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Ostrovsky's novel "How the Steel Was Tempered" is one of the most brilliant masterpieces in Soviet socialist literature and has become a classic in world literature. It was translated and introduced to China and has been popular for more than half a century. It is regarded as a life textbook, a road sign of life and a spiritual tonic, and has been passed down by generations of readers. "How Steel Was Tempered" (1933) is an excellent novel written by the author based on his own experience. The path taken by the protagonist Paul Korchagin reflects the fearless spirit of the first generation of Soviet revolutionary youths who were not afraid of difficulties, struggled hard, and had the courage to win, and inspired generations of aspiring young people to realize their ideals.

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"Moby-Dick" is a novel with ocean themes published in 1851 by the 19th-century American novelist Herman Melville. The novel describes the story of Captain Ahab chasing and killing Moby Dick, the white whale (actually a white sperm whale), and finally perishing with the white whale. The story creates an atmosphere where people are sailing on the sea and encountering various dangers and even death at any time. It is the author's masterpiece.

During the Spanish Civil War, Robert Jordan, a young American who was a university lecturer, volunteered to join the Spanish government army. As a Demoman. Jordan was sent to the rear to contact the guerrillas to complete the combat mission of blowing up a bridge. In three days, Qiao Dun gained true love, witnessed the conflicts within the team, and experienced the double test of cruel war and complex human nature. With the assistance of the guerrillas, Qiao Dun successfully completed the task of blowing up the bridge, but unfortunately was seriously injured during the retreat. At the critical moment of life and death, in order to protect everyone, Qiao Dun resolutely stayed and died heroically.

The poor and beautiful heroine Tess loses her virginity to Alec, a bad boy from a rich family because of her youth and ignorance. She suffers mental and material torture, and loses her true love Claire because of it. Finally, she kills Alec out of grief, anger and despair, and walks to the gallows calmly. The great charm and courage of Tess's humanity and soul make her one of the most touching female images in the literary gallery. Hardy vividly demonstrates his deep-rooted tragic outlook on fate and broad and profound humanistic compassion through the tragic experiences of the pure and beautiful Tess's short life.

In the first half of the 1920s, Hemingway lived in Paris as a correspondent in Europe. The book "A Moveable Feast" records this period of the author's life at that time. However, this book was written nearly forty years later. In other words, the "scene" of the feast has long since disappeared. The author and readers are only tracing those past years in their memories. For both the author and the readers, these memories have been out of focus and distorted through the lens of time. All memories about Paris blend into a common historical memory of Paris. Among the countless fictional and non-fictional works about Paris in history, "A Moveable Feast" is one of the most famous works. The dedication on its title page - "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then she will be with you wherever you go in your life, because Paris is a moveable feast." It has become the "cultural calling card" of Paris and is widely recited.

"The Misery of the Inventor" is one of the "Disillusionment" trilogy and a classic work of Balzac, the great French critical realist writer. This is a novel that reflects the commercialization of literature and art and the shady story of the press. It is also one of the most profound masterpieces in "The Human Comedy" and the one that best reflects the spirit of the times. It is also a particularly profound book. Most of the encounters of the main characters in the book are taken from the writer's own experience. He has experienced almost all of their passions, fantasies and sufferings personally. Through the experiences of two talented and ambitious young people, the novel reflects the situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution. The work points out that with the disintegration of the feudal system and the victory of capitalism, there will inevitably be competition among people, which will inevitably produce poems of personal struggle and tragedies of shattered ideals.

Works by Peter Handke, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. "The Painful Chinese" collects four of Handke's works, including the novel "The Painful Chinese" and three travelogues, namely "The Dreamer Farewell to the Ninth Kingdom", "A Winter Journey to the Danube, Sava, Morava and Drina Rivers or Justice for Serbia" and "A Summer Supplement to a Winter Journey". In "The Painful Chinese", as a mysterious stranger who appears in the protagonist's dream, the "Painful Chinese" has repeatedly become a metaphor for the protagonist's efforts to overcome his inner pain; the three observations and travel notes mark a new creative period for Handke, and also reflect his fearless justice and conscience in the face of the violent political turmoil in Europe.

