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"Moby-Dick" is a representative novel by the American novelist, essayist and poet Herman Melville. It tells the story of Captain Ehab of the whaling ship - he is determined to hunt down the ferocious and intelligent white whale Moby Dick who bit off one of his legs. After sailing almost all over the world, he finally encounters Moby Dick. After three days of hard tracking, he hit the beluga with a harpoon, but his ship was hit by the whale and was tangled in the whale rope and taken into the sea. In the end, he and the whole crew died together with the white whale, and only sailor Ishmael was saved. "Moby-Dick" has become a classic of world marine literature with its substantial ideological content, epic scale, and mature and thoughtful writing style.

A Room of One's Own: Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown and Others is based on two lectures. On October 20 and 26, 1928, Woolf came to the University of Cambridge twice from London, delivering lectures on the topic of women and novels at Newnham Women's College and Gorting Women's College respectively. Afterwards, in March 1929, she combined the two speeches into one article, entitled "Women and Novel", and published it in the American magazine "Forum". Later, she greatly revised and expanded "Women and Novel" and wrote the book "Room".

"Watermark: Essays on Venice" is Brodsky's most witty, elegant and charming portrait of Venice, the most beautiful city. It captures every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets, and buildings to its politics and people, customs and even traditional cuisine, fully displaying the natural and humanistic charm of Venice. What's more important is that this city has become a part of Brodsky's life experience and is inseparable from his flesh and blood. "Watermark" is the most beautiful and classic of all the narratives about Venice in the 20th century. It is Brodsky's only prose work that has been published in a single book. It has also become the poet's most sold and translated literary work.

In the first half of the 1920s, Hemingway lived in Paris as a correspondent in Europe. "Paris Never Ends" records the author's life at that time. However, Hemingway only wrote about this period of time nearly forty years later. In other words, both the author and the readers are only tracing those past years in their memories, and for both the author and the readers, these memories have been out of focus and distorted through the lens of time. All memories about Paris blend into a common historical memory of Paris. In this semi-documentary and semi-fictional work, the customs of the Paris literary circle in the 1920s slowly unfolded. The figures who dominated the world's literary and artistic circles at that time were vividly sketched with a few strokes, and they were forever integrated with the city. "Translation Huacai" is a new book series launched by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The theme is clear and published in volumes, with five types in each volume, with exquisite covers that match the theme style. It is designed by the new generation of outstanding designer Zhou Weiwei. In terms of content, we make full use of the powerful and widely recognized translation resources of Shanghai Translation Publishing House to extract famous works from them into a volume. The theme of the first volume is "Wandering", including Gide, Hemingway, Lawrence, Nagai Kafeng, Maugham The travel writings of five famous literary figures include Gide's "Abandoning Travel", Hemingway's "Paris Never Ends", Lawrence "The Wandering Stranger", Nagai Kafeng's "Whispers on the Lotus Wind" and Somerset Maugham's "On His Majesty's Representation".

This is often the case in the prime years of life: long periods of time give way to frivolity, full of ambition, and finally return to laziness. Some people are sad about the spring and sad about the autumn, and are lonely and alone. Some people are complaining about the world and sighing about the earth, and they cannot bear to be lost. In fact, life is between breaths, and on the edge of gains and losses, there are still a few people who can escape unscathed, like autumn leaves, quiet and beautiful, neither complicated nor chaotic. Now that you are alive, you might as well live your life like Whitman, neither as a silent stream of water nor as a turbulent river at the top of the storm, but as a proud bloomer, like a lotus blooming at first, with the scent of mud everywhere on the grass blades, and as gorgeous as a summer flower at its peak, unfailing. The book collects Whitman's works in various styles, including his spiritual diary of sketches of nature, his experiences and insights during his travels, impassioned speeches, documentary essays on his personal life, and his own literary attitude. The all-round and three-dimensional reproduction of the vivid and real Whitman leads readers step by step into Whitman's spiritual world, and recollect with him the splendor, hesitation and tranquility in life.

