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Mimi, a boy from Naples who dreams of becoming a poet, looks out the window all day long - on the balcony of the opposite building, the "Milan girl" dances like a ballerina on a music box. As beautiful as a myth. For love, a little boy can accomplish extreme feats: engage in a "life and death duel" with his partners, and even abandon the dialect and speak Italian like a Milanese girl. Many years later, Mimi, who has entered college, meets her childhood friend again. Our narrator, the boy who once had a dream, must honestly face his memory and pursue the true identity of the Milan girl. Starnone pays homage to the "Divine Comedy" and tells us in a simple, direct, realistic and powerful way the moment when childhood ends: the moment when love is discovered, the moment when death is discovered, and the two are inseparable and pursue each other.

"My daughter is missing." The woman sitting opposite Fang Ding finally spoke after being silent for about ten minutes. Fang Ying poked the ice cubes in the glass twice with his straw. The woman said she had already called the police. After complaining for a while about how the police failed to handle the matter, she took out an envelope from her bag and pushed it in front of Fang Ying. "This is the deposit agreed upon on the phone." Fang Ying looked around and then glanced at the envelope. He whistled and said with a smile: "To be honest, I didn't plan to take over. You know, it's very difficult to find something like this when it disappears, especially in the case of your daughter. At this age, fifteen or sixteen years old, in the rebellious stage, she might have run away from home."

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. The excitement-hungry British engineer Richard Hannay returns to London from impoverished Africa, but within a few months he is also bored with urban life. At this moment, the American Scudder entrusted him with a huge secret: German spies attempted to assassinate the leaders of friendly countries. Once accomplished, the world would be in danger. Later, Scudder was killed, and Hannay was ordered to hunt down, escape, refit, and disguise himself. The police and spies split into two groups and formed a huge net that covered the sky. Hannay's sharp eyes saw through the traps time and time again, and he cleverly escaped from the clutches of the devil. The day of assassination is imminent, and Scudder's notebook contains only the only clue - the thirty-nine steps. Where are the thirty-nine steps? Where do the thirty-nine steps lead to? With danger and death at stake, can Hannei find the thirty-nine steps and destroy the enemy's conspiracy?

The full name of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", written by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. It is China's first full-length retrospective historical romance novel, one of the four classic Chinese classics, and a classic of historical romance novels. [1] The novel is based on history, based on Confucianism, and emphasizes "loyalty"; it focuses on describing wars, telling the history of more than a hundred years from the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty to the establishment of the Wei, Shu Han and Wu Kingdoms, and the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, and depicts numerous heroes. The book's narrative is "according to official history, collecting novels, proving the diction, and understanding the art." The combination of fiction and reality makes the song as wonderful as it can be. This book is an abbreviated version of the original work and is suitable for teenagers to read.

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes Ozu Yasujiro's "Tokyo Story", "Early Spring" and "Tokyo Twilight".

"Collection of Books on the Art of War" contains three parts: "The Book of Five Rings", "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "On War". It involves many military theoretical works from ancient and modern times at home and abroad. It is a classic reading book that collects the wisdom of Chinese and foreign celebrities. This book is a collection of the world's three most famous military books, and has received widespread attention from many military enthusiasts. Among them, "The Book of Five Rings" takes the spirit of Bushido as its source and discusses the way to win in the art of war. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is regarded as a military classic in China and has been studied throughout the ages. Li Shimin said, "Looking at all the military books, there is no one like Sun Wu." Today, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has been translated into many languages ​​and also plays an important role in the world's military history. After the publication of "On War", it received great attention from the military circles of various countries. "Encyclopedia Britannica" evaluates it: It is worthy of being the first theoretical work to comprehensively study military academics. To a certain extent, his work is the "Bible" of strategy.

"Shangshu", an early book called "Shu", was written around the fifth century BC. The traditional "Shangshu" (also known as "Jinwen Shangshu") was handed down from Fu Sheng. Legend has it that it is a work left over from the ancient culture "Three Tombs and Five Codes". "Shangshu" is listed as one of the important core Confucian classics. "Shang" means "up", and "Shangshu" is an ancient book. It is a compilation of ancient Chinese historical documents and some works that trace ancient deeds. It is an early collection of historical documents in my country.

