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In the literary history of France and the world, Maupassant, a 19th-century French writer, is not only famous for his novels, but also for his short and medium-sized novels, with more than 300 pieces in total, and is known as the "King of Short Stories". "The Complete Collection of Maupassant's Novellas and Short Stories" consists of five volumes. These short and medium-sized novels reflect the breadth of materials, covering all aspects of French social life at that time, allowing readers to have a glimpse of the master's superb artistic skills.

"Rashomon" collects many short stories by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, represented by "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Forest". It uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying Akutagawa's feelings. Ryunosuke's helplessness and despair towards human nature also shows that in a one-dimensional society, people living in it have become one-dimensional people. Such people have lost their freedom and creativity and no longer imagine or pursue another life different from real life.

"The Last Night on Earth" consists of fourteen stories. The protagonist of most of the stories is B: a Chilean exile who wanders aimlessly in South America and Europe. It connects the stories of other people of his generation. Almost all of them are a generation of people who have been disillusioned in their exile life, struggling on the edge and trapped in nightmares. These people are like in a dream, constantly changing their images, names or backgrounds in different stories. Critics generally believe that Bolaño's proficiency in short stories is comparable to that of Kafka and Borges.

Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, the genius writer who brought Japanese literature into the top position in the world literary world, and the god of young literary and artistic people - Mishima Yukio's extreme writing trilogy: the extremely beautiful "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", the extremely pure "Chao Sao", and the extremely loving "Hunger of Love". The latest fine proofreading of the authoritative Chinese translation, the first to be upgraded in 2021, a collector's edition with purple illustrations and hardcover illustrations. "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion": The ultimate beauty is destruction. The pinnacle of Mishima's aesthetics, a benchmark classic novel that is both perfect and original. Anyone can easily feel ashamed when facing the beauty of the Golden Temple. Mizoguchi, a young monk who stutters, is particularly sensitive. Mishima follows Mizoguchi's story, showing one by one the joy, awe, surrender, rebellion, hatred, and even desperate behaviors of defective people in response to "ultimate beauty". It logically completes the functional reversal of "ultimate beauty" from pleasing people to suppressing people. It is shocking to see a young man's relaxed aesthetic activity turn into a tragedy of fighting for his life. This shocking work pushed Japanese literature to a more prominent position in the world literary world upon its debut, and later became a benchmark literary classic that is both perfect and original. "Chao Sao": Only pure love can make the body pure. Mishima's unique work "against himself". 1954 Xinchaoshe Literary Award. Mishima said: "I want to write something that is completely opposite to myself." He changed the tragic concept that all characters have a dark side, and love and beauty to the extreme will inevitably turn into violence and death, and set pure characters and pure love in an Eden-like environment. Only pure love can make the body pure, and thus determine the human body to have the highest aesthetic value. He blended Japanese and Greek classical aesthetics to write this pastoral novel of pure love that can make people feel happy. As soon as the novel was published, it triggered a "name-changing craze". Thousands of Japanese girls changed their names to the name of the character in the novel - Hatsue. "Hunger of Love": If love cannot eliminate loneliness, it will eliminate the lover. A perfect work of Mishima narrative. After the death of Etsuko's husband, she relied on her father-in-law's manor to survive. She seeks a sense of security from her ambiguous relationship with her father-in-law, and longs for pure and dynamic love from the young hired worker Saburo. Etsuko's hunger for love cannot be satisfied after all, and that's because her intimate relationships are established in a twisted way. Many times I try to eliminate loneliness with love, but I end up getting even more lonely. With astonishing insight, Mishima once again exposed the tragic truth of modern people's spiritual level to our eyes with his "extreme writing". The overall structure of "The Hunger of Love" maintains the rigorous pattern of Japanese classical tradition. It is meticulous and exquisite, and the changes in time and space are neatly superimposed. It was highly praised by critics and praised as "the most rigorous work among Yukio Mishima's works."

