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This book is a collection of short stories, the eighth in the series. Most of the stories recorded in the book were collected from the notebooks of Holmes' old partner Dr. Watson. When these stories were published, Holmes was living in seclusion in the countryside of England, living a comfortable life, and wanted to completely retire from his detective career. However, due to the outbreak of the Germanic War, Holmes returned to the world to contribute to the British Empire and perform extraordinary experiences.

This book spans 15,000 years of human development, focuses on the shift of the center of global civilization, and elaborates on major issues such as when the West began to dominate the world. It quantitatively describes the many factors that determine economic and social development trends, in order to trace the past, present, and future evolution of the economy and society.

The year 1215 holds an extraordinary position in Britain's millennium history. At that time, John, the "King of Soft Swords," was busy appeasing the restless barons. The Magna Carta, which was of great significance to the world's legal and political systems, was born in such an environment and would have a profound impact on British democratic politics. At the same time, also in 1215, King John was once in a situation of internal and external difficulties. In the competition with the Capetian dynasty on the European continent, it gradually lost its advantage. A little further east, Innocent III made decisions at the Fourth Lateran Council that changed the fate of millions. Author Dan Jones once wrote the best-selling book "The Plantagenets". This time, he chose the unique year of 1215 to show readers every detail of this turbulent country. In addition to describing the magnificent political struggle, Jones also takes readers closer to the daily life of England in the 13th century: from the royal family to the clothing and diet of civilians; social order and legal justice; animal species and nobles who are keen on hunting; the living conditions of women and children, etc. There's even the strange mantras and quirks of King John and his family. In short, the book paints a vivid picture of England in this turning point and turbulent year.

After World War II, French intellectuals played a uniquely important role in European cultural and political life. In this work, Tony Judt analyzes the biggest conflict in intellectual circles: how to respond to the promises and betrayals of communism; and how to maintain persistence in radical ideas in the face of the hypocrisy of the former Soviet Union under Stalin, the new communist Eastern Europe, and France itself. Judt shows us how these pioneering intellectuals defended certain "show trials" after the war, ignored the tyranny and terror behind communism, and even spread the theory to the public that the Soviet-style road was the only way to liberation. In addition, this book also provides a detailed description of the drama and struggle for power and gain among intellectuals at that time. The objects of its attention include not only the representative figures of "existentialism" - Sartre, Camus and Beauvoir, but also important Catholic philosophers, journalists, literary critics, etc.

"A Small Amount of Solace" contains eight different stories, including A Small Amount of Solace, Top Secret, Borrowed Knife, and Dead by Daylight. Dead by Daylight tells a series of thrilling stories about James Bond's journey to the Czech Republic to cover the defection of a Soviet spy. This book uses different stories to show readers the charm and wit of James Bond, making the image of 007 more vivid.

Private detective Marlowe works for money, but does not sell his soul for money. He said: "In order to make a living, I sell what I have to sell. All I can sell is the courage and wisdom God has given me, and the willpower to protect my customers, and I would rather suffer a loss." The debris of an old pearl robbery case surfaced, and the young boy who learned the whereabouts of the pearl died on the bed of the rental house. The robbers back then have been released and now make a living by raising goldfish. Marlowe said: "Goldfish? Damn it." "Red Wind" Whenever the Santa Ana wind blows, the meek little wife may look at her husband's neck with a knife. In such a season, Marlowe said to the girl who saved his life: "If anyone gives you trouble, tell me." The hot wind was raging, but it could not blow away the tenderness of the knight Marlowe.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is one of the masterpieces of the world-famous French science fiction novelist Jules Verne. The author lets readers board the "Nautilus" and travel under the sea for nearly ten months at an average speed of twelve kilometers per hour. As Captain Nemo and his "guests" enjoy the ever-changing strange landscapes and various creatures on the seabed, the voyage has climaxes, including undersea hunting, visiting undersea forests, exploring the ruins of Atlantis under the sea, salvaging treasures from a Spanish shipwreck, witnessing the funeral of the Coral Kingdom, fighting with giant spiders, sharks, octopuses, repelling the siege of the indigenous people, etc.