The article "April Fool's Day" collects many real or fictitious characters throughout the ages. Lamb clarifies his preferred attitude towards "fools" in the article. The essay "Child in Dreams: A Fantasy" tells the past events of my grandmother, brother and early lover through the form of dreams. The classic essay "A Single Man Describes the Words and Deeds of a Married Person" has vivid language, a solemn and humorous mood, and a narrative close to life. In "On Roast Pig", a friend of Lamb introduced him to a Chinese manuscript about the origin of roast suckling pig. The article uses elegant and beautiful language to describe the entire process of selecting materials, making and enjoying it, giving the vulgar thing of roast pig an aesthetic perspective.

Thoreau was an American writer and philosopher. He created more than 20 first-class collections of prose throughout his life. His prose was concise, powerful, simple, natural, and rich in thought, making him unique among American prose in the 19th century. To this day, it is still loved by everyone. This book records Thoreau's three visits to the Maine Forest. He once called out to "live here forever, live here forever, and sleep here forever." These pleasant trips to Maine have also been turned into sincere and simple words, recorded in the book "Maine Forest", so that every reader can learn to appreciate nature, respect nature, and integrate with nature. This book incorporates the author's sincere emotions and expresses the author's love for nature.

A classic of love that penetrates the human heart, a literary masterpiece that perfectly interprets love! J. K. Rowling's favorite writer - the most popular of the prose works of the famous British litterateur C. S. Lewis. Love is the eternal theme of mankind, and it is the only way for you and me to understand, tolerate and help each other. In this book, C. S. Lewis uses his rich life experience, wise insight and thick and beautiful writing power to deeply analyze the various virtues and shortcomings of love, broaden our horizons, comprehensively explore love, and reveal the true meaning of love.

"I Can't Get Out of My Dark Night" is a diary of a visit during an illness and a meditation on aging, death and the relationship between mother and daughter. It chronicles Anne Ernault's ultimately futile attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and the guilt, fear, frustration and reconciliation she felt during the caregiving process. "I can't get out of my dark night" were the last words written by the author's mother. In the moment when there was only "dark night", Ernault did not leave his mother with dementia and insisted on writing in pain. This book is the story of the author and his own mother, as well as the story of all daughters and mothers, as well as the story of people who are aging and dying.

In December 1831, Charles Darwin boarded the British naval ship HMS Beagle as "captain's companion" and began a five-year scientific expedition. This voyage is known as one of the most important voyages in human history. It was during this process that Darwin's "biological evolution" thought was born. In five years, Darwin crossed the Atlantic four times, visited the South American continent and surrounding islands, went deep into the South Pacific, and went to the Indian Ocean. He made detailed observations and records of various organisms, geological phenomena, folk customs, and local political systems along the way, and brought back a large number of precious specimens. During this voyage, Darwin began to think about the distribution and evolution of species, and the prototype of the theory of evolution was vaguely discernible. In a sense, "The Voyage of the Beagle" can be regarded as the preparation and foundation for "The Origin of Species", no wonder Darwin called it his "first academic child". During the voyage, Darwin fully revealed his profound philosophical thinking and profound literary skills. This makes "The Voyage of the Beagle" not only scientific but also literary, making it fascinating to read.

"Oshu Trail: Japanese-Chinese Comparison (Bilingual Translation)" is a travelogue written by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), a famous Japanese haiku poet and known as the haiku sage in Japan. It is not only known as the highest level of travel writing among Japanese classical literature, but also the pinnacle of Matsuo Basho's literature. On May 16, 1889 (March 27 in the old calendar), the 46-year-old Matsuo Basho and his disciple Kawai Soryo set out from the Tea Tea Hermitage in Fukagawa, Edo (now Tokyo), to travel to the Tohoku and Hokuriku regions of Japan, which lasted about 150 days. "Oshu Trail" is a travel diary of this journey. Matsuo Basho recorded what he saw and heard during the journey with delicate writing and real feelings, and created a large number of famous haiku.

