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"A Brief History of Humankind: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century" is a masterpiece of world history jointly completed by Columbia University historian Hayes and three historians including Moon and Wayland. Since its publication, it has received overwhelming praise and has been translated into many languages ​​​​and circulated around the world. It can be said to be a handed down classic with global influence. This publication has undergone rigorous revision. From ancient times to the 21st century, it is a better and more systematic work for readers to fully understand human history. Best-selling for 80 years and lasting for 80 years, the original English version has been translated and revised to perfectly present the original masterpiece.

For thousands of years, the image of Helen has been the product of male desire projection, and this book attempts to restore a real Helen: a princess from Western prehistoric times who mastered the channel to communicate with gods. She attracted heroes from all over Greece to participate in martial arts competitions to find a bride. After her marriage, she gained immense wealth and power, but she eloped with the Trojan prince. The brutal Ten Years' War broke out soon after. Later, some said she returned to Greece, some said she was killed on an island, and some said she turned into a star in the sky. However, no matter what becomes of her real body, she will always exist as a symbol of love and desire.

Destiny is a very strange thing. Invisible threads lead all kinds of people to meet each other. I meet you, you meet him, and he meets another person. This is something that has already been arranged. However, we can never know what kind of arrangement it will be, who you will meet, what will happen to you, and what kind of ending you will have.

On the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, human strife and confrontation have never stopped... A high-level scientist is mysteriously kidnapped; the British secret intelligence agency WOOC(P) must find out his whereabouts. Hunting prey from seedy London Soho to the other side of the world. It seemed like this thing had gone from a simple mission to something more sinister and sinister. An unsung hero who is calm and restrained and comes from the working class, uses a deep and ironic tone to tell the story of this dark vortex full of crises and the shocking secrets behind it... Lien Dayton is one of the "three great masters of spy novels" with John le Carré, and his influence inspired the latter to create the "Smiley Trilogy". Deighton's masterpiece, the first of the "Berlin Trilogy" - "The Ipcress Files": a pioneering work that reshaped the form of spy novels. The film adaptation of the same name won three BAFTA awards for Best Film, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction.

Ranked at the top of the list of "Time" weekly crime novel masters, a pioneering representative of 20th century crime novels, the first classic work of Patricia Highsmith, the author of "Carol" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley". It won the American Edgar Allan Poe Award, the French Detective Literature Award, the British Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger Award, and was adapted by Hitchcock. It is one of the American Film Institute's top 100 thrillers in the past century. The book begins with an encounter on a train: Guy Haynes, a well-known architectural designer, is about to divorce his cheating wife. On his way back home, he meets the playboy Charles Bruno. Bruno was deeply attracted by Guy's talent and temperament, and he invited Guy to his private room for a drink. Bruno, who had been drunk for three rounds, hated his father and was well versed in the murder game, learned that Guy was deeply troubled by his wife, so he proposed a murder plan that he thought was perfect, that is, Bruno helped Guy get rid of his wife, and Guy needed to kill Bruno's father. Guy rejected this plan and made up his mind to stay away from Bruno. However, Bruno, who was unwilling to die, committed suicide without permission and then used various ways to force Guy to do it. The pain tortured Guy, and he finally killed Bruno's father and lived in guilt and fear ever since. Everything seemed to be returning to peace, but Bruno's father's private detective discovered clues. When the truth came to light, Guy and Bruno ushered in the judgment of fate.

Maybe you forgot, she knows how you will die! The mysterious girl Miriam can see the date of death and the scene of their dying when she touches others. The powerlessness of being unable to change her destiny makes her embark on the road of self-exile. Unexpectedly, she encounters a series of thrilling and unstoppable horror events. In the new work, a young man with a mysterious ability presses forward step by step to avenge Miriam, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. He is about to kill Miriam's mother, but Miriam knows it in advance... The girl who foresees death is coerced by fate and has to embark on this journey of death again. Horror, darkness, humor, interspersed with the redemption of humanity, can Miriam protect the one she loves...