The protagonist d'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers (Set Volume 1 and 2)" is a son of a provincial nobleman. After coming to Paris, he joined the musketeers of King Louis XIII and formed sworn friends with the other three musketeers. Queen Anna had an affair with British Prime Minister Buckingham, and Anna gave Buckingham a diamond pendant. However, Prime Minister Richelieu, who was an enemy of the queen, sent people to England to steal the two diamonds on the pendant, hoping to make the queen embarrassed at the ball. Dartagnan volunteered to go to England with three friends. After many twists and turns, he finally retrieved the pendant and saved the queen's reputation.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the representative work of British writer Swift. It is a satirical novel in the style of travel notes, which expresses the author's thoughts in a relatively perfect artistic form. This book is written in the form of Captain Gulliver's autobiography. It mainly describes Captain Gulliver's strange experiences in Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island and Houyhnhnm. Through the form of a novel, it comprehensively satirizes and criticizes British social life in the first half of the 18th century, with distinctive democratic ideological characteristics.

The most superstitious people in society can only carry the shrine once on the day of the game. I wonder if those "new talents" who are studying "sound, light, chemical and electricity" can live in seclusion in the mountains and live in harmony for the rest of their lives.

"Biography of Flowers on the Sea" is a novel written in Wu dialect by Han Bangqing (1856-1894), a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. It describes the life in a brothel in Shanghai's Shili Foreign Market. It reflects the social life of the officialdom and business circles at that time through the characters who go in and out of the brothel. Lu Xun called it "plain and close to nature", Hu Shi called it "the first masterpiece of Wu Chinese literature", and Zhang Ailing believed that ""Flowers of the Sea" developed the tradition to the extreme". In order to eliminate the reading obstacles caused by the Wu dialogues in the book, Zhang Ailing translated "Biography of Flowers on the Sea" into Mandarin and included it in "The Complete Works of Zhang Ailing" into two volumes: "Flowers on the Sea Bloom" and "Flowers on the Sea Fall".

The short story collection "Madman" and "Hope", the novella "Three Sisters", "February" and "Mother of a Slave", the novel "Death in the Old Era", the poems "War" and "The Blood is Boiling--Commemorating the Death of a Hunan Comrade who was Killed in Nanjing", newspaper His works include the reportage "A Great Impression" and the essay "Individualism and the Reality of a Rogue"; his translations include "The Collection of Danish Short Stories" (cooperated with Lin Danqiu), "Decadence" by Gorky of the former Soviet Union, and works by progressive writers from Yugoslavia and other Eastern European countries.

This book "Journey to the West" written by Wu Cheng'en is based on "Mr. Li Zhuowu's Criticism of Journey to the West" photocopied by Zhongzhou Painting and Calligraphy Society. It is based on the Shidetang version. Based on this, a few typos in the original version have been corrected and individual missing words in the original version have been filled in. None of the Ming editions have the story of Tang Monk's birth in the current version (only Zhu Dingchen's original version has a simple explanation), so the ninth chapter of Zhang Shushen's "New Journey to the West" of the Qing Dynasty, "Chen Guangrui's Revenge of the Monk in the River when He Was in Disaster", was moved as an appendix and placed after the eighth chapter for readers' reference.

This book includes Mr. Mao Dun's short stories such as "Lin's Shop" and "The Rural Trilogy". "Lin's Shop" was originally called "Bankruptcy". It is set in the rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang before and after the "January 28th" Incident in 1932. Through the process of Lin's Shop from struggling to bankruptcy, it reveals the bad luck of national businesses going bankrupt. In 1959, writer Xia Yan adapted it into a script, and the film of the same name became a screen classic.

A German writer went to Venice for vacation. He fell in love with a boy and stayed in Venice due to some chance. At this time, a cholera epidemic began in Venice, and the government suppressed the news. The writer was obsessed with the boy, and the long pursuit made him exhausted. At the same time, he ate strawberries that were too ripe and almost rotten, contracted cholera, and died there.

The author of this book, Washington Irving (1783-1859), was the founder of American literature and a famous essayist and short story writer. His masterpiece "Notes on What He Saw" caused a sensation when it was published in England in 1820 and spread widely, making him the first American writer to gain international reputation and known as the "Father of American Literature". Scott and Byron became his close friends, and Thackeray called him "the first envoy from the New World literary world to the Old World." He left the world with immortal chapters such as "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Westminster Abbey". He is also a master of travel writing, and his selected works such as "Westminster Abbey", "Voyage" and "Alhambra" are all excellent and can be regarded as models in prose essays. They can be regarded as fine works of literary works, giving readers great artistic enjoyment.

