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Only pure love can make the body pure. Mishima's unique work "against himself". 1954 Xinchaoshe Literary Award. Mishima said: "I want to write something that is completely opposite to myself." He changed the tragic concept that all characters have a dark side, and love and beauty to the extreme will inevitably turn into violence and death, and set pure characters and pure love in an Eden-like environment. Only pure love can make the body pure, and thus determine the human body to have the highest aesthetic value. He blended Japanese and Greek classical aesthetics to write this pastoral novel of pure love that can make people feel happy. As soon as the novel was published, it triggered a "name-changing craze". Thousands of Japanese girls changed their names to the name of the character in the novel - Hatsue.

In 1958, Maugham said in an interview that "Joy" was his most proud and favorite novel. He 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. After the great writer Driefeld died, his wife asked someone to write a biography of him. The narrator of the novel, Ashenden, was invited by the biographer to recall his interactions with the writer. The story unfolds from there. In the depths of Ashenden's memory, we discover the writer's ex-wife, the charming Rosie. She was romantic by nature, merciless at all times, but yet kind, frank and lovely... In "Pleasure", Maugham drew materials from reality, blended fiction and reality, and used the narrator Ashenden to narrate his early relationship with the famous writer Driffield and his ex-wife Rosie. This past event is the biographical subject that another popular novelist Gere wants to explore. Readers can vaguely recognize that Driffield is alluding to Hardy, Gere is based on Hugh Walpole, and Rosie is clearly a replica of Joyce's Molly Bloom.

Yusa, the successful president of a publishing house in Tokyo, develops a relationship with Kikuno, the proprietress of a long-established restaurant in Kyoto whom he met on a business trip. Ryoko, who witnessed the love story between her mother and Yusa, was at the age when she first fell in love, and fell passionately in love. In the end, the ancient legend about cherry blossoms became a reality for those who were addicted to emotions...

In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, Nick, a poor clerk, breaks into the secret world of Gatsby, a lavish spender. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the other side of the river. In the bright shadow of the light, lives Daisy, who has always dreamed of him. However, the cold reality cannot tolerate misty dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the world. When all the truth is revealed, Gatsby's tragic life is like fireworks. The brilliance is only for a moment, and the disillusionment is eternal.

This book specially selects three small masterpieces from the early, middle and late stages of Gide's creative career: "Palude", "Pastoral Symphony" and "Theseus", in order to provide readers with a unique perspective, to experience the unique charm of this most complex and changeable master in literature, aesthetics and philosophy.

The Holy Son, who was new to the world, was deeply attracted by the writer Gao Ming's aloofness and arrogance, and was willing to live together with him anonymously. Even after Gao Ming suffered an amputation in a car accident, he remained by his side. However, the appearance of Kagurai broke the peace between the two. His unabashed pursuit of the Son made the Son flustered and he unconsciously approached him. Facing these two men, what choice will the Holy Son, who is swinging like a pontoon, make? ...

A dynasty picture scroll with a mixture of fiction and reality, a romantic legend about Oedipus for a young boy, and Junichiro Tanizaki's feelings about Oedipus that have not yet been fully expressed for half a century. "Major General Ziqian's Mother" was written in 1949. It mainly describes the story of Major General Ziqian's mother in the Yuan family. The Hara family was a peerless beauty in Japan's Heian period, and she married Kunikune, who was fifty years older than her. Shihei, who was the left minister at the time, was greedy for the beauty of the Zaiyuan clan, so he planned to seize the Zaiyuan clan during the National Sutra Family Banquet and incorporated it into his own palace. The young Ziqian missed his mother eagerly, and with the help of others, he was able to visit his mother, but was later discovered by the cunning Shiping. After that, Ziqian could no longer contact his mother behind the high wall. However, the old man Guo Jing, who lost his beloved wife, could not restrain his longing for his wife, so he studied Buddhism and died in depression. In the end, Ziqian, who has reached middle age, could not suppress the longing for his mother. By chance, he finally met Zaiyuan, who had already become a monk. Aesthetic writer Junichiro Tanizaki uses the classical literary techniques of "The Tale of Genji" to narrate the ups and downs of the two families, which is thought-provoking.

