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This book describes how from September 3, 1939 to May 10, 1940, Nazi Germany mediated in various countries and launched a series of activities to annex Central and Northern European countries under Hitler's planning, thus paving the way for Germany's eventual invasion of France and the United Kingdom.

"Cthulhu Mythos II: Whispers in the Dark" is the most influential horror novel system in the twentieth century! The most anticipated authoritative translation of "Cthulhu Mythos II: Whispers in the Dark", an introductory book and search outline for the Cthulhu Mythology! "Cthulhu Mythos II: Whispers in the Dark" includes Lovecraft's famous works: "The Nameless City", "Whispers in the Dark", "The Shadow Beyond Time", "At the Mountains of Madness", "Facts About the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family", "Cthulhu Mythos II: Whispers in the Dark" novels often use semi-formal forms such as diaries, reports, research notes, etc., Starting with puzzles, and collaging together to create a vague but complete picture. When the real strange world: incest, strange murders, strange things in small towns, summons of evil gods, pagan worship, family fate... And the source of the mystery ultimately points to a powerful force that breaks the laws of time, space, and nature... "Cthulhu Mythos II: Whispers in the Dark" transcends the "cosmism" core of the times and its huge world of gods, becoming the spiritual core and source of inspiration for countless works in later generations...

Randolph Carter dreamed of that magnificent city three times, and each time he woke up suddenly while standing on a high terrace outside the city. The city shone gracefully with golden light in the sun; its walls, temples, colonnades, and arch bridges were all made of marble with bright textures; its broad squares and fragrant gardens were filled with fountains that used silver as pools and spewed out colorful water columns; The wide streets are lined with elegant trees, flowered urns, and shiny ivory statues; the steep slopes in the north of the city are lined with layers of red roofs and old-fashioned pointed gables, intertwined with cobblestone paths dotted with grass. That city was the revelry of the gods: here the otherworldly trumpets played ostentatiously, and the immortal cymbals clashed noisily.

Chapters included in "Cthulhu Mythos IV": "Color of the Stars": The strange color phenomenon falling from the universe, the thing in the well that corrupted the town. "The Horrible Old Man": There's an old captain living in town, and it's best not to disturb him. "The Thing on the Doorstep": Believe me, it wasn't me who killed my friend. "The Strange Picture of the Old House": That painting is not a work of fantasy, but... "The Music of Erich Zenn": It is true that music makes people possessed. "Herbert West - Resurrection of Corpses": Resurrection of a recently deceased person immediately, will he tell the scene after death? "Cold Wind": suitable for summer. "The Diary of Alonzo Tempel": The night of the Magic Feast is coming, and I must be ready. "Moonmarsh": a swamp under the moonlight, a ruin and people dancing on it. "Who is he. "Night Ocean": The tenderness and romance of love craftsmanship.

"The Cthulhu Mythos" is known as the most influential horror novel system in the 20th century. The author Howard Philip Lovecraft advocated "cosmism" and believed that human beings are far from being the masters of the world. In the unknown universe that has not yet been explored, there are unimaginable and unspeakable horrific truths hidden. Even a glimpse of it may make people fall into madness or death. As the author said: "The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear; and the oldest and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown." This book contains 6 short and medium-sized stories such as "The Call of Cthulhu", "Whispers in the Dark" and "The Dunwich Incident". Each of them is enough to arouse your inner fear of the dark.

The long wait is finally over, and the carnival of Cthulhu is here again! The second volume of "The Cthulhu Mythos" that is a must-have for believers, including "At the Mountains of Madness", "Innsmouth", "Rat in the Wall" and "The Shadow Beyond Time"! The truth in the unspeakable dark abyss challenges your Sanity. The first choice for entry, a must-have for collection

The most influential fantasy and horror novel system in the 20th century! The "Cthulhu Mythos" was created by the American writer Lovecraft. He built an extremely grand world, filled with creations and existences that transcend human cognitive dimensions and are extremely distant in time and space. George Martin, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, the author of "American Gods", and the famous Japanese cartoonist Junji Ito are all loyal fans. The games "World of Warcraft", "StarCraft", "Hearthstone", science fiction masterpieces "Ultraman", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Alien" and "Batman" are all deeply influenced by it. This series is compiled by the well-known translator Qu Changxuan. The first volume is an eclectic collection of 12 classic short and medium-sized novels, including "Call of Cthulhu", "Temple", "The Nameless City", "The Last Days of Shanas", "Pickman's Model", "History (Outline)", "Old Books", "Him", "The Terror in Red Hook", "Air Conditioner", "The Terror in the Wax Museum" and "Across the Aeons". An unlockable and immersive read that takes you into the world of horror! "I think the greatest kindness in the world is the limitations of the human brain in understanding."

