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On her last patrol before switching to civilian duty, Amelia is called to a crime scene where a grisly corpse is found. She immediately speculated, but her opinion was ignored. Paralyzed and able to move only one finger, Lem, a forensic expert, is seriously considering ending his life. When colleagues try to cheer him up by inviting him to solve the gruesome case, he declares that such a minor case isn't worth his time. However, when he carefully studied the documents and photos of the mutilated corpses, he became interested in the case. The murderer threw out clues one after another, seemingly trying to lure them into discovering the next crime scene. In the race against death, they gradually realized that there was something hidden...

Western literary trends and schools have many names, have risen and fallen, and theoretical works on literature and art emerge in endlessly. In almost every era, there have been far-reaching literary theorists. As a literary theorist, he usually has a complete set of theories, which guides and even dominates the literary world at that time. This book is neither an essay nor a novel, but a work of art. A piece of small madeleine cake brought out endless unconscious memories, and then the pen turned sharply. The author strongly criticizes the mechanical and erroneous criticism methods of the authoritative critic Saint-Beuve, and the resulting contempt and misunderstanding of all the literary geniuses in the French literary world at that time. The whole book contains both lyrical narrative and rational speculation. The two complement each other and reflect each other. The style of nearly half of the book is similar to or echoes that of "Reminiscence of Lost Time". It is a condensation of the essence of the author's thoughts and laid the first cornerstone for later textualist and structuralist criticism.

The movie of the same name stars Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the summer of 1524, an unblessed baby girl was born. Her mother was the daughter of the Pauline family, Lady Mary; and her father was His Majesty the King of England, Henry VIII. The illegitimate baby failed to become a bargaining chip in the game, and the king who loved new things and disliked old things soon turned his interest to another Boleyn girl, Anne. Anne was unwilling to be as nameless and insignificant as her sisters. Her huge ambition drove her to embark on the thorny road of picking the fruits of power, but she was by no means the last Boleyn girl to jump into the whirlpool of the palace...

"Ivanov" is Anton Chekhov's first dramatic masterpiece to win great fame. The story takes place in a rural village in Central Russia at the end of the 19th century. The protagonist Ivanov encounters bankruptcy. He is deeply in love with his wife Anna, and at the same time there is a young and lovely girl Sasha who also loves him deeply. He had money, land, income, and everything. However, he lost the goal and meaning of life, and finally chose to pass away. In this play, Chekhov created Ivanov, a typical character whose spiritual life is hesitant and depressed: "I can endure everything - pain, neurasthenia, bankruptcy, the death of my wife, premature aging, loneliness - but my contempt for myself makes me unbearable." This book is the fifth volume of the "Master Guide Edition" of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas", with audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. I would like to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death - his stage contains all the pain and expectations of this era.

I don't remember anyone holding me in their arms. The twenty-one years I have lived in this world have been an empty life. Never experienced a single good thing in my life. Having nothing, accomplishing nothing, feeling nothing... I am a superfluous person who should not have come into this world. However, for me like this, there is someone in the world who is willing to accept me, recognize me, and love me. That's Ayako's mother. Just live your life as you are. The only person who told me this was Ayako's mother. I just want to hug Ayako's mother tightly... I hope Ayako's mother loves me, I hope she hugs me tightly and says to me: "I love you! Child. You are my son... You are my only son, an irreplaceable son... I love you very much, no matter what you have done, good or bad, you are my son..."

Translated classics of Russian and Soviet literature (38 volumes in total), this series also includes "The Insulted and Injured", "The Night Before", "Red Love", "How Steel Was Tempered", "The Insulted and Injured", etc. This excellent novel by Gorky takes as a clue how three generations of the Artamonov family run their business, showing the entire process of Russian small business owners from diligent entrepreneurship to decadence and decline. The novel spans the time span from the abolition of serfdom in 1861 to the October Revolution in 1917, involving all kinds of characters and all aspects of social life. It profoundly and truly reveals a broad historical picture. Many characters in the book are vividly portrayed, and the description of their fate is shocking and thought-provoking. Therefore, the book has high literary value and strong readability.

