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M Translation Series Set 06 includes "Creating Japan: 1853-1964" and "Mirror of Japan: Heroes and Villains in Japanese Culture". "Making Japan: 1853-1964" In this wise, beautiful and concise book, Ian Buruma clearly presents the various major events and subsequent changes that Japan has experienced through a detailed examination of this historical period, from the Overthrow Movement, the Meiji Restoration, the Russo-Japanese War, the War of Invasion, the Tokyo Trials, to the US takeover and the Tokyo Olympics. Buruma deeply explores various aspects of Japanese social thought, political order, and economic life, and uses a unique and objective perspective to explain how Japan experienced these dramatic changes and the accompanying wars and reforms, and finally transformed from a small closed traditional island country into a modern country that affects East Asia and even the world. "Mirror of Japan: Heroes and Villains in Japanese Culture" uses in-depth analysis of movies, dramas, literature, art, and myths and legends to peel off the layers of veil attached to the surface of Japanese culture, explain the polar and contradictory cultural characteristics of the Japanese nation, and outline how the Japanese reflect themselves. Whether it's the films of Akira Kurosawa, the novels of Yukio Mishima, Bunraku's "Tadauchizo", the legend of Miyamoto Musashi, or gangster films and family dramas, Ian Buruma has it all at his fingertips, humorously exploring dramatic fantasy that reflects reality like a mirror.

"Three Stories" is the last complete fictional work published by Gustave Flaubert during his lifetime. It was created over a period of 30 years and is recognized as the author's mature work. It is the concentrated expression of Flaubert's novel art. Turgenev did not wait for the French original to be completed as a book before he translated it into Russian. Falcaut said: "Those who know Flaubert, find him here; those who don't know him, know him here." Among them, "The Legend of St. Julian's Mercy" is based on a medieval story. The author eliminates the bad and retains the essence, bringing the ethereal legend back to reality; "A Simple Heart" turns decay into magic, turning non-legendary material into a moving short story; "Herodias" makes history come alive again, concentrating conflicts into one day, from morning to night, recalling the rigorous structure of drama. These three short stories echo the author's "The Temptation of Saint Anton", "Madame Bovary" and "Salangbao" respectively.

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.

After "White Night Walk", Keigo Higashino's heart-stirring masterpiece. This suspense novel is full of tender love and pain, which is even more exciting! Michimasa and Sayoko, whose beloved daughter was killed, felt that they had lost their purpose in life after the murderer was sentenced to death. Even if the murderer was punished, their daughter would not be able to resurrect the pain, which finally made Michomasa and Sayoko break up. One day, Daozheng received a call from the criminal police, bringing shocking news - Sayoko was killed. Although the murderer surrendered soon after, Daozheng discovered something among Sayoko's belongings. The cause of her death seemed not simple... If your family's life was brutally taken away, how would you like to deal with the prisoner? If the prisoner does not regard the death penalty as punishment and does not reflect on it until his death, what is the use of the death penalty?

If there are some things that I haven't said, Ditan, don't think that I have forgotten, I have forgotten nothing; but some things are only suitable for collection, cannot be said, cannot be thought about, but cannot be forgotten. "The Temple of Earth and Me" is one of Shi Tiesheng's literary works, which is full of philosophical thoughts and extremely humane masterpieces. The first two paragraphs were included in the high school textbook published by People's Education Publishing House. The first two parts focus on the pulpit and the regrets between him and his mother. For middle school students, this is an excellent and reflective article.

Philip Roth's late masterpiece was highly recommended by many authoritative European and American book review media, and was selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 best memoirs in the past 50 years. Philip Roth, who is good at weaving epics of human nature through novels, unexpectedly published a documentary work - "Legacy - A True Story" in 1991. The focus of his vision is no longer the vast society and grand propositions, but Ross's recently deceased father, an ordinary and humble old Jewish man. In the days before his death, his life was like a river soaked in trivial past events, flowing half-dark before the eyes of him and his son, a writer. The relationship between father and son has never been so close yet strange, both flesh-and-blood and yet estranged. When the life of a loved one enters the countdown, all the thinking and torture, all the fear and sadness, make people breathless - even if this person is Philip Roth, who is famous for his coldness.