In the empty manor, the owner, the old general, welcomed a rare visitor, an old friend who had once been acquainted with him. In the dim living room, the general and the visitor sat opposite each other with candles, talking all night long, remembering the general's long-lost wife, and judging a triangle relationship intertwined with love and friendship, loyalty and betrayal. Chaos and turmoil surged deep in the hearts of the two old friends, and the embers of lust and hatred continued to smolder. In a gripping and fierce argument, Malloy uses somber and elegiac words to remember the bygone era of empire, as well as the consequent disappearance of aristocratic virtue and gentlemanly friendship. The sadness when the Austro-Hungarian Empire faced the decline, and the wavering of people's traditional morality when the world order collapsed, are clearly reflected in the lines.

Thinking about chatting with the girl named Yinzi, my heart actually warmed up. I chose a meeting place and called her. I told her the address carefully, just so that she could understand the route she wanted to take and the name of the small restaurant. Yinzi comes from a very remote village, and the look on her face when she first described her hometown to me is still fresh in my memory. A simple duck egg face also has a simple smile. She said that my family was surrounded by mountains, groups of mountains. Have you seen that the mountains are like the straw hats worn by villagers, with circles inside them? I was amused by her metaphor at the time. How could I have mastered this rhetorical method as a college student?

This book is a masterpiece by Washington Irving, the father of American literature, telling the story of the business adventures of fur tycoon Astor's expedition across the Rocky Mountains. The book explores in detail the establishment and development of the early fur trade in the United States, including the battle between Britain and France for the fur trade in the American wilderness. The whole book revolves around the main line of fur trade, describing the extremely difficult and great undertakings undertaken by each of the heroes. The work tells the story of early American western colonization and wilderness exploration experiences in the fur trade, and recreates life in the primitive wilderness of the American West, including various thrilling legends about encounters with Indians and astonishing scenes of wilderness survival. This book can also be called the American version of the story of "Going to the West for Buddhist Scriptures". Readers can learn about the various adventures of the characters in the book among the savage tribes in the deep wilderness of America, and see the amazing heroic feats of the explorers who are not afraid of hardships and obstacles. This book has the qualities to be adapted into a movie and become a "blockbuster".

This is a simple story, about a warm family life, about the joy and regret of growing up, about sisters who are fighting but close to each other, and about the ordinary fate itself. Every girl can find herself in it.

The 120th anniversary commemorative edition of Hemingway's birth; the continuation and deepening of "Death in the Afternoon"; an excellent book that deeply understands Hemingway's philosophy of life and ultimate pursuit, and feels Hemingway's unique charm up close; it contains many precious historical images and vividly reproduces the art of bullfighting written by Hemingway. Bullfighting was Hemingway's lifelong passion, and Spain was his passionate country. In 1959, he went to Spain again. After returning to China, the manuscript he submitted in response to the invitation of "Life" magazine was reasonably deleted by the editor, and the essence was retained. Therefore, after nearly thirty years, he had this second "bullfighting book" "Dangerous Summer" after "Death in the Afternoon". This is a book about life and death written by an energetic man in his sixties. This man had reason to worry that he had only a few years left to live, so he returned to Spain, where he had lived in his passionate youth, and reexperienced the art of bullfighting that can give people a "sense of immortality." Finally, he left us a record of understanding life and understanding life and death.

"Call of the Wild" tells the story of a good dog's gradual return to wildness and the wilderness. This process is full of the intertwining and wrestling between wildness and human nature, and in the end the wildness takes over. The author uses this to profoundly reflect the jungle law of "the weak eats the strong". "White Fang" forms a meaningful contrast with "The Call of the Wild". It details the "mental journey" of a wild little gray wolf who goes through hardships and finally reaches the recognition of human nature. While revealing the power of wild nature and the cruel laws of survival, the author ultimately affirms and praises the power of human nature.

