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The men and women behind the unfinished buildings left behind a pile of abandoned reinforced concrete, but also left behind a lot of glory, loss, twists and turns. Those tall or short unfinished buildings are a kind of destiny and legend of life.

"Crazy Love" is Tanizaki Junichiro's masterpiece, a watershed in his creative career, and an immortal literary classic. Twenty-eight-year-old Kawai Joeji adopted the fifteen-year-old girl Naomi with the intention of training her into a "great" and "amazing" woman. However, Naomi is vain, arrogant and romantic, and hides scheming under her innocent appearance. Kawai is bewitched by her charming appearance, and after meeting her needs at all costs, he vows to become her slave and let her control her. Because of love, you will endure a lot of humiliation that you could not imagine before.

This book is the first work of Giddens' famous "Trilogy of Social Theory" and a representative work of critical theory of modernity in the late 20th century. It also reflects Giddens' "structuration theory" in-depth exploration of core issues in sociology. On the one hand, this book continues Giddens's tradition of reinterpreting the works of classic sociologists, basing it on the contemporary era, and using the latest discoveries in various disciplines to criticize and reflect on historical materialism. He pointed out that Marx's historical materialism has great limitations in explaining many phenomena of non-class society in the pre-capitalist period and post-industrial society. On the other hand, Giddens, inspired by the philosophy of Heidegger and the works of modern geography, introduced the relationship of time and space into the core of social theory and linked it to the generation of power. He examined the manifestations of nation-states, nationalism, commodification, urbanization, etc. In the context of late modernity, in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary history.

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George Orwell is one of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the 20th century. He is famous for his extraordinary energy and uncompromising language, using pen and paper to fight against the prejudices of his time. This book contains the author's two classic essays "Why I Want to Write" and "Hanging". For readers who are new to Orwell, this book is an excellent introductory book; for readers who are familiar with Orwell, "Why I Write" will be a valuable collection.

"Politics and the English Language" is a classic essay by the famous British writer George Orwell. This essay is widely regarded as Orwell's most important essay on style. For Orwell, style was never a simple aesthetic issue; it was always inseparable from politics and truth. "All problems are political problems, and politics itself is a collection of lies, avoidance, stupidity, hatred and schizophrenia." "When the overall atmosphere is not good, language is bound to suffer." Language is a political problem, and the sloppy use of language and clichés make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. He believed that poor English was a vehicle for oppressive ideologies.

What kind of person was a prophet before he became a prophet? "He did what Engels did in the mid-19th century." A social record of a cold mind and a sincere conscience. In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of northern England to investigate and record the real situation of the working class. Orwell did more than just investigate; he went down to the deepest part of the mine, lived in dilapidated and dirty workers' houses, and used the tip of his pen to vividly describe every aspect of the coal miners' lives. Reading it today, 80 years later, is still shockingly real. The despair and poverty conveyed by this picture have a terrifying power that transcends time and national boundaries. At the same time, the Road to Wigan Pier is also Orwell's road to socialism as he examines his own inner self. Born in the British middle class, he recalled how he gradually began to doubt and then hated the strict class barriers that divided British society at that time. Because in his mind, socialism ultimately means only one concept: "justice and freedom."

Domestic violence, debt, oppression, neglect... Beneath the exquisite make-up is a miserable and collapsed world. Following "The Working Poor", we are once again pursuing "women's invisible poverty". What is eating away at the future of young women? The NHK recording team has released first-hand information to delve deeply into hot issues such as women, youth and the persistence of poverty in Japanese society. What about undergraduate graduation? --"Actually, scholarships are also liabilities. If I were told that I owe more than 6 million yuan, what would a man think?" (24-Year-old Xiao Ai) Even getting married can't get rid of poverty. --"Single mothers in their twenties have weak interpersonal relationships and are easily closed in their own space. Some were abused by their husbands and ran away penniless without even having time to change their clothes." (Staff from the "Tokyo Love Single-Parent Families Support Center") Porn shops have become "life-saving straws." -- "This kind of job pays well. If my daughter wants to do this in the future, I think I will agree." (Twenty-one-year-old Xiaohua) This book is a collection of programs such as "Can't See Tomorrow - The Increasing Poverty of Young Women" produced by the special reporting team of Japan's NHK TV station. It focuses on the increasingly serious social problems in Japan such as female and child poverty, single-mother and child families, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It is worth understanding, reflecting on, and taking lessons from for Chinese readers.