Naoki Award winner Yamamoto Fumio's masterpiece novel is similar to the hit "The First Half of My Life". Mayumi, an urban white-collar worker, became a full-time housewife after getting married. Her husband Hideaki, who works as a salesperson in a residential construction company, is gentle and considerate, and her daughter is cute and well-behaved. She thought her dream life had finally come true, but she was overwhelmed by the unchanging days and determined to return to the workplace. However, her husband became increasingly reticent and difficult to communicate with each day. Eggplant Taro has a stable job and a warm family. His wife Ayako keeps the house in order, and his two sons are smart and lively. He thinks this is a happy life. For the sake of his family, Taro decided to find a residential construction company to renovate the old house. However, after that, Ayako often went out mysteriously. In the reflection of thousands of lights, the happy family is as fragile as a phantom. When the promise of staying together for a lifetime turns into an unchanging ordinary life, how should men and women face all this?

Through the various encounters of an ordinary soldier, Schweik, in the First World War and the activities of various characters around him, the novel uses a wonderful way of joking but not joking, blending solemnity with humor, and containing both anger and laughter. It exposes the cruel and decadent Austro-Hungarian Empire and all the ugly phenomena of the society at that time at a glance and makes a bitter satire.

"Dream of Red Mansions" has created many characters, each with their own unique and distinctive personality characteristics, and they have become immortal artistic models and will always shine with brilliance in the history of Chinese literature and world literature. "Dream of Red Mansions" is a great work with high ideological and artistic qualities. Judging from the ideological tendencies reflected in "Dream of Red Mansions", the author has preliminary democratic thoughts. He has a deep understanding of the real society, including the darkness of the palace and officialdom, the decadence of the feudal aristocracy and their families, and the feudal society. The imperial examination system, marriage system, slave system, hierarchical system, as well as the corresponding social governance ideas, namely the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, social moral concepts, etc., Were deeply criticized and put forward vague ideals and propositions with a preliminary democratic nature. These ideals and propositions were a tortuous reflection of the budding factors of the capitalist economy that was growing at that time. \

With "The Legacy of La Traviata in Paris" as its original title, "La Traviata" was translated into classical Chinese by Lin Shu as early as the end of the 19th century. It was the first Western novel translated by a Chinese and became popular all over the country as soon as it was published. Margaret, who lives in a hypocritical vanity fair, devotes her most sincere heart to love. Yan Fu, a modern enlightenment thinker and translator, lamented after reading it: A poor scroll of La Traviata has broken the heart of a Chinese prodigal.

Moon Gem - A diamond passed down from generation to generation in India. A British officer snatched the gem from an Indian Buddhist temple, and this priceless gem spread to England. The cursed gem has since claimed the lives of many of its owners. The looming figure of the formidable Indian pursues the gem.

Pulitzer Prize winner John Toland's pioneering work in writing the history of World War II recreates the most tragic offensive and defensive battle of World War II. It has been best-selling in Europe and the United States for 40 years, with sales exceeding 3 million. The Battle of the Ardennes is known as "the greatest battle in the history of the United States during World War II." Pulitzer Prize winner John Toland devoted fifteen years to writing, traveled 100,000 miles, and interviewed more than a thousand people who experienced the war. He recorded the largest offensive and defensive battle on the Western Front in Europe during World War II from a comprehensive perspective, recreating the "trapped beast" before the destruction of the Third Reich. 1944 Was the most important decisive year on the Western Front battlefield of World War II. Hitler, the commander-in-chief of the Third Reich, decided to make a desperate move and make a "big gamble" by investing all his elites in a desperate counterattack - the Battle of the Ardennes. In this war, the Allied forces withstood a huge test of life and death. The tank battles and trench warfare between the two sides were unprecedentedly fierce and attracted worldwide attention. John Toland tells stories from a global perspective how American soldiers finally turned the tide of the war.

