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The first collection of non-fiction works by Neil Gaiman, the master of contemporary fantasy literature, is an appreciation of fantasy art, an analysis of creative ideas, and a book covering opinions, passions and hopes. In this masterpiece, which is a selection of more than eighty speeches and articles, as well as forewords and essays, Neil Gaiman sincerely explores his many views on science fiction, music, comics, and movies, revealing his understanding of fantasy writing. He invites readers into his real world, sharing his experiences and lessons in multiple creative fields, his exploration of genre literature, his contacts and friendships with masters such as Stephen King, Diana Wynn Jones, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Harlan Ellison, etc., And the stories behind the creation of best-selling books such as "American Gods", "The Sandman", "Stardust", "Ghost Mom" ​​and "The Graveyard Book". He talks about the passion for writing that ignited in his youth, a passion that still burns in him today; about the lives of writers he respects and loves, literary genres and personalities, libraries and bookstores; about how and why authors write, how and why readers read, and why all of these things matter. This is not only a funny and humble reader's in-depth appreciation of fantasy art, but also the spiritual confession of one of the great thinkers, wordsmiths, and daydreamers of this era.

"The Burning Ocean: 1941-1942, from the Assault on Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway": In the early morning of December 7, 1941, the residents of Honolulu, who were used to military exercises, woke up to the noisy sound of artillery fire as usual. They did not realize that a magnificent symphony that staked the fate of the country had already been played... The arrogant Japan declared an undeclared war on the United States. The two giant ships of Pearl Harbor soared into flames, and the unsinkable legend disappeared into the towering black smoke. The battle situation in these six months not only determined the direction of the Pacific War, but also affected the entire situation of World War II. If the balance of history moves even a little bit, the world we know will be completely different. "The Burning Ocean" writes about the gripping initial stage of the Pacific War. From it, we can not only appreciate the strategizing behind Roosevelt and Churchill's chatting and laughing, Yamamoto Isoroku's arrogant gamble, but also the despair of the pilots who narrowly escaped death when faced with the relics of their fallen comrades, and the despair of the fleet commander when he received unfavorable information just after issuing an order. Along with the ups and downs of the characters in the book, history is no longer out of reach. "The Fury of Conquest: 1942-1944, from the Battle of Guadalcanal to the Battle of the Philippine Sea": In early June 1942, the Japanese army, eager to win, suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Midway. The desire for a quick victory was completely shattered. The Pacific War has since turned into a protracted war of attrition. After the Allied forces sounded the clarion call for counterattack, the beautiful Pacific islands, from the Solomon Islands, the Gilbert Islands to the Marshall Islands, all turned into blood-filled Shura fields.

"The Bacon Essays" is a collection of essays by Francis Bacon. The content covers almost every aspect of human life. As a knowledgeable and sophisticated philosopher and thinker, Bacon had a unique and thought-provoking approach to the issues he discussed.

"Bacon's Essays" is a collection of essays written by the British philosopher and writer Francis Bacon. The content is mainly short essays of an argumentative nature, mainly describing Bacon's attitudes and ideas about looking at things from different angles. It involves politics, economy, religion, love, marriage, friendship, art, education, ethics and many other aspects, including chapters such as "On Reading", "On Truth", "On Jealousy", "On Death", "On Beauty", etc. It is Bacon's representative work in literature. The language is simple and beautiful, the reasoning is thorough, and the aphorisms are repeated, which contain the essence of Bacon's thoughts.

"A Passage to India" tells the story of the British Mrs. Moore and Miss Adela who traveled to India at the beginning of the twentieth century. Out of enthusiasm and friendship, Indian doctor Aziz organized someone to accompany the two on a tour to the local attraction Malabar Cave. In the dark cave, Miss Adela felt as if someone had insulted her, so she caused an uproar...

"Grandma's Apology Letter" is a story about love, forgiveness and protection that will be unforgettable long after closing the book. "The List Life" Britt-Marie is the kind of boring 63-year-old woman you can imagine because she doesn't allow any disturbance in her life. Get up on time at 6 o'clock every day, have a meal at 12 o'clock, never go out after dark, and keep the sheets spotlessly clean, otherwise it is not a "civilized person's behavior." She has many, many lists, and even has a list to record all the lists to ensure that she and her husband have a safe life... "The Gift of Time" Everything in the world has a price, except time, one second is one second, and no one can bargain...