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"The Golden Pavilion" is based on the true incident in 1950 when monk Lin Yangxian set fire to the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with a stutter and was obsessed with the beauty of the Kinkakuji Temple, came to the Kinkakuji Temple to become a monk with the dream of inheriting the position of abbot of the Kinkakuji Temple and owning the Kinkaku Temple. After confirming that he could not achieve his wish, he fantasized about dying with the Kinkakuji in an enemy bombing. The end of the war frustrated his wish. In despair, he decided to find an opportunity to burn the Golden Temple to the ground. By burning down the Golden Temple, Mizoguchi eliminated his own mental demons, his suppressed humanity was released, his vision shackles by phantoms was also expanded, and destruction became the path to rebirth.

"The Scholars" is a novel with intellectuals as the main description object, and it is also a typical satirical novel. It describes some images of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by the eight-part imperial examination system. For example, it is written that Zhou Jin and Fan Jin spent their entire lives trying to pass the examination, and even when their beards turned gray, they still failed to pass the examination. Although life was extremely difficult, he still couldn't forget the imperial examination. Zhou Jin passed by an examination room and went in to watch. He was touched by a lifetime of bitterness and pain. He burst into tears and was so sad that he could not help but feel miserable. Later, with the help of some small businessmen, he took the exam and won the sympathy of the examiner, and things turned around. When he passed the exam, those who had ridiculed him in the past came to flatter him and praised him as the most learned person. Another example is Fan Jin. Before he passed the imperial examination, his family was so poor that he had no rice to cook with, so he went to the market to sell an old hen. When he learned that he had won the election, he was so happy that he became crazy. Fortunately, his father-in-law, Hu Tuhu, slapped him and he regained consciousness. At this time, the local squires and other prominent people all looked at him with admiration. Some gave him houses and some gave him property. Fan Jin's life immediately changed... And so on, which reflected the corruption of the secular customs at that time. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the corruption of human nature, thereby deeply criticizing and ridiculing the corruption of officialdom at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, and the hypocrisy of ethics; on the other hand, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves, thus embodying the author's ideals.

"Tongyan to Warn the World" is a collection of story-telling novels written by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty. Together with "Mingyan to Yushi" and "Eternal Words to Awaken the World", they are collectively known as "Three Words". It is processed and edited from the original manuscripts of folk speakers in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It may describe the marriage and destiny of young men and women, or reveal people's pursuit of fame and fortune and their understanding of life, or depict strange things, injustices and strange worlds in the world. It shows the ideological outlook, hobbies, life scenes, etc. Of the citizen class at that time, and builds its own unique artistic world. Compared with the early "Huaben", "Jingshi Tongyan" has undergone great changes and developments in terms of language, style and structure. It provides us with rich and detailed written materials for understanding and studying the society of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and also made popular literature reach a level of social recognition. It is the pinnacle of ancient vernacular short stories.

This political fantasy novel was written in 1907. Through the perspective of a wealthy lady who joined the revolution, the author fictionalized the changes in social development at that time and accurately predicted the rise of the capitalist centralized system. Although the book was published 100 years ago, it still has a warning and thought-provoking effect on today's society.

"Window Light" is Nanae Aoyama's debut novel. This work won the 42nd Japan Literary Award, known as the "cradle of the Akutagawa Prize". By describing a female college student who dropped out of school and worked in a cafe, she peered into a man's room opposite, and then went out on the street every night to peek into the lives of ordinary people. It delicately depicts the psychological world of a young woman who cannot handle real life well. "Mrs. Murasaki's Paris" describes an aunt who is a cleaning lady in an office building. When she feels uncomfortable, she thinks about the streets of Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe seen from the Eiffel Tower, etc., And at the same time imagines herself as a Frenchman born in Paris.

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"King Lear" is one of the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics by Xu Yuanchong" and one of Shakespeare's famous tragedies. The story told is familiar to readers: King Lear, as the king of Britain, likes to listen to sweet words, and uses this to judge the extent of his three daughters' love for him. As a result, he was deceived by the sweet words of the eldest daughter and the second daughter, and granted them territory and power. The younger daughter was not accepted by King Lear because she was not good at speaking out. Although she was loyal and filial in her heart, she was left out and married away. After King Lear was deceived and abused by his two daughters and had no place to stay, he finally distinguished between the loyal and the traitor. Unfortunately, the tragedy had already occurred.

