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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.

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 magician Wallander (Satan) parachuted into Moscow in the 1930s with a talking black cat, and used his magic power to "do evil" - vain citizens made a fool of themselves, greedy officials lost their lives inexplicably, and a city that believed in atheism was turned upside down by supernatural forces... At the same time, in another time and space, in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, a far-reaching judgment was being carried out nervously. Should the holy and sinless young man Jesus be executed? The Roman governor fell into a thousand years of entanglement and a thousand years of regret. A love as poignant as moonlight unfolds in Moscow as if destined. God, the devil, the master who burned manuscripts, and the girl who was crazy about love all appeared one by one; executioners, informers, adulterers, and selfish people came one after another. In the bizarre fantasy, a carnival spanning time and space begins... "The Master and Margaret" is considered the pioneering work of magical realism. The author fictionalizes the devil's visit to Moscow and connects incredible magical fantasies, real historical events and banal and vulgar daily life, creating a magnificent world where reality and illusion are intertwined, rationality and absurdity coexist, and fantasy and reality are integrated. It uses a relaxed, humorous and light-weight writing style, a chain comedy, a book-within-a-book structure, and bright, firm, and radiant language to sweep away the heavy, profound, and inaccessible impression that Russian literature has left on readers. It has been rated as the best Russian novel in the 20th century and the first of the 49 ideal collections of Russian literature in France's "Ideal Collection of Books."

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 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.

"The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" has a rigorous structure, closely linked links, and a thrilling and fascinating storyline. It is called the "Bible" of mystery novels by mystery fans and is a must-have desk book for every mystery fan. In the more than 100 years since the birth of "A Study in Scarlet", Sherlock Holmes has fought all over the world, and his influence has long transcended the realm of reasoning, becoming synonymous with the detective in people's hearts. For more than 100 years, "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" has been translated into 57 languages ​​and has become popular all over the world. It is the most highly praised and can't-miss detective novel in history. Read calmly and appreciate the justice, wit and bravery of Sherlock Holmes, and enjoy the unique charm of detective novels in the incredible events, confusing cases, thoughtful reasoning, and amazing adventures!

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.

As one of the four great classics, "Journey to the West" has been studied and compiled by many people since it was written. This review of "Journey to the West" is based on the Shidetang edition, and the collated editions are Yang Minzhai's edition, Zhu Dingchen's edition, Li Zhuowu's commentary, Tang Monk's Journey to the West, Tang Sanzang's complete biography, Journey to the West Zhengdao Shu, and Xinshuo Journey to the West, etc. Detailed annotations were made on the ideas, famous objects, classics, cultural phenomena, etc.; Errors in the reference books and old annotations were corrected; various methods were used to interpret the difficult points in the novel using knowledge from different disciplines; full use was made of the research results of past dynasties, as much as possible collected and sorted out, and the best ones were chosen; and the religious content was explored in as much detail as possible. This latest annotation could have given modern readers a deeper understanding of Journey to the West, a vivid novel of gods and demons.

Los Angeles detective Philip Marlowe is involved in an embarrassing family matter. Mr. Kingsley, a glamorous and airy perfume company executive, wears a cuckold. His beautiful, willful and wealthy blond wife sent a message, announcing that she and her pretty boyfriend would go to Mexico to cut off their shackles and form a new relationship. However, a month passed and there was no news from Mrs. Kingsley. What is even more strange is that her true love boyfriend also claimed that he had never seen Mrs. Kingsley at all. As the investigation continues, Marlowe discovers that another mysterious blonde woman disappeared on the same day as Mrs. Kingsley. And when a horrifically bloated body of a blond woman was fished out from the bottom of the lake where Mrs. Kingsley stayed at the resort, things went far beyond the script of an elopement incident. Who is the murderer? Who are the victims? The police officer who tried every means to obstruct Marlowe's investigation was covering up some untouchable secret.

