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"The Troubles of Birth" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Takero Arishima, a representative writer of the Shirakaba School in Japan. "The Troubles of Birth" successfully created the image of a young artist from a fisherman's family, reflecting the contradiction between art and life, ideal and reality. The work brilliantly depicts the magnificent scene of Hokkaido fishermen fighting against nature. The author used the scene to convey his emotions, expressing his strong indignation at the social environment at that time and his deep sympathy for the suffering life and mental outlook of the lower class people. It is a classic work selected as a Chinese language textbook for Japanese middle schools. This collection also includes works such as "Grass Under a Stone", which describes revenge against his wife, "The French Girl", which praises the innocent soul, and "The Legend of the West", which interprets sacred beliefs. These works include the Bible's thoughts on human love and Tolstoy's humanitarian thoughts, as well as Kropotkin's anarchist thoughts and Whitman's thoughts about praising freedom. They are full of Japanese Shirakaba writers' emphasis on self-emphasis and personality development.

A companion piece to "Never Stop", Douban's annual Japanese film original novel. Have you ever loved someone deeper than the ocean? To the adults who failed to realize their original dreams. Liang Duo was a full-time writer and won a literary award fifteen years ago, and his life once reached its peak. But after the glory, many fell into a creative crisis and could no longer write outstanding works. His long-term spiritual support was to meet with his son once a month, but in the end he was unable to afford his son's support. Feeling frustrated and lonely, Liang Duo came to the outskirts of the city to visit his mother. However, a typhoon suddenly hit that night, and his ex-wife and son who also came had to stay overnight, making it rare for the family to spend a night together after not getting together for a long time. Will the fractured family relationships change this night? And can Liang Duo regain the love and care of his family?

From Eddie in the small town to Edward in Paris, only I know the hardships; studying hard is to leave the hometown, to make a clean break with the past, and to weave a new life; Nobel Prize winner Anne Ernault commented that her works are "full of power and full of vitality". "Full of shocking truth"; the France he wrote subverts our understanding. France is no longer synonymous with romance, it is full of poverty, violence, and prejudice... Two boys walked in the corridor, one was a big man with red hair, and the other was a small man with a stooped back. The big red-haired man opened his mouth and spat, take a bite of me. Phlegm slowly flowed down my face... My name is Eddie Belle Geller. The name Eddie was inspired by my dad watching American TV series. He wanted me to be masculine. In the northern French countryside where I live, men can drop out of school and become unemployed, but they must be ruthless. Around me, poverty spreads through generations, early marriage, early childbearing, alcoholism and domestic violence spread like the plague. I am an alien and a prisoner, and my family, village and school have woven a web of despair. I don't want to repeat the life of my parents, nor do I want to be a cruel person. I wanted to run away and say goodbye to everything related to Eddie Belle Galle.

"Fisting All the Way: Selected Novellas by Sun Chunping" includes five novellas written by Sun Chunping in recent years. The works maintain his consistent creative style. They not only reflect the realistic theme "The Year of the Ears", but also "The Independent Division of the Northeast Army" about the brave resistance of the Northeast people against foreign aggression decades ago; "Who Are You, Second Uncle" which focuses on the realistic rural theme, and "Fisting All the Way" which writes about urban life at close range. The works accurately and uniquely reflect the huge changes in the concepts of various groups during the social transformation period. "The Bunker at Bodhi Bay" focuses on a railway bunker and writes about the development and changes of a village for decades. It contains both a profound reflection on history and a vivid description of the current reality. The many characters in the work are lifelike and have their own characteristics.

"Radar's Selected Collection: Prose Volume" is a collection of prose written by Radar, which contains a large number of selected prose by Radar. It was published by Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House on October 1, 2006.

