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The full text is composed of dozens of long and short letters written by Qiao Ruosa to Daddy Long-Legs, thus showing how a girl who grew up in a long-term repressive environment has self-esteem, self-love, and self-improvement, and finally the process of her talent being recognized and getting love. This book is essentially a woman's personal growth history.

Ken Follett, author of "Fall of Giants" and master of all-night novels, has a new work! At the end of the 18th century, the British Industrial Revolution was quietly rewriting the world structure. Machines replaced manual work, factories swallowed up villages, and war spread across Europe. Technology is running wild, beliefs are being torn apart, old systems are collapsing, and a new era has yet to come. In such great changes of the times, a tenacious female textile worker, a small workshop owner who sympathizes with the workers, and a cloth merchant who survives in the cracks - they come from the bottom of society, but they struggle, fight, fall in love, and betray each other, looking for value and dignity under the rolling wheel of history. They failed to change history, but with the power of fighting against fate, they jointly wrote an epic that belongs to mortals. Ken Follett, with his usual profound writing power, outlines the pain and hope of social transformation, and tells how ordinary people struggling in the center of the storm become the masters of their destiny.

A tear-jerking work comparable to "Coco", it is written for all of you and me who were once children, to understand the life that our mother has never told; the famous writer Bi Shumin wrote a loving preface, and was recommended by the queen of talk show Oprah in her special episode. "Almost everyone, no matter how happy they may appear on the outside, has a small place deep inside them where they hold a loved one who has passed away and longs to be reunited one day." - Mitch Albom. Let a long-dead relative spend another day with you. Only one day. If you can do it, do you need such an opportunity? The opportunity, at an awkward moment, fell to Charles Bennett. The retired baseball player could no longer find any reason to live amidst the frustration and alcohol consumption - his career was on the wall, his marriage was broken, he was addicted to alcohol, and his family was betrayed and separated. Even his daughter's wedding was unwilling to let him show up... Charles had the idea of ​​​​suicide. He thought that as long as a high-speed car and a selfless run, he could wave goodbye without taking away a single cloud. However, in the flash of lightning, his physical body wandered between this place and the other side; when he suddenly woke up, he actually saw his mother who died unexpectedly many years ago. Mitch Albom's perception of life is like an ever-growing seed. It sprouted in "Tuesday", drew a long arc in "Five People You Meet in Heaven", and firmly took root in "Reborn in a Day". The soil is the state of the world and the human heart, and the root is love.

From 1843 to 1848, Dickens published a holiday-related novella almost every Christmas. Among them, "A Christmas Carol" has a very special status: the plot and characters in the book are well-known in the West, and the "popularity" accumulated over more than 100 years has made it the most deeply rooted among Dickens's novels. Literary critics believe that the publication of "A Christmas Carol" was a major turning point in Dickens's creative career; while sociologists believe that this work profoundly changed the status and value of modern Christmas in the Western world, and Dickens himself is called the person who "invented Christmas."

The set includes: "A Girl's Fear", "Before I Leave", "Beartown", "Beartown 2", "A Man Called Ove", "A Man Called Ove Decided to Die" and "The Long Way Home".

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A masterpiece by "Master of Storytelling" Somerset Maugham, a classic translation by famous translator Fu Weici, and highly recommended as "a good book". The British painter in the novel is based on the French post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin. The protagonist was originally a successful securities broker, but became obsessed with painting after reaching middle age. He suddenly abandoned his home and went to Paris to pursue the ideal of painting. He finally chose to abandon the civilized world and fled to the isolated island of Tahiti in the South Pacific. There he finally found the tranquility of his soul and the atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament, and created one artistic masterpiece after another that shocked later generations. Through the life experiences of such a geek who devoted himself to the pursuit of art and was ignorant of the world, Maugham deeply explored the origin and essence of art, the relationship between personality and genius, as well as the contradictions and interactions between artists and society, art and life, and other thought-provoking issues.

"The Plague" is based on the outbreak of plague in the Algerian city of Oran, and uses the fight against the epidemic by doctor Rieux and other citizens to explore the perseverance, absurdity and meaning of existence of human nature under disaster.