When it was time to talk about marriage, the young and innocent Katie impulsively married someone she didn't love. As a result, the loveless marriage left her feeling confused and in great pain. Her husband knew this very well. He said to Katie: "I know you only married me for a temporary convenience. I love you so much that I don't care." Although her husband was submissive to her in every possible way, Katie clearly realized that she did not love him. A sudden extramarital affair turned Katie's life upside down until she gained the ability to love through suffering...

"Yes, with a lover, everyday life fades away". The writer's side: The nuncio of the Holy See or the person with his nose between the seams of his underpants? The AB side of women: Sex object or Scheherazade? The AB side of the text: real chat records or fictional writing materials? Strange thoughts and impurity are the nature of writers, and every woman is Scheherazade. "Deception" is the second film in Philip Roth's "Roth Series". The entire novel unfolds in the form of a dialogue, and the central characters are an affair couple: I, "Philip", a married American writer, and a well-educated British woman trapped in a loveless and disgraceful marriage. Most of the dialogue takes place in "Philip's" studio in London. Before and after the two have sex, the dialogue is concise, powerful and full of erotic meaning. This is a veritable "audiobook" with all kinds of he-talks and she-talks that are sharp, gentle, and probing. The characters' pasts become clearer as the dialogue deepens. In terms of what is fact and what is fiction, Roth repeats his old tricks. Side A of the conversation is the real chat record of a cheating couple, and side B is the fictional writing material in the notebook. It is the writer's attempt to have a relationship with the fictional characters in the novel outside of the novel. The boundary between reality and fiction is once again broken through and blurred.

The marriage that everyone admired was the reason why Tsuda decided to leave Tokyo temporarily after the operation. The story begins when Tsuda is about to be hospitalized for the second time. His father sends a notice, suspending financial assistance. This makes Tsuda very embarrassed, so his wife Ayan wants to sell her gorgeous clothes, but Tsuda, who has always doted on his wife, does not want to do this because he feels it is shameful. In this way, Tsuda planned to let some relatives of the couple interact with his father, hoping to get his father to send this month's subsidy as soon as possible. From this, two families were brought together... After going through the pain and waste of life, and on a journey of self-cultivation away from his hometown, Tsuda will eventually find the eyes that have longed for him the most.

"Yan Yi Bian" is a collection of legendary novels written by Wang Shizhen, a writer in the Ming Dynasty. Among them, from the Han and Wei Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, there are many famous stories about erotic affairs between men and women and about gods, ghosts and monsters. Readers who are interested in such topics should not miss this book. "Yan Yi Bian" collects various stories from ancient and modern stories and categorizes them into categories. Most of the content comes from legends of the Tang Dynasty and novels of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, with the majority taken from "Taiping Guangji". Song Lianbu's "Qing Zun Lu", Hong Mai's "Yi Jian Zhi", Yuan Xia Bohe's "Qing Lou Ji", Ming Qu You's "Jian Deng Xin Hua" and other books are also important sources of materials for it. In addition, materials were obtained from relevant historical books. The selection of works closely revolves around the two themes of "beautiful" and "extraordinary", focusing on the selection of articles describing the love between men and women, including the love between gods, monsters, ghosts, and humans. These types of themes have always been enduring in the field of classical Chinese novels, so they also account for the vast majority of the chapters in "Yan Yi Bian". It also focuses on selecting chapters involving the secret affairs of the palace.