"The Merry Wives of Windsor" is a comedy by Shakespeare. It has a strong flavor of life and brings the emerging bourgeois family life to the stage. Engels once pointed out: "The first act of The Merry Wives of Windsor alone contains more flavor of life than all German literature." In the 19th century, the famous composer Otto Nicolai composed it into an opera, and it became one of the most popular and frequently performed operas. The period from 1590 to 1613 was the golden age of Shakespeare's creation. His early plays, mainly comedies and historical dramas, reached their peak of depth and artistry in the late 16th century. By 1608, he was mainly writing tragedies. Shakespeare advocated noble sentiments, and his tragedies often described sacrifice and revenge, including "Othello", "Hamlet", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", which are considered among the best examples in the English language. Towards the end of his life, he began to write tragicomedies, also known as romance plays.

"Twelfth Night" is a play written by the British playwright Shakespeare. It tells the story of Sebastian and Viola, a twin brother and sister who unfortunately died during a sea voyage and fled to Illyria. After some interesting twists and turns, Viola and Orsino, Olivia and Sebastian both form a happy marriage. With a lyrical style and romantic comedy form, this work once again eulogizes the beautiful humanistic ideals of love and friendship, and expresses the beauty of life and love.

During World War I, the American young man Frederick Henry came to the Italian front as a volunteer and served as a lieutenant in a field ambulance team, where he met the British nurse Catherine. During a mission, Henry was injured and was sent to Milan Hospital for recuperation, where Catherine also happened to be transferred to work. After an unexpected reunion and Catherine's careful care of Henry, the two fell in love. After recovering from his injury, Henry, who returned to the front line, became more aware of the cruelty of war. In order to escape the punishment of the so-called "AWOL" officers, he resolutely left the army and joined Catherine, and the two fled to Switzerland together. Unfortunately, after a short period of happiness, Catherine died in childbirth, and the baby also died of suffocation, leaving Henry alone in the world.

This book is considered to be the prelude to Nabokov's famous work "Lolita". The author himself also said that the name "Magician" foreshadows the theme of "The Enchanted Hunter" in "Lolita". Here, the "Magician" is a lustful middle-aged man who woos a widow in order to gain access to her daughter. However, the magician uses his magic to turn desire into a fairy-tale dream, thus creating an ending that is completely different from "Lolita".

"Eugenie Grandet": takes the protagonist Grandet's family life as the main line, and Eugenie's love tragedy as the core of the conflict. There are no poisons, no sharp knives, and no bloodshed in the novel, but it perfectly portrays the image of Grandet, a cruel, greedy, and miserly capitalist. It profoundly exposes Grandet's ugly way of getting rich and his ignorant view of money, and successfully creates an immortal image of a miser in the history of world literature. With its comic exaggeration, personalized language and detailed character description, the novel has achieved considerable literary achievements, marking a new leap in the ideological and artistic aspects of Balzac's works. "Petro Goriot": In 1819, the Vauquer apartment in Paris lived with several tenants including Goriot, a retired flour merchant known as "Petro Goriot", the poor but ambitious student Rastignac, and the easy-going but cold-hearted Vautrin. Old Man Goriot, who spends every penny in his own life, dotes on his two daughters who have married into the upper class, and uses the wealth he has accumulated throughout his life to satisfy his daughters' extravagance; Rastignac, a poor young man from the mainland, witnesses the extravagance of Paris aristocrats, vows to get ahead, and hopes to rise to the top by befriending noble ladies; The hypocritical Vautrin was a fugitive from prison who had been hiding in the corner, waiting for an opportunity to seize wealth... Seeing that Goriot's family property was squeezed out by his two daughters, and he did not even see his daughter for the last time before his death. Vautrin's conspiracy failed, his identity was exposed and he was caught. Rastignac seemed to see through the hypocrisy and absurdity of this upper class society, and he was determined to challenge the society...

