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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."

"Love and Sacrifice" is a representative work of the famous French Jewish writer Mauroa. The novel "Love and Sacrifice" tells the story of Goethe when he wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther", as well as several other articles: "For the Fault of Mr. Balzac", "Portrait of an Actress" and "The Last Days of Bombay". The contents of these articles are still very inspiring to readers today in thinking about life and happiness. The whole book is well analyzed and clear, and Mr. Fu Lei's translation is beautiful and smooth, which adds a lot of color to the book.

The debut and famous work of British genius Nick Hornby is a must-read for fans obsessed with rock music and charts. "Broken Love" was first published in 1995. It is Nick Hornby's first novel and his most important masterpiece. Nick Hornby, one of the most popular writers in England and even the world today, is well versed in London pop culture and deeply immersed in urban life. He is best at writing mixed British humor, with seriousness and sentimentality mixed in witty humor. He is known as the master of "comedy of depression". In an alley in North London, thirty-six-year-old Lou Fleming owns a small second-hand record shop. After living together for three years, his girlfriend Laura abandoned him and moved out of his home filled with records, tapes, and CDs. Law began to list the most sad dumped people in his life in chronological order. In the clever and ironic self-mockery, like writing a biography of life in the order of album titles, song titles and track arrangement, Law's life flows in it... The hit American TV series of the same name will be launched in 2020, written by Nick Hornby and starring Zoe Kravitz.

Mitsuyo Tsunoda, a Naoki Award-winning writer who directly faces the plight of women, explores the meaning of parent-child, husband and wife, and family from the root of life, and deeply describes women's desire, fear, and difficulties in childbearing. The novel mainly describes seven women who long to be mothers, seven men who are unable to become fathers, and seven children with completely different growth experiences and fates. Every summer, seven different families gather together in a beautiful villa to spend happy time. But one day, the camping suddenly came to an abrupt end. The children have been separated since then. When they reunited many years later, they embarked on different development trajectories. The illustrator Juri is facing fertility problems, the singer Haru is facing blindness due to genetic problems; the housewife Noriko whose marriage is in a desperate situation, the sage who is occasionally swallowed by the blank, the social elite Atan who dares not to have in-depth relationships with girls, Yuichiro who drifts with the crowd and plays with life, and the jobless vagrant Sa Yumi with a gloomy personality... Through memories, investigations, etc., They uncovered the secrets hidden behind the reunion of their parents, and achieved reconciliation with themselves.

Twenty-eight-year-old Kawai Joeji adopted the fifteen-year-old girl Naomi with the intention of training her into a "great" and "amazing" woman. However, Naomi is vain, arrogant and romantic, and hides scheming under her innocent appearance. Kawai is bewitched by her charming appearance and meets her needs at all costs. 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.

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...

When David Kepsh was young, he pursued absolute personal freedom, followed the call of desire, and indulged himself. This kind of life made him physically and mentally exhausted. And when he got the chance to return to the right path of life, he hesitated, fearing that his freedom would be imprisoned by marriage. Later, he became a professor of comparative literature. While he was preparing to open a course to teach desire in European novels, he was thinking about life: he considered himself to be nothing more than a "Professor of Desire", stumbling between the pursuit of academic rationality and the pursuit of carnal satisfaction... "Professor of Desire" was published after "Breasts", but it is the preface of "Breasts". It traces the first half of David Kepsh's life, shows his experience and inner struggle before his "transformation", and reveals how he floated up and down in the sea of ​​desire, and finally became a victim.

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.

Qiuye, a fifty-three-year-old man with a successful career, meets Kiriko, a simple and shy country girl. He taught her elegant dress and conversation, helped her learn to enjoy the joy of life and love, and even helped her have an independent career. Under the careful carving of Qiuye, Wuzi gradually transformed into a charming woman with various styles. However, is the awakened canary still willing to stay in the cage? Finally, the bird with full wings flew into the free sky; and the former bird keeper finally let go after some struggle.