"Ruthlessness" tells the story of "I" who seems to be ruthless, but in fact is full of deep affection for his late girlfriend, Chizuru, who has psychic powers. "I" feel guilty about the breakup between the two, and I still can't let it go. When "I" came to the place where we broke up again, I encountered many supernatural events. At this time, Chizuru appeared in "my" dream, sending warm comfort. Chizuru, who is dead in reality, even directly talked to "me" on the phone to untie "my" heart knot. The dark night passed and morning came, and "I" had the strength to hit the road again. "Misfortune" tells the story of her sister "Xiao Bang" who suddenly collapsed before her wedding and relied only on instruments to maintain her vital signs. The whole family should have been extremely grieved, but they gradually discovered the wonder of this period. Everyone began to seriously think about some things that they usually had no time to take into account, and stopped in their haste to discover some of the beauty of life.

There was a girl named Thrush who was sickly and had a perverse personality. The three cousins ​​spent their summers in a quiet seaside town and grew up unknowingly. Although each has his or her own troubles and happiness, the days spent together are always peaceful and stable. Maria, cousins ​​Thrush and Yoko grew up together and have a deep relationship. That summer, Maria, who grew up and went to college in Tokyo, returned to the seaside town for vacation. A cheerful and sunny boy named Kyouichi suddenly broke into the peaceful lives of the three girls, and pure love developed between Thrush and Kyouichi. A group of delinquent boys who had a crush on Thrush took the opportunity to beat Kyouichi up, and then killed Thrush's pet dog. In order to take revenge, Thrush tried his best to dig a big trap without telling everyone, and he fell ill and was hospitalized. Banana Yoshimoto uses her unique rhythm and language to describe the splendid season that girls only have once in their lives and will never return to, and composes a glorious and endlessly transparent prelude to summer love.

"Mansfield Park" has a major breakthrough in psychological description and narrative techniques, and is a "milestone" in the history of the development of British novels. When Jane Austen wrote "Mansfield Park", she was already a "more mature" female writer. Fanny, who was dependent on others, was adopted by her wealthy aunt and uncle - Sir Bertram and his wife since she was a child. Although she was ignored by everyone except her second cousin Edmund, she was always able to distinguish right from wrong, knew people's hearts, and always had a secret love for Edmund. Finally, her noble character won Edmund's love, and the two young people finally got married. The translator, Mr. Sun Zhili, is a famous literary translator in my country. He enjoys high prestige and popularity in the translation industry in my country for his theoretical research and practice of British and American literary translation, as well as his keen insight, profound attainments in Chinese and English, and his writing skills. The translated text is smooth, precise, smooth, and exotic.

Mark Twain is a famous satirical humorist. The Diary of Adam and Eve, which is different in style from his works, is a model work that was created with his emotions, dreams and more than ten years in mind. The author starts from the subtleties of emotion and profoundly describes the process of Adam and Eve's relationship from the "germination" to the development of "love" and to Eve's death. The whole article is filled with exploration of life forms in nature and doubts, attachments and even misunderstandings between the sexes. The work is narrated in the form of a diary, in which detailed scenery, complex psychology, concise events and graceful and song-like care blend with each other, leaving people with incomparable artistic enjoyment.

Shuko Katagiri is a beautiful and capable urban white-collar worker, but she has always maintained a "lover" relationship with Tono, a married middle-aged man with a successful career. Shuzi is independent, intelligent and considerate. Such pure love makes Tono more and more fascinated. Finally, he decides to abandon his family and marry Shuzi. However, Xiuzi proposed breaking up at this time...

If love cannot eliminate loneliness, it will eliminate the lover. A perfect work of Mishima narrative. After the death of Etsuko's husband, she relied on her father-in-law's manor to survive. She seeks a sense of security from her ambiguous relationship with her father-in-law, and longs for pure and dynamic love from the young hired worker Saburo. Etsuko's hunger for love cannot be satisfied after all, and that's because her intimate relationships are established in a twisted way. Many times I try to eliminate loneliness with love, but I end up getting even more lonely. With astonishing insight, Mishima once again exposed the tragic truth of modern people's spiritual level to our eyes with his "extreme writing". The overall structure of "The Hunger of Love" maintains the rigorous pattern of Japanese classical tradition. It is meticulous and exquisite, and the changes in time and space are neatly superimposed. It was highly praised by critics and praised as "the most rigorous work among Yukio Mishima's works."