This book is one of the "Comprehensive Translation of Detective Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty: Gao Luopei's Embroidered Portrait Edition". A series of murders led to the theft of imperial pearls that occurred in the palace many years ago. The case was confusing and complicated, and the people involved were all local antique dealers or people who liked antiques. Di Renjie finally made the case known to the world through careful reasoning and detailed analysis of the complex case. He also found the imperial pearl that had been lost for many years and returned it to the palace.

After Fan Jin passed the imperial examination, he actually went crazy and was slapped awake by his father-in-law Hu Tutu. This was the shock of the imperial examination success to a scholar. Wang Yuhui watched his daughter starve to death in the house, just to sacrifice her husband and get a chastity memorial arch, but he turned around and shed tears of sadness. This is the cruelty of ethics and the subtlety of human nature. Shen Qiongzhi escaped from marriage and went to Nanjing. She was a single woman and wanted to make a living by selling her literature in Nanjing, a city where people gathered together. This is something that modern female writers find difficult, and she was eventually captured by the government. This is the desire and suppression of personal independence. Yan Jiansheng tried his best to straighten his concubine, but she died, and his only precious son also died. This is a trick of fate. Du Shenqing only wanted to take in a concubine and continue his heirs, but what he really loved was men. This was a limitation of the times and a shackle of ethics.

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

Xu Dishan, whose name is Zankun and whose courtesy name is Dishan. Modern writer and scholar. When he was a child, his father once used the metaphor of falling peanuts to educate his children, which left a deep impression on Xu Dishan. When he started writing in 1921, he took Luo Huasheng as his pen name (in ancient Chinese, "hua" means "hua"), encouraging himself to be a person with the character of Luo Huasheng.

"Adventures in the Slums" by George Orwell, the author of "1984", a little-known story of Orwell's early life. What kind of person was a prophet before he became a prophet? George Orwell, the author of "1984" and "Animal Farm" and the prophet of dystopia, was always a staunch socialist throughout his life. This may confuse today's readers who do not understand the changes in the political spectrum, but for Orwell, this was a natural choice. "Down and Out in Paris and London" is Orwell's first officially published documentary work. It tells the story of Orwell's true experience of voluntarily entering the slums in Paris and London to experience life at the bottom of society. After feeling completely disgusted and despaired of the British colonial system, Orwell's literary dream finally came to fruition for the first time after several setbacks. The experiences in Paris and London can be seen as Orwell's journey of repentance and redemption for his service to the colonial system. As a loyal believer in the socialist system, perhaps Orwell's deliberate choice of wandering and poverty was a test of his ability to persist in implementing socialist ideals. Paris and London are the most prosperous places in the capitalist world, but the poverty and hardship at the bottom of society is shocking. Orwell's sincere attitude of "resigning himself to suicide" and treating the working people as equals is truly unusual among British left-wing literary writers. It is this spirit that makes "Down and Out in Paris and London" a classic documentary work that exposes social injustice, and it still resonates with readers today.

This set of books is Younesbo's classic police detective suspense novel, including "Snowman", "Cheetah", "Ghost", "Police", "Mockingbird" and "Redeemer", a total of 6 volumes.

In 1903, various forces were fighting overtly and covertly, the Russo-Japanese War was about to break out, and the entire China was in turmoil. In order to seize profits, Japan sent spies to bribe important officials of the Qing government. Doi, who is in the antique business, is also among them, and his target is Wen Baotai, a rubbing expert who has close relations with important officials in the court. However, the day after Wen Baotai was successfully bribed, Wen's body was found in the Youyou Pavilion with the windows and doors locked, and the 250,000 yen used as bribes disappeared. Soon, the Wen family's housekeeper was mysteriously killed, the maid Fang Lan disappeared for no reason, and finally even the spy Doi was kidnapped... Japan, Russia, the Qing government, and various underground forces were all involved, and the entire Youyou Pavilion and even the city of Beijing were shrouded in fog.

The story of this book slowly unfolds from a manuscript left behind by a woman: the heroine is hired as a tutor to go to Bly Manor in the countryside to take care of the little boy Miles and the little girl Flora who have lost their parents. During her tenure, the female teacher often saw the ghosts of the deceased former female teacher and the manor servant. At the same time, she discovered that the two young children seemed to have a secret connection with the two ghosts. The female teacher tried to fight against the evil ghost to save the children, but she herself fell into doubts and suspicions about the children and was unable to extricate herself... Can courage fight against evil? Suspense and tension are stacked step by step, just like screws that are getting tighter and tighter.

