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A person will meet about 29.2 Million people in his lifetime, and the probability of two people falling in love is only 0.000049. Zeng Weiwei got engaged to Ji Qixuan just to embarrass another man, Lin Musen. Six years later, she married Ji Qixuan in order to give her son a superior life and to return herself to the upper class. However, Ji Qixuan, who had been abandoned by her, was no longer the quiet young man who loved her silently. Having children, getting married, and maybe falling in love, Zeng's only experience is completely opposite to others. Will this proud woman who doesn't know how to love reap her happiness?

"Canghai" is an iron-gray love. Because of him, she struggled in prison, but it was also him who gave her the most radiant three months of her life. The escort journey with him day and night gave her life a different color. "Xinyi" is the love of shallow water and green. Crystal clear, like the hearts of two young men towards Xin Yi. No matter I am a good person or a bad person, no matter what vicious and despicable things I have done, when I stand in front of you and love you, my heart is as pure as water. "East Wind Breaks" is an ink-colored love. The rich and colorful affection is hidden behind the silent protection. There is only one sentence to describe the female swordsman Mu Yan: After Xia Yubing, she only loves the common people.

When he was eleven years old, Qin Nuanfeng indirectly killed his stepfather due to a moment of willfulness, which made his stepfather's son Ding Yu hate him. Ding Yu kept making trouble for her, but she let him bully her because she felt guilty. That summer, the day before Qin Nuanfeng's college entrance examination, Ding Yu was about to leave. His long-suppressed emotions finally broke out, but they caused irreparable damage to her, and then he disappeared unexpectedly. Ten years later, Ding Yu is already an international star. When he returns to China for treatment, he meets Qin Nuanfeng unexpectedly. His emotions that have been dormant for ten years are awakened again. At the same time, Qin Nuanfeng's boyfriend proposes to Nuanfeng, and the three of them are entangled and unable to extricate themselves...

The female body was found in a lake near the secluded Kingsley Villa. There are many doubts about the serial murder case. Where is the murderer? Is she a willful woman, a sloppy drunkard, a mysterious doctor, or a calm landlord, a prodigal son in love, and a tough policeman? The cocoon is peeling off, the fog is gradually dissipating, and just when the truth is about to come to light, there are unexpected twists and turns. The gripping story, delicate and rich emotions, and exquisite and meticulous reasoning not only bring people a visual feast, but also an exchange of souls. "He writes ordinary detective novels and digs literary gold mines." - "The Times" Chandler is not only "the poet laureate of crime novels", but his works also influenced pure literature. --Haruki Murakami "Raymond Chandler, lightning flashes on every page." --Billy Wilder

From now on, nothing can knock me down, and no one can force me to stop! The author of "The Long Goodbye" is a pioneering work! The literary idol of Haruki Murakami, the author of "The Long Goodbye", and the pioneering work of Chandler, the master of American literary circles! Haruki Murakami once personally translated "The Big Sleep", setting off a reading frenzy! Murakami: "Chandler is my idol!" "The Big Sleep" is the debut of the private detective Philip Marlowe series. Starting from "The Big Sleep", you enter Chandler's literary world! An old and wealthy general, a pair of beautiful but eccentric sisters. A commission, a blackmail letter, a missing son-in-law. A heavy rain, a corpse, and a crazy naked girl. One kiss, one encounter, and I've never seen you again. In the darkness of this city, these stories are happening...

An armed robber hid in a hospital and asked hospital doctors to treat the woman he shot. The temporary doctor Shugo Hayami was accidentally involved in the incident. In the secret room on the isolated island, the life and death line was on the line, and the hospital staged extreme psychological warfare. During the escape process, Hayami discovered the ulterior secrets of the hospital and was hunted by the dean and robbers. Hayami, who was attacked from both sides, lost consciousness. When he woke up, he found that he was the only survivor and the only suspect. The police told Hayami that his description was very different from the crime scene. The patient who was shot did not exist at all... The original title of the book was "The House of Sick Faces", which swept all major mystery book lists and sold more than 850,000 copies. The movie of the same name starred Kentaro Sakaguchi and Mei Nagano.