Kitty, a beautiful but vain British woman, accepts the proposal of Walter Fane, a withdrawn doctor, in order to avoid becoming an old girl. She left London's flashy and empty social circle and followed Walter to the mysterious Eastern colony - Hong Kong. Kitty, who is dissatisfied with her marriage, secretly has an affair with Charlie Tongson, the assistant chief secretary of Hong Kong who shakes her heart. After discovering his wife's infidelity, Walter made a desperate move and began his strange and terrifying revenge plan: taking Kitty to the distant mainland of China to quell a cholera epidemic that was spreading crazily... "The Veil" is a novel by Maugham published in 1925, with Hong Kong and mainland China as the background of the story. The author uses extremely compassionate emotional care to gain insight into the subtleties of human nature. In his writing, the veils of love, human nature and even the times are all revealed one by one.

The collection of detective works by Agatha Christie, the queen of detective novels. Agatha Christie pioneered the "country house school" of detective novels, that is, the murder occurred in a specific closed environment, and the murderer was also one of several specifically related people. Many detective works in Europe, America and even Japan also use this model. She always uses motivation and analysis of human nature to show readers a unique and rich psychological world, thereby revealing the richness of the human heart, showing colorful characters, and deeply revealing the twists and turns of the labyrinth of human nature. Agatha Christie is second only to Shakespeare in the number of her works. Because of her mystery novels, she is also known as the "Queen of Mysteries". Representative works include "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Murder on the Nile".

Delicate observation, wise thinking, and unique style create a biography of "ordinary life" and explore the extraordinary characteristics of ordinary life. It can be regarded as a panacea for those who lack self-confidence. The story begins when he received a letter from his ex-girlfriend, who angrily rebuked him for being a narcissistic person who "only cares about his earlobes and doesn't care about anything else..." Shocked, he decided to change his attitude. By writing a biography for his next girlfriend, he learned about a series of ordinary trivial matters related to his original family, love life, work and social life that an ordinary person has experienced since birth, and deeply explored the philosophical and psychological meanings contained therein. Although he stands from a male perspective, he does not show any gender intolerance when describing women, and his writing reveals emotional tolerance and rational edge.

A must-read for Japanese love aesthetic classics! Includes Tanizaki Junichiro's representative works "Haru Kotō", "Idiot's Love" and "Everyone Has His Own Interests". "Idiot's Love" is a work based on the clues of the popular Japanese drama "Sage's Love". Junichiro Tanizaki's immortal masterpiece is based on himself. A story of out-of-control nurturing love, a story of a trainer being trained instead. The young man Jean Harumoto wanted to cultivate the ideal woman in his mind, so he kept the fifteen-year-old girl Naomi by his side. When Naomi grew up, she was beautiful, willful, and spendthrift, which was not what he wanted, but it still made him unable to extricate himself... "Chun Qin Shu" wrote a touching ultimate love, in which the blind master and apprentice depended on each other for life and death in the mysterious shadow. Apprentice Sasuke serves Harukin, the daughter of a businessman, and learns skills from her, and the two develop a relationship. But Chunqin is domineering and willful, and always treats Sasuke as a servant. Not only did Sasuke have no objection to this, but later Haruko was disfigured, and he even blinded himself, just to keep Haruko's beautiful image in his heart forever... In "To Each His Own", with the acquiescence of her husband Kaname Shiba, his wife Misako had an extramarital affair with someone else.

