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They are the most successful people in this era, and they have created countless myths. They almost broke free from a very primitive state of existence and became the creators of modern civilization in a very short period of time. They are not the farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the 1930s in Fei Xiaotong's vision, nor are they the farmers in northern Shaanxi in the 1940s described by Zhao Shuli. They are not Dazhai-style farmers or farmers in Xiaogang Village. They are themselves. We are looking for a farmer. In fact, we are getting closer to a dream that is being realized. In a broader sense, the farmers we are paying attention to are a microcosm of the hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers who are changing their destiny in the East today.

Why did I study the May Fourth Movement? This is indeed a question that needs to be asked. Although, as a person who studies history, or thinks about history, I don't have as many boundaries as people with a major. I often jump back and forth between the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, fishing here and there. If I have the conditions, I would dare to touch ancient history. A person like me who comes from a wild way has no family rules, so there are no restrictions, and I don't want to have restrictions. However, I have never been enthusiastic about the May Fourth Movement. I have read some relevant historical materials, but I just can't arouse my interest. To a large extent, this is because there is a stereotype that the May Fourth Movement was like the Taiping Rebellion. Too many people took action and the big fish were all gone.

This book tells the story of the establishment of secret party branches and other underground activities carried out by the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai from the Japanese occupation of the Shanghai Concession in 1942 until the entire War of Liberation. As well as a series of transformation campaigns carried out by the people's power on Shanghai's municipal administration, police system and the entire society in the early days of Shanghai's liberation - such as closing down the underground black market, cracking down on the opium trade, suppressing counterrevolutionaries, deporting refugees, reforming prostitutes, dancers and drug addicts, etc. It was also the new regime's governance of big cities. Why did the Kuomintang fail but the Communist Party succeeded? The author gives his own unique analysis.

This book vividly reproduces the political and social situation of Shanghai as an "isolated island" from the 1937 Songhu Battle to the end of 1941 before the outbreak of the "Pearl Harbor Incident". It involves the anti-Japanese activities of the Kuomintang's "Blue Clothes Society" in Shanghai, the assassinations of pro-Japanese elements by the "military reunification", the bloody revenge of the Japanese puppets, the reign of terror of the Wang puppet regime, the ugly social phenomena in the "bad soil" area in western Shanghai, etc... With a unique perspective and informative materials, the book reproduces the entangled struggles and bloody storms of various forces in Shanghai's "isolated island" period.

The author of "Perfume" Juskind returns to innocence, writes about the sadness of ordinary life and the helplessness of saying goodbye to childhood, subverting the perception of serious literature; it is accompanied by classic illustrations by Sambé, the royal painter of "The New Yorker" and a French national treasure illustrator. "I" is an ordinary little boy who goes to school, climbs trees, rides bicycles, fantasizes about his hazy first love, is afraid of the strict piano teacher, and often feels that he can fly. "My" neighbor Mr. Xia is a "weird", silently leaning on a cane, carrying an empty bag, and running around without any destination. There were only a few contacts between us, but this sensitive, irritable, hurried figure who always seemed to be enduring pain formed a dark background in my childhood. One day, he walked to the center of the lake under the gaze of "I" and said goodbye to the world that had always frightened him, and I also said goodbye to my innocent childhood.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The original Polish book is titled "The Sound of Drums". In 2002, it won Poland's highest literary award, the Nice Prize Readers' Choice Award. The collection of novels includes 19 works: a bored woman enters the detective novel she is reading; a man becomes obsessed with "the ugliest woman in the world" and follows her throughout his life; a British psychology professor is trapped in a foreign land for a week and encounters many dangers; a female dancer pays tribute to her long-lost father over and over again Writing letters that will never be mailed; foreigners entering a strange city and "changing" their identities inspired by the sound of drums on the street... Tokarczuk uses 19 elf-like stories to write about all kinds of loners in different senses, unfolding their unique adventures in the overlapping of the soul and the real world.

