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"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" written by Pu Songling has achieved high artistic achievements and is well-known at home and abroad for its concise writing, unrestrained imagination, and bizarre stories. "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" selected and annotated by Li Boqi and Xu Wenjun, selects the most exciting fifty chapters from "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and gives detailed annotations. The selection of classics and accurate annotations eliminates reading barriers for ordinary readers. With this volume in hand, one can appreciate the essence of Pu Songling's artistic world of flower demons and fox charms, and appreciate the elegance, conciseness and vividness of classical Chinese novels. This is a popular book that is very suitable for the general public to read.

This book is a collection of Chekhov's early short stories and humorous sketches, translated from the second volume of "The Complete Works and Letters of Chekhov" published in Moscow from 1974 to 1983. This book contains a total of 131 works of varying lengths (from dozens of words to thousands of words). In Chekhov's early creations, humorous sketches (including "essays" such as humor, satire, ridicule, critical exposure, and so-called "funny stories", etc.) Played a large role. Many works are short, concise and concise. As the author matures ideologically and artistically (including language), the language of his works (especially the language of various "essays") has made great progress: some works are obscure and tortuous, but they are sure to hit the mark; some works are witty and humorous, but straightforward and heartfelt.

"Melancholy of Resistance" is a novel written by Hungarian writer Krasnohorcay Laszlo in 1989. It is also the original work of Béla Tarr's film "The Circus of the Whales". The novel unfolds a series of fragmented story descriptions around the protagonists, Mrs. Estaire, Mrs. Flaum, young man Valushka and other characters, and presents chaotic events in a Hungarian town from many aspects: a giant whale is transported to the town by the circus, and the onlookers each have different motives and intentions. Soon after, rumors spread around the town that the circus people were quietly hatching a sinister agenda, and frightened citizens seized on any manifestation of order they could find to criticize-music, cosmology, fascism, whatever.

Everyone knows that "A Dream of Red Mansions" is good, but few people know which version of "A Dream of Red Mansions" is the most suitable to read and is closest to Cao Xueqin's original work. "Dream of Red Mansions: Commentary by Yu Pingbo" is based on the early manuscript of Cao Xueqin's original work - Qi Xuben. It compiles a relatively complete comment system of Zhiyanzhai and includes careful comments by Yu Pingbo, a master of Red Mansions. It fills a major gap in the current version of "Dream of Red Mansions". Yu Pingbo used the 80 chapters of "The Story of the Stone" prefaced by Qi Liaosheng, which was lithographed by Youzheng Bookstore, as the base, and compiled it with reference to many manuscripts (Jiaxu version, Jimao version, Gengchen version, Jiachen version, Chengjia version, etc.). This "Dream of Red Mansions" will bring you an extraordinary reading experience and restore a complete and authentic "Dream of Red Mansions" for you. In addition, "Dream of Red Mansions: Commentary by Yu Pingbo" contains the last forty chapters compiled and supplemented by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E as an appendix for readers' reference.

"Gut" is a novel by American contemporary cult fiction writer Chuck Palahniuk. In the book, a group of people come together in response to an advertisement for a "writer's workshop", but find themselves in a desperate situation. They begin to tell stories to comfort each other. As these storytellers become more and more desperate, their stories become more and more extreme. The book contains a total of twenty-three various stories, some are funny, some are scary, some are disgusting, or some are despairing. Various stories interweave a bizarre life, reflecting the absurdity of the world.

With different horror stories, different strange plots, and different weird scenes, it is gripping and has captured the curiosity of readers all over the world, triggering a wider and weird imagination space for horror novel lovers. Returning from "The Twilight Saga" to "Dracula", Bram Stoker's vampire image created his irreversible status as the originator of horror novels. The Bram Stoker Award, named after him, is the highest award for horror novels.

"Lightning Window" is a Qing Dynasty novel about worldly affairs, written by the master of Xuanting. Only 6 fragments of this book exist, and the number of original chapters is unknown. The novel tells the story of a man named Lin Kun in Zhangzhou, Fujian, who was an upright person and did not get along with three new candidates, including Wu Yunhan. When Lin went to Beijing for a test, the ship stopped in Suzhou. A fire broke out in the wealthy Lu family. The lady of the family hurriedly escaped naked into Lin's ship to save Lin. Lu's fiancé, Shen Tiansun, was also a civil servant. Hearing this, he withdrew from the engagement...