"I put some hard, heavy, and even violent things into literature. They are related to life situations, to the language of the world I lived in before I was eighteen years old, and to a world of workers and farmers. They are always real things. I think, in my Writing was the best thing I could do under the circumstances, as a class-spanner, as a political act and as a gift." For nearly a year, the writer Frédéric-Yves Genet peppered Anne Hernault with questions. In these responses, the author strives to provide an account of her writing practice that began thirty years ago, describing her working methods and explaining the "purpose" of her texts. This book is well worth reading and moving because it rejects fiction and does a rigorous, progressive work on lived experience. This book helps ordinary readers understand Erno's own experience and writing characteristics, and is also an important reference for literary researchers.

This book is a collection of prose works by the famous American writer Whitman. In the literary world of the United States and even the world, Whitman is a well-known name. The prose in this book includes beautiful essays expressing love for nature, flowers, plants, birds and animals, and meditation, as well as sketches remembering the streets and alleys of American cities, operas, dramas, and dances, as well as essays about patriotism, full of human pursuits, longing for peace, and warmth between people. It has strong literary appreciation value.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is the pinnacle of science fiction by the French writer Verne. It is the second part of the "Verne Trilogy" (the other two are "Captain Grant's Children" and "The Mysterious Island"). The book leads readers to appreciate the beautiful scenery of the sea, see magical marine life, and experience a thrilling adventure.

Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective novels "The Complete Sherlock Holmes", including "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four", "A History of Adventures", "Memoirs", and "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

The works selected in this book come from the two periods before and after Chekhov's creation. Among the early works, in addition to "Chameleon" which is familiar to Chinese readers and has a certain realistic criticism, there are also some light-hearted and purely humorous novels. "The Man in the Trap" is the most famous of Chekhov's later novels selected in "Selected Short Stories of Chekhov". This novel expresses the dull and depressing atmosphere of the times and satirizes the generally rigid and restricted mental state of Russian society.

German literature is famous for its poetry and "novelles" (short stories). Most of the famous German writers have written some excellent short stories and short stories. Short and medium-sized novels in German-speaking countries, especially short stories based on one moment and one event, have the advantage of seeing the big from the small. Like mountain flowers and weeds with strong vitality, they grow everywhere in German-speaking countries and develop in colorful ways. The novels of Romantic writers such as Hoffmann exude the fragrance of mysterious "orchids"; the works of Swiss novelists such as Gotthelf are filled with the bright sunshine and fresh air of the Alps; the novels of Sturm, who grew up on the coast of the North Sea, are always like a layer of mist, filled with desolate and soft poetry... This book selects and translates famous works of German literature masters such as Goethe, Heine, Zweig, and Kafka. The title of this book comes from a story in Genesis. The story tells that Noah, the ancestor of mankind, sent a dove out of the ark to find out news when the flood on the earth began to recede. However, after he sent out the third dove, this dove never returned and there was no news. The author uses this fable to condemn the imperialist world war and express his deep concern for the fate of mankind.

This book is an anthology of Chekhov's short stories, including more than 20 of Chekhov's representative short stories such as "The Chameleon", "Death of an Official", "Wanka", "Ward No. 6", And "The Man in the Trap". Chekhov is known as one of the three greatest short story writers in the world. His short stories are outstanding representatives of Russian and even world realist literature at the end of the 19th century. The works selected in this book represent Chekhov's creative achievements in different periods. Many of them have been selected into primary and secondary school textbooks and are well-known to every household.

The pinnacle of novels in the 20th century, a pioneer of modern literature as famous as Kafka, Joyce, and Proust. "Man Without Personality" is the unfinished posthumous work of the Austrian writer Robert Musil. It is a "spiritual novel" and a literary work rich in essayistic thinking. Through the miniature world in the novel, the writer outlines the transition from the upper-class civil society shaped by enlightenment rationality to the modern mass society. It displays a wax museum of the characters of his era and occupies an important position in the modernist literature of the 20th century. The background of the novel is the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1914. In Vienna, a committee was formed to prepare for the celebrations in 1918 of the seventieth anniversary of the reign of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, the same year that Germany would celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II; so the Austrian operation was called a "parallel operation" (however, 1918 would be the year of the fall of both kingdoms, which puts a comically absurd bombshell into the basis of the novel). The protagonist of the novel - Ulrich, the secretary of the Parallel Action Committee - realizes that possibilities are more important to him than the mediocre and rigid reality; he feels that he is a person without personality, because he no longer regards people, but material, as the center of modern reality: "Today... Has produced a world without individuality, a world without the experience of those who experience it." He saw that he was forced to face various problems of the times, and to face various contradictions between reason and soul, scientific faith and cultural pessimism.