When sadness is as unstoppable as the torrential rain that day, Banana wants to tell us a story about understanding life from dreams. "Daisy Life" is a novella written by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto. The book tells the story of a pair of unrelated sisters who support each other. The protagonist Daisy was born without a father. Her mother died in a car accident when she was young. From then on, she could only rely on others. The reason why she can continue to live is because she has her best friend Daria. Later, Daria immigrated away from Japan with her mother, and the two girls, both named after flowers, protected each other when they were young. When they grew up and were far apart, they still felt each other and supported each other on the long road of life.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the winter of 1540, Henry VIII married his fourth wife. Even though she was wearing a tiara, Anne of Cleves could only feel a bone-chilling chill - the ghost of the second queen, Anne Boleyn, was never far away. Why did Jane Boline, who once narrowly escaped death, go to great lengths to return to the court that had swallowed up her husband and his sister? And can Anne's cousin, Catherine Howard, who is only fourteen years old, recreate the glory of the Boleyn family? The legacy of the Boleyns is power, wealth, and the seed of tragedy... The protagonists of "The Legacy of the Boleyns" are three court women - Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth queen, Catherine Howard, the fifth queen, and Jane Boleyn, the sister of the second queen. These three women, who had a very close relationship with Hengba in his later years, were at the center of the Tudor political storm: The shadow of Henry's bad habit of "killing his wife" has always shrouded Anne. During this unhappy marriage, she also personally experienced this capricious monarch's pursuit of power and desire; Catherine had witnessed the tragedy of the queen's cousin, but she still had to fly into the flame to pursue everything she didn't deserve; while Jane, on the surface, was friendly with all the queens, but actually had an ulterior dark side...

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An urban emotional novel that explores the nature of love and the relationship inside and outside marriage. The masterpiece of Japanese "national writer" Junichi Watanabe's novels. Once the book came out, it sparked heated discussions in Japanese society and even became a social phenomenon. It has been adapted into popular TV series and movies. Marriage is first come, first served, but love often comes late. A frustrated husband in the workplace and a woman trapped in a loveless marriage met at the midpoint of their respective marriages, recognizing and falling in love with each other's true form and life. They indulged in love and passion, indulged in pleasure under ethical pressure but couldn't stop, and finally fixed their love in a happy moment. In "Paradise Lost", love is just a coat, love is the foundation. The author uses compassionate writing to provide an outlet and an imagination space for the secret desires that are difficult to realize in the hearts of men and women. A literary masterpiece that fully embodies the Japanese aesthetics of mourning, and a passionate translation that makes Lin Shaohua feel "unsafe".

In this book, Ryunosuke Akutagawa uses cool and smart words and interesting and profound thoughts to not only reveal the darkness and ugliness of society, but also reflect the harshness of the world and the warmth and warmth of human beings. The themes range from nostalgia and fetish collection to family turmoil and self-confession. The content is rich and complex, and the creative form also spans weird stories, comments, and gossip, all in one eclectic style. By selecting the chapters, we can get a glimpse of the "gorgeous existence" of the literary giant's short career. "Akutagawa created excellent prose that no one can imitate." The influence of foreign literature, the absorption of traditional classics, and the maturity of new styles, the literature of an era slowly unfolded in the hands of Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

From February 1956 to August 1957, Toynbee and his wife went on a 17-month round-the-world trip to three continents and nearly 20 countries and regions after their retirement. "From East to West: Toynbee's Global Travels" is his travel diary of this trip. Different from ordinary travel notes, this book is not a continuous account of this trip, but a series of scanned accounts worthy of attention based on Toynbee's unique insights and his profound understanding of world history, geography and religious life. For readers of Toynbee's other series of works, this book provides a fascinating supplement, not only reflecting Toynbee's unique historical wisdom at every turn, but also a precious account of a part of the world in the 1950s.