"Care killing", a oxymoron, an extraordinary murder. Perpetrators are not driven solely by hate, but rather they are constantly burdened with caregiving. What kind of struggle did he or she have at the moment when they killed their beloved family member? If one day we have to take on the responsibility of taking care of our family, how should we face it? What can we do when those around us are in unspeakable care difficulties? The NHK special program recording team conducted an in-depth investigation into "care homicide" cases across Japan. Through case files, visits to the crime scene, conversations with the parties involved, and interviews with relevant personnel, the sad truth behind 11 care homicide cases was revealed. These cases focus on care problems such as "elderly care" in which elderly people take care of each other, "retirement care" in which they quit their jobs for care, and "initial care" which is the most easily ignored but the most painful. They try to find the real reasons for committing care-related homicides and explore ways to prevent the recurrence of tragedies, providing a comprehensive perspective for us to understand care from the perspective of others.

"This is your home" - I need to tell her over and over again\u002Fhim. Winner of the Japan Literature Promotion Society Kikuchi Kan Prize, this book collects a large number of very representative cases, reflecting the problems of family care for the elderly with dementia and the shortcomings of insufficient social support in Japanese society, and giving a glimpse of the serious problems faced by the aging society. "Why can't I find it? Every day is like hell." "I dare not relax even for 5 minutes... Even so, he is still lost." Today in Japan, there are more than 8 million confirmed and potential dementia patients, and 1 in every 4 elderly people has the disease. Dementia has become a national disease. Many people are afraid to tell those around them that a family member has dementia due to fear of prejudice. These patients are at high risk of getting lost, missing, or even dying in familiar neighborhoods. The NHK special program recording team interviewed more than 400 families to face the plight of people with dementia and their families, and explore the road to "building a city where people with dementia can live with peace of mind."

"Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" is Neruda's masterpiece of love poetry. When it was published in 1924, the poet was 20 years old. In this collection of poems, Neruda wrote classic poems such as: "Love is so short, forgetting is so long", "I like when you are silent, because you seem to be absent", expressing the lingering ultimate romance and praising youth, travel and love. Special appendices include an introduction to the poet's poems, an introduction to the translator, and important events in Neruda's life, allowing readers to experience Neruda's romantic passion.

A straight-A student at a college in Boston, Esther landed an internship at a fashion magazine in New York. But she was full of doubts about life in New York. The countless possibilities made her unable to determine the future and unable to return to the life she thought was safe before. Esther finally decides to become a writer, but struggles with the contradictions of morality, behavior and self-awareness. In this deeply moving autobiographical novel, Sylvia Plath reflects on the disappointment, anger, depression, ultimate breakdown, and subsequent healing of her youth with stunning wisdom and heartbreaking honesty.

Life is too small to accommodate her. The swan song of a novel by the first talented female writer to be posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a painful specimen of women's awakening in the 20th century.

Sharp Knife Macchies is a famous and powerful gangster in London and a "businessman". The beggar Pitchum controls the beggars in the city and is a famous local snake. The bandit leader falls in love with the beggar leader's daughter Polly. At the wedding banquet, Police Chief Brown came to congratulate him. It turned out that the robber and the police were from the same family. The beggar leader didn't want his daughter to "marry" the robber leader, so he sued him. Mikeis was guilty of many crimes, but at the critical moment police chief Brown helped him and turned him into a "banker". Then he colluded with Pichum to do evil to the people in the market. The novel is full of wonderful satire and has extremely superb writing skills. It is called "the most important and profound satirical novel in the history of German literature"

This anthology of poems was carefully polished and compiled by Mr. Zhao Zhenjiang, a well-known Spanish translator, and includes important poems by Neruda at different stages of his life, such as "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair", "The Abode of the Earth", "Spain in the Heart", "Song", "One Hundred Love Sonnets", etc. The themes include love poems, battle poems, poems about objects, etc. Zhao Zhenjiang, as the winner of the "Translation Culture Lifetime Achievement Award" of the Translators Association of China, based on many years of research on Neruda, specially selected items for the Humanities Society edition, and the translation is accurate and clear. In it, you can not only appreciate the overall picture and characteristics of Nie's poetry, but also sort out the color of life of this poet who breathed and shared his fate with the times through his works.