"That Night in August" is the sequel to the best-selling "Island". It is also a novel with rich emotions and ups and downs of plot, telling the tragedy and secrets of the Vandorakis family on the island of Crete. It begins after Maria's sister Anna marries Antonis in "The Island". Anna's marriage to her husband Andreas is bright on the surface, but in fact it has an undercurrent. Her secret love affair with her cousin Manolis and her fear of her sister Maria's return from the leprosy quarantine constitute an important conflict in the story. At a family celebration, Anna is murdered, and the murderer turns out to be her husband. The incident shocked the entire community and revealed long-hidden family secrets. The story uses a dual-line narrative. On one side, it tells how Anna's lover Manolis escaped from Crete after Anna was killed by her husband, spent a long time digesting his longing for Anna, and finally went to Australia. At the same time, it also tells how Anna's sister Maria slowly forgave her brother-in-law who killed Anna and insisted on visiting him in prison, so that the brother-in-law finally got the salvation of his soul and reconciled with his family. It expressed the need to use love and courage to overcome inner uneasiness and fear, and explored the themes of love, betrayal and redemption.

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Japanese reasoning master Aoyagi Aokito's black humor reasoning subverts fairy tales! The series has sold a total of 450,000 copies in Japan! Reversed fairy tale × black humor × Japanese mystery × confusing Little Red Riding Hood! When Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and the little match girl are involved in the mystery, what is the truth... A novel interpretation of the classic fairy tale, a subversive reading experience! Netflix's original live-action movie?, Japanese national idol Hashimoto Kanna plays the protagonist Little Red Riding Hood, and is very popular! Little Red Riding Hood, who was bewitched by the witch, took a pumpkin carriage with Cinderella to the castle to attend the ball, but they killed someone on the way... Little Red Riding Hood stayed in the candy house, only to find that the person they had been looking for was dead... After arriving in the land of Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood helped others, but unexpectedly another person died next to her... Little Red Riding Hood was about to reach the end of the journey, and suddenly heard that a girl had become the boss of the match company... Everything was ordinary, but everything was extraordinary. The fairy tale world that subverts fairy tales is waiting for you to explore.

Ryusei Yushu is determined to avenge his childhood friend, and he wants to kill three people. The stage for revenge will be the isolated island - Youshi Island. Youse Island is known for its secret festivals that are held regularly. As early as forty-five years ago, a bizarre tragedy occurred on the island, killing thirteen people. Since then, the island has become an uninhabited island. A group of nine people came to Yuse Island to film a TV show. Yushu, who had murderous intentions, found that one of the revenge targets had been killed... Who made the first move? Will the murderer continue to commit crimes? To complete the revenge plan with his own hands, Yushu must find out the truth.

An impossible crime happened in a special hotel, and the detective had to leave the hotel to solve the case immediately. In this hotel, the law is not the criterion. You can still be protected if you commit a crime, but you must abide by: ① Do not damage the hotel ② Do not harm anyone within the hotel. Once the above rules are violated, the hotel's exclusive detective will come out to investigate and get to the bottom of it. This book contains several incidents that took place in this hotel and shows how hotel detectives uncovered the real culprits from the best in the criminal field. Following "Visitor from the Lonely Island" and "Sweet Death for the Detective", this is a collection of short stories by the emerging novelist Takahiro Takahiro.

I woke up from a mental hospital with no memory. The only sounds in my ears were the roar of a strange woman and the sound of banging on the wall. Until a doctor told me: When I was 16 years old, my mother, who was dependent on me, was strangled to death by my side, but I was sleepwalking when the incident occurred. When I was 18 years old, my fiancée died naked in front of me, and after the incident, I was actually tracing the portrait of the corpse... Is what the doctor said true? Am I the real culprit in these two murder cases? The key to retrieving memories lies in the incomprehensible papers, strange suicide notes, and mysterious picture scrolls. After my memory awakens, is what awaits me a redemption or an even more unfathomable trap?

"No matter where you want to escape, your childhood will always be with you." A mental hospital that specializes in child felons cultivates a group of children who will grow up to become murderers. They either showed obvious homicidal tendencies or attempted murder. They are haunted by the shadow of their childhood, and killing becomes their nature. Brutal murders were staged one after another, and the victims were all pairs of men and women. How could a seemingly pure soul commit such evil deeds in a calm and ruthless manner? Marcus, a criminal tracker who lost his memory, risked his life to investigate the truth, but unexpectedly discovered that a group of people were protecting the murderer in the dark, but the murderer himself did not know it...