Aiwei, a genius scholar in the field of artificial intelligence, was unfortunately swallowed up by a fire. He left two AIs to his son Aiosuke - detective Xiangyi and prisoner Yixiang. Yi Xiang specializes in committing crimes, while Xiang Yi solves the truth of the case. As twin AI sisters, they continue to grow by fighting against each other. The terrorist organization that suddenly appeared has kidnapped Yi Xiang and continues to create puzzling mysteries. In order to track down the cause of death of his parents, Fu Yuxiang opened an artificial intelligence detective agency - can the detectives with deep learning successfully solve these cases...

Yan Lianke, born in 1958 in Song County, Luoyang, Henan, is a famous Chinese writer and is known as the "master of absurd realism". He is currently a professor at the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China. The works have been translated into more than twenty languages. His representative works include "Fleeting Time in the Sun", "Shouhuo", "Dream of Dingzhuang", "Ode to Fengya", "Four Books", "Explosion", etc. The 3rd Lao She Literary Award, the 2013 Hua Zong World Chinese Literature Award, the 2013 Cultural Task Impact, the 2014 Kafka Literary Award, the 2015 Booker Prize nomination, the 2016 Booker Prize nomination, the 2016 Nobel Prize nomination for literature. "Shouhuo" is the only award-winning novel in the 3rd Lao She Literary Award for Outstanding Novel, and ranked first among novels in the 2003 Chinese Novel Ranking.

"Turancao (Chinese-Japanese Illustrated Edition)" is one of the classic works of Japanese classical literature launched by Modern Publishing House and the Wind Translation Series. Yoshida Kaneyoshi's "Uranso" and Kiyoshi Shōnagon's "Pillow Soko" are collectively known as the "Double Wall of Japanese Essays". The first two, together with Kamo Nagaaki's "Hojo Chronicles", are known as the "Three Major Essays in Japan". "Turancao (Chinese-Japanese Illustrated Edition)" adopts the Karasuma version, which has the least errors and is the most widely circulated among more than a hundred versions, and is based on "The Complete Works of Japanese Classical Literature 27·Turancao" (Shogakukan, 1983); using the Chinese-Japanese comparative translation, it also The original work is a mixture of Han Chinese and Japanese characters, mainly kana; it contains nearly a hundred exquisite illustrations such as "Uranso Painting Notes" painted by Yoshiki Kei and "Illustrated Turanso" painted by Nishikawa Yunobu, which three-dimensionally presents the social scene of Japan at the end of the Kamakura period. "Furancao" was created in the late Kamakura period. The whole book consists of a prologue and 243 incoherent paragraphs of mixed feelings, comments, short stories with morals, records of people from all walks of life or research works of different lengths. The author Kaneyoshi Yoshida is a famous singer who is proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Lao-Zhuang studies. After becoming a monk, he created "Uran Grass" with exquisite writing style. He observes all things in the world, changes in the world, and changes in personnel with a clear and transparent heart. The lines are full of poetry, interest, and philosophy. "Furancao" is the origin of Japanese hermit literature. It represents the outstanding achievements of Japanese medieval prose creation. It occupies an important position in the history of Japanese literature and has a profound impact on later writers such as Shu Zuoren, Kawabata Yasunari, and Natsume Soseki. It has long been used as an introductory textbook for classical literature in Japan and is one of the most widely read literary works.

Gu is a person, an upright Chinese! The drum head is the extremely tough yellow skin of us Chinese! Drumsticks are the strong bones of us Chinese people! The paint on the drum is the bright red blood of us Chinese people! The sound of drums is the soul of our Chinese nation, the descendants of Yan and Huang! When foreign enemies invade, relatives are separated, and the three-tone drum sounds, the hot-blooded man resolutely steps onto the battlefield of beacon smoke, galloping thousands of miles across the country, and defends his family and country with his cold sword and drum horn!

"Fire in Heaven" tells the story of Alexander's experience before he ascended the throne at the age of 20. From the moment he was born, Alexander's bodybuilding, strength and courage were dazzling; all of these would be sharpened during Alexander's long and arduous boyhood, enough to support his magnificent future. Before he left his infancy, Alexander's father, King Philip, and his mother, Olympias, began to fight for control of his life. This made him familiar with power and conspiracy since he was a child. His close friend Hephaistion and mentor Aristotle, who were in love with him, made him feel the power of trust and the light of reason. Although he had already killed enemies on the battlefield when he was 12 years old, and became a Macedonian cavalry commander at 18 years old, he still had to lie dormant in hardship and humiliation, waiting with bated breath for the moment when the glorious road of destiny would be completely opened for him.