Mr. Fogg and the members of the Reform Club bet £20,000 on whether they could travel around the world in eighty days. Then he took his servant nicknamed "Jack of All Trades" and set out from London on an incredible journey around the world. In the end, after experiencing natural and man-made disasters, in the 19th century when there were no airplanes or ocean-going ships, he actually completed this impossible journey around the earth. The protagonists of the novel are Fogg and Know-it-all, who contrast each other in character. Fogg was extremely calm and composed by nature, full of determination, generosity, rich knowledge and profound humanitarian spirit. He was an action hero with ideals and abilities. His servant Wan Shitong is loyal to his master. Although he is playful and makes mistakes sometimes, he always stands up at critical moments to help his master overcome difficulties. Without him, Fogg would definitely not be able to return to London as scheduled.

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"Pride and Prejudice" is a comic and fascinating work by Jane Austen. The novel reflects the world and customs of British society from the late 18th century to the early 19th century through the story of several middle-class girls from villages and towns talking about marriage. The male protagonist Darcy behaves arrogantly, causing the heroine Elizabeth to always be prejudiced against him, which also makes their love journey full of hardships. But Elizabeth finally understood Darcy's true personality. Darcy changed his arrogant attitude because of Elizabeth, and they ended up in a happy marriage. The plot of the novel is tortuous and full of comedy, the language is natural and fluent, and it is witty and humorous. It reveals the tragedy and comedy of life with superb skills.

This book is a collection of short stories by the famous French novelist Daudet. His short stories play a prominent role in French short story creation. Among them, the famous piece "The Last Lesson" can even be synonymous with Dude, and can be regarded as a model of the combination of ideological and artistic aspects in short stories. "The Last Lesson" describes the last French lesson in a rural primary school that was ceded to Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War and bid farewell to the language of the motherland. Through the self-narration of a naive and ignorant primary school student, it vividly expresses the pain of the French people under foreign rule and their love for their motherland.

Through a novel and interesting plot, "The Water Child" vividly tells the wonderful story of how Tom, a chimney sweep, became a water child. Under the influence, education and guidance of the fairy, he embarked on his own journey of growth, overcame his own shortcomings, experienced various adventures, and finally transformed from a boy into a man. As a fairy tale given by a father to his four-year-old child, Charles Kingsley places beautiful thoughts on children in the story, such as kindness, integrity, bravery, tolerance, etc., And uses humorous writing to make children understand how to stay away from hypocrisy, greed, selfishness, laziness, and cowardice. It is a fairy tale with great educational significance.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the masterpiece of Jonathan Swift, the most outstanding British political commentator and satirical novelist in the 18th century, and a great satirical novel in the history of world literature. The novel uses Captain Gulliver's voice to narrate the experience of traveling around Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the Flying Island Kingdom, and the Houyhnhnms Kingdom. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize the British political system, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class.

Produced by Shanghai Translation and translated by famous translators Han Hulin and Zhou Kexi, it is recognized as a masterpiece among popular novels in the world, with a score of 9.2 On Douban. "The Count of Monte Cristo (Set of Volumes 1 and 2)" is a masterpiece by the famous French popular historical novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Captain Dontes, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was commissioned to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party. He was framed by two despicable villains and a judge, and was sentenced to death. The inmate Father Faria taught him all kinds of knowledge, and before his death, he told him the secrets of a group of treasures buried on the island of Monte Cristo. After escaping from prison, Dontes found the treasure and became a millionaire. From then on, he was known as the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies. This book is full of romantic legend, and the chapters are unique, novel and fascinating.