After the "Hunter Special Forces" received the combat mission, the Meng Army led the team to attack quickly, but got into trouble in the jungle. They accidentally discovered a little boy (Lin Sheng), and with the help of his magical sense of smell, they successfully captured the international spy "Blood Bat". Taking this as an opportunity, Lin Sheng grew up step by step from an illiterate child in the mountains to a special operations elite with numerous meritorious deeds and the best sniper in the army. He once worked as an undercover gangster, destroying the "Black Box" drug trafficking organization in Southeast Asia in one fell swoop, and personally captured the leader of the organization, the world's largest drug lord "Montenegro"; Countless battles and countless brushes with death, Lin Sheng was fearless...

According to data, there were no prisoner-of-war camps for Chinese prisoners of war during the Sino-Japanese War. Chinese prisoners of war were all directly killed or sent to do coolies. The only prisoner of war camp was in Shenyang, which only held European and American prisoners of war. The story took place in early 1940, three years after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, during the tug-of-war period between China and Japan. Eight prisoners of war, led by Lei Zi, successfully escaped from the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and entered the huge virgin forest mountains next to the prisoner-of-war camp. With joy and anxiety about the unknown future, the prisoners of war continued to go deeper into the forest, but what greeted them was a series of strange encounters: an environment without living creatures; unusually long days and nights; pools full of carrion; vampire monsters lurking around; and a creature that should not appear in the primitive world. The mysterious organization that does exist in the forest... Shao De, a puppet army officer in the prisoner of war camp, led several Japanese non-commissioned officers and a platoon of puppet troops into the forest. Various strange phenomena they encountered also followed: there was a mysterious loss of contact with the outside world; soldiers died and disappeared one after another. Following the escape route of the prisoners of war, more and more unexplainable mysteries emerged. During the pursuit, Shao De discovered that the entire prisoner of war escape incident was surprisingly similar to another incident that also occurred in the prisoner of war camp three years ago! And almost despairingly realized that he was inextricably linked to all of this. Even he, Lei Zi, a prisoner of war who is being hunted, and Cao Zheng, a prisoner of war who also escaped from the prisoner of war camp three years ago, are slowly reuniting...

The masterpiece of American romantic writer Melville is also one of the best novels in the history of world literature. It is known as the "encyclopedia of the whaling industry" because of its description of sea voyages and the complicated whaling life. "Cambridge Literary History" calls it one of the greatest maritime romance novels in the history of world literature. In terms of its literary value, it is also known as the American "Hamlet". It tells the story of Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship "Pequod", who is determined to hunt down the ferocious and intelligent white whale Moby Dick who bit off one of his legs. After sailing almost all over the world, he finally encounters Moby Dick after many twists and turns. After three days of tracking, the harpoon was finally used to hit the white whale, but the ship was hit by the white whale. Ahab was entangled in the rope on the harpoon and was taken into the sea. They all fell into the sea, but only the sailor Ishmael was saved. The white color given by the author to the white whale symbolizes innocence and terror, and the white whale symbolizes the mixture of good and evil. This is the basic condition of the human world. Ahab wanted to catch Law's challenge. His death along with that of the entire crew was an inevitable outcome. This novel has become an outstanding work with its rich ideological content, epic scale and mature and thoughtful writing style.

"The Killing of the Fire God" is a collection of short mystery novels by Japanese mystery writer Matsumoto Seicho. The story is clever and concise, showing the shocking moments in human nature. The book is composed of five short stories. The title "The Killing of the God of Fire" skillfully weaves historical attainments into and out of the story; in "Grape Tang Grass Pattern Embroidery", a Brussels specialty tablecloth becomes the key to the love-hate drama, vividly describing the subtle scheming of men and women; "The Strange Accused" explores the boundary between sincerity and lies, the source of creative ideas and the study of acquittal cases; "The Bond of Grace" relies on the author's childhood memories.

