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This book tells the story of Bendren, a farmer in the southern United States, who led his family to transport his wife's body back to his hometown for burial in order to keep his promise to his wife. The entire ten-day trip was full of disasters: the water almost washed away the coffin, later the mule pulling the cart was drowned, and the fire almost incinerated the body. As a result, the eldest son lost a foot, the second son went crazy, the third son lost his beloved horse, the daughter failed to have an abortion and was raped by a pharmacy clerk, the younger son did not get the train he expected, but Bundren got dentures and married a new wife.

Revised 106 errors in the old version! Not a word has been deleted, and the manuscript is presented in its original form! Tang Haoming's exclusive preface and approved version! Read and collect the best version! A must-read for politics and business! One of the 10 most popular books for cadres of central government agencies, it is recommended for study by the "Reading Recommendations" column of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Liu Chuanzhi, Zong Qinghou, and Bai Yansong highly recommend it! The pinnacle of historical fiction, the most authoritative, best-reading, and best-selling book about Zeng Guofan. This is the only classic to understand Zeng Guofan, a famous minister through the ages, and a palace work to understand the wisdom of Chinese people in life. Based on the three volumes of "Zeng Guofan" published by People's Literature Publishing House, it is newly revised and presented in its original form.

Meet Ove. He is 59 years old, has an eccentric temper, and dislikes both things and things. He wanders around the community with his unbreakable principles, daily routines and a temper that can explode at any time. He is secretly called the "evil neighbor from hell." He patrols around early every morning, moving bicycles that have not parked in the grid, checking whether the garbage is sorted according to regulations, complaining about whose lawn is not mowed, and cursing the stray cat that has lost its fur. Endless. He wants to commit suicide. Until one November morning, when a chatty couple and their two chatty daughters moved next door and accidentally broke his mailbox... I cried while watching the original novel of the same name of the Swedish box office champion movie in Northern Europe, warmly recommended by the Korean healing god Ji Chang Wook.

This nearly 600-page novel sets the main background in Jerusalem, and uses a moving style to show readers the history and national narrative of a Jewish family for more than a hundred years, or family stories and national history. The two clues of family and nation are intertwined in "The Story of Love and Darkness". It not only takes you into a Jewish family and understands its joys, sorrows and joys, but also allows you to get closer to a nation and get a glimpse of its gains and losses, its honors and disgrace. We cannot be slaves to history, but in this land of Europe, people must kneel down and carry history on their shoulders. Only in this way can we go where we want to go...

The stage of "Snow" is set in Osaka at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s. In the past, the famous Makoka family had four beautiful sisters: the eldest sister Tsuruko was conservative, the second sister Sachiko was harmonious, the third sister Yukiko was introverted, and the younger sister Taeko was unrestrained. The story takes the older and unmarried Yukiko's blind date experiences as the main line, and the ups and downs of Taeko's frustration in studying and her emotional entanglements with rich boys and ordinary youths. On one side is catching fireflies, admiring flowers, singing and dancing, on the other side there are floods, epidemics, hurricanes and wars. The work as a whole is like a slow-flowing river, with light and dark intertwining and dark eddies swirling; in it, the subtleties of human nature are fully revealed, and all kinds of flavors are present.

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This book selects Hardy's short stories purely from the perspective of love. "An Imaginative Woman", "Beautiful Singleness", etc., Are euphemistic and beautiful, with vivid plots and rich characters. Although Hardy has been away from us for many years, there is no sense of distance when reading these works of his.

"Roaring Life" is the second collection of short stories by Kim Ae-ran, a powerful female writer in the Korean literary world. It consists of eight short stories. There are stories in the book about a daughter who was raised in a noodle shop and plays the piano wantonly in a semi-underground rental house in Seoul where rainwater pours in. There are stories about college graduates who teach in remedial classes and live a life that is both a "social animal" and a "dwelling". There are also stories about the reality that urban youths are unable to spend Christmas decently with their lovers due to lack of material... These stories focus on the city Those respectable ordinary people in the novel who seem ordinary and marginal, but are actually struggling silently with life every day, are like a pool of water accumulated in ordinary daily life. With the author's imaginative and intelligent writing style, readers can reflect themselves and taste that sadness can be portrayed calmly, and desolation can be expressed humorously. The book is prefaced by Zhang Yiwei, a Chinese writer and winner of the "Future Writer" Award.