The American young man Barnes suffered a spinal injury during the World War and lost his sexual ability. After the war, when he was working as a reporter in Paris, he fell in love with the British Mrs. Ashley. She pursued pleasure blindly, while he could only drink to drown his sorrows. The two went to Pamplona, ​​Spain, with a group of male and female friends to participate in the bullfighting festival in pursuit of spiritual stimulation. The lady rejected the pursuit of the Jewish young man Cohen, but fell in love with the 19-year-old bullfighter Romero. However, after getting along for a period of time, due to the huge age gap between the two parties, and Mrs. Ashley could not bear to ruin the future of the innocent young man, the relationship ended sadly. Madame eventually returned to Barnes, although both parties knew that they could never truly be together. "The Sun Also Rises" is a novel by Hemingway, and Hemingway became the spokesperson of the "Lost Generation".

Huang Yanwu woke up and stretched. This was a really good sleep. He strolled to the yard and took a deep breath in front of the rose flowers that were blooming happily. The fragrance of rose flowers has a refreshing and pleasant effect on the brain and can help him get rid of the tiredness after sleep quickly. At this time, there was a knock on the door. Huang Yan opened the door. It was a stranger in his twenties. The visitor's eyes were bright and he asked, "Is the dragon slayer at home?" Huang Yan said, "I am." The visitor raised his hands and said, "I've heard about his name for a long time, so I came here to visit." Huang Yan smiled slightly and said, "Please come in." Huang Yan is a well-known local chess player. He is fierce and aggressive in chess, and often kills the opponent's big dragon, so he is known as the "dragon slayer".

About youth, about the sexual revolution, about life, "To love or not to love is your freedom, and pain and numbness are my footnotes." This is the best work of the talented British novelist Martin Amis in the past twenty years. This book describes the summer of 1970, when Keith, a 20-year-old nerd, a literature college student, and his friends were on vacation in a castle in Italy. At this time, when the sexual revolution was raging and in full swing, at this unprecedented historical moment, sex filled everyone's mind. Girls behaved like boys, and boys behaved like themselves. Keith dealt with three women, and his friends were also caught up in it. In the mud of chaos, everyone was intoxicated, with their true nature revealed but unresolved, and in unbearable pain. However, they soon discovered a very disturbing fact, that is, in the changes of social order, there will always be a threshold of purification, and this is the "pregnant widow" once described by the great Russian thinker Alexander Herzen - a long night of chaos and loneliness between the death of one and the birth of another. At this moment, Keith is struggling and being baptized... "The Pregnant Widow" is considered "Amis's best work in the past twenty years" because it evokes the not-innocent youth and the sting of the sexual revolution. This atypical "romantic comedy" is also a burning echo of the British sexual revolution and feminist movement in the Italian countryside.

When people who crave meaning suddenly face a meaningless world, they first show two mentalities. Resigned to meaninglessness: decadence. Impassioned resistance to futility: tragic. There is also a third state of mind: boredom. In the 19th century, the Russian aristocratic elite intellectuals had manors and serfs at home. They lived a comfortable life and were well educated. Under the high-pressure rule, social consciousness was first enlightened. They were full of enthusiasm, dissatisfied with reality, and eager to make a difference. However, they repeatedly encountered obstacles and were unable to change the class status quo, and became painful, depressed, cynical, and contemptuous of all moral norms in life. This boredom of unwillingness to accept and resist is reflected in Russian literature, which is the emergence of a series of "superfluous people" images. Always looking for meaning, but never getting it. They are not heinous and evil people, they are even honest and upright people. Any efforts you make will bring harm to others. In the end, his soul was gradually corroded by this unfathomable loss, and he became even more zombie-like. But this mentality of hating life and admiring death seems to be very close to the current "little mourning". There are such "superfluous people" in every era. Because they can't find the meaning of life, they feel that they are excluded by the era and are a dispensable person. Following Pushkin's Onegin and Lermontov's Pycholin, they are an unavoidable image of a "superfluous man" that condenses the spirit of an entire era in Russia. Lermontov's "The Superfluous Man" is the beginning of Russian social psychological novels. It is a travelogue, a diary, a love adventure and a confession.

"Human Bonds" is Maugham's long semi-autobiographical novel and his representative work. It was published in 1915. Although the work was controversial among critics, it has been in print for a long time since its publication and has been greatly welcomed. It has also been remade into film and television works. The novel narrates the confusion, exploration, disappointment, frustration and pain of the protagonist Philip in the first half of his life from a first-person perspective. The theme of the work is the freedom of human nature under the fetters of fate.