"The Catcher in the Rye": one of the top 100 novels of the 20th century, selected into the reading lists of many prestigious schools around the world and selected as the Book of the Century by the New York Public Library, with a cumulative global sales of 70 million copies. Hemingway, Nabokov, John Updike, Beckett, Su Tong, Mai Jia, Zheng Yuanjie, Bei Dao... A masterpiece in the hearts of generations of literary and art masters. Salinger resurrected Holden, who had disappeared on the battlefield in previous works, and recounted his various adventures during his three-day urban wandering after dropping out of school. The language of the novel is plain and restrained; Salinger uses dual characters, metaphors, intertextuality, puns... To explore the steep cliffs and dark paths between one's self and the world, innocence and maturity, life and death; and presents a sincere requiem for all that has passed. "Nine Stories": Before reading these nine stories, you dare not say you know what a short story is. "The Catcher in the Rye" is Salinger's only short story collection, included in the "Western Canon" as a writing model. The nine stories twist, complement each other, and reflect Salinger's beloved Glass family like a prism. "Franny and Zooey": Following "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Nine Stories", Salinger continues to write songs of innocence and tenderness. This book is composed of two mutually related novels, "Franny" and "Zooey". Pushing the conflicting sense of self-existence in "The Catcher in the Rye" and the discussion of spiritual salvation to a deeper level. The novel relies on exquisite dialogue to advance, is full of metaphors, turns a thousand times, and is hearty. The beautiful sister Franny is like the "female version of Holden", extremely confused and on the verge of suffocation; the brother Zooey uses words full of inspiration and humor to rescue his sister from the shell of autism. This is also a story about love and the expression of love. "Raise the Beams, Carpenters; Seymour: A Biography": "The Catcher in the Rye" Salinger's last published work before his death, a book of comfort dedicated to wanderers trapped at a spiritual crossroads. It is a powerful supplement to "Nine Stories" and "Francny and Zooey", deciphering the events of Seymour's life and death, and carving out a group portrait of the "Glass Family". It is also a book of comfort for wanderers trapped at a spiritual crossroads: the confrontation with absurd reality may make people crazy, but the penetrating poetic world in our hearts will never die.

"Gulna Collection·Volume 1" contains five important works by Abdulrazaq Gulna, a Tanzanian British writer and winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. As a writer who has long paid attention to groups living in cultural mezzanines, Gurner draws from his own immigrant experience and has insights into many important issues such as identity, ethnic conflict, and historical writing in his works. The five novels included in this set include "Paradise", "In Praise of Silence", "By the Sea", "The Last Gift" and "Afterlife". The creation time extends from the 1990s to the present. The living conditions in the post-colonial era shown in them are considered to have important social reality significance.

"Selected Novels of O. Henry" selects dozens of O. Henry's representative short stories such as "The Gift of the Magi", "The Cop and the Hymn", "Twenty Years Later", "Children in the Jungle", "The Drunkard's Will" and "The Double Liar". O. Henry's novels show ironic compassion, unique humor and never-guessed endings. O. Henry's works can give you an unexpected ending every time, leaving you stunned and leaving you alone to think, cry and smile alone.

Colm Tóibín's first collection of short stories focuses on the eternal human topic of the "mother-son" relationship, telling various stories arising from this complex relationship from different perspectives. Each of the nine short stories centers on the relationship between mother and son, capturing a transformative moment. At that moment, the delicate balance between mother and son is broken, or their understanding of each other changes. A man buried his mother and washed away the sorrow in his heart with a night of indulgence; a famous singer conquered the audience, but could not please the son present who had not seen him for many years. And in "The Long Winter," the last and best story in the book, a young man searches for his runaway mother in the snow-covered mountains. Tóibín meticulously, elegantly and fluently depicts men and women of all stripes who are trapped by convention, subject to unspeakable emotions and unable to escape the shadows of the past. Many people are helplessly stuck in the quagmire of life with no other choice. Through these stories, Tobin accurately demonstrates human fragility and longing, which is shocking and unforgettable. Everyone can gain spiritual comfort, inspiration, and courage to face life from reading these short stories.

