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Starting from the perspective of the German generals in World War II, this book combines the author's first-hand interrogation records obtained during the Nuremberg review process and the memories of high-level German military witnesses. It provides a comprehensive review of the major historical events from the rise to the fall of the Nazis and the major decisions and gains and losses made by the German army in World War II. It also combines the author's unique military theoretical thoughts to conduct critical research on major battles. It is not only a precious classic of World War II history, but also a classic of military strategic theory.

Myth is a product of human childhood and has an everlasting fascination. Greek mythology has been around for a long time because of its relatively complete system and unique literary charm. Greek mythology and biblical mythology have had a comprehensive and profound impact on the religion, philosophy, thought, customs, natural science, literature and art of the entire West and even mankind. When you come into contact with Western culture, you are bound to encounter allusions from Greek mythology. Almost every important classic Western literary work involves characters and plots from Greek mythology, and some are even directly based on Greek mythology. Today, although we don't have to "call everything Greek", a systematic understanding of Greek mythology is what every modern person needs.

Fu Lei spent ten years carefully translating it twice, and it is recognized as the preferred translation of "The Biography of Celebrities"! Fu Lei: "I occasionally read the biography of Beethoven, and after reading it I couldn't help crying. I felt like I was illuminated by a divine light, and I suddenly gained the power of new life. I suddenly cheered up like a miracle. This is a major event in my spiritual life." "Celebrity Biography" includes three heroic biographies written by Romain Rolland: "The Biography of Beethoven", "The Biography of Michelangelo" and "The Biography of Tolstoy". The three people in the biography, one is a musician, one is a sculptor and painter, and the other is a novelist, each has his own garden. The three biographies all focus on recording the great genius who dedicated his life to creating immortal masterpieces that can express truth, goodness and beauty on the journey of life's hardships and hardships. The reason why they can persist in their arduous journey depends entirely on their love and confidence in mankind. Romain Rolland called these three great geniuses "heroes".

This book is a music monograph by Romain Rolland, the French thinker, litterateur, critical realist writer, music critic and social activist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Romain Rolland has excellent piano playing skills, and music plays a very prominent role in his works. This book mainly introduces the music of the eighteenth century and is divided into two volumes. One is notes on the history of music and the other is sketches of musicians. In the book, Romain Rolland traces the origin of classical music in the eighteenth century in a beautiful style, vividly describes the musical styles of Italy and Germany in the eighteenth century, and brings to life the images of great musicians such as Handel, Telemann, and Metastasio. It fully embodies Romain Rolland's rich musicianship, profound literary skills, and lofty spiritual realm, and presents readers with the European music style of the golden age.

Whenever you feel down, watch "John Christopher"! Nobel Prize in Literature classic masterpiece! Romain Rolland took 20 years to write it, and Fu Lei translated it twice and revised it six times, which took ten years. It is recognized as a superior standard for translation. Romain Rolland: "In this chaotic era of endless disasters, I hope that Christophe will become a strong and loyal friend, so that everyone can have the joy of life and love in their hearts, so that everyone can live and love regardless of everything!" Romain Rolland personally ordered four volumes in 1921. The first volume includes the life of Christophe as a boy (Dawn, Morning, Boy), describing the awakening of his senses and emotions. The second volume (Resistance, Festival) is written about Christophe's naive, arbitrary, extreme, and rampant crusade against the social and artistic lies of the time. The third volume (Antoinette, Indoors, Girlfriends) contrasts with the passion and hatred of the previous volume. It is a gentle and quiet atmosphere, a lament for friendship and pure love. The fourth volume (The Burning Bush, Fudan) is about the great difficulties in the middle of life. Almost everything is about to be destroyed, but the result still tends to a clear and lofty state, revealing the dawn of another world.

"The Life of Michelangelo" is one of Romain Rolland's "Celebrity Trilogy". It was created in the early 20th century and is also one of Fu Lei's classic translations. Michelangelo had the power to influence an era. Before him, the artistic sky in Florence was dull and lacked vitality. His appearance blew away the dark clouds hanging over it like a sudden storm. After him, Michelangelo's style influenced artists for almost three centuries. In "The Biography of Michelangelo (Essence)" written by Romain Rolland and translated by Fu Lei, the author highly praised Michelangelo's artistic achievements and analyzed his inner world, thus revealing to readers a Michelangelo who was both ordinary and extraordinary, with unparalleled artistic talent and creativity.

