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Little Moon will never let Bai Yueguang down again. It was you who protected you thirteen years ago. I will do it again in exchange for protecting you.

This is a difficult book to define. From an entertainment point of view, it can be regarded as a romance novel. The love story of each couple is exciting and heart-wrenching, with an unexpected and helpless ending. From a historical point of view, it can be called a history of women's struggle. Three generations of women in this family fight against history and reality. Sometimes they lose and sometimes they win. The vicissitudes of history reflect It has become a foil for women; from a sociological perspective, this is a story of migration. The reason for migration of all races is simply to find opportunities to realize their own value. This is the awakening of human self-worth; from a cultural perspective, this is a book of searching, searching for home, belonging, and comfort. The book seems a bit difficult to understand, but the truth is concise and clear. In a nutshell: We are searching hard just to settle our skin and soul.

Gavin Francis believes that recovery is not something that happens naturally, but an action that doctors, patients, and caregivers all need to be personally involved in. We must understand the rhythm of recovery and proactively invest time and energy to change lives in beneficial ways. Drawing on 30 years of medical experience and insights from psychology, literature, and more, Gavin Francis provides a profound, practical, and hopeful guide to recovery. Breaking the idea that treatment is passive, it shows in a smart way how we should take care of our bodies and improve the environment to get out of trouble. Driven by the belief that medicine is a combination of science and kindness, the author quotes from a wide range of sources and uses beautiful prose to vividly describe the recovery journey that most people may never experience but will surely experience. During this journey, stories about hope, transformation and miracles kept happening one after another.

"Weird Tales" is the latest collection of novels by Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize winner for literature (awarded in 2019). The collection of novels is composed of ten stories: the green child in the forest, the various cans left behind by the mother after her death, the professor who was accidentally involved in a death case, "I" went to visit my sister who had undergone transfiguration surgery, the mysterious mummy in the monastery, and Monodice who resurrected after death every year... Each story is weird and absurd. It is difficult for you to guess what will happen on the next page, but under the weirdness there seems to be clues of human life hidden. The novel collection combines folklore, fairy tales, science fiction, religious stories and other elements to examine Polish history and people's lives. One year after the collection of novels was published, Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book also includes Tokarczuk's speech "The Gentle Narrator" when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature at the Swedish Academy and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

"The Queen's Love": After winning the Battle of Kadesh, Ramses decided to adopt a peace negotiation strategy, hoping to bring peace and prosperity to Egypt and Hittites. In Ramesses' life, in addition to war, there was also his love for the great queen. The pharaoh decided to give Nefertari the greatest gift-to build two temples in Abu Simbel to symbolize their eternal love. At this time, Moses returned to Egypt and asked to lead the Hebrews out. Ramses did not want to destroy the old friendship, but for the country and the people, this war was unavoidable.

The love for nature and the pursuit of peace of mind are common features of human beings across time and space. The author uses the unique ancient and winding scenery of the Russian northern forest as the background of the full text. He combines rich biological knowledge with beautiful descriptions of nature, and transforms the love and goodness between man and nature into poetry and philosophy into this book. It is a rare natural masterpiece in the world literary world in the 20th century. Adopting famous classic translations, the translation is accurate, smooth, beautiful and moving. The famous design teacher Youya, who has won the "Most Beautiful Book" design award many times, is specially invited to draw it with all his heart.

Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. The spring barley harvest failed, and the oats turned from green to yellow-and died-during Clarkson's trip to the bar. Slaughterhouses are closed. There is no place to raise pigs but no place to kill them. Costs have soared. The cows and sheep were still running around all day long, and he was so angry that he almost wanted to raise ostriches! Don't worry, at Clarkson's Farm, ideas come as fast as beer. In the new year, the "British Idea King" will use wood to make cricket bats and walking sticks, and he is planning to enter the wood processing industry. He was brave enough to have a lot of money, and even when more than a thousand bars closed down every year, he bought one to satisfy himself. Milk and beef are unprofitable, so how about using healing as a gimmick and setting up a fee-based program for city dwellers to embrace cows? ... "The first year I farmed, I made 114 pounds. When I came up with this year's numbers, 114 looked like a dream." Faced with land that is dryer than granite, outrageous new regulations that only care about zero-emission targets regardless of farmers' lives, and bastards who secretly dump mountains of garbage into the fields at night, Clarkson complained with all his strength while swearing and persisting in farming. After all, no man can resist the temptation of a tractor, let alone a Lamborghini!