Readers from all over the world spend an average of one night reading it! The suspenseful masterpiece by Ken Follett, the author of "Fall of Giants" and master of all-night novels. Literature is full of lovable villains and sexy bad guys, and this assassin is it! This book once again pushes the tension to its peak, which is more exciting than drinking a strong drink in one gulp! He was a desperate assassin who fled abroad. In order to prevent Russia from being involved in World War I, he came to London alone to assassinate the Russian envoy. Churchill and the entire London police force were closing in on him, making the assassination difficult. At this time, the appearance of a woman brought a turning point to the assassination, but also led to a secret that had been hidden for 19 years...

Maro is hired by Mr. Kingsley to find the missing Mrs. Kingsley. Mrs. Kingsley sent a telegram saying that she was going to marry Chris and never come back. Maro found Chris, but Chris said that he and Mrs. Kingsley had no longer interacted with each other. When he went to find Chris again, Marlowe was stared at by Chris' neighbor Dr. Olmo, and was severely punished by the police called by Olmo. In the lake near Kingsley Villa, a female body sank. Bill, the carer at Kingsley Villa, identified the corpse as his wife by the clothing. The investigation continues and a homicide occurred. As the investigation deepens, Marlowe discovers that behind each murder case are one evil cave after another.

"The Maltese Falcon" is a masterpiece of hard-boiled detective novels in Europe and the United States. It was adapted into a noir film of the same name. The image of Sam Spade is almost a household name in Europe and the United States. "Glass Key" During the general election in a certain city in the United States, the son of a senator was brutally murdered. The arrow points to vendetta and election conspiracy. Everyone from all sides wants to take advantage of the opportunity to profit. The police and the suspect's relatives and friends received strange anonymous letters, the contents of which were all negative insinuations about the suspect. Seeing that the suspect has become estranged from his family and even admitted the crime himself, his good friend and subordinate who has always had confidence in him still takes risks in an attempt to turn the tide...

"Miss Ping's Idea" Miss Lucy Ping, who studies psychology, established a deep friendship with a group of students with different personalities during her short stay in a girls' school. The sudden "accidental" death of a girl broke the tranquility of the entire school, and Miss Ping's inadvertent discovery also made her fall into a rational and emotional decision: What should I do? Can I really make the so-called "right" decision? ... There was a long queue in front of the Dayton Theater. A man who was queuing up to buy tickets to watch the musical was found dead in the queue with a shiny and evil silver dagger stuck in his back. What is strange is that the people in front and behind the deceased did not know when the deceased was killed, and there was nothing on the deceased that could identify him.

"The Faxing Chase Incident" A 16-year-old school girl who has been missing for nearly a month alleged that she was abducted by the owners of the Franchise mansion, a mother and daughter, and forced her to work as a maid, and was subsequently placed under house arrest in Franchise. But when the police brought the girl to Franchise for identification, the mother and daughter claimed that they neither knew nor had seen the girl, but she could accurately describe the layout of the room, the furnishings, and even the daily necessities of the mother and daughter. A lie runs throughout the story, but in the end it makes us feel the power of "public opinion killing".

"A Dream of Red Mansions" was originally called "The Story of the Stone". The first 80 chapters of the book were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 chapters were compiled by Gao E. This book centers on the daily life of Rongguo Mansion, takes the love and marriage tragedies of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai as well as the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden as the main line, and uses the history of the four famous aristocratic families of Jinling, Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, from their peak to decline as a hidden line, showing the inevitable trend of feudal society's demise. This novel has reached the peak of our country's classical novels. "Dream of Red Mansions (set of 2 volumes)" is a great work with high ideological and artistic qualities. Judging from the ideological tendencies reflected in "Dream of Red Mansions", the author has preliminary democratic thoughts. He has a deep understanding of the real society, including the darkness of the palace and official circles, the feudal aristocracy and their families. Decay, the feudal imperial examination system, the marriage system, the slave system, the hierarchical system, as well as the corresponding social governance ideas, namely the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, social moral concepts, etc., Have been deeply criticized and vague ideals and propositions of a preliminary democratic nature have been put forward. These ideals and propositions were a tortuous reflection of the budding factors of the capitalist economy that was growing at that time.

