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"Chao Sao" is a masterpiece of youth literature by the famous Japanese writer Mishima Yukio. An island with simple folk customs and a beach full of stars. A strong and brave young fisherman and an innocent and fit rich girl fell in love with each other and fell in love at first sight. There is no coy coquettishness, no pretentious elegance, everything is natural and natural. The whole article eulogizes the beauty of youth and survival.

Junichi Watanabe's essay writing is quite prolific. The themes of his essays mainly focus on gender, body, marriage, and love, which have a great influence in Japan and even Asia. This book is a masterpiece of Junichi Watanabe's essays. By analyzing Japan's current marriage system and the status quo of social marriage, Watanabe reveals the thinking and choices of modern Japanese people between marriage and happiness, and explores a new emotional model for men and women that can truly adapt to personal and social needs and achieve equality, freedom and happiness in a high degree of freedom - de facto marriage. It also calls for Japanese society to tolerate and understand the diverse thoughts and multiple choices in the marriage of men and women.

"Literary genius" Martin Amis's genius debut novel won the "Maugham Literary Award", comparable to "The Catcher in the Rye". In the ever-changing adolescence, at the crossroads of destiny, one night is enough to change a young man's life. The adolescent Charles Heway was intelligent, knowledgeable, sensitive and prudent, and had a dream of being a writer. When he was about to celebrate his twentieth birthday and was about to enter Oxford University, he remembered his first love in the complete "Rachel Papers" he recorded. Charles, who was restless in his youth, met the beautiful, sexy, mature and restrained Rachel at a party. He was deeply attracted and could not extricate himself. In order to get Rachel, Charles began to make careful plans from shallow to deep, slowly unfolding and step by step. Soon Rachel fell into the web of love he had carefully woven, so they indulged, caroused, and unscrupulously devoured their seemingly eternal and touching youth. But when this love "full of desire and passion" slowly began to calm down, Charles was unable to store his "noble" and "fragile" love in the vulgar and ugly reality. After the midnight of his crazy and indulgent youth, he could not escape the dark night of the adult world. The entire story spans only one night. In the constant memories, associations and flashbacks, in the dream full of desire, joy, confusion and cruelty, the "youth" described by Amis is fully revealed.

The Dutch sinologist John Gauloppe has rewritten the legend of Di Renjie, a famous official in the early Tang Dynasty, combining the elegance of Chinese classical literature with the fun of Western detective novels. It is a brand new unabridged translation, with hand-drawn illustrations by Gaulopi and a full analysis of the creative background. The translator has studied Gao Luopei for many years and is responsible for the translation alone to ensure a unified writing style. "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" successfully created "China's Sherlock Holmes" and was translated into and published in many foreign languages, leaving a significant mark in the history of cultural exchanges between China and the world. Fifteen versions of the translated version of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" are planned to be published. Zhang Ling, who has studied Gao Luopei for many years, is responsible for the translation and writes annotations and postscripts that are both academic and readable. It is currently the only version on the market that has been independently translated by one person. The third volume of "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty" includes "Purple Cloud Temple", "Liu Garden Picture", "Guangzhou Case", "Necklace Case" and "Mid-Autumn Festival Case". Each volume is equipped with illustrations created by Gao Luopei himself, full of ancient charm and pleasing to the eye. "Ziyun Temple" tells the story that in 670 AD, when Di Gong was appointed as the magistrate of Lanfang County, Hong Liang and Ma Rong assisted in solving the murder case of Zeng San, the theft of banknotes and the disappearance of women.

During the summer vacation, a case occurred at the Yokohama Aquarium. Fortunately, there were only eleven suspects at the scene, and the police started questioning them one by one with confidence. However, an hour later, the three policemen were immersed in a mysterious silence... Eleven suspects all had alibis. In other words, everyone has been eliminated as a suspect! It seems that this time I have no choice but to ask "that person" to take action...

Rosie married Norman, a policeman, when she was young. After her marriage, she suffered physical, mental and spiritual torture. She was insulted, kicked and punched, stabbed with a pencil tip, her kidneys were damaged, and she was even beaten until she had a miscarriage. Rosie spent 14 years full of violence and fear like this, as if he was living in a dream every day, numb and in a trance. One morning, she suddenly saw a drop of dried blood on the sheets. It was like a bolt from the blue that made her wake up suddenly. She plucked up the courage and decided to escape. She took one of her husband's bank cards and ran to a strange city to try to start a new life. However, her husband refuses to let her go, and as Norman closes in, the shadows of the past return. How does Rosie escape from the abyss of violence, how does she keep her last sanity and rebuild her life amidst pain and anger? This book is an important work by Stephen King that expresses the awakening and growth of women. You cannot survive violence through compromise, and you must fight hard to survive.