If you don't kill, you will be killed. If you don't proclaim yourself emperor, you will die without a burial place! Wu Zetian Part 4: Give it a try and cover the sky with one hand! "Despicable Saint: Cao Cao" author Wang Xiaolei's masterpiece exhausts the existing historical data on Wu Zetian! Wu Zetian's transformation from empress to queen begins here! If fate refuses to create a great Wu Zetian, the great Wu Zetian will create her own destiny. Every crisis that Wu Zetian faced was the cornerstone of her becoming the queen. In Wu Zetian's 82 years of life, she was on the verge of life and death every day, and she won every duel. In 31 BC, she was involved in a power struggle and fought for her life from a palace maid to the queen's throne; in 51 BC, she caused a bloody storm and used the queen's dragon robe to ensure her own safety.

A must-read for suspenseful reasoning! The world classic "Portrait of a Murderer" novel personally selected and edited by Edogawa Ranpo, the "father of Japanese mystery novels"! "Portrait of a Murderer" is hungry, depressed, and bullied, a school as cold as winter... "Faith, Hope, Love" The violent sunlight in the wilderness pierces the heart of the guilty. "The Killer" awaits the god of death who is about to knock on the door, which is more terrifying than death itself! In Europe and the United States, people often start to compile masterpieces of short mystery novels from around the world. This book selects the masterpieces loved by "the father of Japanese mystery novels" Edogawa Ranpo from those masterpieces, compiled into six volumes, and presents readers with a historical perspective of short mystery novels from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. The short mystery novels, which span a century, cover genres such as character, suspense, and tough guy. They are rich in variety and full of charm that is different from full-length works.

A must-read for suspenseful reasoning! "The father of Japanese mystery novels" Edogawa Ranpo personally selected and edited the world's classic "impossible crime" novel! The most powerful brain in "Escape from Cell 13"! Use the fewest props to escape from the most closed cell! "Paintings by Sir Gilbert Murrell" Please steal a carriage in a high-speed train... "Walker in the Secret Chamber" In a secret room of a gymnasium, a man with food in front of him starved to death? ! In Europe and the United States, people often start to compile masterpieces of short mystery novels from around the world. This book selects the masterpieces loved by "the father of Japanese mystery novels" Edogawa Ranpo from those masterpieces, compiled into six volumes, and presents readers with a historical perspective of short mystery novels from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. The short mystery novels, which span a century, cover genres such as character, suspense, and tough guy. They are rich in variety and full of charm that is different from full-length works.

The king of a small country, who had no talent except mathematics, actually built a huge empire by relying on calculations. How did he do it?

The "Going Home" series of novels uses the clues of the fourteen members of Queen Fo Yiman's family of the "Harmonious Planet", the botanist Xie Demei, and the archivist to return to the earth in a spaceship, weaving a science fiction story with ups and downs and twists and turns. This book is the final chapter of Card's five-part "Homecoming" series. In this epic ending, when the humans on the Harmony Planet returned to Earth, they discovered a very different world. In this world, two new intelligent races appeared and began to challenge mankind, while Xie Demei and Shang Ling began to search for the "Guardian of the Earth"...

The task of representing human beings to communicate with alien civilizations accidentally fell on the controller of a remote star port. However, our alien friends seem to have some misunderstanding...

"The First Day" is a novel that mixes magic, adventure, conspiracy, love and family affection. It is called "a work with a syrupy sense of happiness" by French readers. Legend has it that while in the mother's womb, the child knows all the secrets of creation, from the beginning of the world to the end of time. When a child is born, a messenger comes to his cradle and blocks his lips with his fingers. From then on, he can no longer reveal the secret entrusted to him, the secret of life. The finger that erases a child's memory forever leaves a mark. Everyone has this mark above their lips, except me.

Ever since they were born and saw stars and rockets for the first time, they had an intuition: they should go to that dark world.

