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"Love Disguised as a Monologue" is Malloy's most beloved work written throughout his life, and is addressed to the true spiritual aristocrat. Four monologues, four parties recounting two failed marriages. The ex-wife was sitting in a dessert shop on the corner of the street, quietly watching her husband pack candied orange peels for his second wife. In the coffee shop, the husband, who came from a privileged background, recalled the half-pandering, half-sarcastic look in his second wife's eyes when she secretly observed him in bed. He regarded her as his true love, but his eyes extinguished all flames. The second wife, who had been her husband's maid, talked with her lover all night long. The closet full of socks, ties and books on the wall at her husband's house once made her feel that her hands were particularly dirty, and the ever-changing licorice smell on her husband's body made her feel nauseous. Many years later, the lover met her fugitive husband in a small bar in the United States and watched him disappear into the slums.

"Meeting at Terget" is a novel by Glass. In the first half of the 17th century, there were deep contradictions and constant conflicts between various religious sects, German emperors and princes in Germany. After the Thirty Years' War, a group of literati with lofty ideals gathered in the small town of Terget to talk about the past and the present. They spoke freely. While discussing serious academic issues such as poetry and drama, they lamented the fate of themselves and their motherland. With the help of poems and essays, they worked together to reunify the motherland, but while they were talking loudly, they also made jokes, used vulgar words, and were informal and unrestrained. In the end, they even drafted a "peace appeal" together, but an unexpected fire reduced the gathering place and the "appeal" to ashes, and all the good wishes of the literati and lofty ideals disappeared.

When Officer Ryder saw the manor, all the memories came back. He's been here, he knows everything here. Young Charles Ryder met Sebastian, the handsome son of a marquis, at Oxford University, and entered Brideshead Manor through Sebastian's introduction. Since then, the manor has left an indelible mark on Charles' life. He developed an unspeakable relationship with a brother and sister, and witnessed the disintegration of a family. Sebastian's father abandoned his family and lover and settled abroad; his religious mother became increasingly crazy and put heavy shackles on her children in the name of love. Young Sebastian longed to break away from the prison of his family but was unable to do so. He drank all day long and eventually left his hometown and lived in poverty for the rest of his life. The young and beautiful eldest daughter Julia also gave up her love and happiness early because she could not get rid of the shackles of faith.

In order to give his daughter Miao Baobao a loyal husband, Old Man Miao, the best Gu master in the martial arts world, specially developed a kind of Lonely Love Gu. If a man and a woman are affected by the poison, if one of them has physical intimacy with another person of the opposite sex, they will die on the spot. Unfortunately, the son-in-law chosen by Old Man Miao is Yan Yubai, the third son of the upright Yan family in the martial arts world. However, this mysterious, cold and beautiful man in the world and Miao Baobao, who grew up in Miao territory and uses books not suitable for children as formal learning materials, do not look like a good couple.

The inner territory is full of dangers. In order to protect Roland, his father sent Roland and his best friends Cuthbert and Alan to the seaside town of Hanbrai in Meijisi under pseudonyms. The three naive teenagers soon discovered that a huge conspiracy was brewing here, and the situation was even more serious than in the inner territory. On the first night after arriving in Hambrae, Roland fell in love at first sight with the sixteen-year-old blonde girl Susan. But Susan has just made a terrible decision to save her family, which means that she and Roland can no longer fall in love openly. On the one hand, the two young people were unable to resist the strong emotions in their hearts, but on the other hand, they knew very clearly that their love would put them in the most dangerous situation...

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 princess doesn't love the prince, she runs away just to catch up with herself who is running fast. She was ugly, vulgar, and huge, and no one wanted to be around her for a second longer, except for her pack of equally fierce but extremely loyal dogs. Until one accidental day, she picked up an abandoned child by the smelly Thames River, and named him a river, Jordan. The river is his name and the river is his destiny. When he was nineteen years old, he followed the king's gardener to Wimbledon and embarked on a complicated and wonderful journey, witnessing the fantastic scenes in the parallel world: love was a plague sweeping through the village, the princess did not love the prince, words soared upward and turned into dense clouds... In the fairy tale-like adventure, he experienced unprecedented possibilities.