Literary agent Anthea Landau wants to auction off a famous writer's letters, leaving the reclusive writer furious but unable to do anything about it. Moreover, the writer wrote a novel that influenced Bernie's life. What's more, this commission was proposed by a beautiful and mysterious girl. In this way, even though there was no material reward, Bernie took action again for his ideals. However, what greeted him was only corpses, but the letter disappeared...

The terrifying serial killer "The Promise Man" has once again appeared in New York City, specializing in killing couples who are in love and about to enter the holy marriage hall. However, the reason why he did this is puzzling to people. At the same time, geothermal drilling has aroused the anger of environmentalists, and small earthquakes have occurred in New York City one after another, and all of this seems to be inextricably linked to the "Promise Man". Can the lovers and partners Rhyme and Sachs escape the clutches of the Promised One? How should they solve this complex case wrapped in layers of fog?

There were no traces at the scene, except for the victim's fingerprints. Everyone present also had a perfect alibi, including himself, Shogo Yemura, the adopted son of the deceased, who was extremely confused while being interrogated by the police. Who is the murderer and why did he kill such a kind-hearted foster mother? He thought of the several unsolved cases that had almost killed him before, and wondered whether they might have been committed by the same murderer. At this time, the flower street where his adoptive mother was born suddenly appeared clearly in front of his eyes, and a dark atmosphere gradually enveloped all events...

The latest novel by Japanese master Keigo Higashino is set on a ski resort in a snowstorm. It tells the story of a boy who is suddenly accused of being a murderer and engages in reasoning and self-rescue in order to clear the suspicion. The author combines rigorous logical reasoning with fast-paced skateboarding to give readers a tense reading experience. It's still Mr. Higashino, with a tight rhythm and a direct touch to people's hearts. There is no bloody violence, but it makes people think about human nature. A snowy ski resort. An encounter among the speeding crowd. A crossroads of destiny... - Two-story old-fashioned apartment. Scattered Go chess, stolen money, and a dead old man. A clear fingerprint. --In a hunt and escape, who can prove who is innocent? Nozawa Ski Resort. The only witness who can prove his innocence.

James Answell planned to visit his future father-in-law, Avery Hume, in London. Hume invited the groom-to-be into a sturdy room with metal shutters and thick wooden doors. This room contains trophies and arrows that illustrate Hume's archery hobby. As Hume poured wine from a carafe, the two chatted about archery. Before collapsing to the ground, Answell realized he had been drugged. When he regained consciousness, he found that he and Hume were locked in the room from the inside, and Hume had been shot to death by an arrow. In just a quarter of an hour, the young man became the only suspect in the secret room murder. Will the legal balance tip in his favor? Can legendary genius lawyer Sir Henry Merivale prove his innocence? What kind of ulterior conspiracy is behind this shocking and impossible crime? The hidden window of Judah slowly opens, and the wheel of fate begins to turn...

This book is composed of the Naoki Award-winning work "The Sapphire Lion Incense Burner" and the representative work "Fang Hu Yuan" which is a secret room murder mystery short story. It has an ingenious conception, twists and turns of the plot, a long lasting charm, and the style of a master. A fire in the Forbidden City in 1923 ignited the life of the sapphire lion incense burner, lingering around Li Yuan's lifelong persistence. In the treacherous and ever-changing current situation, the lion incense burner has become the sustenance and refuge of Li Yuanyuan's life and soul. When the war was raging, the color of China changed, the treasures of the Forbidden City moved southward, and the whereabouts of the sapphire lion incense burner became a mystery, Li Yuanyuan, who had transformed into the sapphire lion incense burner deep in his heart, suddenly lost all spiritual support. Looking for the lion incense burner, searching for the distant soul, can Li Yuan Yuan reunite with the sapphire lion incense burner again?

She has seen life and death, counted the fragments of time, tasted the salty longing of the sea breeze, walked through the snowy north and the rainy south, and remembered every entry related to him in the diary, and he, following her footsteps, traveled across the ocean 28 000 kilometers, I sat in her favorite corner coffee shop, walked one street after another with her photos, thinking about going back to the day when I had her, she was Shen Xuan, he was Pei Jincheng, after several years of accumulation, they realized that love is between me and you.