The evil god Gu Mao Ning, who is homely, indebted, illicit and a powerful demon... Comes to the human world to be a teacher and gathers in a class with students who all have strange identities. What story will it trigger?

"Collected Essays of Montaigne" is Montaigne's main work and one of the three major prose classics in modern Europe. In "Collected Essays of Montaigne", Montaigne observes and thinks about all living beings in the world from the perspective of a wise man, quotes from many sources, and puts forward his own unique insights into many common thoughts and feelings of human beings, giving people the opportunity to think deeply and reflect, and can improve people's understanding of life.

This book contains classic works created and translated by Liang Yuchun. Among them, the prose content is unique and involves various contradictory life phenomena: love and divorce, life and death, innocence and experience, tears and laughter, ruthlessness and passion, success and failure, light and darkness, comedy and humor, etc. The contents of the translated works are mostly related to these phenomena in life. Through these phenomena, the author expresses his profound understanding and philosophical thinking about life, and expresses his dissatisfaction and sentimentality towards reality. This book mainly collects works that reflect Liang Yuchun's literary achievements, covering major life issues such as education, love, friendship, marriage, etc. Most of these issues are of interest to contemporary young people, especially educated women. Therefore, the target audience of this book is mainly intellectual women. In addition, this book has a relaxed style of writing and thorough reasoning. Every word and sentence highlights the author's wisdom and wisdom. It is also suitable for cultural enthusiasts and the general public to read.

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Just before his death, Duanwu Bridge saw a ship sailing towards him from the horizon. This is the mail ship "Siberia" that started from Shanghai in the winter of 1905 and sailed to San Francisco via Yokohama. At this moment - in the early morning of November 27, 1911 - its magnificent four-story hull suddenly appeared without warning in the dying eyes of the Duanwu Bridge through the gray sky of Zizhou City in eastern Sichuan Province, China's inland province. The sea and the sky meet, and there is no shore on all sides. There are a few seagulls here and there, chasing the black smoke from the boiler room at the stern. Suddenly there was a heavy rain, and the white waves were like mountains, reaching as high as the surface of the ship. The ship's hull was shaking, as if it was about to capsize in the rough waves. The raindrops turned into bright white blades and came forward with a biting cold air. The Duanwu Bridge subconsciously closed its eyes.

Among the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Mu of Qin was the most multi-faceted. He is a wise and foolish gentleman who is blessed by suffering losses, and even helps his opponents ascend to the position of overlord; he is an overlord who breaks the shackles and uses five sheepskins to lift a hundred miles to the slaves, and the emperor and his ministers work together to unify the world; he is a great husband who transcends personal feelings and trusts the woman Yao Yuanyuan who he once betrayed; he is a kind elder who pardons the peasants' mistakes and gives them horse meat seasoning...

A blockbuster work by Meng Zhentapir, the author of "Onmyoji". It took 17 years and 2,600 pieces of manuscript paper to complete the masterpiece. Chen Kaige (director of "Farewell My Concubine"), Wang Huiling (Ang Lee's screenwriter), and many Chinese and Japanese stars will jointly create a movie of the same name that will be released at the end of the year. The sky and the sea are crossing eastward, the city of Chang'an is in turbulent waters, and the ghost feast begins. The black cat of Jinwu Guard Liu Yunqiao's family suddenly began to speak human words. The Taoist priest who rushed to drive away the monster was so frightened that he almost went crazy. Chunqin, the young and pretty wife of Liu Yunqiao, turned into an old woman with gray hair and chicken skin in front of everyone. While singing "Qingping Diao Ci", she danced in a similar way to Yang Guifei. Kukai, an eminent monk who traveled to the Tang Dynasty from Japan, and Bai Juyi, who sought inspiration for the song "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", together uncovered the mystery of the demon incident and the death of Concubine Yang. All the resentment of monsters comes from spells and from human hearts.