O. Henry is good at using romantic techniques to describe ordinary characters, especially the lives of ordinary people. His writing style is humorous, his stories are strange, often have unexpected endings, and his tasks are lifelike and flesh-and-blood. This book selects his short stories such as "The Gift of the Magi", "The Last Ivy Leaf" and "The Policeman and the Hymn", which fully demonstrate the author's literary value. The translation by the famous translator Wang Yongnian adds a bit of artistic charm to the work.

This set contains a total of 6 books: "Trial Issue", "Foucault's Pendulum", "Baudolino", "Minerva Matchbox", "The Name of the Rose", and "The Dwarfs on the Dwarf Planet".

The works of global best-selling author, lifestyle leader, and speaker Alain de Botton have long been on bestseller lists in Europe and the United States. 80 Paintings and photographs, and more than 30 excerpts of excellent works are beautifully presented; the novels on the left hand are full of talents; the prose on the right hand comforts people's hearts. The beautiful words of Wordsworth and Baudelaire take you to taste the world. A new preface written by de Botton especially for Chinese readers has been added. Pricking a needle into the dream at the end of "Love in Prague", the oozing light blue can color de Botton's journey; the true color of any journey is transformed by the blue of the heart and the blue of the mist, becoming an irresistible temptation; the space loses its geographical meaning In the direction of the location, time lazily turned into a wisp of fragrance; only Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Van Gogh and de Botton, a talented man, connected the itinerary and words, and the resonance throbbed in the depths of the soul; walking with de Botton, the road ahead was a journey to a distant place or a return to home in the sunset...

The essays in "Faulkner's Essays", like his novels, also present a very special diversity. For example, "Mississippi", "On Privacy", "On Fear", etc. Are all masterpieces of Faulkner's non-fiction works. Faulkner's wisdom, knowledge, imagination, talent and sense of humor are fully reflected in this book. These articles, while showing us what this extremely passionate, extremely complex, and extremely secretive writer was willing to reveal to the public during the last forty years of his career, also allow us to gain a better understanding of his person and his work.

In the first article, he defends the Marquis de Sade. Beauvoir starts from the privileged class's understanding of their situation, taking the old aristocracy as an example: the aristocrats defend their rights without considering the rationality of this right. Sade was born into a noble family, but he had the courage to take on his own uniqueness, violated the moral standards followed by the nobles, and used the most extreme method to demand his own pleasure as an absolute law. Although he failed in the end, his flamboyant behavior revealed that the egoism of the privileged class could only be wishful thinking and could not give itself legitimacy in the eyes of everyone. The second article "Merleau-Ponty and the Pseudo-Sartre Doctrine" is also written from the perspective of the privileged class. In the French environment of the 1950s and 1960s, some intellectuals stood on the side of the greatest interests, tried to confuse the general interests and the interests of the bourgeoisie, and had a debate with Sartre. Beauvoir defended Sartre and wrote this article.

This set has 10 volumes in total, including the must-read 9 classic works of Yukio Mishima, including the world-recognized masterpieces "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", "Tidal Wave" and "Hunger of Love", the early famous work "Confessions of a Mask", the ultimate youthful writing, the ultimate work of heterochromatic aesthetics "Forbidden Color", and the literary miracles of the 20th century: "Sea of ​​Fertility" tetralogy "Spring Snow", "Galloping Horse", "Akatsuki Temple" and "The Five Declines of Heaven and Man"