A hunter who does not do his job properly, he is an alternative legend in the hunting world, and is forced to be a "devil nanny"; the elder of the half-rhinoceros tribe who is obsessed with cleanliness, he is the master of the natural wind, and is willing to become a "super nanny";

[The final chapter of the classic science fiction "Ender's Game" series. This is the real ending! Connecting with the plot of "Alien Slaughter", read Ender's life in the interstellar battle of redemption. ] Lusitania is on the verge of destruction. The Interstellar Parliament is about to launch molecular disintegration weapons, and the interstellar network is gradually shutting down. In order to save the fate of the three major races, Ender's mind created two clones - young Peter and young girl Valentine. However, Ender cannot maintain three bodies. He must make a choice: destroy his consciousness or sacrifice himself?

In the late Southern Song Dynasty, the emperor was fatuous and incompetent, doing nothing, traitors in the temple were in power, and the government was corrupt. In the north, Mongolia became increasingly powerful, annihilating the Xixia and Jin Kingdoms one after another. Their troops advanced directly into the Southern Song Dynasty. Sichuan was the first to become a war zone. It was devastated by wars for many years. The new Shu Commander-in-Chief Yu Jie was ordered to face the crisis and built a mountain city defense system with Diaoyu City as the hub, reversing the decline of the Song Army in one fell swoop. Diaoyu City is one pillar and half of Yutai, becoming a sharp knife that independently supports the war situation in Sichuan and even affects the situation in the Central Plains. Although the geographical location is extremely advantageous and dangerous, the competition between Song Dynasty and Meng Dynasty was far more than just an open battle for the city of Shukou, but also a secret battle involving great strategies...

The master of Nordic suspense novels Jör Nesbo's new "Harry Holler Detective Series" is a blockbuster new work, giving insight into love and loneliness! The Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Year 2023! An unstoppable killer × a hunter team that is physically and mentally broken. The criminal methods are unusual and more terrifying than ever! Two young women disappear, their only connection being that they both attended a party hosted by a notorious real estate tycoon. At the scene of the murder of one of the women, the police found traces left by the murderer, which gave them reason to suspect that he would commit another crime. They were facing a killer like no other, and it took a different kind of detective to uncover him. But the legendary Harry Holler is nowhere to be seen - he was fired from the force, his life in tatters, and he fled to Los Angeles to drink himself to death. Nothing seemed to bring him back to Oslo. Until the woman who saved Harry's life is in danger, he has no choice but to return to the city that haunts him and complete the impossible task of finding the murderer in ten days. This would push Harry to his limits. He needs to assemble a team to help him stop an unstoppable killer. As the evidence grows, it becomes clear that there are more unknown secrets behind this case...

This book is about Western consultants in China. For more than three hundred years from the 1620s to the 1950s, these people contributed excellent skills to the Chinese people. At the beginning, it introduced the theory of celestial body movement, and finally allowed the Chinese to see the magical skills of air combat tactics and atomic science. Shi Jingqian selected 16 representatives from hundreds of foreign consultants working in China. These sixteen people each have their own specialties - astronomers, soldiers, doctors, administrative experts, translators, engineers, and a professional revolutionary. Although their careers spanned three centuries, the life course they accumulated has an amazing continuity. They experienced similar excitement and danger, embraced similar feelings, and endured similar setbacks. Their actions reflected their times and highlighted China's inherent basic values.

An old man fished alone at sea and had no harvest for several months. Later, he caught a large swordfish, fought with it for two days and two nights, and stabbed it to death with a spear gun. However, he was attacked by a shark on the way back. Although the old man lacked helpers and tools, he killed several sharks, but the swordfish was eaten by other sharks. When he entered the harbor, only a set of bones was left in the swordfish.

"People can be destroyed, but they cannot be defeated." An old man fished alone at sea and caught nothing for eighty-four days. When he finally caught a big fish, it took him two days and two nights to stab it to death. On the way back, they were suddenly attacked by a shark. After a day and night of fighting, only the skeleton of the big fish remained. But the old man did not lose hope and confidence. After resting, he was ready to go to sea again...