The novel tells the story of Galip, a lawyer born and raised in Istanbul, who searches for his missing wife. A detective story-like beginning - his wife Rumeng disappeared, leaving only a note. Galip began to search and roam the streets of Istanbul. He gradually believes that Rumeng's running away is related to the disappearance of her half-brother Yela, a well-known newspaper columnist. He began to explore the deep meaning behind Jela's words, visited the places Jela had visited, and even thought in Jela's way. Finally, he sneaked into Jela's apartment, wore his clothes, answered his phone calls, and finally even pretended to be him to write a column. This is the surface plot of the novel. And as Pamuk says in the book, there is a deeper meaning behind the story. Galip's pursuit of Rumeng and Yela seems to symbolize the exploration and revelation of an ultimate ideal. This has the same cultural logic as the mystery of words and meanings, the mystery of faces and meanings, and the theory of "the savior will come" declared in Yela's column once discussed in the book, thus forming a multi-line parallel network of meanings. At the same time, the questioning of the nature of the self and the thinking about the relationship between self and others are constantly strengthened through the plot of the novel itself and the text of Jela's column in the novel, permeating the entire novel. This in turn triggers and is connected with the narration of the history and destiny of Istanbul, and thus expands to thinking about the relationship and essence between the East and the West.

The work has been shortlisted for the Naoki Award for five times. It is as popular as Haruki Murakami and Keigo Higashino in Japan and has touched millions of readers. Spring. Let's cry once and for all for family love, justice, and the feelings between gay friends! What's really important needs to be expressed easily and clearly, like a clown swinging in the air, everyone forgets the existence of gravity.

Awakening childhood memories also awakens the authenticity and purity of my past. Neil Gaiman, master of fantasy literature: "Sea of ​​Oblivion" is a book that is extremely close to my heart. Open "Sea of ​​Oblivion" and find the truth and purity of childhood in Neil Gaiman's childhood world. Childhood memories are often obscured by later events and become hazy, but these memories do not disappear. Years later, I returned to the Sea of ​​Oblivion and my childhood memories came flooding back to me. In that memory, the nanny was a monster from another world, and the neighbor was a mysterious witch. In that memory, the ocean can be put into a bucket, and a person can know everything if he sinks in the ocean. During that memory, I met a witch friend, Letty. She looked three or four years older than me, but I guessed she might be three or four thousand years older than me. That memory was so wonderful, but so real. Standing on the shore of the Sea of ​​Oblivion, I vaguely saw Letty sleeping in it...

The National Book Award-winning work, the masterpiece of the memoirs of legendary artist Patti Smith, is newly hardcover and revised in 2017. "Just Kids" begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It is a tribute to New York in the 1960s and 1970s, when the city was emerging as the cultural capital of the Western world. This book chronicles its wealth and poverty, as well as its gangsters and villains. It tells a true myth and paints a portrait of a young artist on his way up, prelude to the arrival of fame.

With his amazing memory and superb writing skills, Hemingway recreates the hunting experience in the deep mountains and old forests of Africa, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the thrilling scenes of the author's battle of wits and courage with animals, and hear the unique African lion's roar and twist. At the same time, Hemingway also vividly It vividly describes the competitiveness and jealousy displayed in the process of competing with Carl, and "anatomizes" himself mercilessly, showing the frankness of a man and the personality charm of a real man. It is the best book for readers to experience Hemingway's unique charm up close.

This book is a selection of articles written by the famous British classical scholar Mary Beard on her blog "The Life of a Cambridge Professor" from 2006 to 2008. In these articles, Professor Beard talks about ancient and modern times, elucidates the subtleties, and shows readers a Cambridge professor's thoughts and suggestions on teaching and education, Greece and Rome, and current affairs and politics. Where did the lip prints on the sculpture come from? What did the Romans wear under their togas? Do physicists need French? How to do a good interview at Oxford and Cambridge? In Professor Beard's sharp and interesting writing style, a colorful picture scroll is unfolding.

This novel is based on the love entanglement between the hero and heroine Darcy and Elizabeth due to pride and prejudice. Darcy is arrogant, arrogant, indifferent, and unruly, representing "arrogance"; Elizabeth is smart, wise, willful and straightforward, but biased. Finally, after thousands of twists and turns and all kinds of spiritual cleansing, the hero and heroine put aside their arrogance and prejudice, love bloomed passionately like a pure flower, and the two finally got married.