It's a clear morning. The sun shone on the wet lawns and sidewalks, making the cars parked on the roadside shine. The clerk walked forward quickly and kept looking through the instruction book. He frowned as he turned the pages. He paused for a moment in front of a small house with green cement and roughened walls, then walked into the backyard. The dog is sleeping in his kennel, with his back facing out. Only his big, fluffy tail was exposed. "Oh my God." The clerk patted the dog's butt and hit the folder with a pencil to make a noise, "Wake up, you guy." The dog shook his body, slowly poked his head out of the nest, blinked in the morning sunshine, and yawned. "Oh, it's you. Got a job?" After saying that, he yawned again. "Gonna bark."

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" was published in 1864 and is one of Verne's early famous science fiction novels. The novel tells the story of an adventure trip through the center of the earth, inspired by a coded letter from the predecessor of German scientist Professor Lidenbrock, together with his nephew Axel and guide Hans. They descended from the Snæfellsjökull crater in Iceland and experienced three months of arduous trek in the center of the earth. They overcame difficulties such as lack of water, getting lost, and storms, and finally returned to the ground from the crater in Sicily. In the novel, Verne cleverly interspersed his knowledge with the plot and character descriptions of the novel. While describing a magical underground world to readers, showing a twists and turns, vivid and interesting plot, he also allowed readers to learn a wealth of scientific knowledge and feel the strong will of mankind to conquer nature.

To gain rights, you must first assume responsibilities. This is true for humans, and so is AI.

A lone pilot makes an emergency landing on a remote alien planet. How will he avert danger when faced with the aboriginal people with strange customs?

The CIA became the CIA, the Library of Congress became the CIA database; as for Congress, few people knew what it was. The land of the United States is full of franchise states, which are quasi-state entities that are franchise organizations, an institution similar to the McDonald's chain. What about the US government? This thing only exists in a few federal buildings, guarded by federal agents with guns, ready to resist attacks from the streets. This is the United States of the future, a place where bustling traffic coexists with decadence and desolation, where cutting-edge technology mixes with brutality and vulgarity. But above this hustle and bustle, there is another extremely vast and extremely free country: cyberspace, a virtual space composed of computers and networks. In real life, the protagonist of this book is just an insignificant pizza courier, but in the virtual space, he is a leading hacker and a master of double swords. Such a person has the power to destroy the world - or save it...

"Old Will's Planet" is Ogawa Isui's first science fiction short and medium story collection. It includes four high-quality works about how different intelligent life forms survive in extreme environments. Isolation from the world, doomsday crisis, real and fake life, boundless loneliness... From individuals, teams to races, the protagonist of the story will find hope and the meaning of life in the crisis. If you have experienced life and death, togetherness and separation, and have had and lost partners, then you will definitely be able to resonate with them and have the courage to continue to grow.

"Lord of the Flies" is an important masterpiece by Nobel Prize winner William Golding. This novel uses the innocence of children to explore the serious theme of the evil of human nature. The story takes place in an imaginary World War III (future nuclear war). A group of British boys aged six to twelve were stranded on a desert island due to a plane crash during the retreat. They were able to live in harmony at first. However, as their evil nature sprouted and expanded, the latent beastiality in human nature defeated human nature. They killed each other, recreating the entire historical process that led them to this situation, turning the desert island paradise into a human slaughterhouse. The author makes abstract philosophical propositions concrete and allows readers to understand them through fascinating stories and exciting battle scenes. The characters, scenes, stories, images, etc. Are all deeply symbolic. The novel has since been recognized as one of the greatest literary masterpieces of the twentieth century.

Following "The Life of the Disliked Matsuko" and "The Hundred Years' Law", Japan Mystery Writers Association Award winner Yamada Muneki's new masterpiece! When consciousness leaves the body, am I still me? We abandon our bodies and gain eternal life, but we no longer know who we are. A technological innovation in the field of consciousness transmission shakes the boundary between life and death and opens the door to eternal life for mankind. Shortlisted for the 7th Futaro Yamada Award. Selected as the Best 20 in the 2017 "Amazing Japan Awards" novel category. In the future, humans have invented an artificial body that can store consciousness - a proxy body. The surrogate body has become an epoch-making invention in the history of medicine. By transmitting consciousness into the surrogate body, people who are seriously ill can use the surrogate body to work and live normally while their physical body is hospitalized. One day, an accident broke the peaceful life of body adjuster Hatta Teruaki. The body of a proxy user he was responsible for suddenly died, and the proxy he controlled disappeared mysteriously. Only then did Yata know that a group of people who depended on the body had gathered in the world. They stole the body and tried to use it to gain eternal life! But these body dependents gradually find that they have been facing a problem that can never be solved: Are they still themselves after abandoning their own bodies?