In 1979, Günter Grass and his wife traveled to Asian countries. During and around the trip, the author conceived a movie script that had never been made into a film: Hamm and Dot, a middle school teacher couple from North Germany, embarked on a trip to Asia. However, whether in Bangkok, Mumbai, or Bali, although the images of the third world came one after another, the lingering German question lingered in their minds, and they were wavering on whether they should have children. Their worries are: What will the future look like? Will there be nuclear power plants? Will Strauss take the stage? Will people shoulder the burden of pensions? Will Germans die out due to declining birth rates? These issues are also of concern to the author himself and he joins the discussion from time to time. The work is a collection of essays, novels and movie scripts that have not been made into films, and the writing is humorous.

Aristophanes' worldview basically reflected the interests of the peasants among the free people. He proposed some new ideas, but he also had a conservative tendency in politics. He firmly opposed the war between the Athenian group and the Spartan group. After the war, the economy of Athens collapsed, and the average people became even poorer. The idea of ​​an utopia emerged in society, demanding equal wealth. Plays such as "The Assembly Women" and "Fortune" reflected these ideas.

The drama "Blood Wedding" is based on a real event that happened in Nijar (Almeria) in 1928: On the morning of the wedding, a young woman and her cousin, her lover, ran away. Not long after, the injured bride was found next to the body of her lover, who had been killed by the groom's brother. The double stimulus of an honor case washed with blood - like many dramas of the golden century, the dry and harsh environment of eastern Andalusia is purified and brought into play in the play. Two peasant families prepare for the wedding of their children: the groom's mother has a deep hatred for the Felix family because they murdered her husband and one of her sons. The bride's father wanted to connect the two families' lands together. On the day of the wedding, the bride's former lover, Leonardo Felix, came. Although he is married, he still loves her. As for the bride, she doesn't love her fiancé, but thinks she will forget Leonardo after marriage. In the middle of the wedding, they elope on horseback. The mother and groom chased after them until they caught up with them in a wooded area. The groom and Leonardo fight to death. "Blood Wedding" is a drama that reflects a secular scene, mainly showing repressed and forbidden love. What the hero and heroine face is a closed and backward society, the feud between two families and the economic interests between the characters. However, their love broke through all restraints, betrayed the moral principles of society, and even violated their own reason. The famous literary critic Fernandez Almagro called "Blood Wedding" "the soul of the nation with a primitive flavor".

This book contains two of Sartre's most representative plays, "Death Without a Burial" and "Quarantine." "Death Without a Burial" is a play written by French writer Jean-Paul Sartre in 1946. It is Sartre's first play. Sartre successfully injected his existential philosophy into his realistic play "Death Without a Burial". This blend of realism and existentialism gives new meaning to core propositions such as the value of life, free choice, and responsibility for action, and brings vitality to existential literature.

Kwantung Army, a notorious name. During the "September 18th" adventurous military operation, this unit reaped all the benefits, and was thus regarded as the elite of the Japanese Army, the so-called "Flower of the Imperial Army." However, on the eve of World War II, the Kwantung Army exposed its serious flaws in the battle with the Soviet Red Army, and was even completely defeated by the Soviet Red Army in the late stages of World War II. The showdown between the Soviet Red Army and the Kwantung Army also profoundly affected the course of World War II. For the first time, this book provides a panoramic description of the previous battles between the Kwantung Army and the Soviet Red Army. It provides an in-depth interpretation and comparison of the battle command, quality of commanders and soldiers, intelligence use, weapon configuration and national-level strategic deployment of both sides, bringing people truly into the smoke-filled battlefield of World War II.