Who said you have to dress up as a princess in time travel? Even if you become a small farmer, you can still dominate the world. Even if we have no food, clothing, shelter or transportation, we can still do whatever we want. Travel through time and become a child without a father or a mother Children have more rations but less food Relatives don't care about anything and just talk about it My brother is too young and can only rely on himself Fortunately, we have special powers. We can farm and grow flowers with one hand. "That vegetable, hurry up and grow it, and you are selling it for money!" Situ Mulian put her hands on her hips and pointed her fingers. Scene one: "Girl, you don't have an adult in your family, so my second uncle will help you keep the money." Situ Ying said with a smile. Situ Mulian also smiled and replied: "Second uncle! Although we are small, we can still keep our money well. Second uncle, on the other hand, if you believe me, I can keep it for you, otherwise I will spend it on others." When Situ Ying heard what Mulian said, she was so angry that she couldn't let outsiders take care of her own money. Scene two: "Sister Lian, the son of the Li family in the east of the city is so handsome! He is a perfect match for you!" Mulian's aunt was sitting cross-legged on the kang, cracking melon seeds and spitting out the skin of melon seeds, and said with a smile. "That's not true. The son of the Li family in the east of the city still can't tell who his father is and what his wife is asking for. Aunt, I don't think I can wait until he is 80 years old. If you are willing, you can consider it." Mulian leisurely held the book and said sarcastically. Scene three: "I can give you whatever you want." Dongfang Qi looked at the picturesque man with a gentle smile at the corner of his eyes and eyebrows. "As long as I live with you, I can watch the sun rise and set side by side with you, and grow old together like this, hand in hand." Mulian looked at the clasped hands and said with a crooked smile. Recommended articles from friends: Concubine http:\u002F\u002Fread. Xxsy. Net\u002Finfo\u002F374533. Html Situ Pingan My mommy is not easy to sell: http:\u002F\u002Fread. Xxsy. Net\u002Finfo\u002F385286. Html

Before the marriage, Jiang Yasheng made a condition: When you find someone you want to marry, we will divorce. But when she filed for divorce, his answer was too strange, "Is there anyone you want to get married with? Make an appointment, and I will check it for you." Faced with a husband with a great imagination, Bailu was a little at a loss. What's going on when my husband interviews and finds a boyfriend? It's special enough for two big men to chat privately. But what shocked her even more was her husband's 360° change. He was so gentle and caring towards her. She suddenly realized: It turns out that I was pursued by my husband, but what about the divorce I had agreed to?

This book is Professor Yang Geng's first collection of academic essays, which reflects the author's continuous reflection on philosophy and culture over the past decades. The book includes a total of five articles: "Philosophical Reveries", "Cultural Thoughts", "Reading Notes", "Ideological Dialogue" and "Academic Lectures", but it is not limited by the format. "Philosophical Reverie" contains cultural reverie, and "Cultural Reverie" contains philosophical reverie. "Reading Notes" and "Ideological Dialogue" contain both philosophical reverie and cultural reverie, and "Academic Speech" is the crystallization of "Philosophical Reverie", "Cultural Reverie", "Reading Notes" and "Ideological Dialogue". As a collection of essays, this book is a fragment of thoughts and a spark of inspiration. It integrates the author's profound accumulation of philosophical research in a short space, embodying the characteristics of casual and flexible essays without losing the rigor of philosophical research. The lingering aftertaste after reading makes one close up and think deeply.

This book is a collection of Woody Allen's drama works published in 2003, including three works: "Riverside", "Old Saybrook" and "Central Park West". These three stories revolve around the phenomenon of marital infidelity, written in a relaxed and humorous way, full of insight and highly readable. The characters are typical New Yorkers who appear innocent at first but then run into unexpected trouble or become embroiled in scandal. The work continues Woody Allen's enduring creative theme: the protagonist constantly makes excuses for himself, covering up what he has done, and then inevitably falls into infidelity and deception. All dramatic elements are cleverly presented with the help of Woody Allen's impromptu and concise dialogue, making people laugh and think deeply at the same time.

The male protagonist Hu Luguang (after the famous Northern Qi general and founding father Hu Lüjin) is the "Falling Eagle General" on the spectrum of "Chinese famous generals". Through his military career and loyal deeds, it also highlights the debauchery, luxury, mediocrity and tyranny of a generation of faint emperor Gao Wei... The plot uses the Mengshan Giant Buddha as the through line, with Buddhist culture and scenic spots as the foil, and the Northern Qi, In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the two countries enshrined and banned Buddha respectively. The brutal military and political struggle between the two countries was used as the form of expression. Through the legendary stories of these ancient real figures (Hu Luguang, Feng Xiaolian, Gao Wei, Emperor Wu of Zhou, Wei Yuansong, Yang Jian, Wei Xiaokuan, Gao Changgong, etc.) That happened at the foot of the Mengshan Giant Buddha, a magnificent historical picture was shown...