A boy without a name × a girl without a future. A journey of bonding begins with a secret diary, a limited-time love affair with a known ending. I have always kept a distance from others and lived in my own world. I accidentally picked up a book in the hospital with the four characters "Common Disease Library" written on the cover. It turns out that this is the secret diary of classmate Yamauchi Sakura, which records that she has little life left because of pancreatic disease. Because of this opportunity, "I without a name" became the secret co-owner of "She without a future". Completely opposite to me, the cowardly me always just keeps myself closed, but she can calmly say things that I can't say and do things that I can't do. At that time when she taught me the meaning of existence, my heart was filled with her. "I actually want to be you." Become a person who can recognize others, become a person who can be recognized by others, become a person who can love others, and become a person who can be loved by others. "How can I be you?" "I want to eat your pancreas."

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by Atsushi Nakajima. It exclusively contains ten masterpieces and is illustrated by the genius cartoonist Satan-kun. This book is specially designed to treat the "tangled emptiness" syndrome among literary and artistic young people. It soothes the liver and regulates qi, and the medicine can cure the disease.

"Lost in Venice" is a collection of Thomas Mann's early outstanding novels about art and artists, including "Lost in Venice", "Tonio Krüger" and "Tristan". The pursuit of beauty, the pursuit of love, the desire to escape from the barriers of reality, the desire for balance between the outer world and the inner world, etc. Are all topics that artists are eternally searching for. In "Lost in Venice", there may be some new answers.

"How was your summer?" " Is Jin Ae-ran's third collection of short stories, including a total of eight works. Most of the various characters in the book face desperate situations, nakedly exposed to reality, but trying to find slim hope. It is particularly worth mentioning that five of the works focus on young women in their thirties, delicately describing their psychological states in love, friendship, marriage, work, etc., Which may arouse resonance among Chinese female readers. As the most representative female writer in the Korean literary world, Kim Ae-ran has won the love of a large number of readers, largely due to the power of the protagonist in her work. The book is prefaced by Wen Zhen, a Chinese writer and winner of the "Lao She Literature Award".

"Tropic of Cancer" describes Miller's life experience living in Paris with several writer and artist friends. At the same time, through the description of life details such as work, conversations, banquets, etc., It shows the inner spiritual world of impoverished artists and questions the meaning of survival in the chaotic and dirty capitalist world. After its publication, the book attracted many readers and profoundly influenced the European and American literary circles after World War II.

"Gorky's Growth Trilogy" includes "Childhood", "In the World" and "My University". They are three autobiographical novels by Gorky, telling the protagonist Alyosha's cruel growth process in childhood, adolescence and youth. After his father died, Alyosha came to his grandfather's house with his mother, where he spent his difficult childhood years. With the death of his mother and the decline of his grandfather's family, Alyosha was forced to go to the world and make a living alone in a dark society. At this stage, Alyosha came into contact with books, and the knowledge in them broadened his horizons. Full of ideals, Alyosha went to Kazan to study alone. Under the enlightenment and influence of Kazan's many "social universities", his thoughts changed and he eventually took the road of revolution.

On the first spring day in Philadelphia, Agatha escaped from prison. At this time, she has been there for 30 years and will be released after serving her sentence in a short time. What made her choose to take the risk of escaping from prison at this time? "The Other Meaning of Happiness" is a road-style novel created by Mark Levy, a wonderful story about love and friendship. The book ranked first in France's annual sales rankings, with an astonishing sales volume of more than 1 million copies in half a year, and was sold worldwide in 49 languages. Writing about the indispensable love and friendship in life, and the pursuit of happiness, freedom and indelible faith, Mark Levy's latest novel perfectly combines exquisite narrative and delicate writing. It is a healing book that awakens inner tenderness.

"Childhood" is the first book in Gorky's autobiographical trilogy. It tells the story of the protagonist Alyosha's painful life experience in childhood. After the death of his father, Alyosha came to his grandfather's house with his mother and began his childhood living under the shelter of others. The greed and selfishness of his grandfather and two uncles made the young Alyosha witness the darkness and ugliness of the world. Grandma's kindness and hard work planted the seeds of truth, goodness and beauty in Alyosha's heart. Even in the depressing and cruel environment, he still had hope. "Childhood" vividly reproduces the living conditions of the lower class people in Russia in the 1870s and 1980s. Gorky not only wrote about his understanding of suffering and his unique views on life, but there was also an endless desire and strength flowing between the lines.

