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Liu Cixin: All my works are parodies of "2001: A Space Odyssey"! The supreme masterpiece in the history of science fiction literature! In the past 50 years, it has influenced almost all science fiction works of later generations: "Three-Body", "The Wandering Earth", "Interstellar", "Star Wars", "Avatar", "The Matrix", "Gravity", "Arrival", "Alien", "Flying to Space", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Artificial Intelligence", "Terminator", "Contact", "Prometheus"... It was selected into the list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy novels of all time by National Public Radio, "Locus" magazine and the British "Guardian". Selected as one of the top 100 must-read science fiction and fantasy novels selected by American book e-commerce companies! The film adaptation of the same name, directed by Stanley Kubrick, tops all science fiction movie lists! A grand idea about human exploration of space and ourselves! Known as "touching the ceiling of human imagination"! Humanity's imagination of space ends with "2001: A Space Odyssey"! Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein are known as the "Three Giants of 20th Century Science Fiction" and are known as the kings of science fiction. He created more than 100 works in his lifetime, which were translated into more than 40 languages. The total sales volume of his works was more than 100 million copies. Arthur Clark is known as the great space prophet of the 20th century. Many of his predictions about space technology have come true. The orbit of the geostationary satellite was named the "Clarke orbit" because of him. "2001: A Space Odyssey" is Arthur C. Clarke's most famous and recognized masterpiece!

"New Love Louise" describes the love story of the 18th-century aristocratic girl Yuli Datangra and her young tutor and civilian intellectual Saint Pluan. Yu Li's father is an aristocrat with a strong sense of feudal hierarchy and firmly opposes the union of this pair of lovers. At first, Yu Xian listened to his own voice and committed himself to Saint Pluan. Later, he succumbed to his father's will and married de Vollmart, a middle-aged man from the aristocratic class who was well-matched to his family. Saint Pu Luan had to leave Yu Li. After Yu Li got married, she confided to her husband her past love affair with Saint-Pluan. De Volmare showed his trust in them and brought Saint-Pluan to his home. The old lovers spent time together day and night, trying their best to suppress their inner feelings, but they felt deeply painful about it. Later, Yu Li's son accidentally fell into the water, and she threw herself into the lake to save him. The mother and son were rescued, but Yu Li died of illness soon after. Before her death, she wrote a suicide note to Saint Pu Luan, saying that she had sacrificed her life at the cost of her life. "New Love Louise" describes the love story of Yu Li, a noble girl in the 18th century, and her young tutor and civilian intellectual Saint Pu Luan. Yu Li's father is an aristocrat with a strong sense of feudal hierarchy and firmly opposes the union of this pair of lovers. At first, Yu Xian listened to his own voice and committed himself to Saint Pluan. Later, he succumbed to his father's will and married de Vollmart, a middle-aged man from the aristocratic class who was well-matched to his family. Saint Pu Luan had to leave Yu Li. After Yu Li got married, she confided to her husband her past love affair with Saint-Pluan. De Volmare showed his trust in them and brought Saint-Pluan to his home. The old lovers spent time together day and night, trying their best to suppress their inner feelings, but they felt deeply painful about it. Later, Yu Li's son accidentally fell into the water, and she threw herself into the lake to save him.

This book tells the story of Sun Tongkang, a son of a wealthy family, who was chased by thieves on his way to visit his teachers and friends. He suffered several accidents. Fortunately, he was rescued by strangers. He also got a sword, a mirror, a shovel and other items. He bravely fought monsters and monks, and reunited with several other friends from his past life after the disaster. He annihilated the monsters in a Dongting battle, and finally achieved enlightenment and became an immortal. It runs through the lingering love story between Sun Tongkang and his previous wife, the female fairy Sun Yutong. The book's language is concise and gorgeous, and the plot is vivid and bizarre, which reflects the author's extraordinary ability to control language and tell stories.

"One Sunday in June, just after noon, my father wanted to kill my mother..." The book begins with this horrifying scene that happened when the author was twelve years old. The horrific event was never mentioned within the family thereafter, and Elno was forced to deal with her fear and shame alone for the rest of her life. In this book, Anne Ernault offers a powerful reflection on life experience and the power of violent memories with the emotional richness and sharp vision of a literary writer, showing how insights into life can become the driving force for writing.

"Eugénie Grandet" is the representative work of Balzac, the "father of modern French novels". It is included in the "Studies of Customs" and "Scenes of Provincial Life" in his masterpiece "The Human Comedy". It is regarded as "one of the most outstanding pictures" in this monument in the history of world literature. Through a network structure model, Balzac takes the protagonist Grandet's family life as the main line and Eugénie's love tragedy as the core of contradiction, comprehensively showing the French society in the first half of the 19th century, and at the same time describing the diverse and complex characters. In the work, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.