The epic poem "Spring of Olympus" is Shi's representative work, with a total poem length of 20,000 lines. It is all written in Alexandrian script and is divided into 5 parts with a total of 33 chapters to tell the mythical story of a genius. Under the arrangement of Ananke, the fate-determiner of the Olympus gods, the gods imprisoned in the lower world returned to the sacred mountain to compete for beauties and the throne. The whole poem is vast in size and involves a wide range of themes, which profoundly reflects the characteristics of the era in which the author lived.

"Eugene Onegin" is Russia's first realist work and successfully created the first "superfluous man" image in Russian literature. The protagonist of the work, the aristocratic young man Onegin, lived a luxurious life similar to that of ordinary aristocratic youths. However, under the influence of the atmosphere of the times and the progressive enlightenment ideas at that time, he began to be tired of the empty and boring life of the upper class, and came to the countryside with a desire for a new life, and tried to engage in agricultural reform. However, in the end, Onegin was still in a state of idleness, depression and hesitation, and contracted the typical disease of the times - melancholia. At the manor in the countryside, he became friends with Lensky and his fiancée Olga. Olga's sister Tatyana was simple and passionate. She fell passionately in love with Onegin and bravely wrote to him to express her pure love, but Onegin rejected her. A few years later, at a ball in St. Petersburg, Onegin reunited with Tatyana, who had become the general's wife, and found that he was deeply in love with her. However, Tatyana could not betray her husband. Although she loved Onegin deeply, she still rejected him.

"Memories of Autumn Lanterns" is a prose by Qing Dynasty scholar Jiang Tan reminiscing about trivial matters in daily life with his beloved wife Guan Rong (Guan Qiufu). It is full of elegance, talent, leisurely interest and poetic flavor. The narration of the whole book is vivid, the diction is clear and elegant, and the emotions are pure and touching. After that, Jiang Tan dedicated himself to worshiping Buddha. At the age of 40, his family was trapped in Hangzhou due to war and died of cold and starvation. The sorrow of the impermanence of the world can make people cry. This publication is based on the Qiantang Chiang Chaoyuan publication in the second year of Xianfeng (1852), and is carefully revised with reference to the punctuation typesetting edition of Zhu Jianmang's "Beautiful Literary Masterpiece Series" compiled by World Book Company in 1935. Specially invited Suzhou University teacher and young poet Zhu Yinshan's vernacular translation and annotation, which can be fully understood without any basic knowledge of ancient Chinese. The appendix is ​​the preface to the first edition in the second year of Xianfeng, which includes "Hundred Poems by Chiang and Guan" and "Chronology and Biographies" as an aid to understanding Chiang and Guan.

"The Complete Collection of Li Yu's Ci" includes the Ci of two masters of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu, Li Jing and Feng Yansi. Each poem has detailed notes and comments, making it suitable for ordinary readers. The three poems represent the overall style and highest achievements of Southern Tang poetry. At the back of the book are biographical information and commentary on the two Southern Tang masters for readers to understand their lives and creative styles.

"Kojiki" was written in 712. It is the first written classic in Japanese history and one of the earliest extant Japanese literary works. The book is divided into three volumes. The first volume records the origins and myths and legends of Japanese gods, focusing on the formation of Japan's territory and the beginning of the emperor. The two gods Ienaki and Ienami created the country on the orders of the gods. They entered into a divine marriage and gave birth to children to the gods. After things such as "relinquishing the kingdom" and "descending from heaven", the descendant of Amaterasu Omikami, the god Waiha Rebi Komei, was finally born. Emperor Jinmu, the first emperor of Japan, ruled the China of Weihara according to the destiny. The middle volume and the second volume are the records and legends of the thirty-three generations of Japanese emperors from Emperor Jimmu to Emperor Suiko. Historical facts are mixed with fiction. The records mainly focus on the Japanese emperor's conquests and quelling chaos, administrative structures, royal family legends, etc.

"Kojiki" is the first written classic in Japanese history and one of the earliest existing Japanese literary works. The content is to record some ancient legends and stories. The text and content are deeply influenced by India and China, and can be regarded as the origin of Japanese national mythology. Zhou Zuoren's translation is the best in China.