"Battle of Kadesh": Internal and external troubles simultaneously test the young pharaoh Ramses, who has only been in power for three years. Queen Nefertari was bewitched by a Syrian wizard and her life is in danger; the Hittite army is preparing to invade on the border. Facing his love and country, Ramesses decided to go south first to find the only antidote that could save the queen-the Goddess Stone, and then turn to the Kadesh Castle in the north to face the Hittite army, which was several times more powerful than Egypt. Eventually, the queen recovered and Rameses won the Battle of Kadesh.

Conan Doyle died in 1937. His main literary achievement is the creation of the literary image of Sherlock Holmes. Although his works lack profound and real social significance, due to their logical logic, thrilling and fascinating plots, ups and downs of structure, and vivid characters, they involved the social reality of Britain at that time, and even became popular in Europe and had a wide influence in the world. Regarding his artistic achievements, the famous British novelist Somerset Maugham once said: "Compared with "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" written by Conan Doyle, no detective novel has ever enjoyed such a high reputation."

"Youth Reading Nobel Prize Classics" is a set of Nobel Prize-winning reading materials customized for young people in China. It selects the masterpieces of hundreds of Nobel-winning writers and is recommended by dozens of special teachers. It allows children to understand and grow through reading and accumulate strength to face the future. Domestic Nobel Prize-winning works are basically adult books, and there are very few juvenile editions. This set of books "Youth Reading Nobel Prize Classics" is a customized book for teenagers. Taking into account children's receptive ability, reading habits and interests, as well as the cultural differences between China and the West, this set of books has specifically selected works by dozens of writers, taking into account both classics and interest, to build a vast literary palace for children. This set of books is divided into "Great Novels", "Great Poems" and "Great Prose", many of which are required extracurricular readings for primary and secondary school students designated by the Ministry of Education, and meet the reading aesthetics and reading needs of primary and secondary school students.

"Where the Birds Quiet" and "Follow the Magic Bread" are Prishvan's debut novels. After he went to northern Russia to conduct geographical and folklore inspections, he wrote these two records of the natural features and customs of the northern coastal areas of Russia, which are harmonious and unified with the atmosphere and structure of fairy tales.

This book collects 13 short stories and short stories published by the author Qiu Shanshan in recent years. The works of "Happy Life That Came to an Abrupt End" all take love and marriage as their theme. With a sincere, frank, intuitive and realistic attitude, it explores the unbalanced marriage patterns of urban women and the distorted view of love under social pressure. It keenly analyzes the spiritual confusion of urban women with shocking and delicate writing, and reveals the root of the confusion: people's desires and desires are endless and difficult to satisfy.

"The Lines of Apelles" is an outstanding Russian writer of the 20th century and winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. Pasternak's short stories and essays inherit the great tradition of Russian narrative literature and endow the poet with his unique imagination, metaphors and symbols. This is highly reflected in this book: the author's unique feelings and associations about life and the world can be seen everywhere; his writing also has a synaesthetic sensibility, which can easily cross the boundaries between people and things, self and the world, with ease.