"The Complete Works of Borges Volume 1 (16 volumes in total)" includes "The Villain", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "Apocryphal Collection", "Aleph", "The Brody Report", "The Book of Sand", "Evaristo Calle" Ge", "Discussions", "Eternal History", "Discussions", "Poetry", "Prefaces and Prefaces", "Borges, Oral Narration", "Seven Nights", "Nine Dante Cantos" and "Private Collection: Prefaces", a total of sixteen volumes. Borges led the trend of Latin American literature in the twentieth century and was a landmark figure in Spanish and Latin American literature. He "paved the way for a generation of Spanish-American novelists to stand out" (Nobel Prize winner in literature, South African writer Coetzee). Garcia Marquez, the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" said: "The only novel I bought in Buenos Aires was The first thing is "The Complete Works of Borges". I put this set of books in my suitcase and carry it with me, intending to take it out and read it every day. "His influence extends beyond Latin America and Europe, and he has become a world-renowned literary master in the twentieth century. This version is an exclusively authorized version that fills the gap in the market in the past ten years. It is an authoritative translation and has been revised and improved; it also eliminates the heaviness of the complete set. It is launched for the first time in the form of a stand-alone independent version of the author's original work, allowing readers to experience the world of Borges in detail.

Select 16 Tagore paintings and enjoy a double feast of poetry appreciation and painting. Asia's first Nobel Prize winner in literature. Every flower, every tree, every grass, every dust, in his writings are all beautiful words and lively thoughts, "as if looking into the eyes of the Creator." Tagore shows us such a culture, a culture that reaches perfection in the vast tranquility and soul-cleansing forests of India, a culture whose main purpose is to obtain peace of soul by continuously increasing the harmony with the natural body of life.

"The Collection of the Prodigal Son Returns Home" has six texts in total: Narith's Explanation, Love Experiment, El-Aqian, Philocdande, Bai Shapei, and The Prodigal Son's Return. It is like a prose poem, a novel, and a drama, but the author collectively calls it a "monograph" (Traités). The translator, Mr. Bian Zhilin, feels that the translation as "explanation" is not satisfactory. The materials of the six texts are all taken from myths, legends or fables in Greece and the Bible, and the symbols are interpreted with symbols. There are books in books and paintings within paintings, layered and full of meanings. They fully reflect the unique aesthetic, artistic, religious and moral views of Gide, the most complex literary master of the 20th century. Each of the six texts has its own emphasis but complements each other. It can be regarded as Gide's most artistic spiritual autobiography.

"Forest" is the masterpiece of the famous Soviet popular science writer Vitaly Valentinovich Bianchi. This book was published in 1927. The author uses his artistic talent to describe the life of animals and plants. He uses a brisk writing style and adopts the form of a newspaper to report the news in the forest, the happy festivals and sad events in the forest, the heroes and robbers in the forest, and the life of animals and plants in a vivid and fascinating way. The author also tells children how to observe nature and how to compare, think and study nature.

This set contains a total of five books: "The Catcher in the Rye", "Nine Stories", "Francny and Zooey", "Raise the Beams, Carpenters: Seymour: A Biography" and "The Catcher in the Rye" in Chinese and English. Among them, Salinger's classic "The Catcher in the Rye" tells the story of Holden, a sixteen-year-old middle school student who was born in a middle-class family in New York. His parents and teachers wanted him to study hard so that he could stand out in the future, but all he did in school all day long was talk about alcohol and women. He couldn't understand everything around him, had no intention of studying, and was always punished. When he was expelled for the fourth time, Holden did not go home and wandered alone in New York for a day and two nights. He finally collapsed completely and lay down in a mental hospital...

"Selected Short Stories of Somerset Maugham" has a total of twenty-three short stories, which take us to the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Mexico, and also lead us to appreciate the customs of the Pacific island countries. The secular men and women in Maugham's works play unforgettable roles in scenes of harsh human dramas. The weaknesses of human nature are always under precise perspective, and interpersonal relationships are coldly analyzed again and again. In various bizarre scenes, lost humanity triggered a series of tragedies.