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Myth and Heroes is a retelling of Greek mythology for adults by Stephen Fry, the British comedy master and national treasure in the field of audiobooks. In this set of books, Stephen Fry, in his dual capacity as an actor and a writer, reorganizes the context of Greek mythology and connects them with dramatic clues. He completely gets rid of the rigid and academic feel of Greek mythology, and gives Greek mythology a richer plot, a more distinctive personality and an attractive film quality.

As a well-known writer, May Satten has made achievements in the fields of poetry, novels and non-fiction. Among them, diary constitutes a unique charm in her writing. This book collects two diaries of May Satten, "Recovering" and "After the Stroke". In the book, she candidly recorded two difficult periods in her life: the age of 66, and a period of many years of emotional distress. The relationship came to an end. At this time, she not only fell into the quagmire of depression, but also underwent a mastectomy. However, "the blow awakened the hidden power." She continued to read and write with perseverance and courage, took good care of her living space, and finally got out of the predicament with remarkable grace. At the age of 73, she unfortunately suffered a stroke, but she was still not knocked down. Instead, she drew strength from nature and daily life, deeply thought about her relationship with the past, and completed a journey of mental and physical recovery.

Another masterpiece by John Williams, author of "Stoner". The difference from "Stoner" is that he wants to understand the reality of the world. They are both a story about perseverance in the face of meaninglessness, about failure caused by naivety. Unlike Stoner, who sticks to his faith, this is a young man who is passionate and curious about the unknown, eager to seek the real world: what he believes in is not the belief of Emerson and Thoreau, but the seeing behind it - except for wilderness and experience, nothing is more sincere and charming than the inner impulse. At the same time, he is the same as Stoner in a sense, they have achieved self-realization. Perhaps, each of us has this kind of impulse and passion, which has made us who we are today. A deep meditation on the young mind. The author John Williams said that when a young man who dropped out of Harvard came to the West and saw nature and the true appearance of the wilderness, what would happen to him? This is where the novel begins. "Butcher's Crossing" tells the story of Andrews, a young man who dropped out of Harvard in 1873. Influenced by the natural concepts of Emerson and Thoreau, he came to Butcher's Crossing with the urge to find beauty, hope and vitality, and followed the hunter Miller and two others (Schneider the skinner and Charlie Hogg, who worked with the camp) into the Colorado mountains to hunt bison. Each of them embarked on this uncertain journey with different purposes and ideas. They experienced many difficulties and even lost one person's life. They returned to Butcher's Crossing Town, but earth-shaking changes had taken place here...

The Pingyuan trilogy "Sheep's Gate", "City's Lamp" and "Book of Life" uses the intersection of history and reality as the basic structural framework. It describes Hu Tiancheng, secretary of the rural party branch. During his nearly 40 years in office, he used various "connections" to manage the "human field" and built a huge network of relationships from the township to the county, and from the provincial capital to the capital. The book "Lights of the City" constructs a unique "sieged city" world: there is "glorious light" in the city, which is pleasant and clean; outside the city, there is a huge black hole that is constantly being swallowed by darkness. In the abyss of desire, sin is rampant. In the throes of entanglement and biting inside and outside the city. "Book of Life" not only describes the living conditions of villagers who catered to, refused, or drifted away during the political movements in the second half of the twentieth century, but also describes how villagers "escaped" from the countryside and persisted and lost in the face of the temptation of materialistic cities.

Even if you have nothing in front of you, you can get comfort from this book and embrace the ecstasy of life. The last fourteen days of the year feel like stepping into a strange parallel universe. Here, there is a store filled with lemon aroma, filled with all kinds of cleaning tools. Brushes, rags, steel wool and dusters, boxes of gloves - heavy-duty, latex, rubber, polyethylene, cotton mops, squeegees, regular brooms, trash clips. A strange silence lingered in the shop. Here, there is an inexplicable crack, extending from the wall to the tiles on the floor, like a yawning mouth. The wind passed through the cracks, and there seemed to be a small sigh floating into the distance. Here, an unpredictable weather moves toward the airport. Four cheetahs, a goat of unknown origin, a donkey, and a turtle are stuffed in the animal storage station. The parked airport stages a ridiculous comedy that makes people laugh and cry. Here, snowflakes seem to rise from the ground and fall from the sky at the same time; sheep are paired with foxes, and mice dance with insects. Here, there is a miraculous little garden, with snow falling on the treetops, and a woman with silver hair wearing a red coat walking slowly through the snow and walking toward us. All stories start from here and quietly intersect with each of our lives. You will find that the world is bigger than reality; you will find that you are not alone. Because, the feeling in your heart, I also feel in my heart.