"Funeral Games" opens with Alexander dying. The Babylonian palace in 323 BC was shrouded in a heavy and depressing atmosphere. The former ruler of the empire was declining, and the heirs he left behind were not yet born. On his deathbed, Alexander left only the last words "to the strongest" before passing away. From then on, the ambitious generals and relatives around Alexander began a chaotic struggle to seize the inheritance of the empire: some ruthlessly cut off dissidents; some were forced to step on the stage to play puppet roles; some formed fragile alliances and soon turned against each other... In the vortex of the power struggle, everyone is a pawn and cannot control their own destiny. The huge empire that Alexander had worked so hard to build was coming to an unpredictable end.

A new 20,000-word manual "Awakening and Echo" has been added, which selects 15 letters from readers that made the editor cry. Kim Ji-young was born in Seoul on April 1, 1982. Growing up in a family of civil servants, a family of six lived in a house of 33 square meters. She is just that ordinary girl you meet every day. Since childhood, Jin Zhiying has had a lot of confusion. The best things in the family always go to her younger brother first. She and her sister can only share one room and one quilt. When she was in elementary school, she was bullied by the boy sitting next to her. She cried and confided in her teacher, but the teacher smiled and said, "Boys are like this. The more girls they like, the more they will bully her." When she went to middle school, she often had to be wary of bad guys on the subway and buses. We should not take it lightly in school, as there are also male teachers who like to touch female classmates. But they often choose to swallow their anger. After graduating from college, I entered a public relations company. She found that while her colleagues were mostly female, the senior executives were almost entirely male. I have to socialize after get off work, endure dirty jokes from customers and endless requests to drink. She got married at the age of thirty-one and soon had a child at the urging of her elders. With everyone's "natural" expectations, she quit her job and became a full-time mother. Jin Zhiying felt as if she was standing in the center of a maze. She had been looking for an exit down to earth, but she found that she could never reach the end of the road.

This book is a novel written by Norwegian novelist Alan Lew. The book tells the story of the protagonist Lu and a group of his friends who felt that they had not made much contribution to Norway. They wanted to make up for this, so they decided to go on an adventure. The purpose of the adventure was to prove one of Lu's absurd theories: He believed that the residents of the Pacific islands were South Americans long ago, and that the first batch of island immigrants skated across the South American continent when the Pacific Ocean froze. They felt that by proving this theory they could put Norway back on the world map and become a national hero. The second half of the book amounts to a journal of their adventures on a small island in the Pacific Ocean called the Cook Islands. This book continues Lu's method of writing novels as documentary literature among young people. The book provides a large amount of evidence, including photos of himself and his friends on the expedition, and even a scanned copy of a reply letter from the king's secretary, to "prove" that what he wrote is true.

"The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" is divided into two volumes. It makes a comprehensive comparison of the military and economic status of various countries after 1500 AD. It covers many theoretical issues such as military and national power, economic development cycles, etc. It is a comprehensive analysis of the decline and fall of the national power of the great powers from a global perspective. It provides a large amount of detailed information for contemporary readers who are eager to understand the changing trends in the economic, military and other national power comparisons of the major powers. The focus of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" has not departed from the traditional areas of history - economic history and military history, but its connotation has undergone qualitative changes. As the author Paul Kennedy said, "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" is not a military history, nor is it an economic history.

On an ordinary day, strange things happened all over the world: a tree trimmer in Florida was blown off a high-rising work platform by an abnormally strong wind; an old country woman in Ohio was attacked by a mutated mouse without eyes; a university professor in the United Kingdom was trapped in a large pumpkin at the local agricultural and sideline products market. And all this bizarreness gradually points to "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes" that has been circulated for three hundred years - a collection of nursery rhymes with terrifying magic. Mother Goose's magic is once again released into the real world, and it falls to Cassandra, Ezekiel and Stone to track down the long-lost spell book before the true magical power in the nursery rhyme is fully released...