This book is Margaret Atwood's masterpiece novel. It is based on a notorious crime in the 1840s and tells an intricate but poetic story. At first glance, the novel is full of realistic narrative style, but as the plot progresses, the writing style naturally reverses, sex, murder and class conflict are mixed together, and the resin of imagination flows into the gaps of historical events. Through the switching of characters' perspectives, the story achieves a brilliant fragmentation effect. Evil and dignity, tragedy and beauty coexist, and reality and fiction coexist. The most extensive social picture of a specific era unfolds before us.

Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, is known as the "Three Immigrants in the British Literary Circle" along with Naipaul and Rushdie. Kazuo Ishiguro does not have many works, but almost every one of them has won important literary awards: "Shadow on the Mountain" won the Winifred Holby Memorial Award, "The Painter of the Floating World" won the Whitbread Best Novel Award of the Year, "The End of the Day" won the Booker Prize, "No Consolation" won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature and Art, "The Painter of the Floating World", "We Are Orphans" and "Don't Lose or Forget" were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 "for his tremendous emotional power in unearthing the abyss hidden beneath our illusory connections with the world." This set contains all eight of Kazuo Ishiguro's published works: "The End of the Day", "Don't Lose, Don't Forget", "Shadows on the Mountains", "Inconsolable", "The Buried Giant", "The Orphan of Ours", "The Painter of the Floating World" and "Serenade: Five Stories of Music and Dusk".

"A Tale of Two Cities" is an immortal classic in the history of world literature. It tells the social life of France and England during the French Revolution. It describes the corruption and depravity of the aristocratic class, as well as their oppression and persecution of the middle and lower classes. It also describes the surging revolutionary wave positively, witnessing the destruction of an era and the birth of a new era in the bloody massacre.

"The Ghost Writer" is the first in a series of literary adventures by Nathan Zuckerman. The 23-year-old protagonist Nathan Zuckerman has just published a batch of short stories and received an invitation from his most admired writer E. I. Lonoff to visit him at his home in the Berkshire Mountains. There, Nathan met the Lonovs and a female student they adopted, Amy Bellette. He was immediately attracted by Amy's unique charm. But what Nathan didn't expect was that in the process of getting along with his idol, the other person's wife Hope suddenly lost control. During the subsequent stay, Nathan discovered the affair between Lonov and Amy, and was even more shocked by Amy's bizarre experience as the original author of "The Diary of Anne Frank." At the same time, Nathan's past is also slowly unfolded from his own memories, about his growing up experience, and how he had a falling out with his family because of writing novels about Jewish family relatives... The novel uses first-person narrative, intertwined with flashbacks, interludes and other techniques, and is a masterpiece in American literature.

Went to Los Angeles to attend the Chinese and American Writers Conference, and was later invited to visit the United States. When we were leaving Beijing, several leaders from the Chinese Writers Association went to the airport to see us off. When an old poet shook hands with me and said goodbye, he saw that my hair had not been carefully combed, and a lock of it stood on end. He took out a small comb from his pocket and brushed my disobedient hair a few times. I know that the lock of hair that represents my personality and aura will not fall down. He said: "In more than 30 years, you are the first delegation of Chinese writers to officially visit the United States. Together with the translator and secretary, there are exactly 8 people in your delegation. It can be said that the Eight Immortals have crossed the sea."

"Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" describes the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II in a cold way. It writes about eleven kinds of lonely lives. The protagonists are all people who lack security and live unsatisfactory lives: fired white-collar workers in Manhattan office buildings, people with outstanding imaginations A taxi driver, a young man who has been frustrated many times and wants to be a writer, a confused man and woman who are about to get married, an eccentric old teacher, a newly transferred primary school student, a tuberculosis patient, an old and sick wife, a jazz pianist, a frustrated military officer, a retired soldier, etc. Yates's works are all about the ordinary lives of ordinary people, describing the loneliness, loss and despair of ordinary people. He himself once said: "If there is any theme in my works, I think there is only one simple one: people are lonely, no one can escape, and this is their tragedy." As a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-20th century, critics compared him to Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever. In 1962, his first short story collection "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" was published, and was even known as "New York's Dubliners". Yates's works have been praised by the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Washington Post and other media, and four novels have been selected for the "Book of the Month Club". In addition, he also has a large number of writer fans, including many famous writers, such as Kurt Vongunnet and Andre DuBois. His works have also influenced many writers, such as Raymond Carver, and he is known as the "writer's writer".