A few short stories about the popular killer and detective Kurosawa. In recent days, vicious killings have occurred frequently in society. The deceased had their neck bones broken and died in strange ways. Public opinion circles dubbed the murderer the "Broken Neck Man" and drew a portrait through eyewitness testimony. When the old couple saw the "murderer's portrait" posted on TV, they suddenly became suspicious of the young man living next door, and began to follow... Is the young man next door a vicious neck-breaking man? Will a couple who have lived a peaceful life encounter a sensational event in their later years? Readers' favorite Kurosawa is once again involved in the incident in a strange way, and this time, he seems to be being tricked...

"Even if I hold you in my arms, I still hope you have your own thoughts." Lucy, a girl from a well-born family, happened to stay in the same hotel as George, a young man, while traveling in Italy. With the help of George and her father, Lucy has a room with a view. During the trip, the two young people were attracted to each other and fell in love with each other. But the identity gap caused constant misunderstandings between the two, and finally, Lucy left George. Soon, Lucy was engaged to the famous aristocrat Chesir, but Chesir's hypocrisy made Lucy miserable. By chance, George rented a house near Lucy's house, and the two young people reunited after a long absence. The fire of love has been rekindled in the hearts of both parties, but in the face of George's frank and sincere love, the traditional-minded Lucy dared not reveal her feelings. The sad George left sadly... The departure of her lover and the painful and entangled current situation made Lucy finally see her heart clearly. She resolutely broke through the shackles of ideas, lived for herself, and found the person she loved...

Everything in the world has a price, except time, every second is every second, and no one can bargain. So I am always on business trips and devote every minute and second of my life to work, because I firmly believe that creating wealth is the proper destination of time. At the age of 45, I became a successful man with a career and capital, but my wife and son left me. Cancer sent me to the hospital, and a week ago I met the five-year-old girl in the next ward. She used crayons to color chairs, made dinosaurs out of milk cartons, and told stories to rabbit dolls, all to comfort her mother and those who came to visit her. Death is approaching day by day, but the girl is still looking forward to her mother telling her bedtime stories, going to school, and looking forward to next year's birthday party. She secretly told me that aliens in white coats would come and cure her illness. She reminds me of my own son and the things I didn't do for him. The night when the God of Death came to take the girl away, a big hole in my heart seemed to be torn open. I offered to the God of Death to exchange my life for the girl's life, but the God of Death also asked to erase all traces of me in the world. How have I spent the past 45 years, from being the son of my parents to being the father of my son? A reckoning with the past made me finally understand what time really means.

"Pride and Prejudice" tells the story of the love and mate selection of five sisters in an ordinary middle-class family in England in the early 19th century. In the book, Darcy, the hero of the rich family, is arrogant, which makes the heroine Elizabeth prejudice him, and almost misses the true love in his heart. Later, these misunderstandings are all resolved, and the lovers finally get married.

"Grass Pillow" is Natsume Soseki's ideological monologue on artistic philosophy, life insights, and the true meaning of beauty. In order to pursue the pure true meaning of art, the young painter deliberately escaped from the world and embarked on a journey of collecting styles. After meeting a pure and beautiful girl in a mountain hot spring, he began to regard her as a character in the painting and always looked for a moment that could be frozen. In the end, he got what he wanted and achieved the artistic pursuit deep in his heart - "inhuman love" through practice. The so-called "imhumanity" is an artistic realm that transcends secular morality and human emotions.

Asami Shoko, who has dual roles as a kimono designer and a good wife and mother, meets Takayuki Aki, a freelance writer who has long had a rift with her family. The encounter between the two comes from a moss-green kimono belt, and the distance between the two is infinitely narrowed. From light spring to cold summer, from Autumn to Winter Pavilion, their footprints are all over Atami, Kyoto, and Hokkaido... While enjoying the Japanese beauty, the two indulgently express their love for each other with their bodies. It's just that beautiful scenery is fleeting, passion is hard to sustain, life is illusory and impermanent, and love, no matter how beautiful it is, is as real and illusory as a bubble...

In adolescence, Nobuo Takamura was full of curiosity about the opposite sex, which brought him both mental and physical distress. The story of growing up is sometimes interesting and sometimes bitter. In contact with women of different personalities and ages, the boy gradually loses his youthfulness and grows into a real man.

Lucy and her cousin came to Italy for vacation and wanted to have a room with a view, but the result was not satisfactory. The Emersons offered to give them their room, a warm-hearted act that seemed to offend Lucy, who was born in the upper class of England. The cousin kept Lucy under strict supervision for fear that she would do something contrary to her status. But as their understanding deepens, Lucy seems to have developed a liking for the Emersons. Faced with her own feelings, Lucy falls into deep contradictions. The trip to Italy ended unhappy, but it planted seeds in Lucy's heart. Later, Lucy got engaged to Cecil, but she could never forget Emerson. At the last moment, Lucy bravely broke through the many class barriers set by conservative British society and decided to live for herself.