Intelligent motorcycles can better serve mankind. However, if a motorcycle has a mind of its own... Something interesting might happen.

"Captain Grant's Children" is the first part of Verne's famous science fiction trilogy. During a voyage to catch sharks, Sir Glenarvan found a champagne bottle hidden in the belly of the fish, and got clues about the missing Scottish navigator Captain Grant two years ago. After being refused by the British government to go to the rescue, Jazz and his party decided to go to sea to search for themselves. Along the way, they passed through Chile, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, overcoming numerous difficulties and dangers, and finally found Captain Grant on a desert island in the Pacific. The novel contains a distinct sense of justice, which can not only inspire people's indomitable spirit of adventure and cultivate their strong will, but also enrich their scientific knowledge. For more than 100 years, this book has been welcomed by readers around the world.

Even after life and death, even after being abandoned, betrayed and deceived. She still decided to forgive him and continue to love him, because she knew that his thoughts for her were far and long from here to the moon.

Introducing the 10th anniversary special edition, Paolo Giordano's masterpiece, winner of Italy's highest literary award "Strega Literary Prize". The most astonishing debut bestseller in Italian publishing history, and the film of the same name caused controversy at the Venice Film Festival. It uses prime numbers to describe human loneliness and is known as the Italian version of "Norwegian Wood". "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" is the representative work of Paolo Giordano, an Italian writer and doctor of particle physics. He has won the Strega Prize, Italy's highest literary award. A prime number, also known as a prime number, is an important mathematical concept. It is a number that cannot be divided by any natural number except 1 and itself. Prime numbers are lonely. However, some prime numbers have a twin prime number, and among them, only one even number exists. Mattia is a young mathematical genius. He believes that he is one of the prime numbers, and his middle school classmate Alice is his twin prime number. They all have painful pasts, are equally lonely, and are equally unable to close the distance with other people. From adolescence to adulthood, their lives continue to intersect, trying to eliminate the obstacles that exist between them, influencing each other and being separated from each other, like twin prime numbers, close to each other but never able to get close. With delicate brushwork, Paul Giordano recreates the growing pains of the characters in the novel and their efforts to find their place in life.

"Selected Novels and Novels by Zola" exposes the political darkness, religious hypocrisy, and bourgeois ugliness during the Second French Empire and the Third Republic, sympathizes with the suffering of the poor and praises the greatness of the laborers, contrasts the loss of honor concepts of the ruling class with the heroism of the ordinary people, depicts the lives of small citizens and the activities of artists, and studies the issues of marriage, death, and lust... The subject matter and content are quite extensive and rich. Realism, romanticism, naturalism, symbolism... The creative techniques and artistic styles are varied and colorful. It is true that Zola's short stories and short stories, even these selected masterpieces, are inferior to his predecessor Balzac and his junior Maupassant in the depth and breadth of reflecting and analyzing real social relations; some of the propositions of naturalism, such as the deliberate pursuit of blandness and moderation like daily life, have done harm to the artistic effect of some of his short stories and short stories. However, when Chinese readers compare this selection of novels with the selections of short stories and short stories by realist masters such as Balzac, Maupassant, Chekov, and O. Henry that they have experienced before, it is still not difficult to discover its unique ideological and artistic richness, and gain good lessons and beautiful enjoyment from it.

This book collects Yu Dafu's most classic and representative novels, essays and autobiographical works, including not only famous works such as "Sinking", "Chi Osmanthus", "Spring Breeze Intoxicated Evening", "Autumn in the Old Capital", etc., But also carefully selected some articles that best reflect Yu Dafu's language style, ideological connotation and romantic feelings. These are among the most beautiful, artistic and influential works of the Republic of China.