"Major General Nogi's Mother" is a classic collection of novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aestheticism. It includes "Major General Nogi's Mother", "Fumiko's Feet", "Blue Flower", "On the Road", "A Lock of Hair" and other representative short stories and short stories. Among them, the famous story of the same name "The Mother of Major General Nogikan" was written in 1949. It is based on classic ancient books such as "The Tale of Genji", "The Tale of the Past" and "The Tale of Yamato". It weaves a magnificent legend of the Heian period with a strong classical flavor. It was highly praised by Japanese literary critics as "the synthesis and the highest crystallization of all Tanizaki's elements". Talking about this article, Tanizaki said, "I hope not to offend the dignity of historical facts as much as possible, and at the same time fill in the shortcomings of the record, so as to expand my own world." The world of Tanizaki's novels is full of absurdity and weirdness, seeking beauty in ugliness, affirming goodness in praise, and thinking about the meaning of survival in death. Whether it is the world of beautiful snow that expresses his demonic "ugliness as beauty" or the oriental culture that pursues Japanese classical traditional beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki's works are permeated with a strong sense of human emotions and psychology. Yukio Mishima once evaluated Tanizaki Junichiro's works as "the peonies blooming brilliantly against the gloomy background of naturalistic literature".

The short story collection "Moments of Existence - Woolf's Short Stories" (originally titled "The House of Ghosts and Other Short Stories") was carefully selected by her husband Leonard Woolf to fulfill her last wish after Virginia Woolf committed suicide. The book contains 18 short stories written by Woolf in different periods, including "The Spot on the Wall", "The New Dress", "The Moment of Existence", etc.

Mishima Yukio's third collection of self-selected short stories before his suicide was published for the first time in China. It is a confession of an anti-era alien isolated in the modern jungle world. "Martyrdom" is Mishima Yukio's third self-selected short story collection before his suicide. The short works included in the collection symbolically depict the central theme of Mishima's literature - the relationship between the yearning for the Roman ideal world and the everyday world - through anti-era protagonists, and seek the meaning of modern "noble race exile" (people with noble blood are teased by fate and exiled) and alien isolation.

"Rashomon" 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.

George and Lennie are wandering workers with no fixed abode. Lennie is born with supernatural powers but has the mind of a child and often gets into trouble; George always helps him clean up his messes. The two men trust each other and depend on each other. They long for their own land to grow vegetables, raise pigs, and raise Lennie's beloved rabbits, where no one will ever fire them. But life always goes against expectations. Lenny's trouble again shattered the dream of the two people, and the beautiful life they longed for completely came to nothing... The little people living at the bottom of society pursue their dreams like innocent children, but when their dreams dry up, they run away like mice. No matter humans or mice, they cannot escape the unpredictable fate. As the title of the book implies: "Of mice and men alike, the best intentions often come to nothing."

Richard Yates (1926-1992) was "the great writer of the age of anxiety". As a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-twentieth century, critics have compared him to Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever. "The Liar in Love" is another masterpiece of Yates' short stories after "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness", which perfectly demonstrates the author's keen insight and descriptive power. This book contains a total of 7 short stories. Yates, who is good at writing about "failed life", relies on his keen mind and unique perspective of observation, like a collage art, to present the "little people" and their life fragments in the United States in front of us in three dimensions: failed artists, single-parent families with difficult lives, estranged family relationships, estranged marriages, rebellious daughters, fleeting love affairs, unreliable dreams...

In the literary history of France and the world, Maupassant, a 19th-century French writer, is not only famous for his novels, but also for his short and medium-sized novels, with more than 300 pieces in total, and is known as the "King of Short Stories". "The Complete Collection of Maupassant's Novellas and Short Stories" consists of five volumes. These short and medium-sized novels reflect the breadth of materials, covering all aspects of French social life at that time, allowing readers to have a glimpse of the master's superb artistic skills. The third volume includes the following 4 short story collections: "Mr. Balan", "Tuva", "Little Rock" and "Ola". Published from 1885 to 1887. Maupassant's novel style has become increasingly mature. The most famous of them is "Orla". At that time, Maupassant was troubled by various fantasies due to his illness, so this short story has a unique imagination and free rein.