"A writer who writes with talent, a real magician." A new collection of Nabokov's five classic novels by the author of "Lolita". It is an exercise in the style of a literary alchemist and an early masterpiece that Nabokov fans cannot miss. Vladimir Nabokov, the author of "Lolita", is recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Nabokov Collection II" selects five of Nabokov's masterpieces, from which we can see the growth of a literary alchemist: his debut novel "Mary" misses his homeland and first love; "Defense" depicts a crazy chess genius with scalpel-like precision; "The Eye" challenges novel techniques with the theme of "spy"; "Desperation" plays with "metafiction", and the protagonist has the shadow of Humbert in the later "Lolita"; "The Invitation to the Beheading" is a bizarre and surreal allegorical noir.

"The Battle of Tur" is the third part of the "Blood and Rust" science fiction series. In a post-apocalyptic future world, the protagonist Tur is a biological weapon created by humans with superhuman strength and agile reflexes. He was originally just a cold product of technology, but gradually gained self-awareness during the war. He tried to break through his programming limitations, made a real friend Maria, and understood the meaning of teamwork and brotherhood; as the leader of the enhanced humans, he also made other enhanced humans realize that they should not be born as slaves, but should resist human oppression and drive and become organisms equal to humans, but human greed and selfishness dominate everything. Tur decided to overcome his servility and take revenge on the master who created, enslaved and attempted to destroy him. The author explores the ethical issues of genetic engineering, the use of biological weapons and the value of human life from an extremely sharp perspective, and profoundly expresses the significance of fighting for freedom and dignity in an environment of oppression and exploitation.

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The book consists of two parts. The first part describes the scene in the men's section of the bathhouse, which lasts from early morning to afternoon, with a lively and noisy atmosphere. There are dozens of characters among the bathers, including the paralyzed Dou Qi, a 70-year-old reclusive old man, Kinbei with his child, a quack doctor who plays nonsense, a stranger who mistakes someone else's underwear for a towel, a drunkard, a blind man, and 19 small scenes. The second part describes the women's section of the bathhouse, which is equally lively. There are women of various identities in the bathhouse, including geishas, ​​maids, daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, mothers-in-law, wet nurses, etc., With a wide age range, and a total of 16 small scenes. The characters of each of the men, women, and children who come to bathe are vivid and interesting through dialogue. This book contains color illustrations and inserts.

The original work of the popular TV series "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses". Newcomer Maple became famous in her first game event. In search of rare equipment, she and Sally embarked on an exploration of the second event. Facing a killer player? Defeated! Encounter an undefeated monster on the road? Capture! New skills "Magic Enhancement" and "Floating Fortress" are now available. It turns out that the mysterious turtle floating in the sky is Maple's mount. In this way, amidst everyone's discussion, a week in which countless legends were born officially kicked off!

"Madame Bovary" tells the story of Emma, ​​the wife of a provincial doctor, who is addicted to romantic fantasies. She falls into debt due to her pursuit of extravagant love and material things, and finally commits suicide in despair, revealing the evil of banality and the disillusionment of romantic fantasies.

Perfumer Alice leads a carefree life in London, often entertaining friends at home, but the noise often causes dissatisfaction with her eccentric neighbor Daldry. However, on Christmas Eve, her beautiful life falls apart when a fortune teller predicts that Alice must go on a long journey, during which she will meet six people who will ultimately lead her to find the most important person in her life. Istanbul will be the place where their fates meet. This prophecy plunges Alice into a series of nightmares. Under the persuasion of their neighbor Daidley, they embarked on a journey to Istanbul together. What awaited her was the truth that would subvert her entire life.