"True Colors (Open to the Real Me)" is a book about the workplace, profession, life, and inspirational content. Solid and ethereal are its outstanding writing features. What is true and forthright is what it means to be a human being. Loyalty and dedication reflect professional ethics. Everything in the world. The reason why people are human is because they have ideals and pursuits. The value of this kind of pursuit is not a slogan, but the cultivation step by step out of the original intention. In the work, readers will see a person who pursues friendship, a person who distinguishes between love and hate, a person who longs for perfection, a person who knows how to be grateful, a person who treats others sincerely, a person who wants to accomplish a lot in the workplace, and a person who wants to live a simple and unrestrained life... Unwavering determination, the original intention will not change, this is the true nature. "True Colors (Opening up to the Real Me)" is edited by Han Yajun.

The works included in this book mainly include: Air, Skin and Water, The Man Who Passes Time, Under the Cherry Tree, Essence, Words, Heart, Words, House, Words, Blade, Pure Man, The Fragrance of Lu Bu, The Poet Has No Rice, A Lifetime, Moonset, etc.

"The Limits of Man" is a collection of works by the famous British writer and critic Samuel Johnson. It is based on the Oxford "Selected Works of Johnson", Harvard "Selected Works of Johnson" and Penguin "Selected Works of Johnson". It mainly includes his columns published in newspapers such as "Rambler", "Adventurer" and "Slacker". It also includes his famous poem "London", as well as some poet biographies, letters and travel notes. It comprehensively demonstrates Johnson's literary talent and his incisive discussions on important propositions such as the good and evil of human nature, the meaning of life, social consciousness, ideals and beliefs, marriage and love, and the role of literature.

Zou Shouyi, a disciple of Wang Yangming, made an atlas of Mr. Yangming; Feng Menglong was also deeply influenced by Yangming studies. He had a biography of Wang Yangming written in a popular style, and his writing style was similar to his "Three Characters". Now the two books are combined into one volume, with annotations and introductions.

This book is a collection of outstanding novellas by young writer Lu Kui in recent years. It includes eight works such as "Mota", "The Dinner", and "Never Come Back from Nine to Evening". In these stories, the images of "beautiful losers" emerge vividly on the page - middle-aged successful men who have been immersed in society for many years try to find the beauty of their youth, but find that they have changed their lives; young women who strive to settle in big cities are repeatedly hurt by this sophisticated society; college graduates who are about to graduate Schoolboys are eager to integrate into the city's feasting and entertainment, but find that they are only used as tools... Lu Kui's novels are mostly records of youth, but this youth has been cut into fragmented memory fragments under the rapid changes in society, the differentiation of values, and everyone's own thoughts and pursuits. Most of the characters in his works are aphasic people of the times, trying hard to warm others and searching in vain for an exit. Lu Kui uses a compassionate heart and a feeling of helping the world to tell the stories of these little people in warm, clean and restrained language, which can reveal the contradictory hearts and true desire for life of a generation of young people.

The world's best librarian: Want to save civilization? Steal the book first! The documentary adaptation of the National Magazine Award-winning masterpiece will be released soon. This book takes a direct look at the mysterious branch of Al Qaeda in North Africa. A terrorist organization has occupied the thousand-year-old city of Timbuktu. In order to prevent the ancient books from being destroyed, a group of librarians risked their lives to steal the ancient books in the city and embarked on a 606-mile journey across civilization. This is a struggle between violence and open civilization, which allows us to understand Africa and understand the current focus events on war and terrorism. Even if barbaric forces invade the world, there are still people who are willing to protect civilization at all costs.

In the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire sent troops to besiege Albanian castles. Pasha led thousands of troops to garrison the city. Various strange siege methods were performed in turn, and endless factional struggles between military committees emerged one after another. The soldiers who set foot on the battlefield for the first time hurriedly charged into battle, and the sound of rain drums heralding rain was like the roar of God...