This book is a self-reflective realist novel. It mainly tells the story of Furukura Keiko, a thirty-six-year-old single woman who did not find a job after graduating from college and worked in a convenience store for eighteen years. During this period, many store employees came and went, and the store manager was replaced by the eighth one. Only Keiko was always there. She eats bentos sold in convenience stores every day, listens to the clicking sound of the cash register every day, looks at the clean storefront every day, greets customers with welcome words every day, and lives such a peaceful and happy life every day. Keiko's family, colleagues, and friends of the same age all found it incredible. Only Keiko knows that everything is changing, and only the convenience store that remains unchanged can give herself comfort. Suddenly one day, the new clerk Bai Yu broke into Keiko's life. "It's too strange for you to live like this," he said. Keiko began to think, is her life abnormal? To interrogate modern social life and analyze the dividing line between normal and abnormal, a realistic novel was born.

The book "Guess My Finger" selects seven novels from the famous writer Deng Yiguang, including "Experiencing Death", "Guess My Finger", and "Raising the Falling Yang". Most of the themes of this book are selected from many fragments of people's lives after the new era, vividly reflecting social life. The author's language is simple and accurate, the structure is rigorous, and the story is moving, making the reader's reading process always full of interest.

"Destiny" describes the story of Tibetan soldiers joining the expeditionary force and fighting with the Han people against the Japanese invaders. In a background full of rich Kham customs and Tibetan Buddhist customs, the two Kham men were driven by fate to move step by step to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. These two amazing Kham men, with their simple and ordinary actions, told the world the true meaning of faith, life, love, friendship and family affection.

Life is gray, but lemons are fresh. A shaky soul counts the days to live, and becomes melancholy, frustrated, out of place, escaping, lonely, sick, and destroyed. However, the joy of life always makes people reluctant to give up. What saves people is the small life in the end, so only a lemon or a glass marble can lead to self-care happiness. Kajii Motojiro used words to record the trivial, seemingly meaningless, subtle changes and consciousness phenomena in social life. He did not use clever words to modify it but was faithful to his inner expression needs. He used clear words to express the true appearance of the unfortunate souls in modern life. Therefore, he was known as the "Classic of the Showa". Writers such as Mishima Yukio have stated that they were influenced by him.

This is a wonderful novel that only Puzo could write, full of power and wisdom, pointing directly at the darkness and decadence of America's golden cities - New York, Hollywood and Los Angeles. The writer Merlin is impoverished, the has-been writer Osano has run out of inspiration and has a corrupt life, and Corey is a born gambler... This is a bizarre world. In this world, men abuse their power without scruple, women sell their sexiness, and greed, sex, violence and betrayal are everywhere. Here, only the strongest can survive, while the fools are destined to have no way out.

This book is a blockbuster new work written by the author of "One Man's Pilgrimage", a word-of-mouth book that has sold 5 million copies worldwide and moved 38 countries. There's a record store here. A bright little record store. There is no store name on the door and no display in the window, but the store is filled with various vinyl records of classical music, rock music, jazz, pop music, etc. It is often open late into the night. Lonely, insomniac, sad or with nowhere to go... All kinds of people come here to look for records, or to find answers to their own lives. The boss, Frank, is forty years old, a tall and gentle man like a bear. Just tell him how you are feeling at the moment, or tell your story, and he will always find the most suitable record for you. The music begins in silence and returns to silence, like a journey. Until one day, a woman wearing a pea-green windbreaker collapsed at the door of the record store. Frank's sweetness and pain could no longer be buried, and the record store and the entire street changed forever.

This book is a novel by Japanese novelist Kawakami Mieiko. It tells the story of four women living at the bottom of society who came together to form a new "family" because of shared housing. They rely on each other and warm each other, but in order to survive, they use and dominate each other, sinking deeper and deeper into the quagmire of poverty, and finally complete the story of redemption through everyone's efforts and inspirational growth.