A century-old noble family has fallen into a terrible curse. Following the tragic death of Sir Charles Baskerville on Dart Moor, the curse of the Hound haunted his heir, Henry Baskerville. Are these tragedies caused by supernatural forces or sinister human hearts? Holmes and Watson began the most thrilling case in their detective careers...

Sudden serial murders in Tokyo: Some people were tied hand and foot and thrown into boiling water in the bathtub; some were burned in the streets... At the same time, the villain Yagami finally waited for the opportunity to change his mind - he arrived at the hospital within 17 hours to donate bone marrow to leukemia patients. Unexpectedly, his friend was also killed in a serial murder case! The police regard Yagami as an important suspect, and the murderer regards him as the next target. Yagami made up his mind to break through the siege within 17 hours and reach the hospital alive. Cruel crime modus operandi, secrets hidden by friends, mysteriously missing bodies... During the 17-hour tense escape, the truth behind 11 serial murders gradually emerged!

"It's Summer Outside" is Jin Ae-ran's fourth short story collection, which includes seven works in total. Most of the protagonists in the story are experiencing "loss", losing their children, losing their father, losing someone who can communicate with them in their native language... Jin Ae-ran seems to intentionally crush the pain of all kinds of losses and evenly distribute it between the lines, so that the pain hits the readers' hearts from time to time. In this book, the author still maintains his role as an observer and recorder of urban life, and his narrative is plain and close to life. "It's Summer Outside" is the winning work of the 48th Dongren Literary Award, among which "The Silent Future" and "Where Do You Want to Go" won the author the 37th Lixiang Literary Award and the 8th Young Writers Award respectively. This time it is included in the "Collection of Jin Ailan's Works" and Di'an, winner of China's "People's Literature Award·Novel Award", is invited to write a preface.

There is a blue castle in everyone's heart, filled with expectations waiting for us to find it. Valancy Sterling is an unmarried girl who is not good-looking, unpopular, good-for-nothing and suffers from heart disease. She has always made the best of herself, endured all kinds of censure from her relatives and friends, and cannot see the future. The only dream of the "Blue Castle" that supported her life also faded away on her 29th birthday. But the arrival of a letter changed her and brought her "Blue Castle" closer...

When Heidi was five years old, her aunt sent her to Uncle Arum's house like a burden. However, when little Heidi fell in love with this mountain, she was deceived by her aunt to go to Frankto to be with a rich girl who was in a wheelchair all day long... Little Heidi was like an angel with a happy wand. Wherever she went, she could always induce unexpected changes.

"It always snows here, and they are the tears of angels. It covers the ground and illuminates the heavy winter." The boy trudged for two days and two nights in the heavy snowstorm, and came to the cafe to return the books of his deceased friend Bart. In the new place, the boy has to complete a task: accompany the postman James to deliver a letter to the end of the world. What lies before them is a journey that can be fatal at any time: endless wind and snow, waves and mountains, biting cold and eternal loneliness. On their next journey to a wide fjord, the two accompany each other, and both must risk their lives for the other and an unusual piece of mail.

Nobel Prize winner Pamuk's novel, which he loved but also caused controversy for, was selected as one of the top ten best books of the year by the New York Times and won France's Medici Prize for Foreign Fiction. The story took place over four days and four nights in 1992. The protagonist Ka, a sentimental poet, travels around the remote Turkish town of Kars under the guise of a reporter. Heavy snow blocked the road, and all traffic from Kars to the outside was cut off. The snow falls relentlessly, gunshots ring out on the stage, and Kars is plunged into a military coup. Modernity and tradition, politics and culture... These conflicts divide the people of Karls City into two poles. The atmosphere of the entire town is full of depression, anger, conspiracy and violence. Love stories, murders, historical entanglements and conflicts are all condensed into this isolated town.

"The Shackles of Life" is Maugham's profound realist work. The protagonist Philip's parents died when he was young, and he was born with a disability. He spent his childhood in a strange environment, and his character is therefore withdrawn and sensitive. During the years he spent in boarding school, he suffered from the unreasonable school system. When he entered the society, he experienced pain in love. On the bumpy road of life, he had to struggle hard every step he took. He has been trying to break away from the two shackles of religion and petty citizen consciousness that imprisoned his spirit, and tried to find the true meaning of life in the chaotic and chaotic life.