Winning the Gemstrega Literary Prize in Italy is an outstanding display of the literary achievements of Primo Levi, a witness and recorder of Auschwitz. In this book, he returns to the theme of daily life and interprets another ideal life. In this witty novel, Levy focuses on the life experiences of ordinary people. The introverted narrator, Libertino Fosso, a muscular and experienced assembler - a writer and chemist - shares a fascinating series of life stories about a man who loves his job, enjoys his labor, uses his profession as an adventure, and gains freedom from the ordinary. These stories connect one moment after another that is usually ignored, making people sometimes smile and sometimes feel sad, reflecting on the wisdom and limitations of human beings, as well as the greatness and insignificance of life. The "Levi Works" series also includes "The Drowned and the Saved", "The Trades of Others", "This Is Auschwitz: Evidence 1945-1986", "The Uncertain Moment: Selected Poems of Levi", "The Truce" and "If Not Now, When?" "Moments of Reprieve", "Voices of Memory: Interviews with Levi 1961-1987", "I Talking to You: Conversations between Levi and Tessio", etc.

In order to solve the mystery of Homer, two amateur scholars from the United States went to the remote mountains of southern Albania to search for the only remaining ancient heroic epic. Unexpectedly, they were regarded as spies when they first arrived, and were closely monitored by people from all walks of life. They were also involved in unexpected ethnic conflicts and contradictions. "Kadare skillfully placed the classical myths in a modern context, inherited Gogol's provincial comedy mode, and tightly woven the multi-layered themes up and down, and made it filled with a sense of light banter.

"Sou Shen Ji" was written by Qian Bao, a historian in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It has twenty volumes and more than 400 stories. The story content mainly focuses on ghosts and gods, and is based on historical myths and legends passed down from the Western Han Dynasty and folk tales from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The stories collected in the book involve gods and warlocks, elves and monsters, karma, repayment and love between humans, gods, humans and ghosts, etc. It also includes some trivia and many folklores. Most of them are short in length, simple in plot, fantasy in conception, and full of romanticism, which are deeply loved by people.

"A wonderful American play about novelty, imagination, and love." The master of postmodern novels writes about the emotional entanglements of contemporary literary youth. When the marriage tradition no longer works, how should love end? Pulitzer Prize winner, author of "The Virgin Suicides" and "Neuter" is a novel masterpiece. It was selected as the best novel of the year by North American independent bookstores and selected as the annual novel read by the National Book Critics Circle. "Marriage Change" tells the story of the twists and turns and confusion experienced by three liberal arts students from Brown University in the United States before and after graduation, who are world-famous as writers. "Marriage plot line" is the topic of English major Madeline's thesis. In her thesis, she elaborates on the importance of marriage plot to traditional novels. In reality, she is also trapped in a marriage and love dilemma. Despite their completely different backgrounds and personalities, Madeleine and the talented Leonard are still an enviable campus couple. Unexpectedly, Leonard suffers from manic depression due to family inheritance and a damaged childhood, and their relationship is overshadowed. Falling in love with Leonard, who suffered from mental illness, made her both painful and unable to let go. She even gave up thinking and working on the future for this reason. Madeleine grew up under the wings of her parents and was unlikely to act out of line like her rebellious sister. However, she was deeply influenced by the atmosphere of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and she longed for independence in her heart. She originally wanted to get rid of her parents' control and live with her lover after graduation, but Leonard's illness made it impossible for her to refuse her parents' help. On the other hand, Madeleine's academic path is equally confusing...

The novel "The Fish King" is Astafiev's most unique masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Russian literature. The book is composed of thirteen "narrative short stories" with relatively independent contents, all centered on the relationship between man and nature. It depicts Siberia full of mysterious temptations in depth and detail, as well as the people living there, and their reflections on life. The desolate, bitter and cold natural environment is at the same time a place where nature shows its majesty, vastness and richness. Although human footprints are like claws in snow and mud, they still carry the dignity of endless life. These chapters show a unique style in terms of ideological content and artistic form, downplaying the plot, and describing the details delicately and vividly. They "integrate novels, novellas, lyrical essays, and moral discussions into one" (Wang Xiaobo). They reveal coherent content and images from different angles and methods, just like a string of pearls strung inadvertently, each one reflecting dazzling light with its own beauty.