This book ranks first among the "Four Condemned Novels" and represents the highest achievement of late Qing novels. The late Qing Dynasty was a period of total collapse of our country's feudal society. The darkness of government and official corruption had reached their peak. "The Appearance of Officialdom" uses a pen like a raft to fully expose the various scandals of the officialdom at that time from all aspects and angles: eating, drinking, gambling, prostitution, selling offices and winning titles, giving and taking bribes, taking bribes and bending the law, practicing malpractice for personal gain, squeezing the people, disregarding human life, seeking glory from outsiders... What is presented to the reader is like a picture of the ugliness of the officialdom, with smooth and penetrating writing. Moreover, "The Appearance of Officialdom" ruthlessly exposes the scandals in officialdom, and does not stop at the moral condemnation of the individual behaviors of the officials concerned. Instead, it attempts to conduct a profound analysis and criticism of the feudal bureaucracy as a whole. It essentially conducts a meticulous and severe examination of the various shortcomings of the bureaucracy, which profoundly reflects the essential characteristics of late Qing society.

An era has arrived that can make drama last forever. In order to adapt to the reading habits and aesthetic needs of young people, we organized experts and scholars to appropriately delete it, simplify the plot, strengthen the story and interest, re-edit the table of contents, divide it into chapters, and add exquisite color pictures. You and I enjoy the fragrance of chrysanthemums and interpret life through drama.

"Chinese Classical Literature Masterpiece Series: Biography of the Later Tang Dynasty" mainly tells the story of the heroes of Wagangzhai who gathered together to rebel against the Sui Dynasty and assist the founding of the Tang Dynasty. It reproduces the turbulent era when the Eighteenth Route Army rebelled against the king and the Sixty-fourth Route was ashes. Representative characters include the chivalrous and righteous Qin Qiong (Qin Shubao), the young hero Luo Cheng (Luo Shixin in history), the rough, humorous, and honest Cheng Yaojin (Cheng Zhijie), etc.

The story of "The Romance of the West Chamber" originated from the legendary novel "The Legend of Yingying" written by the poet Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty. It was widely circulated in the Song and Jin Dynasties, and some literati and folk artists adapted it into raps and dramas. "The Romance of the West Chamber" was created based on these rich artistic accumulations. It tells the sentimental, ups and downs of the love story between Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying, and expresses the lovers' best wishes to finally get married.

This is a book about youth, about stocks, about love, and about growth. Mu Dianlan, the top scorer in the science college entrance examination in Liyin City, gave up going to college due to emotional problems. After many twists and turns, he came to Shanghai and became a trader. Since ancient times, the shopping mall has been like a battlefield. Behind the floating K-line chart, a series of murderous and bloody profit competitions are taking place. As a participant in all this, Mu Dianlan hid in the darkness, and in the journey to realize an ideal life, and in the choice of advancement and retreat, he completed his most sincere confession of youth and love.

What Hitchcock contributed to the art of film is definitely not just pure film techniques. Just like the characters in his movies often have multiple personalities, Hitchcock's movie personalities also have multiple personalities. He is a master of suspense, a master of psychology, and a master of philosophy in movies. Few people have such a profound insight into the absurdity of life and the fragility of human nature. Underneath the carefully designed techniques, we see a soul that has been suppressed by a strict Catholic upbringing. Hitchcock's movies are a contradictory unity of life and death, crime and punishment, reason and madness, innocence and temptation, repression and resistance. They are poems that directly address the dark hearts of people. He has been called the "Freud of film."

This is the ninth novel by David Lodge, a representative author of academic novels. The protagonist of the story, Bernard, is a forty-year-old virgin suffering from intimacy phobia. At the request of his seriously ill aunt, he accompanies his reluctant father to visit Hawaii. The day after arriving, my father unfortunately had a car accident and ended up in the hospital. Bernard has been staying with his father and aunt, and took the opportunity to discover a family scandal that had been hidden for many years. At the same time, because his faith was shaken, Bernard gave up the priesthood of the seminary and regained confidence, hope, and love in Hawaii, which was like a paradise on earth. The story switches between third-person accounts, Bernard's diaries and long letters, and letters and notes from various eccentric travelers from Hawaii during the disastrous journey, as smoothly as a movie.