"Destiny" is a breakthrough transformation in Yates's writing career. The novel focuses on the life dilemma of a down-and-out mother and son. After his parents divorced, Prentiss and his mother depended on each other, but her mother was obsessed with becoming a sculptor. After repeated failures, the lives of mother and son fell into the abyss. Prentiss had to support his mother's emotional support while dealing with the pressure of life. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the army. Prentiss is young, withdrawn and sensitive. The most trivial things in the military camp make him feel shattered and life-threatening. He fully hopes that being a soldier means becoming a hero, but he finds that no matter how hard he works, he always looks like a clown. The war is finally over, but Prentice's life has "no reckoning, no answers, no proof." However, this time Prentiss decided to "run away" as a decision for the future. It is difficult to say whether this is an escape from "destiny" or a compliance with it.

"Cold Spring Harbor" tells the story of two families who unexpectedly meet and become intertwined under the shadow of the times. A broken down car made the young and handsome but confused Evan and the sensitive and delicate Rachel meet and fall in love, which also pulled the shadows of their respective families into a whirlpool. The Shepard family and the Drake family tried to start a life in the seemingly peaceful town of Cold Spring Harbor, but they quietly exposed their inner fantasies and cracks. The tug-of-war between ideals and reality, the alternation of passion and disappointment, along with the slow tide of fate, push everyone to the edge of emotion. With his signature calm style, Yates meticulously presents the process of ordinary post-war American families pursuing happiness but having to face disillusionment, profoundly revealing the endless sadness and tenderness contained in life's trivial daily life and the entanglement of fate.

Richard Yates (1926-1992) was "the great writer of the anxious age." As a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-twentieth century, critics have compared him to Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever. His debut novel "Revolutionary Road" was an immediate success and was nominated for the National Book Award. In 1962, his first short story collection "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" was published, and was even known as "New York's Dubliners".

As the most important representative work of Adam Smith, the "father of modern economics" in the 18th century, this book not only summarizes the experience of capitalist economic development in various countries in the early modern period, criticizes and absorbs the important economic theories of the time, but also provides a systematic theoretical description of the operation process of the entire national economy. It is known as the foundation work of modern economics.

This little story that has been passed down for 2,500 years has cultivated the great wisdom of countless philosophers! In the history of human literature, "Aesop's Fables" is the crystallization of human life wisdom over the past 2,500 years. It uses the animal world to map the real society and uses simple stories to tell the philosophy of life. It has become one of the 100 books that have influenced human culture. 365 Days a year, a fable every day, gain a piece of life wisdom! Great philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all influenced by "Aesop's Fables"! According to Plato, while Socrates was in prison awaiting execution, he attempted to rewrite Aesop's fables in verse. Plato mentioned Aesop several times in his masterpiece "Dialogues". Aristotle was very keen on collecting "Aesop's fables", classifying them into categories and showing them to his disciples. "Aesop's Fables" have eternal value and are beneficial to every generation. --Lin Haiyin (famous Chinese writer, representative work "Old Things in the South of the City") "The Tortoise and the Hare", "The Fox and the Crow" and "The Wolf Is Coming!" These philosophical stories you are familiar with are among them, and they have been passed down for more than 2,000 years!

"Aesop's Fables" is one of the earliest collections of fables and fairy tales in the world. Among them, popular short stories such as "The Tortoise and the Hare", "The Crow Drinking Water" and "The Farmer and the Snake" have always been recognized as the most precious treasure house of human intelligence. His language is concise and concise, his style is approachable, and he is loved by readers all over the world. The great thing about "Aesop's Fables" is that it completely abandons the empty preaching mode and takes us into the magical world of fables, allowing us to gain spiritual enlightenment while appreciating the wonderful stories. Whether they are animals, plants or other creatures written in the book, they all have human thoughts and emotions. The author uses the stories that happened to them to tell us some principles of life.

The four short stories with different styles in the Mitarashi Kyou series written by Shoji Shimada not only challenge the readers' brains, but also reveal the unknown mental journey of the most idiosyncratic detective in history. Why do urinals in restaurant restrooms disappear over and over again? Why was the company's nameplate hit by twelve bullets, and why was there a ghost painting in the building opposite? What are some memorable moments from Mitarai and Ishioka's Christmas? Among Mitarai's memories of Japan, who is the deepest emotion in his heart?