This article is a collection of Chekhov's classic short stories and short stories. Most of Chekhov's short stories are excerpts from daily life. He is good at discovering people and things of typical significance from daily life, revealing the truth of life in ordinary stories, and revealing some major social problems in the depiction of ordinary trivial matters, making his works simple and as real and natural as real life.

This book contains a total of 31 short stories and short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thereby showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of human nature. The plot of this work is simple and the language is concise. Although it is a historical novel based on old themes, it is endowed with a certain meaning and describes the people at the bottom of society who are tenaciously struggling to survive. It is not a historical novel in a simple sense. We cannot judge whether everyone's choice is absolutely right or wrong. We should treat the choice of survival and human nature rationally. Everyone may have been to Rashomon. The whole book depicts the contradictory relationship between survival and human nature, and each novel is thought-provoking.

"I" accidentally got acquainted with a "sir" who was noble and well-educated. During the interaction, "I" was deeply attracted by his aloof character and the mysterious past behind him. Later, "I" received a long letter from "Mr." In the letter, the husband recounted the past: When they were in college, "the husband" and his best friend K fell in love with the landlord's daughter at the same time. In order to get her, "Mr." Forced K to commit suicide. Although he finally got the beauty he wanted, he has been condemned by his conscience for many years...

This book is an early novel by Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. An old white girl living with her father in South Africa discovers something she hates - her father is having an inappropriate relationship with a young woman of color. She kept constructing fantasies in her mind that included getting rid of both of them, but in reality, everything revealed that the old girl herself wanted to have an affair with the family servant. This book is written in a stream-of-consciousness style, and the story it tells has no clear ending. Readers can only look for clues from the heroine's notes. The inner monologue of women blends harmoniously with the natural environment of the African land, making people extremely entangled but unable to stop.

Provocative and extraordinarily forward-looking, this book explores the changing role of marriage and sexual ethics and boldly proposes a new morality shaped by the dramatic social changes of the early 20th century.

In this collection of essays, Russell explores the social and political impact of his beliefs with characteristic clarity and humor. In Praise of Idleness is a masterpiece that only Bertrand Russell could have done.

This book mainly briefly describes a large lake called Liuhu near Ailao Mountain on the lower reaches of Panjiang River in southern Yunnan. Here, Zhao Lin and Long Qiaogu, who were anonymous, came out of the world for various reasons. Later, they returned to Liuhu and got married. They went to the mountains to practice with Wang Jin, and all three of them became Sanxian.

This book is the representative work of the owner of Huanzhu Tower, and is as famous as "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman". It focuses on describing the martial arts stories of Luo Lu, Qiu Yuan, Yu Nanqi, Di Shengnan, Di Wubao, Ji Yi, Lu Linggu, Yang Yong, Yang Yingxue, Ji Deng, Tao Jun, Yang Yi, Chen Taizhen, Hu Yanxian, You Huang, Fang Huan, Siming, Tu Lei, Yan Hu and other nineteen disciples of Qingcheng Sword Immortal in the early Qing Dynasty.

At this time, in the early years of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, the Yellow River was full of rapids, turbulent waves, and overwhelming water power, and the bottom layer was full of floating sand, making it impossible to build a bridge. Only during the consecration period of the tower top and the two major floods a year did the local gentry and merchants raise funds to hire seven large wooden rafts, linked with iron chains, to build a temporary pontoon bridge to ferry people. On weekdays, we rely on flat-bottomed square-headed ferries unique to the Yellow River. The river is wide and the waves are strong, and the boat is crossing diagonally. It takes at least more than an hour to cross the river. When the wind is not favorable, it may even flow diagonally for twenty or thirty miles, and it takes half a day to reach the shore. Another misfortune happened when a sudden arch of silt at the bottom of the river blocked the boat, making it impossible to come or go, sometimes delaying it for several days. The river is difficult to cross, and there are many supernatural sights in the Yellow River. Originally, everyone on the boat was superstitious, and the ferry was opposite the White Pagoda, so the legends became more and more popular.