"The Biography" is the collective name of "The Biography of Beethoven", "The Biography of Michelangelo" and "The Biography of Tolstoy" written by the French writer Romain Rolland. The three biographies in this book are all extremely talented and enduring in human history. Romain Rolland firmly grasps the commonalities of these three artists in their respective fields, and strives to depict their mental journeys of enduring hardships and ups and downs without changing their original intentions in their troubled life journey, highlighting their noble personality, fraternal emotions and broad mind, thus composing another "heroic symphony" for us.

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In 1916, Gorky published "In the World" in "Chronicle" magazine. The story describes that after the death of his mother, his bankrupt grandfather drove Alyosha out of the house. He joined society and came to the so-called "human world". In order to survive, Alyosha worked everywhere to make a living, working as a draftsman's apprentice, a dishwasher on a ship, and an apprentice in an icon workshop. He came into contact with all kinds of people at the bottom of society. During his difficult life, he read all the books he could find, hoping to find answers to life from books. Not only did he gain comfort and inspiration, but he also realized that books are a powerful ideological weapon for a better future. Facing complex social problems, he was troubled and hesitant, and wanted to rely on knowledge and science to get out of the predicament, so he left his hometown and went to Kazan.

"Records of the Kingdoms of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty" is a famous vernacular historical romance novel of the Ming Dynasty. It takes the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period as the main line, describing the history of more than 500 years from the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the unification of the six kingdoms by the Qin Dynasty. This is a novel with the longest time span and the most characters in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.

"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" is recognized around the world as a full-length masterpiece. In 1950, the famous Kinkakuji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, was burned down by a fire started by a young monk, which became a sensational incident. This is the prototype of "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion". Based on a monologue by a monk at that time, "I am jealous of the beauty of Kinkakuji Temple", Yukio Mishima spread the wings of his imagination, and thus this famous masterpiece was born. The novel is written in the first person. "I" was entrusted to the Golden Pavilion Temple when my father, the abbot, passed away when I was a teenager. The whole book revolves around my emotional changes towards the Golden Temple. I am a stutterer with an apologetic face. The Golden Pavilion is the embodiment of perfection and eternity. "There is nothing more beautiful in the world than the Golden Pavilion." I was full of admiration when I didn't meet, and I was disappointed because of the gap when I first met. Later, after living together all day long, I felt that the Golden Pavilion was an indispensable part. Later, the Golden Pavilion turned into an obstacle between me and the real world in my mind. Especially when I wanted to do something special, I would always see the Golden Pavilion appearing, so I couldn't do it... In despair, "I" burned the Golden Pavilion to the ground and planned to die with the Golden Pavilion. However, after the fire burned, I gave up the idea of ​​dying with the Golden Pavilion and decided to live well alone.

The human nature that you have struggled to see clearly all your life is finally revealed in "Rashomon"! A complete collection of representative short stories by the master of modern Japanese literature Akutagawa Ryunosuke! Akutagawa × Lu Xun, a literary collision between Chinese and Japanese masters! A diverse presentation of Akutagawa's literary world! A masterpiece of modern literature praised by Natsume Soseki, Osamu Dazai, and Haruki Murakami! The Akutagawa Prize, Japan's highest award for pure literature, is named after him! The film of the same name directed by the movie emperor Akira Kurosawa won the Academy Award and the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival! This book selects 18 short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, including well-known masterpieces such as "Rashomon", "The Nose" and "Hell Transformation".

Twelve-year-old Cosimo angrily left home and lived in a tree because he couldn't stand the snail meal cooked by his sister. From then on, his feet never set foot on the ground again: he read, hunted, put out fires, fought against pirates, and even fell in love and wrote in the trees. His tombstone is inscribed: "Living in the trees - always loving the earth - rising into the sky." Part one of the trilogy "Our Ancestors", including Calvino's own postscript: In "The Baron in the Trees" there is a path to wholeness - a non-individualistic wholeness achieved through unswerving efforts to make one's own choices.