"Water Margin" is one of China's four famous novels. It is a novel describing an ancient peasant uprising. The novel originated from the story of the peasant uprising of 36 people including Song Jiang in the late Northern Song Dynasty. It gradually developed and matured through storytelling, opera and other performance forms in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties; and through the artistic processing of these artists, it was compiled into scripts and dramas and was widely sung among the people. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shi Naian and his student Luo Guanzhong carried out artistic re-creation on the basis of folk tales, scripts and operas, and thus wrote the first Chinese vernacular article novel "Water Margin". The book depicts a number of well-known heroes represented by Song Jiang, Wu Yong, Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong, Wu Song, Li Kui, Sun Erniang, etc. The 108 Liangshan heroes have different origins, experiences and encounters, representing people from different levels of society. They also highlight the general theme of the chaotic government forcing the people to rebel, and reflect the citizens' pursuit of life to resist tyranny and yearn for freedom.

The first question encountered when studying warlords is: What are warlords? If interpreted literally, the word "valve" in warlord is a bit similar to the word "hegemon" we use in daily life, because no matter what role a person is, as long as they are suffixed with this obscure word "valve", they will become domineering. Warlords can be understood as lawless people who rely on force. If we still want to delve deeper into the political connotation of the word "warlord", then without much effort we will find two elements recognized by many pseudo-definitions of warlords. One is to rely exclusively on force, and the other is to segregate local areas. The English word "warlord" perfectly displays these two elements. (WAR refers to military and war, and LORD means land). Whether it is the definition of Western scholars as "anyone who dominates an area based on military strength" (Sheridan), or the authoritative domestic summary of "a military group that relies on self-respect, separatist forces, and forms its own faction" (Cihai), there is no exception.

One rainy day, William made a paper boat for his brother George. The younger brother happily went out to release the boat on the street, but died tragically at the sewer entrance not long after. Subsequently, children continued to disappear or die in the town, but the police's search yielded no results. William's parents were immersed in the grief of losing their son and ignored William. During the summer vacation, the sad and lonely William formed the "Wimp Club" with six children who were not popular in school. The friends discovered that almost all of them had seen a strange guy - "it". "It" changes in many ways, sometimes it is a clown holding a balloon, sometimes it is a giant bird, sometimes it is a whisper in the drainage pipe and gurgling blood... The most constant is that every time "it" appears in Delhi, it takes the lives of dozens of children.

--Do you know where those wild ducks went after the lake froze? The novel tells the story of the big boy Holden's "rebellious" adventure that lasted three days. Holden is unwilling to participate in competitions and does not care about test scores. He hates secular trends and adult hypocrisy. He was more concerned about how the ducks would spend the winter after the park lake froze. He felt out of place and wanted to escape the city and watch the innocent children playing in the wheat fields to prevent them from falling off the cliff. Holden's words and deeds reflect the lonely figure of young people struggling in confusion and stubbornly pursuing the meaning of life. Haruki Murakami: "'The Catcher in the Rye' seriously explores how a person can 'place himself' in this world."

This set is the "Catcher in the Rye" Salinger Collection, covering all works licensed by the Salinger Foundation. "The Catcher in the Rye" If youth needs a Bible, then it can only be a painstaking translation, revision and reprint of "The Catcher in the Rye" by the famous translator Sun Zhongxu. "Nine Stories" Before reading these nine stories, you dare not say you know what a short story is. "In this world, there are still some people who love desperately." "Franny and Zooey": Salinger's reconciliation work. If you are the enemy of the world, it is better to live a good life with the wisdom of God. "Raise the Beams, Carpenters; Seymour: A Biography": Salinger's last watch, I am waiting for the suspension at the end of my life, half awake, half persistent.

"The Female Prisoner" is the fifth volume of the stream-of-consciousness masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time" (or translated "In Search of Lost Time") by Marcel Proust, the main representative of French modernist literature. This edition is a kind of "Collection of Zhou Kexi's Translations". The whole book is a new translation by Mr. Zhou, published in the country for the first time. The novel describes how the hero "imprisoned" his girlfriend Albertina in his home until he woke up one day and found that she had escaped. The two parties in love are strangers to each other, but they are eager to understand each other, resulting in a jealous love. The author makes a vivid analysis of this mentality.

Toru Okada, who resigned from his job at a law firm, lives a peaceful life with his wife Kumiko, a magazine editor. Kumiko suddenly disappeared under the coercion of her brother, Noboru Wataya, a representative of the dark forces who is also a member of the House of Representatives. Afterwards, many strange people appeared around Okada: witches, "conscious prostitutes", girls who accidentally killed their boyfriend in a car accident, veterans, etc. At the same time, many strange things happened. Okada went down to a deep well to meditate and then came out. With the help of a pair of weird mother and son "Nutmeg" and "Cinnamon", he challenged Noboru Wataya, injured him in fantasy, and Kumiko killed him in reality.