"The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" is a long vernacular historical romance novel of the Qing Dynasty. It is a novel with the dual nature of heroic legend and historical romance. Taking the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty as the background of the story, it tells a historical romance about the fall of the Sui Dynasty and the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. The characters in the novel have distinctive personalities and the storyline is popular. The classic passages in it are timeless.

In the spring of 1730, a young man from another province named Quan Zuwang went to Beijing with more than 20,000 volumes of books. At this time, he was a student at Ningbo Fuxue. Because of his excellent performance, he was selected as Bagong and went north to take the exam. To transport such a large and heavy luggage from Zhejiang to Beijing would cost a lot of money today, let alone the early 18th century when transportation conditions were poor. Sure enough, by the time he reached the border of Shandong Province, he had almost spent all his money. The driver he hired did not want to work anymore, so he had to take off his clothes and exchange money to pay the fare. In this way, one day in late spring, the rolling wheels brought him and more than 20,000 volumes of books into Beijing.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the overlord of a generation, passed away due to illness, and the world was suddenly in turmoil. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who harbors ambitions in his heart but looks like a down-to-earth farmer, is waiting for the opportunity to become the world leader. He was well versed in people's hearts, and he flattered Hideyoshi's main wife Homasa Sho in every possible way, aiming to win over the generals Kato Kiyomasa and Fukushima Masanori, who regarded Homasa as his mother. Mitsunari Ishida, the capable official whom Hideyoshi trusted most during his lifetime, saw through Ieyasu's ambitions and devoted himself to defending the Toyotomi regime. Although Sancheng has a superb intellect to make plans, he is arrogant and upright and does not understand the secrets of the human heart. He often offends people and has many conflicts with military commanders. Ieyasu used careful strategies to win over the generals of the "anti-Misei faction" one after another. On the way to conquer Kagekatsu Kamikami, at a military meeting in Noshu Hill, he turned the generals who followed the orders of Hideyoshi's successor Hideyori into the Tokugawa family's private army in one fell swoop. Ieyasu's Eastern Army and 30% of the Western Army were fully deployed in Sekigahara on the Nobi Plains, intending to show off. The scheming Ieyasu is thinking about how to bring about the collapse of the Western Army camp. When Kobayakawa's army collapsed behind the Western Army, the Toyotomi era ended and the Tokugawa era came.

Born in Iga, he is as free as the wind, and his talents are only willing to be sold at a price; born in Koga, he is as stubborn as a rock, and he will be loyal to his lord without regrets. They fought openly and secretly, but also cherished each other, and finally both succumbed to the Sanada family's six cents banner. However, the enemy waiting for them was the most terrifying man in Japan... In the autumn of the fifth year of Keicho (1600), the Battle of Sekigahara broke out, and the world's situation became finalized. On this day, Sarutobi Sasuke, with his lord Yukimura's ideal of regaining the Toyotomi family, approached Iga's genius ninja Kirigakure Saizo and gave him two choices: join the Sanada family, or die. In the summer of the 20th year of Keicho (1615), Osaka Castle was heavily besieged by Tokugawa troops, and its fall was imminent. On the eve of the decisive battle, Sasuke said goodbye to Saizo and confessed that he was determined to live and die with his master. This puts Saizo, who could have left, into a dilemma... The glory of the past will eventually fade away; the setting sun at Osaka Castle reflects the last appearance of the Ten Warriors of Sanada!

This book narrates the whole process of the four sons of Kangxi from seizing the throne to purging the imperial court and realizing their political ambitions. It artistically reproduces the broad picture of social life in this historical period and depicts hundreds of vivid characters such as Yongzheng, Kangxi, Wu Sidao, and Li Wei. The work organically unifies historical truth and artistic truth, and pays attention to grasping the characters' personalities in a specific historical background. The story is authentic and credible, and the characters are flesh-and-blood. The work has a rich cultural atmosphere, is elegant but not vulgar, and has certain cognitive value for understanding traditional culture and historical knowledge. The work also promotes the excellent tradition of classical novels, with a relaxed and orderly plot, ups and downs, and fully embodies the aesthetic style of Chinese novels. Some critics believe that this book is "the most outstanding long historical novel since the Dream of Red Mansions, and a masterpiece rarely seen in a century." This book has been printed five times with more than 100,000 copies, and the traditional Chinese version has been published in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