This book contains the most representative works of literary master Junichiro Tanizaki, "Shuncho" and "Yoshino Kudzu". Chunqin, the daughter of a businessman, has been blind since childhood. She is beautiful and intelligent, and has amazing talents in music. Apprentice Sasuke fell in love with her and learned skills from her while serving, and the two developed a relationship. Haruko is arrogant and domineering, but Sasuke is happy with Haruko's harsh treatment. Later, Chunqin was framed and disfigured, her self-esteem was greatly damaged, and she never showed her face to others. In order to keep Chunqin's beautiful image in his heart forever, and to continue to accompany Chunqin, Sasuke pricked his own eyes with needles...

Natsume Soseki's novel, written in 1908, forms a love trilogy with "The Next Thing" and "The Gate". The protagonist Sanshirō Ogawa graduated from high school in Kumamoto and was admitted to a university in Tokyo. After coming to Tokyo, a world completely different from what he had known before, under the impact of modern civilization and modern women, he was confused and at a loss. He was surrounded by three worlds at the same time: one was his hometown of Kumamoto, the other was the world of learning where Nonomiya and Hirota teachers lived, and the third was the world of glitz. Sanshirō becomes increasingly attracted to the glitzy world in which his crush, Miyako, lives. Sanshirō is passionately devoted to Miyako, but Miyako's attitude is ambiguous. She mentioned the term "lost lamb" to Sanshirō several times, but eventually married her brother's friend. Ordinary young people slowly grow up through interactions with all kinds of people in the metropolis.

The film of the same name stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, their second collaboration ten years after "Titanic". The protagonists of the novel, Frank and April Wheeler, live in the suburbs of Connecticut. The road they live on is called "Revolutionary Road." That was still 1955. Frank (also meaning "confession") is not straightforward at all, and lively April (also meaning "April") will soon wither in the autumn. The days on the revolutionary road were dramatic. The novel begins with a performance and ends with a performance, with one performance after another in between. Frank and April confront their dissatisfaction and fears about life, try to balance pregnancy and ambition, and dream of escaping the same years. But as Yates himself said: "The characters in my works are all within the limitations of their known and unknown. They want to be the best and do what they can't help but do, but in the end they inevitably fail because they can't help but go back to who they are."

In order to make a living, the young man Saburo Aikawa worked as a laboratory technician in a small island clinic far away from Tokyo. Without a medical qualification certificate, he quickly became a doctor trusted by the islanders under the cultivation of his director. By chance, he accidentally saved the life of Akiko Qianjin, the director of a private hospital in Tokyo, fell deeply in love with her, married into the girl's family, became the deputy director, and rose to prominence. However, the fact that he practices medicine without a license makes him nervous every day, fearing that he will be exposed...

The original animated novel by Hayao Miyazaki is a pure love song that has touched countless readers. At the end of time and life, they are looking for the joy of life and the purity of love together. The time spent together is even more precious because it is fleeting. This is the masterpiece of Tatsuo Hori, the master of Japanese neopsychology. His fiancée Setsuko is seriously ill, and the hero accompanies her to recuperate in the mountains. During the illness, they searched for the happiness of life together, but they had to face death. After Setsuko died, "I" lived a lonely life alone. Finally, by reading Rilke's Requiem, "I" finally found the sustenance of my soul, discovered the light of life, and decided to start over and live strong.

"The final volume of Natsume Soseki's late trilogy, the best-selling novel in the history of Japanese literature" - "Heart" is the last of Natsume Soseki's late trilogy "After the Vernal Equinox", "Pedestrian", and "Heart". It tells the story of a young student "I" who accidentally met a misanthropic gentleman and became a close friend. Before committing suicide, my husband wrote a letter to "me" explaining the reason for his suicide: when he was young, he used shady means to win over his friend and love rival K, which led to K's suicide. From then on, I had doubts about the goodness of human beings and could not get rid of the feeling of guilt. It depicts the image of an intellectual struggling with ethics and morality.