The beginning of the story tells that a little boy and a girl accidentally entered a different world called "Narnia", where they experienced a series of adventures and saw the creation of that world...,

Six bones are arranged in a room of death that is both real and imaginary. "My" old friend "Rat" has died in the sheep hunting adventure. "I" finally found Gotanda, an old classmate, whom he fell in love with, but this movie star, who was packaged as schizophrenic by the entertainment industry, strangled two high-end call girls to death one after another, and himself was buried in the sea in a "Maserati". Although the lonely girl "Xue" and her aloof mother "Yu" can barely survive in this crazy world, "Yu"'s patron saint Dick can't escape an inexplicable car accident. After a period of frightening days accompanied by death, "I" finally found a sense of security in the hotel maid Yumiyoshi, and made a concrete plan to live a quiet life in a quiet city. But, who does the sixth white skeleton mean? "I" still cannot escape from the house of death.

The twenty-three short stories in "Selected Collection of Maugham's Short Stories" take us to the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Mexico, and also lead us to appreciate the customs of the Pacific island countries. The secular men and women in Maugham's works play unforgettable roles in scenes of harsh human dramas. The weaknesses of human nature are always under precise perspective, and interpersonal relationships are coldly analyzed again and again. In various bizarre scenes, lost humanity triggered a series of tragedies.

No wonder Haruki Murakami read it 12 times! The masterpiece of Chandler, a great American literary master! Whenever he is in trouble, Haruki Murakami turns on "The Long Goodbye"! Haruki Murakami once personally translated "The Long Goodbye", setting off a reading frenzy! Haruki Murakami: "Chandler is my idol, and I have read "The Long Goodbye" more than a dozen times." Haruki Murakami: "Whenever someone asks me, 'Which three books are most important to you,' I can answer without thinking: 'The Great Gatsby,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' and 'The Long Goodbye.' Whether I am a reader or a writer, these three books are necessary for my life. Haruki Murakami Shuyan's lifelong goal was to write a novel that combined Chandler and Tolstoy. He personally translated "The Long Goodbye" and set off a Chandler reading craze in Japan. In the history of human literature, he used textbook-level polished writing to create the classic image of "tough guy detective" Marlowe. Since then, all tough guys have the shadow of Marlowe. Chandler is recognized as one of the spokespersons of American literature in the 20th century.

"In this lonely and helpless world, dancing is the only way out!" "Dance!" Dance! Dance! " Is another important novel by Haruki Murakami. The content of this book is connected with "The Adventures of Sheep Hunting". The protagonist "I" is the same person. The novel is divided into two clues. One is about "my" old classmate Gotanda, a perfect but suffering movie star who suffered from packaging. Unable to bear the burden of reality, he killed two call girls and then threw himself into the sea. Another line in the novel is that "I" got to know the lonely girl "Xue". She and her mother "Yu" were dependent on each other, while "Yu"'s kind-hearted boyfriend Di Ke died in an accidental car accident. The shadow of friends dying one after another continued to hang over "me". "I" lived a frightening time under the shadow of death, and finally fell in love with a hotel maid and gained a sense of security.

It describes an ancient god (Cthulhu) who lived on the earth long before the birth of human civilization and fell into a deep sleep for unknown reasons. Therefore, their bodies and civilization are sealed in the deep sea or the Antarctic, waiting for the moment of recovery to enslave the earth's creatures again.

This set of books includes: "The White Wolf Rises", "The Sword of Destiny", "Blood of Elves", "The Age of Contempt", "Baptism of Fire", "The Tower of Swifts" and "The Lady of the Lake", a total of seven volumes. He came from the north on horseback, with white hair and a weathered face; he is a stranger and a demon hunter who takes slaying demons as his own duty and walks between the fog of reality and legend.

"Collection of Haruki Murakami's Representative Works" selects ten representative works of Haruki Murakami. In the newly revised Chinese version in 2018, Haruki Murakami wrote a preface for Chinese readers for the first time. This set includes "Norwegian Wood", "Kafka on the Shore", "Hear the Wind Sing", "Pinball 1973", "Sheep Hunt" and "Dance!" Dance! Dance! "South of the Border, West of the Sun", "The Journey of Strange Birds", "Sputnik Lovers", "The End of the World and Grim Wonderland", a total of ten volumes. Haruki Murakami, a famous modern Japanese writer, was born in Kyoto in 1949. He started writing at the age of 29. His first work, "Listen to the Wind Sing", won the Japan Newcomer Award. In 1987, his fifth novel "Norwegian Wood" was released in Japan and became a phenomenon-level best-seller, with tens of millions of copies sold worldwide, triggering the "Murakami Phenomenon". His works are widely known around the world and have won multiple world-class literary awards. He is also one of the writers with the highest reputation for the Nobel Prize in Literature over the years.