"Less than One" is Joseph Brodsky's first collection of essays. It consists mainly of long essays, with a number of short essays. There are only eighteen articles, each of which is wonderful. Coupled with its unique style and "book style", it forms a perfect book. This is the spiritual autobiography of a great poet and a private memoir. With creative interpretation and interpretation, Brodsky completed his tribute to Akhmatova, Auden and others, powerfully defended personal values, and exposed and accused the dictator's crimes. Such accusations do not use public language and diction, but stand at the level of "a poet versus an empire." This height stems from his belief that language is above all else, even the object of time worship, and poetry is the supreme form of language.

Shen Deqian's selection and evaluation of the "Wei Poems" constructs a framework of Cao Wei poetry that is "based on style and teaching of poetry." He affirmed the artistic value of Wei poetry's "quality but not slang, straightness but not wildness" and incorporated it into the Confucian ethical framework. These standards deeply influenced the development of poetics in the Qing Dynasty. From a contemporary perspective, Wei poetry is not only the source of Tang poetry, but also an important source of "realism" and "humanistic spirit" in Chinese poetry. Its value goes beyond Shen Deqian's own comments and is an important hub for understanding the tradition of Chinese poetry. In a word, Wei poetry has completed the transformation of five-character poetry from narrative to lyrical poetry, and has an important status.

This book contains four short collections by Ishikawa Takuboku. "A Grip of Sand" contains 551 short songs, and "The Sad Toy" contains 194 short songs. These two song collections sincerely record the poet's sorrow and sighs in his life of poverty and illness. "Brief and Whistle" is a collection of six modern poems written by Ishikawa Takuboku, focusing on thinking about the real world. "An Edible Poetry" is a confessional article written by the poet about his poetry creation. He briefly describes his creative path and analyzes his own soul. The author criticizes naturalism. He innovated Japan's classical national poetry, broke the stereotype of one-line tanka poetry, and created a new prose-style tanka form, making an important contribution to the development of Japanese poetry. This book is a classic translation by Zhou Zuoren, an outstanding representative of the New Culture Movement.

Borges created his last collection of poems in 1985. He wrote in the "Preface": "In a book written by an eighty-year-old man, the first element fire will not account for a large proportion... I often feel that I am earth, barren earth. However, I am still writing" and, as always, he practices his aesthetic beliefs in poetry creation.

A battlefield diary integrating poetry, prose and photos. This book was published just before the outbreak of the European War. It is very popular for its detailed information, humorous writing style and firm anti-fascist stance. It has extremely high historical and literary value. The twenty-seven sonnets written by Auden are even known as "the most profound and innovative chapters in Auden's poetry of the 1930s, and can also be said to be one of the greatest English poems of this decade."

"The Logic of the Human Sciences" is an important work by Ernst Cassirer, a famous German philosopher and a representative of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantism. Cassirer once imagined that this book would be the fourth volume of his life's work "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms". Its main purpose is to explore the humanities, reveal various research objects of the humanities, and explain the human mental activities behind the research; its purpose is to explain the inherent "scientific" characteristics of the humanities through comparative reflection under the strong pressure of the natural sciences, and strive for the dignity and seats it deserves. In this book, the author explores major issues such as the objects of the humanities, the different ways of perceiving nature and humanity, the differences between natural and humanistic concepts, cultural forms, cultural values, and the tragedy of modern culture in five chapters. He aims to answer the basic question of the possibility of humanities and humanities based on his "philosophy of symbolic forms". This book was published in 1942. Together with the later "On Man" (1944), it constitutes the representative result of Cassirer's cultural and philosophical thinking in his later years. It is also a classic of modern Western cultural philosophy.