This book is one of the representative works of Mr. Soetsu Yanagi, the father of Japanese folk arts. As the founder and first president of the Japan Folk Art Association, Mr. Soetsu Yanagi has decades of valuable collecting experience. With his love for things and his rich collection experience, he recorded these precious insights and essence in these famous essays, talking about why people collect, good and bad tastes in collecting, what he gained from his own collecting experience, etc. He put forward views such as "collecting is a deep love for objects" and "taking pride in buying at a high price is a shallow taste". Constructed an oriental aesthetic system with unique significance and discussed the principles of beauty. Collection is a kind of love for objects.

The book "The Adventure Crew" describes a group of nature-loving teenagers who are determined to discover the "New World" of nature, that is, new things, just like Columbus. For children, in fact, the old things they don't know or understand are also "new". The young Columbuss decided to go to the forest to find it first. The author is particularly good at describing the life and habits of animals and plants, so he uses fascinating storylines in the book to introduce the characteristics of many birds and animals, forests and their interdependence, etc. The language is light and lively, and the descriptions are vivid and delicate.

The core of mystery novels lies in solving puzzles. The essence of solving puzzles lies in logic, and the object of logic lies in trickery. Countless masters who have emerged so far have been thinking about one question throughout their lives: How to write an eternal conspiracy? Locked room mysteries, alibi, narrative tricks, nursery rhyme murders, death codes, Blizzard Mountain Villa, missing weapons... All reasoning models have been written down, what is left in the world of reasoning? Does it really have to be confusing, twisty, and whimsical to make people feel exciting and interesting? A work in which Keigo Higashino systematically "researches" conspiracies, and a work that expands the territory of mystery novels, sorting out various possibilities and revealing all kinds of impossibilities, the breadth of conspiracies and the depth of surprises are all eye-popping.

I think my favorite place in the world is the kitchen. Sakurai Mikage's parents died young, and after the death of her grandmother, who had always been dependent on each other, she became truly alone. In times of despair, Yuichi Tanabe, a classmate who had been cared for by his grandma, warmly invited Miying to move in with him. Yuichi's mother, Eriko, has a special identity of changing from a father to a mother who wears two hats. Meiying found a sense of belonging in this strange family and settled down. While getting along with Yuichi's mother and son, Miying gradually opened up her heart, let go of her ex-boyfriend, and accepted the reality of her grandmother's death. She was reborn in her heart and began to live an independent life again. After Eriko was killed by a guest, Mikage came to comfort Yuichi, and the two, who were neither relatives nor lovers, began to live together. Yuichi's confession was not accepted for a while. A relationship that is not understood by the world is misunderstood. Okuno, who has an unrequited love for Yuichi, comes to accuse and abuse Mikage. Mikage temporarily leaves Yuichi on a business trip, and Yuichi painfully chooses to escape temporarily.

"Tales of Terror" contains 17 novels and is edited by Lawrence Block, the master of contemporary hard-boiled detective novels. Bullock invited 17 contemporary American writers to conduct an experimental proposition writing inspired by great paintings. The story spans the city and the countryside, the east coast and the west coast, the contemporary and the modern. Characters with different agendas use their strategies to raise the suspense of the mountains... It is not only a tribute to famous paintings, but also a subtle presentation of the spirit of adventure.

The collection of lectures, published in 1980, includes the contents of seven lectures given by Borges in the summer of 1977. They are respectively titled "The Divine Comedy", nightmares, "One Thousand and One Nights", Buddhism, poetry, Jewish mysticism and blindness. It tells about Borges's interaction with the "Divine Comedy", the nightmare mixed with mirrors and labyrinths, Eastern consciousness, the essence of Buddhism, the aesthetics of poetry, the concept of holy books and the tools of art, etc.

This book includes Rabindranath Tagore's lyrical prose "Bamboo Flute", "Morning and Evening", "The Road Underfoot", philosophical prose "New Rain", "End of the Year", "Journey of Life", essays "The Humiliation of Coin", "Fearless", as well as some speeches, political papers, letters, diaries and other works. Rabindranath Tagore's prose creations have rich themes and diverse styles, and many of them provide people with beautiful enjoyment and ideological enlightenment. From them, we can feel the political views, literary thoughts and daily life of this great writer.