"Harvard Chinese History 5: The Struggling Empire: Yuan and Ming" is the fifth volume in the "Harvard Chinese History" series. The famous sinologist Bu Zhengmin is unique in narrating the development, rise and fall of the Yuan and Ming empires from the perspective of climate and environmental history, highlighting two major characteristics of this era: the new political order in the East Asian continent after the Mongol conquest and the social survival dilemma caused by environmental changes, thereby presenting China's first coherent ecological history. At the same time, he also discussed a series of important issues such as autocracy, social complexity and commercialization in ancient China.

The book "Childhood" truly describes the growth story of the protagonist Alexei. Alexey lives in the house of his grandfather, who is moody and has a bad temper. His grandmother is very loving to Alexei, telling him legends, fairy tales and folktales, and enduring all the pressures of life without complaint. After his grandfather went bankrupt, Alexey was forced to live in the world and start to make a living independently. The novel profoundly outlines a true picture of the decline and destruction of Russian society in the 19th century. At the same time, it shows the integrity, simplicity, and diligence of the lower-class working people, and reflects the writer's difficult life in childhood and his unremitting pursuit of light and truth.

The protagonist "I" in the book is an underappreciated writer in London. He met a stockbroker by chance. When he reached middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and rebelled against everything. He first went to Paris, and then to Tahiti in the South Pacific to live with the indigenous people. He devoted himself to painting and became famous after his death. After he became famous, "I" began to trace his past interactions with the artist and his subsequent life experiences. The artist's story is based on the life of Gauguin, a French post-Impressionist painter who lived in extreme poverty and was prepared to die in glory.

"La Traviata" is a masterpiece of world literature. It has been published and performed in three forms: novel, drama, and opera. All three have become masterpieces handed down from generation to generation due to their immortal artistic value. Margaret, a courtesan in Paris, was conquered by the sincere love of Armand, who was not rich, and fell in love. Just when the lovers in love were looking forward to a better life in the future, Armand's father secretly forced Margaret to leave Armand. Armand does not know the truth and thinks that Margaret intends to abandon him. Margaret endured the humiliation and died of hatred due to the double torment of illness and grief. This innocent love ended in tragedy.

The novel depicts a historical picture of an era in Russian society. He used detailed language to depict the tragic life of people in the lower class, and how an orphan struggled, survived hard, and pursued his ideal experience. This book is an autobiography of the author's childhood. It is not only the life history of a young man, but also the artistic history of an era. This book reflects the disintegration process of petty bourgeois handicrafts caused by the growth of industrial capitalism in Russia. The bankruptcy of "my" grandfather's family is a true portrayal of Russia from the 1870s to the 1880s.

"Anecdotes of Charles IX" is a novel by Mérimée. It takes the famous religious tragedy "St. Bartholomew's Night" during the period of Charles IX in the 16th century as its theme, and shows the darkness and cruelty of medieval feudal autocracy. The protagonist Melky is a young aristocratic Huguenot from the province. After the religious peace in 1570, he went to Paris to join the Protestant leader Admiral Collini. After Melky came to Paris, he met his brother George, who had been separated for many years and converted to Catholicism during the Civil War. Under the direct command of the king, the massacre of the Protestants began. George refused to carry out the bloody order and was thrown into prison. Melky fled Paris and took part in the revolt against the king in the Huguenot city of Rochelle.

Bernie disappeared for a while. Oh no, it should be said that he had reformed. After some hard work, he finally managed to make the second-hand bookstore barely break even. He thought his life would be so comfortable, but he also encountered a problem that most people have trouble with - soaring prices. The new landlord issued a notice that the rent would be increased, and it would be more than ten times the original price. The repentant thief seemed to have only one option left. On the first night he returned to his old business, Bernie encountered a corpse...

