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The Nobel Prize in Literature, with its great spirit of human idealism, provides an eternal standard for world literature. It includes poetry, novels, prose, drama, philosophy, history and other different genres. Masterpieces of different styles are full of brilliance and unique characteristics, comprehensively showing the overall situation of world literature in the 20th century. Kipling, Maeterlinck, Rabindranath Tagore, Franz, Wolfgang, Yeats, Gide... All exciting names; "Niels Goose", "The Blue Bird", "Gitanjali", "The Forsytes", "Six Characters in Search of the Author", "The Counterfeiter", "Babbit"... Each of the splendid masterpieces, vast and vast, all rivers and rivers return to the sea, are all gathered in this collection of works by Nobel Prize winners. Brand-new translations, real award-winning inside stories, and detailed and vivid introductions of writers and works not only show the creative trajectory of the writer, the style and characteristics of the works, but also reveal the inherent laws of literature.

"Bean Shed Gossip" is a collection of short stories in the vernacular of the late Ming Dynasty. This novel has several characteristics: First, it uses the story telling in bean shed as a clue to connect 12 stories together. It is similar to Western novels such as "One Thousand and One Nights" and "The Decameron". It is equivalent to China's first collection of short stories. The second is to write randomly about the injustices in the heart. Some of them seem to be writing historical stories, but in fact they are for the purpose of irony. The content is profound and meaningful, the language is fluent and the literary talent is high. It can be said to be the best work among the Ming and Qing dynasty novels.

Every new year is a new opportunity! Everyone loves a Christmas story. The holiday tradition of Christmas is all about celebrating, sharing and giving. And what's better than telling a Christmas story? --Open this book by the fire, in the snow, on the journey home. Give this book to friends, lovers, and loved ones and read it together. Let's enjoy this holiday season of peace, kindness, magic and even a little magic!

"Vanity Fair" is the famous work of the 19th-century British novelist Thackeray. It is also the most time-tested masterpiece among his life's works. It is the most famous satirical critical realist novel in the UK. Yang Bi's translation of "Vanity Fair" has a deep understanding of the original work and is very meticulous. He carefully considers every word and sentence and strives to be similar in spirit. Her translations often break the shackles of grammar, get rid of the shackles of word order, overturn the structure of the original work, stick to the essence of the original work, boldly "re-create", and reach a higher realm of literary translation: loyalty but not mud, liveliness but not abuse.

"Brave New World" was a stunning work published in 1932. The author Aldous Huxley used his legendary vision and ironic writing style to create a "brave new world" with abundant material life and highly developed science and technology. In the distant future, under genetic design and drug anesthesia, people have lost their personal emotions, their ability to think, and their love, and they just passively obey a ruling order. Bernard and Lenina, who went to the reserve for vacation, met "savage" John and his mother Linda, and brought them back to civilized society. Linda soon died of an overdose of soma, and John realized that "civilized society" was not a beautiful utopia, and began to long for a return to the reservation...

Three years ago, the girl Ji Yi lost her parents in a kidnapping case. Three years later, in an accident of mistaken identity, Ji Yi met her destiny. Love begins with a misunderstanding. The familiarity of the boy makes the face-blind girl involuntarily approach him. Faith disintegrates with the secret, and all dependence and belief collapses with the truth that becomes apparent step by step. Familiar faces, an unbearable past, why did you and I end up like this? Neither you nor I can go back to the worries of love. It turns out that the love in destiny can also be separated.

World literary masterpieces are the crystallization of human wisdom and have great ideological and artistic charm. They observe, think, and examine society and life in different eras with profound thoughts, exquisite brushwork, and unique perspectives. They have extraordinary power and can not only change lives, but also promote social progress and historical development in a certain sense. It is a spiritual stop that should not be missed in life. Read world famous books, experience the cultural values ​​and aesthetic ideas in them, improve your own knowledge structure and improve your humanistic accomplishments, and use this to understand society and interpret life, laying a solid foundation for a successful life.