In a battle, his comrades sacrificed their lives to rescue Larry, a young American pilot. Larry began to think about the meaning of life. Since there is truth, goodness and beauty in the world, why are there still wars and misfortunes? He felt extremely confused and bewildered about this. After the war, Larry returned to his hometown. There was a craze in the United States to create a "magnificent and prosperous era," but he found it difficult to stay a part of it. In order to get answers to the lingering doubts in his heart, he gave up the opportunity to study and find a job, left his fiancée behind and came to Paris, embarking on a long journey of exploring the meaning of life wholeheartedly. Finally, I found a spiritual way out in Indian spiritual philosophy: "a peaceful life with compassion, calmness and selflessness, gratitude and selflessness, and asceticism and self-denial." He returned to China and became a taxi driver, living in seclusion in the city as the saying goes.

This novel creates a shocking "absurd man" - the protagonist Meursault who is indifferent to everything. He is indifferent to everything happening around him. He has no feelings about the death of his mother and even being sentenced to death...

European and American readers spend an average of three nights reading it! "Fall of Giants" author Ken Follett's landmark masterpiece, the sequel to "Temple Spring and Autumn", the second part of the medieval trilogy, best-selling in 15 languages ​​​​in various countries! This novel lets everyone know that we have the ability to transcend the mundane and touch the eternal. England, fourteenth century, an old era is about to end, and a new era is about to come. In Wangqiao Town, the descendants of architects have their own troubles. Behind the pain of growing up are the pains of an era: the Renaissance, church architecture, royal power struggles, the Black Death, church conflicts... Where will their fate go?

The masterpiece of Maupassant, the world's master of short stories! Maupassant, the world's master of short stories, raised realist literature to an unprecedented level and opened up a broad path for short story creation. Gide praised him for his excellence, and Turgenev hailed him as a genius in French literature. It contains 29 representative works of Maupassant, including classic works such as "The Necklace" and "My Uncle Jules". Classic translation by Liu Mingjiu, a master in French translation. New curriculum standards, recommended readings by the Ministry of Education. The book comes with an interpretation manual: Maupassant's Literary Life. This book contains 29 masterpieces of Maupassant's short stories.

The original movie "Atonement" was rated 8.4 On Douban, starring James McAvoy, Kate Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, and Benedict Cumberbatch. In the summer of 1935, Briony, a 13-year-old girl from a well-off British family, had just begun to try writing and had a rich imagination. One day, she secretly discovered that there was an affair between the housekeeper's son, Robbie Turner, and her sister, Cecilia. Briony's rich imagination invented all kinds of terrible things and imagined them. When her cousin Lola was raped, Briony arbitrarily determined that he was the criminal and testified against him, and Robbie was imprisoned. But Cecilia, who firmly believed that Robbie was innocent, did not hesitate to sever ties with her family and fell in love with him persistently. "Atonement" is the representative work of British writer Ian McEwan. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Film and the original novel of the same name, and the British Booker Award nomination.

The famous French writer, thinker, and feminist leader Beauvoir's masterpiece, a work that won the French Goncourt Literary Prize, and a documentary of post-war European society and culture. Based on the writing and social life circle in which she lived, Beauvoir described the activities and ideological processes of a group of intellectuals in Paris from 1944 to 1945, when France was at the end of World War II and about to fall into the Cold War. This novel has a strong documentary color, and the relationship between Dubreuil and his wife corresponds to the mutual attachment, respect and independence between Beauvoir and Sartre. Anna Dubreuil's image of an intellectual woman and Robert Dubreuil's identity as a famous writer involved in politics are very consistent with Beauvoir and Sartre in reality. Henri Perron corresponds to the French writer Camus. Camus met Sartre in 1943, and Sartre became Camus's leader in the literary world. As an active activist, Camus had founded the left-wing underground daily "Combat". He made Sartre, who was hoping to "intervene", truly participate in the resistance movement. In 1952, the magazine "Modern" edited by Sartre published an article criticizing Camus, which eventually led to the breakdown of the relationship between the two. In the novel, the American writer Lewis gave the ring to Anna. In reality, Beauvoir wore it and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

It selects the wonderful pieces of Edgar Allan Poe's suspense stories, including 5 independent short suspense stories, including The Mystery of Mary Roger, The Black Cat, The Affair, Berenice, and The Man in the City. The novel has a weird and bizarre style, full of horror atmosphere, is short and exquisite, and is easy to carry. It is a convenient book for readers to read when traveling, working, or in their leisure time.