"The Gadfly" is the representative work of the Irish female writer Voynich. After being introduced to China in the 1950s, it became very popular and became one of the favorites of young people at that time. Arthur, an Italian young man, was born into a wealthy businessman family, but he resolutely joined the revolution as an adult. Due to negligence, he leaked the secret, which led to the arrest of his comrades in arms, misunderstood his childhood sweetheart girlfriend Gemma, and painfully discovered that he was the illegitimate son of Father Montanelli, whom he had admired for a long time. Under the harsh reality education, he used fake suicide as a cover and ran away angrily. After 13 years of wandering abroad, he became a determined revolutionary under the pseudonym "Gadfly". He returned to his country to organize armed forces, smuggled arms and actively prepared for the uprising. In the end, he was unfortunately arrested. Faced with threats from the military and his biological father's persuasion to surrender, he remained unmoved and died calmly. "Gadfly" also tells the story of the snow-like pure and innocent love between Gadfly and the girl Qinma, as well as the intertwined love and hate for his father. It is very sad to read.

This book is Montesquieu's only literary work, and it consists of one hundred and sixty letters. The letter contains detailed observations and sharp criticisms of the French society at that time, descriptions of bloodshed, sensuality and death, conversations between black and white eunuchs and their imprisoned wives and concubines, and lingering love words from the master in a foreign country. This is a novel that combines travel notes and political commentary, as well as a philosophical novel.

This book is selected from four novel collections, including "The Mill Letters", "Sunday Stories", "The Thrilling Adventures of Tartaran of Tarrasgon" and "Little Flemont and Big Risler", the most representative works of the French writer Daudet. There are popular works such as "The Last Lesson" and "The Siege of Berlin" that promote the spirit of patriotism, a mill story full of Provence style in the south of France, an exaggerated and ridiculous "The Adventures of Tatalan", and "Little Flemont and Big Risler" which exposes the decadent life of the bourgeoisie. These novels are full of fun and can bring readers pleasure and enjoyment.

"Robinson Crusoe" is a well-known realistic memoir-style adventure novel. It was written by Defoe, a famous British writer in the 18th century, who was inspired by the experience of a Scottish sailor who was in danger at sea. In the book, Defoe creates a new type of character who has the courage to face the challenges of nature - Robinson Crusoe. He disdained the status quo and devoted himself to pioneering, abandoning his well-off family again and again to go to sea and explore the world. After being shipwrecked and stranded on a desert island, he used his mind and hands to build a residence, grow food, domesticate livestock, make utensils, sew clothes, and transform the desert island into a "paradise". He adventured overseas for many years and went through untold hardships. Finally, he gained considerable wealth and returned to England, completing the entrepreneurial journey of a hero of an era.

The book is told in the voice of the protagonist Enrico, from the first day of school in October of the fourth grade to July of the following year, his experiences and ideological activities inside and outside the school. It is also interspersed with admonishing articles written by his parents for him, as well as touching short stories that the teacher reads in class every month. Love is the theme of the entire novel. In these plain words, the author incorporates all the great loves in the world - the love of teachers and students, the love of parents and the love of classmates. These seemingly ordinary feelings can stir up waves of emotional ripples in the readers' hearts, making the virtue of love stay in their hearts forever.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther", Goethe's masterpiece, tells the story of a love tragedy in which young Werther pursues Lotte, an engaged girl, but is unable to extricate himself due to hopelessness and commits suicide. The book has been a bestseller since its publication in 1774 and has been translated into dozens of languages ​​around the world. The bitter love story shown in the book has shocked the hearts of generations of teenagers. This is the Bible for young people. As soon as it came out, it became popular in Germany and the entire Western Europe. This is the epitome of the youth of an era, a bitter love affair destined to be fruitless! The sensational work of the world's literary giant has swept the hearts of tens of millions of young men and women around the world!

Ryunosuke Akutagawa is an outstanding writer in modern Japan and is known as a "ghost genius". The highest achievement of his literary creation lies in short stories. "Rashomon", "In the Wild Bush", "The Nose", etc. Are the most well-known classics of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Most of his early works were based on historical themes, emphasizing artistic conception and aesthetic interest, showing a certain tendency of aestheticism, and later turned to realism. This book contains 6 short stories and short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying for the first time the author's understanding of people, his helplessness and despair. "Hell Transformation" uses bloody and cruel pen and ink to describe the arrogance and extravagance of slave owners and the tragic fate of slaves, which makes people feel thrilling...