If you were given a chance to go back ten years ago, what would you do? Confess love to someone you missed? Cherish the wasted time? Buy a lottery ticket that can win the jackpot... After the male and female protagonists (Cao Wo, Mi Jiujiu) graduated from college and entered the society, they regretted that they wasted their years and gave up the opportunity to work hard because of each other. Fearing the future every day and dwelling on the past. I dream of going back in time, cherishing time, and studying hard to change the status quo. However, when one day they really went back to the past, everything was not as beautiful as they imagined. In the end, they finally understood that even if no one is waiting for you in the future, at least there is someone with you at this moment.

The stories collected in this set of books are all adapted from Hitchcock's films and TV series. Hitchcock was recognized as the greatest film director of all time during his lifetime, but he never won the Academy Award for Best Director, although he was nominated six times. He won a special Oscar in 1968 and the Griffith Award from the Directors Guild of America in the same year. In 1979, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. What Hitchcock contributed to the art of film is definitely not just pure film techniques. Just like the characters in his movies often have multiple personalities, Hitchcock's movie personalities also have multiple personalities. He is a master of suspense, a master of psychology, and a master of philosophy in movies. Few people have such a profound insight into the absurdity of life and the fragility of human nature. Underneath the carefully designed techniques, we see a soul that has been suppressed by a strict Catholic upbringing. Hitchcock's movies are a contradictory unity of life and death, crime and punishment, reason and madness, innocence and temptation, repression and resistance. They are poems that directly address the dark hearts of people. He has been called the "Freud of film."

This set contains four volumes, namely "Suspect", "Shattered", "Prison Breaker" and "Her and Her Secrets". "Suspect": Psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin has a successful career and a happy family. However, it all fell apart in the blink of an eye. When he was in his late teens, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and soon he was involved in a murder case. As an expert on prostitutes, he was invited to assist the police in investigating the case of an unknown female corpse. During the process, he accidentally discovered that the deceased was actually his colleague and patient Catherine a few years ago. She had accused him of sexual harassment. She returned to London because she received an interview notice from his clinic, but no one knew who sent the notice. The day she was killed was the day he was diagnosed, and he could never say where he went that night. The professional advice he had previously provided seemed to have become a smokescreen to mislead the police, especially the information about his violent, fantasy-addicted patient Bobby. Joseph didn't kill anyone, but he has become the prime suspect. He had to start fleeing... "Shattered": On a high bridge in heavy rain, a naked woman wearing a yellow raincoat jumped off; beside a cold barn, a naked woman with one hand handcuffed to a tree branch froze to death; at dawn, a female teacher popular with students knelt naked on the open-air stage in the park, pointing a gun at her head... No need for daggers, guns, or even showing up, the victim can commit suicide in a weird way in a very short time. "Prison Breaker": Audi was imprisoned for participating in a robbery. This robbery involved seven million US dollars. Two of the robbers were shot on the spot, and one escaped with the money. Audi was shot in the head and survived, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. For ten years, Audi was bullied in prison. From guards to other prisoners, everyone wanted to get the whereabouts of the huge sum of money from him, because the one who escaped was said to be his brother. Audi never gave in and remained tight-lipped. Just one day before his ten-year sentence was to be completed, Audi escaped from prison. This unnecessary escape was incomprehensible to everyone. The police, FBI, and gangsters launched a comprehensive hunt for him. During the dangerous escape, Audi's mysterious and dazzling personal charm always gave him a chance to survive... "Her and Her Secrets": Megan does not know Agatha, but Agatha is very familiar with Megan. Pregnant Agatha is a part-time employee in a supermarket in the suburbs of London. Her work is hard and boring. What she looks forward to most every day is to spy on Megan, another pregnant woman who often comes to the store to shop. To Agatha, Meghan's life was a model of the perfect life. Megan is a reporter for women's magazines. After becoming a mother, she ran a parenting blog with great success. She had everything Agatha wanted: two perfect children, a handsome husband, a happy marriage, and fashionable friends. Every night, Agatha would read Meghan's blog while waiting for a call from her boyfriend, the father of her child, but he never came. Agatha finally worked up the courage to talk to Megan. The two mothers-to-be quickly became friends, and Agatha was even invited to Meghan's home. The chat was relaxed and pleasant, with each other hiding something in their words. But who doesn't have a little secret? It's just that Megan can't imagine how dangerously their lives will be intertwined...

Japan has always loved strange stories, and strange stories are also an important part of Japanese culture. This article collects several ancient Japanese classic ghost stories. These stories have a long history in Japan and have a profound historical foundation and cultural heritage. Flower demons, foxes, legends of gods and ghosts, behind every strange and bizarre story, there is the essence of Japanese culture, and all kinds of worldly things, the warmth and warmth of human beings are all hidden in it.