Natsume Soseki, a writer who was active in Japan during the Meiji and Taisho periods, is known as Japan's "national writer". Today, a hundred years later, his works still firmly occupy a prominent position in Japanese street bookstores. "The Door" is the third part of the love trilogy. Sosuke and Ami live in a world within the gate. They became husband and wife due to an accidental encounter. They fed each other with sweet love inside the gate. But when they went out, they were spurned by society and experienced the pain of deviating from morality. Compared with the simple Ami, Zongsuke is tortured by guilt all the time. In order to stay away from it all, he escapes to a temple in the mountains, hoping that Zen learning can open the locked door in his heart. However, his practice encountered more doors, and he could not muster the courage to open them anyway. He could only stand outside the door forever, staring at his lonely self.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century and a talented playwright; the movie of the same name co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn is a classic of literary films; a crazy memory that cannot be removed by a scalpel, an ultimate shock of desire and disillusionment. This book is a one-act play created in 1957 by Tennessee Williams, the twentieth-century American drama master. It uses a large number of metaphors and hints to show the depravity of human nature and the oppression and control of love by greed in a modern society that flaunts scientific rationality. It premiered in 1958 and was later adapted for the screen, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn. The story takes place in New Orleans, USA, in 1936. In the name of funding medical research, a wealthy widow named Mrs. Venable asked doctors to perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine. Regardless of whether the operation was successful or not, she begged the world not to believe the girl's nonsense. After contacting Catherine, the doctor discovered that her shocking words were not caused by a mental breakdown. Her so-called slander against her cousin - Mrs. Venable's son Sebastian, who died mysteriously on the Spanish coast last summer - was actually a woman's examination and accusation of the hypocrisy and cruelty in human nature in the name of love. As the truth is revealed. An umbilical cord used by an old mother to tie her precious son, a man entangled and suffocated by this umbilical cord, two women's unspeakable heart knots, and a strange and secret human struggle surfaced, revealing how the greedy jungle utilitarian law devours reason and kindness above the monetary interests of American southern society.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, a talented playwright; the original script of a classic film starring Richard Burton, a New York Drama Critics Award-winning work; a tribute to those who cry out for dignity and kindness. Williams' famous three-act play, first performed in December 1961. The play once again created the image of a homeless "fugitive clan". From the perspective of the tour guide Shannon - a weirdo in the eyes of everyone, a former priest who was stripped of his vestments - the whole world is the scope of his travels. He is not rigidly bound to the schedule in the brochure. He believes that as long as there are hearts that can be touched and emotions that can be felt, people should see as much of the lower society as possible everywhere. This fish, who dreams of swimming but is always intercepted and persecuted by sharks, has sympathy with a wandering female painter Hannah, who also advocates freedom and is despised. With Hannah's help, he fights his own demons, trying to break free like a trapped iguana about to be cooked by cutting a rope, crossing the dark corners of his nature, breaking down the barriers between people and making contact with each other.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century and a genius playwright; Williams' classic work, the source of inspiration for Wong Kar-wai's "Days of Being Wild"; a footless bird looking for redemption in life. This book is a three-act play by Williams, first performed in 1957. Carrying a guitar, a snakeskin jacket and a body of hot and wild blood, mariachi Val arrives in a traditional southern town like a fox entering a henhouse. He and the soon-to-be-widowed candy store owner Lady-an Italian woman who almost broke her fingers trying to seize life-triggered each other, awakened their passions, and attempted to save each other from hell. However, love, the imaginary answer to life, fooled them again. On the night when the candy store was about to reopen sweetly, in a commotion that accumulated hatred, hatred, and jealousy, the man and woman who did not want to wither in the darkness were still chased by death. Williams transformed Orpheus, the charming god of poetry and music in Greek mythology, who was responsible for poetry and music, into the protagonist Val. He traveled to the American South in the 1950s due to a time and space displacement, and explored the relationship between love, desire and art, as shown in the introduction to this play. As written in , this work "functioned as a kind of emotional bridge, linking the early years of my life with my current existence as a playwright", allowing the playwright's heart scarred by jackdaws to be exposed without concealment.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, a genius playwright; Paul Newman's classic original script for the screen, life is a wild dream; the complex character creation shows the cunning and fragility of human nature, a classic case of the American Film Institute. This book is a three-act play by Tennessee Williams. It was first performed in 1959 and the film version was released in 1962. The work tells the story of Chance Wayne, a young man from the American South whose mind and tongue are accustomed to racing wild horses, and his awakening from a broken dream. For his wild dream, he did not hesitate to get close to an older and outdated female star, trying to use her to knock on the door of destiny and make a name for himself in the entertainment industry, even if his knuckles were bloody. He returned to his hometown with the intention of restarting his old youthful dream, but found that his once pure and flawless youth with a clear conscience would never return. He had spent half his life fighting under the iron curtain of profit, leaving only despairing ambitions and withered laurels.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, a genius playwright; a classic in film history by Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, and one of Williams' three masterpieces; a friendship that must never be acknowledged, and a family storm that is more violent than the storm outside the house. This play, along with "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire", are known as Tennessee Williams' three masterpieces. The script tells the story of an extraordinary day in a large southern American family that relies entirely on lies to maintain their family ties: when the property, 28,000 acres of fertile land, is lent to the manor owner "Big Daddy" who is seriously ill and has recently passed away for his birthday, two sons with very different personalities and a pair of covetous sisters-in-law stage a family storm. The work focuses on the portrayal of Maggie, the young daughter-in-law who was born in poverty, who is as anxious and unremitting as a cat on a hot tin house because of her unsatisfied desires for love and money; and the heart-to-heart game between father and son, the eldest father and his younger son Brick, around "life is a deception", also shows the darkness and tearing of human nature. The play also won the author the Pulitzer Prize for the second time. It is one of the most famous repertoires in the American theater world; the film version starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor is also a classic in film history.