"The Poisonous Sun" is one of Jack London's masterpieces. This book is divided into two parts. The first part tells the story of the protagonist "Poisonous Sun" who pans for gold in the Arctic and fights against the ice and snow. The description of the Arctic scenery is considered a classic in literature. In the second part, the "Poisonous Sun" returns to the city, and civilized society seems to be even more cruel... In the end, the "Poisonous Sun" finds the true meaning of life. Once published, this book became an extremely popular seller. It was Jack London's most popular book during his lifetime and has been adapted into movies many times.

A clever and evil black farce, a self-destructive carnival of death, the work of Martin Amis, a representative British contemporary literary writer as famous as McEwan and Julie Barnes. In a humorous and satirical style, the author faithfully presents the radical liberal social storm that arose in the Western world in the 1960s and 1970s to readers. This storm broke through the bottom line of Western moral tradition, caused huge impact and harm to a generation, turned innocent and kind-hearted young people into "civilized savages", and became a countercurrent in the long river of human history.

Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American writer who was recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Lolita", which he wrote in 1955, received great controversy and honors. "The Prototype of Laura" is Nabokov's unfinished work and the last manuscript in his later years. The novel tells the story of Philip Wilde, an extremely bloated scholar who married Flora, a slender, beautiful but promiscuous ballet dancer. On the one hand, he had to endure his wife's lies and betrayal, and on the other hand, he was addicted to the pleasure of self-destruction.

"Crazy Love" is the representative work of Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. It tells the story of a working-class man, Rangji, who falls in love with Naomi, a bartender, and wants to train her to become a noble woman and become his wife. However, Naomi is vain, conceited, romantic, and hides a conspiracy under her innocent appearance. Rangji is seduced by her charming appearance and meets her needs at all costs. In the end, she is trained to become her servant and is at her mercy. The novel shows the exchange of love between men and women during training and counter-training, and is an immortal literary classic that has long been hailed as the "Oriental version of "Lolita"". This book also includes Junichiro Tanizaki's short story "Tattoo" with a demonic style and the novella "Shuncho" that pursues ultimate aestheticism.

"Geranium" is a collection of short stories. It is the first collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor, winner of the National Book Award and a representative writer of American Southern literature. It collects eight of O'Connor's early works into one volume. "Geraniums", "Barber", "Wild Cat", "Crop" and "Turkey" all show his imaginative, amazing vitality and penetrating creative talent. "Train", "Peeler" and "Heart of the Park" outline the prototype of his full-length masterpiece "Wise Blood". Translator Chen Xiaoli, after translating "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and "Image of the Golden Eye" by McCullers, a female writer of southern American literature, once again presents readers with an absolutely not-to-be-missed work of American southern literature.

"Shuncho" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. This book includes a total of 9 works including "Shuncho", "Tattoo", "Kirin", "Youth", "Gang Xian", "Secret", "Devil", "Demon Continuation" and "Oedipus". Elements such as love and hate, affection and resentment, pain and beauty, virtuality and reality, are used throughout the book, rendering a beautiful world of Japanese aesthetic literature. The perfect fusion of sensual pleasure and Japanese classical taste inspires a strong Japanese aesthetics of things. The beauty of physical sorrow, tracing back to its origin, is the love that is undying in the absurd ups and downs of the human world.

The story takes place in the London town of Diston. Lionel Asbaugh is a notorious and evil gangster. He cares for his orphaned nephew Desmond Pepperdine in his own unique way, and earnestly warns him: A man must stay on top of his sword. Dating with his girlfriend is not as effective as erotic teasing... Desmond tries his best to cater to his uncle because of his ulterior family secrets. Just when Desmond began to live a healthy life, Lionel in prison accidentally won the lottery and received a prize of 140 million pounds. After he was released from prison, money made Lionel more cruel and ruthless, and the fate of the nephews and uncles also changed dramatically...