Evelyn Waugh is known as the best British satirical novelist of the 20th century and is recognized as one of the most outstanding stylists of the 20th century. "Evil Flesh" is Waugh's first successful work and one of his most important masterpieces. After the First World War, a new generation of young people emerged in the British upper class. Underneath the surface glamor was darkness and fragility. They were the "coquettish teenagers" who represented the glitz and despair of the 1920s. They are both naive and worldly, and they tirelessly devote their restless minds and evil bodies to capricious misdeeds, seeking endless sensory stimulation and desire satisfaction like drinking poison to quench their thirst, but their desires are far from being filled. "Evil Flesh" is a classic masterpiece that depicts a group of "voluptuous teenagers" of this generation and deeply taps into the spirit of this era. Therefore, "it belongs to that category of novel treasures that seem to sum up and define an era, just like "The Great Gatsby."

"Gone with the Wind" describes the life of southerners in the United States before and after the American Civil War. The protagonist Scarlett has no interest in the upcoming war, and she is madly infatuated with Ashley. After the war broke out, Ashley married her cousin Melanie. Scarlett was originally a girl who wanted to do whatever she wanted, but it was the gunfire that pushed her into the face of the cruel reality and changed the trajectory of her life. With no one to rely on, she took on the burden of taking care of dozens of people in the manor and the important task of reviving the manor. She transformed from a delicate eldest lady into a shrewd and capable head of the family. Scarlett is like a rose of thorns standing proudly in the wind. She has the courage and ability to be reborn, inspiring generations of readers to face setbacks and bounce back. Scarlett is a character that people both love and hate. She is strong, confident, brave, and capable, but also selfish, vain, cunning, and greedy. Her youthful ignorance and impulsiveness, the experience and spiritual transformation she endured during the war, and her strong and brave heart and unscrupulousness after the war are all reflected in the novel. This method of contrast shapes Scarlett's contradictions and attracts readers.

This is a literary masterpiece that has influenced the growth of several generations of Americans. It has been praised by the New York Times as a book that "every reporter should have in his hands." Twice adapted into movies. The 2002 version starred Michael Caine and received multiple nominations for Oscars, Golden Globes, and British Academy Film Awards. If you can't escape what you don't like, try to face it bravely. This book is Green's exploration of politics, war, and love. It tells the story of the disillusionment of a naive and ignorant idealist and the choice of a bystander who longs to stay out of the matter. If you can't escape what you don't like, try to face it bravely. After World War II, Pyle, an American with a quiet personality, came to Vietnam, met Fowler, a British war correspondent, and fell in love with Fowler's lover Feng. At the same time, in order to realize his political ideals, Pyle did not hesitate to create many terrorist incidents. After learning of Pyle's crazy actions, Fowler, who originally wanted to stay out of it, was forced to get involved in the war.

The mute John Singer, after his mute best friend went crazy and was sent to a mental hospital, moved out of their home and came to rent a hotel run by Mick Kelly's family. Singer's gentleness, calmness and kind smile are like a star in the night, becoming the object of people's talk. Several souls who can't find an exit seek solace in this deaf-mute man to escape the suffocation of life...

This is a novel in which the author mainly narrates his childhood life. It is also a self-analysis and self-criticism of the author. Through these seemingly ordinary and trivial stories, we can see the germ of the author's existential thought and the starting point of his theory. In short, this is not only an interesting literary work that can provide people with beautiful enjoyment, but also an indispensable first-hand information for understanding Sartre.

This book is dedicated to the story of boys' growth and education, and is full of tenacious, brave, and open-minded masculinity. In "Little Gentlemen", Joe and her husband, Professor Barr, run a school at home. The main students are a dozen energetic boys with different personalities. The oldest is 16 years old, the youngest is only four or five years old, and most are around ten years old. Among them are children of the Barrs themselves and relatives, some wandering orphans, some particularly naughty children, some with physical disabilities and low self-esteem, and children sent by their parents because they cannot discipline them. These children live and study together. Jo and her husband arranged classes, designed games, and built their character. The Barrs never suppress the boys' individuality, but at the same time they subtly educate these children to develop sound characters. The boys grew up healthily and happily in the Qiao family, and many strange, touching or hilarious things happened in the process. As the days passed, the little men gradually grew up. Similar to the quality education we advocate today, the Barrs believe that although knowledge such as Latin and mathematics is very useful, it is more important to cultivate good qualities such as self-study, self-reliance, and self-control, and to cultivate excellent moral conduct. They teach children to be honest, loyal to their duties, and good people, and encourage them to help each other and get close to nature. Children can keep pets, grow plants, and "do business" here, but speculation in business operations is prohibited, etc. Every boy is unwilling to be ordinary. The way Qiao and her husband raise them is to let boys express their individuality and let their dreams fly without losing their principles. Alcott is good at describing simple emotions. Her novels are warm, touching, simple and innocent, conveying life insights and beliefs. She uses her stories to help readers learn to face the increasingly competitive world with a beautiful and peaceful mentality.