I risked my life for my dream and became a lunatic and a fool in the eyes of others, but I finally found my true self and finally lived out the meaning of life! One early morning in July, before dawn, Don Quixote put on his ancestral armor, quietly left his hometown where he had lived for more than 50 years, and embarked on the adventure he had dreamed of. --Since he was a child, he has been addicted to knight novels. He firmly believes that the adventure stories in the books are true. He looks forward to one day that he can travel around the world and do chivalry. For his burning dream, he finally took this step! Following him were only a thin old horse, a rusty spear, a follower named Sancho, and all kinds of challenges... This book has been published for more than 400 years and has been best-selling for more than 400 years. With its great imagination, it has influenced generations of readers and has become a recognized classic among classics. In 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Norwegian Reading Club in Oslo organized a vote of 100 writers from 54 countries and regions, and "Don Quixote" was selected as "the greatest novel in human history." Oakes said: "If there is any book you should read in life, it is "Don Quixote"." Zhang Guangsen, a famous Spanish translator, has a beautiful and smooth translation of the classic. It has been a best-seller for 20 years after its publication and is known as a model of Chinese translation.

The story begins with the heroine Katie. In order to escape the flashy but empty social circle of London in the 1820s, and to avoid becoming an old girl waiting to be married, Katie accepted the proposal of the taciturn bacteriologist Walter Fane. After Finn brought Katie to Hong Kong, China, he quickly devoted himself to his bacteriology research. Lonely Katie had an extramarital affair with Charlie Townsend, a middle-aged married man who was charming in appearance but wretched in heart. After learning the truth, Finn felt regretful. In order to retaliate and rebuild his life, Finn decided to make a desperate move and took Katie away to a remote town where cholera was raging. On the front lines where the plague was raging, Finn helped the locals slowly control the epidemic. Katie volunteered in a monastery and hospital run by French nuns, and gradually found the courage and meaning of life in the process of helping others.

Zhou Jinhuan didn't expect that after so long, she would meet Song Yan again. She remembered that the bravest thing she had ever done was to confess her love to Song Yan loudly, but in the end she only heard the contempt and rejection in his cold voice. But just such a person reappeared in her life and became her boss. Zhou Jinhuan, who was ready to never have any contact with this man, found that Song Yan seemed to have changed. Although he was still venomous and indifferent, it seemed that he treated her differently, which caught her off guard... Zhou Jinhuan: "Song Yan, don't tell me, you like me?" Song Yan: "I just like you!"

A family secret from many years ago aroused Gigi's curiosity, but there was not much time left for the teenager to explore, because time seemed to be flowing out of our world at an incredible speed. So in order to satisfy his mother's wish and to clarify the family secrets that troubled him, Gigi came to the land of eternity under the leadership of Annie, and embarked on a fantasy journey that belonged only to him with an outstanding violinist and an injured dog. We live in different worlds, but our growth, family ties and humanity are never different. Kate Thompson is a four-time winner of Ireland's national literary award, the Bistowe Prize. Together with "The Kite Runner" and "The Book Thief", it was recommended as the best book of the year by the American Library Association.

"A Banquet of Three" is a collection of five novellas by young writer Sun Pin. The five stories focus on the emotional lives of urban men and women. A lonely landlady marries her tenant, hoping to save herself from the pain of loneliness; a man who is constantly entangled with a woman finds that he cannot do without the woman's company after breaking up; a woman who has fallen into a huge life inertia persists in visiting the man from different cities for many years, but finds that he lives in a deeper quagmire; meaning A wife who wants to divorce discovers her husband's biggest secret after her husband commits suicide in despair... Sun Pin's novels have a cold beauty, using different angles to see the emotions of men and women in modern urban life. Different from the general definitions of love and marriage, the novel aims to dispel and reconstruct these existing concepts.

A plane crash killed Dutch documentary producer Artur's wife and children. After that, he turned into a traveler and stayed in several places. There is no "nest", only an intermediate station. He went to Berlin to wait for his next job. Berlin is covered with snow and surrounded by spirits. He wandered there, through the memories of coldness and fly ash, and with the eyes of a photographer, examined Berlin's scars inch by inch, just as his fingertips touched the outline of Eric's scar bit by bit. Pain is never easily forgiven by a person or a city. The destruction and reconstruction of famous history and the aphasic fate of nameless individuals constitute the past and present of Berlin in his eyes. "Through the prism of Berlin, the entire history of mankind can be seen." Following his footsteps, we met the philosopher Arnault, the sculptor Victor, the physicist and gallery owner Zenobia, got to know Erna over the phone, and met Eric by chance. Eric is the incarnation of the Siren. He was attracted to her, possessed, called to her. In order to escape, he went to Shikoku Island, but was unable to resist following her to Madrid until the end... Who are we? Bystander.