Qi Poems mainly includes poems from the Qi Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. For Qi poetry, Shen Deqian's criterion for selecting poems is still to implement his "style theory". He believes that compared with the previous dynasties, the style of Qi Dynasty poetry gradually tends to be "Qiyi" (gorgeous and complex) and "Qingyan" (frivolous and showy). Despite this, he still believes that these poems are one of the sources of Tang poetry and an indispensable part of understanding the development of poetry. In the Qi poetry selection, the most prominent and famous poet, who was considered by Shen Deqian to be "unique in his generation", was Xie Tiao. His poetry style was fresh and beautiful, and he was especially good at describing landscapes, which had a profound influence on the development of landscape poetry in later generations. When reading this article, you can focus on Xie Gong's poems.

"The pine trees have been injured, but they are growing uncontrollably." "Facing the River: Miłosz Poems IV" contains 120 of Miłosz's poems, from "Facing the River" (1995), "The Puppy on the Road" (1998) and "This" (2000). The poem contains conversations with other people, a cold description of the world, and the passion between the lines is still there, continuing the discussion of good and evil, truth and freedom. The poet blends personal experience with historical perspective to reveal a revelatory insight. Czeslaw Milosz, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, defined the tragedy and beauty of his era with unparalleled precision and elegance. His poems, whether they describe his boyhood in Poland, his grief in war-torn Warsaw, or his pursuit of faith, are all astonishing and awe-inspiring, and they convey a strong sense of life and the individuality of ordinary life. The poem's exploration of death, war, love and faith is gripping, shocking and thought-provoking: "The existence of this land itself is far beyond the description of any language." "Miłosz's Collected Poems" contains 335 of the poet's poems from 1931 to 2001. This poem chapter, according to the year of creation and publication, is divided into four volumes: "Poems of the Frozen Period", "Enchanted Guqiao", "Reminiscences of Homeland" and "Facing the River". It was directly translated from Polish by Polish literature experts. It is the first time that the complete picture of Miłosz's poetry is presented in the Chinese world.

"La Traviata" has created some vivid and distinctive artistic images for us, and the most prominent and unforgettable among them is naturally the heroine Margaret. Readers must not confuse Margaret with Miss Alphonsina Plessy. Although Alphonsina's life experience is worthy of sympathy, she is indeed a fallen woman. In the words of Dumas, she is "both a pure and flawless virgin and a complete whore." But Margaret is different. She is beautiful, smart and kind. Although she has fallen into the world, she still maintains a pure and noble heart. She pursues a true love life with passion and hope, and when this hope is shattered, she is willing to sacrifice herself to help others. All this makes the image of this despised fireworks woman shine with a holy light.

Matthias, who lives alone in Paris, moves to London with the help of his friend Antoine and begins to take over a French bookstore. He also hopes to take this opportunity to return to life as a family with his ex-wife Valentina and daughter Emily. However, due to an unexpected combination of circumstances, Valentina, who worked in the diplomatic service, had to return to Paris, leaving Matthias alone to take care of his daughter Emily, who was studying in London. Architect Antoine lives alone in London with his son Louis. He is considerate of every friend around him, but he has never paid attention to his own inner loneliness. Two single fathers live next to each other in the same building with their children, and they plan to be single for the rest of their lives. However, life is always moving forward. Matthias gradually fell in love with life in London and his friends here, but he could no longer live in London. Antoine finally found the courage to face his heart, and his life finally had a new beginning.

Hope, a college student majoring in neuroscience, has a lifelong dream of eradicating Alzheimer's disease and all similar diseases. Her boyfriend, the medical genius Josie, is committed to research on the neural link project, hoping that one day he can copy and transfer memories to rebuild the brain system. The lives of the two "fantasists" are sweet and fulfilling, and their future is bright and exciting. However, a crisis came quietly. Hope is suffering from a brain tumor and is slowly approaching the end of her life. Josie's neural link project may be Hope's only hope, but the research is far from the stage where it can be put into practice. Hope can't wait any longer, and separation has become a doomed outcome. But Qiao Xi made an unexpected decision. He would take the biggest risk in his life for the people he loved. The stakes were their love and lives, and the outcome would be in the distant future...