This book is a representative work of Croce's historical theory, revised (or translated) based on the 2007 national edition of Croce's works. The first part discusses the theory of history, first strictly distinguishes between history and chronology, and then draws the boundaries between true history and various pseudo-history (linguistic history, poetic history, oratory history, practical history, and tendency history), and puts forward the famous assertion that "all history is contemporary history." The following part reviews the history of history, from Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, positivist historiography, to the "new historiography" of the 19th century. In addition, 23 notes and comments covering theoretical points in the book are also included. The book has profound thoughts, vivid language and far-reaching influence. It is a Western classic that is both theoretical and readable.

From 1914 to 1945, the world experienced the catastrophes of two wars, and people have never been so eager for peace. From February 4 to February 11, 1945, when the dawn of peace began to emerge, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, together with their shrewd negotiators, held a secret meeting in Yalta. In just eight days, the three giants held chips of varying sizes, sometimes joining forces in pairs, sometimes betraying each other, sometimes being tough, sometimes compromising, swinging between ideas and reality, morality and interests, ideology and geopolitics. They want to end the war as soon as possible, they want to protect the interests of the victorious country, and they also want to curb the root causes of all wars, and all of this is at the expense of the interests of small countries. Poland, Germany, China... The post-war trajectories of many countries changed. At the end of the meeting, the participants were full of optimistic hope. They had achieved what they wanted, and believed that the compromise and understanding represented by the Yalta spirit would become the basis of post-war Allied relations. However, in 1947, the Iron Curtain fell and the Cold War began. Yalta became a symbol of missed opportunities for peace. Shahili Ploki, an expert on Eastern European history at Harvard University, wants to rectify the name of the Yalta Conference. He combed through declassified Soviet archives, government documents from various countries, participant memoirs and unpublished diaries to vividly illustrate this highly controversial and far-reaching meeting. He reconstructed the situation at that time, starting from the choices, calculations, interests, and ideas of the participants in the meeting, and proved that although Yalta was an important step on the road to a divided and dangerous world, it was by no means the cause of the Cold War.

Adolf Hitler was the chief culprit of a series of catastrophic historical events and perhaps the most unprecedented war criminal in world history. Filled with anger, incapable of establishing normal interpersonal relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting opinions, and looking nothing like a leader, he succeeded in attracting thousands of followers and imposed unprecedented totalitarian rule over the German people. How did he do it? Many people who knew him were convinced that Hitler had a powerful influence on everyone who met him. But what role did this so-called "Charisma" play in Hitler's path to power? Lawrence Rees deeply examines the social, psychological and historical factors that influenced the formation of Hitler's personality. It is these factors that shaped Hitler's personality and gave him a unique charm that attracted followers, thereby dragging the entire Germany and even the world into the abyss of war.

Human beings have a long history of encountering information. This history written by James Gleick unexpectedly begins with the African drum language. Before they made the leap directly to mobile phones, indigenous African tribes used drums to convey messages, but how did they do it? Subsequent chapters go on to recount several far-reaching key events in this history, including the invention of writing, Robert Cowdery's first English dictionary, Charles Babbage's difference engine and Ada Byron's program, the Sharpe brothers' signal tower and Morse code. But humans began to consciously understand and utilize information starting from the information theory founded by Claude Shannon in 1948. Shannon's information theory not only promoted the development of information technology, but also triggered the information turn in many disciplines, changing people's understanding of things such as Maxwell's demon, the coding of life, memes, randomness, quantum information theory, etc. Some scientists even believe that the basis of the world is not matter or energy, but information. As physicist John Wheeler said, "Everything starts with bits." Nowadays, information floods us like a torrent, causing us to suffer from information anxiety, information overload, and information fatigue. But looking back at history, this is nothing new, and people have always figured out ways to deal with it. Wikipedia and Google are one of our responses. Whatever your stance on the future of information, one thing is certain: we humans are the creatures of information.

The author of this book is Fu Zhen, the blogger of "Best Golden Turtle for Wine". Lost in secular standards and confused by the life that can be seen at a glance, Fu Zhen decided to press the pause button on his life. She and her husband Mao Mingji flew from the UK to Mexico, traveled to dozens of countries in Latin America from north to south, and wrote "The Best Golden Turtle for Wine", which combines love, hatred and life reflections. In "The Unconnected Boat", Fu Zhen and Mao Mingji traveled to India, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and other Asian countries, and finally returned to Lhasa, where they first met. The text in this book follows them on their wanderings in notepads, computers, night buses, small hotels and coffee shops, honestly recording their experiences and stories along the way, exploring their faith, spirit and inner values, and also witnessing the tenacious survival skills of ordinary little people. No matter how heavy, difficult or unfair life is, they strive forward, laugh and cry, cherish their emotions and maintain their dignity.