This is a chaotic world full of high-pressure rule and transformed people; it is full of amazing magical wonders; Bath-Lage is a huge city-state that encompasses thousands of different cultures and races. New Clobusan, Bath-Lage's sinful city of power. This is the birthplace of all nightmares... A conspiracy train operation is being prepared, and a revolutionary uprising with no retreat is shouting. Whether it succeeds or not, it will go down in history and ignite New Clobusan's last hope. The Iron Council has begun...

"The Master and Margarita" is a rare Russian novel with magical and grotesque colors. It was published twenty-five years after the author's death. The ingenious conception, bizarre plot, profound philosophy and perfect art form have attracted generations of readers. It is known in the West and Russia as "the peak of satire literature, fantasy literature and rigorous realism literature". Two narrative levels unfold alternately in "The Master and Marguerite". One is the level where reality and fantasy blend; the other is the level where history and legend blend. The novel describes the trial and execution of Joshua by Pilate, the Jewish governor of the Roman Empire.

The original light novel of the popular animation, this book is the sixth in the series "Bear Bears Bravely Enters the Different World". The cutest adventurer from another world, the legendary bear girl──The sixth episode of Yuna's adventure story! The bear girl accepts the entrustment of the city lord's wife to serve as a guard for the students. Unexpectedly, she encounters a terrifying pack of wild wolves and black tigers. The powerful Yuna eradicates the beasts for the villagers and sends the students back to the capital safely! Yuna, who returned to Cremonia, continued to expand her food empire. Just when the "Bear Canteen" was opening, she was troubled to get a mithril dagger for skinning... After asking around, she was shocked to find that the reason why mithril was missing in the city was because the mineral veins were occupied by golems! There is no other way, Yuna can only find trouble with these big guys!

Susanna's body is hijacked by the "Devil Mother" Mia. Mia's purpose is to have her child delivered by the evil "Blood King" - a child who will bring destruction to all worlds. Time is running out, Father Callahan, Jack and O. B. Track Susanna and Mia to Manhattan, while Roland and Eddie come to Maine in 1977 to look for bookstore owner Kevin Tarr. Stephen King himself also appears in the book...

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". "Pictures of the Willow Garden" tells the story that in 677 AD, when Di Gong was appointed minister of Dali Temple in the capital, he was appointed to concurrently serve as the governor of Gyeonggi Province. With the assistance of Ma Rong, Qiao Tai, and Tao Qian, they solved the case of a wealthy businessman falling from a building, the murder of a prince, and an old case.

The story takes place in Corsica, France. That's Napoleon's hometown. It happened before the 1820s, shortly after Napoleon's defeat. At that time bourgeois civilization was far from being able to cross the sea and conquer the island. The quaint folk customs, a little barbaric in the Middle Ages, are preserved there. Of course there are laws on the island. But the people often disregard the law and act according to their conscience and ancient traditions. One of the ancient traditions is "Hindata", which means revenge.

"Wind Wave" was created in 1963 and is based on the two failed battles of Mongolia to conquer Japan in the early Yuan Dynasty, namely the Battle of Wenyong and Hong'an. The story unfolds from the perspective of the King of Goryeo. After the Mongols conquered Goryeo, they wanted to use it as a springboard to conquer Japan, but they encountered obstacles. However, Kublai Khan did not give up, and he still did not hesitate to increase the burden on Goryeo and prepare for the Eastern Expedition. Goryeo went through two dynasties, Wonjong and King Chungryeol, and the whole country suffered from the Eastern Expedition. The surrounding fields are in ruins, and the people are in dire straits. However, the two Eastern Expeditions ended in failure, which finally put the Eastern Expedition on hold and allowed Goryeo to relieve itself of the heavy burden imposed by the Yuan Dynasty. Although the novel uses the era of these two battles as the historical background, it does not describe the battles themselves at all. All the ink is focused on the dealings between the King of Goryeo and his subjects and the Emperor Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty, as well as the sufferings suffered by the Goryeo people. The title of the work comes from a sentence in the edict issued by Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, to the Goryeo Kingdom: "Don't use the danger of the storm as an excuse." Its purpose is to urge Goryeo not to shirk the responsibility of sending an envoy to Japan, but to assume the responsibility of being the vanguard of the invasion of Japan. The word "wind and wave" is also a key word that connects the whole text. It was wind and waves that stirred up in the sea between the envoys and the Japanese rulers. It was wind and waves that led to the destruction of the Yuan army in the Eastern Expedition. It was also wind and waves that the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty provoked many incidents against the kings and ministers of Goryeo. It can be said that the whole work is filled with waves of stormy waves.