This book is a bloody work written by Remarque at the peak of his creative period, illuminating all the nameless people swallowed up by the cruel era. Newly released after being out of print for 40 years. Published in 1952, this book is Remarque's only novel with the theme of life in a Nazi concentration camp. In June 1946, Remarque learned that his youngest sister Everred had been executed for defaming the country in 1943, so he decided to create a work dedicated to her sister. 509, He calls himself by the number and lets others call him that. After spending more than ten years in the Nazi concentration camp, he was no longer a human being, and he no longer wanted to be one, which would only crush his spirit. This spring, as the sound of artillery fire got closer and closer, it seemed that the moment when the barbed wire fence collapsed was not far away. Maybe it would be tomorrow, a tomorrow that could only be reached after doing everything possible to avoid contagious death.

This book includes Yoshikawa Eiji's "Soy Sauce Buddha", "The Origin of Shitou Bridge", "Rogue Jiroji", "Otani Punishment", "Foot" and "Ghost". This book is like a spectacular Ukiyo-e painting scroll, with vivid story scenes, vivid characters, and ups and downs of the plot. Readers can appreciate the customs and customs of different eras, experience the joys and hatreds of the samurai, and enjoy a hearty cultural experience. Especially when the story ends abruptly, readers can spread their imagination and write their own sequel.

In this absurd world, you can only survive by turning yourself into a madman. "Kappa" is the masterpiece of the Japanese genius writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and it is also the suicide note he wrote to the world with all his efforts. The story uses the country of kappa to reflect the real human society, showing the author's worries and unspeakable confusion about human social life. The book includes six representative works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's gloomy old age, including "Kappa", "A Fool's Life" and "Genkaku Sanbo", leading readers to face the fierce conflict between human nature and realistic choices, and to find the destination of their souls in the gap of despair.

Greek mythology has been circulating for more than 3,000 years. Its glorious and grand scenes, distinctive characters and beautiful and tortuous storylines have made it popular among readers all over the world. As one of the two pillars of Western civilization, Greek mythology continues to influence the development of Western society, culture, literature and art, and is one of the most convenient ways for us to truly understand the West. Due to the passage of time, Greek myths were chaotically included in various versions. In the 19th century, the German romantic poet Schwab, who had been committed to sorting out and preserving classical culture, used his vivid words of great literary value and rigorous and sophisticated national characteristics to change the original story's complexity and chaos, and completed "Greek Myth Stories" with a relatively clear genealogy of the gods and a relatively concentrated storyline. Since the book came out, it has been translated into various languages ​​and is a best-seller to this day.

"The Newbery Medal for Children's Literature: The Colored-Necked Pigeon: The Legend of a Homing Pigeon" is a legendary story about pigeons. Because of the rainbow-like color on its neck, this pigeon, known as the "Flower-necked Pigeon", has been destined to fight to the death with nature's heavy rain, strong winds, and evil crows such as hawks and falcons since its birth. Later, as a carrier pigeon, the flower-necked pigeon was recruited to the battlefield of the World War. It became extremely depressed because it was seriously injured after running through a hail of bullets to deliver information to the Allied forces. Can the flower-necked pigeon return to the sky again...

"Make Up (Complete Collection)" tells the story of Suzuko, a geisha who committed suicide after being abandoned by her boyfriend. The middle sister Raiko, who was also a geisha, couldn't let go of her sister's death. She gave up the inheritance rights of a high-end restaurant in Kyoto and went to Tokyo to open a restaurant, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. The third sister Riko obeyed her mother and inherited the family business. She was busy with the restaurant business all day long. Her mechanical life and false marriage forced her to fall into a false love. The younger sister Makiko, who is studying in college, finally chose a traditional marriage after she was tired of her indulgent life. The four golden flowers in a long-established restaurant in Kyoto bloom in their own unique ways, blooming with their gorgeous youth like cherry blossoms...

Jin Zhu, the author of the "Confession Trilogy" which set a record of 1 million, created a sweet love affair exclusive to Zhu Ma.

On the long afternoon of August, in a dreary southern town, people drinking cold beer in midnight cafes, a girl who likes Mozart, an observant tavern owner, a homeless man who is proficient in maintenance, a depressed black doctor... This is a story of extreme loneliness. Under those gray skies, a gentle deaf-mute used his loneliness to foreshadow the changes in such a crazy era. The contradiction between freedom and tolerance, crazy despair but still firm determination to move forward, no one can get rid of the shadow of loneliness until death.