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.

"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".

"Songs from the Sad Cafe" is a collection of Carson McCullers' finest short and medium-length works. In addition to 7 classic works such as Cafe and Childhood, this book also includes various short stories and essays from McCullers' posthumous work "The Mortgage Heart". The author uses the propositions of "human loneliness" and "inability to love" to indifferently describe the loneliness and alienation in her eyes. Everyone here is trapped in the dark blue moist air. They are struggling deep in their hearts. In the fragility of loving and being loved, they want to escape from loneliness, but they fall into deeper loneliness again and again...

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.

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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Nagai Daisuke is a redundant person. He has no achievements and no ambitions. Facing reality, he is more sober than anyone else, but yet more cowardly than anyone else. He is smart, calm, stubborn, and naive and thinks that he has recognized a fact: as long as he does not have a strong desire and does not fight hard, there will never be the pain of disappointment. Until something that really made him desperate quietly appeared...

"Sea Wolf" describes a touching fight and an unforgettable love story on a sailing ship named "Ghost" that hunts seals for a living. It tells the story of the protagonist Van Weyden's experience of escaping from danger due to a shipwreck controlled by the seal hunting boat owner Sea Wolf Larson. The book contains a large number of the author's own views, and the discussion of his views is full of philosophical beauty.

This version of "As I Lay Dying" is designated and recommended by four well-known writers, Mai Jia, Su Tong, Alai, and Ma Jiahui, with an in-depth interpretation of the preface by writer Su Tong, winner of the Mao Dun Literary Award. "As I Lay Dying" is a famous work by Nobel Prize winner Faulkner. The novel is composed of fifty-nine stanzas of inner monologues. It tells the story from multiple perspectives of the "suffering journey" of Bundren, a farmer in the southern United States, who in order to keep his promise to his wife, led his family to transport his wife's body back to his hometown for burial. Despite all the stupidity, selfishness, and barbaric behavior of the family, in order to respect the feelings of their relatives, they overcame huge difficulties and obstacles and fulfilled their promise. The novel demonstrates Faulkner's superb creative skills and brings him international reputation. It is known as "the most outstanding beginning of an American novel in the 20th century."

"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...

"Collected Works of Gide" includes Gide's three masterpieces: "The Narrow Gate", "The Irregulars" and "The Food of the World". The Food of the World is a collection of essays by Gide. After Gide traveled to North Africa and Italy, he used his wanderings on the road as a clue and used a virtual goddess as the object of his confession to express his feelings about life. He wrote a series of poetic fragments that were combined with traditional short poems, odes, melody and other forms. Gide despised traditional morality and advocated freedom of individual behavior. He especially emphasized people's strong feelings about nature and life, and used this feeling as spiritual food.

"Grain of the Earth" is a series of poetic fragments written by Gide in a lyrical way, combining traditional short poems, odes, melody and other forms after he traveled to North Africa and Italy. He senses the flowers and fruits of life with his fiery soul, and turns this sincere love into carols and poetry. This book can be described as Gide's most passionate spiritual monologue, and is regarded as "the Bible of a restless generation." Hummingbird Wencong has now joined China Publishing Group's key projects from 2016 to 2018.

Gide's diary, written from 1887 when he was fourteen until his death in 1950, is unique among all writers and artists of the twentieth century. From his diary, we can clearly see the formation of his moral values, his massive reading, the origin and experience of his writings, his homosexual proclivities and even the detailed experiences of his several sexual encounters. These contents are his minimally decorated "autobiography", making him a true artist and thinker, and another Montaigne.