Susan and Philip grew up together. They were everything in each other's lives, but fate kept them apart. Susan, who experienced a family tragedy prematurely, has never been able to learn to live in peace with the world. Even when she is with the people who love her most, she cannot overcome her inner panic. As a result, she kept running away, traveling far and wide to help those who had lost their homes due to hurricanes. Susan knew that no matter where she went, Philip was her last resort and the only person she could trust with her life. This is their promise to each other, and this promise will bring unpredictable changes to their destiny.

"The Scholars" is a long satirical novel depicting portraits of intellectuals. The work describes various absurd and hypocritical behaviors of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by stereotypes. It belittles and satirizes fake Confucian scholars and fake celebrities, criticizes the corrupt secular atmosphere at that time, and creates the image of a few true Confucian scholars and real celebrities who stay away from fame and pursue freedom, in which the author's ideals are embedded. The Scholars is a model of ancient Chinese satirical literature, the first of its kind to use novels to directly evaluate real life. It can be compared with the works of Boccaccio, Cervantes, Balzac, Dickens and others. It also has a profound influence on the world's modern literature and can be called a world literary masterpiece.

"Around the World in Eighty Days" is Jules Verne's masterpiece and a classic of world science fiction, with a lively style and a sense of humor. The novel tells the story of Mr. Fogg, an Englishman, who made a bet with his friends to travel around the world in eighty days. The book not only describes in detail the various bizarre experiences and the difficulties and dangers encountered by Mr. Fogg and his party on the way, but also gradually makes the characters' personalities three-dimensional as the plot unfolds. Fogg, who is calm, taciturn, witty, brave and full of humane spirit, and the lively, active and impulsive servant all left a deep impression on people.

"Golden Dream" is a miraculous novel that gives people the courage, hope and confidence to live! Run away, live well, don't lose to them! Even the darkest place can become a golden dreamland! "Golden Dreams" is a signpost for Isaka Kotaro on the road of literature. It won the 5th Japan Bookstore Award and the 21st Yamamoto Ishirō Award. The sales volume of the Japanese version has exceeded 1.14 Million copies. "Golden Dreams" tells an exciting adult fairy tale, and outlines the increasingly scarce friendship, love and family affection between people from the front. There is no heroic protagonist, everyone is so ordinary, but they will lend a helping hand at critical moments to help you become a hero.

Sherlock Holmes is the detective created by the British novelist Arthur Conan Doyle. Now he has become the best synonym for famous detectives in the world. Sherlock Holmes as a literary image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The works in this book condemned various crimes and immoral behaviors, promoted the idea that good and evil will be rewarded and that there is no escape from the law, arousing psychological resonance among the general public.

Since the death of his wife, James Bond has been strongly stimulated and has become extremely decadent. Although he is an agent, he does not look like an agent. He and his colleagues were in a dangerous situation. M didn't want to lose such a good friend, so he finally decided to send him to Japan to complete an almost impossible task. But when he arrived in Japan, he was taken to a mysterious residence called the Castle of Death. There he encountered an elderly enemy. All signs indicate that Bond is doomed this time...

This book is one of the "Comprehensive Translation of Detective Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty: Gao Luopei's Embroidered Portrait Edition". "Necklace·Gourd" tells the story of Duke Dee's experience when he passed through Binhe Town on vacation. Binhe Town is a prosperous town and is the location of the Royal Hunting Garden. All administrative and military affairs are directly managed by the Royal Family. As soon as he arrived in the town, Judge Dee was involved in a series of inexplicable dilemmas. First, he met the mysterious gourd Taoist priest, and then he was inexplicably named a doctor. Then there was the mysterious appointment of the three princesses, and the fierce gangsters he encountered in the woods... Around the string of jade beads, there is a case within the case, which is extremely complicated. Day and night, Di Gong peeled off the cocoon and finally found the string of jade beads, allowing the truth to surface. The novel is exquisitely conceived and is one of Gao Luopei's more mature works. It better integrates Chinese and Western reasoning and better presents the essence of Chinese culture.