Margaret Atwood, the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" is a representative work, and Ferrante, the author of "My Brilliant Girlfriend", recommends a must-read list for women. "The Blind Assassin" is Atwood's novel published in 2000. It was also her first work to win the Booker Prize. She had been shortlisted three times before and finally won the award for this book. The novel is grand in length, ingenious in conception, and skillful in writing techniques. It is a landmark work in which Atwood's personal creation has entered a mature stage. The novel tells the story of the different encounters of two women in the Chase family. Through layers of nested narratives, in the interweaving of fiction and reality, it gradually reveals the truth that has been obscured by memories. It also reveals the complex inner world of women in modern society and their very different moods when facing the male-dominated external world. At the same time, the writer uses these cyclical narrative voices to skillfully switch between a variety of seemingly disparate literary styles, boldly expanding the narrative mode of the novel, and constantly breaking through the boundaries of imagination. The novel's psychological and emotional descriptions of the characters are detailed and in-depth, and its narrative language is full of poetry and beauty. It is ultimately presented as a rare masterpiece.

This book is one of the 007 collection series and was adapted into the movie "From Russia with Love". In this book, Bond comes face-to-face with the Soviet counterintelligence organization - the Rape Bureau - for the first time. In order to get rid of Bond, the Bureau sent beautiful spy Tatiana Romanova as bait, pretending that Tatiana fell in love with Bond and wanted to defect to Britain with the Soviet Union's most advanced cipher machine. Her request was that Bond spend a "romantic journey" with her on the Orient Express. Unaware of the plot, Bond stepped into the trap under the temptation of beauty, unaware that the shadow of death had enveloped him.

"American Library" Top 100 of the 20th Century, "Time" Magazine's Top 100 from 1923 to 2005, and a phenomenon-level best-selling work that has surpassed "The Godfather" in sales. "Portnoy's Complaint" is Philip Roth's third novel and a topical work. When it was released in 1969, it caused a sensation and has been on the best-seller list for a long time. Its sales volume even exceeded that of "The Godfather" published in the same year. Later, he was selected into the "American Library" Top 100 of the 20th Century and "Time" magazine's Top 100 from 1923 to 2005. Some commentators said that the novel, together with Saul Bellow's "Herzog", defined American Jewish literature in the 1960s. The story takes place in the psychiatrist Spielvogel's recliner. The protagonist Portnoy is suffering from neurosis. He finds the psychiatrist Spielvogel and confides to him the difficulties he has faced since childhood: his father's expectation for his son to succeed, his mother's autocratic doting, and the troubles of Jewish identity... Behind the bold and almost absurd confession is the inner moral anxiety of his generation of American Jewish youth. It is the conflict and imbalance between the traditional Jewish moral consciousness and the sense of freedom in American society in the 1960s, as well as the survival anxiety of American Jews in contemporary American society.

Dickens is a great British writer, and this book is one of his early moving social novels. Oliver, an orphan, was bullied in a poor workhouse since he was a child. After escaping to London, he fell into thieves again. When he appealed to no avail, a group of "virtuous" capitalists extended a helping hand. At the same time, the truth about Oliver's strange life experience was also revealed step by step...

Among sixteenth-century writers, few are as revered and accepted by modern people as Montaigne. He was an intellectual authority and critic in France before the Enlightenment. He was a cold observer of human emotions and a scholar who conducted dispassionate studies of the cultures of various nations, especially Western culture. Judging from his thoughts and feelings, one can regard him as a modern man emerging from that era. This book is a collection of Montaigne's essays. It is the most charming work selected from Montaigne's three volumes of prose and essays. The book covers everything from daily life, traditional customs and philosophy of life. The language is plain and smooth, and full of life interest.