"In vain" is a representative of Japanese hermit literature, and it is also a classic that affects Japanese people's aesthetic tendencies and life attitudes. The book has a total of 243 paragraphs, which are composed of incoherent fragments of different lengths. They include mixed feelings, comments, short stories with morals, and records of people from all walks of life. The value of "In vain" lies not only in its interest, but also in its gentle emotion. The words of the old master six hundred years ago are like the conversation between friends yesterday. "Wu Rancao" is often used as an introductory textbook to classical literature in Japan and has many readers.

I am Dr. Singer as my patients call me. I live in my home in Kingston. Lanier's eternal summer and endless wars are separated from me by mountains and seas. I thought I had completely escaped from Aylan, a country where wizards and civilians live together. But last night, a wizard who knew my true identity found me. He called me "The Star One," and he died in my arms before he could tell me his secrets about the war. Today is the first time I have dinner with Grace in the past thirteen years. She is my sister, and she is the storm singer who can control the weather and is respected by all wizards. I don't like coincidences. My sister found me and my freedom was over.

Please seal me, and with your power to control the soul, I am willing to travel through thousands of years and thorns. In that life, her name was Yuchi Chonghua. She came from a famous family of magicians. She was a strange woman who was proficient in the numbers of the yin and yang calendar. But because her family violated Long Yan, she became an official prostitute. When she was sixteen years old, she was given to General Xue as a concubine. In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the army was besieged in the bitter cold frontier and ran out of ammunition and food. General Xue, who called her his concubine, and who wanted to take her with him even when he was leading an army, had forgotten his oath of "I will live and die with you"... Thousands of years later, she thought she had severed all ties with her. Whoever you meet is just a play on the occasion; whoever you "fall in love with" is just a premeditated use. But why did meeting him become an accident?

This book is the third in the China Studies Series of Kyoto University, Japan, with the theme of studying Chinese society and culture in the 20th century. It includes papers by Japanese Chinese scholars such as Ishikawa Zhenhiro, Nakamura Tetsuo, and Yuan Guangquan. Some of the articles discuss issues that scholars have paid less attention to before, such as Chinese women's haircuts in the 1920s, theoretical explorations of modern Chinese traditional painting, "Manchukuo" geographers and their activity characteristics, etc. I believe they will give readers a lot of inspiration.

In the course of China's five thousand years of history, the Three Kingdoms is a unique episode and a period of turbulent waters. Before and after the Three Kingdoms, China was ruled by the Tu ethnic class. Only the Three Kingdoms was a period in which common people stepped onto the stage of history and tried to establish a new social order. History has gone far, but life has never left. The war wisdom of strategizing a thousand years ago is still valid in today's workplace competition. The moonlight that once illuminated Chibi still lingers in the night outside the window. Is Zhuge Liang the originator of idealists? How cute is Cao Cao? What kind of sanity does Guo Jia have that even history writers can't believe? Why did Gu Yong's silence touch Sun Quan more than Zhang Zhao's harsh words? What is Sima Yi's true identity? How is the life of a wise man refined? This is what this book wants to do by carefully dissecting the history of the Three Kingdoms and selecting the shining pearls condensed with the wisdom and blood of the people of the Three Kingdoms to add a beam of light to your and my life path.

This book collects nearly thirty of Hitchcock's suspense novels. You can never guess the ending of Hitchcock's story. No matter how careful you are, you will be extremely surprised and surprised when you read it to the end. These works are full of suspense and the plots are thrilling and fascinating, keeping readers' hearts in suspense all the time. For readers who like suspense, this book will undoubtedly satisfy their curiosity to the greatest extent and provide them with the most exciting reading enjoyment. It is worth reading again and again.

Throughout the 20th century, the "Decisive Battle of Destiny" could only be described as the "World War II". It was this war that created many classic battles, which are unforgettable and endlessly memorable. Over Britain, war eagles fight; on the Atlantic Ocean, wolves are rampant... Endless disasters make people unable to see the dawn and the sky is dark. In Moscow's Red Square, Stalingrad, and Leningrad, artillery fired and people resisted desperately. The world structure gradually changed during the war. From Sicily to Normandy, the Allied forces knocked on the door of the Nazis; from Kursk to the banks of the Elbe River, the Soviet Red Army won the battle. The Third Reich collapsed in smoke. From Midway to Iwo Jima, from the Philippines to Okinawa... There are traces of fighting between the two sides in every space on the sea, land and air.