My uncle has a friend named Shinji Yanase. The Yanase family, if we trace its origins, should belong to a branch of the Hongjia family. Of course, that's a long way off. By his father's generation, only a palm-sized piece of dry land was left. Like most other families in the town, they were just an ordinary family. The difference is that his family no longer depends on the weather, because Yanase stayed in the city and worked in a company after graduating from a university in Osaka. Nearly ten years passed like this, and three years ago, Yanase returned to his hometown with his wife.

Mochizuki Yoshio owns a green Mazda Demio, and one day he meets a hitchhiker who turns out to be the famous star Sui Araki. The good husband happily sent the star away, but before he could show it off, he learned that Araki Sui died in a car accident that night, and the person in the car was her cheating lover. Wherever there are humans, there is gossip. This tragedy has become a hot topic because it involves a celebrity's affair. Wherever there are humans, there is stupidity. In fact, after a long time of doing this, humans have not figured out the truth of the incident at all! There is another hidden story behind this tragic car accident, which has long been known in the automotive industry. Xiao Lu, the car owner of the Mochizuki family, wanted to tell the owner the truth so much that the windshield wipers were so anxious that they started to swing! So don't underestimate cars, give them a little gas and they can rock the world!

"Kill me". The man who made the emergency call in the early hours of the morning and is now in critical condition has these three words carved on his chest. The murder "souvenirs" scattered around the room point to him as a serial killer who has never been caught. The emergency doctor who arrived was hesitant because her sister was one of the victims. Unexpectedly, this is just the beginning. A forensics expert looking for the truth behind her husband's death, a criminal tracker who has lost his memory, a series of unsolved mysteries that have resurfaced... The "Eternal City" of Rome is surrounded by dangers, and murderers who have been lurking for a long time appear in turn, and behind them is a secret that has been hidden for hundreds of years. The true face of the perverted murderer will be revealed one by one...

Children's Day, College Entrance Examination, Dragon Boat Festival, a busy June, this issue of the magazine includes for you: Cai Jun's "My Old Bestie's Secret Night" reveals for you the secrets of the College Entrance Examination 30 years ago... Get an early preview of "Silkworm", the sequel to the international number one bestseller "The Cuckoo's Calling"!

From "Songs of the Four Seasons: A Selected Collection of the Bucket Rider", The Bucket Rider is known as China's Kafka. He makes Chinese fantasy become real literature. He also integrates the simplicity, ethereal, beauty and weirdness of Chinese characters, where the poetry, absurdity and imagination of the East reach their peak.

The visitor with a colorful beard brings a strange commission to Inspector Sam - to keep a special letter. The visitor insisted that there was a secret worth millions hidden inside, and that during special times, the presence of Jerry Lane was needed to open it. Next, Inspector Sam faced a series of bizarre cases: the mysterious man in the blue hat who appeared and disappeared for no reason; the rare book that was stolen and then returned; the clever daughter who was robbed on the road... The mystery of Shakespeare's life and death three hundred years ago had to rely on the wonderful performances of Shakespeare's actors three hundred years later to clarify the truth.

Terrorist organizations secretly plotted to launch a second 9/11 attack on the United States. The date of the attack was set on September 12, 2016, the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attack. The weapon used in the attack was a super virus that could spread rapidly. The attack method was both clever and secretive... In 2028, personnel from an advertising company flew three airships over Tokyo. Paper flower flyers were distributed over Tokyo, and then a terror alert was spread. The super virus had been scattered all over the city along with the paper flowers, and at least one million people were infected... The entire Tokyo was filled with extreme panic... Shortly thereafter, the suicide bombers carried the Ebola virus and began to bite innocent civilians like crazy in crowded places. The world was once again facing a crisis...

He is revered as the "Father of Time" because he invented the first clock; he was severely punished by God like Prometheus because he dared to measure time, which is the best gift from God to mankind. He was imprisoned by God in a bottomless cave, listening to the same words year after year, which are the same words that will never be restored. They are the earnest pleas from the people on the earth. They are diligent and demanding for time. They want to turn back the clock and let time stop for them. Just when the "Father of Time" was about to suffer a mental breakdown from being tortured by these pleas, he was forgiven by God and accepted a mission: to carry a magic hourglass to the earth to enlighten all living beings and reveal the true meaning of "time". At the same time, God also assigned two partners to him, one is a girl who wants to commit suicide because of a broken love, and the other is a rich man who hopes to rely on modern technology to live forever. The "Father of Time" must save them both before he can finally redeem himself.