Seven heart-warming stories brought by a cat who delivers oracles, a heart-warming masterpiece by Japanese healing writer Michiko Aoyama! Everyone who is confused will find their own guidance in this book. A lovelorn girl, a graduate frustrated with job hunting, a father with a rift in the parent-child relationship, a housewife trying to decide between her family and her dreams, a victim of school violence... Several people accidentally visited a shrine and all met a cat with a star mark on its left hip. The oracle is like a riddle, but when people find the answer, their lives will change dramatically. Seven leaves, seven tender stories, let the magical cat enlighten you who are confused. Won the 13th Tianlong Literary Award × Shortlisted for the Future House Novel Award! Michiko Aoyama, a treasured Japanese healing writer, writes with heart-warming words and phrases! "Pain can't go away, and you don't have to let it go away. It won't go away, but will slowly turn into something else." Michiko Aoyama's warm writing style will heal you who are anxious and sensitive. Although we are all small existences, the world exists because of you and me.

The Japanese version of "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio", the origin of modern ghost story literature and a mirror through which Westerners look into Japan, "Kai Tan·Qi Tan" contains a total of fifty-five ghost stories, all of which are retellings and rewrites by Koizumi Yakumo based on famous works of Japanese classical literature, and are taken from "Wandering Strange Tales" "Talks", "Ghost Talk at the Night Window", "Ten Lessons", "Stories of the Past and Past", "Ugetsu Monogatari", "Anthology of Ancient and Modern Writings", "Hundred Monogatari", "New Hundred Monogatari" and many other ancient Japanese books. These stories of loneliness or loneliness in the dark have won the samadhi of Japanese literature. "Strange Tales" is an indirect reflection of Japanese history, and it also carries the cultural beauty shared by the East. The aesthetic realm of the blending of Eastern and Western civilizations presented in the whole book has extremely high appreciation and recognition value. The book is equipped with Koizumi's hand-drawn illustrations from his manuscripts, which are extremely precious.

Welcome to Iceland. Welcome to the end of the world, the end of the mind. In Iceland a hundred years ago, a boy who never had a name wrote letters day and night. He wrote to people he knew and to people he didn't know. Letters bring hope and reverie to people, slowly and irreversibly changing people's imagination of life... Some people travel far, some break up, some confess their feelings, some go to sea, and some wait in place. "We believe that some words can change the world, they can comfort us and dry our tears; some words are bullets; some words are violin notes; some words can melt the ice surrounding the heart."

This book is a novel published in 2022 by Paolo Giordano, an Italian writer and winner of the Strega Literary Award. This is a rich and profound novel. It follows the protagonist walking on the streets of Rome, Italy, the climate summit in Paris, France, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and even the distant Guadeloupe. He talks with meteorologists, physicists, journalists and atomic bomb survivors, trying to show the current moment. It explores the complexity of the world, the spiritual crisis of contemporary people, and explores the dangerous future facing human society. It is a literary work with realistic concern and topical significance. It was praised by the media as "a novel that truly belongs to our times" and won the 2023 French André Malraux Literary Award.

Coming from a country that no longer exists, being taught a language that was fragmented, I stuck out my tongue like a dragon in a fairy tale, and it bifurcated: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian... Can a language so painful, a language that has never learned to describe reality as complex as one's inner experience of reality, be able to tell a story? It was always like this in the beginning. Or that. They did that, went there, and then came to Holland. The exile narrative is undated. Too many things happened in the short "post-war" period, and their psychological clocks broke under the pressure. Everything is broken. Place and time are divided into "before" and "after", life is divided into "here" and "there". They are suddenly without witnesses, parents, family, friends, or even the usual people with whom they can reconstruct their lives. Without these reliable intermediaries, they are thrown back into themselves. In a mediatized world, nothing is real. Memories pass through many intermediaries, taking the form of a Juliette Binoche or a red, white and blue woven bag, translating my personal pain into my language. Only this one thing is true. Pain is silent, useless, but the only true witness.

"The Burmese Years" is Orwell's first novel, set in British Burma. It tells the story of Flory, a businessman who hates colonial rule but is unable to integrate with all parties. He commits suicide in despair amid his broken love and humiliation, and deeply criticizes the evils of the colonial system.