A long and lingering song "Nostalgia" made Mr. Yu famous on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but this great writer who spans the four-dimensional writing space of poetry, prose, translation, and commentary is, as he joked, an "artistic polygamist." This book can be said to be the complete collection of Mr. Yu Guangzhong's love letters to art. It contains the cross-dimensional masterpieces written by him as a poet, translator, critic, and essayist. It can be divided into three parts: literary memory, art criticism, and essays. With a lot of words, it leads readers to smell the fragrance of hardness and softness in "Tiger and Rose", and in "The Moon Sees the Clouds". "The Mysteries of New School Chinese Painting" are revealed, "Lilting and Chattering" cuts through the confusion of tongues, and "Rampant Foreign Language" laughs at the "eccentricities" of foreign languages... Strolling along the way, through the ups and downs of the art world for half a century, in the diverse and profound cultural world in the eyes of a generation of literary giants, I meet those incomparably beautiful muses.

"A Moveable Feast\u002F The Complete Works of Hemingway" is the last work written by Hemingway during his lifetime and revised by him personally. In the book, Hemingway recalled a difficult but joyful life he and his wife lived in Paris from 1921 to 1926: starting out as a writer, writing in cafes, chatting with literary friends, betting on horses, enduring hunger, visiting old book stalls along the Seine, borrowing books from Shakespeare's Bookstore, meeting Fitzgerald and passing by Joyce, Pound and others...

This book is the last work completed by Remarque, the author of "All Quiet on the Western Front". It was published in 1971 and tells the story of the fear and sorrow of the forced displaced people in the shadow of war. People on the run must rely on chance events to survive. The less credible the chance events are, the more normal they feel. Ross gave me his passport on the day he died, and I temporarily had a new name and a future as one of the "luckiest" handful of unfortunate escapees. But the memory of the past always follows me closely like a ghost, waiting for the opportunity to kill me. I knew I needed to pay the price for this brutal, falcon-like, breathless freedom.

"Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England" was published the year after the author's death. It was the British historian Arnold Toynbee who really popularized and popularized the term "Industrial Revolution". This 19th-century scholar, known as Old Toynbee, was the final word on the Industrial Revolution. In fact, it established the historical status of the Industrial Revolution. After him, although discussions and controversies continued, the Industrial Revolution became an unchangeable and fixed label for the century-old changes that took place in Britain from the 18th to 19th centuries.

Works by Peter Handke, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. "The Elegy of Desire" begins with a newspaper report about the suicide of a 51-year-old housewife. The narrator "I" was immediately obliged to write his mother's "simple and clear" story. In the recollection of this woman's fate, her survival trajectory, which was restricted by social roles and values, is naturally revealed to the reader. My mother was born in a Catholic small-scale farming environment and received a moral education without desire, order and endurance. In the end, she was still unable to escape the destruction of her own existence by social roles and language patterns, so suicide became her inevitable destination without choice. The author uses his ingenious narrative structure and unique narrative style to express the story of his mother's life and death, which contains a thought-provoking desire, an existence worth yearning for, and a narrative voice that silently questions social violence.

How difficult is it to escape from a life that is so obvious to you? Many times, Mary felt that her life was boring. Once upon a time, she also had dreams and was high-spirited. She threw herself into life with all her enthusiasm and dedicated everything to her family, but she only lost herself. However, day by day, her husband ignored her more and more, and even the children felt that their mother should live a life that truly belonged to her. Finally one day, on her husband's 40th birthday, she decided to give him a surprise: she embarked on a cruise around the world alone, hoping to escape from the life she saw and give herself a chance to be reborn. She met all kinds of people, each with their own dilemmas, and finally found a way to heal herself on this journey.

The dim sunlight outside shone in from the skylight of the prison and shone on Sun San's dirty cheeks. Sun San rubbed his eyelids, spit out the two weeds in his mouth, and stretched for a long time. This was already the fourth or fifth day of his imprisonment in Silver Frost City. Sun San himself was a little confused. A dark cell would always make people forget many things. The unique silent and slow atmosphere of the prison suffocated Sun San. Next to him was an inmate in the same cell. Sun San remembered that his name was Dao Scar Huang. Scar Huang yawned continuously, and found Sun San looking at him. Scar Huang came closer and said, "This prison is almost boring. Sun San, tell me your ghost story again. To relieve the boredom." Sun San's body trembled, and his eyes suddenly showed a look of panic: "I'll say it again, it's not a ghost story, it's a scene I have personally experienced... A terrifying scene that I will never forget in my life!"