His stubborn father, who was nearly seventy years old and had been kicked out of the house and came to seek refuge, his increasingly picky and restless wife who had been married for ten years, and a job full of depression and struggle, all made Giovanni desperately want to escape. The arrival of his father made Giovanni's life more full of contradictions. His wife Simone took her sons Bartow and Diego back to her parents' home, and Giovanni was forced to get involved in a struggle. At the same time, he met the beautiful and charming Kalman... The young Bartow wanted to go home. He missed the computer with professional software and wanted to complete his ambitious plan - to edit the four-minute and one-second short film "My Family", which was a collection of trivia about family members' lives that he recorded with a camera, telling the story of those stolen lives. Will life get better when everyone is trying to clean up the past and rebuild the base?

This is a novel written for children by the Nobel Prize-winning writer and famous Polish novelist Sienkiewicz. It has been made into movies twice. It is a literary classic that has accompanied the growth of generations in Poland and many places around the world. The land of Africa looks particularly magnificent and magical under Sienkiewicz's epic writing, and the friendship between boys and girls also shines with brilliance. Readers can feel the strong appeal of the great literary works in "Where Are You Going" and "Fire and Sword" everywhere.

In early 1945, the author was incorporated into the Navy. First in the Mariana Islands, then living with boys flying B-29s over Japan, Pyle experienced a side of the war that was new to him. Next he joined an aircraft carrier invading Okinawa. He landed with the Marines and saw Okinawa captured. On April 17, 1945, a Japanese bullet killed Pyle on Ie Island, and Americans lost their greatest and most popular journalist. Millions mourn the loss of this humble man who wrote about the war with complete honesty, and his work will remain as one of the most important records of the struggle.

"Empire of the Sea" mainly describes the famous island offensive and defensive battles and naval decisive battles in the Mediterranean between the Ottoman Empire in the mid-to-late 16th century and the Kingdom of Spain, the Papal State, and the Republic of Venice ruled by the Habsburg family, the Papal State, and the Republic of Venice, in order to compete for the Mediterranean, the center of the old world, including the battles of Rhodes, Malta, Cyprus, and the Battle of Lepanto. Empire of the Sea is a colorful and thrilling story that provides a critical backdrop to the contemporary clash of civilizations.

"White Snake" is one of the self-selected editions of Yan Geling's classic short stories and short stories, including "White Snake", "Also Adam and Eve", "Magic Dan", "White Sparrow" and "Stories in School". Main article "White Snake": During the Cultural Revolution, the famous actress Sun Likun was "suppressed" for starring in "White Snake" and was imprisoned in a dilapidated set room. She who once captivated all sentient beings gradually became vulgar and numb due to long-term mental oppression and harsh living conditions. In October, a young man wearing an old yellow woolen military uniform came and often stopped under her window. Soon the girl who was guarding her informed that someone from her superiors would come to investigate... Yan Geling told the story in poetic and exquisite language, giving a new interpretation to the ancient relationship between men and women; the indescribable and faintly painful love revealed the secluded human nature in extraordinary times.

I never really lived until I started living for myself! A milestone in modern Japanese literature, the pioneering work of romantic literature, and a history of spiritual change during the Enlightenment Period in modern Japan. A must-read masterpiece to understand Japanese literature! Ogai Ogai, a modern Japanese writer who is as famous as Natsume Soseki, is a Japanese writer that Lu Xun particularly loves, and has profoundly influenced literary masters such as Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Mishima Yukio and Dazai Osamu! The reason why "Dancing Girl" is a must-read in Reader's Classic Library! 1. Carefully select 8 masterpieces of Mori Ogai's short stories, including not only "Dancing Princess", the debut novel that made Mori Ogai famous in one fell swoop, but also "Goose", "Takase Fune" and other works that are regarded as classics in Japan. 2. The classic translation by Japanese translator Gao Huiqin strives for excellence in wording and sentence making, truly restoring Mori Ogai's language style. 3. Specially includes the translator's preface, providing an in-depth interpretation of Mori Ogai's creative career and understanding the story behind "Dancing Princess". Japanese young man Ohta fell in love with a dancing girl during his study tour in Germany. He longed for freedom and love, but did not have the courage to give up his originally smooth career. In his imprisoned life, Ota's self gradually awakens. How will he choose? In the history of human literature, "Maihime" by the representative Japanese writer Ogai Mori is full of self-establishment and exploration of the liberation of human nature. It can be called a history of spiritual change in modern Japan's Enlightenment period and is known as a milestone in modern Japanese literature.