There are five Mickey Albom books in the set: "Rebirth in a Day", "Meet Tuesday", "Five People You Meet in Heaven", "Have a Little Faith", and "Keeper of Time".

This book is based on the Cheng Yi edition, and the proofreading is based on the Zhiyanzhai edition and the Cheng edition. The most frequently reviewed editions are the Zhiyanzhai Jimao edition, the Gengchen edition, the Jiaxu edition, the Qianlong Manuscript of One Hundred and Twenty Chapters of a Dream of Red Mansions, the Leningrad Manuscript of the Stone, and the Cheng Jia and Wang Xuexiang editions. Some of the manuscripts have not been read, but are based on Yu Pingbo's "Eighty Chapters of a Dream of Red Mansions" and "Zhi Yanzhai's Re-Evaluation of the Story of Stone" published by Culture and Art Publishing House.

Among the many princes in the Spring and Autumn Period, why was Duke Huan of Qi the first to dominate the world and become the number one overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period? This book reproduces that thrilling historical process with ups and downs of the storyline and vivid characters.

Readers around the world spend an average of three nights reading this super novel. The 20th century human epic "Trilogy of the Century" that became popular all over the world! Sweeping the global charts! I have witnessed with my own eyes that every life approaching death is growing enthusiastically. From the dusty and dangerous coal mines to the gleaming royal palaces, from the corridors representing power to the bedrooms where love and hate are entangled, the five major families from the United States, Germany, Soviet Russia, England and Wales, their very different and entangled destinies are gradually revealed, magnificently showing a 20th century that we think we know, but have never felt so clearly.

The protagonist's family fell into decline when he was young, suffered many hardships, and was forced to leave the family, but he always had a yearning for a peaceful and peaceful life in his heart. He has many Chinese characteristics, pursuing a stable life and working hard to survive. China's tenacity and weakness are fully demonstrated in the protagonist. Like all ordinary people, he hopes that the world will be unified, peace will prevail, there will be no war, everyone will have enough to eat, and the phenomenon of "good people cannot survive, but bad people will survive" will no longer occur. This book more reflects the Chinese people's spirit of unremitting efforts for survival.

Before and after the Spring Taierzhuang Campaign in 1938, in a small county at the foot of the Dabie Mountains in Henan, a group of passionate young people held a workshop on national salvation work. There are young men and women with different family backgrounds and personal experiences here. Whether they are teachers or students, they all hold the same excitement, publish posters, perform performances, and go to the countryside to promote the anti-Japanese war. Their core figures have joined the Communist Party or peripheral organizations of the Party, and their activities are actually carried out under the leadership of the Party. At that time, the Kuomintang implemented a policy of passive resistance to the war, and the claws of the spy organization had extended to the county. The stubborn feudal forces in the county also tried their best to oppose and suppress the activities of the workshop and later the War Religion Group. In this way, various factions and figures inevitably showed their true colors before the great test of anti-Japanese and national salvation. Even within a family, the behavior of each member was distinct.

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One of the "Wars of the Roses" series, Philippa Gregory's representative work, set in the British War of the Roses, mainly depicts the story of women who played a key role in the struggle between the two families. The heroine of "The Lady of the River" is Jacquetta, the mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, "the most beautiful woman in Britain". In the book, she is a beauty who inherited the prophetic ability of the legendary river goddess. She established a friendship with Joan of Arc when she was young, and was later proposed and married by the Duke because of her ability. Although Jacquetta only pursues pure love and a perfect family, her family has reached the center of the vortex of palace struggle. Even if she can predict the future, she cannot escape the tricks of fate.