"Les Nourritures Terrestres" (Les Nourritures Terrestres) is a prose novel published in 1897 by the French writer André Gide. It is written in the tone of a "teacher" preaching to his "disciples". Through a series of prose-like paragraphs, it tells readers the author's profound thinking on life and existence. The book does not have a specific storyline, but is more of a philosophical and emotional catharsis. The core content revolves around the love of life, the pursuit of freedom, and the praise of sensory experience. After the First World War, this book quickly became popular and became a pillow book for many young people. It influenced several generations and was regarded as "the Bible of the restless generation." It advocates abandoning the constraints that imprison human nature and pursuing personal freedom, sensual enjoyment and harmony with nature. This kind of thinking is highly consistent with the psychological needs of the younger generation in the current social environment, and can provide them with spiritual guidance to get rid of depression and find self-liberation.

"Gide's Travels" collects the essence of Gide's life's travel notes. Gide was a writer who truly "read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles". Gide's travel notes not only expressed personal feelings, but also were full of political enthusiasm and sincere humanitarian spirit. They occupied a very important position in his entire creative career. This book includes Gide's masterpieces of travel notes: "A Trip to the Congo" and "Return from Chad", as well as "Abandoning Travel", "Wandering in Turkey" and "Travel in Brittany".

This book is a collection of various texts in which Gide recommended Dostoevsky as "the greatest writer" and is a representative work of his literary criticism. As a traitor, Gide took Tuoji as his confidant, because he not only questioned the existence of God, but also used the power of the "devil" to achieve the purpose of exposing the devil, ugliness, and sin. Gide even concluded that "Dostedt is as great as Ibsen and Nietzsche, perhaps more important than them." Although Doskovsky was self-contradictory from his thoughts to his actions, and his efforts to directly clarify his thoughts from the perspectives of ethics, sociology, politics, psychology, and literary theory all failed, his exploration of revealing the secrets of the soul was comparable to Freud's research on the psychology of mental patients, and his novels "achieved a miracle."

"The Immoral" is a collection of Gide's trilogy of novels, including "The Immoral", "The Narrow Gate" and "Pastoral Symphony". It is called Gide's "moral trilogy" or "love trilogy". "The Immoral" tells the story of the protagonist Michelle, who has married according to her father's order, but does not control her desires and violates ethics. Under the double blow of illness and heart disease, his wife Marceline soon died of depression and passed away in a foreign land. "The Narrow Gate" tells the story of the protagonist Jerome who has been in love with his cousin Alyssa since childhood. Although Alyssa also had the same feelings for Jerome, she abided by the Puritan self-restraint and buried her feelings deeply in her heart. In the end, she became ill and died unfortunately. "Pastoral Symphony" tells the story of a priest who adopts a blind girl and enlightens her culturally. Later, the pastor and the pastor's son fell in love with her at the same time. The blind girl was cured of her eye disease, but after she regained her sight, she discovered the subtle relationship between the three of them. Tortured between love and justice, she finally committed suicide by jumping into a river...

This book collects 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, a taste of everything, and a true experience of the unique charm of literature, aesthetics and philosophy of this most complex and changeable master.

This book is a collection of various texts in which Gide recommended Dostoevsky as "the greatest writer" and is a representative work of his literary criticism. As a traitor, Gide took Tuoji as his confidant, because he not only questioned the existence of God, but also used the power of the "devil" to achieve the purpose of exposing the devil, ugliness, and sin.

When I no longer restrain myself, I finally have a free and broad life! Nobel laureate Gide's masterpiece, new introduction and collector's edition! Original 10,000-word introduction. Are you constantly restraining yourself from the present for the future you are looking forward to? The person you love deeply is by your side, but you can only stay away; the happiness of the moment is within reach, but you choose to push it away; there are obviously many joys in life, but you can't enjoy them... The same is true for Alyssa in "The Narrow Gate", when the faith on which her heart depends for survival forces herself to be restrained time and time again. Regarding her true desires, Alyssa finally struggled and called out in despair: "Am I really willing to make sacrifices?" After reading "The Narrow Gate", you will truly feel relieved from the bottom of your heart - when I no longer restrain myself, I finally have a free and broad life.