Hardy's works reflect the profound changes in social economy, politics, morality, customs and other aspects caused by the invasion of capitalism into rural towns and cities in England, as well as the tragic fate of the people (especially women), and expose the hypocrisy of bourgeois morality, law and religion. His works are a link between past and present, not only inheriting the excellent tradition of British critical realism, but also paving the way for British literature in the 20th century. "Waste of Effort" is his first published work.

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"Ben and Me" Newbery Children's Literature Award Silver Award! "Ben and Me" uses the form of a fairy tale, humorous writing style, and lifelike illustrations to uniquely reinterpret the story of Benjamin Franklin, an outstanding figure in American history. For more than half a century, this book has been accompanied by countless children, who have explored the history of the United States, perceived the descendants of the world, and realized the true taste of life through the pen. The manuscript of this book was sent to me by an architect friend of mine. Some time ago, when he was leading craftsmen to renovate an old house in Philadelphia, he discovered a small secret room.

"Pillow" is a collection of essays written by Seishonagon, a talented woman from the Heian period in Japan. It consists of 12 volumes and 305 paragraphs, divided into three parts: collection, diary, and random thoughts. Qing Shaonayan described what she saw and heard during her tenure in the palace, covering geographical features, vegetation, flowers and birds, inner emotions, life interests, etc., Showing delicate observation and elegant aesthetics.

What do we want? Money, wisdom, or hope? Why do we have the innate urge to tell stories? Is art in our nature? Am I an unscrupulous feminist? Has the situation for women improved? This century has seen a far-reaching financial crisis, a global pandemic, the growth of a new wave of women's movements, increasingly frequent extreme climate disasters and regional conflicts. What's next? Human society in the 21st century has witnessed too many great changes. Atwood's questions covered a wide range of topics, from technology, debt, climate crisis, environmentalism to how to provide timely advice to young people. She also spent considerable space reviewing her creative career, including the creation of best-selling works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Testimony". Atwood uses his never-ending curiosity to break through all superficial boundaries, showing many cross-sections of human society, breaking through the many obstacles set up in this era of homogeneity, and leading readers to make their own reflections on this complex and ever-changing world.

This book is known as the pioneer work of stream-of-consciousness novels. The book is divided into eighteen chapters. Its internal structure is closely related to Homer's "The Odyssey". Each chapter has its own unique writing skills and corresponds to a story theme of "The Odyssey". The characters and plots also correspond to the "Odyssey" at different levels. In 2000, some important British and American media unanimously listed "Ulysses" as one of the most influential masterpieces in the world in the 20th century.

"I think that everyone in the world is kinder than me. The world I am tired of living in suddenly becomes full of spring breeze." Natsume Soseki, who is both proficient in classical music and leading the new wave, both introspective and deeply in love with the world, is in the collision between Eastern and Western cultures and the tension between old and new aesthetics. This time, Natsume Soseki no longer tells stories, but talks about self and others. From his London study to his sickbed in a Zen temple, he sees the joys and sorrows of the world, discloses the details of his life, records interpersonal relationships and family life, and reveals a Natsume Soseki that is unknown to others, more fragile, more real, more lonely and more intimate. "Nagahi Essays" included in this book is a collection of Natsume Soseki's famous essays. Each article is full of the author's unique and meticulous observations, and his style directly influenced Lu Xun's creation. Among them, "The Hanging Scroll" and "Mr. Kuleg" are the earliest works of Natsume Soseki translated by Lu Xun, and also the first works of Natsume Soseki translated in China. "Memories of the Past" is a life record written by Natsume Soseki when he was seriously ill. It contains both trivial matters and painful thoughts. It is a true and harsh text about life. For Natsume Soseki, disease is not only a test of life and death, but also a purification of the soul. In fact, it is closely related to the life situation of modern people.