The contents of "Town in Charcoal Ash" include: Blues Town, Mi Language, Distance on the Ruins, Back Mountain: Experimental Field of Color and Memory, Expressions after a Nap, Starry Sky Portraits, Remains of Flames, Cotton, Cotton, The Journey of a Letter, Dear City, My Teacher Zhao Wenming, etc.

A female tourist died in a farmhouse in a resort area in the middle of the night. A strange row of bloody footprints was found at the murder scene. After a large amount of investigation and evidence collection, the suspect was finally identified. Seeing that the case was about to be settled, it was overturned... Is the so-called parasomnia murder true or false? Anonymous calls were made to the Criminal Police Team and the Criminal Investigation Bureau to report that the case of death caused by a heart attack had been deemed a homicide by the police station. Three corpses appeared in three locations one after another. The conditions and causes of death were all the same. The plot of the murder was highly consistent with a detective novel. What are the grudges and entanglements behind these appearances? Every case is thrilling and every case is depressing. For medical examiners, corpses are the best evidence. At both ends of the scale of human nature, justice and evil are engaged in the most stalemate contest. Let a mysterious female forensic doctor use scientific methods to lead you to confront blood, perversion, and terror, peel off the cocoons, find the source of evil, and find justice for the deceased.

The film of the same name directed by Chen Kaige and starring Huang Xuan, Shota Sometani, Zhang Luyi, Qin Hao, Hiroshi Abe and other Chinese and Japanese stars will be released on December 22. This is a blockbuster work completed by Mengzhen Tapir, the super overlord of Japanese fantasy novels and the author of "Onmyoji", which took 17 years to complete. The sky and the sea are crossing eastward, the city of Chang'an is in turbulent waters, and the ghost feast begins. The black cat of Liu Yunqiao's family in Jinwu Guard suddenly uttered: "Emperor Dezong is about to die!" Chunqin, the young and beautiful wife of Liu Yunqiao, turned into an old woman with gray hair and chicken skin in front of everyone, while singing "Qingping" Kukai, an eminent monk who traveled from Japan to the Tang Dynasty, and Bai Juyi, who sought inspiration for the song "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", while performing dance moves similar to that of Concubine Yang, together uncovered the mystery of the demon incident and the death of Concubine Yang. All the resentment of monsters comes from spells and from human hearts.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 7 short stories. "Dowry" describes an innocent girl withering like a flower. "The Wife" describes a selfish and cold woman. "Genius" mocks those mediocre people who despise work and only talk nonsense. The novella "The Story of Anonymous" tells the story of how a pure woman breaks out of the cage of private love in order to pursue her ideals.

Among various human activities, funerals and cemeteries are the purest, and can best enable people to take off their armor in the battle of fame and fortune, thus making their limited life peaceful and calm. I hope Yang Zao's "Shocking Grief: The Secret of the World's Great Sky Disaster" Readers of "News" have also gained such spiritual refinement after reading... "Shocking Grief: Secrets of the World's Biggest Air Crash" restores 15 famous air crashes in the history of world air crashes, reveals the stories behind the air crashes, and narrates tips for self-evacuation in air crashes.

When there is nothing to lose, everything is gained. A collection of true stories from Israel that touched the world. Find beautiful meaning at the bottom of life. His writing heals the soul and his stories make the world a better place.