A choir festival is about to be held in Kamiyama City, but Airu Chitanda, who was in charge of solo singing before the performance, is missing. Houtaro Oreki found clues from Airi's state before the summer vacation, the investigation and testimony of Mayaka Ihara and Satoshi Fukube, the competition songs, and someone's lies, and went to find Airi alone. Where is Airu, and what are her real thoughts?

The rise, fall and end of the Beiyang warlords; the struggles and explorations of the revolutionary patriots; the ups and downs and lessons of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the past ten years; the rise and ambitions of modern Japan... This book tells the major events that occurred in China and Japan in modern times in the form of stories, and meticulously restores the development process of major factions in modern China. The book is accompanied by many precious newspaper and periodical documents, which provides readers with a new perspective on that period of history. It is an excellent book for understanding the complicated and complicated modern history of China.

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The most ferocious Anti-Japanese War in history, the last swan song of the Ming Empire! This was a key battle that determined the three-hundred-year pattern of East Asia. It was also the most beautiful war of resistance against Japan won by the Chinese. In the 20th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1592), the actual ruler of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, took advantage of the power of unifying Japan and brazenly launched an aggressive war against Korea and the Ming Dynasty. At the request of the Korean King Li Huo, the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty overcame various difficulties and resolutely sent the famous general Li Rusong to the east to fight against Japan and aid Korea. A bloody battle between aggression and counter-aggression began on the Korean Peninsula... This book reproduces this long-lasting and far-reaching history. The foundation laid by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a generation of Japanese heroes, fell apart in this war and eventually fell into the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu. The book describes the overt and covert struggles and power intrigues of the two heroes.

"Star Port Controller" contains five short works by Ogawa Isui with different styles. Among them are romantic space operas, in-depth works that explore the relationship between humans and AI, and fantasy works that won the Nebula Award. Each short but fascinating story introduces readers to the gentle and hopeful future world written by Ogawa Isui. "Road Soul": Intelligent motorcycles can better serve mankind. However, if a motorcycle has a mind of its own... Something interesting might happen. "Golden Bread": A lone pilot makes an emergency landing on a remote alien planet. How will he avert danger when faced with indigenous people with strange customs? "The Monster Beloved by King Alisma": The king of a small country with no talent except mathematics actually built a huge empire by relying on calculations. How did he do it? "Star Port Controller": The task of representing human beings and alien civilizations to communicate accidentally falls on the controller of a remote star port. However, our alien friends seem to have some misunderstanding... "Humans Give Rights to Machines - On whether machines have the right to love": If you want to obtain rights, you must first assume responsibility. This is true for humans, and so is AI.

This book collects 13 novellas by American writer Ursula LeGuin. These stories have the grandeur of novels and the lightness of short stories. The science fiction elements in them add a mysterious color to the novels. Le Guin has won numerous awards throughout his life, including 7 Hugo Awards, 6 Nebula Awards, 21 Locus Awards, and more than 200 major world literary awards such as the National Book Award, World Fantasy Award, and Kafka Award. His works have been included in American literary classics.

Truller and Klapavuchus are well-known robot inventors. Truller is obsessed with building various machines and often drags everyone down, requiring Klapauchus to wipe their butts. Klapauchus is a very reliable partner, sometimes making mistakes and always wiping Truller's butt. Nothingness creation machine, chaos simulator, happiness existence sighing machine, artificial domination machine, emotional companionship machine, personality exchange machine, eschatological transformation machine, atomic rebirth replicator, erotic indulgence machine... They are willing to accept all kinds of commissions. Two good friends are invited to different planets to use their own machines to fight against tyrants and save the local civilization. The results are often beyond their expectations... Welcome to "The Iliad" in the cyber era.