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"Ice Is Sleeping Water" uses interlocking narratives and compact and smooth writing to describe the story of a national security agent. The novel focuses on Wang Bin, a descendant of the National Security martyr, and describes the story of Wang Bin, an ordinary teenager who gradually grew into a National Security agent under the call of a belief and bloodline. During this period, the childhood sweetheart girl Han Xiaolin was ravaged by T Army agents and brainwashed into becoming an enemy agent. As a result, a human tragedy began between two young people who deeply loved each other. The fate of the country and the nation, the misunderstandings of relatives and friends, the tribulations of life and death, love and hatred, in the face of national interests, they gave up all personal interests, just for a vow and a belief! The novel uses a unique script-style writing technique to show the lives and emotional world of these vivid characters like a movie. It is majestic and shocking, and brings readers a new reading pleasure and emotional experience.

A baby who was only half a year old was suffering from serious diseases such as congenital hydrocephalus and spina bifida. Faced with such a patient, the young brain surgeon Nozu is caught in a dilemma: to cure the disease, he must perform surgery, but the surgery is extremely risky. If the surgery fails, he will personally kill a young life; if he ignores it, it will be tantamount to arbitrarily depriving the baby of the hope of survival. Looking at the beautiful and sad eyes of the baby's mother, Nozu was a little shaken...

Two soldiers whose fates were completely changed due to different orders of surgeries... The ultimate choice of an artist suffering from cancer... "Typical" patients who want to defend their dignity or just live a life... The depravity and revenge caused by love and hatred... Junichi Watanabe's well-known short story collection is not to be missed, including Junichi Watanabe's early works "Light and Shadow", "Death Sentence", "Resistance of the Monkey" and "Association of the Rose".

The "Wednesday Morning" pub in Akasaka, Tokyo is like a stage, where seven intertwined and mutually extending love stories are staged one after another. Some people "donate bones" for their lovers, forcing them to go to a dead end; some people "induced labor" for their lovers, making their husbands mature. Some people have a vigorous relationship, but they become a thing of the past. Some people only find the truest care after bidding farewell to their passion. The colorful world of love, the bizarre world of things, the ups and downs, and the flavors.

It includes nine works including "Twilight in Ginza", "Torrent", "Hearsay" and "Spring Revenge". It describes a middle-aged doctor who breaks up with his passionate girlfriend and marries another person, and in order to comfort his youthful troubles and guilt for his ex-girlfriend, he seeks information about her in a roundabout way; a business executive who is ambushed and blackmailed by a bartender and her accomplices due to vanity; a boss lady who works hard to train her daughter to inherit the restaurant business, but becomes jealous because her daughter's popularity is gradually eclipsing hers...

Dr. Enjoji left the university hospital with complicated interpersonal relationships and came to work as an attending physician in a private hospital. Many patients with hidden diseases who are unable to go to large hospitals for consultation have come to seek medical treatment. A private hospital is like a kaleidoscope, reflecting various images of people living at the bottom of society and struggling in the cracks of human nature. The doctors' benevolence and the patients' inner struggles interweave into an ups and downs story, which is full of fun and thought-provoking.

Originally titled "Heart Transplant", the work was adapted from the heart transplant procedure performed at the Sapporo Medical University Affiliated Hospital in 1968. It is a novel by Jun Watanabe. Driven by the motivation to become a heart transplant performer, the protagonist Yusuke Shigeto transplants the heart of a young man who was brain-dead due to drowning into a young patient with congenital heart disease. The process is accompanied by opposition within the hospital and doubts from the patient's family. Newspaper reporter Kentaro Tomatsuka keenly sensed the huge news value behind this incident, and worked hard to dig out internal information in order to write sensational headlines. The novel is driven by a two-line narrative, which not only has a sense of semi-documentary reality, but also develops a rich imagination of the protagonist's inner world. The tense atmosphere between characters with different positions is vividly expressed on the page through the author's vivid description. Through this work, we can find the origin of the narrative charm of Watanabe Junichi's novels.