"I was thirty-two when we met; I was sixty-two when she died. In these thirty years, she was my life and my heart." Every love story is a potential tragedy. Barnes dedicated all his works to his lover, but this time he could no longer get a response from her. In this deeply personal work, he tells with rare candor the only story in his life, a sad story of love and loss. The lines of the work flow with Barnes' deep sorrow for his lover, and also carry his profound reflection on memory and existence.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is the personal diary left by Anne Frank, a German-Jewish girl, during World War II. It truly records the two-year life that Anne's family and four other Jewish friends spent hiding in a "secret room" to escape Nazi persecution. As a growing girl, Anne observed the people and things around her from a unique perspective, and expressed her yearning for freedom and a better life. The diary demonstrates Anne's outstanding writing talent, and also triggers people's thoughts on war and human nature, as well as their love for the youth in the "secret room".

This book selects a total of 14 essays written by Yukio Mishima from 1948 to 1968, taking the title "The Sun and Iron" that best represents his ideological meaning, and organizes it into four parts: "The Sun and Iron", "My Literature", "My Self-Portrait" and "My Family". In terms of time span, this can indeed be regarded as a collection of essays by Mishima Yukio looking back on his life. In these works, he recalled his lost youth, lamented the devastation caused by the war, lamented the various changes after getting married and having children, and reflected on his literary pursuits throughout his life. A boy, a young man, a man in his prime - what this book presents is a Mishima Yukio who is constantly flowing and making solid progress in his thinking. In terms of specific content, the philosophical core of the "Mishima Style" is as mentioned above, which can be summarized as the high degree of unity of "language and action" and "spirit and body", that is, a strong spirit must be carried by a strong body, and powerful words must be supported by powerful actions.

Alice is your girly heart, making you believe that some happiness can never be lost! A literary classic second only to Shakespeare's works in popularity! A favorite read by Queen Victoria and Princess Kate! Translator Zhou Kexi's new collection of translations comes with a special fan's manual and 108 original hand-painted illustrations in a girly style. A mathematician went boating on a lake with three little girls. The mathematician told the three naughty little girls a wonderful story. A little girl named Alice begged the mathematician to write down the story. Two years later, the author gave the manuscript version of "Alice" to the little girl. Since then, in the history of human literature, the image of Alice in a blue dress has been as ubiquitous as Hamlet holding a bone. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" can be regarded as a collection of puzzles and games connected by stories. A novel that does not involve morality or education, but is full of crazy words. Beethoven, Wilde, Woolf, Shen Congwen, Zhang Ailing... Are all loyal fans of it. As a widely circulated British literary masterpiece, almost every child in European and American countries knows the plot of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by heart. Based on the story of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Disney has put it on the big screen many times and adapted it into cartoons and movies.

Writer's List "Pride and Prejudice": a love classic in the style of a guide to marriage. Elizabeth, the fifth sister, lives with her parents in the English countryside. The sudden appearance of the rich Darcy and Bingley broke the peaceful life of their family - the elegant and restrained eldest sister Jane fell in love with Bingley at first sight, but always concealed her emotions; the smart and independent Elizabeth fell into prejudice and misunderstanding when faced with Darcy's sincere proposal; the passionate and unrestrained sisters longed to love and be loved, but often lost themselves... Faced with her mother's fancy push for marriage, only Elizabeth always insisted on being herself. When she transcended pride and prejudice, she gained a good love and marriage.

This book contains the representative novellas "Shuncho" and "Yoshino Kudzu" by Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature.

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"Pillow" is the pioneer work of Japanese essay literature. There are 305 paragraphs in the book, which are divided into three categories: diary, diary, and random thoughts. The random list lists various things in life, involving geographical features, vegetation, flowers and birds, life interests, etc., Reflecting Seishonagon's aesthetic taste; the diary records Seishonagon's life in the palace, from which we can understand the living conditions and tastes of the royal family and nobles in Japan's Heian period; the random thoughts are random feelings in the face of nature and life, expressing a bright and free attitude towards life.

Turn any page and your mood may be changed. Because as soon as you open it, you will laugh unconsciously. This is "Charming Temperament". This book is a book of golden quotes, which selects 180 golden quotes by Oscar Wilde and was translated by the famous translator Li Yuyao. The selected sentences are all the essence of Oscar Wilde's writing, humorous and interesting, making people laugh. Behind these short and exquisite maxims, Wilde has a charming temperament of his own.