A unique historical mystery novel that doesn't even look like a mystery novel. The so-called case in the novel is a well-known story in British history: Richard III murdered two young princes imprisoned in the Tower of London in order to usurp the throne. The "crime" is heinous and even more thought-provoking. But Inspector Grant, sitting on the hospital bed, based on his careful reasoning, overturned the four hundred-year-old historical conclusion in one fell swoop, and told us: the truth of the matter may not be what you hear or think!

Margaret Atwood has a lot of titles: Queen of Canadian Literature, winner of the Booker Prize, the Kafka Prize, the German Book Industry Peace Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and other awards, a favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature, the author of the best-selling books "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin"... Margaret Atwood's talent is as undoubted as her achievements. The same is true of Penelope. It very cleverly uses Penelope, a little girl's autobiography in the underworld, to comprehensively take stock of what she knows about Odysseus, Helen, the Battle of Troy, and the story of Odysseus and Ithaca's revenge. Atwood completely replaced Penelope, the legendary lady, making her feel awkward when dating like an ordinary girl and panicking when teasing her parents-in-law, but also as witty and agile as the legend. She dealt with all the relatives skillfully, and when she met her husband who had been away for many years, she showed her cunning and intelligent character. The humor and irony between the lines made people laugh.

The latest ancient fantasy masterpiece by Tang Que, the original author of "Jiuzhou Sky City", is a Kyushu legend that protects faith. The blockbuster work of "Jiuzhou Chronicles" is the legendary experience of the atypical monk An Xingmian and the cold and arrogant girl Xue Huaiqing who dances with corpses. The set is divided into two volumes: "Kyushu·Endless Nagato I: Corpse Dance" and "Kyushu·Endless Nagato II: Song of Death". "Kyushu Endless Nagato I: Corpse Dance" The emperor issued an edict to arrest Nagato monks who were independent of the world. All the Nagato monks were in danger, but no one understood the reason. An Xingmian, a disciple who obeyed his father's orders and joined the Changmen monk, was also involved in this turmoil because his master was arrested.

The Iron Rat, also known as the Raiha Rat, was one of the favorite themes of storytellers at the end of the Heian period. According to the Yankei version of "Heian Monogatari", Emperor Shirakawa made the daughter of Seki Shirofujiwara Shimi as his queen, and she was known as Nakamiya Kenko. , The two were extremely loving, so they hoped that Xianzi would give birth to a prince. The emperor heard that Mitsuiji Laihao Acharya's magic power was efficacious, so he ordered him to pray on his behalf, and he agreed (if everything goes well, all gifts will be easy). Later, Laihao Acharya prayed wholeheartedly and paid tribute to this wish. Prince Dunwen was born. The Emperor was overjoyed and asked Acharya what reward he wanted. Laihao Acharya replied: "I hope that the Emperor will order Mitsui Temple to build an ordination altar." 〕The emperor readily agreed, but he ignored that at that time Mitsui-ji Temple was located on the side of Mount Hiei, where Enryaku-ji Temple of the Tendai sect was located. Hearing that the emperor had authorized Mitsui-ji Temple to build an ordination altar to symbolize the status of the commanding Buddhist temple, he especially used his political connections to advise the emperor. In the end, the emperor felt that the Tendai sect could not be divided, so he withdrew the previous order. Laihao Acharya heard about this change and said angrily: "I worked hard and prayed hard to get the prince. Now that the emperor has betrayed me, I will take him to the devil's path." 〕After saying this, he would not eat a grain of rice, and would eventually go on a hunger strike and die. At that time, a white-haired monster monk appeared next to the emperor's pillow, standing in front of the bed holding a tin staff, which shocked the emperor. He asked the monks of Mount Hiei to pray for blessings and avoid disasters. Unfortunately, Prince Atsubun died before he was four years old. According to folklore, Acharya Laihao locked himself in a secret room without trimming his beard, hair, or nails. He burned incense and cursed without sleep for a hundred days. After he died, he turned into 84,000 giant rats with iron-like teeth and stone-like bodies. They went all the way to Mount Hiei and chewed up all the Buddha statues and scriptures. Because of its iron-like teeth, Toriyama Shiyan called it "Iron Rat" in "Hakugui Night Walk".

