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A prince possessed by a demon and a monk dedicated to exorcising demons, win-win or fight to the death, that is the question.

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"The Silmarillion: Hardcover Illustrated Edition" is Tolkien's setting of the origin of the world of Middle-earth. It contains his ambition to create a creation epic for the English-speaking people. It was compiled and published posthumously by his youngest son Christopher Tolkien. The Silmarillion was created by the most talented elf, Fëanor. The Silmaril contains the Light of Valinor that once stood in the Two Holy Trees, the last remnant of an age before any corruption had occurred. The first Dark Lord, Morgoth the Fallen, stole them. The sons of Fëanor swore a blasphemous oath and insisted on leaving their homeland to wage war against their great enemy and seek revenge to the end. They persuaded the tribesmen to disobey the gods and cross the sea to fight.

The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy ("The Lord of the Rings", "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King") is a classic fantasy novel by the famous British writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It is a great "fantasy epic". The kind and brave protagonist Frodo Baggins gets the Lord of the Rings, and goes to Mount Doom to destroy the Ring with his friends, and defeats the evil force Sauron. The content of the epic story vividly demonstrates the heroic and fearless adventurous spirit of the protagonists. They fight to the death to resist the darkness for the bright future of the world, which is deeply inspiring. The book has a total of more than 900,000 words and was translated by Professor Lu Danjun, Professor Xin Hongjuan and Associate Professor Yan Yong. All three have rich translation experience. The translation is accurate, smooth and of a high level. They are especially talented and unique in the translation of long poems and ballads. Its film adaptation is popular all over the world and is the "laurel" Oscar winner.

In 1941, the wartime situation in Marseille was chaotic. An accident caused an engineer's mysterious creation box to release a powerful dream-making power that could change the war and the world. All dreams could become reality... In 1950, Thibault, a lonely fighter who lost his loved ones due to the war, entered a new psychedelic Paris. In order to escape from the fallen Paris, he manipulated the images that turned into entities and escaped with the hunted photographer Sam. New secrets are about to emerge, testing mutual trust, and the alternation of old and new Paris is reality itself.

City of Gods - Yilancui. It was once majestic and intimidating. Towering spiers, ingenious relief walls, majestic churches and numerous stone pillars... This pure white mysterious city is dazzling and exudes dazzling light. The people who live here are like gods and are worshiped by the world. However, ten years ago, "disaster" came. Yi Lancui's glory disappeared overnight, no longer glorious. The Yilancui people also changed from noble gods to bald monsters covered with black spots, and have been isolated from the world ever since...

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Tolkien's famous work, a classic of fantasy literature. "Lord of the Rings" translators Deng Jiawan, Shi Zhongge, and Du Yunci! In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. He lived a leisurely and comfortable life until the wizard Gandalf appeared and everything changed. He is forced to be involved in the dwarf's adventure and embark on a dangerous treasure hunt. "Across the mountains in the distance, the mist is cold. Go to the caves of the old days, the grottoes are deep." The ancient song sounded. Are the trolls, wargs, orcs, dragons, or treasures waiting for him ahead?

Not everyone was celebrating on the day of Cardiff's biggest anniversary event in New York City's history. Qin Tianshi, a genius with a twisted heart and powerful abilities, is planning a special "celebration" for his "anniversary", and a long-planned revenge operation is quietly unfolding...

Roland, the last "gunslinger" from "Middle World", travels through the wilderness to track down his mortal enemy, the Man in Black. On the way, he meets a beautiful lady, Alice, and a little boy from the human world, Jack. In the end, Roland met the man in black and drew seven tarot cards that predicted his future destiny. Soon he will face a painful choice: should he capture the man in black to obtain information about the "Dark Tower", or save the life of the little boy Jack?

"The Wind Through the Keyhole" is an extra chapter written by Stephen King for his most famous fantasy masterpiece "The Dark Tower" series. The narrator of the story is Roland. After his mother's death, Roland, who had just become a gunslinger, was sent by his father to De Villa to investigate the "Skin Man". The Skin Man can transform into the shapes of various beasts at will, and his methods of committing crimes are bloody and cruel, and he has already caused several tragedies. During the investigation, Roland met Billy Street, the only survivor and witness of the massacre on the farm. In order to comfort little Billy and help him muster the courage to cooperate with the investigation, Roland told him the story of "Brave Heart Tim" "The Wind Through the Keyhole" that he heard from his mother.