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The book "Metaphors of Disease" contains Sontag's two important essays "Disease as Metaphor" and "AIDS and its Metaphors". In the article, Sontag reflects on and criticizes how diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and cancer are gradually metaphorized in social interpretation, transforming from "just a disease of the body" into a process of moral criticism, and then into a process of political oppression.

"Glory" is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov, a recognized master of novels in the twentieth century. Later, he and his son Dmitry Nabokov jointly translated the book into English and published it in 1971. This is a beautiful book about growing up, a rare youthful "age of innocence" written by Nabokov. The protagonist Martin began his life of exile with his mother due to the Russian Revolution, and traveled to Greece, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany and the south of France; he completed his self-growth along with the lingering love, and gradually walked out of the hesitation between courage and cowardice; he transformed from a dreamer and a daydreamer into an actioner and a realistic adventurer, heeding the call from the distant deep memory, obeying the guidance of inner impulse and romantic passion, crossing the border regardless of all, and finally gaining glory through practicing courage. This version was translated from Russian by the famous translator Shi Guoxiong, which retains the charm and beauty of the original text to the greatest extent.

This book tells the story of the protagonist John Christopher's struggle in a society full of vulgarity and strife. From the awakening of his musical talent in childhood, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, he finally reaches a state of clarity and loftiness, revealing the dawn of another world.

"The Chronicles of Narnia" is a series of seven magical stories created by Lewis between 1951 and 1956, including "The Sorcerer's Nephew", "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "The Talking Horse and the Boy", "Prince Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Silver Chair" and "The Last Battle". The "Kingdom of Narnia" in the story is a mysterious and fantasy world. In these stories, the young protagonists enter the fantasy world of Narnia with a magic ring or through various magical methods such as a wardrobe door. They save the people of Narnia through heroic adventures and a battle of wits with the tyrant witch.