"The Dream of Crazy Bones" tells the story of the mystery of bones that spans thousands of years and meanders along the winter seaside. A rhapsody of history and memories, dreaming with fashion. This is a showdown between dark destiny and human fireworks that will last until death. Solve many mysteries, but there is a clean and clear answer. Zhu Mei, a woman who killed her husband four times in a row, is a psychiatrist with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a godless pastor. Dreams and reality are entangled between the three people, and strange things happen again and again. A golden skull drifting in the sea, a mass suicide in the mountains. These seemingly unrelated people are each suffering from weird dreams... The weird events that happen one after another connect them one by one... What is a dream and what is reality? A complicated mystery, but with a clean and clear answer at the end of the book.

[Superpowers + Ordinary People + Atypical Cool Articles] "Master of modern thrillers" Stephen King explores courage and responsibility, telling the tragic life of an ordinary good man. John, an ordinary middle school teacher, accidentally fell into a coma for four and a half years due to a car accident. When he woke up, his life had changed dramatically. But he has acquired a strange ability. By touching other people's bodies, he can understand that person's past and foresee the future. This ability brought him popularity, but it also brought more troubles. Strangers were both curious and resistant to him, and John finally chose to leave the local area. After that, he was involved in a series of horrific incidents. Through this superpower, he saw a terrible future when shaking hands with a politician... He is kind, but he is also the most doubted. He is just, but he also bears the most pain. How will he choose in the face of an unshakable fate?

Shiina, a freshman, moved into an apartment alone while humming Bob Dylan songs. When she met her handsome neighbor Kawasaki for the first time, she was invited to rob a bookstore together late at night! Going to bookstores for a copy of "Guangci Yuan"? Was there any mistake? ! Shiina knew that this matter was absurd, but was inexplicably attracted to this absurdity and participated in it in a daze. This was not the only ridiculous thing that Kawasaki mentioned. The simple Shiina was a little overwhelmed. He wanted to know the truth of many things. Shiina followed, questioned, and found relevant people to inquire. In the end, he found that all the answers had already appeared in front of him. As Bob Dylan once sang, Blowing in The Wind.

Here, there are six "rare in the world" stories to tell you the "truth" about encounters. The encounter is imperceptible, only understood in retrospect, like a serenade heard in the evening music.

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His work has been shortlisted for the Naoki Award for five times and is as popular in Japan as Haruki Murakami and Keigo Higashino. You want to travel, you yearn for distant places, but the place you can't go back to is your hometown. So, listen to the cat and go home now!

Under the protection of Duan Yousi and his excellent grades, Masako gradually approached the student union with complicated nepotism. However, as the core members of the student union were "lost" one after another, her behavior became increasingly beyond Duan Yousi's control.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty finally ascended to the throne after many brutal political battles. Facing the situation of internal and external difficulties, the emperor worked hard and diligently to govern, and his loyal ministers and generals worked together and were loyal to their duties, which made the beginning of governance. However, the slightly radical policy of enclosing households internally and the promising external policy of aggressiveness have also made the political situation turbulent and lurked crises. The ground is thundering, and on the 60th birthday of He Ying, a grand relative of Taiyuan Dafeng, a murder case stirs up ripples, and an old mystery also arises. The barbarians on the border have evil intentions, the Turks and Khitans are eyeing them, and the former political enemies are secretly plotting against each other. A long-planned political whirlpool with undercurrents is sweeping through again...