"The Story of a Donkey's Skin" has a magical and realistic color that is rare in Balzac's works. It is a classic philosophical novel that combines criticism, reality, and symbolism. At the beginning of his creation, Balzac aimed to bring together his personal life experience and philosophical thoughts to respond to the changes in society at that time - "Money is the only God." The book visualizes the contradiction between desire and life as a donkey skin. With this donkey skin, all your wishes can be fulfilled, but each time the donkey skin shrinks a little, until it disappears and your life is over. The person who owns the donkey skin is lucky, he can get everything, but he is also unlucky, because in the face of death, he dares not ask for anything. "Donkey Skin" made Balzac, who had been writing silently for 10 years, become a best-selling author in one fell swoop. Three years later, we began to build on this "Human Comedy", which is truly a foundation work.

"The Hobbit" is a prequel to "The Lord of the Rings". It tells the story of a kind of hobbit who lived in a hole in the ground. Hobbits are people smaller than dwarves, kind, shrewd and law-abiding. Baggins is one of them. That day he was smoking at the entrance of the cave. The famous warlock Gandalf arrived and brought a group of strange guests to Baggins...

As the 11th generation descendant, Hatoko Amamiya inherited the Shancha Stationery Store and conveyed the unspeakable words hidden in the heart to customers. Letters written by an invisible boy to his mother, letters written by a deceased husband to his wife, letters written by parents who lost their young son to relatives and friends... Hatoko always uses the most complicated but also most sincere way to help guests solve their doubts. Everyone has a different story in their life, and everyone is trying to make the story complete.

This book contains a total of thirteen short stories and short stories by Akutagawa. "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 for the first time the author's understanding of people, his helplessness and despair. There is a mountain of books and a sea of ​​barnyards, and a garden of literature and history. I sink and play in it, and the hook is not hidden, and it is written in a day. It comes naturally at random, randomly, vertically and horizontally, and cannot be suppressed. From the high-ranking officials in the temple to the ordinary people in the city, from the depths of Zichen to the fate of the rivers and lakes, everything he writes about comes immediately and leaps onto the page. Akutagawa is sensitive by nature. Generally speaking, he does not focus on description but focuses on exploration. He pays little attention to narration and focuses on enlightenment. He is less light and unrestrained and more depressed and desolate. This is easily evident from his works.

2017 new best-selling translation! Exclusive unabridged illustrated version! No. 1 On readers' word-of-mouth recommendation list! Poet Xu Chungang, who won the Bobby Fiction Award, translated from the authoritative final version of British VintageBooks! Maugham's masterpiece with sales exceeding 1 million copies! Bai Yansong, Yu Hua, and Gao Xiaosong are highly recommended by word of mouth! "The world is so long that it passes quickly. Some people see dust, while others see stars. You only have one real choice in your life. Should you be illuminated by dreams or money?"

American young man Larry once participated in World War I and witnessed the ruthlessness and cruelty of war, so he was confused about life. After the war, Larry was eager to seek the value and meaning of life. He broke off his engagement with his fiancée, wandered around Paris, and traveled around the world from Paris. Later, he had an epiphany in the mysteries of Indian religion and had a great sense of enlightenment about life. Then he returned to the United States and lived a life of "hermitism in the city". Maugham vividly describes Larry's journey of searching for the meaning of life, revealing the contradiction between spiritual pursuit and materialism. The protagonist Larry is based on the philosopher Wittgenstein, vividly and profoundly showing the mental journey of Western intellectuals searching for the meaning of life.

This novel is first of all a satirical work, a "slander", and its object of ridicule is the various evil habits in the British literary world at that time represented by Driffield (alluding to Hardy - although Maugham once publicly denied it) and Arroy Gere (alluding to Hugh Walpole) in the book, just like a British "The Scholars". "Bi Hua Chai Video" is also a hymn, praising Driffield's ex-wife and the heroine Lucy in the book: this image of the charming Earth Mother can be called the most charming female character in Maugham's works. This image has been haunting the author for decades. In his mind, he had long thought about writing it into his own works but struggled with the opportunity. It was not until the writing of "Bi Huachai Video Recording" that this long-awaited opportunity finally came into being; Maugham himself also frankly admitted that this was the most touching female image he had ever created.

During a chance visit, Fritz fell in love with the 12-year-old girl Sophie. She is not beautiful, she is not religious, she likes to laugh. In just fifteen minutes, she came like a mysterious and transcendent force and became his wisdom, his spiritual guide, and his blue flower. Because of love, an ordinary girl may become an eternal star in a man's heart and start his romantic life. The novel is based on the early experience of the German poet Novalis and imagines the legendary life of the Blue Flower poet. The encounter with Sophie became a turning point in his life and creation. Throughout his short life, he was always pursuing the immortal and fleeting blue flower.