The story of "Satan Tango" takes place in a dilapidated small village. A dozen villagers with nowhere to make a living staged a drama of alcoholism, adultery, voyeurism, betrayal, dreams and broken dreams in the rainy and muddy late autumn season. Indifference and numbness cruelly killed all living things, until the appearance of two liars ignited everyone's hope, leading them to take the repeated dance of death towards the bright future they imagined... The wonderful structure and unique language style of this book make it one of the most mysterious works in the history of literature, and a miracle in the history of translation.

"Death Comes" is a masterpiece that shook the European and American literary world in the 20th century. It opened the golden age of American mystery novels and is an eternal classic and immortal legend in the hearts of many readers of mystery novels around the world. The work of Stym Shipp Van Dien, the author of "Dead Man", also became a popular work that Hollywood screenwriters rushed to adapt. Brooks and Powell, who had starred in these works, also became famous.

The winner of the "Nebula Award" at Japan's 31st SF Convention, the sequel to "Battle Fairy Yukikaze" tells the story of Yukikaze and Rei Fukai after their rebirth. In the previous game, Garmu made replicas of humans, and Rei Fukai also fell into Garmu's base. This plot is further developed in the book and becomes an important point in the story. As Yukikaze's consciousness center data was transmitted to the most advanced fighter FRX00, Yukikaze was reborn and used his own way to awaken Fukai Zero, who had been in a coma. After returning, Rei Fukai re-examined the role and value of human beings in war, and during the battle, he gradually developed an unspeakable fear of Yukikaze. Intelligent machines are not bound by human emotions, and they will defeat Gam even at the expense of humans.

"I want to give life to a dead world and then give it to humans." Lilith and the Oankali gave birth to a hybrid child - Akin. The surviving humans on the earth were affected by nuclear radiation and were unable to have children, so they could only steal hybrid children who looked like humans. After Ajin was stolen by humans, he gained a deep understanding of human thoughts and characteristics while living with humans. He discovered that "human beings are a dazzling, alluring, and deadly contradiction" and decided to help humans gain opportunities for independent development outside the earth...

As humans expand and colonize outer planets, the universe is becoming more and more dangerous. Three races of aliens are preparing to form an alliance against humans, and a war is imminent. The Ghost Brigade - the special forces of the Colonial Defense Force, is the strongest defense force of mankind. They are cloned from the DNA of dead people. They are strong, agile and are born to be warriors. Jared Dirac, a special "Ghost Brigade" soldier, was born to serve as a memory container for the traitor Charles Boutin and find the reason for his betrayal. Unexpectedly, something went wrong during the transmission, and Jared developed his own consciousness. Buting's memory gradually awakened as the war intensified. Two souls, one good and one evil, were constantly fighting in his body, and a huge conspiracy that threatened mankind gradually emerged. At this critical moment of human survival, facing a powerful enemy that is difficult to defeat, even the "ghost" cannot disobey the call of human nature...

"A Dream of Red Mansions", formerly known as "The Story of the Stone", is one of China's four great masterpieces and is universally recognized as the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels. It can be called an encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society and a master of traditional culture. This book combines the characteristics of many excellent versions on the market and uses 120 full chapters. In order to facilitate students and the general public to read, phonetic notations and uncommon word annotations have been included along with the text, and an introduction to the creative background and annotations on Chinese studies knowledge have been added. The illustrations in the book are all collector's edition paintings. For example, "Grand View Garden" was painted by Sun Wen, a painter from the Qing Dynasty. The brushstrokes are delicate, the colors are bright, and the paintings are exquisite and elegant. They vividly reproduce the scenes in the book, allowing readers to feel the plot, atmosphere and characters more truly. The rest of the selected illustrations are all exquisite and detailed, with extremely high aesthetic value and collection value.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is one of the four classic classics in China. Its full name is "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It is China's first chapter-length historical romance novel. It is a masterpiece written by Mr. Luo Guanzhong in the early Ming Dynasty, based on absorbing the rich artistic nutrition of the masses and based on historical facts, to organize the chaotic history of the Three Kingdoms into hierarchies according to chronology, events and characters. This work reflects the transformation of political and military struggles and various social contradictions in the Three Kingdoms era, summarizes the great historical changes of this era, and creates a group of all-powerful heroes of the Three Kingdoms. This book is one of the most accomplished among ancient Chinese historical novels and has a far-reaching influence.