"Hot Night Dreams": In the 19th century, on the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi River was filled with the dreams of all boatmen. Countless steamships chase each other on this arterial waterway, competing for money and honors, with long whistles and white smoke billowing. Just when a snow disaster almost destroyed Captain Abner Marsh's shipping career, he received a letter from a mysterious man. The promise of gold and a magnificent new ship that could make history made Captain Marsh irresistible. Joshua York came to seek cooperation and wanted to cross the majestic Mississippi River. He hoped that Marsh could help him. The only requirement was to respect his privacy and not doubt his decision, no matter how bizarre, arbitrary or abnormal his behavior seemed. Although Marsh instinctively sensed that the proposal was fraught with dangerous secrets, he decided to go all-in. They built a steamboat called "Hot Night's Dream" that perfectly matched all of Captain Marsh's dreams. It wasn't until the new ship made its maiden voyage that Marsh realized what had happened... Along the way, the "Hot Night's Dream" turned the Mississippi into a river of blood; and it itself gradually turned into a blood ship. "The Passing of Light": The protagonist Dirk is summoned by his lover who has left him long ago and comes to the planet Voron. However, Voroun is a world completely outside of Dirk's experience, and Gwen is no longer the woman he is familiar with. Surrounded by conspiracies, Dirk is increasingly unable to distinguish between his allies and enemies... In this unforgettable space opera, George R. R. Martin unfolds a chilling eternal night - a turbulent world filled with cultural conflicts, a lack of honor code, and the identities of hunter and prey are often interchanged.

The most popular comedy novel by Nick Hornby, the most popular British writer today, and the film version of "About a Boy" starring Hugh Grant is known as "the most important British comedy". One is a twelve-year-old boy who has no childhood and is "the oldest in the world", and the other is a thirty-six-year-old man who "refuses to grow up" and is least willing to mature. The background is our noisy post-industrial era. There's sex, rock 'n' roll, lies, and more genuine laughter; it's cool enough, avant-garde enough, nonsensical enough, and speaks directly to your heart. Teach you what growth and maturity are in humor and sadness, laughter and tears.

The novel takes the life experience of the protagonist Margaret as the main line, and truly and vividly describes the tragic story of a prostitute who is as holy and beautiful as a camellia in appearance and heart. The novel is based on a personal experience of Xiao Zhongma. It is a confession of Xiao Zhongma's emotional experience. The protagonist Margaret is a very beautiful rural girl who came to Paris alone to make a living, but unfortunately became a prostitute. The crazy love for her by Armand, a young man from a well-off family, inspired her yearning for love life, but this raging love affair ended due to the opposition of Armand's father. Armand did not know the truth and thought that Margaret had betrayed him deliberately, so he looked for opportunities to humiliate her, and eventually he died of resentment in poverty and illness.

At least once in his life every man becomes part of Adam's body, that is the moment of revelation. Only this short period of time is light and belongs to oneself. The rest of the time is darkness and is used by others. This moment of revelation is what the Khazars call a "dream." The purpose of the Khazar dream catchers is to collect these moments and piece together the body of Adam... The Khazar king wanted to convert to a religion and choose one of the three religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, so representatives of Christianity (Orthodox), Judaism, and Islam in Constantinople gathered in the Khazar capital and held a "Khazar Debate." The three religions each have their own opinions on the outcome of the debate. Since the history written by the Khazars themselves has been lost to obscurity, the results of this great debate can only be supported by Christian, Jewish and Islamic documents. However, the results recorded by the three religions are contradictory, and they all believe that their religion has won the victory. So at the end of the seventeenth century (that is, hundreds of years later), a Khazar dictionary came out, which included records of debates between the three major sects. The book was divided into three parts, namely the Red Book, the Green Book, and the Yellow Book, which recorded the respective opinions of the three major sects.

[Original novel of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! The leisure time has come to an end. This time, Maple faces a new challenge - the guild competition! The members of "Big Maple Tree" are gearing up and waiting to show off their talents. But everyone seems to only care about the powerful showdown between "Holy Sword Gathering" and "Fire Emperor Kingdom"... "Big Maple Tree" has been marginalized! In order to overturn the situation, "Big Maple Tree" has a trump card and makes a high-profile appearance! Maple finally let herself go, heading towards the title of "The Strongest Girl"!

He was called Balthasar, the Seven Suns, because he could see things in the light; she was called Blimunda, the Seven Moons, because she could see things in the dark. He has the iron hook growing out of his broken arm, and she has eyes that pierce everything; their bodies and minds love each other, and love makes people dare to go against the grain. It was a time of little imagination. The great king wanted to build a unique monastery, and the 31-ton boulder was moved purely by manpower; the crazy priest and the young lover wanted to build a machine that could fly into the sky, but people said flying was a sin. Eventually, the craft crashed, the body was burned, and the monastery was built. In the end, the divine power was deposed, the royal power was reduced to ashes, but love and will remained forever.