The narrator of the novel, Ishmael, was tired of life on land and boarded the Pequod whaling ship to work as a sailor. Captain Ahab was bitten off half of his leg by a beluga whale on a previous voyage. He is determined to find the beluga and take revenge on this voyage.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin", also translated as "The Record of a Black Slave" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin", focuses on depicting the tragic fate of Tom, a black slave who believed in Christianity and had a noble spirit of sacrifice, under an unequal social system, thereby revealing the sinful nature of the slavery system. Once the novel was published, it immediately aroused strong responses from all walks of life, promoted the anti-slavery sentiment of the American people to a certain extent, and thus became one of the factors leading to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

This book is a collection of works by the famous French writer Stendhal in the 19th century. The protagonist of the novel, Julien, is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife and became an adulterer. After the affair was exposed, he was forced to enter the seminary. Later, he worked as a personal secretary for the Marquis Larmour in Paris, and was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, he had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine. This book was translated by the famous translator Mr. Hao Yun, and the translation is smooth and faithful.

The protagonist Julien is extraordinarily handsome and intelligent. He comes from a humble background but is ambitious. He has hoped to join the upper class society through personal efforts and struggle since he was a child. Just when he thought he was on the road to success and had found love that transcended class, society ruthlessly sent him to the guillotine. "The Red and the Black" is a monument of French and even European literature in the nineteenth century. The confrontation between the individual and society is its central theme. After so many years, the book is still shining brightly in the long and long art gallery. It has not faded over the years and has become a literary book that people all over the world cannot put down.

"Oliver Twist" is an early work by Dickens, published as a serial novel from 1837 to 1839. Orphan Oliver grew up hungry, living in workhouses and on the streets of London. This famous juvenile adventure story in the history of literature shows us how a small heart can protect its innocence and courage in a vast world where kindness and darkness are intertwined.

Ostrovsky's novel "How the Steel Was Tempered" is one of the most brilliant masterpieces in Soviet socialist literature and has become a classic in world literature. It was translated and introduced to China and has been popular for more than half a century. It is regarded as a life textbook, a road sign of life and a spiritual tonic, and has been passed down by generations of readers. In a mass voting event held last year for "Fifty Books That Touched the Republic", the book "How Steel Was Tempered" still ranked first. It is rare for a foreign literary work to have such historical penetration in our country.

"Keidan" is based on the most widely circulated folk tales in Japan, and covers extremely rich contents, such as the resentful spirits of the Heike family who were exterminated due to defeat in Japanese history, stories of fox fairies and willow spirits repaying kindness, and the secret story of ghosts redressing their grievances... The entire article is not available. There are gorgeous words, but it is filled with a strong unique flavor of traditional Japanese literature and a strong local flavor of Fuso. It is either humorous, warning, or allegorical. It is colorful and changeable, presenting an aesthetic realm of the blending of Eastern and Western civilizations. The horror atmosphere and cultural artistic conception constructed in the book "Ghost Story" have profoundly affected Japanese people's understanding of horror aesthetics. It was adapted into a film in 1964, directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The protagonist Julien, the son of a carpenter in the small town of Viliye, has been crazy about Napoleon since he was a child. With his outstanding talent and knowledge, he memorized the entire Latin Bible and was hired as a tutor in the mayor's house, thus embarking on the life path he longed for. He is talented and capable, and has won the respect of "the superior people"; he is handsome and handsome, and has the capital to fall in love with aristocratic women. All of this pushed him into the glamorous "upper class", and also pushed him into the unpredictable "abyss". "When a person is twenty years old, the thought of the upper class and how eye-catching he is in and out of it overwhelms other thoughts." Young people's ambitions are meaningful in any era, and Julien's persistence in not forgetting his original intention is a truly precious living flesh and blood, giving him eternity.

The story of the second era takes place in 1903. From 1900 to 1903, another world economic crisis occurred, which resulted in the unemployment of a large number of workers at the bottom of society, intensified the class contradiction between labor and capital, and thus triggered a social crisis. In 1903, August Ash was fired by his boss due to unfounded accounting errors. Later, after being introduced by his friend Martin Guerin, he went to work as an accountant at the Mannheim Mid-Rhine Shipping Company. By chance, he met the manager of the vaudeville theater Alfred Guernat. When he arrived in Ilona, in order to save Ilona, he gave up his job at the Mid-Rhine Shipping Company and returned to Cologne to start a theater business that symbolized his desire for order. However, it ended with the manager absconding with the money. Later, he invested all his property in the theater business and lost everything. He then returned home to Luxembourg and ended his messianic farce as a senior accountant in a large industrial company.