"Millions of Pounds" helps you establish a correct view of money: make money steadily and spend money generously! In the history of human literature, Mark Twain is the leader of critical realism. He uses humor to gain insight into the nature of the world, uses satire to analyze complex human nature, and uses sharp writing as a weapon to criticize various phenomena in material society. "Millions of Pounds" exaggerates the different attitudes of different characters when facing money and reflects the true human nature in the face of money. It is considered to be the masterpiece of Mark Twain's short story collection. "Millions of Pounds" was selected as the recommended reading book for the new curriculum standard! Selected into the recommended reading list of "Chinese Language" compiled by the Ministry of Education! Mark Twain created truly native American literature and is known as the "Father of American Literature." A selection of 16 masterpieces of Mark Twain's short stories! Including the popular "Million Pounds" and "Running for Governor"! The New York Times praised Mark Twain as America's leading humor novelist! Brand new translation, not a word has been deleted! How can a pauper with a million-pound check live in London for a month? Is this check a piece of waste paper, or is it the fulcrum that can move everything forward?

"My Purple Scented Novel" tells the story of two writers, Jocelyn Tabet and Parker Sparrow, and reveals some of the dark sides of the literary world and the publishing world. From the first-person perspective of Parker Sparrow, the novel tells the story of two good friends who are obsessed with literature and started their careers at the same time, but their development trajectories are completely different: after Tabat accidentally became famous by writing scripts, his literary path became smoother and smoother, and he became a national writer in his middle age. Sparrow, who had published works in magazines before him, published several novels but was always depressed, until one time Sparrow accidentally read the first draft of a novel at Tabat's house. Under an uncontrollable impulse, Sparrow made a move that changed the fate of the two of them.

"Son of God" is Cormac McCarthy's third novel. It writes about murders and mysterious nature in a calm and everyday style, with concise and rough short sentences interlaced with long and weird sentences. It has a strong "Southern Gothic" atmosphere and dark romanticism. Under McCarthy's God-like indifferent yet compassionate gaze, the lonely life of young Ballard is like a cruel and moving wilderness epic, which the exiles sing silently over and over again. In 2013, the film of the same name adapted and directed by James Franco was released in Italy and was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 70th Venice Film Festival.

"Shadows on Distant Mountains" is Kazuo Ishiguro's debut novel, a masterpiece that is still being reprinted more than 30 years after its publication. The fusion and balance of "sentimentality and irony" are still memorable. The novel tells a memory full of mist, both real and illusory. After the war, a suffering mother and daughter in Nagasaki yearned for stability and rebirth, but they could never escape the shadows and inner demons brought about by the war. In the end, the mother and daughter successfully immigrated, and the daughter committed suicide as a tragic ending. At the end of the play, the remembrancer peels off his disguise, and the story is full of tragedy. The bilingual version of "Shadows of Distant Mountains" comes with the original text of the work, allowing readers to appreciate Ishiguro's exquisite and beautiful original English text at the same time, and enjoy double beauty.

"The Rachel Papers" is Amis's famous work. After the novel was published, it won the Maugham Literary Award in one fell swoop, making the novelist who was only 24 years old a blockbuster. In this novel, the protagonist Charles Heway, like young Amis, is a smart and sensitive literary youth. He is full of great literary ambitions and tries to record the "bad" years that have just passed away - his seduction of the girl Rachel - through memories and imagination. This literary youth image is not only the predecessor of many "bad boy" images in Amis's works, but also a seminal figure in the history of British literature. "The Rachel Files" is a youthful rhapsody full of humor and banter, and it is also a gloomy and surly youth "sacrifice song". Once published, it caused great concern and sensation.

This book is Nabokov's third novel. It tells the story of a chess genius who gradually became insane due to his long-term addiction to the game. The protagonist Luzhin was an unattractive, withdrawn and melancholic child when he was a child. He was like a mystery to his parents and the object of ridicule by his classmates. Real life always made him anxious, so he used chess as a refuge from real life. It turned out that he was a chess genius and became a chess master. However, he also paid a price for this: the game of chess gradually replaced his real life. In one game, his carefully designed defensive strategy became worthless due to the opponent's unexpected move. This reality made his mental world finally collapse.