"Maugham's Life Trilogy" is composed of the famous British writer Maugham's classic masterpieces "The Moon and Sixpence", "The Blade" and "The Shackles of Life". Maugham adopts a calm and analytical outsider attitude in his works, from "The Moon and Sixpence" to "The Blade" ", and finally "The Shackles of Life", which lists all the choices and problems in life, leading readers to think: Do you choose the moon or sixpence? Everyone walks on the blade of their own life; Man is born free, but he is always in shackles...

Flaubert was a 19th-century French realist novelist. He has been engaged in writing all his life, but the number of finished products is not very large. Including the unfinished novel "Bovard and Pécuchet", there are only five novels and three short stories in total. However, these few works are enough to make him surpass many writers of his generation and enter the ranks of masters. This set of books is the complete collection of his novels, divided into three volumes: the first volume contains "Madame Bovary" and "Salembo"; the middle volume contains "Emotional Education" and "The Temptation of Saint Anthony"; the second volume contains "Three Stories" and "Bovart and Pécuchet".

"Snow" is not only the pinnacle of the famous Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki's personal works, but also one of the outstanding masterpieces of the entire Showa literary world. French writer Sartre praised this work as "the highest masterpiece of modern Japanese literature". "Snow" is a genre novel describing the love story between Japanese middle-class young men and women. It tells the life story of four sisters from the wealthy Shifeng family in Osaka. The story revolves around the main plot of the second daughter Sachiko and his wife arranging the marriage of the third daughter Yukiko and the fourth daughter Taeko, and finally ends with Yukiko's successful blind date.

This book is a collection of short stories written by John Updike, the father of the "Rabbit Tetralogy" and a master of contemporary American literature, in the last ten years of his writing career. It was first published after the author's death in 2009 and includes a total of eighteen stories, including "Tears of My Father". These novels are the final short works of a generation of literary giants. In them, Updike reveals his true feelings, looks back on the past in a farewell gesture, records the world with tender touches, and depicts the pain and joy, love and guilt, affection and betrayal, fear and relief of ordinary Americans from the "Great Depression" to the post-9/11 era.

This book selects Maupassant's most representative short and medium stories, including popular masterpieces such as "The Necklace" and "My Uncle Jules", as well as the twists and turns of "The Olive Garden" and "Pierrot". "The Necklace" uses a necklace as a clue to unfold the story. The layout is unconventional and has been included in middle school Chinese textbooks; "My Uncle Jules" reveals and satirizes the alienation of relationships between people in class society. Maupassant was good at cutting out typical fragments from ordinary and trivial things, and summarizing the reality of life with small insights. His novels have unique conceptions, ups and downs of plots, vivid and detailed descriptions, and lifelike characters, which make people have endless aftertaste after reading them.

After Kenzo returned to Tokyo from studying in the UK, he devoted himself to learning with full enthusiasm, but his monthly salary was only enough for his family to live frugally. The downcast father-in-law, poor adoptive parents, skinny brother and sick sister all regarded Kenzo, who had studied abroad, as their "backbone" and asked him for money directly or indirectly. Although his life was in embarrassment, Kenzo would give him some due to his kindness. And because he is not good at expressing his feelings and thoughts, he often has conflicts with his wife. Kenzo is struggling to make a living and is not good at socializing, unable to relieve his mental loneliness and confusion. Caught between money and ideals, he reflects on the meaning of life while struggling to hold on to his ideals. Finally, everything finally came to an end for the time being.

Works by Peter Handke, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. "On Tiredness" contains five unique narrative works created by Handke from the late 1980s to 2013. These five "novels" deconstruct traditional narrative forms further than all Handke's previous works, and can almost be said to have created a new style of writing. No matter how the narrative form changes, Handke always focuses on the relationship between self and the world. Tiredness in "On Tiredness" is an important way of perceiving the world; "On the Jukebox" recalls and summons the passing time; the "quiet place" mentioned in "On the Quiet Place" turns out to be the toilet. The author's unique expression style completely surpasses people's habits. Taking things as commonplace and self-evident; "On the Mushroom Maniac" creates a fictional character who is obsessed with mushrooms. From curiosity, pursuit, obsession, and madness, to gradually calmness, detachment, and relief, Handke used this to review and reflect on his own life.