It is not only the tragic end of the love trilogy, but also the prelude to a series of late works by the author. The male protagonist Sosuke Nonaka of "The Gate" falls in love with his friend's wife Ami, which leads to social rejection. They live in seclusion in a house without sunlight. On the one hand, they taste the sweetness of sincere understanding, and on the other hand, they feel the bitterness of being guilty of others. They fall into a dilemma and cannot extricate themselves. This is a human tragedy in which free and sincere love is not tolerated by society. It is also a spiritual portrayal of intellectuals pursuing personal happiness but being unable to get rid of the fetters of moral norms. "The Door" is one of Natsume Soseki's representative works of anti-naturalism. The author used a combination of realism and romanticism to create a sentimental world.

"Chao Sao" is a novella, which won the first Xin Chao Society Literary Award. The story tells that one evening in early spring, young fisherman Shinji met Hatsue, a healthy and beautiful girl who had just returned from overseas. They fell in love without knowing it. Unexpectedly, rumors spread, and Chujiang's father became furious when he learned about it, and they were not allowed to see each other. Soon, Shinji saved a boat belonging to Hatsue's father in the rough waves, and with his bravery, he finally won the beauty's return. As the representative work of Mishima Yukio, "Chao Sao" embodies his pursuit of romanticism and the eulogy of pure love.

"Sense and Sensibility" tells the story of two sisters' completely different thoughts and behaviors towards marriage and love, and then praises a kind of female self-esteem and independent thought. In the novel, sister Eleanor is the representative of reason and maturity, and sister Marianne is the representative of emotion and romance. The two sisters had different reactions in the face of love. After some twists and turns, reason and emotion blended with each other, and both sisters had a happy ending.

John Perkins and Lucy Gogan, a pair of loving lovers, should have had a smooth road to a happy life. Unfortunately, Lucy has a selfish and arrogant uncle, and John has an "idol" who is as good as this uncle. The two are both love and political rivals. Frustrated in love, they vow to win back in the political arena, and they fight endlessly. So where will the love between John and Lucy go? Will it be a "Romeo and Juliet-style" tragedy that makes people sigh with regret, or will they finally get help from experts, go through twists and turns, and finally gain perfect happiness?

Although Fujio, the daughter of a well-known family, had a tacit marriage contract with his "relative" Munechika, after his father's death, his mother urged him to marry the poet Ono as soon as possible in order to seize the inheritance from Fujio's half-brother Kono. Ono became a scholar with the support of his mentor Inoue. Faced with the olive branch offered by the Fujio family, he unexpectedly failed to live up to the deep friendship of his mentor who had worked hard to cultivate him for many years. He cruelly rejected the love of Sayoko, who had been close to him for many years, and desperately wanted to marry Fujio. When all the truth was exposed by Kono and Munechika, Ono resolutely changed his mind, determined to sever the relationship with Fujio, and reconcile with Sayoko; Fujio became angry and chose to end his life...

"Love, and Others" is an important work by Julian Barnes, a literary genius who conquered Europe with his wisdom. Author Julian Barnes is the 2011 Booker Prize winner. Julian Barnes is a truly indispensable figure in contemporary British literary circles and a master of postmodernism. "Love, and Others" uses the unreliable confessions of three characters to restore an emotional entanglement that spans ten years from different angles. We will eventually know what else we need besides love. People in the world are divided into two categories. One category believes that love is everything and life beyond that is just "others"; the other category believes that the beauty of life lies precisely in "others".

The doctor quickly sees that Shuhei's family life is the envy of others. His wife's house is beautiful and capable, and his daughter Hiromi is well-behaved and smart. However, he was never satisfied and maintained an underground affair with the married Ye Zi behind his wife's back. He originally felt guilty for his virtuous wife, but accidentally discovered that her wife did not seem to be as law-abiding as she seemed. Faced with the complicated emotional relationship, how should the couple make choices...