The story of "Saturday" takes place on Saturday, February 15, 2003. The protagonist of the story, Henri Perroin, is a successful man - a famous neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and has a harmonious relationship with his grown-up children. However, the situation in the world he lives in makes him worried - the war in Iraq is approaching, and the general gloom and pessimism are spreading from New York and Washington... On Saturday morning, Perroian passed through the thousands of anti-war demonstrations that filled the streets of London and rushed to play squash with the anesthesiologist. In a minor incident, he had a minor run-in with a thug named Baxter. Perroian relied on his professional sensitivity to see that this guy had a brain malfunction - he had encountered a mental patient. He wanted to get rid of Baxter as soon as possible, but he didn't know that Saturday's troubles would start from here and get out of control...

In Enniscorthy, a small town in southeastern Ireland, housewife Nora Webster was widowed in middle age and had to raise four children by herself and was strapped for money. Nora is immersed in the grief of losing her loved one. She looks forward to any opportunity to escape from her predicament and troubles, but is also afraid that she will return to the monotonous and depressing work life she had before marriage. On the other hand, small town residents live in close proximity and everyone seems to know each other's secrets. The sensitive Nora became egotistical, stubborn, and sometimes impatient. She wanted to defend her family's privacy, but she also ignored the sadness and changes of her two young sons after losing their father. Gradually, with the power of singing talent and friendship, Nora saw a glimmer of hope for a new life.

How many bodies does a person have? Perhaps we have all heard, and many people believe, that people have more than one body. People can be separated, resurrected, and reincarnated. In addition to the flesh and blood body, humans also have a spiritual body, which is called a "spiritual body" in the Bible. Pavich tells us at the beginning of the novel that he has passed away. After his death, he (his second body) told us a story of a double body.

"Everything That Rises Must Converge" is a representative collection of short stories by the famous American female writer Flannery O'Connor. In the last ten years of O'Connor's life, she used her pen as a torch to write this short story collection "All Things Rise Must Converge", illuminating those weird but real corners of the American South. O'Connor used her unique black humor and strong satire to create eccentric, paranoid, selfish or hypocritical characters on the stage of the American South, a land full of contradictions, and directed scenes of absurd and bizarre dramas. In the end, all the stories came to an abrupt end in a strong emotional impact.

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" tells the story of Francie, a slum girl who, amidst poverty and suffering, uses her vitality as tough as a tree, draws strength from books and family ties, and grows towards the sun.

This set of books is a collection of representative works created by the Russian writer Dostoevsky. It's in English, so English lovers shouldn't miss it. Take "Crime and Punishment" as an example. The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student, who is poisoned by anarchist ideas and believes that he can do whatever he wants. Forced to make a living, he killed the old loan shark Alyona and her innocent sister Lizaveta, creating a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of Sonia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on depicting the protagonist's psychological changes after committing a crime and reveals the miserable life of the Russian lower class people. Lu Xun once commented: "If you compare the current Chinese things with foreign things, like Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", it is really beyond comparison.

"The Call of the Wild" is a novella written by American writer Jack London, which tells the story of a dog named Buck. Buck has lived in the Chancery's mansion since he was a child, leading a leisurely, wealthy and noble life. However, during the gold rush, the carefree Buck was abducted and sold by his family's gardener to the snowy North Country to work as a sled dog. He fell from the center of civilization into an extremely dangerous wilderness. The cruel reality did not give Buck time to adapt. He encountered the ruthless sticks of his new owner, the crazy rejection of his dog companions, and even experienced the test of death again and again. In a series of blows and cruel competition for survival, Buck finally put aside the politeness of the civilized world and learned the most primitive law of club teeth. The wolf's nature buried in his genes gradually resurrected in his body...