The speed of cherry blossoms falling is 5 centimeters per second, and it only took one second for Cen Nian to fall in love with Jiang Bei. The feeling of falling in love with someone is like putting on armor. Cen Nian, who fell in love with Jiang Bei at the orientation party, transformed into a brave lady and went through all the obstacles just to pursue true love. The feeling of falling in love with someone is also like a sudden weakness. After learning that she was seriously ill, Cen Nian did not have the courage to face those who loved her deeply, so she cruelly walked away from home. Two years ago, she left without saying goodbye. It was the coldest spring in his life. Two years later, he met her again in a city with cherry blossoms in full bloom. This time, he would never let go.

This book is an important work in "The Myths", the representative work of the great Irish poet Yeats, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. "Mythology" is the crystallization of Yeats's admiration for Irish tradition and folk literature, and is as important as his poetry creation. Celtic Twilight is Yeats's popular collection of folk tales, which vividly showcases Irish folk mythology, supernatural and magical tales, and the lovely Irish people who fully embrace the existence of immortals.

"Under the Acacia Tree": After signing the peace treaty with the Hittite Empire, Ramesses has always followed the inspiration of Mayat's code, especially cherishing the hard-won peace... At the age of fifty, he still tirelessly led Egypt to prosperity. However, the Hittites, Syrians, and Phoenicians were still disrupting Egypt's peace and stability in various forms. One murder case after another, the methods were cruel and vicious; pieces of false information were flying all over the sky. As a creator of miracles, Ramesses could control the wind and rain, and turn enemies into friends. However, in the last ten years of his rule, he could not prevent fate from taking away his loved ones and friends one after another, making him feel lonely when he contended with Egypt's enemies again and again.

Film, poetry, Chinese studies, Western studies, fine arts, literature, music, and life. From these vast collections of humanistic and artistic works, the author uses refined and classic standards to select "beautiful articles, famous paintings, masterpieces, and famous songs from a young person's perspective." Integrated into five single volumes that will benefit people throughout their lives, it also compiles the famous sayings of Western sages and masters who represent Chinese wisdom and are full of philosophy into "The Essence of Chinese Studies" and "The Essence of Western Studies". This is not only an excellent work for understanding humanities and arts, but also an indispensable book for family collections.

This book collects the results of Professor Xia Chuancai's twenty years of work in the Chinese Book of Songs Society to promote the study of Book of Songs. In the 1990s, some scholars pessimistically believed that the research topics of the Book of Songs, a world cultural heritage, had been exhausted. However, Professor Xia Chuancai spent his whole life in the field of research on The Book of Songs, writing articles with a stylus and getting stronger with time, using the dialectical materialism theory he adhered to. Field, absorbing new scientific research methods, fully exploring the multi-faceted and all-round academic value of The Book of Songs in literature, history, linguistics, comparative literature, philology, archeology, and anthropology, promoting my country's traditional excellent culture, and pushing The Book of Songs onto the stage of world culture.

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"Spaniards of the Three Worlds" (Españoles De Tres Mundos) is a collection of essays by the famous Spanish poet and writer Jimenez. Jimenez called it a "lyrical comic". The book outlines more than a hundred poets, politicians, and scholars, including the great essayist Assoline, the great painter Picasso, and the great Latin American poets Ruben Dario and Neruda. This book is translated and published in China for the first time. José Manuel Caballero, winner of the 2012 Cervantes Prize for Literature, called the book "the glorious pinnacle of Spanish prose of that era." The translator of this book, Zhao Deming, said that "The Spaniards of the Three Worlds" is a magnificent treasure house.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection collects 9 short stories. "Light" profoundly rebukes the spiritual depravity of misanthropes. The famous "Death of a Civil Service Official", which is full of laughter but contains tears, describes a poor little man who died in depression because of a sneeze.