Nagai Daisuke, who is unemployed, lives a free life away from society. To him, any behavior that is not based on instinct is degenerate immoral behavior. When he was young, he gave up his beloved Michiyo to his friend Hiraoka based on the morality of being a friend. Unexpectedly, Ping Gang's career failed and the three met again. Daisuke realizes that he still loves Michiyo deeply and is determined to make up for his past mistakes. Daisuke does not want to work just for a living like Ping Gang, and he despises his father who was baptized by Confucian ethics but became a powerful businessman. But in order to stay together with Sanchiyo forever, he put aside the comfortable and harmonious life of more than ten years, ignored the criticism and rejection of the people around him, went out under the sun, and worked everywhere... "The Next Thing" explores the confrontation between survival and life, and also embodies Natsume Soseki's ultimate pursuit of "conforming to nature." Only after facing the struggle of life can we truly walk on the natural path without repression and live earnestly and truly for freedom.

"Aesop's Fables", which is a household name all over the world, was compiled by later generations based on the fables collected by the Byzantine monk Planudes and the ancient Greek fables that were discovered one after another. The form is concise and concise, and the content is meaningful and profound in simple and vivid language, which is quite thought-provoking.

The author of this book, Washington Irving (1783-1859), was the founder of American literature and a famous essayist and short story writer. His masterpiece "Notes on What He Saw" caused a sensation when it was published in England in 1820 and spread widely, making him the first American writer to gain international reputation and known as the "Father of American Literature". Scott and Byron became his close friends, and Thackeray called him "the first envoy from the New World literary world to the Old World." He left the world with immortal chapters such as "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Westminster Abbey". He is also a master of legendary stories, and his selected works such as "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Ghost Bridegroom" are considered to be masterpieces in literary works, giving readers great artistic enjoyment.

Junichi Watanabe's classic prose travelogue. It mainly selects 20 lakes in Hokkaido and Northeastern Japan, showing the unique natural beauty of the lakes in the morning, afternoon and evening, and describing the unpredictable changes in the four seasons under the cover of the lake water. It is so beautiful that it makes people forget to leave. In early spring, Lake Biwa is gentle and calm, dreamlike in the morning glow; in midsummer, Lake Shikotsu is filled with mist and a deep green; in mid-autumn, Lake Toro is calm and elegant, retaining its original natural state; in early winter, Lake Furien, where the blue of the lake and the white of the swans complement each other...

O. Henry is a world-renowned master of short stories. He created hundreds of excellent works in his life and is known as the "Father of Modern American Short Stories." This book contains nine representative works such as "The Gift of the Magi", "The Last Leaf", "The Police and the Hymn" and "Twenty Years Later". The content of these stories is close to real life, the length is short and concise, the plot is fascinating, and has a strong artistic appeal.

"Boz Features" is Dickens's famous work and his earliest work published in book form. It contains 27 of his early features and short stories published in various newspapers and periodicals, plus eight unpublished stories, for a total of 35 stories. "Boz's Close-Ups" shows all aspects of social life in London at that time, especially the description of the life of the middle and lower classes in detail. As the first work of Dickens's works, "Boz's Close-Ups" had a profound influence on the formation of the great writer's future writing style. Therefore, "Boz's Close-Ups" is rare material for a comprehensive study of Dickens and an in-depth understanding of the British social conditions in the mid-19th century.

"Inner Activity" selects 20 literary reviews written between 2000 and 2005 by J. M. Coetzee, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, Coetzee discusses in depth many 20th century literary masters such as Samuel Beckett, Günter Grass, García Márquez, and Philip Roth. Every article and every word he writes is full of profound insights and keen insight. This book may seem challenging, but in fact the writing style is friendly. The plain and precise writing opens a literary window for readers to appreciate those immortal works. The writers who commented in the book have played a great role in guiding readers and publishers in the Chinese-speaking world, and I believe this is still the case today.