Chekhov had many notebooks, which contained momentary feelings he jotted down in his life, rough drafts, sketches of future works, reading experiences, and best practices copied from other writers' books. The notes are not only a memorandum of his literary creation, but also an index of his mature works. Ten years after his death, his wife Knibil made the "Chekhov's Notes" after rigorous selection and organization and made it public. Woolf's husband Leonard once co-translated "Notes" into English and published it. The Chinese translation was first released in 1953. With the fate of the translator Jia Zhifang, it was buried in the library for nearly thirty years until it was reprinted in 1982. In his words, the fate of this translation was also the fate of his life.

Continuing the style of the previous volume, Professor Mary Beard continues to express her many views on education, classical history, and current affairs in her blog, which is both interesting and educational. Somali pirates are rampant, why not try what Pompeo did? What jokes did the Romans tell? How bad are UK election party manifestos? In chronological order, this book provides readers with many shining points to think about and explore, showing the profound and slightly weird inner world of classical scholars!

This book brings together Yasushi Inoue's articles on the subject of landscape and journey. When these descriptions of scenery are put into novels, they are often submerged and ignored. Yasushi Inoue is extremely fond of these text passages related to scenery. In other words, Inoue Yasushi is extremely fond of the scenery in these passages. It is now specifically extracted to give the reader the opportunity to contemplate the beauty of these scenes.

The only non-fiction work by Juskind, the author of "Perfume", confronts two major propositions in life that need to be thought about urgently; overlooking the complex and subtle abyss of human nature, and gaining insight into the secret love that transcends the world. In this short work, Suskind explores the relationship between love and its eternal rival, death. Citing three examples from philosophy, literature, religious stories and myths and legends, as well as modern life, Suskind presents to us the relationship between the two that are both complementary and contradictory, prompting readers to think about how the world views love and death, and how they appear in literary and philosophical works. Love can not only make people feel happy, but also bring endless pain. Love is not just a random molecule, it can change our body and brain, turning us into another person completely. The author then compares the fate of Jesus and Orpheus in ancient Greek mythology, and tells how they tried to defeat death with love.

"A Moveable Feast" is one of the most famous works about Paris. The dedication on its title page - "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris when you were young, then no matter where you go in your life, it will be with you, because Paris is a moveable feast." It has become Paris's "cultural business card" and is widely read. In this semi-documentary and semi-fictional work, the customs of the Paris literary circle in the 1920s slowly unfolded. Those who were influential in the world's literary and art circles at that time were vividly sketched with a few strokes, and they were forever integrated with the city and this book.

An Italian writer's "COVID-19 Diary", a precious specimen of the times, and a dictionary-style record of the epidemic. Starting from rationality, we explore the crises and changes that COVID-19 has brought to mankind; in the subtleties, we pay attention to those surprising but unnoticed facts. "Us in the COVID-19 Era" can be regarded as the "COVID-19 Diary" of Italian writer Paolo Giordano. It records the social conditions in Italy in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak and offers profound thoughts on the fate of the human community. In February 2020, the new coronavirus began to rage in Italy, and on March 4, Italy announced a nationwide school suspension. The famous Italian writer Paolo Giordano quickly wrote down his observations and thoughts. He said: "I am not afraid of getting sick. But I am afraid of the changes that the virus may cause. I am afraid that everything will return to zero, but I am even more afraid that it will all be in vain in the end and bring no change." Therefore, just like Freud wrote down his dreams after waking up, Giordano also tried to record his current feelings during the COVID-19 epidemic. Starting from mathematical concepts, he talked about the impact of the pandemic on mankind, and combined with his own personal experience, he further reflected on the backlash of environmental destruction on mankind. The whole work is short and concise, with a lofty perspective. It is a precious specimen of the times.

"Japanese Travels" is a collection of travel essays by Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue. Inoue Yasei wrote numerous works. In addition to novels, he also wrote many other genres such as poetry and essays. This book contains a total of nineteen essays written by Yasushi Inoue on his travels in various places in Japan: "Japanese Landscapes", "Beautiful Rivers", "Travel·Travel·Travel", "Journey and Life", "Journey to Hiraizumi", "Hotaka's Moon", "In Dry Lake", "Hotaka's Moon·Himalayas' Moon", "Osado and Kosado" "Izu Suruga in Early Spring" "The Story of the River" "Kai Shinano in Early Spring" "Spring in Kyoto" "Tower Sakura Kamidaigo" "Journey to the Eleven-faced Kannon" "Horyuji Temple" "Drawing Water and Me" "Fall of the Nanki Sea" "Travel to Cape Sada - The Old Station Master and the Young Captain". The nineteen essays collected in this book cover all parts of Japan, covering both man-made places of interest and natural scenery. It also helps readers understand Japanese culture and customs.