"My soul has been destroyed by this flashy world." A monologue of the soul in a depressed era, a classic novel that will impress young people of every era. The protagonist Bi Qiaolin has incomparable willpower and tries his best to fight against the hypocritical society and his contradictory self. He is cynical, roughly stripping away the false worldly values, squandering his complex soul, deceiving women's feelings, mocking men's friendship, and mocking the tyranny of the government. He plays with the society of the entire era, and also fights with his inner self, sincerely exposing his own emptiness and patheticness. The author uses the image of a "contemporary hero" to reflect many bad habits of society throughout the era, and synthesizes a sharp but touching spiritual outlook. This image is extremely modern and even transcends time and space, making us living today realize that the unknown side of our hearts is responding stupidly when reading. "Contemporary Heroes" is a novel that explores the soul. It is a collection of travel notes, diaries and confessions. It contains five interrelated novels - "Bella", "Maxim Maximich", "Taman", "Princess Merry" and "The Fatalist", as well as two prefaces. The stories are intertwined and narrated by three narrators, integrating into a unique story feast. It created a new situation in the genre of Russian novels, enriched the depth of psychological analysis, influenced and created subsequent writers such as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov.

"Wang Huo's Collected Works Volume 1 War and People" contains Wang Huo's masterpiece "War and People" trilogy, which are "The Moon Sets, Crows Crying and the Sky Full of Frost", "The Mountain in the Void" and "Maple Leaves and Flowers Autumn", which are reflections of the world. A masterpiece novel in the fascist book series, it takes the family misfortunes and life experiences of Tong Shuangwei, a high-ranking official of the Kuomintang and an authority in legal science, and his son Tong Jiating as the main line, showing a panoramic picture of the southern half of China during the Anti-Japanese War. The core character Tong Shuangwei went from passively taking refuge and maintaining his reputation to despising the Kuomintang's dictatorship and joining the ranks of the democratic movement. At the same time, Tong Jiating, who grew up as a young man, also devoted himself to the light without hesitation under the influence of the times.

The story begins one night in March, when a farmer discovered a horrific male body in a car at a Derwent garage near a remote road in the Northern Lakes District. Crime scene evidence showed that the deceased Jack Clayton committed suicide. But fans of detective novels can tell from the title alone that the truth is far from simple. Clayton had no reason to commit suicide: he was in good spirits, was engaged to a beautiful young girl named Lily Reed, was planning to emigrate abroad, and had a huge amount of money in his bank account. The profit from the garage was only a drop in the bucket for him. But if Clayton was murdered, what was the motive?

Five classic mystery novels by "Master of Impossible Crime" Paul Holt have been introduced into the country and will take you through the mystery! When you eliminate the impossible, what remains, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth.

This book narrates the history of the British bourgeois revolution that began in 1640, and reviews the reactionary rule after Charles I came to the throne, the rise of the emerging bourgeoisie, and the process of the alliance between the bourgeoisie and the new aristocracy. It mainly describes the causes of the revolution, the struggle within Parliament, the first civil war, the rise of Cromwell, conflicts within the army, and the guillotine of Charles I and other major events. 1640~1649, Why did such drastic changes occur in just nine years? This book will give you an answer.

The British Empire reigned supreme in the 19th century, with its territories and colonies spread all over the world. It was known as the Empire on which the sun never sets. The newly born United States dominated the 20th century, and its politics, economy, culture, and military influenced the historical process of the 20th century in all aspects. Since the Industrial Revolution, the two English-speaking countries have dominated the world for more than 200 years. This is by no means an accident. Winston Churchill revealed the secrets to us profoundly and vividly with his broad strokes. This is his historical masterpiece "History of the English People", coupled with his monumental memoirs "Memoirs of the First World War" and "Memoirs of the Second World War", which almost completely describe the historical trajectory of the English-speaking people from the wilderness to the world's super power.