This book is the masterpiece of Goethe's youth and the pioneering work of the Sturm und Drang movement. This book describes the depression and hesitation of a generation of young people. After the book was published, Werther fever started in Europe. This publication will target specific readers such as "literary youth" and create a youthful, intellectual and stylish book format to win the favor of more young people.

This book is a collection of selected essays by the famous Soviet writer Gorky. It contains dozens of classic prose masterpieces such as "Petrel", "People", "Melody of Spring", "Song of the Eagle", "Book", "Clock", and "Untimely Thoughts", which fully demonstrates Gorky's revolutionary enthusiasm and optimism. It has positive cultural value for contemporary Chinese society to promote patriotic education and inherit the red gene and revolutionary spirit.

"Last Night" is the "erotic album" by short story master James Salt, which illuminates the moments of human passion like a comet: sometimes fiery, sometimes depressing; sometimes extremely destructive, sometimes redemptive; sometimes full of temptation, sometimes hot and depressing, sometimes destructive, sometimes redemptive, sometimes breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking. These ten powerful stories depict the most intimate relationships between men and women, as well as the moments when relationships change: a poetry lover is asked by his wife to dedicate his most cherished relationship; a bookseller is forced to face the truth about his life; a betrayed husband assists his wife in committing suicide, but the failure is far more than an injection... Unmistakable style and emotional insight make Salter one of the most important writers of our time.

This book was written by Kang Youwei, a famous thinker and politician in modern times, when he was in exile abroad after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898. After the Hundred Days Reform, Kang Nanhai began his investigative life of "16 years of wandering in a foreign land, three weeks of travel across four continents, 31 countries, and 600,000 miles. He never became an official in his life and was addicted to traveling." "The investigation focused on the political customs of various countries and the gains and losses of historical changes, followed by cultural relics." In particular, I was deeply moved by my travels in Italy and France. After returning to China, I wrote "Travel Notes in Italy" and "Journey to France to the West", which are the main chapters included in this book. These travel notes cover many aspects of perception records and are of extremely high value to today's readers.

The first collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's short stories in the Chinese language, including "It's So Strange If It's True", "Poor Claire" and "Lois the Witch" and other nine classic Gothic novels: "It's So Strange If It's True" tells the first-person account of a fantasy banquet that a British gentleman encountered while traveling in France; "Poor Claire" It tells the story of the family past and the curse of destiny carried by Claire, a girl with a miserable life experience; "Lois the Witch" is based on the famous "Salem Witch Case" and tells the story of the religious discrimination and persecution that a British girl encountered after traveling to the New World alone... These works are all examples of Gaskell's mature writing period, with wonderful narratives and skillful skills. In 2011, Elizabeth Gaskell's short story collection was included in the famous classic literature series - Penguin Classics.

A true love story that is popular all over the world, a pure and beautiful reading that touches a lifetime; a gluttonous feast that nourishes the soul, and inspiration for success that benefits elites; a navigation light that breaks through difficulties, and creates the inner code of success. The purest and most touching inspirational works, the irreplaceable writing skills, showing the top power of inspirational articles, the most soul-stirring feast, the most soul-stirring inspirational feast, and the most heartfelt pleasure to read. Each story inspires you to move forward, helping you sort out your chaotic thoughts and find the password to happiness in life; each beautiful article has a pleasant temperament, injects courage and strength into the soul, and brings you love and hope. A spiritual Bible that accompanies a lifetime, a drop of wisdom that nourishes the soul. Gain true knowledge and emotion from reading, and gain enlightenment and wisdom from tasting.

The whole novel is eloquent and magnificent, and can be described as a romantic historical and social picture. The novel is set in the southern state of Georgia before and after the American Civil War, with Scarlett Hao, the daughter of plantation owner Hao Jiale, as the core character. It reflects the social reality of the southern states in the United States during this important historical period through the rise and fall of several families.