O. Henry is a famous American critical realist writer and one of the world's three major short story masters. His works have novel ideas, humorous language and often surprising endings. His representative works include the novel collections "Cabbage and the King", "Four Million", "The Road of Destiny", etc. Some of his famous works, such as "The Sacrifice of Love", "The Police and the Hymn", "The Furnished Room for Rent", "The Gift of the Magi", "The Last Vine Leaf", etc., Have won him world reputation.

This book comprehensively collects Izumi Kyoka's classic works in three different genres: dramas, novels and sketches: the drama masterpiece "Tenshu Monogatari", which was first published in Simplified Chinese version and was the peak of her creative career, "Even if the world is full of war, butterflies will still fly, and Nadeshiko and Platycodon will still bloom"; A Cold War A charming fantasy, "Uta no Yue" is a mature work by Kyoka Izumi pursuing "artistic supremacy"; a remarkable work of early conceptual novels, "Surgery Room", a story of pure love that transcends physical pain in the operating room; there are also playful and strange sketches "Yōkai Chronicle" and "The Seven Mysterious Incidents in Kagurazaka". It describes love, entanglements and regrets across the human world and other worlds, dreams and reality. The meticulously crafted magical language builds a "mirror world" like Pandora's box: gorgeous and ghostly, lifelike. He has a flat, three-quarter-length hair, a clean face, and wears thin gold round glasses. He has the appearance of a literary young man. What makes him have the imagination to travel to other worlds and reality? The book includes a "Writer's Anecdotal Column - Izumi Kyoka's Incredible" that profiles Kyoka's phobia, paranoia and collecting addiction, leading readers to add another touch of Kyoka's daily life interest when they are lost in the glorious and bizarre world of Kyoka.

This book is the new version of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", which not only restores the original appearance as much as possible, but also strives to be suitable for today's readers. It is accompanied by more than 300 widely circulated embroidery illustrations, adding to its artistic appeal.

"Portrait of a Lady" is a representative classic of the early creations of the American writer Henry James. With sophisticated and elegant language and meticulous plot arrangement, it describes how the young, beautiful, lively, cheerful and fantasy American girl Isabel faced a series of life and destiny choices. The work still shows the cultural differences and conflicts between Europe and the United States that James has always been concerned about, and deeply explores ethical issues such as freedom, responsibility, love, and betrayal. This work is an excellent way to appreciate Henry James. "The Americans" was first published in 1877. It is the third novel in Henry James's writing career, and it is also his first work that successfully reflects "international themes". This is the first time this novel has been translated and published in the country in more than 140 years since its publication. The novel "Washington Square" was first published in 1880 and is one of Henry James' most popular novels. The novel's relaxed narrative techniques and clear and elegant language style have won widespread praise from critics and readers. The novella "In the Cage" was first published in 1898. It has a fantastic 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. The novella "Daisy Miller" was first published in 1878. It was the foundation work of Henry James's writing career and the most commercially successful novel during his lifetime. It was after the publication of this novel that the name "Henry James" became widely known to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.

This is the story of two lonely, scrawny, rather old men who meet on a dying planet. One of them is the science fiction novelist Trout, who is unknown and thinks his life is over. The person he meets is car agent Dwayne, who has a successful career but is on the verge of a mental breakdown. After the two met, one became famous and the other went crazy. And all this is due to a theory in a science fiction novel. Its core idea is as follows: everyone on the earth is a robot, and only you have free will.

This is a story in which men are absent and women set up a household and take care of the family. What kind of skills do three generations of women have to keep the incense alive? What kind of twists and turns did the "good men and good women" in Tianxiang Garden go through before they suddenly realized the ordinary happiness of free and blossoming life?

"Notre Dame de Paris" was such a success that when Michelet wrote "History of the Middle Ages" in 1833, he mentioned this ancient church and wrote: "Someone left a deep lion's paw print on this building. From now on, no one will touch it rashly."... Esmeralda, Claude, Frollo, and especially Casimordo have all become legendary figures almost like Jean Valjean.