The novel is set in the upper class life of Paris, France, in the mid-19th century, and takes the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé's family as the main line. It narrates the whole process of how the baron, driven by crazy lust, betrayed his pure and loving wife step by step, hurt his innocent daughter, ruined the reputation of his family, tarnished the reputation of the army, and was ultimately ruined. Various characters, intricate plots, and thrilling battles between spirit and flesh, love and hatred, good and evil, constitute a vivid tragedy and comedy in the world, a colorful history of civilization, and an endless elegy for the inevitable collapse of upper class society.

"My University" is the last part of Gorky's trilogy of autobiographical novels. The work tells the story of Alyosha's life in Kazan. When he was 16 years old, he came to Kazan with the dream of going to university. After his dream was shattered, he had to work hard to survive. He lived in a "large courtyard", worked hard, interacted with homeless people, and interacted with all kinds of small citizens, college students, and intellectuals. He entered a vast "social university" and eventually grew into a revolutionary intellectual. In this university, he experienced the complex path of spiritual development, withstood the test of life in many aspects, and made his initial exploration of the meaning of life and the complexity of the world.

Niels' Travels on the Goose was first published in 1907. It is written about a fourteen-year-old rural boy named Niels. Because he played a trick on an elf, he was magically transformed into a little man as big as a thumb by the elf. From then on, he traveled around Sweden on the back of a goose. The author uses novel and flexible techniques, humorous and vivid writing style to depict various beautiful pictures of Sweden for children. Through fascinating storylines, he makes true records of Sweden's geography and landforms, animals, plants, cultural monuments, the lives and customs of inland residents and people in remote minority areas, integrating literature, art, knowledge and science. "Niels Riding the Goose" is the first and only fairy tale in the history of world literature to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), one of the most outstanding writers in the United States, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is one of his major works. Robert Jordan, an American young man, volunteered to join the Spanish government army and engage in blasting activities behind enemy lines. In order to cooperate with the counterattack, he was ordered to contact local guerrillas to complete the task of blowing up the bridge. In the midst of the raging war, he fell in love with Maria, a little girl who had been raped by the enemy, thereby smoothing out the trauma in Maria's soul. In three days, Robert experienced the conflict between love and duty and the test of life and death, and his humanity continued to sublimate. On the way to retreat after the bridge was blown up, he gave up his hope of survival to others, but his thigh was broken by a cannonball. He stayed alone to stop the enemy, and finally gave his young life for the Spanish people.

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles-A Pure Woman" is a pearl of British literature in the 19th century, establishing Hardy's status in British and even world literature. Through the description of the unfortunate fate of the protagonist Tess, the author reveals profound social problems such as class differences and inequality between rich and poor, and openly challenges the hypocritical social morality of the Victorian era. It is rich in connotation and has strong social criticism. The book has long been loved by readers not only in the author's home country, but also around the world. It has attracted the attention of professional researchers, been courteously received by artists in the film and theater circles, and is recognized as Hardy's masterpiece. Our publisher's translation of "Tess" by Zhang Guruo has been recognized as the most classic translation of "Tess" for many years. It has undergone many rounds of revisions by the translator himself and his descendants. Because of its smooth language, clear writing style, accuracy and literary nature, and reproduction of the charm of the original work, it has been widely praised by readers and researchers over the years, and has sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

"Little Women" describes the life of a family during the American Civil War in the mid-19th century. In this autobiographical work, the four sisters' father joined the Northern Army in the war. They lived with their loving mother and experienced many tearful and laughing stories. Although the four sisters have different ideals and destinies, they are all self-reliant, cherish their family, and cherish their love. In this book, you can find all the emotional experiences and life experiences that all girls have to go through and face.