The "Game of Wisdom" series "Guiguzi's Bureau" has ten volumes and is a full-length historical novel. It tells the glorious legend of Guiguzi, the common ancestor of the strategist, military strategist, strategist, Yin-Yang family, and Taoism, who organized the world! This book is the fifth volume of "Guiguzi's Game". In this volume, the general situation of the world changes rapidly. In the blink of an eye, three years have passed since the four sons entered the mountain. Pang Juan learned "Wu Qi's Art of War" and felt that his skills were mature. He bid farewell to Gui Guzi and the other three people and went down the mountain. He first entered Qi, then Wei, and assisted King Hui of Wei in a decisive battle with 70,000 Qi troops in Huangchi, repelling the combined forces of Qin, Zhao, and Han, and completely relieved Wei's siege. From this, Pang Juan became a marquis and a general, and became famous all over the world. Chen Zhen, his father-killing enemy, was deeply afraid of revenge and hurriedly surrendered to Qin. On the other hand, King Hui of Wei urgently asked the prince to pay a lot of money to hire Sun Bin to come down. Before going down the mountain, Guiguzi changed Sun Bin's name to "Sun Bin". After that, Sun Bin assisted Pang Juan in his plan to farm the fields, which quickly revived Wei's military and financial resources, and it seemed possible to dominate the seven kingdoms.

An out-and-out playboy. In order to take refuge, he entered the barracks and received military training under the instruction of Feng Changqing and other Anxi Army officers. Later, he was involved in the disaster he had avoided before, and was awarded a title for his meritorious service. After that, he was forced to take refuge in the Anxi Army because he accidentally witnessed a royal scandal. He didn't want Ge Shuhan to collude with the powerful people in the court and wanted to silence him. The protagonist was forced to fight to protect himself and finally came to Anxi. After that, he achieved several military exploits, but was persecuted by border orders. He had no choice but to lead 600 Tang troops on a westward patrol, show off his power and conquer the world, and was named the governor of Dawan by the imperial court. When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, he returned to the army for rescue, saved the Tang army many times, and defeated the Chang'an rebels so that they did not dare to leave the city. Later, in order to avenge Feng Changqing, he attacked Chang'an at night and entered the city first. The Huihe army burned, killed and looted in Chang'an, but he personally led his troops to stop them. Although it was against the will of the imperial court, Chang'an was saved.

The "Game of Wisdom" series "Guiguzi's Bureau" has ten volumes and is a full-length historical novel. This book is the sixth volume of the long historical novel "Guiguzi's Bureau". In this volume, Zhang Yi came out of the mountain to persuade the king of Yue, pretending to help him achieve great things, and lured him into a trap. He met his father-in-law, Gongsun Zhi, and won a thousand pieces of gold and hundreds of warriors. After Su Qin came out of the mountain, before he even took the first step, Zhang Yi thought everything out; the affairs of Sun Bin and Pang Juan In the Wei Dynasty, Zhang Yi went to Chu to help the King of Chu plan to annex Yue; Pang Juan was jealous of his talent, and Sun Bin was framed and tortured. In the end, Sun Bin was deceived into copying military documents in order to repay his kindness. After learning the truth, he pretended to be crazy and used Gui Guzi's clever trick to escape. Pang Juan was suspected of fraud and tested for madness.

This book collects Wu Jianren's works such as "History of Pain", "Romance of the Two Jin Dynasties", and "Yunnan Wild Journey". These works are based on the serialized volumes of "New Novel" and "Yueyue Novel", and retain the eyebrow comments and post-review comments in the original books. "History of Pain" mainly tells the story of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the invasion of the Central Plains by the Yuan army, the traitorous traitor Si Dao who betrayed the country in pursuit of glory, and the story of Wen Tianxiang and other loyal ministers who bravely resisted the Yuan Dynasty. "Romance of the Two Jin Dynasties" has a total of twenty-three chapters, written from the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty to the Rebellion of the Eight Kings. It aims to discover official historical facts, uses the past as a guide to learn from the present, and contains the meaning of historical reflection. "Yunnan Wilderness" chapter novel, three chapters. During the Warring States Period, it describes the general of Chu State, Qi Qi, who conquered the southwestern barbarians and established the Dian Kingdom.

"Sword and Spear" follows "Women of Ashes". Imani's brothers died one after another, and she was sent to be a concubine to King Gaza, hoping to kill the king for revenge. The Portuguese army attacked, the Gaza army was defeated, and Imani was captured along with the Gaza royal family.

Imani, a 15-year-old girl, grew up in native Chopi and Portuguese education. Her village was in the midst of double invasions by the African Gaza Empire and Portuguese colonizers. The village chose the protection of the Portuguese, but in the face of the invasion of the Gaza army, the Portuguese sergeant Melo was unable to mobilize the army, so Imani and the sergeant embarked on a journey of exile.