"Ghost" is an autobiographical debut novel by the famous writer Bei Dufu, winner of the Akutagawa Prize. The young "I" is on the edge of growth, and the uneasiness and hope of the past are gradually awakening in my heart. The childhood days when I was obsessed with insects, my father who passed away and my mother who suddenly left suddenly, the beautiful girl who touched "my" heartstrings for the first time, the beautiful melody interspersed in my memories... As the years go by, those vivid details gradually fade away, but in the corners of my memory, they seem to be hinting to "me" some important clues. Exploring the childhood memories buried deep in the mind and discovering why they have been forgotten may be an important key to unlocking the secrets of the soul.

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This is a popular novel set in the historical period from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. It takes special groups of people such as "assassins" as the protagonists, and uses the Jianghu assassin organization "Assassin's Road", the court's imperial court, and the revolutionary organization Tongmenhui as the main organizations. It tells the story of special people and events in a special historical period. It is a Republic of China interpretation of traditional martial arts stories.

"Spring Comes in Dorayaki" is a healing novella by contemporary Japanese writer Dorian Sukegawa, which shows people's plight and hope, as well as the light of humanity. Using the Japanese confection Dorayaki as an image, it tells a touching story of getting out of the frustration and trough of life. The story takes place in a Dorayaki specialty store called "Dorayaki". The protagonist Sentaro is the manager of this store, and Wakana, a middle school girl who comes from a single-parent family and cannot feel the care, and Tokunaga, an old woman who has been isolated from the world for a long time. After experiencing a series of disturbances and difficulties in life, the three of them have deeply integrated into each other's lives, and at the same time changed each other's future lives. The novel was adapted onto the screen by the famous Japanese director Naomi Kawase. Its profound philosophy of life and euphemistic Japanese expression techniques made the film selected as the opening film of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

In 1905, the prelude to the most tragic "era of assassinations" in China's modern history slowly unfolded: Sun Yat-sen established the Assassination Department of the Tongmenghui; Cai Yuanpei organized the Liberation Society to engage in assassination activities; Chen Duxiu became the mastermind behind the assassination group; and even the scholar Lu Xun also joined the assassination group. No matter what doctrine they believe in or what purpose they harbor, they all attempt to use this oldest method of violence to control the future of the entire country. In those covered histories, an assassin who truly determined someone's life and death was also involved in many political assassinations by the tide of the times, becoming the key to the checks and balances of all parties: he broke into the Forbidden City alone to assassinate Cixi, also served as Sun Yat-sen's bodyguard in Tokyo, sneaked into a prison to rescue Wang Jingwei, and formed a deep friendship with Wu Yue and other anti-Qing patriots. In that turbulent and troubled time, he changed the future destiny of himself and the country with assassinations one after another on countless dark nights.

"Notes of Malte" is the first peak in Rilke's creative career. It narrates the memories and confessions of a young Danish poet who was born into a declining aristocracy and had an unsociable and sensitive temperament. To a certain extent, it is a portrayal of the author himself. The novel is composed of 71 notebook fragments with no continuous plot and no chronological order. Because of the common themes - love, loneliness, fear, disease, death, God, creation, etc., It expresses the various spiritual issues that the author has been concerned about throughout his life. It forms a special organic whole in the spiritual undercurrent, and is known as one of the most important pioneer works of modern existentialism.