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The original title of this book is "The Emperor's Industry". It is the final masterpiece of the trilogy of the "Concubine's Heart" series. Bi Li once again sets off a unprecedented sadomasochistic craze! Three years ago, he personally sent her to the Chu Kingdom for marriage; three years later, it was he who personally destroyed the Chu Kingdom and welcomed her back to his homeland... The world was hard and the fate was ever-changing, but only the word "love", which was hard to let go of, could save him. When the four coexisting kingdoms were cut off, the hand of fate began to change. The princess, the iron-blooded princes, and the subjugated prince all showed new faces. The concubine seeks power, the beauty seizes the palace, behind the truth of the royal family's secrets, where is the old friend? In a troubled world where heroes are vying for supremacy, four kingdoms are vying for hegemony, and the weak are preying on the strong, where does love go? Nie Yun, the original minister, solved the origin of the entanglement between the four major families. Clear the clouds and see the sun, and watch the legend of the founding of the Daxi Dynasty.

Ding Ling, her appearance in the 1930s, her fame, her influence, her appeal, to the young people at that time, could make thousands of people feel empty and the whole country went crazy. The twelve short stories included in this book are representative works in Ding Ling's literary creation, fully reflecting the writer's unique artistic style and ideological realm.

This book is a collection of private letters written by John D. Rockefeller to his son John D. Rockefeller Jr. These letters are valuable items that Rockefeller did not want to make public and collected in the form of his will. The letters "reveal too many of the Rockefeller family's business secrets and business wisdom, and are definitely an incomparable textbook for cultivating great entrepreneurs..." The value of these Rockefeller letters is as Alan Greenspan said: "More valuable than the entire wealth of the Rockefeller family, which is as rich as the country."

Liu Cixin praised: "All my works are parodies of Arthur C. Clarke!" 104 Classic short stories, plus a twelve-zodiac sign bookmark. Stare into the universe like Clark and face the smallness and greatness of humanity. Produced by Reader Panda Jun. The three volumes contain 104 classic short stories by Arthur C. Clark and come with 12 zodiac sign bookmarks. It is the ultimate collection for science fiction fans. In Arthur C. Clarke's universe, the true meaning of civilization is the enlightenment from the black slate of alien civilization, the encounter between the sunset generation and the dawn generation in the intersection of time and space, an elegy from a distant mother star, and a sigh at the remnants of history. In Arthur C. Clarke's universe, human beings are just a grain of sand among the vast stars, but they have burning desires. They dream of flying to the stars and unlocking the ultimate code of destiny. They are greedy and tragic, small and great. Stare into the universe like Clark and face the smallness and greatness of humanity.

Two famous 80-year-old translators, Gao Fu and Han Yaocheng, have re-examined and completed the previous translation, presenting the essence of the original work; Xu Jinglei directed and starred in the movie of the same name; Meng Jinghui adapted and directed the play of the same name; a novel that made the Russian writer Gorky cry; this book contains some of Zweig's most representative short and medium stories The novel builds a complete text world belonging to Zweig for readers. It is not only full of passion and drama, but also full of detailed reflections on women's inner and spiritual realms. Among them, the world-renowned classic "Letter from a Strange Woman" uses a woman's most painful experience to describe the depth and dedication of love. A man received a letter without a signature or address on his 41st birthday. This letter was from a dying woman and told an unforgettable love story. The hero of this story, the man who received the letter, knew nothing about it.

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 first volume contains the writer's first complete collection of short stories published in 1938, the "First Collection of 49", including famous works such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; there are another 6 stories that are not included in the "First Collection of 49", but the works that obviously belong to the same period are placed in the "Appendix".

"Dublins" is James Joyce's prestigious short story collection, published in 1914. It is set in Joyce's hometown of Dublin. It captures a cross-section of the lives of the middle and lower class people, a group of people at a moment, and fifteen stories gathered together. It is like an impressionistic painting, with concise brushwork and staggered chapters. It emerges a desolate world, distant, cold, but exquisite, which is the best. It can be called the most famous collection of short stories in the 20th century.