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Roland continues his journey to find the "Dark Tower". Along the way he was attacked by various mysterious creatures and brought Eddie Dean, a New York drug addict, back to his world and became friends. They travel together and meet Odetta, an African-American woman with autism, and the evil side of Odetta's self, Detta. The four continued on the road, and Odetta and Detta gradually merged into one, becoming a new person, Susanna, and married Eddie.

Why did the academic authority in the college become famous and gradually drifted away on the road of academic fraud?

The quaint Kyoto where tengu, humans and civet cats are divided into three parts has Kamogawa, Gion and Gozan Shouhuo; there is Hitenbo, ruby ​​port wine, wind god and thunder fan. It is a place that breeds legends and strange stories, as well as bonds and pure love. After the great father passed away, he left behind four useless sons. The eldest brother is impetuous and has no plans, the second brother is indifferent and has no ambition, the third brother is lazy and rogue, and the youngest brother is timid and lacks courage. Under the criticism of the world and the difficulties of the enemy, how will the glorious bloodline continue?

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The second volume of the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer Gurner's works focuses on the situation of refugees in the gap between different cultures, focuses on the immigrant identity crisis, and continues to write about the loneliness and struggle of those wandering in a foreign land. Specially included is the unabridged translation of Gurna's award-winning speech, giving a glimpse into the secrets of growth and writing that span two continents and blend with multiple civilizations. "2021 Nobel Prize Writer Gulnar's Works (Second Series)" includes 5 representative works of the Tanzanian British writer Abdulrazaq Gulnar: "Dotty", "Memory of Farewell", "Pilgrim's Road", "Abandonment" and "Gravel Heart".

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There is a special museum that collects bizarre mysteries that no one can solve. There is a pair of strange partners who vow to solve the murderous conspiracy that is hidden from the sky. Unsolved Case No. 1: Murder of a female high school student on the roof. On the rooftop of the teaching building, when the girl confessed her love to her senior, blood splattered everywhere. Unsolved Case No. 2: Serial arson cases in residences. Arson cases occurred one after another in many places, and the criminals just wanted to see someone at the scene. Uncensored Case No. 3: The case of strange dismemberment on the river bank. Ten bags of body parts were dumped by the river. The cutting points of the body parts were all at the joints. Uncensored Case No. 4: A murder case in which a million-dollar debt was owed. The creditor died suddenly at his home. The IOU was not touched at all. The suspect also had an alibi from the surveillance video. Unsolved Case No. 5: Son kidnapped by his biological mother. The mother kidnapped her biological son for money, but gave up the plan midway and disappeared from the world. Open this book and uncover the real criminal motives behind the unsolved cases!

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is an early representative work and a shortlisted work for the Booker Prize. In Ireland in the early 1990s, due to the terminal illness of her gay brother Declan, Helen had to reunite with her long-estranged mother Lily at her grandmother Dora's old house by the sea to take care of the terminally ill Declan. Also living with them are Declan's friends Paul and Larry. Helen and Lily have been estranged for a long time, and Lily also has many conflicts with Dora. In the process of facing Declan's illness, three generations with different beliefs and feelings were forced to examine their own past in the shallows of history, listen to each other's hearts amidst collisions and conflicts, and gradually reach an understanding through looking back on the past. Tobin uses soothing and beautiful words to explore the nature of love and the complex emotions within a conflicted family, which resonates deeply: How do you face your family and heal the deep wounds in your heart?

"The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau" tells the story of a pollen dealer who seemed ordinary in all respects. Because of his ridiculous ambition, he plummeted from the peak of prosperity and turned into a pauper who lost all his money. However, his "extremely honest" virtue and his efforts to atone for his sins gave his suffering a brilliance of martyrdom. The golden age was his unlucky beginning, and when the final victory came, his life also came to an end. In this way, Birotteau, who was not easily interested in readers, finally became one of the important characters that has been tested for a long time and has not become outdated on the stage of "Human Comedy". The work is not only a commercial novel with historical significance, but also a very interesting bourgeois genre painting.

Gurner, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, pays tribute to Shakespeare's work. I can't go back to my hometown, and I can't leave this city behind. Where is my home? Ordinary people who are helpless in turbulent times have nothing but their broken hearts. The protagonist Selim lives with his parents and uncle Amir in a house full of secrets. One day, Selim's father moved out of the house, but his mother kept silent about it, and then started a new family with a strange man. Selim cannot understand his father's choice and is ashamed of his silence. After graduating from high school, Selim was taken to London by his uncle who became a senior diplomat. However, the noise and coldness of this city left him at a loss and he could only survive in endless loneliness. After his mother's death, Selim returns to his hometown to try to unearth the secrets that are tearing his family apart. Eventually he had to face the pain of those closest to him, and the truth nearly destroyed him.