Apart from "The Case of Judge Dick of the Tang Dynasty", this is the only detective novel written by Goloupe. He takes off the mask of Judge Dee and returns to the Amsterdam of yesterday. The Chinese version is released for the first time, with a special preface by Thomas Van Gulick, son of Goloupe. "God-Sent Day" is the only detective novel set in Amsterdam besides the "Tang Dynasty Dickon Case" series by Goluope. The story has twists and turns. It not only describes the difficult life of ordinary people during and after World War II, including various practical and psychological dilemmas, but also There is also an investigation of Eastern culture, especially Zen Buddhism. In the collision and confrontation between Eastern and Western cultures, the pursuit of human spiritual salvation and way out reflects an important aspect of the multi-cultural personality of Goloupe himself, that is, the spiritual characteristics of the Dutch.

"It always snows here, and they are the tears of angels. It covers the ground and illuminates the heavy winter." The boy trudged for two days and two nights in the heavy snowstorm, and came to the cafe to return the books of his deceased friend Bart. In the new place, the boy has to complete a task: accompany the postman James to deliver a letter to the end of the world. What lies before them is a journey that can be fatal at any time: endless wind and snow, waves and mountains, biting cold and eternal loneliness. On their next journey to a wide fjord, the two accompany each other, and both must risk their lives for the other and an unusual piece of mail.

A collection of short stories by Victoria Hyslop, the author of "Island" that has sold over 1.3 Million copies. The ten wonderful stories that took place on the Mediterranean are enough to touch and nourish every cold heart. In every neighborhood in Athens, whether it is high-end and elegant or slightly shabby, there is always a window full of fairy tales perched in a corner. The tragedy and comedy of love and loyalty, separation and reconciliation are constantly being staged here. Some people live a peaceful life, while others want to break this peaceful life. A blue cafe, a green cafe, what secrets are hidden in them? The dance steps slipped out of the cafe and onto the street. The sunshine flooded in, dispelling all the gloom. It's a place for heartbreak and a place for waking up.

"Howards End" is one of Forster's most important full-length masterpieces. It ranks 38th on the list of "The 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" by the famous Random House "Modern Library". The novel revolves around a beautiful old manor - Howards End. By describing the marriage life of two sisters, it presents to people the various social contradictions that British society faced under the impact of industrialization and mechanical civilization in the early 20th century, and explores the political, economic, class, gender, cultural and other issues in the period of British social transformation. Foster's novels have strong social critical significance, are full of humor and irony, have sophisticated plots, are also highly symbolic and even philosophical, and perfectly integrate artistry and readability.

Carson McCullers (1917-1967), an American female writer and a representative figure in southern American literature. His works include the short story collection "Songs of the Sad Cafe", the novels "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", "Members of the Wedding", "Image of the Golden Eye", etc. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", first published in 1951, includes the novella of the same name and six short stories published by McCullers in different periods, including her debut novel "The Prodigy" when she was 19 years old. Throughout her life, she has focused on exploring the unequal relationship between love and being loved, the impact of environmental opportunities on talent, and the enlightenment of people's understanding in a limited life. ... The novella "Song of the Sad Cafe" is McCullers' masterpiece. It tells the story of a bizarre love triangle in a wild town in the south of the United States, between the rich, talented but withdrawn Miss Amelia, the hunchback cousin Raymond with unknown origins, and the bad scoundrel ex-husband Marvin Macy, centered on a cafe transformed from a grocery store.

After the death of the great writer Driffield, his wife asked someone to write a biography of him. Ashenden, the narrator of the novel, was invited by the biographer to recall his interactions with the writer, and the story unfolds from there. Deep in Ashenden's memory we discover the writer's ex-wife, the charming Rosie. She is romantic by nature, always merciful, yet still kind, frank, elegant and lively. In this book, Maugham changed the prejudice against women in his previous works and recalled the life of a beautiful woman as an admirer, embellished with many anecdotes from the literary and artistic circles. The layout of the entire novel is well-proportioned, reality and memories are interspersed with each other, and the writing is clean, sharp and profound, creating the most vivid, vivid and radiant female image in all Maugham's novels.