Iris Murdoch is "the smartest woman in Britain". As a female disciple of Wittgenstein, she has deep philosophical cultivation and is the author of "Existentialism and Mysticism" and so on. "Existentialism" is the theme of her first novel "Under the Internet". Her mature writing skills and profound thinking made this debut novel an astonishing success. Since then, Alice has dominated the British literary world with her unique style and mature thinking. She has been nominated for the Booker Prize 6 times, making her the most nominated writer in the history of the award. She won the first prize with "The Sea, the Sea" in 1978. Some people call the writing style of this book "open realism." Indeed, this book has a broad atmosphere and can withstand the tossing of critics from various schools such as mysticism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, etc.; At the same time, her work shocks readers with her skillful skills and thought-provoking stories. It can be said that her works are the most perfect literary interpretation of philosophy.

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" is an outstanding political allegory novel as well as a fantasy novel. The work depicts the living conditions of human beings in a totalitarian society. It is like a warning label that will never fade, warning the world against the expected darkness becoming a reality. After decades, its vitality has become increasingly powerful, and it is known as one of the "most far-reaching literary classics of the 20th century".

Hatano Yasuhiko, a student at the Art University, was fascinated by a portrait painted by the famous painter Ogiyo Sentaro. He was fascinated by the girl's eyes in the painting, which seemed to be staring into the abyss of death. Banano did not expect that the painting would be sent to him soon after, and he only needed to accept a task - to participate in an auction under a false identity, and no matter how high the bid was, he had to get a painting. And that painting is an identical portrait of a girl. Hatano felt the conspiracy, but couldn't help but want to touch the secrets in the painting... Seven short stories reveal the calculations of modern people hidden behind social masks, and reveal the dark areas obscured by city lights.

Anything can come true, as long as you make it up bold enough! Harry was a liar who lived in London. After moving to Panama, he became a tailor based on what he had learned in the past. Because he understands the importance of listening and shutting up, he is quite trusted by customers in upper class society. I thought I could erase the unknown past in this way, but unexpectedly, on a most ordinary Friday, a guest from hell came to my door and asked him to inquire about the activities of all parties on the eve of the change of ownership of the Panama Canal. In order to protect himself, Harry began to make up stories... He was so powerful that he was in the presidential office and in the prison of the opposition. Trying on the president's clothes, he can listen to the true words of the head of state that even the government spokesman does not know. From his past inmates, he boldly judged that a big storm is brewing in Panama. What kind of thrilling future will this keen gossip collector, excellent gossip analyst and communication master direct?

"Interlude" is Virginia Woolf's final work, which is unique in both language and form. The author is good at using the writing technique of stream of consciousness, and depicts a large number of people's inner illusions and subconsciousness in the novel; he is very skillful in the use of rhetorical techniques, including alliteration, end rhyme, homophony, etc.; And he quotes a large number of words and allusions from classic literature in the book, which shows his extraordinary language skills and superb artistic skills. The characters depicted in the book behave differently, and each has their own misfortunes flowing in their hearts. However, all misfortunes and pains ultimately originate from the common weakness of human nature-the inner desires cannot be satisfied, and there is not much difference between people after all. So when the director of the play, Ms. Latrube, introduced "reality" into the play, all the audiences were confused and unable to bear the weight of this "reality". I can calmly watch the lives of others being performed on the stage, but I cannot look directly at myself in public. Perhaps Woolf also lost faith in this reality, seeing through the cowardice of human nature but unable to change anything, so she chose to end her struggle with this contradictory world and chose "peace" among the three realms of life.

"Creative Evolution" is the representative work of Nobel Prize winner Henri Bergson. In "Creative Evolution", Henri Bergson opposed not only idealism, but also realism and positivism that is closely related to modern science. The book demonstrated the theory of "life impulse" and intuitionist methodology, and criticized the previous evolutionary philosophical system. His ambition is to make philosophy an "extension" of empirical science, that is, to combine science and metaphysics to grasp the endless and indivisible "total reality" or the "absolute" creation of all things. The publication of this book marks the maturity of Bergson's philosophy of life.