"The Collision of History: 1491" is the work of American journalist Charles Mann. He followed a scientific research team to the sites of ancient American civilizations, visited and investigated local historical relics, folk customs, and consulted local preserved historical documents and records, as well as many archaeologists. Experts in science, anthropology, biology, linguistics, sociology, and ethnology communicated and communicated. They used vivid language to describe that the people of the Americas had an amazing amount of knowledge and developed a highly complex civilization 500 years ago, subverting the world's cognition and broadening readers' horizons. In addition, "The Collision of History: 1491" is equipped with dozens of precious pictures, leading readers through thousands of years, uncovering the mystery of the American continent, and presenting a clear and true history of Native American social civilization. The immersive feeling, the fascinating storyline, the wonderful and thorough research reasoning, and the amazing observation perspective make "The Collision of History: 1491" an introductory work for readers to understand the history of the Americas. In addition, this book is also suitable for parents and children to read together. In the story of the Indian Empire, it restores the violence, terror and cruelty in the historical collision, discovers the interest of history, and absorbs the wisdom of life. "The Collision of History: 1491" bids farewell to obscure professional terminology and uses concise and entertaining words to show readers a different history of the Americas, explaining what a "historical, factual, informative and interesting history book" is. At the same time, this book changes the long-standing common perception of "the American continent is barbaric" and opens a new window for young people to understand the world.

The British Empire reigned supreme in the 19th century, with its territories and colonies spread all over the world. It was known as the Empire on which the sun never sets. The newly born United States dominated the 20th century, and its politics, economy, culture, and military influenced the historical process of the 20th century in all aspects. Since the Industrial Revolution, the two English-speaking countries have dominated the world for more than 200 years. This is by no means an accident. Winston Churchill revealed the secrets to us profoundly and vividly with his broad strokes. This is his historical masterpiece "History of the English People", coupled with his monumental memoirs "Memoirs of the First World War" and "Memoirs of the Second World War", which almost completely describe the historical trajectory of the English-speaking people from the wilderness to the world's super power.

In the 19th century, a German businessman wanted to prove that the story of "The Iliad" was true and tried to discover the legendary city of Troy. This book started from here. With the help of unearthed documents such as Pylos Clay Tablets and Hattusa Clay Tablets, the author attempts to explain that the disputes staged in front of the walls of Troy were essentially the collision of the Mycenaean civilization and the Near Eastern civilization in the ancient Mediterranean world. The epic stories related to Troy contain the code for interpreting the political, economic and cultural aspects of the Mediterranean world of that era.

"Gladiators" tells the story of the origin, rise and decline of gladiatorial competitions from the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD, showing its intertwining with the Roman political stage and historical destiny. Gladiatorial combat originated from gladiatorial performances at funerals, and later gradually became a large-scale public entertainment event held in the arena. The "bread and circuses" strategy inherited from Caesar made gladiatorial performances a way for emperors to demonstrate their power and reward the public. But amid the emperor's fatuousness, the people's pleasures, and the empire's worries, Christianity filled the spiritual emptiness of the people. The decline of the empire and Christian opposition left the arena in ruins...

Europe is a vast territory with numerous countries, numerous ethnic groups and diverse religions. As the source of Western civilization, it has shaped the spiritual world of Westerners with faith and rationality, and has also caused drastic changes in the world with technology. Since the end of the 15th century, Europe has entered modern times, marked by the geographical discovery, religious reform, and the rise of nation-states. European captains sailed into the depths of the ocean, launching a commercial revolution. Colonial competition among European countries intensified, nation-states emerged one after another, the authority of the Roman Catholic Church declined, the Glorious Revolution broke out, mercantilism became popular, the guns rang out in Lexington in the United States, the French Revolution broke out, science and technology advanced by leaps and bounds, and the bourgeoisie entered the stage of history... Carlton Hayes, a well-known American historian, tried to organically combine the social and political development of Europe from the 16th century to the early 19th century, using social and economic factors to assist in explaining political facts, thereby helping people "understand ourselves, our kind, and the various problems and prospects of mankind."