A best-selling novel that has touched hundreds of millions of readers around the world and a companion work to the Booker Prize shortlisted "One Man's Pilgrimage". In "A Man's Pilgrimage", 65-year-old Harold walked 627 miles in 87 days, just for one belief: as long as he walked, Queenie would survive. This is the other side of the story, this is Queenie, there is a secret that has been buried for 20 years, there are countless small moments in life, there are big warm hands, conversations in the car, and gardens on the sea. How to deal with pain, how to love, how to rest and relax, how to get along, "laughing because of the same thing can also be another way to be together". As Harold begins his journey, so does Queenie's. They each become whole through this. "Like Harold, Queenie has her sunny and dark sides, but when the story ends and the book is closed, the author deftly lets the darkness disappear, and what lingers is the light of Queenie's unwavering love." Yes, Queenie's love songs are here to help us.

"Yushima Love" tells the story of the poignant and tortuous love between Kamizuki Azusa and the geisha Choyoshi. Zi was born into a poor family, but became the son-in-law of a viscount's family. Later, he ran away from home and got close to Dieji, whom he met when he was poor. Dieji was infatuated with Zi, but Zi never forgot his social status, which eventually caused Dieji to lose his mind and kept shouting Zi's name, so the police passed Zi away. Zi expected that her future would be ruined, so she hugged Dieji desperately and jumped into the river together. Later, the graves of the two people were closely adjacent to each other.

A world of 37 people. 20 Stories from the bottom of my heart. 108 Love journeys that will make your heart beat. They met by chance, opening up warm memories: they were both dream chasers, with a passion for perseverance, an unwavering determination, and an infatuation that tossed and turned. They lost it suddenly, leaving behind sad memories: they were all lost souls. There is the pain of loving and hating, the sadness of not being able to miss it, and the despair of hating because of love. With Zhong Ni's sincere and interesting writing, the stories unfold one by one, like mirrors, truly reflecting you and me who are different yet so similar.

Five years ago, he rescued her from the dark hell, but personally pushed her into the abyss of despair. Five years later, they reunited again. For his own selfish reasons, he knew she already had a boyfriend, but he persisted in pestering her, even risking the entire group. She knew that he only regarded her as his sister, but she could not control her sinking heart... Those years, those bloody memories, and those scars that even time could not heal, were they destiny or man-made calculations? When the layers of lies peel off, and when the truth approaches step by step, where will their love go?

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"Sui Hua Ji Li Pu" is a chronicle of local customs compiled by Fei Zhu in the Yuan Dynasty. Attached is a volume of "Jianzhi Pu" and a volume of "Shu Brocade Pu". It mainly describes the festival customs in Sichuan from New Year's Day to Winter Solstice, with detailed description and rich content. This book is worth reading for readers interested in such topics. From the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the author often sent ministers to guard Chengdu. At that time, the social environment was extravagant, but in the Southern Song Dynasty, it declined due to war. I spent a lot of time recounting old events and wrote this book. The work records in chronological order how the local officials and people in Chengdu celebrated various festivals from the first day of the first lunar month to the end of the year and the winter solstice. The text is vivid and detailed. All previous studies on Chengdu society and folk customs during the Tang and Song Dynasties are inseparable from its records. From this perspective, this book is extremely influential. The book's description of Chengdu's scenery and people's conditions reproduces for readers the rich and colorful social life picture of ancient Chengdu and the historical origins of the formation of cultural characteristics. The "Shu Brocade Book" attached to the book is an important document for the study of silk production in the two Song Dynasties. It describes the establishment, scale, division of labor, output, product uses, management methods, construction history of Chengdu Jinyuan and the production of eight halo brocades, coiled ball brocades, clusters of four golden eagle brocades, etc. It is a special book for the study of ancient Shu brocades.

"Buddha's Country" is a documentary travelogue written by Faxian, a distinguished monk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is also known as "Faxian's Biography" and so on. The book comprehensively records Fa Xian's journey from Chang'an to India to seek Dharma through hardships. It lasted 15 years and traveled to more than 30 countries. The book describes in detail the geography, transportation, religion, culture, customs, products, etc. Of the areas it passes through. It is an important historical material for studying the history, geography, religion, and culture of Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia in the early fifth century. At the same time, it also shows the spirit of Master Faxian who is not afraid of difficulties and eager to seek the Dharma. It is one of the oldest travel notes in China and even the world, and has extremely high historical and academic value.