The novel takes Chu Nuannuan, a rural young woman who once went to work in the city, as the protagonist. It tells the story of how she continued to forge ahead after returning to her hometown of Chuwangzhuang, and then led the whole village to start a business. Nuannuan is a "princess"-style country girl. She is the common dream of almost all the young men in Chuwangzhuang. Zhan Shiti, the younger brother of village director Zhan Shideng, believed that Nuan Nuan was the right one for him, but Nuan Nuan resolutely married Kuang Kaitian, a poor young man, and thus developed a grudge against the village director Zhan Shideng, who was rampant in the countryside. From then on, this woman who had seen the world, had a stubborn personality, and had a high spirit began her long and arduous life path. The novel has a strict structure and is full of pathos and warmth. With his unique understanding of Chinese rural life, the writer not only writes about the great changes and contemporary atmosphere of rural life on the surface, but also discovers the solidity of the deep structure of rural China and the difficulty of transformation.

With the outbreak of the "Crisis of the 14th Century", the Eurasian world system built by the Mongol Empire disintegrated, and the East and the West separated, gradually evolving into a new modern world order that affects today. The Ming Dynasty that overthrew the Mongol rule established a new East Asian system. After the arrival of the "17th Century Crisis" and the end of the Ming Dynasty, this system was inherited by the Qing Dynasty. What was the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) like, caught between the two major crises of the "late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty" and "the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty"? Apart from the brutal, bloody, conflicting politics, what else is interesting about this period? What deviations occurred in the ancestral confinement system established by Ming Taizu? What impact did the arrival of the Age of Discovery have on China? This book combines a variety of latest research results to make the seemingly "unchanged" Ming Dynasty become more vivid and "interesting".

Top-secret archives at the Bush Library newly declassified! An expert on modern history from Harvard University, he restores the five months that changed the fate of the Soviet Union and the face of the world. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was undoubtedly one of the most significant events of the 20th century. The author reinterprets that complicated history based on recently declassified top-secret archives from the Bush presidential library, including memos from presidential advisers and top-secret phone calls between Bush and world leaders. This book challenges conventional wisdom about the end of the Cold War and reveals the complex game played by the Bush administration as it sought to end the Cold War and preserve the Soviet Union as its key partner on the international stage. The author focuses on four figures at the center of the event - George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Leonid Kravchuk - to tell the story of the last five months of the Soviet Union, which changed the fate of the Soviet Union and the structure of the world. The author of this book is multilingual and has access to documents in English, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian, which puts him in a unique position to present a new and dramatic story about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a masterpiece of gothic novels by the famous American female writer Shirley Jackson. Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and uncle Julian. Not long ago, there were seven Blackwoods on the estate - until one terrible night, deadly arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl. Constance is acquitted and returns home, where Merricat protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers. Their days pass in happy solitude until cousin Charles appears. Only Merricat can see the danger, and she must act quickly to prevent Constance from falling into his clutches.

"The Red and the Black" is a monument of French and even European literature in the nineteenth century. The protagonist Julien is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was working as a tutor in the local mayor's house. After the affair was exposed, he fled the mayor's house and entered the seminary. Recommended by the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris to work as a personal secretary for the Marquis de Larmore, a backbone of the extreme royalist party. He was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, Julien had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine. The confrontation between the individual and society is the central theme of The Red and the Black. The book challenges traditional customs and denounces the hypocrisy of social values.

"Dora Bruder" tells the story: In 1988, Patrick Modiano saw a missing person notice in the "Paris Evening News" on New Year's Eve in 1941: "Missing girl Dora Bruder, fifteen years old, 1.55 Meters, oval face, gray maroon eyes, wearing a red coat, burgundy pullover, navy skirt and hat, maroon sneakers." The people who published the newspaper were looking for Dora. The Jewish girl left Catholic boarding school that winter and never returned. For ten years, Modiano worked tirelessly to search for all information about Dora. Why did she want to escape the school that sheltered her at the height of Nazi rule? Another official reference to Dora is a list of Jews sent from Paris to Auschwitz in September 1942. Modiano gradually discovered that more unknown people, more stories and histories also disappeared in that turbulent era. The story of Dora Bruder also reminded him of his troubled teenage years. Modiano used superb montage techniques to create this classic work about loss and memory that is between fiction and documentary.