This book systematically analyzes the dramatic changes in Europe over the past century from the perspective of diplomatic history. What was the political landscape of Europe after the second abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of his empire? Under what background was the Congress of Vienna held? How did the great powers maintain the balance of power in Europe? Why was the European political trend after the Congress of Vienna dominated by the "Holy Alliance" and the "Quadruple Alliance"? How did Spain's American colonies become independent? What was the purpose of the United States issuing the Monroe Declaration? When did nationalism replace orthodoxy? How did the Crimean War break out? How did European diplomats solve the Italian problem? How did Prussia rise? How was the German Empire unified? What role did the unification of Italy and Germany play in the formation of an armed peace situation in Europe? Why is the establishment of the German Empire the most important political event in Europe in the 19th century? What is the reason for the reappearance of the Eastern Question? What were the differences between the two Balkan Wars? Why is imperialism the root cause of the outbreak of World War I? This book will explain it in depth.

It only took more than a hundred years for Japan to become a modern country with a highly developed economy under the supervision of the United States and successfully host the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. In this wise, beautiful and concise book, Ian Buruma clearly presents the various major events and subsequent changes that Japan has experienced through a detailed examination of this historical period, from the Overthrow Movement, the Meiji Restoration, the Russo-Japanese War, the War of Aggression against China, the Tokyo Trials, all the way to the American takeover and the Tokyo Olympics. Buruma deeply explores various aspects of Japanese social thought, political order, and economic life, and uses a unique and objective perspective to explain how Japan experienced these dramatic changes and the accompanying wars and reforms, and finally transformed from a small closed traditional island country into a modern country that affects East Asia and even the world.

This book tells the history of Africa's turning point during World War II. In the early stage, the African Nazi Army led by Rommel won all the way and advanced to Cairo. At the critical moment, the British General Montgomery took office. He quickly reversed the situation through a series of measures and severely damaged Rommel's Army in the Battle of El Alamein. This completely changed the situation of the war in Africa, led to the collapse of Mussolini's government in Italy, and indirectly accelerated the end of World War II.

In the Nazi concentration camp, she chose to let her son live and pushed her daughter to the crematorium; in order to survive, she was forced to print reports on the massacre of Jews for the Nazis; she endured molestation, rape, and perverted insults from German doctors, guards, and even housekeepers... After the war, she came to the United States and fell in love with Nathan, a Jew. With a guilty conscience toward the Jews, she silently endured the tyranny of her suspicious and manic lover in order to relieve her heavy spiritual burden. Every time this happened, their minds and bodies, pain and pleasure, intertwined and reached a climax. Ding Ge, a writer who loved her deeply, took her away from Nathan. But after a passionate lovemaking session, she chose to return to the insane Nathan, return to the bed intertwined with pain and joy, and go to death... This book is a milestone in the history of Western novels. It won the National Book Award and was named "One of the 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" by Random House.

The third part of Deborah Levy's trilogy on women's coming of age: On women and private property. This book won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was named a book of the year by Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and others. In addition to a room of their own, women may need a house of their own. A collection of personal documentaries that intelligently and subtly explore women's home ownership, living alone, and spiritual life. Why do we always want to buy a house? What does it mean to live alone? Levy used himself as an example to reveal the psychological and social reasons behind women's desire for real estate, pointing out that real estate is not the key. The freedom, independence, security, and warm life brought by real estate may be what women really desire. London, New York, Mumbai, Paris, Berlin... Writer Levy, who is about to enter his sixties, begins his journey of celibacy. She shuttled between rental houses with different styles, and the desire to own a house of her own always lingered in her heart. Virginia Woolf said that if a woman wants to be a writer, she must have a room of her own. In "A House of One's Own," Levy takes stock of a woman's real and imaginary possessions with profound insight and keen wisdom, prompting readers to question their own cultural understanding of possessions and property, and to think about the value of women's personal material and intellectual lives.

"Childhood" truly describes Alyosha's painful childhood, and profoundly outlines a vivid picture of the vulgar, selfish, empty and boring Russian petty bourgeoisie in the 19th century. It also shows the simplicity, integrity and hard-working character of the lower class working people. The image of the grandmother created by Gorky in the book is one of the glorious and poetic images in Russian literature.