This is a story of extreme loneliness. The protagonists of the story are two mutes-Singer and Antonapoulos. Although they cannot speak, they have the same mind and they depend on each other in the small town. Until one day Antonapoulos was sent to a mental hospital due to alcoholism and overeating, and Singer began a lonely journey. Being good at listening, he became a window for others to vent their loneliness, but Singer's own loneliness was always unknown. Everyone is looking for an exit from loneliness, but no one can escape the fate of loneliness, not even love.

Stendhal's classic drama course, interpretation of Shakespeare's plays and Racine's tragedies. Understanding Racine and Shakespeare is the cornerstone of understanding European literature. Wang Daoqian's classic translation is highly praised by Wang Xiaobo and has been published again after being out of print for many years. "Racine and Shakespeare" is a collection of two pamphlets published in 1823 and 1825 on the polemic against academic classicism. It is an important theoretical work of Stendhal and one of the French realist documents. As representatives of romanticism and classicism respectively, Shakespeare and Racine symbolized the opposition between the aesthetic views of the rising bourgeoisie and the old art of the feudal aristocracy in the rising period. What Stendhal proposed in this work was the artistic principle of realism, which paved the way for the development of realist literature in France in the nineteenth century. This book also includes Stendhal's "A Traveler's Notes" (selected), the introduction to "History of Italian Painting", the preface to "Armans", and the preface to Stendhal's unfinished novel "Lucien Levan", etc.

Over a time span of more than thirty years, the novel tells an intricate and thrilling story of the emotional entanglement between two generations of the Earnshaw and Linton families...

Japanese literary talent Ryu Murakami created a novel based on the "Baby Locker Abandoned Case" that shocked Japanese society. His advanced ideas and keen insight into society make the work still have social significance to this day. Forty years after the work was published (2016), Japan's national treasure musical director Nobuji Kimura put the story on the stage of a musical again. Despair in confinement inspires speed and fantasy, a masterpiece of genius! Aqiao and Aju are two baby boys who were abandoned by their biological mothers in a locker. They spent their childhood in an orphanage, and were later adopted by a poor couple. They spent their teenage years in the ruins of a coal mine, and successively entered the deformed Tokyo society at that time. With his heavenly voice, Ah Qiao was packaged as a pop star and completely lost himself. Aju tried to stop the record company owner from hyping up Aqiao's life experience, but accidentally killed his biological mother in the chaos created by the media. He escaped from prison in a labor camp and went to the Pacific islands with his girlfriend and fellow inmates to search for the poison on the bottom of the sea - Datura flowers that destroyed this dirty city.

The great detective Philip Marlowe is at work again. This time his patron is a rich widow with a fat body, a gloomy face, and an alcoholism. Marlowe's task is to recover a stolen precious coin from the widow's house - the Brash gold coin. The widow insisted that the thief was the daughter-in-law who had always been a thorn in her side. The case seems very simple, but the only problem is that every insider who receives a visit from Marlowe will be greeted by death... And for Marlowe, this is also very unfortunate, because a private spy who leaves a string of corpses behind him will sooner or later attract the attention of the police. If Marlowe cannot find the answer from the maze as soon as possible, then he may be the next person to lie in the "big wooden box"...

"Even with the Weakest Light" is Cui Enrong's latest collection of novels, including a total of seven works. The work takes women as the center and focuses on the intense, long-lasting and tough complex relationships between women. With gentle and fresh words, he captures the violence and resistance that are ignored under the calm water. The women in the story fight against similar fates and become each other's support. In the many cages that want to oppress and imprison them, they resolutely carry out mutual rescue and support - the female teacher who uses her own clothes to help the female students during their menstruation in "Even with the Weakest Light", the company female employees who silently listen to each other's concerns in the cold and unfair workplace in "One Year" Seniors and interns, the sister in "Reply" who chooses to protect her sister from domestic violence even though she is in jail, and the aunt in "Letter to My Aunt" who has lost her fertility and endures the glare of her family but still devotes herself to raising her niece... They are close and distant, relying on each other and independent of each other, like small light spots flickering face to face, telling the trembling and touch of finding the same kind in the dark night. They were infinitely close and then suddenly drove to different distances. In the end, they could only reconcile each other with light across a long distance. Even if they never met each other, even if they were extremely weak, as long as they knew that the other party existed somewhere, they could keep walking.