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Peri Medea, also known as the Triple City, is the bride of the sea and the mistress of the civilized world. It is a country of its own and has stood for thousands of years. Bardas Loredan lives in an inconspicuous corner of the Lower Town slums. His background is not difficult to find out, and no one cares about his past; his profession is a bit special, as he is a court swordsman who relies on his excellent swordsmanship to help clients litigate cases, but he can be considered quiet and low-key. No one knows what kind of destructive power all these things put together contain. The way of heaven is unpredictable. When the wheel of history begins to turn, some people are mercilessly run over, some take chestnuts from the fire, and some try to stop them, but inadvertently add force...

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Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, covering novels, plays, essays, poetry and other aspects. In terms of content, his works criticize irrational phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, and express the strong sense of justice and concern for ordinary people of this writer who worked as a typesetter and sailor; in terms of style, both experts and general readers believe that humor and satire are the characteristics of his writing. This anthology of short and medium stories includes thirteen stories by the author, arranged in the order of the year in which the original works were published; these stories may be well-known (such as "One Million Pounds", "Running for Governor"), or less familiar (such as "Goldsmith's Friends Go Abroad Again", "Cannibalism on the Train"), but they are all lively, interesting and enlightening.

The novel tells the story of a young couple, Frank and Amber Wheeler, who lived in the suburbs of Connecticut on a road called "Revolutionary Road" in the 1950s. Many middle-class families similar to them lived in the nearby community. Frank (also meaning "frank") is a down-to-earth corporate white-collar worker, while April (also meaning "April"), a housewife, is lively, romantic and full of fantasy. The gap between ideal and reality put their relationship into trouble, and the increasingly frequent quarrels almost suffocated the two. Epper's plan to move to Europe to find himself once saved the crisis and gave them a brief hope of changing their lives. However, the plan was ultimately shattered and their fate was irreversible. It slides into tragedy... As Yates himself said: "The characters in my novels are all within the limitations of their known and unknown. They want to be the best and do what they can't help but do, but in the end they inevitably fail because they can't help but go back to their original appearance."

After burying his father, Nathan Zuckerman, who was in his late teens, suddenly suffered from an undiagnosable pain that spread from his shoulders and neck to his torso, and even his mind was occupied by this pain. No doctor knew where his ailment came from. He had to rely on painkillers to survive, could not continue writing, and even his movements were hampered by pain. Bored, he began to let his mind wander, recalling his failed marriage and family relationships. Outbursts of extreme nostalgia and ambition to conquer his illness, Zuckerman determined to return to his alma mater, the University of Chicago, where he would study medicine... Rashness and meticulousness, lyricism and irony blended together, admonitions and confessions running through it, with a knowing, benevolent authority. Featuring some of the funniest and most brutal scenes in Philip Roth's novels, this is a grand comedy about illness.

The work tells the bizarre story of Dondès, a young sailor who was informed and imprisoned on the eve of Napoleon's "Hundred Days Coup". After escaping from prison, he took on the name of the Count of Monte Cristo to retaliate. It reveals the criminal history of some top figures during the French July Monarchy, exposes the darkness of the French judicial system during the Restoration Dynasty, and at the same time promotes the social philosophy advocated by Alexandre Dumas: reward good and punish evil. The novel caused an unprecedented sensation as soon as it was published. It has been translated into dozens of languages ​​and published in various countries. France, the United States and other countries have also adapted it into dramas and movies many times and put it on the stage and screen.

"Songs from the Sad Cafe" is a collection of Carson McCullers' finest short and medium-length works. There are 7 works including the classic and handed down Song of the Sad Cafe and Childhood, among which "The Song of the Sad Cafe" is the most famous. The novel tells the weird and absurd love story between Miss Amelia, the criminal Marvin Macy and the hunchback Raymond in a small town. In a weird, mysterious and absurd way, it expresses a human theme as eternal as love - loneliness. Love is not the salvation of loneliness, absurd love confirms the necessity of loneliness.

"John-Christophe" is Romain Rolland's masterpiece novel. It reflects a series of contradictions and conflicts in real society through the life experience of John-Christophe, and promotes humanitarianism and heroism. The novel describes the struggling life of John-Christophe, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. In 1915 Romain Rolland won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Johan-Christophe".