The book "The Last Word" contains short stories such as Akutagawa's "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Bush", "The Nose" and "The Last Word". Akutagawa's works pay more attention to the ugly phenomena of society, but rarely directly comment on them. Instead, he only uses cold writing and concise and powerful language to state, which has a high degree of artistic appeal.

The Bronte sisters are the epitome of the transformation of British society at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. They left their childhood pastoral songs behind and faced the whistle of the industrial age. They were both liberal rebels and romantic conservatives. Creating at the source of global industrial society, they left popular works such as "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey" to the world. These great masterpieces have become the footnotes of the times, and the times have shaped their souls. As a "myth" in the history of British literature, how should we understand the relationship between their novels and the transformation of British society?

"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.

A perfect fusion of aesthetic thought and literary creation by the Japanese literary genius Yukio Mishima.

In the book "The Evolution of Love", the talented British writer Alan de Botton launched a more unique and profound reflection on the nature of love and marriage. In this book, the British genius Alan de Botton uses the love story of Rabbi Khan and Kirsten as the main axis, and conducts a calm and wise analysis of the two protagonists' complete journey from the beginning of love to the sailing of love, from entering the siege to being trapped in the "city", to extramarital affairs, and finally to the ultimate acceptance of marriage through self-exploration. De Botton integrates his rich philosophical speculations into delicate situations through concrete and real characters, exploring the meaning of love and marriage to life.

After the great writer Driffield passed away, his wife Amy asked someone to write a biography of him. Ashenden was asked by the biographer to recall his association with the writer. Ashenden recounted his early relationship with Driffield and his ex-wife Rosie. Rosie, a writer from a humble background and his fashionable and beautiful ex-wife Rosie, who once worked as a hotel host, fled the town due to foreign debts. A few years later in London, Ashenden met them by chance. By this time Driffield had become a somewhat famous writer, and Rossi had become even more charismatic. The striking Rosie watched plays and laughed with her admirers, including Ashenden. One day, Ashenden was suddenly told that Rosie had run away with her first love. Rossi was never heard from again. Driffield wrote many works in the following decades and became a well-known author. The elderly Driefield married nurse Amy, but he was still full of feelings for Rosie, and finally passed away in memory of Rosie.

"A Room of One's Own" fully expresses the author's thoughts on women and overall thoughts on women. The writing style is delicate, funny and full of wisdom. It is suitable for reading by friends who like writing, especially women. This is not sexist. I am afraid that, as Woolf herself feared, many men will read this book and think she is a feminist, or imply that she is a homosexual. Even if they praised the book for its excellence, they would not feel the same kind of revelation or spiritual connection as the woman did.

Women are like flowers, possessing the most touching beauty, but they cannot control their short and fragile life. All good things will wither like flowers, but the fragrance that can never be erased is the perfect interpretation of the existence and dignity of small creatures. Ukiyo-e paintings of low-class Japanese women in the old era, all nine chapters of the "Flower Burial" series are included. In "A String of White Vine Flowers", a woman who lives in the world can send a letter home to her family, which becomes their only spiritual sustenance. In order to support their parents and sick husbands who are far away, they have no choice but to sell their bodies and souls. "A Platycodon Flower" A young girl fell into infinite darkness until she met a boy. But, can such a girl have the right to love? "The Iris Boat" The most famous singer of the Taisho era, after leaving two stunning masterpieces, died calmly with his lover - leaving only withered Iris flowers around him. What kind of entanglement is hidden behind the sad songs? "Chrysanthemum Dust" Bushido, Chrysanthemum and Sword! This is supposed to be a fate only for men, why should a woman like a white chrysanthemum bear it?