"The Owl Takes Off at Dusk" is the longest interview Haruki Murakami has ever given. The question was asked by Mieiko Kawakami, the most popular young female writer of the new generation in Japan, and Haruki Murakami answered. The interview lasted four times and was compiled into a book. The title of the book is based on the famous saying of the great philosopher Hegel, "The owl of Minerva takes off at dusk", and it is released immediately after "The Knight Commander". It tells the story behind the birth of "Knight Leader". At the same time, using the writer's unique and delicate questioning angle, it allows Murakami to reveal many little-known mysteries of his creation, his experiences as a boy, his views on feminism, his world reputation, daily life and even his thoughts after his death. At the time of the interview, Haruki Murakami was writing "Knight Leader", and several major mysteries were about to emerge. This is an interview record that provides the most in-depth analysis of Murakami's world, and is a feast dedicated to thousands of Murakami fans. Kawakami, winner of the Akutagawa Prize and a loyal fan since she was a girl, questioned Murakami about everything. What is the relationship between the knight leader and the idea? How did the metaphor come about? How does it feel to be read by hundreds of thousands of people? The questions that everyone wants to ask but cannot be asked are recorded verbatim and truthfully. A top-notch interview that lasted 11 hours and has a large capacity of 130,000 words.

The imaginative adventure of Haruki Murakami and Mizumaru Anzai will accompany you to deconstruct and reconstruct this ordinary world; they are keenly aware of all the subtlest human perceptions, resorting to words with ease, thoughtful and cunning, as fascinating as the chuckle behind life; weird metaphors, chaotic... Memories and hidden crises peek into an ordinary corner of Murakami's metaphorical world through the tip of his pen; the writing is simple yet interesting, and after reading it you can forget all the troubles in life and laugh out loud in Murakami's humor; every ultra-short story written by Murakami-kun is full of interest. Every time it's like opening a magic box, not knowing what will come out, and my heart is pounding. While my heart was beating, I felt a little weird and funny. --Anxi Water Pills. "Midnight Spider Monkey" is a 36-part short and exquisite novel with strange ideas and humor.

"Life and death are equivalent in a sense." Over 20,000 people rated this work on Douban with an 8-point reputation. It is a gloomy panorama of Japan in the mid-1990s, and the earthquake became a clarion call to wake them up! Following "Underground", Haruki Murakami is another masterpiece that has crossed a milestone, witnessing Haruki Murakami's transition from a personal writer to a socially responsible public intellectual. This is a masterpiece that skillfully combines Murakami Haruki's unique light fairy tale style, literary taste and shocking fantasy. "Children of God All Dance" is a collection of short stories published by Haruki Murakami in 2000. It includes six short stories: "UFO Lands in Kushiro", "Landscape with an Flatiron", "Children of God All Dance", "Trip to Thailand", "Frog Saves Tokyo" and "Honey Pie". The novels are all based on the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake as the background, describing the huge impact of the earthquake on people's spiritual and psychological levels. Under the preset writing framework, Murakami embarked on a series of experimental "challenges": the whole book is written in the third person. The protagonists of the novel did not directly experience the Hanshin Earthquake, but were indirectly connected to the earthquake in different ways. The shaking of the earth caused cracks in people's hearts. Faced with a life that was suddenly disrupted by disasters, people had to face the innate emptiness and nothingness that had been dormant in their hearts for many years... This book reflects the author's deep thinking on life. Different from the previous "deformed characters", the characters in the book are full of realism. It is considered to be Haruki Murakami's transition from an individual writer to an intellectual with a sense of social responsibility.

Haruki Murakami's short story collection includes 6 short stories: "TV Man", "Airplane - Or How He Talked to Himself Like a Poetry", "Folklore of Our Times - The Early Development History of a Highly Developed Capitalist Society", "Gana Kritta", "The Walking Dead" and "Sleep". Some of the works describe "TV people" who are miniaturized copies of normal people and break into private homes and companies; some describe a weird girl who falls in love with a male classmate but does not marry him; some describe a woman who suffered from insomnia for a month but thought her life had expanded by one-third. The stories are all unexpected and reflect the author's outstanding imagination.