Looking back on my youth, there was love and affection, but at the same time there were also a lot of worries, hesitation and confusion. I wrote this book because I wanted to summarize and reflect on everything in my past. The characters and places in the book are not limited to my youth around the age of 20. All the regrets, confusions, homesickness, and resentment I experienced in my teens, thirties, forties, and even today are all recorded in this book. --Junichi Watanabe

"Snow Falls in Tokyo" shows the author's concentrated observation and thinking about Japanese society over about three years, covering aspects such as natural scenery, social culture, medical care, living customs and creative experience. There are surprises and anxiety about environmental changes, concerns and warnings about the fragility of urban functions, criticism and thinking about hot social issues, and at the same time, heartfelt warnings about these issues.

We are not swayed by the world, we are full of curiosity, and pursue the love of life; we do not hesitate to praise others, and do not forget to appreciate ourselves and love ourselves. Being elegant and free is a bit bad!

"The Strange Current Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years", written by Wu Jianren, is an autobiographical work and one of the four major condemnation novels in the late Qing Dynasty. Taking the protagonist's experience as the main clue, it begins with him attending the funeral for his father and ends with his failure in business. Through the experiences and knowledge of the twenty years of "narrow escapes", it reflects the social reality from before and after the Sino-French War in the 10th year of Guangxu (1884) to the early twentieth century, and exposes the corruption and depravity of the ruling class during the general collapse of feudal society. In addition to the officialdom, it also writes about shopping malls and foreign markets, objectively revealing the darkness of the entire feudal society and its inevitable demise.

This book contains many short stories and 5 notebook novels such as "The Story of Righteousness", "The Wrongful Soul of Black Book", "The Heart-to-Heart" and "Chinese Detective Case", as well as 4 types of jokes. These works are all compiled based on the original publication serialization, that is, stronghold proofreading, and are included. Many works in this edition have been compiled, revised and continued by the author. "Ji Xin Ji" is entirely based on historical facts. The edicts, memorials, submissions, and all interrogation and examination situations contained in the book are all recorded from the original manuscripts of the case, and not a word is fabricated. "Chinese Detective Cases" was compiled by Wu Jianren after collecting dozens of ancient and modern strange cases in China. It was called "the origin of Chinese detective books with notes" by people at the time.

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This book is a classic work written by the Qing Dynasty novelist Wu Jianren. It was first published in the form of a serial novel in Shanghai's "World Prosperity Newspaper" in the 32nd year of Guangxu's reign. The works mainly reflect the dark reality of officialdom in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other regions during the late Qing Dynasty. At the same time, it also adds some high-level summaries and discussions on the current situation of the officialdom at that time, which has the effect of warning the times and saving the world. As far as the writing technique of the novel is concerned, the author adopts realistic documentary. He faithfully recorded what he saw and heard in the officialdom at that time, and used the structure of "The Scholars" to connect them from person to thing. The author uses the name "Confused World", which can make people deeply feel the critical significance of it. This is also a hint of the author's self-contained praise and blame in the writing style of writing about people and events. It can enable us to observe the events and understand its meaning when reading this novel, and achieve a warning effect of reviewing the past and learning the new. Due to its limited circulation and age, this book is now difficult to access. The author's brush strokes range from provincial and state governors to tailors, matchmakers, and public houses, vividly painting a picture of a society in which right and wrong are reversed and black and white are indistinguishable. This confused and confusing current situation is all caused by the chaos of officialdom and corruption in the officialdom. It is still very enlightening for today's readers.

"Change of Love", written by Wu Jianren, a late Qing Dynasty writer, takes the society of the late Qing Dynasty as the background and tells the story of the tragic love between scholar Qin Baifeng and the girl Kou Anan. The two broke through the feudal shackles and made a private life, but they fell apart due to war, misunderstanding and real pressure. The novel uses love and tribulation to describe the changes in the world, revealing the struggle of individual emotions between fate and ethics in turbulent times. It is a typical work of modern social romance novels.