This book collects the essence of Anne Prue's eleven short stories, many of which have won individual awards. "Brokeback Mountain" not only won the 1998 O. Henry Short Story Award and the National Magazine Award, but was also adapted onto the screen by director Ang Lee, winning multiple international film awards. All stories are set in Wyoming. The author uses sharp writing techniques to dissect the passion and desire for life behind the cowboys' rough and wild lifestyle, and uses poetic language to extract beauty and hope from the cruelty and roughness.

Ancient Greek literature and art are an important source of Western civilization and culture. They share the same spirit with ancient Chinese civilization and complement each other brilliantly. Ancient Greek drama not only occupied an important position in people's cultural life at that time, but even today, its important historical value and high artistic achievements are still amazing. As the beginning of the development history of European drama art, ancient Greek drama had a significant impact on later European literature and drama. This book contains more than ten comedies and tragedies by ancient Greek writers such as Aeschylus and Sophocles. The selected plays include "The Persians", "Agamemnon", "Antigone", "Medea", "Knights", etc.

This complete collection collects all of Mr. Alai's masterpieces of novels: "King Gesar" is a well-known classic historical novel, which has been adapted to the big screen many times as Alai's most anticipated work; "The Empty Mountain" trilogy and "The Dust Has Settled" can be described as twin peaks in artistic thought. The structure and artistic pattern of the novel is Alai's new artistic exploration, and it presents a completely different style from "The Dust Has Settled". If "The Dust Has Settled" is a closed structure and a complete story, "The Empty Mountain" expresses the major theme of "the secret history of a village" and uses a common culture, a common background, and different people and things to form a three-dimensional picture of the contemporary Tibetan countryside, which is the so-called "petal" structure.

"I live in a world as transparent and clear as ice and as sensitive as morbidity... Gradually, I feel more and more that 'living for the sake of living' is really the tragedy of human beings. If we can be content with eternal sleep, it will be a kind of peace and happiness for ourselves." Akutagawa Ryu no Yu ended his life a century ago in despair. A century later, he is famous in the international literary world. He has a profound portrayal of human nature and a strong understanding of the times. In his short life of more than thirty years, he left behind masterpieces such as "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Forest", which influenced generations of writers and readers. He provided endless inspiration to director Akira Kurosawa, who was hailed as "the most influential figure in Asia in the 20th century" by Time Magazine, and created monumental masterpieces in cultural history. This book adopts the translation by the well-known translator Wen Jieruo, and is a collection of selected classic masterpieces by Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

Chekhov, the king of short stories, created seven to eight hundred short stories in his life, most of which were based on the ordinary lives of the people at the bottom. The 14 short and medium-length stories included in this book are all Chekhov's masterpieces. Some reflect the tragic life of small people, such as "Anguish" and "Wanka"; some reveal the helplessness of small people struggling to survive, as well as their trembling, groveling mentality and appearance. Such as "The Death of a Petty Official", "The Fat Man and the Thin Man", and "The Oyster"; some whipped the servile and obsequious people who act according to the wind, such as "The Chameleon"; some portrayed the faces of the defenders of the autocratic system, such as "Sergeant Prishbeev"; some exposed the oppression of the society by the autocratic system and its conservatism and weakness, such as "The Man in the Trick"; some criticized the pursuit of vanity, vulgarity and boredom, and short-sightedness. Light's philosophy of life, such as "The Jumping Woman", "Anna Hanging on the Neck", and "Gooseberry"; some reveal the gloomy and terrifying current situation of Russian society under the autocratic system, such as "Ward No. 6"; Some express the pursuit and longing for a better life, thereby arousing people's disgust for the muddy and half-dead life, such as "Talk about Love" and "The Unmarried Bride".