The scholar Bai Jie traveled to various feudal states and collected monster legends. During the journey, he encounters three strange people: Youchi is a charming and well-mannered person, known as the "trickster"; Ayin, a geisha who is charming and graceful, is good at dancing with long sleeves and is good at operating puppets; Zhiping is a pirate who is sophisticated and good at disguise. Bai Jie began to get involved in a series of strange and ghostly things. He was vaguely aware that these strange things were closely related to his three new friends. "Hyakumonogatari" is the first volume of Kyogoku Natsuhiko's classic "Hyakumonogatari Series". The text is elegant, tactful, delicate and enchanting. It seems to be about monsters and gods, but in fact it is about ghosts and ghosts. It was well received as soon as it was released. The series of works "Hundred Stories in Back Alleys" and "Hundred Stories in Back Alleys" were published one after another and became classics. For "Hundred Stories in Back Alleys", they won the Naoki Prize, Japan's Popular Literature Award.

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.

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.

Someone used their life to teach me what trust is; but I had to doubt the people I loved deeply again. The last empire that ended its high-pressure rule did not regenerate as Wen and others expected. Instead, strange phenomena frequently broke out: falling ash swallowed up the land, smoke spread across the territory, and armies came to the city... It seemed like the curse left by the ruler on everyone before his death. Now, Vin is the most powerful Mistchild in the empire; and her lover, Elander, who was originally regarded as an incompetent noble, has also become the new king of the command area. But what they faced was a more complicated dilemma than when they tried to overthrow the tyranny. When he was helpless, a mysterious inspiration came from Vin's mind, revealing the power that could change the world. Wen was tempted, hesitated, and wavered by this encouragement. But then, a piece of news that broke her heart even more came - the real enemy had already sneaked in and was hiding around her, waiting for opportunities to betray...

From slave to craftsman, from craftsman to colonel of the regiment, Orhan could never have imagined that his rise and rise was just because fate wanted him to save the entire empire by himself. The building is about to fall, but it cannot be held up. A meager strength requires a fulcrum, and a small but broad vision requires an engineer's mind.

This is a chaotic world full of high-pressure rule and transformed people - it is full of amazing magical wonders. Bath-Lage - a huge city-state that encompasses thousands of different cultures and races. New Clobusan, Bath-Lage's sinful city of power. It is the birthplace of all nightmares... A linguist who boarded the "La Dansere" to escape from New Clobusan, a spy who appeared halfway and was full of secrets. A sudden pirate robbery took all the passengers to Fleet City and sailed to the legendary place - Scar! In order to return to his homeland, a dangerous plan begins...

First time introduction! A new work by the genius writer Zine Miéville. Unbridled imagination, pursue adventure exploration at the edge of the ocean world! The most important fantasy writer in the 21st century and the founder of the "New Weird" style - China Miéville is recognized as a genius novelist. He has repeatedly won many fantasy honors around the world: Locus Award, Hugo Award, Arthur C. Clark Award, British Fantasy Award, World Fantasy Award, etc. He has a unique writing style and is good at using the fantasy world to explore real life and social and cultural issues. Super creativity x super imagination. This is a magical and dangerous world. Countless railroad tracks criss-cross the frozen land, like a sea of ​​tracks, and the railcars that shuttle between them are like ships, complete with captains, switchmen, and forkmen. Strange giant carnivores lurk under the ocean, ready to devour anyone who accidentally falls...

An unnamed British girl works as a telegraph operator at a post office in downtown London. Although her working place is a "cage"-like dispatch room, her ambitions go far beyond that. One day, this intelligent, sensitive, sensitive, super-memory and imaginative telegraph operator deciphered some secrets that she should not have known from the cryptic messages sent to her by customers. This made her involuntarily involved in a high-society dispute. Love turmoil... The novella "In the Cage" was first published in 1898. It has a wonderful conception. Together with "The Turn of the Screw" published earlier in the same year, it is a representative novella in the later period of Henry James's writing career and has always been valued by critics. French postmodernist philosophers Deleuze and Guattari once conducted an incisive analysis of this novel in their book "A Thousand Plateaus". This is the first time this novel has been translated and published in the country in more than 120 years since its publication. Explanation of the original translation: When the novella "In the Cage" was first published, it appeared as a single book. It was published by the British publisher Duckworth & Co. In London in August 1898. In September of the same year, the American publishing company Herbert S. Stone & Co. Published the American version of the book in New York. Since Henry James lived in London for a long time during this period, he was able to personally guide and supervise the editing and publishing process of the British edition of most of his works at that time. Therefore, the British edition of his works often reflects James's revisions more accurately than the American edition. Therefore, the "American Library" edition of the Complete Works of Henry James uses the 1898 British edition when including this novel. This translation is from the "American Library" edition.