British banker, liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath Sir Lubbock said: "The primary goal of life should be to make full use of your life" and asked: "How can we make full use of the wealth of life? This book is Lubbock's answer to "how to use life", starting from "On Wit", "On Money", "On Leisure and Nourishment", "On Health" "On National Education" and "On Self-Education" answer the important question of the purpose of life. It is very similar to "Collection of Bacon's Essays". It is a collection of essays full of wisdom, but the language is more concise and the content is closer to modern life. The English version of this book was very popular as soon as it was published. It has been translated into many languages, and its chapters have been included in English textbooks. It is a life guide suitable for young people to read.

Selborne is a small village located 50 miles southwest of London, England, and is also the hometown of the author White. White loved nature and liked to observe biological dynamics. He often corresponded with two friends in London who were also engaged in natural history research and exchanged observations. "Selborne Natural History" was written on the basis of these letters. With a leisurely attitude and a rigorous scientific attitude, White described the natural scenery of the British countryside and observed and recorded the birds, animals and plants of Selborne. His simple and straightforward writing depicts Selborne like a picture scroll, and at the same time shows the British rural life in the 18th century, full of pastoral interest.

"The Green Mountains of Africa" ​​is a documentary novel by Hemingway. Based on his trip to East Africa in 1933, he recreated the hunting process in the primeval forests of Africa with delicate and full strokes. This book has been controversial since its inception. Hemingway's meticulous descriptions take readers to the mysterious Africa, where they can experience the thrilling scenes of competing with animals and indirectly enjoy the thrill of hunting. At the same time, the anthropocentrism and cruel hunting of wild animals shown in the works have long been criticized by critics. Interpreting this work can provide a more comprehensive and profound understanding of Hemingway's world view and view of nature.

"Essays of Bacon" can be said to be one of the few "world books". This book is not written for one country, but for the whole world; it is not written for one era, but for all eras. In this book, extremely high intelligence and diverse interests and sympathies are naturally combined into one, so everyone in the world, no matter what type or temperament, can find something in this book to connect with themselves. Although this is just a collection of essays, "Bacon's Essays" can make you feel like reading a history book, a collection of poems, and a textbook at the same time. Bacon's words not only broaden people's horizons, but also make them enlightened.

Open these six science fiction novels, invisibility, time travel, alien invasion, genetic modification, moon exploration, dystopia... All here! In the history of human literature, Wells created a new era of science fiction literature. Many common themes of contemporary science fiction began with Wells's science fiction novels! Starting from him, science fiction became an independent literary genre. This set of books selects six of Wells' masterpieces of science fiction, "The Time Machine", "The Invisible Man", "The War of the Worlds", "The Island of Dr. Moreau", "The First Men on the Moon" and "When the Sleeper Awakens", which created six science fiction themes that are attracting much attention today. It can be said that it is these six books that established the contemporary science fiction system! Liu Cixin, Arthur Clark (one of the three giants of science fiction in the 20th century), and George Orwell were all influenced by Wells! British Prime Minister Churchill even wrote to Welles: "I have read all your books!" The "time machine" in which Sheldon and Leonard competed for seats in "The Big Bang Theory" is also from "The Best Collection of Science Fiction Master Welles"!

"Humans are free when they can decide what they want." Due to an accident during gene editing, Judas, the hybrid human born from Lilith and the Oankali people, mutated as he grew up, and he carried some unknown dangerous gene. He exiled himself to the earth, looking for human companions, hoping that they could save him...

There were four consecutive kidnappings of women in the London area. Strangely, the kidnappers did not demand ransom and seemed to have nothing to do with the victims. The victimized women were all released after three to four months. Although there were traces of abuse on their bodies, their appearance was well maintained and they seemed to have been carefully groomed. However, their expressions and behaviors were extremely strange, as if they had lost their souls and were lifeless. What happened to them? Is this mysterious witchcraft or man-made harm? Who "stole their souls"? Jefferson Winter is a recognized crime expert who is invited by the police department to help solve the case. His outstanding ability is not due to his extraordinary strength, but to the talent inherited from his bloodline - the dark genes of his notorious serial murderer father, which allows him to gain insight into the psychological state and thinking patterns of criminals, and apprehend these criminals "by empathizing with each other". A former FBI agent with the blood of a serial murderer in his body faces off against a mysterious, cruel and ruthless kidnapper. What will be the fate of the fifth victim?