Sputnik is the name of the first artificial satellite in history to enter Earth orbit, which means "traveling companion". Sumire, a girl who is addicted to writing, and her fellow musician, Min, a middle-aged beauty who is 17 years older than her, cherish each other. Sumire accepted Min's offer to help manage Min's office, and traveled to Europe with Min as her secretary. However, on the Greek island, Sumire disappeared mysteriously, because she discovered that Min was just a shell, and his soul had been lost in a thrilling night. Their relationship is like a satellite, "meeting by chance, missing each other, and parting forever."

"The Fantasy World of Music by Haruki Murakami" is a collection of essays with the theme of classical music written by Haruki Murakami as a senior music enthusiast. It provides a way of life that uses music to heal life. Murakami, who "would not even have become a novelist without being addicted to music," uses 100 essays in the book to share his collection of 486 classical music records. Through this book, readers can unlock Haruki Murakami's personal playlist, follow Murakami's footsteps, and gain a sense of relaxation and healing from the music.

Every group of people who don't make you feel like you belong is a threat. Maybe, one voice would say, "We're not rejecting them." Another would add, "We just don't want the whole city to become... Like them." Someone would mutter, "Maybe it would be best for him to move, since he doesn't really feel like he belongs here anyway. It would be better for him to go to a big city. It's for his own good. It's not because I reject them. Not at all. But... Well, you know." Maya stayed at home, sitting in front of her computer. She read what the men had said about Benji, and it reminded her of what they had done to her. Everything is just starting from scratch, again, nothing changes.

One late night, the girl rushed into the forest with a double-barreled shotgun, put the muzzle of the gun against a man's forehead, and pulled the trigger. People often say that Bear Town is too inconspicuous. This small town located deep in the forest has no unique natural scenery and has not produced any great people. It seems to be expected that even if Bear Town completely disappears one day, no one will notice it. If there is anything different, it is that their junior ice hockey team is about to participate in the national competition, and they really have the opportunity and ability to win the championship. All the hopes and dreams of the town rest on the shoulders of these teenage boys. The hope that carries the entire town soon turns into a heavy burden, when an act of violence before the semifinals intensifies, and the trauma of a young girl turns the entire town into turmoil. All residents will face the most important choice in their lives.

The novel begins with pharmacy owner Malone being diagnosed with leukemia and ends with his death. Three characters surround Malone: ​​Judge Fox Crane, a former congressman in his 80s, the judge's grandson, Jester, a 17-year-old high school student, and Sherman, a black youth of the same year. Mr. Malone was diagnosed with leukemia, and since then his life has become a clock without hands; Judge Crane is still obsessed with the glorious history of the past South, and even fantasizes about restoring slavery; the judge's grandson Jester intends to find out the cause of his father's death, and the black orphan Sherman is determined to find his biological mother. This series of stories are intertwined. The novel is framed by the symbolic "clock without hands" and revolves around "death", deriving multiple themes about racial discrimination, growth issues, and intergenerational conflicts. McCullers attempted to combine the personal existential crisis of a dying man with the social crisis of the South stemming from racial conflict.

Twelve years ago, a blood-red disaster star burst out from the sky, changing everyone's destiny - evil superpowers appeared for unknown reasons. They plundered and killed brutally, and used their special abilities to force the government to compromise and establish a ruling class headed by superpowers. Violent killings could be seen everywhere. Ordinary humans were terrified and struggled to live their lives. Under the high-pressure rule of the superpowers, they lingered like ants... Twelve years later, "Iron Heart" became a new generation of superpower rulers in Chicago. On the night when "Iron Heart" used superpowers to suppress the city, the young David witnessed "Iron Heart" killing his father, and David was the only survivor of the war. From that moment on, he decided to devote his life to researching how to eliminate these brutal superpowers and declare war on this dark world... One day, the hero will return! The world will see the dawn again!

Iyan Tikh went to attend the 8th Futurology Conference to discuss how to solve various problems faced by mankind. Unexpectedly, he accidentally took hallucinogenic drugs and traveled into a future illusion. The people there have eliminated poverty and disease and live peacefully and happily, but Tihe always feels that something is wrong...

The protagonist Gradgrind is a retired hardware merchant and a believer in utilitarianism. Whether educating his children or conducting social education, he makes people believe in "facts" and regard life as a "cash transaction across the counter." Under his education, his daughter Louisa was forced to marry Bounderby, a capitalist who was thirty years older than her, and suffered mental torture after the marriage; his son Tom was addicted to gambling and actually became a thief and fled overseas. As a factory owner and banker, Bounderby fabricated his life experience and boasted that he was self-made, in order to paralyze the workers, and finally caused everyone to betray their relatives. By portraying two typical characters, Gradgrind and Bounderby, and their family experiences, the author reflects the class relations and social scene in Britain in the 1850s, and makes a profound exposure and criticism of the bourgeoisie.