This work is an independent chapter under the world view of "The First Law". The female general Mello Cato was originally the most beloved general of the Grand Duke of Oso. She fought in the north and south for eight years and made many extraordinary achievements. Unexpectedly, she aroused the suspicion of the Duke and assassinated her. She survived the disaster and was determined to take revenge on the seven people at the scene of the conspiracy. These seven people were the Duke himself, the Duke's two sons, the Duke's bodyguard, the Duke's general, the Duke's banker and the female general's most trusted subordinate...

A fantasy novel that is popular all over the world! "American Gods" author Neil Gaiman's incredibly romantic fantasy classic! This is an adult fairy tale filled with a touch of sadness, which is fantastic, poetic, beautiful and warm. Once upon a time there was a young man who wanted to pursue his heart's desire... For a kiss and a promise to hold hands for a lifetime, Tristan crossed the forbidden wall to find a fallen star. Fearless because of ignorance and fearless because of youth, Tristan walked into the fairyland and began a thrilling fantasy journey. There are dangerous man-eating forests, turbulent Storm Castle, mysterious and evil witches, and bizarre magic... Can he safely overcome the dangers and find his heart's desire?

"Hyakumonogatari in the Front Alley" is a modern Japanese novel, one of Kyogoku Natsuhiko's masterpieces of monster novels, and the fourth part of the Hyakumonogatari series. The series also includes "Hakumonogatari in the Alley", "Hakumonogatari in the Back Alley", "Hakumonogatari in the Back Alley" and "Hakumonogatari in the West Alley". Among them, "Hakumonogatari in the Back Alley" won the 130th Naoki Award, and "Hakumonogatari in the West Alley" won the 24th Shibata Renzaburo Award. Hyakumonogatari is a popular game in Japan during the Edo period. On summer nights, people dressed in green clothes gathered in a dark room, lit a hundred candles, and took turns telling scary stories, blowing out one candle after each story. According to legend, when all the candles are extinguished, a vision will be triggered and monsters will be awakened. On the bustling streets of Edo Castle, there is a shop called "Enma House". Legend has it that as long as you pay the appropriate fee, any wish you have can come true in this store.

"Hyakumonogatari in the West Alley" is a classic work by Kyogoku Natsuhiko, the king of monster novels. It is the final chapter of the Hyakumonogatari series and won the 24th Shibata Renzaburo Award in 2011. The series also includes "Hundred Stories in the Alley", "Hundred Stories in the Alley", "Hundred Stories in the Back Alley" and "Hundred Stories in the Front Alley". Among them, "Hundred Stories in the Back Alley" won the 130th Naoki Award. "Hyakumonogatari" is a popular game in Japan's Edo period. On summer nights, people dressed in green clothes gathered in a dark room, lit a hundred candles, and took turns telling scary stories, blowing out one candle after each story. According to legend, when all the candles are extinguished, a vision will be triggered and monsters will be awakened. "Hundred Stories of Xixiangshu" mainly tells about the strange stories told by alleys in Kyoto, Osaka and other Kansai areas, hence the name "Tales from Xixiangshu". There is a strange man named Lin Zang in Osaka City. He is both good and evil, and can speak well.

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... Scientists with weird personalities and extraordinary talents, struggling insect-headed people who yearn for freedom, hawks who cannot fly, and the "mechanical parliament" that can think... A dangerous experiment accidentally released a group of deadly moths, everyone fell into a nightmare, and fatal danger swept the entire city. In order to find out the truth of the experiment and escape capture, the fate of these exiles was closely linked, and a dangerous plan began...

This anthology includes two of Hoffmann's famous artistic fairy tales that are easy to understand and popular among readers, "The Pot of Gold" and "Zacks, the Dwarf Known as Xin Ober". Hoffman expresses all the ugliness of the upper class - the exploitation of young people, the clinging of middle-aged people, and the stupidity of dignitaries in a satirical and absurd way. He combines exaggerated behavior with magical settings, blends magic with reality, and creates a colorful, mysterious, and exaggerated world. In the form of magical stories, he painted people and bones, and stabbed corruption and cruelty, which opened the prelude to romantic literature describing the human world in both truth and fantasy.