Zenia is beautiful, smart, and greedy; sometimes strong and sometimes weak, sometimes helpless and sometimes ruthless; she is a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is dead. To be 100% sure, Toni, Roz and Charisse went to her funeral. Zenia had taken away their husbands and kidnapped their lovers. Five years later, when these three sisters-in-law women shared lunch, the impossible happened: "waves of malice flowed out of the body like cosmic rays," and Zenia returned...

The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". "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 but wants to be a writer, a man and a woman who are about to get married but are extremely confused, an eccentric old teacher, a newly transferred primary school student, a tuberculosis patient, an old and sick wife, a jazz pianist, a depressed military officer and a retired soldier, etc. Yates writes about the ordinary lives of ordinary people, describing their loneliness, loss and despair. 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."

"Eugénie Grandet" takes the father's wealth accumulation and the daughter's love tragedy as the main lines, depicting a vivid picture of provincial customs. The novel has a classical structure and concise writing style. It is a simple epic that has been widely loved by readers since its publication.

"The Plague" is a Nobel Prize-winning work by French philosopher and writer Camus. It tells us the story of the people of Oran, represented by Dr. Rieux, facing the sudden threat of plague and death, from initial doubts and panic to the final fight against the epidemic together, facing the disaster, and finally winning. In a city captured by the plague, a group of desperate people redeem themselves. It shows the fighting spirit of people in trouble and their pursuit of justice. It reminds each of us that in a crisis moment that is not what we want, the only right thing is to choose to walk with kindness and sincerity.

F. S. Fitzgerald, the author of "Tender Is the Night", is a famous American screenwriter and the most important representative of the "Jazz Age". Each of his successful works is the crystallization of the poet's sensitivity and the dramatist's imagination, and is the product of the perfection of his artistic talent. "Tender Is the Night" is Fitzgerald's most painstaking autobiographical novel. It is one of the 100 greatest English works of the 20th century selected by Modern Library.

"This kind of love is destined to be destructive." The author of "Lolita" and the novel master Nabokov's masterpiece, the passion, intoxication, madness and fall of a chess genius, using scalpel-like precision to write about the hidden corners behind the genius boy. "Defense" is a masterpiece of Nabokov's novels recognized by the 20th century novel master. It tells the story of a genius boy who gradually becomes insane due to his long-term addiction to chess games. Passion, intoxication, madness and decline are the themes throughout the novel. The protagonist Luzhin was an unattractive, withdrawn and melancholic child when he was a child. Real life always made him feel anxious, so he used chess as a refuge to escape 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 chess game gradually replaced his real life, and his real life became a dream. Nabokov devoted great enthusiasm to this early work, outlining the hidden corners behind the aura of genius with anatomical precision.

Dr. Himiko, who serves as the director of the mental hospital, is from a famous family, is beautiful, noble, and has superb medical skills. However, he was found to have performed unconventional "special treatment" on several patients. The nurse Beitaxiang was obsessed with Himiko. Although he was suspicious of his behavior, he still followed her without hesitation. Is it for financial purposes or to satisfy the "devil's heart"? With the patient's sudden death, the truth was revealed step by step, and Himiko's unknown past gradually surfaced...

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McCullers was only twenty-three years old when he published "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." This novel was a sensation in the literary world as soon as it came out. It is still a best-seller today. It is an important representative work of McCullers and is listed in the "Top 100 English Novels of the Twentieth Century" in the American Modern Library. The work describes the loneliness and frustration of five abnormal people in a southern town in the United States in the late 1930s - the deaf-mute Singer, the coffee shop owner Biff, the girl Mick, the worker Blunt, and the black doctor Copeland. This group of "small town freaks" compete and struggle with their inner world and real life all day long. They observe and watch each other, and sometimes they interact and attract each other; they repeatedly speculate and try, but they gradually drift away from their dreams. In this poor, dirty town, they were hit hard and bloody on the way to find a way out of life. Even with the deepest love, they could not escape the ultimate loneliness.