"The Cat, Shozo and Two Women" is a humorous sketch novella by Japanese literary master Junichiro Tanizaki. After being kicked out of the house, Pinzi, who was not liked by her husband Zhuang Zao and her mother-in-law, came up with a clever plan to return to the family: she wrote to her husband's second wife Fuzi, asking for the family cat Lily to be given to her. Lily is Zhuang Zao's favorite cat, and they eat and sleep together. Fuzi also complains about Zhuang Zao's obsession with cats, and joins forces with her mother-in-law to force Zhuang Zao to give the cat to Pinzi. Pinzi finally conquered Lily, and her husband followed suit as expected... Cats are like women, women are like cats, and the men who are at a loss among them are a vivid family comedy that makes people laugh.

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.

As children, Sarah and Emily were two very different girls. In Emily's eyes, her rational sister is always superior. She is jealous of her sister's relationship with her father (who left them due to divorce) and her sister's seemingly happy marriage. Emily has chosen a path that is not so safe and unconventional. All romantic affairs cannot truly satisfy her. Although the bond connecting the sisters has always existed, the distance between them has become farther and farther...

In the countryside of Kent, England, at the end of the 19th century, Bertha, the eldest daughter of a declining family, fell in love with Craddock, the son of a tenant farmer. She pursued love wholeheartedly and married him regardless of the disparity in status and the obstruction of others. The happy newlywed life makes Bertha feel that "the world has just begun." However, soon after her marriage, her ideals of love began to encounter setbacks. She was disappointed again and again. When she put her hope in her soon-to-be-born child, new misfortune befell her...

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.

Zweig, the world's master of short stories, is a suffocating female psychological novel that carefully analyzes the inner world of "strangers in marriage". "Professor who knows best about love" Liang Yong'an's 10,000-word long article introduction to "writer who knows best about women" Zweig: while expressing the sadness of the world, he also has "Zweig's warmth and kindness". "Fear" is an indispensable piece of Zweig's female psychological literature puzzle: burning secrets, climax suspense, suffocating fear... Zweig digs holes in women's hearts, but in order to set them free! "Fear" was written in 1925. By describing an upper-class young woman, Irena, who had an extramarital affair with a pianist, she was afraid of being discovered by her husband and losing her noble status. This caused the heroine to rethink her own destiny and life, and expressed Zweig's contempt and ridicule for the frivolous and decadent upper-class life at that time. "Fear" is known for its profound, detailed and fascinating psychological description. Together with Zweig's masterpieces "Letter from a Strange Woman" and "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", it is hailed as a masterpiece in describing female psychology.

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.

Junichi Watanabe's classic novel is introduced in China for the first time! It includes nine works including "Twilight in Ginza", "Torrent", "Hearsay" and "Spring Revenge". It describes a middle-aged doctor who breaks up with his passionate girlfriend and marries another man. In order to comfort his youthful troubles and guilt for his ex-girlfriend, he seeks information about her in a roundabout way; a business executive who is ambushed and blackmailed by a bartender and her accomplices due to vanity; The proprietress worked hard to train her daughter to inherit the restaurant business, but she became jealous because her daughter's popularity gradually eclipsed hers... "Farewell in the Afternoon" is a charming masterpiece describing the breakup of an extramarital couple. It is beautifully conceived and has an endless aftertaste. Architect Yoshino went to the site to supervise the work and fell in love with Takako. Takako knew that Yoshino had a family, but he fell in love with him because of his unbearable loneliness.

Junichi Watanabe's classic novel is introduced in China for the first time! The medical practice notes of a down-and-out doctor, the funny doctor-patient stories make people laugh and cry at life! Dr. Enjoji left the university hospital with complicated interpersonal relationships and came to work as an attending physician in a private hospital. Many patients with hidden diseases who are unable to go to large hospitals for consultation have come to seek medical treatment. A private hospital is like a kaleidoscope, reflecting various images of people living at the bottom of society and struggling in the cracks of human nature. The doctors' benevolence and the patients' inner struggles interweave into an ups and downs story, which is full of fun and thought-provoking.

"Going through the long tunnel across the county boundary is the Snow Country. Under the night sky is a vast expanse of white." Geisha Komako and Shimamura met in the Snow Country. From then on, the lonely Komako began to look forward to a date with him once a year. On his third trip to Snow Country for an appointment, Shimamura was attracted by the pure illusion of leaves reflected on the car window. From then on, several people fell into entanglements of love and resentment, until a fire brought everything to an abrupt end... Life is a futile effort, but luckily love and beauty still exist.