A proposition that is still indifferent to the vast majority of philosophers and writers, has actually puzzled mankind for a long time: how to save the earth. This kind of reporting literature on environmental protection deserves our serious reading and consideration.

In everyone's opinion, Cheng Xiaolu and Qiu Sheng are quite compatible as working partners. But if there is any emotional chemistry between the two of them, then everyone would say "NO" in unison. Cheng Xiaolu, who is serious about everything she does, and Qiu Sheng, who is frivolous and never serious, are not compatible in any way. However, things are unpredictable. When Cheng Xiaolu and Qiu Sheng appeared in front of everyone as a couple, everyone was shocked to realize that they were... So lacking in imagination! Cheng Xiaolu, who was so difficult to conquer, was actually chased by Qiu Sheng, who didn't seem to be that patient! In this regard, Cheng Xiaolu said helplessly: "How could I escape when I met such a person who is always cautious and good at inducing me?" On the long road of life, your silent protection is the most touching confession.

A long realistic novel that tells you how to use your relationships with classmates to change your destiny! Classmates are a relationship.

The novel collection "Ling Luo" selects six short stories and short stories by the well-known contemporary female writer A Yuan published in famous domestic literary journals, including national award-winning novels. A Yuan's works are said to be "as confusing as classical poetry". He is a typical academic writer. These short and medium-sized novels are exquisitely conceived, with unique language style and profound connotation. Many characters in the works are lifelike and have their own characteristics.

The painter Thomas has experienced ups and downs, having been married twice and having three sons born after marriage, all of whom were raised by his ex-wife. He loves his career and his children, and often accompanies his children on fishing trips. The relationship between father and son is deep. Unfortunately, two sons died in a car accident, and the only remaining son died in World War II. Finally, Thomas decided to put down his personal joys and sorrows and devote himself to the anti-fascist war. Despite the severe mental and physical tests, Thomas remained perseverant and dealt with the enemy tenaciously. He embodies the characteristics of the "tough guy" that often appears in Hemingway's works, and is a very successful artistic model.

Can a woman survive without being a villain? The wife Nobuko Shiokawa is dignified and virtuous, and is a standard traditional woman. However, her husband Hongji Shiokawa has long been separated from her. But what the husband is looking forward to is not just a simple divorce, he even wants to squeeze out the last bit of value from his wife. So, he first defrauded his wife's natal family of a huge sum of money, and then instigated his lover to seduce others in an attempt to defraud his wife into evidence of her infidelity. Hongzhi thought he had set up a flawless scam, but he didn't expect that a more terrifying force was targeting him. And how will the wife choose to fight back after her admirer committed suicide and her family was defrauded of a huge sum of money?

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 8 short stories. "About Love" is related to "The Man in the Trap" and "Gooseberry". Through a love tragedy, it reveals the fearful character that harms others and ourselves. "Chameleon" tells the story of a policeman who repeatedly changes his mind about a case, mocking the "snobbery" of the old society. "Old Age" writes about the "strange relationship" between people in the old Russian era.

Based on the scattered records of some legendary figures from the Heian period to the Edo period in Japan, six fantasy stories are reinterpreted. An aristocratic girl and her half-brother who fell into a deep sleep inexplicably lived completely different lives. At the end of their fate, they finally met again ("Sleeping Beauty"); the aristocratic couple who gave birth to a fox felt so ashamed that they killed the fox twice, and were eventually revenged by the fox's daughter ("Fox Charm"); both ears were deafened. A princess who relied on her own powerful power to reverse her destiny and gain love, but unexpectedly everything was fleeting ("The Art of Nightmare Transformation")... Shibusawa Tatsuhiko not only told the classical stories of supernatural beings, but also interpreted them from the perspective of modern concepts from time to time, making the classical and modern, magic and reality intertwined, full of strange and mysterious colors.

Japanese Nebula Award winner and science fiction master Kobayashi Taizo, a masterpiece collection of thriller and suspense short stories. The ultimate reversal! This book selects 11 representative short stories by Kobayashi Taizo, integrating multiple themes such as science fiction, suspense, and ghost stories. It involves many elements such as dystopia, Cthulhu, human nature, time travel, and AI simulation. The stage of the story extends from daily life to cosmic space. Kobayashi Taizo interweaves and confronts weirdness and ethics, keenly capturing the secrets hidden deep in human nature, and issuing thought-provoking thoughts on life, existence, self-awareness, identity, human rationality and other propositions.