The story takes place in Chongqing, the capital of the Nationalist Government in 1945. Here gathered a group of people who were feasting, feasting, and living in intoxication. Everything revolves around money. Corruption of officials, speculation by businessmen and bankers, and women being swindlers have become a common trend. The novel uses the clues of Wei Duanben, a young civil servant, and his beautiful but vain wife Tian Peizhi as they live together and break up. It takes the opportunity of many characters to rush to buy gold savings certificates to make the country's hard-earned wealth, and unfolds a complicated story. When the Anti-Japanese War was won, everything for the speculators was in vain. The work directs criticism towards the ugly, humble world in the Kuomintang-controlled areas on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It reveals the loss and struggle in the face of human nature and money in a special era.

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This is a memory full of mist, both real and illusory. After the war in Nagasaki, a mother and daughter who suffered a lot longed for stability and rebirth, but they could never escape the shadow of the war and their inner demons. At the end of the play, the remembrancer peels off his disguise, and the story is full of tragedy. "Shadow of a Distant Mountain (Series of Works by Kazuo Ishiguro)" is Kazuo Ishiguro's debut work that shocked the literary world. It is a masterpiece that is still being reprinted 30 years after its publication. The fusion and balance of "sentimentality and irony" are still memorable.

In the past, my grandfather came here to reclaim wasteland and got the land; later, my father was born here, and he cleared the weeds and eliminated the poisonous snakes; then we were born here again, and my father had to borrow money from the bank. During the lean years, my father couldn't pay back the money, so the land belonged to the bank and we became tenant farmers. But we still stayed here and could still get a share of what we grew. Finally, the banks used tractors and no longer needed sharecroppers, and we were left without a home. Hundreds of thousands of people left their homes and headed for California along Route 66, because the leaflets said that California was full of farmland and full of jobs. We arrived in California and discovered that it was just a lie: the farmers deliberately attracted large numbers of people to try to keep wages low. We have to wander again, looking for work like mad dogs, we starve, we teeter on the edge of death.

Beauty to the extreme 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.

The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". The "Good School" of the title is a fictional Connecticut preparatory high school. The story takes place in the early 1940s. Boys in a "good school" must join the army immediately after graduation. Teachers have mixed feelings about their profession and the school they attend. Although this is a school, as one teacher in the book said, it "contains huge potential energy". This is true for students and teachers. In some ways, this book continues a theme explored in Revolutionary Road: the fragility of marriage. The husband is disabled, the wife is cheating on her, the husband wants to commit suicide, but he is unable to do so. The "good school" in the title is undoubtedly the biggest irony of the entire book, and it makes people sigh after reading it. This book is one of the few works written by Richard Yates that is gentle and full of compassion. The protagonist's growth background and experience in the novel also overlap with Yates himself. The sad and restrained emotions in it are very attractive.

Recommended reading by the Oxford University Library. The first edition sold 500,000 copies in the United States. It has been adapted into movies twice and was shortlisted for Oscars and other awards. Maugham, the "genius novelist" who was a great storyteller in the 20th century, is a masterpiece of word-of-mouth, and a "full version" without deleting a word! This is a book about life written for millions of young literary and artistic people seeking to find themselves. It is recommended by Bai Yansong, Yu Hua, Haruki Murakami, Gao Xiaosong, Yang Lan, Cai Chongda, Liu Yu and Yu Minhong with emotion. We only have one life, how should we spend it? "I want to travel every road in the world, through deep sadness, inexplicable sadness, and endless joy, just to give it a go and experience life and pursue the stars in my soul."

A timeless classic! "Plague" helps you understand the rumors, panic and truth during the epidemic! This is the most important masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Camus. Camus won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature for this book! It was published in 1947 and has been selling well ever since! The whole world is re-reading "The Plague" in 2020! It topped the bestseller lists in Italy, France, and the United Kingdom; Japan printed an additional 150,000 copies in just one month, and the cumulative print volume exceeded one million, triggering a purchase restriction craze! Recommended reading list by Shanghai infectious disease expert Dr. Zhang Wenhong: If you understand the epidemic, you will not panic! When the epidemic disrupts the life we ​​are accustomed to, this book tells you: the plague is life, nothing more than that. When all kinds of chaos, panic, and rumors break out with the epidemic, this book tells you: the only way to fight the plague is to be sincere. When we are overwhelmed by the explosive news about the epidemic and fall into anxiety, this book tells you: in times of crisis, the first way ordinary people can play a role is to do their jobs well. The new "Reader's Edition" of "The Plague", 4 must-read reasons: 1. Original 10,000-word introduction: Written by a doctor of literature from Sorbonne University in Paris during the epidemic, it provides an in-depth interpretation of "The Plague". 2. Classic translation: French literal translation by Li Yumin, a French translator and professor at the First Normal University. 3. Special production: "A Brief History of Viruses Affecting Humanity", sorting out the top ten viruses that affect human civilization. 4. Special compilation: "Chronology of Camus's Life and Creation" A plague swept through an ordinary small town unexpectedly. The increasing death toll broke the ordinary lives of the citizens: panic spread, rumors spread wildly, chaos replaced calm and became daily life... But there is a group of people in this city who spontaneously assume the responsibility of treating plague patients and maintaining urban order. They come from all walks of life: doctors, civil servants, journalists, priests, etc. They are not shining heroes. They are just a bunch of ordinary people. "The Plague", first published in 1947, describes this sudden epidemic and the story of how ordinary people fought against it. It presents many attitudes of human beings against suffering and death. It affirms the power of human beings to face absurdity and fight against fate, and gives modern people important enlightenment about survival.