Keigo Higashino's first love-themed novel. It is not a mystery novel, but the suspense continues until the end of the book. "My world collapsed when I was 16 years old. I could no longer trust anyone and decided to tell the truth 15 years later." "Street of Dawn" was rarely unanimously recognized and recommended by the editorial board members who have published more than 50 Higashino works: "Street of Dawn" made me completely understand what married men are thinking. What; I want to give "Street of Auroville" to my married male classmates, especially those who are unstable; "Street of Auroville" made me see the truth about marriage clearly. I will not think about getting married easily, and I have to be mentally prepared before considering it; although I am not interested in marriage, as a single person, I shivered after watching "Street of Auroville"...

With her concise and simple style, Anne Ernault recorded the desire and humility of a heart completely swallowed up by passion. She blurs the lines between fact and fiction in an attempt to chart her two-year emotional and physical journey with a married man. In this process, every word, every thing, every person is either related to her lover, or she is indifferent. With courage and precision, Erno seeks the truth behind an era that existed entirely for others.

A collection of Junichi Watanabe's most loving and witty short stories. These stories may be strange, mysterious, or ordinary... Watanabe tells them in his usual aesthetic style, showing the changes and eternity of love between men and women from different perspectives. This book mainly tells about the divorce between Zheji and his wife, which can be said to be sexual incompatibility or lack of love for each other. In his interactions with different women, he has different sexual experiences and is also confused by the fickleness of women.

The story revolves around the age-old love between Emperor Shirakawa, the leader of Japan's imperial government in the late Heian period, and Princess Shoko, the daughter of the powerful Nagon Fujiwara Kimimi. It vividly reproduces the emotional entanglements of ancient princes and nobles, unfolds a beautiful and timeless picture of dynastic love for us, and passionately eulogizes the eternal love in human nature. This book has the charm of "The Tale of Genji" and won the 72nd Japan Literary Spring and Autumn Readers' Award. The Japanese media regarded the publication of this work as "a new starting point for Watanabe literature".

Emma, ​​the heroine of "Emma", is a "beautiful, smart, and rich" young girl. Because she has such unique conditions, she can't help but have a "high self-esteem" and therefore likes to "do as she pleases." She has made up her mind not to get married, but she is keen on matching others. And when she acts as a matchmaker for others, she often does not "according to reason", but "based on whims or impulses", making random arrangements, resulting in many jokes and a lot of suffering. However, although Emma did not find a match for others, she eventually fell in love and got married to Mr. Knightley. Together with the other two young men and women, they formed the comic ending of the book.

The protagonist of "Frankenstein" written by Mary Shelley is a student who is crazy and obsessed with scientific experiments. He strives to create life artificially and creates an extremely ugly monster in the laboratory. The monster was angry at not being able to integrate into the human race and vowed to take revenge on its creator.

"My emotions of love and hate for her are like a cat's eyes, which can change several times in one night." Twenty-eight-year-old Kawai Joeji adopted the fifteen-year-old girl Naomi with the intention of training her to become a "great" and "amazing" woman. However, Naomi is vain, arrogant and romantic, with hidden agendas under her innocent appearance. Kawai is seduced by her charming appearance and meets her needs at all costs. He is willing to accept Naomi's various conditions. In the end, he swears to become her slave and let her control her... Because of love, you will endure a lot of humiliation that you could not imagine before. The content tells the story of an out-of-control nurturing love, based on the liberation of self and humanity, showing absolute loyalty to female beauty, trying to reject all old values, and explores the themes of love, humanity and desire. The book's ultimate description of human desires is hard to describe and can only sigh. The work is adapted from the author's own experience and can be called a classic of Japanese love aesthetics. For love, I can give everything; for love, I don't have to be myself.

Ami and Zongsuke are an ordinary couple in this world. Even if the shadow of the unknown past always hangs over the two of them, even if their lives of poverty, triviality, compromise and helplessness are endless, they have never forgotten that they are happy.