"My Life as a Man" was published in 1974 and is Roth's seventh novel. The novel tells the story of how Peter Tarnopol, a promising college student, a conscientious professor, and an aspiring writer, ruined his life in a frustrated love scene, a destructive marriage, and the entanglement of different types of women, especially his wife. The whole book adopts a novel structure of stories within stories, plots within plots, and digs deeper into the source of pain of this man who is in adversity and unable to extricate himself from misfortune and misfortune. By interweaving desperate fiction with searing truth, juxtaposing the characters' indecision with extreme cruelty, Roth creates a murderous tragedy about a fatal impasse between men and women.

When I was in college, I met a maverick gentleman by chance during a trip, and we became close friends. At that time, I was in confusion and couldn't find my direction in life. I especially wanted to get life guidance from my husband. As the relationship deepened, I found that my husband seemed to be a muddle-headed, passive and reclusive person, and there was even some kind of secret hidden in his words and deeds. One day, I suddenly received a posthumous letter from my husband. After learning his secret, I was shocked beyond words, because this secret could happen to each of you and me. To this day, I still believe that everyone who always lives in the past and lives in endless regret and self-blame will gain deep inner relief from Mr.'S story. Open this book to thoroughly see people's inner world and reconcile with your past self.

The end of love is not marriage, but happiness. With his unique literary talent, Hornby leads readers through an emotional thought experiment in a relaxed and humorous way, and once again explores what love is. People in the world always yearn for pure love that is not bound by prejudice, but whenever such love comes, it is like a flower in a vacuum and cannot be sustained. "I Just Like You" tells a modern love story between a black boy working part-time and a middle-aged white female teacher. The two protagonists met by chance in life and quickly fell in love. However, due to the huge gap between the two parties in terms of age, race, educational background, life experience, economic conditions, social status, and political stance, this relationship is destined to have a slim future. It is unlikely to lead to marriage, let alone the understanding and acceptance of the family. Disappointed, they tried to compromise with their fate and dated romantic partners who seemed to be "well-matched". However, they all ended in failure...

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The book "The Moon and Sixpence" translated by Wenzhu is one of the three masterpieces of William Somerset Maugham in the United Kingdom and was completed in 1919. The inspiration for "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on the life of the French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. The protagonist was originally an accomplished securities broker. After reaching middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and became obsessed with painting. He gave up everything and went to Tahiti in the South Pacific to live with the indigenous people, gain inspiration, and create amazing masterpieces. Maugham deeply explores the contradictions and interactions between life and art in his novels. After Maugham's novel came out, it became a sensation in the literary world for its fascinating plot and profound writing, and people rushed to read it.

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The work is narrated from the first-person point of view. The protagonist is a writer who meets the Strickland family. The family seemed happy and happy, but Mr. Strickland always seemed lifeless. Soon after, Strickland left the family without any warning and went to Paris, determined to pursue his dream. Five years later, the protagonist met Strickland in Paris. He was living in poverty, but he still walked alone on the road of his dreams and never regretted it. In the process of pursuing art, his talents were gradually recognized. Later, Strickland decided to abandon civilized life and came to Tahiti, which is close to the primitive South Pacific Islands, and met the protagonist by chance.

Templars, alchemy, and Kabbalah are melted into one pot, providing an antidote to the disease of postmodern mysticism. In Milan in the 1970s, the passionate years were gone and mysticism was reviving. Dr. Casaubon, a scholar who is proficient in medieval history, and his two friends, Belbo and Theotalevi, senior editors of an academic publishing house, are responsible for publishing a set of "Hermes Series" aimed at profit. In the influx of manuscripts, and in the process of contact with occult enthusiasts, a repeated and ambiguous "Templar conspiracy theory" appeared repeatedly. The three partners claim to be knowledgeable and skilled, and in a playful spirit, they weave the many mysterious events, characters and associations circulating in history into a seamless "plan", almost "rewriting" and "rewriting" the entire world history. In order to make the "plan" more complete, they created a secret society: "Teleis". Unexpectedly, the mystics took all the orders and actually organized the "Teleis" to track Casaubon and Belbo, and would search the world for the fictitious "secret map" in the "plan"...