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"The Great Gatsby" is a novella written by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is set in New York and Long Island in the 1920s. Through the narration of "I" Carraway, it describes the tragic story of the mysterious rich Gatsby who persisted in love but was eventually abandoned by love and died because of it. With beautiful language and exquisite techniques, it delicately and accurately depicts the social landscape of the United States in the "Jazz Age". It can be called a swan song that shows the disillusionment of the "American Dream" in the 1920s, and is regarded as a symbol of American "Jazz Age" literature. The publication of "The Great Gatsby" established Fitzgerald's status in the American literary world, making him the spokesman of the "Jazz Age" in the 1920s and one of the representative writers of the "Lost Generation". After the 1950s, "The Great Gatsby" has been used as a standard textbook in American high school and college literature courses.

From 1843 to 1848 (except 1847), Dickens published a novella every Christmas, a total of five novels, which were published together under the name "Christmas Stories". These novels are by no means purely episodic works; they focus on the author's dream of reconciling social contradictions and his emotions of sadness and disappointment. Just take the most famous "A Christmas Carol" as an example. The story describes a stingy old businessman who is led by three ghosts on Christmas Eve to see the kindness of the poor and the fate of the cruel people, and then becomes a generous and kind person. ..."A Christmas Story" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the British people, and the characters in it are almost household names. Many critics believe that its publication marked a period of prosperity for Dickens's creation.

Bob Slocum's life exemplifies the American Dream. He is a middle-level manager in a large company, a husband and father of three children in a middle-class family, living a prosperous life and having a steady stream of lovers. His life is stable and orderly, he follows the rules, and society demands that he be happy-or at least pretend to be. But the pretense is getting harder and harder. Slocum's heart was filled with unhappiness, which gradually deteriorated into desolation and fear, until one day, something happened.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - In the winter of 1501, the cold sun climbed into the gray sky, and the beautiful Spanish princess Catherine married the English prince Arthur. Is this a happy ritual or the beginning of a curse? Firm faith and true love eventually turn into heavy shackles on a sad soul. From an innocent girl to a political victim, see how Catherine, the mother of "Bloody Mary", fell into the quagmire of royal battles step by step... The translation has been significantly revised in all aspects to improve accuracy and fluency. The overall unified translation has improved the deficiencies of the old translation. The reprinted character relationship diagram and additional annotations make it easier for readers to read without any threshold.

The "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I may not have been a virgin. Is her lifelong entanglement with her favorites a matter of profit or true love? "The Virgin Lover" centers on the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Elizabeth I, who ushered in the "Golden Age", and her lover Robert Dudley. Many events that have been briefly mentioned in official history show different styles through their eyes, and the ambiguous relationship between the two people, which is talked about by future generations, also gets a new interpretation.

Two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel's epic masterpiece and the opening chapter of the "Tudor Trilogy" writes about the legendary life of the "godfather-like" hero Thomas Cromwell and reveals the bloody and dark palace secrets of the Tudor dynasty. The original work of the 2015 BBC six-episode miniseries "Wolf Hall" set a BBC ratings record and won the 73rd Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries and Television Movie in the United States. In this dark historical stage, everyone is in danger, and one step could lead to death. However, the protagonist Thomas Cromwell is an exception - he is cold and rational, thoughtful, and can maneuver among the monarch, the church, and the nobility with ease; he is considerate and affectionate, and treats his lovers, relatives, and friends with meticulous care and meticulous care. "Wolf Hall" takes the divorce case of Henry VIII and Queen Catherine as the entry point. With the loss of the Cardinal Archbishop, Queen Catherine is deposed, Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn and a series of other events... There are turmoils inside and outside the palace, which finally ends with the death of Thomas More; Cromwell carefully planned and worked step by step, and finally became the most popular minister. The novel takes Cromwell's life and the court of Henry VIII as the main thread, weaving a huge web that reflects the political, religious and economic landscape of England in the early 16th century.