"The Tale of Ise" was translated by Feng Zikai and the author is unknown. The whole book includes "The Tale of Bamboo" and "The Tale of Ise". "The Tale of Bamboo" is the earliest Japanese literary work, and together with "The Tale of Ise" is called the pioneer of the Heian Dynasty literature. "The Tale of Bamboo" is also called "The Tale of Princess Kaguya", "Bamboo" means cutting bamboo. The story tells of a bamboo cutter who picked up a little girl in the heart of a bamboo and named her "Xizhu Kaguya-hime". Princess Kaguya grew into a graceful and beautiful girl in three months. Five nobles proposed to her. She promised to marry someone who could find her favorite treasure, but all the suitors failed. The emperor wanted to use his power to marry her by force, but he was rejected. Finally, Kaguya suddenly ascended to heaven in front of this group of bewildered ordinary people. "The Tale of Ise" came out around the same time as "The Tale of Bamboo". It is Japan's first "Uta Monogatari". "The Tale of Ise" mainly focuses on the waka written by Emperor Heijo's grandson Zaihara Yahei, plus some waka passed down orally, and at the same time lays out the background or original story of these waka. The whole article is composed of 125 chapters and 206 Japanese songs. There is no connection between the chapters. Each chapter is an independent chapter, which vaguely reveals the life experience of Hara Yehei.

The competition for jobs is becoming increasingly fierce. In order to find an ideal job, junior Chiharu Mizugoe and six of her classmates established a job search group. After experiencing the confusion of submitting a resume, the twists and turns of visiting seniors who have joined the job, the hardships of being an intern at a TV station, and helping colleagues who were depressed due to job hunting pressure to regain their confidence, Qianqing gradually gained the workplace rules that newcomers should understand, and also better understood the meaning of work.

Aeschylus, one of the three great tragic poets in ancient Greece, is said to have created more than 70 tragedies and some "comedies". Among them, "Prometheus Bound" and "Agamemnon" are his most famous tragic masterpieces. "Prometheus Bound" is the first part of the trilogy about Prometheus and the only one handed down. It records the scene of the human hero suffering pain on the rocks of the Caucasus. "Agamemnon" and the Oresteia trilogy mainly focus on opposing unjust wars.

This book collects all thirty-one of Flannery O'Connor's short stories, including those previously compiled into two short story collections, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge, as well as some short stories that were adapted into the novels Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away. The book won the U. S. National Book Award posthumously in 1972. This volume is the first part, including 18 articles including "A Good Man Is Hard to Find".

"Paper Tent" contains 35 clever female expressions, including thought fragments, poems, fairy tales, micro-novels, etc. Even if she is misunderstood and attacked, Atwood will never stop speaking out about the fate of women and the truth about the world: I cultivated my good voice, made it a cash cow, and made it a bat that sucks my life; when we called my mother home, she became a screaming madwoman, whose life was ruined by accidents in the family; in the wilderness where there was wailing, the female night watchman wrote crazily on paper tents to resist the invasion of monsters. ...

If there must be death in mystery novels, this book touches on perhaps the most cruel and desperate situation. One incident changes a person's life. A desperate struggle like falling into a spider web, but where is the end of this darkness? Will there still be light in the world? Is Kaoruko giving up everything and insisting on protecting everything really as imagined? The cute baby in my heart has become a terrifying monster in the eyes of others. They said I treated Mizuho like a toy and that I was playing with a dead person. I don't understand, Mizuho is obviously still alive, why do they say she is dead? Many times, we think death is a moment, but actually death is a process. Desperate protection, distant thoughts, endless struggle. When hope turns into despair, pain is like endless darkness swallowing up life. Challenging the boundaries of human nature and morality, it is the ultimate test of love in the human heart.

If there must be death in mystery novels, what is touched upon here may be a cruel and desperate situation! The novel "Laplace's Witch" transcends crime and sociality and focuses on a more core social issue: ethics. "I wanted to destroy the novel I wrote before, so this work was born" - Keigo Higashino. "Dangerous Venus" is a work that even Keigo Higashino himself cannot easily evaluate. After reading "Dangerous Venus", you will find that you have never understood Keigo Higashino before. Different from works such as "Malevolence", "Dangerous Venus" exhausts the complex side of human nature: everyone has the instinct to do good and the motivation to do evil; there is rationality and there are also irrepressible and crazy desires. "Platinum Data" has a depth worthy of repeated reflection, far beyond the scope of "mysterious novels". From one soul to another, it is self-salvation and a deep understanding of human nature. "Japanese Oscar" actor Ninomiya Kazuya starred in the original novel of the movie of the same name, and the Japanese version sold 1.7 Million copies. In the end, this book is still human after all. The question of sex. "The House of Sleeping Mermaid" - another comforting work by Keigo Higashino after "The Sorrow Store". It is both sad and warm. This is a story that makes us face life again. No mystery novel is as heartbreaking as this book, and there is no book that gives us the belief in "life".