Four "magical stories" that happened due to blind dates. After resigning and returning to her hometown, Saori was annoyed by her mother's pressure to get married, so she finally agreed to register with a dating agency. To her surprise, the first man introduced to her was the "ideal type". Was it just her luck? Keisuke, a herbivorous man, plucked up the courage to participate in a blind date because he was worried about ending up alone. He was afraid that he would not perform well and even bought a "Dating Guide" to study. But is the reality really the same as what is written in the book? Huimei, a science girl, saw "Dream Girl" on a TV dating show, so she signed up for the show and made the most complete preparations to ensure success. However, can fate be calculated? Retired Masuo was dragged by his wife to go on a blind date for his son. He had no interest in the matter, but he "fell in love" with the woman's mother. In order to meet more, he must do his best to facilitate the marriage...

On a dark and windy night, the most bizarre and bizarre stories take place in the noisy corners of modern cities, such as a bloody town, a terrifying dental clinic, an eerie bus stop, the most chilling zoo in history... How many unknown secrets are hidden in every corner of real life? How many unknown and strange things are happening? The constant chill is shuddering! The threatening black cat appears again, inviting you from Three Feet Underground! Maybe you know too much, maybe you smell the real smell of death, a bizarre story is happening every night... Don't say anything, look at the other side of the world, and listen to those alternative stories.

Physicist Sir Claude Amory has developed a new equation that heralds the birth of a surprisingly powerful new explosive. However, his piece of paper with the equation written on it was stolen from his home. Sir Claude gathered the whole family in the reading room and ordered the butler to turn off the lights, hoping that the thief could return the equation in the dark. However, when the lights came on again, he was already dead... This time, Poirot not only had to solve the murder, but also had to prevent a worldwide terrorist crisis...

The dispute over interests and money between a pair of brothers engaged in securities investment led to a sensational murder case in New York, which revealed the chaos of the social and economic order in the West, people's greed for wealth and indifference to family affection. Stock trader Alvin Benson was unanimously recognized as a "good guy" in the eyes of his family and friends, but he was suddenly shot dead at home. He was neatly dressed and sitting on the sofa in the living room. He was shot in the head and held a book in his hand. He looked like he was concentrating with his eyes closed. Was it suicide? Or was someone deliberately faking the scene?

Forsyth, the master of spy novels who alarmed the world's four major intelligence organizations! Forsyth worked secretly for MI6 for more than 20 years, drove a tank at the age of 6, and became a fighter pilot at the age of 19! He is well aware of the espionage techniques of various countries around the world, and is the focus of the CIA and Israel's Mossad! At the same time, he is also the winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Eight of his works have been adapted into movies, with cumulative sales exceeding 70 million copies! In the world of espionage, if you can't solve the problem, you become the problem! This book contains a total of 10 classic suspense short stories by Forsyth, including assassination, conspiracy, revenge, hijacking, blackmail and counter-blackmail. Its ingenious and witty arrangements and unexpected endings will surely amaze you. For most wealthy people, finding a partner who doesn't love money is crucial. Sanderson, who had been single for many years, met such a woman. They admired each other, but fate played a big joke on them: she was already someone else's woman. The intertwining of love, need, desire, and lust left Sanderson in agony. He was determined to get rid of the troublesome husband. Sanderson's assassination plan was precise and rigorous. However, the fruit of the nightmare had been quietly planted long before he had thoughts of murder...

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Red London - the balanced world protected by magic; Gray London - the cruel ordinary world; White London - the representative of power and absolute control; Black London - the source of magic destroyed by the plague and isolated from the world. Hundreds of years ago, the door connecting the worlds in London was opened, and the world was balanced and stable. But the good times didn't last long. Humanity's thirst for power, endless demand for magic, and expansion of desires led to the fall of Black London, and the magic disappeared. People closed the door to travel and stayed away, assigning the few remaining "travelers" selected by magic to travel through it and exchange information through letters. Red London, which lost Antari, fell into chaos. The evil shadow calling itself "God" controlled the entire city, intending to force everyone to surrender and seize the world. Laila went to White London alone to rescue the scarred Kyle. After the two returned to Red London, they found that the world had become riddled with holes. They had to sail away to find the hope of victory. After successive blows, forced growth, and tragic betrayal, the grieving Len had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the entire kingdom, guard the palace alone, never give up, and defend his Red London...