"Half of a Yellow Sun" is a lament written by the Nigerian female writer Adichie about the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s (1967-1970). With an epic structure, the novel uses the changes experienced by several pairs of ordinary men and women in the Nigerian Civil War to interrogate how solid concepts such as identity, national boundaries, love, and friendship survived in the face of the absurd and brutal war... 13-Year-old Ugu comes from a poor family and works as a valet in the house of Odenigbo, a professor at the University of Nsukka. The learning opportunities given to him by his master gradually help him get rid of ignorance and superstition; Olanna, the daughter of the Igbo chieftain She is the girlfriend of Odenigbo. Her family had great reputation and wealth before the civil war. Olanna, who advocates freedom, has always kept a distance from her snobbish and opportunistic family. Olanna's twin sister Kenene has been taking care of the family business. She fell in love with Richard, a British journalist living in Nigeria. Richard, who hates the hypocrisy of post-colonialism, has always tried to record everything that this country has experienced fairly and objectively. When that extremely brutal war broke out, and when northern and southern Nigeria were driven by the curse of post-colonialism and headed towards the end of cannibalism, the fate of these protagonists suddenly changed, and their loyalty to self, friendship and love also faced severe tests...

What this book records is not the big events, but the small things I experienced during the fifteen months after the war began. Up to now, the European powers have been locked in this terrifying battle for more than two years. Many small countries were invaded; France was conquered. These major events have been reported in newspapers and will also be recorded in history. Life goes on. People still eat three meals a day, still fall in love, get married, and die of old age. Yet it seems to me that this natural disaster affected everyone in a thousand subtle ways, at least in Europe. These little things were insignificant to the tide of upheaval, but they were not unimportant to the people affected by them, and no one I know of thought them worthy of attention. So I thought it might be interesting if I could record those trivial things that seemed to have changed the course of my entire life before I forgot them. What this book describes is purely personal and private, and would be meaningless otherwise. But I still want to ask readers to believe that at this moment when the future of the entire world hangs on a thread, no one knows better than me how insignificant I am personally. --Maugham

Theo met Noah in South America and returned to Israel with her, settling in the desert town of Telkoda. As a town planner, Theo participated in the planning of the small town, which was very desolate because the nearby oil wells were not very productive. Theo and Noah, a couple with a fifteen-year age difference, are also increasingly estranged. Noah's student suffered a drug addiction and fell off a cliff to his death. The boy's father wanted to build a rehabilitation center in the desert town in memory of his son. Noah was obliged to participate in the preparation plan, but she did not expect how big the resistance would be. Can the two finally understand each other? Can the remaining tenderness in my heart withstand the harsh reality?

He has the critical depth of Milan Kundera and the deconstructive temperament of Roland Bartel; however, he has a more three-dimensional love thinking than Kundera and is more attuned to the lover's love nerves than Bartelle. He activates our new reading experience! Through his captivating writing, de Botton explores the tragedy and comedy of our inability to understand each other, making us less strangers to ourselves. As Dr. Johnson said, de Botton is the kind of writer who can write about the broom. In his writing, the broom is also alive. In the huge city of London, he and she were originally just two points so small that it was almost impossible to intersect. He had a sudden idea to describe the life of an ordinary woman he met by chance and complete an unprecedented biography. She longed to talk and was willing to let him use a magnifying glass to see into her joys and sorrows inch by inch. It turns out that no matter how trivial life is, there are thrills, and no matter how intense the emotions are, they will only become lighter in the end. Biography of a mortal? Love story? Life talk? When I read Alain de Botton's novel "Kiss and Tell", I always find it strange that he touches the itchy points and sore spots, but what I see in front of me is an expressionless face.

The great detective Sherlock Holmes encountered an unprecedented problem - a hundred years ago, the Baskerville family had a vicious ancestor. His sins brought about a curse, and the ghost hound from hell ended his life. Since then, the shadow of misfortune has enveloped the entire family, and many descendants have not had a happy ending. Now, the mysterious ghost hound is wandering the wasteland again. Sir Charles Baskerville died mysteriously in the night, and his heir Sir Henry is about to come to the wasteland and inherit the cursed manor. This time, will Holmes face an opponent from hell?