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 author of "Wrath", "Living Together" and "Yokomichi Seinosuke" is the first work after winning the Akutagawa Prize. No matter how stable and peaceful life is, there will always be a glimpse of the abyss; no matter how correct the choice is, fate will suddenly surround you at some point. This is a collection of consecutive novels about "time": an unexpected reunion after a long absence made him unexpectedly meet his deviant self ten years ago; an unplanned break made him face his once firm choice of marriage; a sudden prank game allowed the couple to glimpse the cracks in silence they had been together until now; an unforeseen right turn allowed him to briefly escape from the repetitive daily life. "He always felt that somewhere on this full tram, there was another version of himself that had not made this choice."

This book tells the story of eight years after the events of the "First Law" series and five years after the events of "The Cold Banquet". In order to avenge his friend Logan, King Jessel of the Southern United Kingdom declared war on the King of the North, Black Whirlwind. After the armies of both sides went in circles for several months, due to the situation, they launched a decisive battle that lasted for three days around the high ground called Hero's Peak. In this unprecedented but ultimately futile war, countless people demonstrated their qualities. The author Akrobi also threw the definition of "hero" to readers, allowing them to understand it on their own from this war literature. The inner text describes several major battle scenes. In addition to the characterization of the main characters, it also describes the definition of "hero" for the little people from different angles. Very realistic.

Among all his works, the short stories that made Hemingway the earliest and most enduring are his short stories that created a generation of writing style. These novels 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 contains all of Hemingway's short stories. 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 collection of short stories by Saramago, the only Nobel laureate in the Portuguese-speaking world, is rare in his writing career! The sofa becomes feverish; the car kidnaps its driver; the mailbox and the entire building disappear out of thin air; the chair falls, and the dictator sitting on it falls with it; the king attempts to surround the city of the dead with a city of the living, but death once again stands out... Life repeatedly flows backwards, back to the starting point. This time, you must live like a human being.

This book is a novella in "The Complete Detective Collection of Arsene Robin". It tells the story of Robin's adventures when he went to Egypt to explore the treasures hidden in the pyramids. Along the way, he met the hermit Dr. Tulton who raised cheetahs, an indigenous slave like Friday, a ferocious wizard and a monk, and the mysterious tribe of the Elephant Snakes. However, a bigger conspiracy was waiting for him ahead.

"The Long Day" is a novel by Irish writer Sebastian Barry. The work won the 2016 Costa Literary Award, the 2017 Scott History Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize. The novel "The End of the Day" fully demonstrates the ups and downs of the Irish refugees who fled to the United States due to the Great Famine in the early 20th century. They rushed to board the "coffin ship", endured hunger, plague and extremely harsh climate conditions, and finally arrived at the "promised land" in their dreams after months of wandering at sea. They were engaged in jobs at the bottom of the food chain, digging stone mines, building railways, and working as lumberjacks. Many of them were even drawn into the army to participate in wars for unknown reasons from beginning to end, and died in the wilderness of unknown places. The two male protagonists of the story, John and Thomas, are also survivors of the Irish Famine. They started wandering when they were teenagers. Forced to make a living, they worked as dancers (in disguise) in the declining Grand Rapids City. They joined the army for meager military pay and experienced extremely cruel battles. Blizzards, long periods of severe cold, floods and plagues, battles and killings with Indian tribes, behind every serious disaster are the scars of the times. After everything, John and Thomas have become each other's closest friends, accompanying each other and redeeming each other, while the exiled Indian girl Winona symbolizes immortal hope, like the glimmer of light after the snow, illuminating the endless years.

No one dies on New Year's Day. This fact is contrary to common sense. The Prime Minister called on everyone not to panic. The newspapers published the news of "New Year, New Life" as usual, but the commotion has already spread: mankind has fallen into eternal old age, and pension reserves will be overwhelmed; funeral companies are facing bankruptcy and can only bury cats, dogs and canaries; pessimistic philosophers are worried: without death, the future will be a disaster. And Death, a skeletal lady wrapped in sheets who lives in a cold basement with a scythe, is satisfied with asserting herself for the first time ever and is ready to get back to work.