Walker met Rachel at a party. Two days later, she showed up at his apartment asking for Walker's help in finding her missing husband, Mallory. The story begins from here. The novel begins with a strange and beautiful road movie-like plot, telling the story of the protagonist traveling across the vast land of central America to track down a man he has never met. As Walker's search deepens, it seems that someone else is following him and looking for him...

Absurdist style, and the beginning of an unfinished novel. To be honest, writing short stories is more comfortable...

The well-known Japanese writer Natsuhiko Kyogoku is a masterpiece of monster novels, among which "A Hundred Monogatari in the Back Alley" won the 130th Naoki Award, and "A Hundred Monogatari in the West Alley" won the 24th Shibata Renzaburo Award. The texts in the series of "Hundred Stories of Stories from Alleys" are elegant, tactful, delicate and enchanting. They appear to be about monsters and chaos, but in fact they are about ghosts and ghosts. On summer nights, people dressed in green clothes gathered in a dark room, lit a hundred candles, and took turns telling scary stories, blowing out one candle after each story. According to legend, when all the candles are extinguished, a vision will be triggered and monsters will be awakened. The scholar Bai Jie traveled to various feudal states and collected monster legends. During the journey, he encounters three strange people: Youchi is a charming and well-mannered person, known as the "trickster"; Ayin, a geisha who is charming and graceful, is good at dancing with long sleeves and is good at operating puppets; Zhiping is a pirate who is sophisticated and good at disguise. Bai Jie began to get involved in a series of strange and ghostly things. He vaguely realized that these strange things were closely related to his three new friends...

"Robinson Crusoe" is the representative work of the famous British writer Defoe in the 18th century. It is also the first true novel in the literary history of Britain and even Europe. The protagonist of the novel, Robinson Crusoe, was born in a middle-class family and aspired to travel around the world throughout his life. Once while sailing to Africa, he encountered a storm and drifted alone to an uninhabited desert island, where he began to live an isolated life. With his extraordinary will and unremitting efforts, he survived tenaciously on the desert island and returned to his hometown after twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days. In this work, Defoe successfully created all the characteristics that a person should possess - bravery, wisdom, rationality, diligence, and strength. He also told people to survive tenaciously no matter what difficulties they encounter!

"Tender Is the Night" is Fitzgerald's last novel. The last stage of his life was the darkest and most difficult period, with a serious financial crisis in his life and his wife Zelda also suffering from mental illness. Through this work, Fitzgerald explores his inner journey and depicts the advent of the "Great Depression" and the disillusionment of the American dream. Everything comes and disappears so quickly, like a short dream.

"Disillusionment" is one of Balzac's masterpieces and is included in "Human Comedy·Provincial Scenes". The novel is set in Paris during the Restoration Dynasty, and creates two images of young people from the provinces - Lucien, an ambitious and vain young poet, who tried to enter the upper class of Paris with his intelligence and talent, but was ruined and returned to his hometown in despair; The novel shows a broad picture from the provinces to Paris after the French Revolution, depicts various phenomena with characteristic significance during the Restoration period, and reflects in the cruel and complex real society how the talents of young people were destroyed, how their fantasies were destroyed, and how the temple of literature was used as a place for shameless transactions and became filthy. Balzac himself called "Disillusionment" "the first work among my works" and "fully expresses our times."

"How the Steel Was Tempered" is an excellent novel that describes the growth process of new people and reveals their excellent qualities, written by the author based on his personal experience. It reflects the broad picture of struggle before and after the October Revolution, the period of civil war, the period of national economic recovery and the early stage of socialist construction. It creates the noble character of the protagonist Paul Korchagin who is persistent in his beliefs and perseveres. Paul Korchagin was seriously injured in the war, and later contracted typhoid fever and pneumonia, and finally became blind and paralyzed. With a high degree of political awareness and tenacious revolutionary will, he overcame the unbearable pain for ordinary people, persisted in self-study, engaged in literary creation, and made valuable contributions to the cause of socialism. The novel tells people that revolutionaries are made into steel through struggle, and one's life should be spent like Paul Korchagin. Paul Korchagin's famous saying, "The most precious thing for man is life..." Has inspired generations of readers to strive for the cause of human progress.