Seven days create eternity, but love makes the human world full of possibilities. God and Satan jointly made a bet. Both sides will send out the elites of their respective camps-Zophia and Luca to start a decisive battle within seven days. The winning side will rule the human world forever. This seemingly absurd agreement caused two completely opposite souls to meet in San Francisco and fall into a fateful love. Seeing that the seven-day period is approaching, angels and devils are still struggling on the edge of good and evil. Little do they know that the world has undergone earth-shaking changes because of their love...

Mr. And Mrs. Bennet have five daughters. Mrs. Bennet's biggest wish is to marry off her five daughters. The five daughters have different personalities and different attitudes towards love. The new neighbor Mr. Bingley is rich and unmarried, and his friend Mr. Darcy is a golden bachelor. The appearance of these two people breaks the peaceful country life and triggers a series of accidents and misunderstandings. Fortunately, the lovers finally get married.

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The set contains 5 volumes, including "Red Star Blues", "God in Calculation", "Golden Fleece", "Star Cluster" and "Ultimate Experiment".

"The Moon and Sixpence" is based on the life of French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. It describes the story of Strickland, an originally ordinary London stockbroker, who suddenly became obsessed with art, abandoned his wife and children, gave up what others thought was a prosperous and happy life, and went to Tahiti in the South Pacific, where he wrote his glorious life with a round pen and injected all the value of his life into the gorgeous canvas. The work expresses the contradiction between genius, personality and material civilization, as well as modern marriage and family life. It has a broad perspective on life. It uses a scalpel that smells of disinfectant to sharply dissect the human nature wrapped in skin, mixed with the mocking humor and cruel eyes of the spectators.

This book is a collection of Zhou Zuoren's essays. While his early colleagues such as Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu, and Lu Xun all chose their own political stances, Zhou Zuoren was the only one who chose life itself and tried to cultivate "his own garden." Zhou's prose is generally in the style of gossip, talking about everything "as big as the universe and as small as a fly". He wrote about wild vegetables in his hometown, about tea drinking, the sound of birds, awning boats, and the spring in Peiping. He also wrote about the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos, and chrysanthemums. It is true that things that require a leisurely mind can be noticed. He believes that a plain and comfortable personal life is what is real and what it should be. He believes in the real life itself and even more in the completion of personal life. Zhou Zuoren regards life as an art and desires to live subtly and beautifully. These are all reflected in his prose.

"The Narrow Gate" pushes the mystical experience of love to the extreme, telling us a love story that is pure and hot, but also contains boundless loneliness and infinite bitterness: Jérôme and his cousin Alyssa have been in love since childhood. When love sprouts, he and she love each other secretly, with all their innocence and enthusiasm, and they just want to become better people for each other. The two consciously put on the cassocks of ascetics, took their lover as their only guide, and tried their best to climb the rugged and narrow road to the peak of virtue. However, the more connected the hearts are, the more separated the bodies are: her mother's infidelity and her sister's ordinary marriage make Alyssa full of doubts and rejection of earthly happiness and the desire component of love. She is obsessed with the process of infinitely approaching happiness and avoids the actual arrival of happiness. In a crazy religious mood, she even regards her own existence as the biggest obstacle for Jerome to pass through the "narrow gate" and approach God. In order to allow her lover to reach the other side of heaven more freely and obtain something "better" than the ordinary happiness that love can give, she made her own decision...

In "The Narrow Gate", Gide pushes the mystical experience in love to the extreme, telling us a love story that is pure and hot, but also contains boundless loneliness and infinite bitterness. Jérôme and his cousin Alyssa have been sweethearts since childhood and have been in love with each other since childhood. When love sprouts, he and she love each other secretly, with all their innocence and enthusiasm, and they just want to become better people for each other. The two consciously put on the robes of ascetics, took their lover as their only guide, and tried their best to climb the rugged and narrow road to the peak of virtue. However, the more connected the hearts are, the more separated the bodies are...