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.

In her new book, "Memories of a Girl," Anne Ernault relives her experience as a camp counselor in Normandy during the summer of 1958 and recounts her first night with a man. When he fell in love with someone else, she realized that she had given her will to him, like a conquered person without a master. Today, 60 years later, the author finds that she can erase the intervening years and recollect the young girl she once wanted to completely forget. Bringing the indelible memory of that summer into reality, Erno discovers that the crucial and painful origins of her writing career were built on a foundation of shame, violence, and betrayal.

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.

Shinji, who made a living by fishing on Utashima, met the beautiful and lively Hatsue. The two fell in love and began a green love. Yasuo, a young man from a wealthy family, is also in love with Hatsue, and Chiyoko, who has a crush on Shinji, is also jealous. Faced with obstacles from the outside world, disparities in family status, and even challenges from the sea, what kind of future awaits Shinji and Hatsue? .

"I know you are stupid, frivolous, and empty-minded, but I love you. I know your intentions, your ideals, your power and vulgarity, but I love you. I know you are a second-rate thing, but I love you." In order to escape the flashy but empty social circle of London in the 1920s, Katie came to China with her husband Finn. Here, the lonely Kitty had an extramarital affair with the charming married man Charlie. When Finn found out, in order to retaliate and reorganize his life, he took his wife Kitty to practice medicine in a cholera-ravaged area. In the epidemic area, Katie re-examined her life path, experienced the painful process of turning from cocoon into butterfly, and began to learn how to love.

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.

"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.

"Alchemist" Mishima Yukio's experimental love work, recasting artificial love on the ruins of the spirit. "The Submerged Waterfall" is a novel written by Yukio Mishima in 1955. The protagonist of the novel, Shiro Noboru, is a reservoir designer. He is young, handsome and successful in his career, but he is an emotionless person. One day I met Xianzi, a married woman. She had never been passionate about men. Sheng was excited to discover that this was a woman just like him, and he tried to build an "artificial love" with Xianzi that was completely divorced from emotion. But Xianzi was really in love with Sheng. Chengsuosheng was greatly disappointed when he found out. After understanding the situation, Xianzi was completely desperate and committed suicide by throwing himself into the waterfall.

Cousins ​​Alyssa and Jerome grew up together in the countryside of Normandy. Gradually, the seeds of love sprouted in them. They blend in spirit and dream of the arrival of perfect love. However, when Alyssa saw the true appearance of married life, she began to doubt all this. She wants to pursue eternal love in this world, but the door of love is actually a narrow door. After all, only a few people can find it...

Dizi entered the workplace after graduating from university. Akutsu is Dizi's boss. He has a beautiful wife and a smart child. He lives a happy but dull life. Until one day, he fell in love with Di Zi. In the work interactions, Dizi was gradually impressed by Ajiujin's personality charm, fell in love with him deeply, and longed to possess Ajiujin alone forever. In order to achieve this goal, Di Zi planned a bold action...

A secret room manual that reveals all the tricks! The winning entry of the 13th Hong Kong Reasoning Award. 2013 "Top Ten Excellent Works of Integrity Reasoning". Highly recommended by masters of reasoning Ayatsuji Yukito and Maya Yusana! All the tricks in the world just capture people's greed and fear. There is a mysterious man who appears whenever a locked room murder occurs and quickly solves the mystery. Shootings in locked classrooms, murders under police surveillance, suicides that appear to have fallen from unoccupied rooms, or murderers disappearing in the snow without footprints... All seamless secret room cases were solved after he showed up. All the tricks in the world just capture people's greed and fear. Open this book and see through all the tricks!

After "White Night Walk", Keigo Higashino severely interrogates contemporary society and family, a breakthrough work that challenges the bottom line of human ethics and morality! From the novel to the movie of the same name, it has caused a sensation in Japan. Even if the body is gone, our souls can't leave this lakeside! For their children's entrance exam, four families came to the lakeside villa for pre-exam training. The husband's lover followed but was killed in the middle of the night. The wife confessed: "I killed her." The husband planned to call the police, but the neighbors tried their best to help the wife conceal the crime. After everyone's persuasion, the husband finally joined the ranks of destroying the corpses. However, when he calmed down, he realized that all this was very unreasonable. When the truth was revealed, he could no longer escape...

Out of a sense of burnout, and because he had just escaped from a marriage of more than ten years and was unable to give up the freedom he had regained, the author took the initiative to end his six-year relationship with W. One night, W called and told him that he was moving out and living with another woman. From then on, this unknown woman invaded her mind, influenced her emotions, and entered her body. She was completely possessed. The author uses the first person to unearth, expose, and dissect her own desires nakedly and frankly, presenting a female narrative voice without pretense.

"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.

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...

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."