This book is one of the representative works in "The Human Comedy". It describes the evil methods of the bourgeois upstarts in realistic writing: Grandet controls the market, drives up prices, engages in public debt speculation, and usury; Charles sells people, evades taxes and smuggling, colludes with pirates, etc. The work takes the miser Grandet's family life and exploitative activities as the main line, and Eugenie's love and marriage tragedy as the central event. It analyzes Grandet's sinful fortune and his dehumanizing money worship in layers, and successfully portrays the immortal image of the miser in the history of world literature. This book also includes "Old Man Goriot", which tells the story of the protagonist Goriot Goriot, a flour merchant who started his career during the French Revolution. He lost his wife in middle age. He devoted all his love to his two daughters. In order to let them squeeze into the upper class, he gave them a good education since childhood and gave them a dowry of 800,000 francs each when they got married. However, his two daughters lived a lavish life, and his love was easily defeated by the principle of money supremacy. This work is representative in showing the breadth and depth of social life, in reflecting the progress and limitations of the writer's worldview, and in expressing the artistic achievements and shortcomings of "The Human Comedy". Its artistic style is one of the works that can represent the characteristics of Balzac.

"Human Bonds" is Maugham's semi-autobiographical novel, published in 1915. Philip was born lame and lost his parents at an early age. His inferiority complex was deeply rooted in his life. He grew up under the care of his uncle, Rev. Carey, and his aunt, Louisa. His uncle was relatively cold to him, but his aunt took good care of him and gave him motherly warmth. Philip has been passionate about literature since he was a child, and found sustenance in his uncle's study. Despite his uncle's objections, he went to Heidelberg, Germany to study, where he met the Englishman Hayward and the American Weeks, and began to question theology. Afterwards, Philip went to London to become an accounting apprentice, but he was tired of the boring life and soon moved to Paris to study art, where he studied painting for two years. But he eventually realized that he had mediocre artistic qualifications and would not achieve anything. When news of his aunt's death came, Philip returned to England and decided to study medicine in London. In London...

The anthology selects Zweig's important works from different creative periods, focusing especially on the short stories and short stories that have the author's highest artistic achievements and are most loved by readers. The first volume includes "Hazy Night", "Malay Madman", "Letter from a Strange Woman", "Invisible Treasures", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", etc.; The second volume includes novellas such as "The Story of Chess", as well as the biography of Joseph Fouche, a figure in the French Revolution era; the third volume is the only novel published during his lifetime, "The Anxiety of the Soul". Zweig's contribution to the development of narrative art is concentrated in the creation of short stories and short stories. Zweig inherited the excellent tradition of German literature and was good at meticulous character characterization, delicate psychological analysis, and passionate soul description. He has the artistic characteristics of fantastic imagination, ups and downs of plot, beautiful language, and rich poetry, thus conquering countless readers from all over the world.

Emma was born in a squire family in Heber Village. Her mother died early. She grew up under the education of Miss Taylor, a governess. Later, Miss Taylor married Mr. Weston and left home. Emma becomes friends with Harriet, a homeless girl in the village boarding school. She regards herself as Harriet's protector and is determined to find a suitable husband for her. Young farmer Ding fell in love with Harriet, but Harriet rejected him due to Emma's concept of hierarchy. The novel is delicately described and humorous. Austen has special talents in describing people's daily life, inner feelings and many intricate trivial matters. She can depict ordinary things and characters vividly with meticulous brushwork.

"Life is like surfing. The waves change all the time, and one can only maintain balance at all times. Even if you end up distorting your posture, as long as you maintain your will, everything will become simpler in the flow of time." The steak burger restaurant "JUJU" was inherited from Mitsuko's grandfather and was later run by her parents. It is a nostalgic store with sizzling burger patties, and the food and atmosphere are memorable. The favorite comic of Mitsuko's beautiful mother is "Salome, Princess of Hell". After taking over the burger shop, she changed the name of the shop to "JUJU" according to the name of the burger shop where Salome worked in the comic. When her mother died suddenly, Mitsuko took over and ran a burger restaurant with her father. However, she did not know how to cook and had no confidence, and she was not as good at dancing as her mother. With the help of her father and Shinichi, a wonderful change happened, and Mitsuko also met the one she loved. The small shop is like a microcosm of life, with delicious food and ordinary people gathering together. Food also has a soul. What you eat and what you eat convey your feelings to Mitsuko. Gradually, Mitsuko discovered the secret of delicious food and the magical power of Salome.

