thoughts for two years. He cultivated land next to his cabin, planted in spring and harvested in autumn, and was self-sufficient. He is a son of nature. He admires nature, makes friends with nature, talks with lakes, forests and birds, observes animals and plants in the forest, plays the flute on the boat, fishes by the lake, and writes down his observations and thoughts in the cabin at night. He pursued spiritual life and paid attention to the growth of the soul. He proudly declared: "Everyone is the king of his own kingdom. Compared with this kingdom, the Tsarist Empire is just a humble country, like a small snowball in the ice and snow." Thoreau tells us with his practical actions: Most of the luxuries people pursue, most of the so-called comfort of life, are not only unnecessary, but also a great hindrance to human progress.

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.