He Daye, an older leftover girl, was forced into marriage like many others. But her ideal is to find a man with excellent genes and give birth to a child with even better genes. Whether they get married or not is another matter. When she met Luo Chang, she thought she had found the gene she had dreamed of and agreed to marry him without thinking about it. But Luo Chang took her with him to escape from their wedding. This made He Daye finally see Luo Chang clearly and knew that he lacked a sense of responsibility and was not suitable for marriage.

The original novel of the movie "Carol" with a score of 8.3 On Douban, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, was well received after its release in 2015. "Carol" tells the story of Therese, a young girl who pursues her dream of being a stage designer in New York, but can only work as a sales girl in a department store. One day, she and Carol, a middle-aged housewife who was in marital crisis, met by chance in a department store. The two people who were attracted to each other began to exchange letters, telegrams, and even go on a road trip together. However, this was not allowed in American society at the time. Therese's boyfriend thought she was just temporarily confused, and Carol's husband hired a private investigator to investigate and collect evidence, hoping that Carol would have nothing in the divorce proceedings. The time to test the two women has finally arrived. Can the two break through social taboos and persevere to reach a happy ending? How much are they willing to pay to protect this love?

"Tolstoy's Short Stories and Novels" contains 7 Tolstoy's short stories and short stories. "The Snowstorm" praises the bravery of the working people in the face of the destructive forces of nature; "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" uses "death" to dissect the indifferent relationship between people; "Father Sergei" runs away in the name of "abstinence" and finds inner peace; "Luse" "En", "Holstromer", "Kreutzer Sonata" and "After the Ball" express dissatisfaction with society, pity and sympathy for the working people, protection of pure love, pursuit of heartfelt friendship and care between people, and exploration of the most essential goodness.

"Du Mingquan's Novella Collection" collects three novellas written by the author between June 2015 and 2016: "Chun'er Escapes from My Sight", "My Industrial Era", and "My Real Estate Era". On the surface, "Chun'er Escapes from My Sight" seems to be a love-hate tragedy and comedy about "I", Chun'er, and Qiujuan. It seems to be a love novel, but it actually reflects certain social moods. "My Industrial Era" uses the story of the protagonist "I" and Zhang Li'er to express the life of a generation in the era of township enterprises. "My Real Estate Era" tells the story of "I" (Yu Hao), who, under the leadership of his relative Yu Wenxin, gradually entered society and entered the turbulent real estate industry. In the end, he made a mistake and regretted it. Although the three novellas have strong tragic elements, they are all tragicomedies, reflecting the social changes and progress of different eras as well as personal life journeys. Rather than being used as novel texts, they are better read slowly as philosophical texts.

In the Public Security Bureau, the Pre-Trial Division is a key department that determines the suspect's criminal characterization and whether to transfer the suspect to the Procuratorate for criminal processing. Because of their importance, everyone who can stay in the pre-trial office is a generalist, and the elite among them are called Mingti. The old guy Qi Xiaoshi is one of the real names in old Beijing. He relies on three packs of cigarettes, half a cup of tea, two walnuts and the invincible "seven-hour magic weapon" to win any case. Now that he has reached retirement age, he should have taken on small cases until retirement. But a major economic investigation case caused by suicide made Qi Xiaoshi change his mind...

Zhan Yifei graduated from college, and his family has arranged a job at a television station in his hometown of Lucheng. Zhan Yifei and his girlfriend Dong Xinyi did not want to live their lives like this, so they secretly joined the Beidiao clan. The parents could not understand the choice of their only son, and were not willing to live alone in an empty nest without anyone to rely on, so they had no choice but to throw out a five-year father-son agreement - within five years, if Zhan Yifei could not solve the problems of household registration, establishment and housing, he would have to return to Lucheng. The young couple are determined to make good use of their freedom in the past few years to work hard, pursue their dreams and take root in Beijing. During this period, they experienced the pressure of starting work, Zhan Yifei's mother suffering from uterine fibroids, cashing out credit cards to raise money for the New Year's Eve expenses, the two of them secretly obtaining marriage certificates, a house purchase incident, unexpected pregnancy, raising children, supporting parents... After several years of ups and downs, Zhan Yifei and Dong Xinyi finally realized their original intention, fought for their own choices, and fulfilled their love.