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" tells the story of naturalist Professor Aronnax who accepted an invitation to participate in tracking the so-called narwhal. Unfortunately, he fell into the sea together with his follower Conseil and whaler Ned Rand. They were lucky enough to swim to a floating "island", which was the "narwhal" they were tracking - the submarine Nautilus. Captain Nemo allowed them freedom on the boat, but did not allow them to leave. In this way, they followed the Nautilus and began a fantastic underwater exploration journey. They crossed the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Antarctic and Arctic Oceans, saw the wonderful and spectacular underwater world, experienced various thrilling dangers, tried to escape many times but failed, and finally survived the desperate situation and returned to land. The submarine Nautilus was missing. Professor Aronnax makes his ten-month adventure public.

"Human love and human appetite for cruelty are basically the same thing." This book collects twelve short stories written by Mishima Yukio from the age of fifteen to forty-four, giving a glimpse of the trajectory of his entire writing career. "The Locked Room" is a collection of short stories by Yukio Mishima, which includes twelve short stories in total. "Stained Glass" is the first work in this book. It mainly talks about pride and prejudice in the upper class society, and depicts the psychological wars with meticulous brushwork. "The Locked Room" tells the story of an abnormal love story between an elite young official and a nine-year-old girl, set in the chaotic and chaotic post-war Japan. Different from the tough and clear writing style in the past, the author in this work uses complicated and decadent writing to describe the loneliness of modern people from the inner level, reflecting the social status quo and the spirit of the times at that time. "The King of Ranling" is Yukio Mishima's last short story, which was based on his simple and plain life in the Self-Defense Forces camp. It describes the protagonist's infinite emotion when he heard "The King of Lanling" played on the flute. Different from the noisy city on weekdays, people feel the quiet life of a hermit. It also includes works such as "Charity", "Monster", "Fruit" and "Beauty God".

A quiet and beautiful dead body suddenly appeared in the locked suitcase in the corner of the attic. A unique specimen on the autopsy table tells the story of his life. In the traveling circus, complicated and confusing crimes are staged one after another. In a small town where no one got off the bus, a stranger broke the peace. Ventriloquists, androids, and lifelike marionettes. In the silent big house, the owner never leaves home and the strange smiling man. The past, present and future intersect here. Literary master Ray Bradbury uses 20 colorful thrillers to reveal the fears, desires and loves hidden deep in our consciousness.

"The Mortgated Heart" is a posthumous collection compiled by McCullers' sister after her death, including her early and later short stories, essays, critical articles and poems. The impossibility of loving and being loved has always been at the center of McCullers' novels, and the pain of this isolation is ultimately a torture, both physical and mental. In this posthumous work, she is still a paranoid child, still grasping the propositions of "human loneliness" and "inability to love", and indifferently describing the loneliness and alienation in her eyes.

In Making Poison, "Making poison is just as much fun as making cake," so a five-year-old girl likes to think of making poison as creative play. In the title story "Murder in the Dark", the clever author invites clever readers to play script killing. Please regard the author as a murderer and this book as an object murdered in the dark, and you are a detective who must decipher the lies and mysteries in the author's narrative. In "Slowly Boiling", men strive to occupy the kitchen, while women carry briefcases and go to work. New rules of the game are being born. If you simply want to play the game, please turn to page 60 of "Happy Ending": John and Mary meet. If you imagine a happy ending, please choose A. In a world designed for men, women must-and are-changing the game.

This book contains 154 sonnets and miscellaneous poems from Shakespeare's two long poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Humiliation of Lucrece". The translation closely follows the original poem, and there are two translations of semi-free verse poetry and prose. The advantages and disadvantages complement each other and complement each other. This is a complete collection of Shakespeare's poems that everyone can read. This book is also equipped with dozens of exquisite copper plate illustrations, which vividly and intuitively help readers understand and appreciate Shakespeare's poems.

"Mom's Bank Account" tells the story of a Norwegian immigrant family making a living in the United States from a child's perspective. Mom uses the white lie of "bank account" to protect her family with wisdom and tenacity, conveying warmth and strength.

"The Dead" is a masterpiece of short stories by the famous Irish writer James Joyce. After the Christmas party, intellectual Gabriel falls into a mental breakdown as his wife Greta reminisces about an old lover who died of illness. The image of "it's snowing all over Ireland" at the end sublimates personal emotional crisis into a meditation on life and death, love and national destiny. The image of snow covering the living and the dead has become a classic scene in modernist literature.