In a small village on the border of France and Germany, a mysterious stranger was killed. Brodeck, the only college student in the village, was responsible for drafting a report to the higher-level administrative agency. In the process of investigating the incident, Brodeck, who is also an "outsider" himself, retraced the strange events that happened after the strangers arrived in the village, and discovered many secrets hidden by the villagers. He gradually uncovered the darkness and ugliness of human nature, and also awakened his own painful memories of World War II.

This is a wonderful story about a man who keeps distance from the era of desire, but lives a fulfilling life. I followed my uncle not only because he was a botanical genius, but also because he had an anachronistic quirk. He was immersed in the world of scientific research and had no intention of seeking power. He longs for happiness more, but suffers a lot in the pursuit of love, calculations and deceptions. He did not dare to endure it, let alone sink. Instead, he lamented: More people died of heartbreak than nuclear radiation. Just escape to the Arctic and spend some time with plants!

This is a short love song, but it has the longest duration. This is a short love song, but it performs the longest romance. This is a short-lived love song, but it exudes the longest-lasting warmth. This is a short-lived love song, but it is filled with the most lasting emotion. This is a short love song, but deep and long, sung for you this summer.

The Museum of Art and Antiquities in Baghdad was suddenly robbed. No one knew the identity of the robbers, and no organization claimed responsibility. Veteran librarian Flynn Carson suspects that the incident is related to an ancient criminal organization called the Forty Thieves. Because they stole a 6th-century Persian manuscript of "One Thousand and One Nights", Flynn worried that their real purpose was to steal the legendary "Aladdin's Lamp." Therefore, Flynn must find this ancient criminal organization before the "Forty Thieves" release the evil elves imprisoned in the magic lamp.

"Lowlands" is the most ambitious novel by American Pulitzer Prize winner and Indian-American writer Juppa Lahiri. The novel spans India and the United States and tells the story of the joys, sorrows and fate of four generations of an Indian family. Next to the lowlands of Kolkata, India, a pair of brothers of similar age but very different personalities played and grew up here. After graduating from college, his elder brother Subash went to the United States to further his studies. His younger brother Udaan devoted himself to the revolution enthusiastically, but was arrested and shot beside the lowland for killing a policeman. After learning about his brother's death, Subash hurried back to India. In order to protect his brother's pregnant wife, Gauri, Subash married her and took her to the United States. However, the ghost of Udaan has always haunted Gao Li. Finally one day, Gao Li left his young daughter and Subash behind and headed to California alone. Many years later, when Gaoli's daughter had grown up, Gaoli suddenly appeared in front of her and Subash, and brought back a secret about Udaan...

The story is set in Chang'an in the late Zhenguan years of the Tang Dynasty. It describes a young wizard named Ming Chongyan who has been cursed since childhood. In the process of pursuing the secret of his life experience, he is involved in the conspiracy of the prince, the bearded guest, and the prince of Nanzhao to fight for the throne. At the same time, people with talents and abilities from Japan, Silla, Baekje and other neighboring countries also appeared one after another with their own purposes. There are many characters in the work, and the structure is very open. However, the content is exciting and compact, and the clues are intertwined and confusing, which is very attractive to readers.

My name is Zhou Guangming. One day in July, Gong Feinan and I attended Liu Qiang's wedding in a small western town. Logically speaking, the three of us were college classmates, and we were roommates for more than a year after graduation, so we should have a good relationship. However, we lost contact in the following years. Until I saw an inconspicuous electronic wedding invitation in my QQ mailbox, which was submerged in numerous advertising and promotional emails. I thought the sender probably didn't expect me to see this email. But I went anyway, asked for three days' leave from the company, and gave him a big red envelope with half a month's salary. At the wedding banquet, I met Gong Feinan. He was seated with me at a table with an "Other" sign, and we were surrounded by elderly people speaking in dialect and children desperately reaching for candy.