"The Sign of the Bastard" is the first English novel Nabokov wrote after moving to the United States. It was once widely studied by critics as a political novel. The background of the novel is an autocratic country. The leader Bartuk and the protagonist Kruger were middle school classmates. In order to force the internationally renowned philosopher Kruger to endorse his party's Ecclesianism, Bartuk kidnapped Kruger's son David. However, when Kruger compromised and the child was returned, people discovered that the child was with another child. A child with the same surname was mistaken, and the real David was tortured and killed in a juvenile detention center. Kruger then went crazy and attacked Bartuk. When he was about to be shot - Nabokov created the image of a novelist, and Kruger's story is only the work of the novelist. Kruger was spared a tragic fate, and the novel ended abruptly.

After the death of Thomas More, the court of Henry VIII was still clouded: the new queen Anne Boleyn did not give birth to a prince as she wished, and Henry set his sights on Jane Seymour of Wolf Hall... At this time, rumors spread in the palace that the queen was unfaithful and even incestuous. Thomas Cromwell, the king's secretary, had already seen the opportunity and would overthrow Anne Boleyn and her family at the king's command. In the end, what will be the fate of the queen? What price will Cromwell pay, and can he escape unscathed?

This is a work by Barnes, one of the three giants of British literature, that examines the nature of love. Barnes, the Booker Prize winner, writes about the existential dilemmas of ordinary life. Julian Barnes is the winner of the Booker Prize. He has won 17 world literary awards and 5 medals of honor. His award-winning record spans all over Europe! Barnes is known for his in-depth reflections on history, reality and love, and uses novels to describe the existential dilemmas of ordinary life. Barnes uses rare sensitivity to describe the elusive and subtle emotions in love, and explores the deep nature of love and memory from his unique perspective. "If fiction can help us understand the nature of love and life, this book does it." - Reader review. Every love is ordinary, and every love is unique. Winner of the Femina Foreign Fiction Prize, one of France's two highest literary awards. There are more than 58 versions published around the world, and the Chinese version is available for the first time! "Questionable Love" was adapted into a classic stage play that is still playing in Chicago theaters more than two decades later. "Unquestioned Love" discusses the uncertainty of love, the complexity of human emotions and the unreliability of memory. Memory is developed here as a fictional art, and through the narration of the three protagonists in turn, it causes readers to think about the "truth" of love.

"Captain Grant's Children" is the representative work of the famous French science fiction writer Jules Verne. The story takes place in 1864. Sir Glenarvan, a Scottish aristocrat, is the owner of the Duncan cruise ship. He obtained a document from the drifting objects on the sea and learned that Captain Grant, the Scottish navigator who was lost at sea two years ago, is still alive. So he took the captain's daughter Mary and son Robert and others and drove his cruise ship to find and rescue Captain Grant, thus starting their adventure...

Dorothy, a little girl living on the prairie, was swept into a strange and magical country due to a tornado attack. The kind-hearted witch told her that only Oz, the great wizard of Oz, could send her home. On the way, she met the Scarecrow who wanted a wise head, the Tin Woodman who dreamed of having a living heart, and the Cowardly Lion who dreamed of becoming brave and becoming the king of the forest. They traveled together and embarked on a mysterious adventure. Overcoming many difficulties, they arrived at the Emerald Castle and finally met Oz. However, what awaits them is even greater trouble... America's number one fantasy adventure children's book "The Wizard of Oz" brings children love and courage, and keeps their dreams and kindness alive!

Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. The novel takes the tortuous and complicated marriage turmoil of the two heroines as the main line, and raises issues of moral and behavioral norms through the humorous comparison of "reason and emotion". Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. This book has been adapted into movies many times.

Philippe, a retired army officer from Paris, was up to no good. When he heard that his uncle Rogee had a large inheritance in the countryside of Isoutun, he came to the countryside to make careful plans. Max, the rogue leader of Isutun, is idle and does all kinds of bad things. He colludes with Luo Ri's mistress Flor, and also covets the inheritance of old Luo Ri. Because of Flor's instigation, the two began a life-and-death struggle, which eventually turned into a duel...

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