Wu Yin accidentally came into contact with the glasses industry and has been inseparable from it ever since. She has been framed by glasses for nearly ten years. She opened three stores in three cities. To put it bluntly, opening a store was like fighting a war. She changed positions and fired a cannon, and then she was killed soon after. The store opened and closed, closed and opened again, ups and downs, extremely difficult. She has been working hard in the glasses industry for ten years, and she is the watcher of light. She runs the store with heart and works hard to make money. This is a story about how Wu Yin made a fortune, and it also reveals the little-known secrets of the glasses industry... --Don't abandon, don't give up, always be on the road to renewal--

Cheng Yun failed the college entrance examination and attempted diving, but was rescued by Zhan Fan. From then on, Cheng Yun became a completely different person, and it was actually Princess Yun who had traveled through time. In the eyes of outsiders, she is crazy, stupid and mentally retarded. But in order to be able to return to her own world, she studied hard and learned skills. Only bad at making friends. But there was still someone who walked into her world accidentally. In the end, she gave up the chance to return to her own world and chose to stay for love. What is love?

This book includes: Urban Eye Shadow, Folk Songs and Wolves, Music Hut, Cotton Old Horse, Bad Mood, Snow on the Road, etc.

Her husband, Takanobu Fushi, has a successful career, his wife, Kuniko Fushi, is a virtuous housekeeper, and their family of five, with two daughters and one son, leads a simple and happy life. However, due to an accidental mistake by the anesthesiologist, the family's peaceful life was shattered. Faced with a wife who has fallen into a deep coma and become a vegetative state, faced with a family life that is off track, and faced with the doubtful reasons for the surgery, where should the family go? ... Should we choose to reveal the truth or choose to forgive?

"As She Lays Dying" is Beauvoir's memoir about the relationship between her mother and her daughter. When she received the news that her mother had been injured in a fall, Beauvoir thought it was just an ordinary fracture, but the unexpected discovery of cancer quickly took her mother away within a few weeks. Amidst the endless guilt and sorrow, Beauvoir recorded the last moments between mother and daughter, interspersed with memories of his mother's life and reflections on the relationship between mother and daughter. In Beauvoir's eyes, the mother is humble yet arrogant, strong yet fragile, sacrificing herself for marriage and family, yet unable to give up her control and invasion of her daughter. She once hated and feared her mother, but now facing this dying old woman in the hospital bed, her heart was filled with compassion and deep love. In this book, she rarely reveals her soft core, but her perspective is still sharp. Through her personal experience, her reflections on social issues such as women's status and end-of-life ethics are also thought-provoking. Through this work full of pain, tenderness, regret and contradiction, Beauvoir will lead us to re-understand the meaning of aging, death, life and love.

"The Guest" is Beauvoir's first novel. When Beauvoir felt helpless in literary creation, Sartre asked her why she didn't write herself into her works. So she was inspired to create "The Female Guest". In the novel, she writes not only about herself, but also about her lifelong partner Sartre, and their friend Olga. Once this book was published, it attracted widespread attention and comments, establishing Beauvoir's position in the French literary world. Beauvoir spent her whole life practicing the model of lovers described in it, and was criticized for it.

The never-before-published novel manuscript of Beauvoir, the author of "The Second Sex", has been released for the first time. It is based on Zaza, her best friend from childhood, and commemorates the unforgettable friendship in her life. When Sylvie was nine years old, she met Andrea, a girl of the same age, for the first time. She had never seen such a cool girl. Unlike the obedient "good student" Sylvie, Andrei is smart but rebellious and treats everything aloof. She had suffered horrific burns and bore the marks of fire. She stabbed herself with an ax in order to refuse to attend social events. They became inseparable. This feeling is intense and deep into the soul. Starting from defying the school order, the well-behaved Sylvie moved towards freedom step by step; Andre, who was born unruly, struggled step by step under the constraints of family and etiquette, and gradually became a trapped beast.