This book is the only non-fiction work in the life of the great Russian writer Chekhov. However, "Travel to Sakhalin" occupies an irreplaceable position in Chekhov's literary legacy. It can even be called a manifesto of Chekhov's world view and literary practice throughout his life. The Sakhalin region has long been a barren land in Russia. Most of the people living here are hard labor exiles. The living conditions here are extremely difficult. However, what is more terrifying than the harsh natural environment is the human factor: the prevalence of bureaucracy, which destroys human dignity and kindness. Chekhov's records present these bloody facts to every reader, but the value of "Sakhalin's Travels" does not lie in its truth, but in the "human conscience" that shines between the lines. The ultimate purpose of Chekhov's writing is not to criticize and expose, but to protect everyone and fight against "violence and hypocrisy."

Readers from all over the world spend an average of one night reading it! A classic suspense novel by Ken Follett, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Lifetime Master Award. What we pursue throughout our lives is not to conquer the world, but to conquer ourselves. This story takes place on a houseboat on the Nile River, full of conspiracy and blood, desire and love. A German agent came to Cairo alone, quietly stealing Allied intelligence and helping the Nazis pry open the city's gates. With his help, the German army reported frequent successes. In Cairo, only two people can stop this shrewd and ruthless agent: a distrusted officer who failed in his job, and a beautiful and fragile young girl. A dangerous contest that could change the world begins...

Many years have passed, and people say that old things can be buried, but I finally understand that this is wrong, because the past will crawl back up on its own. Looking back, I realize that for the past twenty-six years I have been peering down that deserted trail. Amir, a 12-year-old Afghan boy from a wealthy family, and his servant Hassan are brothers. However, after a kite competition, a tragic thing happened. Amir felt remorse and pain for his cowardice and forced Hassan to leave. Soon, he fled to the United States with his father.

"The Tale of Bamboo" is Japan's oldest folklore story. It is exquisitely written and catchy. It has a tortuous plot and a tight structure. It also has distinctive characters and vivid atmosphere. It is a classic masterpiece in the history of Japanese literature. The appendix of this book, "Ogakusako", includes six Japanese official or unofficial anecdotes, which skillfully combines real history and fictional legends, with a strong allegorical and satirical color. This book is included in the "Taishuke" Japanese classic literature book series.

"Around the World in Eighty Days" describes the story of Mr. Fogg and his servant Passepartout traveling around the world together and having adventures along the way. The novel begins with a bet, interspersed with love stories and humorous stories. Although Mr. Fogg overcame various difficulties, he arrived in London five minutes late. He thought he had failed, but he unexpectedly won because he circumnavigated the earth from west to east and saved exactly one day. For this trip, he used all means of transportation: ships, trains, sailing ships, yachts, merchant ships, sleighs, elephants. During the journey, the eccentric gentleman displayed his calm and precise talents. But then again, what did he win on this trip? What did he bring back from this trip?

In the charming Tramuntana mountains on the island of Mallorca, the Kyle family, who run a farm, ushered in the orange harvest season. To adapt to their new life on Spain's sunny island, the family is trying to learn to relax and take things slowly. However, now is the critical moment: one year has passed, can they make a decent living by growing orange trees? Will Peter's talent for "tomorrow after tomorrow" delay the new home renovation plan indefinitely? Can Ellie, who has had enough of it, get the new swimming pool of her dreams? Will nineteen-year-old Sendy return to Scotland, and will little Charlie be deceived by the luxurious life of the island's rich? Despite dealing with shady customs officials and dodgy businessmen, the Kyle family's sense of humor remains vibrant. As the fragrant and peaceful spring time passed slowly, amidst the falling snow-like almond blossoms, they were helped by a large group of eccentric friends and neighbors. But the highlight was Jock Burns's "Island Heights Carnival Night," the island's biggest social event!

"Let's talk tomorrow" is the rule of life in the Mallorcan countryside, and the Kyle family tried to fight it, but ultimately lost. In the summer, they were supposed to slowly start living a simple life, concentrating on planting orange trees in a valley farm called the "Mayor's Mansion". However, despite a series of trials, setbacks and triumphs, Spain has not let them go. Embarrassing hidden meanings in Spanish, run-ins with the local police, the repercussions of a drinking fight... These scares are everywhere, constantly testing the determination, endurance and, most importantly, sense of humor of this adventurous (some would say "reckless") immigrant family.