The aristocratic young man Raphael was disheartened after going bankrupt and was about to commit suicide when an antique dealer gave him a magical donkey skin. This donkey skin can grant any wish, but once the wish is fulfilled, the donkey skin immediately shrinks and the user's lifespan is also shortened. After that, Rafael began to use this donkey skin to obtain money to satisfy his desires, and the donkey skin symbolizing his life also shrank, leading him step by step to death...

Golden Dagger Award winner Steve Kavanagh's mystery masterpiece. Eddie Flynn's legal career ended in a defense battle. The lawsuit caused him to lose his reputation and lose his family. He vowed never to go to court again. He drank all day long, had no income, and could not even pay the rent. At this moment, he sneaked into the court wearing a bomb jacket. He doesn't have any bargaining chips. If the trip fails, the bomb on him will detonate immediately, and his daughter's life will be at risk. Whether he can successfully rescue his daughter, the exciting story begins...

In this collection of essays with rich themes and vast horizons, Joseph Brodsky begins with a deeply introspective look at his early experiences in Soviet Russia and his subsequent exile in the United States. Then, the author uses astonishing erudition to discuss a series of broad and deep topics such as the relaxation and change of poetry, the nature of history, and the double dilemma of exiled poets. The tentacles of thinking extend from ancient times to the present, from the ancient Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius to the modern and contemporary poets Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost. The philosophical discussion of the nature of existence and the passionate passion for poetic aesthetics are combined into another rare work after "Less than One".

"Biography of Flowers on the Sea", a late Qing Dynasty novel written by Han Bangqing. The main content of this novel is about the brothel life in the Shili Foreign Market in Shanghai, China in the late Qing Dynasty, involving the officialdom, business circles and the social aspects linked to them at that time. "Biography of Flowers on the Sea" is the most famous novel in Wu language and the first dialect novel in China. Later Zhang Ailing translated it into Mandarin and named it "Flowers of the Sea".

"Dark Night and Dawn" and "Century Trilogy" have 11 volumes in total! A super novel that readers all over the world read overnight! Synopsis of "Dark Night and Dawn": In 997 AD, the land of England fell into boundless darkness - Viking pirates were rampant, kings and nobles were divided against each other, clergy were greedy and indulged in lust, and prisoners of war and slaves were wailing everywhere. Edgar, a shipbuilder, was forced to move to a wild land due to pirate attacks. His life took a turn for the better but he lost his loved ones one after another; Ragna, the daughter of a Norman nobleman, was full of longings to marry in England, but found that the marriage was a long-planned scam; Friar Aldred, with extraordinary dreams, tried to eliminate the evil trend, but was accidentally involved in the bishop's conspiracy. The fates of these three people who had nothing to do with each other were closely intertwined because of their desire for justice and fairness...

"Three Women" consists of three short stories. The three stories with different text structures have a subtle and careful relationship with each other, forming an extremely exquisite aesthetic whole. The British "Times" said that Musil is "the greatest German writer in half a century."

The inspiration for Japanese animation legend Ghibli. Collection of all representative fairy tales of Japan's "Andersen" Miyazawa Kenji. Kenji Miyazawa, a well-known national writer in Japan, uses pure short stories to build the framework of modern fairy tales, providing inspiration for literary and artistic creators around the world. "Night on the Galaxy Railroad" marks the pinnacle of Japanese fantasy literature. This book selects 16 representative works of Miyazawa Kenji. In the selection of "Japanese people's favorite writers for a thousand years", Miyazawa Kenji's influence is higher than Dazai Osamu and Murakami Haruki.

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The creation of the novel "Oblomov" began in the 1840s. It is the representative work of the outstanding Russian realist writer Goncharov. It was not completed until 1859 and occupies an important position in the history of Russian literature. The novel creates an image of a character who is upright, kind, and gentle, but also lazy, obsessed with fantasy, inactive, and conservative. Oblomov, a landowner and intellectual, was pampered and regarded labor and public service as unbearable burdens. Although he envisioned a huge action plan, he was unable to accomplish anything. In the end, he could only lie on the sofa and dawdle, becoming a complete lazy man and waste. Russian writer Turgenev said: "Even when there is only one Russian left, he will remember Oblomov."