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a novel written by Li Ruzhen in the Qing Dynasty. It was written during the Jiaqing and Daoguang years. The book has a total of 100 chapters. It is set in the era of Wu Zetian and tells the story of the Baihua Fairy in the sky and the flowers under her control. Because they followed the orders of the Emperor Wu Zetian and bloomed against time, they were demoted to the mortal world to experience. The first half of the novel mainly describes the story of Baihua Fairy's father, the scholar Tang Ao, who failed in the imperial examination and traveled to sea with his wife's brother Lin Zhiyang and the helmsman Duo Jiugong. During his travels, Tang Ao found the descendants of Xu Jingye, King Luo Bin and other loyal ministers who were exiled overseas because of their participation in the crusade against Wu Zetian. He also recorded his experiences in dozens of strange countries overseas. These descriptions of the country of girls, the country of gentlemen, foot binding, female imperial examinations, etc., Use bizarre customs to satirize various institutional ills of real society, showing the author's conception of an ideal society and his in-depth thinking about the real world. The brilliance of his thoughts far surpassed the era in which he lived. It is a pity that the second half of the work switches to the description of the group of talented women descended from the Fairy of Hundreds of Flowers, which is completely reduced to the author's work showing off his skills. It is almost a long display of drinking orders, lantern riddles, Shuanglu, algorithms, rhymes, etc.

A novel from the Qing Dynasty, with 100 chapters in total. It uses rich imagination and humorous style to show all kinds of world phenomena. It prominently depicts women's talents and embodies the idea of ​​respecting women's rights. The most significant thing about literary history is that it uses fantastic writing techniques to reveal various customs and moral depravity in human society, and embodies thinking about social issues, which is of practical significance.

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a novel written by Li Ruzhen, a literati in the Qing Dynasty. The first half of the novel describes the story of Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and others traveling overseas by boat, including their experiences in the Daughter Country, the Junzi Country, the Wuchang Country and other countries. The second half tells the story of Wu Zetian's imperial examination to select talented girls, Tang Xiaoshan, who was entrusted by Baihua Fairy, and one hundred talented girls entrusted by other flower fairies who passed the exam and made a difference in the court. His magical and humorous creative techniques are based on classics, and he cleverly outlines a gorgeous color picture of the heavenly wheel.

Li Ruzhen, a novelist of the Qing Dynasty, used her magical and humorous creative techniques to draw inspiration from classics, and created a hundred-chapter novel about gods and demons called "Flowers in the Mirror". It is a Chinese classical novel that is as bright as "Journey to the West", "Feng Shen Bang", and "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and is rich in mythology and romantic fantasy. The book consists of twenty volumes and consists of two parts. The first half describes the story of Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and others traveling overseas by boat, including their experiences in the "Daughter Country", "Junzi Country", "Intestinal Country" and other countries. The second half tells the story of Wu Zetian's imperial examination to select talented girls, Tang Xiaoshan, who was entrusted by Baihua Fairy, and one hundred talented girls entrusted by other flower fairies who passed the exam and made a difference in the court. This time, experts were invited to proofread and edit the original Suzhou edition.

This book is one of the most peculiar contents among my country's classical novels. Contemporary scholars call it a "miscellaneous novel". The author describes the images of 100 extremely intelligent women, embodying the progressive thoughts of demanding equality between men and women and opposing the oppression of women. The book also uses his imagination to describe various customs and customs in overseas countries. The book is humorous and full of wonderful ideas. Various anecdotes are popular and have been circulated for a long time.

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a novel written by Li Ruzhen, a writer in the Qing Dynasty. The first 50 chapters of the novel describe the story of Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and others traveling overseas by boat. The last 50 chapters tell the story of Wu Zetian selecting talented women through the imperial examination, Tang Xiaoshan, who was entrusted by the Baihua Fairy, and a hundred talented women entrusted by other flower fairies to make a difference in the court. The author uses imaginary overseas stories to satirize reality and express his ideals, showing his love for life, reverence for death and questioning of the human survival situation.