The first domestic publication of Sakaguchi Ango's works in a series format; the standard-bearer of the "rogue faction" as famous as Dazai Osamu, a literary master highly respected by Kawabata Yasunari and Mishima Yukio; the prototype character of Japan's super popular animation "Bungou Stray Dogs", and the original novel of the popular animation "Ao no Literary" series. A collection of masterpieces of weird novels by Sakaguchi Ango, the standard bearer of Japan's postwar "rogue faction". This book contains a total of 10 famous novels by Sakaguchi Ango, namely "Under the Blooming Cherry Blossoms", "Zen Monk", "Nagahime and the Ear Man", "Idle Mountain", "Shidai Nagon", 5 strange novels, "Dr. Wind", "Eye of Arrogance", "About Incomprehensible Broken Love", "Idiot" and "The Woman Who Washed the Green Ghost's Loincloth". These 10 novels cover various stages of Ango's creative career and basically show the overall style of his novel creation. In particular, "Under the Blooming Cherry Blossoms" is the representative novel, which revolves around the lives of bandits and stolen brides. The story is interesting and strange, with a cold and strange atmosphere. It has the characteristics of a storybook novel and can be called the masterpiece of Japanese ghost story-style storytellers. Among the weird novels, "The Idiot" is the most famous. After being published in 1946, it was praised as "a model of Japanese post-war literature". The novel centers on a man fleeing with a mad woman during the war, reflecting Japan's wartime suffering and the madness of the people. Sakaguchi Ango's masterpiece of Kaidan and Weibo novels profoundly expresses Japanese classical cruelty and aesthetics, as well as reflections on the relationship between men and women during the war. The weird plot setting reflects his unique view of human nature, and has become one of the most popular Japanese classic novels among readers. "On Degeneration" is the representative work of Sakaguchi Ango, the standard-bearer of Japan's postwar "rogue school" literature. In addition to "On Degeneration", this book also includes 16 representative essays, including "On Degeneration", "The Emperor's Short Essay", "On Decadent Literature", "On Youth", and "A Death Test on Dazai's Love", for a total of 17 articles. Through these critical articles that overturned Japan's old moral order, Sakaguchi Ango called for the postwar Japanese to liberate themselves from the moral principles established by the old system, return to their natural humanity, and "fall" from the false clouds to the human world. The "fall" Sakaguchi refers to is to shed all hypocrisy and "return to the state of real people." For this reason, Sakaguchi Ango was hailed as a "great regressor" by Japanese intellectual circles and literary critics with his "loser philosophy" ideological level. "Ango Life Story" is a collection of Sakaguchi Ango's classic crime stories. This book is divided into two parts: "An Wu Life Talk" and "My Outlook on Life". In "Anwu Life Talk", the author transforms into a "street talker" and uses the collected notes of criminals to vividly restore crime stories and attach wonderful comments and miscellaneous remarks. Through the restoration and analysis of a hot case in Japanese society at that time, it pointed out the crux and ideological problems of society at that time in a sharp and humorous manner, and criticized the darkness of human nature. "My Outlook on Life" contains eight of his current affairs essays, combining the social events happening around him to interpret the bizarre social and life situations at that time. "Ango Life Story" was published in a single volume in Japan from the 1960s to the 1980s. After that, it was out of print for more than 30 years. In February 2019, a Japanese publishing house republished it in a single volume. This book is the first translation and publication in China. It is of great significance for domestic readers of Sakaguchi Ango to learn more about the author's thoughts and the situation of Japanese society at that time. "Continuous Murder" is the only full-length mystery novel written by Ango Sakaguchi. It subverts common sense criminal methods and inner games, and solves the shocking conspiracy behind eight murder cases. It is an immortal masterpiece in the history of Japanese mystery novels. The author sets the background of the story in the summer of 1947. At the mountain villa of Utagawa Tamon, a large Japanese conglomerate at that time, there were more than 20 scholars, poets, writers, doctors, etc. Who came to spend the summer. The interpersonal relationships were complicated and entangled with love and hatred. After receiving the threatening letter, eight murders occurred one after another, and the Utagawa family was destroyed. Throughout the process, the author does not use the "alibi" and "impossible crime" routines commonly used in mystery novels. It is obvious that the crimes are committed continuously, but it makes people unable to see a consistent motive, and even cannot predict the next victim. But there is a shocking conspiracy behind these murders. When this mystery novel was first serialized, the author attached a "Challenge to Readers" at the end of each article, stating that whoever guessed the murderer would pay his royalties. Osamu Dazai also participated in the guessing of the murderer, but unfortunately the challenge failed. After the novel was officially published, it won the Novel Award at the 2nd Detective Writers Club Award (later renamed the "Mystery Writers Association Award") in the second month. It became a model work of Japan's postwar "honkaku" mystery novels and has been popular in Japan for more than half a century.