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is a semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Betty Smith, first published in 1943. There are no weird and exciting plots in the book, but it touches people's hearts with plain and delicate experiences. It tells the story of the little girl Francie Nolan's growing up experience in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York in the early 20th century. She suffered from family misfortune, discrimination from classmates and social injustice while growing up. However, under the care and influence of her relatives, she loved reading, was strong and unyielding, and was full of enthusiasm for life. She was admitted to university by self-study after work, and finally walked out of the slums. It shows the courage of ordinary people to pursue their dreams and face the hardships of life calmly.

Selected from Dickens's horror novels, including eight short stories such as "The Temptation of Suicide", "Confessions of a Madman" and "The Post-Coach Terror", these stories are among Dickens's most praised works, and readers can get a glimpse of Dickens's talent for horror novels. While some of the stories are chilling to read, others are comical. Dickens inserted representative weird comedy plots into the stories and arranged for the most unforgettable characters to appear, including humans and ghosts, making these stories come to life on the page and become ukiyo-e paintings with a unique and humorous style.

The Khazar king wanted to convert to a religion and choose one of the three religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Representatives of the three major religions in Constantinople gathered in the Khazar capital and held a "Khazar Great Debate". Each of the three religions had their own opinions on the outcome. The history written by the Khazars themselves has been lost to obscurity, and the results of this great debate can only be supported by the documents of these three religions. However, the results recorded by the three religions are contradictory, and they all believe that their side has won. So at the end of the seventeenth century, that is, hundreds of years later, a Khazar dictionary came out, including records of debates by the three major religions. The book was divided into three parts, namely the Red Book, the Green Book, and the Yellow Book, which recorded the respective opinions of the three religions. The authors of the Red, Green, and Yellow books in the seventeenth century were connected through dream-catching, and gradually pieced together the situation and history of the Khazar religion, and they had the conditions to get close to Adam. But they died when they met. There are also three demons who exist as destroyers who want to prevent humans from gaining knowledge about Adam. This was less of a danger at the end of the seventeenth century, because Adan Ruani was in a weaker period of his divinity. By 1982, it was the peak of Adam's divinity. At this time, the three scholars who were reincarnated from the three seventeenth-century dictionary authors began to gather the knowledge of this mysterious doctrine, and it was possible to obtain this knowledge again. The "Holy Family" composed of three devils who were afraid of human beings approaching Adam killed two scholars and put the other in jail. This knowledge once again became fragments. These fragments were compiled into the second edition, which is the "Khazar Dictionary" in the hands of readers today.

Zweig, no male writer knows women better than him! In classic works such as "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life" and "Letter from a Strange Woman", Zweig used meticulous psychological descriptions to nakedly display the emotional world of women's undercurrents and breakaway from reason. The stories are wonderful and exciting, and while readers are amazed, they also have a better understanding of society and human nature. This book selects three masterpieces of Zweig's novels. Opening any one of them will shock your soul and make you think deeply.

After World War II, Leonard, a young British electronic engineer, was sent to Germany to participate in British-American cooperation in intelligence projects. Post-war Berlin was devastated, but the kind and simple Leonard met the beautiful and gentle German woman Maria here, and was involved in a crazy world full of love and sex. Just when the two were inseparable, an accidental murder finally caused the two to pass each other by each other, regretting it for the rest of their lives. This is a romance during the Cold War, a spy war after World War II, and a thrilling criminal psychological novel... As always, McEwan perfectly blends elements such as love, war, suspense, crime, sex, and black humor. What he writes is a desolate and desperate Berlin city, where pure and innocent people have no place to stay, and fear and coldness surround them everywhere until they move into the endless night.

The first novel by Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, is about a loveless family, a hopeless future, a fruitless first love, and an endless sea. Every sad young man has to say goodbye to a miserable past life. The protagonist of the story, Hassan Omar, was born into a poor Arab-Muslim family in the seaside town of Kenge. His father, Omar, was bohemian, alcoholic, and cruel; his mother was cowardly and tolerant, accepting the cruel abuse of her husband almost fatally; his elder brother, Saeed, was naughty and unruly, and died unexpectedly in a fire when he was six years old. The country's independence brought social unrest and a betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government is worried about the brain drain and has delayed announcing the results of the high school graduation examination. Unable to get a scholarship, Hassan came to Nairobi to seek refuge with his wealthy uncle Ahmed, hoping to get back the family inheritance his mother deserved. There he discovers a larger world, but soon peels back the veil of his idyllic life and sees the corruption and hypocrisy that pervades this modern African city. The hazy love with his cousin Salma ignited Hassan's hope for life, but the ugly reality will soon surface along with an unbearable family secret...