Poirot, who was on vacation, was accustomed to going to the "Happy Café" for dinner and coffee at seven o'clock every Thursday night. This Thursday, he met a woman who called herself Jenny. She looked panicked and claimed that someone was going to kill her. Jenny was horrified by this, but admitted that she deserved it. That night, three murders occurred in a famous luxury hotel in London. The victims all died alone in their rooms. The scene was exactly the same. The most important thing was that each of them had a gold cufflink with letters engraved in his mouth. Three pairs of cufflinks have appeared. Who is the murderer going to put the remaining one into?

This book is a carefully compiled collection of Naoya Shiga's short story masterpieces, including seventeen immortal masterpieces from different periods of his creative career, including "In Kinosaki", "Walking to the Net", "Van's Crime", "Seibei and the Gourd", "The God of the Apprentice", "Grey Moon", etc., Which comprehensively demonstrates the style of his short story creation.

European literary geniuses comparable to Kafka and Proust, great works praised by Sontag, Milosz, Coetzee and others, directly translated from the original Polish text, presented in full in Simplified Chinese for the first time! This book collects all the surviving fictional works of Runo Schulz: 32 independent but interconnected stories. In these works, Schulz describes unusual childhood memories with a high degree of originality, blending reality and fantasy with beautiful language and full of whimsy. Like Kafka, he used a lot of grotesque surrealist techniques to create one of the most frightening father figures in the history of literature, which is still shocking to read today.

Life is boring, tell me a story and let me escape reality. The master of short stories, Etgar Keret, conquers readers all over the world with his classic masterpiece! A talking goldfish can help you realize three wishes; a habitual liar unexpectedly meets the fictional character when he lies; and a girl finds a zipper in her boyfriend's mouth, and after opening it, a completely different man appears. These creative stories based on daily life, with the rare magic of words, provide a possibility of changing our painful reality. After reading Keret's story, we will understand: It turns out that as long as we give ordinary life a little imagination, we can stir up profound surprises.

This book contains the masterpiece "Awakening" and ten other representative short stories with excellent reputation. Edna deserves to be happy. As a wealthy lady in the upper class, she only needs to look after her husband, raise her children, and entertain guests to maintain a life rimmed with gold. As for her husband, she occasionally felt that she loved him, and he treated her well. But there was always something that made her unhappy. Until that summer, their family went to Glen Island for vacation, and she met the person who changed her life... That summer, her perspective on the world changed, and a new voice awakened in her body.

Yan Lianke, a famous Chinese writer, is known as the "master of absurd realism". He is currently a professor at the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China. The works have been translated into more than twenty languages.

"The Pit" is a collection of short stories and short stories by the master of Russian literature Andrei Platonov. The novel "The Pit" of the same name is a landmark novella by Platonov full of ideological depth and artistic innovation. This novel, "Gradov City", "A Beautiful and Furious World" and "Makar with Doubts" are all Platonov's early masterpieces, which combine symbolism and realism. Through in-depth observation and thinking of real life, the writer uses plain language and humorous and joking style to depict allegorical pictures, exploring philosophical issues such as ideal and reality, material and spiritual, individual and collective, etc., Reflecting his thoughts on the fate and future of mankind. "Flo", "July Thunderstorm", "Return" and "The Third Son" are all Platonov's later masterpieces. These novels focus on themes such as love and family affection, reveal a natural, simple and restrained artistic style, deeply explore the subtleties of human nature, and conduct a profound analysis of social changes.

"National King" Jiro Asada's short story collection, starting with the work of the same name "Angel Reflected in the Sunset", includes 6 selected works including "Ticket", "Special Day", "Amber", "White House on the Hill" and "Man in the Sea of ​​Forest". Describes ordinary things that happen on extraordinary days, and extraordinary things on ordinary days.

"Camp Milo Mountain", "Sarawak War", "Red White and Black", "Girl and Salmon", "City in Black and White Movies" and "West Nile Syndrome" are highly recommended by Mai Jia, winner of the "Mao Dun Literary Award"! This book "Girl and Salmon" contains five novels: "Night Patrol", "Dancing Shoes by the Waterside", "Ipoh Nights", "Southern Barracks" and "". "The Road to Scobie" is a collection of short stories by Chen Hezhong. It collects some of Chen He's recent influential short and medium-length stories and recent works, including "Birds on the Road to Scobie", "Ups and Downs", "Western Wild Goose River", "Grandpa Had a Magic Boat", "Winter Blackout Night", etc.