"Black Tulip" is based on the fierce political struggle and turbulent life during the Dutch bourgeois revolution in the seventeenth century. The protagonist, Cornelius Van Belle, is a young doctor who is completely apolitical. He likes to cultivate tulips, and is trying to cultivate a large black tulip without any variegation, because the first person to cultivate a black tulip will receive a considerable bonus. Van Belle's neighbor Boxtel also wanted to cultivate black tulips in order to get the bonus. He was very jealous of Van Belle and was afraid that Van Belle would get the first advantage. He unscrupulously monitored Norm Bailey's actions and secretly destroyed the tulips he cultivated. Later, he falsely accused Van Belle of hiding letters that were detrimental to the Dutch governorship, which resulted in him being imprisoned innocently and almost being guillotined. The whole book depicts thrilling and tear-jerking scenes around Black Tulip.

"The Truth of the World" contains ten short stories. "The Fall of Edward Barnard" tells the story of the protagonist who was forced to go to Tahiti in the South Pacific to do business after his father went bankrupt and committed suicide. At first, he was determined to return to Chicago and marry his girlfriend Isabel after winning wealth and opportunities. But two years later, his thoughts underwent earth-shaking changes... Maugham here created an image of breaking with the Western world, and regarded life in a semi-primitive state of nature far away from material civilization as an ideal model. "Before the Banquet" depicts the image of a woman who suffered misfortune in her marriage, experienced helplessness and hopelessness in Borneo, a colony in the Far East, until she became cold and heartless...

Nancy is an ambitious and decisive American woman living in Europe. Although she has experienced many failed marriages, she is still graceful, sexy and charming. She tried her best to cover up her past experience, and used various means to launch attacks on the British aristocracy, and finally captured Arthur Demesnay, a young aristocratic who had no experience in the world. However, Arthur's mother always suspected that her future daughter-in-law was an "irregular woman" and tried every means to find out her origins. Just at this moment, the person who knows Nancy's secret best appears... Translation description: The novella "The Siege of London" was first published in serial form in the American "Century Magazine" from January to February 1883. In the same year, it was included in the anthology "And" by the American publisher James R. Osgood and published in Boston. Almost at the same time, the novel was included in the novel anthology "" by Macmillan, a British publishing company, and published in London. Henry James lived in London for a long time during this period, and was able to personally guide and supervise the editing and publishing process of most of the British editions of his works at that time. Therefore, compared with the American editions, the British editions of his works often more faithfully reflect James' revisions. Based on the above considerations, the "American Library" edition of The Complete Works of Henry James adopts the British version when including this novel. This translation is from the "American Library" edition.

A letter of authorization and a threatening letter were sent to the private detective Yuya Kisarazu at the same time. He and his assistant Xiangyue arrived at Imakagami's house and stepped into the murderous world of Crow City. Each member of the Im mirror family has their heads missing, and no one can figure out the murderer's intentions and layout; in this predicament, people finally meet another detective - Mercator...

Abbot Guihui's new work. Basic reasoning + multiple solutions + setting superposition. Yuu Kuroba fell from a high building. When he was about to die, he found that he had become a ghost, leaving his body and able to move freely. He hurried to an empty house where he had arranged to meet a couple the night he fell. Kuroba met a girl in an empty house. When he first met the girl, he threatened her with an axe, hoping that Kuroba would help him complete his revenge. The girl's parents both died in the empty house, leaving unexplained footprints at the scene. A ghost that can only exist for seven days joins forces with an elementary school student, determined to find out the real murderer, but why did Kuroba fall from the building? "Do you believe there are multiple answers?" Are there so many truths? The seemingly unrelated descriptions turned out to be hidden clues when answering. Voltage line, Voltage line, Voltage line! In the last 50 pages, logic is used to connect all the clues, bringing a dizzying answer.

Readers from all over the world spend an average of one night reading it! Ken Follett's classic suspense work. Adapted from real historical events. As soon as "Triangle" was published, the Mossad Intelligence Agency asked "How do you know the inside story of this incident?" Real strength is not how many people you defeat, but how many people you protect! In a dangerous race to prepare a nuclear bomb, Israel's Mossad's top agent (nicknamed "The Pirate") was assigned to find and steal 200 tons of nuclear material - enriched uranium ore. However, the long-coveted KGB spy chief and Egyptian double agent secretly began a secret tracking operation. At this point, the three parties have launched a "nuclear battle" in a race against time...