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 contains 4 short stories. Three of them are about the lives of teachers in the old Russian era. In "The Uninteresting Story", the author writes about the cynical character formed due to the poverty of spiritual life through an old professor and the people around him. Although "The Principal" criticized the protagonist for being surly, it also expressed sympathy.

Chekhov is a world-class Russian short story master 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 contains 14 short stories. "The Bet" depicts the story of a banker's bet with a lawyer. The lawyer read a lot of books during his fifteen years of imprisonment and gained a spiritual rebirth. However, the banker tried to break the contract and murder the lawyer, exposing his ugly soul.

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 5 short stories. "Gooseberry" tells the story of a man who held the idea of ​​personal happiness and spent a gray life. When his ideal was finally realized, he had turned into a living corpse like a pig. "The Kingdom of Women" uses the depressed life of a capitalist's daughter to depict the emptiness and depravity of the entire bourgeois life.

This book is mainly based on "A Brief Introduction to the Studies of Zhuzi" and "A Brief Introduction to Zhuzi". It collects most of Mr. Taiyan's words on the Zhuzi and carefully edited and proofread them. Mr. Taiyan's academic studies include classics, history, works, and collections. He has especially conducted in-depth research on Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and Legalism in pre-Qin Dynasty. He discusses the rights and wrongs of various schools of thought. He has unique insights and can explain profoundly and simply in a simple and fascinating way. This book is Mr. Taiyan's lifelong effort in governing the scholars' studies. It is actually the best reading for introduction to the thoughts of the pre-Qin scholars.

There may be several obvious paradoxes in the current common views or basic judgments about novel writing. For example, on the one hand, we believe that there is an irreversible crisis in novels. Both critics and general readers are generally dissatisfied with the creation of novels. However, at different conferences, almost everyone unanimously affirmed the specific works. So, which statement is our honest experience, and which judgment is more in line with the truth of current novel creation. We believe that the writing skills of novels are becoming more and more mature, because the creation of modern Chinese novels has a history of nearly a hundred years and has accumulated considerable experience. Even if it is a little-known writer, his novels are also quite mature in technique. However, the maturity of technique has not brought about a change in the reputation or destiny of the novel. There are endless criticisms about the lack of spirit or thought in the novel.

A young undertaker goes behind the scenes to delve into all the terrifying (yet fascinating) aspects of this strange profession. Most people don't want to think about death, but Caitlin Doughty, a twenty-something medieval history major, chooses to work in a crematorium, turning her morbid hobby into a lifelong career. She works with all kinds of living and dead people, trying to find a place in the secret culture of undertakers. This book tells an unusual coming-of-age story, full of quirky adventures and unforgettable scenes. Caitlin handles corpses of all races, shapes, and encounters, and in the process quickly becomes an explorer of the world of the dead.

In the early stage, it was enlightenment education and a cry for national salvation. In the later stage, it was first a praise of construction, and then a new image of China was reshaped through obscure revelations. He pointed out that the national image of a literary work should be a comprehensive factor of the high level of the literary work itself that enhances the aesthetic value and social significance of the work itself, so that the quality and influence of the work itself can be used to establish and enhance the national reputation of the place where the work was born. Wang Guoying (Zhejiang University) took Lu Xun's "Sorrow" and Xia Yan's "The End of the Grass" as examples and pointed out that although they were twenty years apart in terms of creation time and story time, the escape consciousness and behavioral logic hidden in the bones are surprisingly similar, and have historical inheritance, thus gaining universal value. Li Hangchun (Zhejiang University) took "Yu Dafu's 'A Tale of Two Cities'" as the title and pointed out that the presentation of Shanghai and Hangzhou in Yu Dafu's works reflects two different moods and also shows two different styles and realms of modern Chinese city images from one aspect.