Malloy Sandor's youth began in Germany. In 1919, he left Kausau and studied at the Leipzig School of Journalism. In Germany, he realized his literary dream and became a columnist for the Frankfurter Zeitung along with famous writers such as Thomas Mann and Theodor Adorno. Thereafter, he traveled throughout Europe, to East Asia, and finally returned to Budapest. For ten years, he was a traveler, writer and journalist. He gazed at the European continent between the two world wars with a calm and rational eye. He glimpsed the twilight moment of civilization through the prosperous surface, and revealed the decadent dark side hidden by beauty: the decline of humanistic traditions, the disintegration of moral ethics, and the disappearance of spiritual homeland. He also recalled the lost world of yesterday with his fiery and sensual pen and fiery sincerity, making his words a lasting reminder of time and history, leaving a testimony for the era behind him. From leaving a foreign land to returning home, it begins with exploration and ends with enlightenment. Malloy experienced the loneliness and confusion of wandering, the uninhibitedness and romance of youth, the friendship and love across classes, and finally confirmed and shouldered his "mission as a Hungarian writer." What he tells is not only his personal destiny, but also the destiny of a generation of European intellectuals.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the summer of 1431, Joan of Arc stood on the stake. Tongues of fire climbed up the girl's back, but there was no miracle to save her. The "Wheel of Fortune" gives people the power to command the king, and it can also push people into the abyss of painful death at the next moment. Yageta, who was on the side of the execution ground, witnessed all this and predicted all this. Having inherited the blood of the river goddess, can she break free from the chains of fate and survive the cruel palace battles? The translation has been significantly revised in all aspects to improve accuracy and fluency. The overall unified translation has improved the deficiencies of the old translation. The reprinted character relationship diagram and supplementary annotations make it easier for readers to read without any threshold.

"Sen no Rikyu: The Posthumous Writings of Honkakubo" is one of the representative works of the late Japanese writer Yasu Inoue. The novel is based on a famous event at the end of the Warring States Period in Japan: Sen no Rikyu, a tea sage, was killed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As Toyotomi Hideyoshi's tea head, Sen no Rikyu's death has always been a mystery. How Rikyu angered Hideyoshi and was actually ordered to commit seppuku by the person he had been serving for so long has been a topic of discussion among historians and history buffs for hundreds of years, as well as a source of inspiration for novelists. Most novelists explain Rikyu's seppuku incident from various aspects such as historical background, interpersonal relationships, conspiracies and intrigues. There has never been a shortage of discussions on major life issues such as life and death in Japanese literature. In this book, Rikyu does not use the tea ceremony to understand life and death, but uses life and death to understand the tea ceremony, so that the "silent tea" he has pursued throughout his life can truly be realized.

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At the end of the world last time, a wood beetle got into Noah's ark. What it saw Noah doing was very different from what was recorded in the book. The Ark reappears repeatedly in human history, whether it is a robbed cruise ship, a Titanic, or a lone boat on the sea in a nuclear panic... This stowaway has not left. It looks coldly at how history is distorted, and how the distortion can become "real" history; it possesses Barnes's wonderful writing, teaching him to collage a seemingly absurd but enlightening world history with pieces of wonderful articles.

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This book is set in the suburbs of Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War, and uses the writer's trip to Nanquan as the axis. It shows a picture of the customs of eastern Sichuan. Civil servants, teachers, and intellectuals who make a living by selling literature live in poverty, while wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials live in luxury and corruption.

"Bashan Night Rain" was written in 1946 after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and began to be serialized in 1946. It took more than three years to complete at the end of 1948. It is Zhang Henshui's "painful lesson" work. With a cold and rational writing style, the author takes the lead in exploring the national psychology while accusing the war atrocities of the Japanese invaders. The novel takes the protagonist Li Nanquan as the axis and shows readers a picture of all living beings in the mountain village of eastern Shu. The characters are lifelike, the language is humorous and sharp, and the novel's descriptive skills have reached a level of proficiency.

This book is set in the suburbs of Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War, and uses the writer's trip to Nanquan as the axis. It shows a picture of the customs of eastern Sichuan. Civil servants, teachers, and intellectuals who make a living by selling literature live in poverty, while wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials live in luxury and corruption.