"My Boyfriend" is Nanie Aoyama's first novel. Ayutaro, a college student, has a handsome appearance and a gentle temper. He has tolerated the teasing of his sisters since childhood and is very popular with women. In order to find a writer for his second sister Yuriko's autobiography, Ayutaro, who had just lost his love, met Miss Kotori, who was older than him, and was quickly attracted to her. However, Miss Otori stabbed Ayutaro out of jealousy. His encounter with Xiao Satoshi, a lonely girl in the gym, made Ayutaro feel pity. He started working hard to buy gifts for Xiao Satoshi, but was abandoned in the end... Love is hard to understand, but sometimes, love has been quietly waiting for you.

A frustrated writer named Henry, a taxidermist named Henry. The former's new book on the subject of the Jewish Holocaust was frustrated by innovation, while the latter has been writing a script for decades, about a monkey named Virgil and a donkey named Beatrice... Two strangers who had never met each other began to cooperate by fate, and a weird, interesting, climactic and philosophical journey of humanity began: they will explore survival, death, life-threatening violence, fear and redemption - in life and in the script.

This book collects two novels by Balzac. "Petro Goriot" tells the story of a young man named Rastinac who came to Paris to study law alone and met the orphan Vinedolina. Later, he got into the upper class society with the help of his cousin's wife and got acquainted with two noble ladies, namely Goriot's two daughters. It describes their conflicts of interests and people. "Eugénie Grandet" tells the story of the banker De Grasan and the Crouch brothers (notary public and priest) in Saumur City who are interested in Grandet's million-dollar fortune, a wealthy businessman in the city. The two families started a fierce struggle to compete for Grandet's only daughter, Eugenie Grandet, and thus inherit his family property. Old Grandet regarded wealth as his life and used his daughter as bait to grab money. Eugenie has lived a closed life since she was a child. The arrival of her cousin Charlie from Paris ignited the flame of her love. For this reason, she suffered all kinds of torture and suffered all her life.

"The Possessed" is a novella published by Dickens on Christmas Day in 1848. Chemist Ledlow had a rough life. His young lover and his sister who accompanied him in his struggle both died unfortunately. He encountered a ghost on Christmas Eve, and under the guidance of the ghost, he asked it to deprive him of all memories. At the end of the story, Ledlow accepted the rescue of Tianmilie, recovered his forgotten memories, and regained the warmth of humanity.

"Great Expectations" is one of Dickens's most mature works and his relatively late work. The original title of this work was GreatExpectations, which means a legacy. China translated it as "Great Expectations". This translation gives readers the impression that the protagonist of the work has a great future. In fact, this "Great Expectations" is ironic. It should be said that the theme of this work is by no means just a story about the disillusionment of the orphan Pip who wants to be a gentleman. Dickens' creation of this work has a more profound significance.

Jean Valjean, the protagonist of "Les Misérables", is a hard labor prisoner serving a nineteen-year sentence. After he was released from prison, he was inspired by the bishop and determined to do good. He went away to a different place, changed his name to Madeleine, and after becoming a wealthy man, he extended his benevolence and was later appointed mayor. He helps the female worker Fantine and the orphan Cosette. Throughout his life, Jean Valjean struggled in suffering, but he had the sentiment of self-sacrifice for others. Hugo used the image of Jean Valjean to point out a way out for the predicament of human existence. The novel reflects Hugo's humanitarian thoughts and is full of Hugo's concern for the suffering and destiny of mankind and his unswerving belief in the future. It has a shocking artistic appeal.

This classic work, which shines with lofty ideals and is full of passion for life, occupies a very important position in the literary history of the Soviet Union and the world. In this epic heroic biography, the author portrays Paul Korchagin's noble personality of persistence and perseverance. His image transcends time, space and national boundaries. It has had a worldwide impact and shakes the heartstrings of generations. Soon after the novel came out, it was adapted into movies and stage plays and spread all over the world.