"Eugénie Grandet" tells a story about money destroying humanity and causing family tragedy. Centering around the central event of Eugenie's love tragedy, the novel is connected by three intertwined plot threads: the waves caused by the autocracy within the Grandet family, the open and secret fights between the bankers and notaries outside the family, and Eugenie's love for Charles Grandet, and the painful human experience of Charles' betrayal.

This book is a representative masterpiece of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, a giant of Japanese short stories in the Taisho era. It contains nineteen representative short stories such as "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Hell Transformation", "The Nose", "Kappa" and "The Life of a Certain Idiot". The author examines evil with a cold eye, reveals the truth with sharp writing, and launches a series of human dialogues between good and evil, fiction and reality. Although each story is short in length, it is well-conceived and the plot is bizarre yet profound. The film "Rashomon" adapted from the two novels "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Grove" by Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa won the Golden Lion Award at the 16th Venice International Film Festival and the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 24th Academy Awards.

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This is a book about "strength", telling how "reading" makes life come alive, how "knowledge" changes people's destiny, and how "the power of family" supports children to realize their dreams. France likes reading, and she goes to the library every Saturday to borrow two books to take home and read; she also likes to observe the lives of her neighbors, watching their every move is like watching a play on the stage; she also likes to listen to the adults around her narrate their own lives: life is rich and colorful Aunt Sissy, who was married three times and gave birth to ten children but all died in infancy, and each of her lovers was called John; Grandma Mary, although illiterate, remembered more than a thousand stories and legends; Uncle Freetman's only topic at home was his horse Drummer. How to tease him... Although France has a lively heart, life in Brooklyn is difficult after all: her mother is beautiful, petite and has an iron will, but she prefers her younger brother; her father is warm and charming, but has no fixed job and is addicted to alcohol; the child earns money by picking up rags. With a few meager pennies, she could only spend half herself and take the other half home to her parents who could barely afford the rent and could only afford expired bread... Frances' mother hoped to help her children escape the bottom through education. However, the drastic changes and hardships in life made everything out of reach. Facing the ups and downs of life, France is as tough as the tree of heaven in the yard, always maintaining dignity and faith, dreaming of a future that is different from the past and present. Finally, another door of life opened for her...

This book is an iconic work of the German Sturm und Drang movement. A young man named Werther fell in love with a girl named Lotte, who was already engaged to someone else. The setback in love made Werther heartbroken. Later, he committed suicide because he was out of tune with the feudal society and felt that his future was hopeless. The novel unfolds in the form of letters, recording the completely honest emotional experience of a young soul - the passionate but unattainable love for Lotte, the resistance to the order of reality, and the pain of the unattainable ideal. The gap between reality and ideals eventually pushed him into tragedy. This work shocked the entire European youth - Werther's sensitivity, loneliness and resistance became a symbol of the spirit of the times.

"The Bell Jar" is the representative work of the famous American female writer Sylvia Plath. The novel chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, endowed, and successful, but slowly heading towards collapse-perhaps her final collapse. Sylvia Plath deftly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown, making Esther's insanity completely real, even plausible, and as easy to stomach as watching a movie. To reveal the dark corners of the psyche so deeply is a remarkable achievement, and one that has made the novel a classic of American literature.

"Black Spring" was created during the same period as "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Cancer". The book traces Miller's teenage years in Brooklyn and his time living in Paris. Through constant replays from New York to Paris, as well as surreal dreams and symbolic techniques, Miller outlines people and the cities they live in in a subversive and self-revelatory way, and on a deeper level, he is seeking the spiritual home of the soul.

Eddie and Susanna, who fell in love, followed Roland on the road to the Dark Tower. Roland is determined to quickly train them into real gunslingers, but at the same time, he himself is troubled by double memories because he saved Jack behind the third door and changed history, and is about to collapse. And Jack also almost went crazy because he had an extra set of memories of his death and running to a different world. The hope of uniting everything that was divided into one rests on the mysterious fate between Eddie and Jack. Finally, after experiencing the breathless mysterious ritual, Jack re-entered the middle world and reunited with Roland and his party...