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is the latest novel to restore a Thomas Mann full of desires and secrets. The British Frio Literary Award-winning work was selected as one of the top ten historical novels of 2021 by The New York Times, and was selected as the annual book by The Washington Post, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek. "The Magician" opens in the small German town of Lübeck at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where the boy Thomas Mann grew up with a conservative father who was bound by ethics and a charming and elusive mother from Brazil. Young Mann hid his artistic ambitions from his father and his sexual orientation from everyone. He was attracted by the richest and most educated Jewish family in Munich, married the family's daughter Katia, and had six children. While on vacation in Italy, Mann developed a desire for a boy he met on the beach and wrote the story of "Death in Venice." While accompanying Katia to recuperate in Switzerland, he was fascinated by the inescapable mountain atmosphere and wrote "The Magic Mountain". He became the most successful novelist of his time, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and people repeatedly looked forward to his political statements. He fled Germany and traveled to Switzerland, France, and the United States. His wanderings ended in Kirchberg, south of Zurich. This is an epic family saga set across half a century, through World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II and the Cold War. Tóibín crafts a complex yet sympathetic writer who has struggled throughout his life with his inner desires, his family, and the turbulent times they lived through.

That sense of powerlessness that no matter how I live makes me want to live a more vigorous life. Joyce's work of genius! 20Th century short story template! Reading guide by Nankai famous teachers, original and exquisite illustrations. The heavy snow is approaching, and a sense of powerlessness that no matter how you live has long shrouded the city of Dublin. Almost everyone, men, women, and children will be spared. "Araby": The fragile and blind love when you were young, you only dare to secretly hide your love for someone in your heart. "Just the Same": When a person reaches middle age, he has lost almost everything and is tired of the ordinary life. Tragedy is like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger. "The Dead": The wife's first love comes with her memory on a snowy Christmas night, but as a husband, she has always been insignificant. ... Snowflakes fall leisurely between heaven and earth, like a mirror, reflecting and inspiring every one of us who feels powerless and struggling in the quagmire of growth, work, and marriage, to release our own vitality!

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the spring of 1464, the young king on horseback met the most beautiful woman in England, Elizabeth Woodville. Rose discovers that the war has come to an end, and a secret love that is romantic but betrays the family begins. People say that this commoner queen must have used some kind of magic to confuse the king and put herself in a high position; but this rumor seems to be nonsense, but it is half true and half false - Elizabeth, who has inherited the blood of the river goddess, will make waves at the intersection of England's destiny.

The twisted and intertwined tragedy of exclusivity and betrayal, the whirlpool of beauty and sin that grow together, is the controversial "private novel" of the master of "demonism" Junichiro Tanizaki. Passion and immorality are entangled to the point of destruction. The twisted love hell described by Junichiro Tanizaki. The story takes place in the third year of the Showa era. Sonoko, the daughter of a wealthy family, obeyed her parents' orders and married her husband Kotaro, who was from a poor family but worked hard. After supporting her husband to complete his studies, she became a lawyer's wife with no worries about food and clothing. After getting married, Sonoko had no common language with her husband. In order to kill the extra time, she attended a private school that cultivated women's skills, and thus got acquainted with the lady Tokumitsu Mitsuko. Sonoko called Mitsuko a "goddess like Guanyin". When she first saw Mitsuko, she was deeply attracted to her, and the two became sisters. Mitsuko's boyfriend Watanuki is a sinister person and is not willing to let Mitsuko marry another person. He devises a series of conspiracies to destroy Mitsuko and the garden that he has become friends with. In order to save Sonoko, Kotaro was also forced to participate. As the situation changed, the four people began to be jealous and suspicious of each other, and were tied into a knot like the character "Swastika"... In the process of entangled with the devil's beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki portrayed the various psychological states and behaviors surrounding jealousy, such as possessiveness, suspicion, dependence, etc., In a real and delicate manner. Whether it is Sonoko, Mitsuko, or Kotaro, they are all born with a lack of love. On the way to the world without jealousy, all love eventually entered the tomb together.