"The Moon and the Campfire" is the last and most important novel of the Italian writer Cesare Pavese, first published in 1949. The abandoned baby "Eel" is tired of struggling in the United States and returns to the northern Italian countryside in search of his lost childhood. Unexpectedly, he learns about the cruel past of his hometown during the fascist occupation, and realizes that the hometown he is looking for has long been broken. In endless melancholy, he embarked on a journey again.

Name is a spell that connects destiny, telling the American dream of an Indian immigrant family; a hardcover version of Juppa Lahiri's first novel, a sensation in the world literary world alongside Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The novel tells the life experience of Gogol, an Indian boy born in the United States, from childhood, adolescence to youth. Gogol's father's name is Ashoke, which means "the one who transcends sorrow"; his mother's name is Ashima, which means "the infinite woman". When Ashoke was young, he suffered a train derailment and survived because of a copy of "The Collected Novels of Gogol". For this reason, when his son was born in the United States, he named his son "Gogol." Gogol has the diligence of an Indian immigrant child and the rebellious personality of an American teenager. As an adult, he has a successful career and has a girlfriend from an upper-class New York family. He wanted to break out of the Indian circle, but in the end he married an Indian girl... After experiencing life and death, reunion and separation, between the East and the West, everyone in the story was torn, struggling, escaping and returning between the two cultures. Where is the real destination?

I don't know what life is, but I just want a better life! This is the story of the life of a man named Garp. Garp has been without a father since he was born, because Garp's mother chose a different life: "I want a job, I want to live alone, and I want a child, but I don't want to share my body or life with others for this." So, she raised Garp in her own way and gave him all the freedom she could. And Garp has been trying to figure out how to live a good life. He couldn't distinguish between love and lust, and was trapped by lust for half his life, which put his marriage in trouble. He cares about his career, but is sometimes arrogant and anxious. He experienced a person's growth and destruction, and also felt the madness of the world and the fragility of people. But he always insisted that everyone must be full of energy and live a better life!

The protagonist Guina was born of an ordinary person, with no impressive academic qualifications or outstanding appearance. She works in an ordinary company and commutes to get off work in a crowded subway every day. Although she has a boyfriend who cherishes her very much, her boyfriend's family looks down on her very much in South Korea, which attaches great importance to practical conditions, even though her boyfriend's parents are not considered noble. After several years of mediocre working life, she realized that a "uncompetitive" person like herself would not be happy in South Korea. For people like her, today's South Korea is an era of "five abandonments" (giving up on love, marriage, having children, buying a house, and interpersonal relationships), and the rest is just struggling to make a living. Everything in the future is doomed, and no miracles will happen. One of Guina's lines mentioned that "Korea loves itself, not me. It only loves those who make it shine, such as Kim Yuna, and it avoids those who shame it." Therefore, she decided to find happiness in another completely different environment. Next, she resolutely resigned, said goodbye to her family and boyfriend, and went to Australia. In a foreign country where people and land are unfamiliar, she experienced various difficulties in life and various boyfriends, faced the cultural differences between East and West, and gained a clearer understanding of the nature of Koreans. Although returning to South Korea to marry her boyfriend, who has always been in love with her, would allow her to live a more comfortable and familiar life, she ultimately chose to stay in Australia to find her own, free happiness.

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has been obsessed with it for 25 years and insisted on making it into a movie of the same name. It was named the best adapted screenplay in 2016 by the National Board of Review and was selected as one of the top ten feature films of the year. "Silence" won the 2nd Junichiro Tanizaki Award and was translated into more than 20 languages ​​and sold well all over the world. The novel tells the story of a Portuguese Jesuit priest who smuggled himself to Japan to preach in a small village near Nagasaki during the Tokugawa Shogunate's ban on Christianity. It tells a thrilling story about faith and challenges, and answers the questions hidden in everyone's heart: What is the meaning of life, why should we have faith, and what is the purpose of our lives when we wake up every day?

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