Volde, now translated as Voltaire (1694-1778), was a French bourgeois Enlightenment thinker, philosopher, historian, and writer. "The Biography of Fulde" is one of the many biographies of the biographer Mauroa. Moroa's literary achievements are especially reflected in his biography. The biographies he wrote have vivid characters, interesting plots and the flavor of novels. He can be said to have made innovations in the way he wrote biographies. His works are known as some of the best biographies in the French literary garden, including "The Life of Fude".

Jane Austen's masterpiece. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a squire, is one of the world's greatest romance novels and has been adapted into films and TV series many times.

"Bacon on Life" is a collection of Bacon's essays and a classic of modern European philosophical prose. Since its publication, it has been immortal for four hundred years and can be called a treasure handed down from generation to generation in the history of world prose and thought. The content of the work covers all aspects of human life such as politics, economy, religion, love, friendship, art, education and ethics. Its thoughts are broad and profound enough to enable people to absorb spiritual nutrients on the road of life.

Tagore's prose creations cover a wide range of contents. "Memories of Life" selects his life memories with literary biographies, literary travel notes and beautiful essays on literature, so that readers can enjoy the beauty in their knowledge. "Children's Songs" is Tagore's first important poetic essay, which focuses on his thoughts on children's literature. "Shakuntala" is a review of the plays of the classical Indian poet Kalidasa, praising the natural beauty of Kalidasa's plays. It also includes some works that elaborate on his literary thoughts, including important papers such as "The Nature of Literature", "The Materials of Literature", "Literary Thinkers" and "Aesthetics". Among them, "The Nature of Literature" is an important essay that focuses on Rabindranath Tagore's early literary thoughts.

The Dutch sinologist Roberto Gorope rewrites 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 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 in the Tang Dynasty" includes "Purple Cloud Temple", "Liu Garden Picture", "Guangzhou Case", "Necklace Case" and "Mid-Autumn Festival Case". "Mid-Autumn Festival Case" tells the story of Di Gong who went to Jinhua, a neighboring county, on official business when he was the magistrate of Puyang County, and solved the murders of scholars, dancers and maids on his own.

Keigo Higashino's long suspenseful masterpiece is about dreams, family love and protection. Did you know? Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests and let other birds raise them on their behalf. --I found out that my daughter Fengmei was someone else's child, but I allowed her to be added to my household registration. I felt guilty. Perhaps my wife and I had distorted her life. I won't let this kid suffer any punishment. If punishment comes, I will risk my life. One day, a man named Kamijou found me. He seemed to have come prepared.

This book is the most proud mystery novel by the famous Japanese writer Chen Shunchen. The protagonist Shogo Hamura's adoptive mother dies mysteriously. Everyone present has perfect alibi. Who is the murderer? As the investigation continues to unfold, larger conspiracies are slowly emerging.

This book is one of the "Comprehensive Translation of Detective Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty: Gao Luopei's Embroidered Portrait Edition". The abnormal death of a local official leads to a major case of transnational gold smuggling and disrupting the social and economic order. There are suspense and thrills everywhere in the book. The seemingly independent cases are both scattered and intertwined with the main clues. Disappearance cases, murder cases, arms cases, collusion cases; Buddhist disciples, wealthy businessmen, fireworks women, and solitary virgins, who has no hidden secrets? The most surprising thing is that the book also contains a character with a similar genetic mutation, who seems to have come out of the ancient "Book of Mountains and Seas" - he has a long history and is eye-catching. There is also the ghost of the unjust dead man, wandering inside and outside the county government hall... When Judge Dee reveals the mystery and makes the readers excited, the author turns his pen and the mystery once again shows a strange smile.

It tells the story of Robin's process of solving a mysterious diamond theft case. The plot of the story is twists and turns, full of suspense, thrilling and exciting, making you unable to put it down.

This book contains a total of 18 critical articles and speeches written by Eliot from 1919 to 1936. With his profound literary connotation and calm and keen insight, this outstanding critic conducted a continuous examination of the representative poets of great importance in the history of British literature. At the same time, he also expressed his unique insights into the meaning and techniques of literary criticism.