When "Should Sade Be Burned" was first published in France, it was titled "On Privilege", which included "Should Sade Be Burned" and "Merleau-Ponty and the Pseudo-Sartre Doctrine". It was later republished under the title "Should Sade Be Burned". Sade was an 18th-century French erotica writer, and the term Sadism comes from his name. Some people believe that he is a sexual evil, advocating the indulgence of instinct, and is unforgivable. Others see him as a warrior who encourages people to achieve complete liberation through the gratification of various forms of desire. His works were banned in France, and he was not rehabilitated until the beginning of the 20th century. He was a pioneer of "cursed writers". Beauvoir's angle is very special. Her book is called "Theory of Privilege". It starts from the privileged class's understanding of their situation, taking the old aristocracy as an example: the aristocrats defended their rights without considering the rationality of these rights. Sade was born into a noble family, but he had the courage to take on his own uniqueness and violate the moral standards followed by the nobles. In the most straightforward way, he demanded that his own pleasure be the law. Although he failed in the end, his flamboyant behavior revealed that the egoism of the privileged class could only be wishful thinking and could not give itself legitimacy in the eyes of everyone. The second article "Merleau-Ponty and the Pseudo-Sartre Doctrine" is also written from the perspective of the privileged class. In the French environment of the 1950s and 1960s, some intellectuals stood on the side of interests, tried to confuse the general interests with the interests of the bourgeoisie, and had a debate with Sartre. Beauvoir defended Sartre and wrote this article.

This book is Beauvoir's debut novel and is also regarded as an autobiographical documentary novel. Pierre and Françoise are a couple who invite young Xavier into their relationship. The elegant Françoise, the young Xavier, and Pierre, who loves these two women, try to establish a harmonious trio between the three. "Three people who try their best to love each other are more colorful..." But the trio evolved into a "love triangle", full of jealousy, and hidden suspicion and absurdity everywhere. Françoise, who had been tortured for defending Xavier, finally made a decision. Beauvoir spent her whole life practicing the model of lovers described in it, and was criticized for it. In this book, Beauvoir explores a philosophical dilemma that has troubled her since the 1920s: the opposition between self and other.

This book is a collection of short stories published by Beauvoir in 1967. Among Beauvoir's published essays, novels, autobiographies and letters, it belongs to her later creation. The three short stories collected all have women as the protagonists, which can be said to be the three types of women's experiences in modern society. Among them, "The Age of Sensible" tells the story of middle-aged professional women's dissatisfaction and anxiety about themselves, their husbands, and their son's marriage and career prospects; "Monologue" is the whole story of a single mother, and underneath the neurotic words is the pain of her little daughter's suicide; "Exhausted Woman" uses the form of a diary to show the psychological journey of a housewife coping with her husband's extramarital affair. Beauvoir depicts three women in crisis: one considers herself a good mother and tries to control everything; one is full of resentment and worry about her family and children; one is abandoned by her husband and is at a loss as to what to do.

"The Witches of Salem" is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller, the famous playwright known as "the conscience of American drama". It won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1953. The famous French writer Jean-Paul Sartre adapted it into a movie in 1957. The story is based on a persecution case that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, North America in 1692. A "witch" appears in a town shrouded by Puritanism. Pastor Barris invites "exorcists" from neighboring parishes to assist in the investigation. In order to protect themselves, people began to doubt, expose and even frame each other, which then triggered a butterfly effect. The girls' forest dance eventually turned the town into purgatory. The hero Proctor was framed, but he was unwilling to betray his friends and soul in exchange for a humiliating existence. Using history as a metaphor for the present, Miller perfectly presents a fable about the conflict between good and evil and evil in human nature, revealing the cruelty and ruthlessness of powerful forces, the evil of blind obedience of the mob and the collapse of moral beliefs, and people's choices when disaster strikes. There is the deepest abyss in human nature, but also the most dazzling glory of human nature.

"All My Sons" is Arthur Miller's famous work. It was an instant success after being staged in 1947 and ran for 328 performances. The script tells the story of factory owner Joe Keller who sold cracked cylinder heads to the Army Air Forces during World War II, causing twenty-one plane crashes. At that time, Joe's son Larry was fighting in the war. After hearing the news from the newspaper, he felt ashamed to see others, so he deliberately crashed his plane and committed suicide during the mission. Before he died, he wrote a letter to his girlfriend Ann. When Joe was under investigation, he blamed his partner Steve Deaver. Deaver was imprisoned because of this, and even his daughter Ann and son George were convinced of this, and they ignored their father in prison from then on. Three years later, Larry's brother Chris planned to marry Ann. However, Joe's wife Kate insists that Larry is still alive, and she is counting on Ann to wait as long as she does for Larry to return. At this time, George brought shocking news. He learned from his father that Joe was the culprit. Therefore, he firmly opposed the marriage between Ann and Chris. Chris heard the truth from the conversation between Joe and Kate, and angrily accused Joe of killing his brothers. Joe thought he did it for his family. Ann was forced to tell the truth about Larry's death. Keller finally realized that he had made a big mistake by sacrificing his big family for his small family, killing twenty-one pilots. Finally, he finally said "They are all my sons" and shot himself.