This is a selection of love letters written by the great French writer Balzac to his lover and later wife Madame Hanska.

"Travel is constantly intersecting with others, and you are always alone. This is the contradiction: you travel in the world, but the world is in the hands of others." Venice, Munich, Arran Island, the Sahara Desert... Arrive and leave again and again. The most outstanding novelist and traveler of the Netherlands, "modern rural storyteller" Notteborn travels around the world and searches for himself. "Hotel Nomad: A Journey Through Time and Space" is a collection of travel essays by the famous Dutch writer Seth Notteboom, which records the places he has visited over the past forty years: Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, West Africa, Iran, and Australia. In these travel notes in the book, Notteboom not only describes the local customs and customs, but also incorporates his own profound thinking about history and space. It is the author's work about the world and himself.

A modern European philosophical prose classic comparable to The Analects of Confucius. As a record of a wise man's thoughts, it is the crystallization of the author's life wisdom and experience. The whole book expresses the power of introspection and speculation. Its thoughts are broad and profound enough to enable people to absorb spiritual nutrients on the road of life. It can be called a treasure handed down from generation to generation in the history of world prose and thought.

Japanese Miscellaneous Cooking - Murakami's Trivialities and Ways of Survival, Fifty "Quite Questionable" Personal Essays of the "Quite Questionable" Haruki Murakami. Murakami, a young man who is a record fanatic, a sukiyaki lover, and a cat lover, is carefully illustrated by Ohashi Ayumu. The super interesting uncle Murakami has 50 inner monologues. Although he can lie, it is definitely not a prank. This book has been serialized in the magazine "anan" since March 2000, spanning a year and including 50 essays. "Pizza", "records", "Rhodes Island", "Virginia Woolf", "donuts", these keywords alone are enough to attract the attention of all Murakami fans. Of course, it also includes many new topics, such as "Burned Bras", "Persimmon Seed Problem", "Carrot King", etc. Among them, "Chicken Sukiyaki", "Thick Roll Sushi", "Hand Roll" and many other topics related to Japanese cuisine, the entire collection of essays is full of Murakami flavor. What is particularly impressive is that it starts with "About a Suit", a memory of attending the Newcomer Award Ceremony of "Portrait" as a writer, and then examines "death", one of the main themes in Murakami's works, while quoting lines from Chandler's novels, and ends with "Saying Goodbye." "I feel that in the corresponding background and music, I was able to successfully say goodbye to the twentieth century from a personal perspective." (Say Goodbye) This last sentence shows that this book marks an important point in Murakami's maturity or transition period as a writer.

"Sorrow and Reason" contains a total of twenty-one essays, which are roughly divided into several genres such as memoirs, travel notes, speeches, open letters and eulogies. These essays come in various forms and lengths, but they appeal to a common theme, which is "poetry and poets." This collection of essays can be said to be a key to Brodsky's poetic and aesthetic views, as well as his ethics and worldview. Less than half a year after the completion of the last work in the collection, "In Memory of Stephen Spender," Brodsky himself passed away. Therefore, "Sorrow and Reason" became the last collection of prose published by Brodsky during his lifetime. It is the "swan song" of Brodsky's prose writing and even his entire creation.

Arai Yijisan, a native of Tokyo, Japan. She writes in Chinese, writing about Japan with a time difference of one hour. I write about my hometown in Tokyo, where I was born and raised, and about all the lovely Japanese people. She writes in her native Japanese, and writes that she is fascinated by Chinese, as if she is in love. The charm of writing about life in Chinese is endless. She started teaching Chinese and wanted to continue to carry forward her passion for Chinese. She and her husband are both full-time creators, one writes ghost novels and the other writes prose.