Book Three: The Family Book - Nowadays, oppression and resistance seem futile and comical. The world of book witches is facing an unprecedented crisis: something called "idea" is spreading, swallowing up one sanctuary after another, and the entire world of book witches is about to be eaten away. Freya was swallowed by "thoughts", but she did not disappear completely. Instead, she was thrown to the Evernight Sanctuary - the bloody battlefield more than thirty years ago, the current place of ruin, and the exile of the Seven-Pointed Star. There, she met the ragged Heptagram, the "Mother of Book Witches" Phaedra, and the powerful book demon Mentana. Everyone asked Fulia to rewrite the "Book of Creation" according to their ideas, so that reality would become what they wanted. After all, according to the records in the Book of Creation...

When writing "Quanguaitan", the author was not satisfied with collecting the classic legends of strange monsters that are well known to women and children in his country. He was also particularly good at digging out and recording the ghost stories that circulated in a small area. In addition, he also turned his attention abroad, and ghost stories from China and North Korea became his favorite material. Some of these stories are short and exquisite, some are thought-provoking and terrifying, some are twists and turns, with rich themes and different styles. Every story makes people think deeply and have a long aftertaste when reading it. Just like picking up pearls in the sea, they are extremely precious.

No one writes better than Dan Simmons! --"St. Louis Post-Dispatch". Dan Simmons won the World Fantasy Award, the highest honor for fantasy literature, for his debut novel "The Song of Kali"! Dan Simmons has won 27 major world literary awards in 24 years: World Fantasy Award (the highest honor for fantasy novels), Hugo Award (the highest honor for science fiction novels), Bram Stoker Award (the highest honor for horror novels), Locus Award, Japanese Nebula Award, British Fantasy Novel Award, French Universe Award... The goddess Kali has awakened, and eternal terror is about to come. Bobby, the editor of an American magazine, received a special task to go to Calcutta, India, to interview the famous poet Das. Friends advised him not to go because there were rumors that Das had died six or seven years ago. Bobby actually met Das and read the poem he wrote for the goddess Kali. From then on, everything around Bobby began to become terrifying, bizarre, and increasingly irreversible...

Liu Yukun! The Chinese-American writer who conquered the European and American science fiction circles! A science fiction epic that the entire Chinese-speaking world has been waiting for! Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award winner Liu Yukun's magnificent debut novel! The leader who promoted Chinese science fiction to the world. Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem" and Hao Jingfang's "Beijing Folding" both won Hugo Awards under his translation and recommendation. Liu Yukun combined Eastern classical aesthetics with Western scientific spirit and created a new science fiction concept of "silk punk". Once the work was published, it was translated into many languages. In "Dandelion Dynasty", Liu Yukun constructed a mysterious country composed of many islands: the Dara Islands. Here, gods and humans coexist. Tunnels are built under the sea to connect the islands. Hot air balloons, spaceships, and submarines are used to transport battles. Soldiers fight on kites. Here, countless heroes are performing legends. Between the stars and the earth, everyone is creating legends. Dandelions grow in the soil, but they have the sky in mind. It is tenacious and adaptable. As long as there is wind, it can float anywhere and build its own empire.

It was selected as one of the 25 classic mystery novels selected by the American Mystery Writers Association; it was selected as one of the 1,000 novels you must read before you die by the British "Guardian"; it has been adapted into a movie of the same name four times, and the Hitchcock version is one of the most classic suspense movies in history; it was adapted into a play in 2005, successfully landed on Broadway, and won the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award. After Richard Hannay returned to London from Africa, he met a man named Scudder and revealed to him that from the first time I read John Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps", I felt that it would be made into a great movie. --Hitchcock The secret of an international espionage organization. Scudder was killed, and Hannay became the prime suspect. In order to avoid being tracked by the police and spies, he fled to Scotland and escaped from danger time and time again with cleverness and wit. Finally, based on the "Thirty-nine Steps" clue left by Scudder, Hannay successfully destroyed the enemy's conspiracy.