The stories in this book are very familiar to people, and the most exciting chapters, such as Sun Wukong causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace, Zhu Bajie and Gao Laozhuang marrying a wife, beating the Bone Demon, borrowing a banana fan, etc., Are well-known to every household, including women and children. For hundreds of years, it has attracted generations of people with its strong artistic charm, making it one of the Chinese people's favorite classical masterpieces. "Journey to the West" mainly describes the story of Monkey King protecting Monk Tang from going to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures and going through eighty-one hardships.

12 delicious fruits, 12 realistic stories. When life is as peaceful as a pool of stagnant water, where should we go in order to preserve the hard-won love and happiness? The Shimamura couple are an ordinary couple. Although Mrs. Shimamura Hatsuko is very accustomed to the current peaceful marriage life, she is very tired of the too plain and formulaic married life between them. The lust that has nowhere to go has always tortured Hatsuko's heart. Facing the happiness and shortcomings of married life, how will she make her own choice between family and herself... The author starts from a female perspective, describes women's forbearing desires, and explores the difficulty of modern marriage. The narration is delicate without losing depth, and is forbearing without losing enthusiasm.

Lawyer Louis came from a humble background, was stingy with wealth and vicious and cold-blooded. He spent his life trapped in a cage of suspicion and revenge. When he was approaching old age, he wrote a suicide note in which he complained about his wife and children. In the letter, he poured out his resentment, complained about his wife's past love history, scolded her for being cold to him, and hated that his children coveted his inheritance. He carefully planned and made various calculations, planning to give his property to his illegitimate son to take revenge on his family. However, an unexpected critical illness wiped out his accusations and hatred, and his suicide note turned into a confession and repentance. When death came, he faced his twisted soul fed by resentment and untied the "snake knot" that had entangled him throughout his life in love and faith. The alienation of love, the rift of marriage, the calculation of family affection, the loss of faith... Mauriac uses cold writing to reveal the fatal knots intertwined in intimate relationships, allowing hatred and redemption to fight fiercely in the dying candlelight. "Inability to love" is a disease. Only by cutting off the snake knot can we learn how to love.

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Stein and Soren are a couple that everyone admires. Stein is rational, rigorous, materialistic and believes in nature; Soren is emotional, passionate, idealistic and sentimental. The two are inseparable, and after discussing it, they decided to start a self-driving trip to Western Norway. Late at night, two people in love accidentally knocked down a woman wearing a red shawl while driving. They were frightened and fled in a hurry. A few days later, the two were walking in the forest and met the woman in the red shawl again. The woman in the red shawl had a peaceful face and smiled like the Mona Lisa... Stein believed that this was just a "natural coincidence", but Sauerlen firmly believed that it was a "revelation from the other world"... One summer, Stein and Saueren broke up in the wooden hotel where they broke up more than 30 years ago. The huge shadow from more than 30 years ago prompted them to meet again and reanalyze the supernatural events of that year through emails, from the zero-second universe to the origin of consciousness, from the dilemma of wisdom "whether chance is inevitable" to the ultimate question of "what do you believe?", Stein and Saueren, who have nearly known their fate, are no longer lovers in the past, but have become a pair of debaters in life.

The stories collected in this set of books are all adapted from Hitchcock's films and TV series. Hitchcock was recognized as the greatest film director of all time during his lifetime, but he never won the Academy Award for Best Director, although he was nominated six times. He won a special Oscar in 1968 and the Griffith Award from the Directors Guild of America in the same year. In 1979, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. What Hitchcock contributed to the art of film is definitely not just pure film techniques. Just like the characters in his movies often have multiple personalities, Hitchcock's movie personalities also have multiple personalities. He is a master of suspense, a master of psychology, and a master of philosophy in movies. Few people have such a profound insight into the absurdity of life and the fragility of human nature. Underneath the carefully designed techniques, we see a soul that has been suppressed by a strict Catholic upbringing. Hitchcock's movies are a contradictory unity of life and death, crime and punishment, reason and madness, innocence and temptation, repression and resistance. They are poems that directly address the dark hearts of people. He has been called the "Freud of film."

This book is an autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac, a representative of the American "Beat Generation". It tells the love story between Kerouac and Teresa Tessa, a Mexican woman he met in Mexico City. In the process of telling the story of the two people, Kerouac is also constantly searching for himself and understanding himself and life better.