I'm all for short stuff, so if I started a humor magazine, I'd give anything long a cross. --Chekhov. Chekhov's short stories are witty, humorous, and ironic, short, concise, and profound in meaning. He is extremely good at discovering creative materials from ordinary daily life. Through ridiculous plots, he draws lifelike characters and directly touches the essence of life in a calm manner. Chekhov connected the living conditions of the little people with the reality of life in Russia, or ridiculed, joked, or ridiculed, behind which he was full of tolerance and deep love for the little people, and expressed the majestic social reality in a limited space. "With just one word he can create an image, with just one sentence he can create a wonderful short story."

The "Selected Novels and Novels of Mérimée" compiled by Sun Gengjun selects the most representative short stories and short stories of Mérimée, a French realist writer and novel master. The novel has refined writing style, clear narrative, rich connotation and compact plot. It combines magnificent exotic scenery, fascinating storyline and characters with different personalities to form a distinct picture. It is a rare handwriting in French realist literature.

Raymond Chandler is good at creating cold, hard, and dark story atmospheres. His short stories are thrilling at every step. Lonely and dangerous souls can be found in every corner of the metropolis. Celebrities, prostitutes, gangsters, businessmen, private detectives, policemen... All fight openly and secretly for their own purposes. The protagonist is entangled in a conspiracy. With his sophisticated skills and shrewdness, he can see through each sinister conspiracy and uncover the shocking inside story hidden in the darkness.

Hemingway's 120th anniversary edition. Hemingway can be said to be the most well-known writer in my country and the most loved by Chinese readers among all Nobel Prize winners in literature over the past century. It collects all of Hemingway's short stories with standardized classification and complete catalogue, focusing on the classics of Hemingway's creation of a generation of writing style and profound influence on later writers. Famous translators include Chen Liangting, Wu Lao, Cai Hui, Zhai Xiangjun, Lu Jin and other elite translators of the generation of British and American literature. The earliest and most enduring works that made Hemingway famous were his short stories that created a generation of writing style. His short stories are mainly declarative sentences, with precise descriptions and short dialogues, giving readers the most direct and vivid impression and influencing many modern and contemporary writers in the world. This book is divided into two volumes and contains all of Hemingway's short stories. The first volume contains the writer's first complete collection of short stories published in 1938, namely the "First Collection of 49 Stories", including famous works such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; there are another 6 stories that are not included in the "First Collection of 49 Stories", and the works that obviously belong to the same period are placed in the "Appendix". The second volume includes short stories published in books and magazines after the "first series of 49" and previously unpublished novels, a total of 21 stories. There are another five articles in the appendix, which were not included in the original complete collection and were only discovered in the mid-1980s.

This book includes all of Kafka's short and medium stories, among which "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "Before the Gate of Law", "The Hungry Artist", "The Country Teacher", etc. Are all popular masterpieces. They all use symbols, metaphors, exaggeration and other techniques, with vivid plots and concise and smooth language; the stories are weird and bizarre, with no definite time and place, no cause and effect, giving people a dreamy, mysterious and strange feeling. The protagonists of the works are almost always in a situation where they can't help themselves. They all have their own goals in the bizarre world, but they often end up failing.

"Sangeuki": a Chinese historical fanfic written by the Japanese writer Nakajima Atsushi, based on "Zuo Zhuan", "The Analects of Confucius", "Zhuangzi", "Historical Records", "Journey to the West" and "Tang Dynasty"; "Light and Wind Dream": a collection of folk tales spanning South America, North Africa and Southeast Asia, which depicts the ideals and realities written by the Japanese writer Nakajima Atsushi.

This book contains more than 20 of the most representative short stories and short stories by the famous Austrian writer Zweig. Among them, "Letter from a Strange Woman", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", "The Malay Madman", "The Story of Chess", "The Invisible Treasure", etc. Are all must-read masterpieces for Zweig fans. The book is also equipped with dozens of exquisite illustrations, hoping to bring reading enjoyment to readers.

This book includes Kafka's masterpieces of short and medium-sized novels such as "The Metamorphosis", "The Burrow", "The Country Doctor", "In the Penal Colony", "The Hungry Artist" and "The Judgment", which reflect the strangeness, loneliness, depression, division and alienation that are common in human existence. The work uses surreal imagination, realistic detailed descriptions, cold and concise language expressions, and profound and unpredictable connotations to describe the infinite complexity of human nature like an allegory.