"Even though he knew that human beings are a mixture of flaws and virtues, he still believed in the future happiness of mankind." The memoirs of the Yourcenar family, which have been out of print for ten years, are a magnificent triptych that explores history and eternity. It is one of the trilogy of autobiographical novels "The Labyrinth of the World", the first female "immortal" of the Academy of France. Literary masters such as Pamuk, Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua, Alai, Chen Ran, Qiu Miaojin, etc. Are the models of intellectual writing of the French "New Fable School". "Reverent Memories" is the first part of Margaret Yourcenar's autobiographical novel trilogy "The Labyrinth of the World". The author starts from his own birth and traces the history of his mother's family with a panoramic description, focusing on his two uncles Octave and Fernand, whom he has never met, and his mother Fernand, who died of puerperal fever. Yourcenar used a large number of oral materials, letters, photos, aristocratic family yearbooks and leftover items to construct a complete picture of his mother's family. He traced the roots as far back as possible to the longest past, and used a calm and objective writing style to make the images of each ancestor vivid on the page. She is not content to depict various characters in the family, but tries to clarify the theme of "eternity" through this, condensing the family that has been inherited from generation to generation into a symbol in the macroscopic time and space of the world. Standing outside of time and space, she observes with a cold eye, describes the destiny of mankind, and reveals the eternal laws of history.

"The Waking Forest" is a famous work by the famous essayist John Burroughs, the father of American nature literature. When you take a dip in the book, you can listen to the musical concert of forest birds, and appreciate the birds building nests, which can be said to be an encyclopedia of birds. In addition to enjoying the singing of birds, the fragrance of flowers, and the freshness of nature, you can also increase your interest and knowledge about wilderness and jungles, clarify an attitude toward nature, and awaken the soft, delicate, and sleeping poetry deep in our hearts.

Bacon was a famous philosopher and writer during the English Renaissance. He served as chief prosecutor, Lord Chancellor and Lord Chancellor. This book is a collection of Bacon's essays, covering politics, economics, religion, love, marriage, friendship, art, education, ethics, etc., Touching almost every aspect of human life. "Collected Essays of Bacon" can be said to be one of the rare world-wide works. This book is not only written for one country, but also for the whole world; Bacon's words are not only written for his era, but also for all eras.

"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is a collection of short stories written by Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty and is also his masterpiece. The book may talk about folk customs and customs, strange stories, or the strange changes in all things in the world. It has a wide range of themes and depicts a strange and changing world for readers. Many of them depict fox fairies and ghosts, reflecting various aspects of the human world, and have a strong romantic flavor. The book contains both dissatisfaction with the dark reality and resentment against unappreciated talents; there is both the lashing of corrupt officials and the praise of civilians who have the courage to resist. The most valuable thing is the love between people, fox demons, ghosts and gods, and between people.

San Diego is a name that everyone in the galaxy knows, but no one has ever seen his true identity. Some people say that he is a criminal who commits crimes and commits crimes, while others say that he is a hero who saves the lives of hundreds of people. Bounty hunter Sebastian Kane accidentally obtained information about San Diego's whereabouts, and embarked on a pursuit journey full of adventures and adventures. However, the truth that Kane finally discovered was completely beyond his expectation...

An inspirational classic that has inspired generations of people! His great life is a real experience of ordinary people overcoming suffering! Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 5 times. The Ministry of Education's new curriculum standards recommend required reading. A classic translation by the famous Russian translator Guo Jiashen. Specially added 184 detailed annotations to help readers clear reading obstacles. The full unabridged translation restores 100% of the Russian style of the 19th century. An immortal classic in the history of Western literature in the nineteenth century. His life was like a unity of the masses, with joy, anger, sorrow, and joy all connected. -Lu Xun. The protagonist Alyosha lost his father when he was three years old, and his mother took him to live with his grandfather. But this family has always been full of conflicts. My grandfather often beat my grandmother because of his extremely bad temper. He also beat Alyosha unconscious. Despite this, my grandmother has always been charitable and friendly, and gave Alyosha many positive teachings. Later, Alyosha's mother remarried and died of illness a few years later. After burying his mother, Alyosha went to the "human world" to make a living independently.