"Love and Sacrifice" describes Goethe's ability to write "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and tells the story of the famous British actress Sidneys and the story of the British novelist Lytton. Several stories are all based on real historical achievements, and they contain profound lessons that smart readers will understand.

"The Adventures of Huck" is a novel written by the famous American novelist Mark Twain. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. The novel is generally considered one of the "greatest American novels" and remains at the forefront of "American literature". The novel mainly describes the situation on both sides of the Mississippi River in the United States and the lives of the people living there. The most distinctive thing is that the characters in the book all have their own language, especially the description of the language of African Americans, which leaves a deep impression on the readers. In other words, only by reading the original English novel can you appreciate the scenes depicted by the author. This version is the version used in many student textbooks in the United States.

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This is the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. Through the experiences of two young men, the author unfolds the broad social landscape of the French Restoration period. This novel almost concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings. Balzac claimed that "Disillusionment" is "the first book among my works."

"Tian Ping Zhi Zhi" is the masterpiece of Yasushi Inoue's novels. Japan's Tianping period coincided with the prosperous Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. In order to find the eminent monk who gave the ordination, four young Japanese monks were not afraid of hardships and dangers and sent the Tang envoy to the west. Monk Rongrui and Monk Puzhao went through many twists and turns, and finally got the permission of the eminent monk Jianzhen to go eastward. The old monk Ye Xing, who had been in the Tang Dynasty for fifty years, also returned with them, bringing the scriptures he had spent his whole life copying. After five failed attempts to cross the sea, everyone experienced ups and downs in the rolling waves. Some died in a foreign land, or their souls returned to the sea. Even though Jianzhen was blind, he still did not change his original intention. He finally arrived in Japan on his sixth eastward journey and became a monk at Todaiji Temple in Nara, leaving an indelible mark on the development of the culture of the Tianping era.

One of Roth's most famous series of works, the "American Trilogy", was released in 2000 and has won important literary awards such as the PEN Kerner Award and the WH Smith Literary Award. Its sharp words, profound thoughts, and surging passion are truly rare and precious in today's world of literary circles. Classics professor Silke Coleman was accused of being a "racist" for using the ambiguous word "ghost" to describe two absent black students in class, leading to the sudden death of his powerful wife and his resignation. After that, he began a secret relationship with the college cleaning lady Faunia Farley, but was hated and harassed by Faunia's ex-husband, a deeply traumatized Vietnam veteran, and eventually died in a suspicious car accident. As Coleman's friend and writer Nathan Zuckerman continued to investigate the incident in depth, the truth slowly emerged: it turned out that Coleman was not the Jew he claimed to be, and Fauniya was not illiterate. Everyone in the story struggled to live with their own secrets and eternal pain and unwillingness...

"Local Anesthesia" is a novel by Glass. Eberhard Starusch, the former leader of the troublemaking gang in "The Tin Drum" and now a German and history teacher at a middle school in West Berlin, in 1967 collected information on a former Nazi general who attempted to use a sandbox to win the failed World War II after the war. But one thing was pressing for Starusch: One of his favorite students decided to burn his pet dog on one of Berlin's busiest streets to protest the U. S.'S use of napalm in the Vietnam War. Starusch tried to dissuade this move with self-righteous melancholy. Allowing a dentist to treat your teeth became the only symbol of progress: the only way to resist human pain was through local anesthesia.