In the future world, any criminal will be unable to escape under the calculations of the "DNA Investigation System". However, some people circumvented the system's monitoring and committed multiple rape and murder cases one after another. Panic spread, and the police began to question whether there were flaws in the system. Unexpectedly, at this time, the "DNA Investigation System" actually transmitted the result data of criminal profiling, and the identity of the real murderer pointed to the developer of the system - Kagura! Kagura once believed that the "DNA detection system" would never go wrong. However, his memory of the time of the crime was blank and he was unable to make a statement of innocence because his second clone had appeared at the scene of the crime. In order to clear the suspicion, Kagura embarked on the road to escape. While investigating the truth, the true intention of the second personality also surfaced...

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Anthony Burgess once said, "Maugham's real talents are all in the short stories he wrote. They are the best language I have ever read." Compared with longer stories, short stories may be what Maugham really loves to write, and they are also what he is most comfortable in writing, so people call him "the British Maupassant". In 1951, Maugham compiled 91 of his own short stories into the three-volume "Collected Short Stories" and personally wrote the preface for each volume. In 1963, the British Penguin Publishing Company republished it in four volumes. Since then, this version has been reprinted many times, translated into various languages, and circulated around the world. This set of "The Complete Collection of Somerset Maugham's Short Stories" (7 volumes) has been translated based on this. It is the first time in China that all the short stories of this great writer have been completely released, including "Rain", "The Lion's Coat", "The Man with the Scar", "Footprints in the Jungle", "The British Agent", "The Gluttonous Man" and "Portrait of a Gentleman".

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"Selected Short Stories of Chekhov" includes 20 famous works of Chekhov's novels, such as "The Chameleon", "The Man in the Trap" and "Death of a Civilian". They are not only Chekhov's masterpieces, but also famous works of Russian literature at the end of the 19th century. The period when Chekhov lived and created was an era of great changes in Russian history. On the one hand, the dark forces of feudalism were rampant and the social atmosphere was suffocating. On the other hand, the Russian workers' revolutionary movement was rising and people's minds were changing. Chekhov's works are the portrayal of this drastic change in social life, and extremely profoundly and truly reflect the life reality of the great changes in Russian society at the end of the 19th century.

"Stories Retold" is a collection of Hawthorne's short stories, first published in 1837. From this work, Hawthorne began to officially sign his name. The title of the book "The Story Retold" is taken from a line in William Shakespeare's historical play "King John": "Life is as dull as a story retold, which makes one's ears tired and drowsy." Edgar Allan Poe was very interested in "The Story Retold" and wrote many reviews, praising Hawthorne as a true genius. Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864), the greatest American novelist in the first half of the 19th century, graduated from Beaudoin College in Maine, USA. Hawthorne's works are rare classics in the history of world literature. His representative works include the short story collection "Moss on the Old House" and "The Story Retold", and the novels "The Scarlet Letter", "The Attic with the Seven Spires", "The Legend of Fortune Valley", "The Jade Figure" and so on.

"The Lighthouse" is Siegfried Lenz's most popular novella. It tells the story of the heroic struggle between the crew of a lighthouse and a group of fugitives who robbed the ship. The plot of the novel is full of twists and turns, and at the same time it is profound in meaning and rich in philosophy. Although it looks like a thriller on the surface, it is actually a realistic work that reflects the social status of Germany and even Europe in the 1950s. The author uses this story to express his point of view: Europe after the war is not peaceful, and kind people must remain highly vigilant against those who disrupt social order. This book also contains three short stories: "Lehman's Narration", "Serbian Girl" and "An Emergency Method of Self-Defense".