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This book is a collection, including five works: "Memories of Autumn Lanterns", "Memories of Xiangwan Tower", "Memories of Yingmei'an", "Memories of Heart-warming" and "Memories of Tao'an Dreams". These works are all about talented people and beauties and daily necessities, rice, oil and salt. They are either remembered or thought about, with both rich sounds and emotions, gorgeous but not superficial, sad but not sad, and deeply touching. Just like what is said in "Miscellaneous Words from the Heart": When I get it suddenly, I am half happy and shocked. At the same time, another feature of these collections is that they all contain the authors' sincere and strong emotions, injecting fresh artistic life into these articles. They are very flexible in narrative and integrate narrative, lyricism, description and the creation of artistic conception. It makes readers feel vivid and has an artistic beauty of "turning to look at the uncertain flowers".

"Buddha's Country" is also known as "Faxian's Biography", "His Travels to Tianzhu", "The Former Taoist Faxian's Journey from Chang'an to the West to Tianzhu", "Shi Faxian's Journey to Tianzhu", "Historical Journeys to Tianzhu", etc. It is a travel note written by Faxian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was completed in the twelfth year of Yixi (416). This book is an important historical material for studying the transportation and history of China, India, Pakistan and other countries. The culture of the Western Regions and India that came with Buddhism has had a positive impact on Chinese culture in many aspects such as language, art, astronomy, medicine, etc. Maritime trade between China and India, Persia and other countries began as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, but there are no specific records of sea breezes and ships in history books. The detailed description and systematic record of trade winds and ships in "Buddha Kingdom" became the earliest record in China. "Buddha Country" records the author's travel experiences from 399 to 413 AD. Its genre is a typical travelogue and it also belongs to the Buddhist topography genre. The book covers a vast area, covering the geography, transportation, religion, culture, products, customs, and even society and economy of about 30 countries in Central Asia, India, and Southeast Asia. It is the earliest record of land and sea transportation between China and India. It is the first complete travel record of Central Asia, India, and Southeast Asia in ancient China. It occupies an important position in the history of geography and navigation in China and South Asia.

The creation of poetry flourished in the two Song Dynasties. There are many anthologies of Song poetry in the past dynasties. The "Three Hundred Song Poems" compiled by Mr. Zhu Cun (Shangcun Village) in the late Qing Dynasty has become one of the classics due to its large quantity, wide range, and incisiveness. This book is the annotation of "Three Hundred Song Poems" by Mr. Tang Guizhang, a master of modern poetry. The annotations in the book are detailed, solid and clear; the commentaries are a collection of past ci reviews, comprehensive and extensive; it also includes biographies and relevant reviews of each ci writer. These contents not only allow readers to understand and appreciate Song Ci, but also appreciate Mr. Tang Guizhang's unique insights into Song Ci and feel the cultural style of this master of Ci.

"Ci poetry takes realm as the top priority. If it has realm, it will have its own high style and its own famous sentences." By the Song Dynasty, Ci poetry had both verve and charm, and famous writers emerged in large numbers, so various anthologies emerged in endlessly. "Three Hundred Song Ci Poems" was compiled by Shangqiang villagers and was first published in the Jiazi Year of the Republic of China (1924). It was originally an elementary school reading book for my nephews to find and recite verses. It also included famous poems from various schools. It included 88 poets and 300 poems in total. It is the most widely circulated and most representative anthology of Song Ci poems. This edition of "Three Hundred Poems of the Song Dynasty" was compiled by Qiang Villager as a base, with detailed annotations and detailed appreciation. It also includes comments from famous writers such as Chen Tingzhuo and Tang Guizhang to enhance readers' aesthetic interest in reading.

"Only 0.0012 Percent of people in the world develop lung cancer by the age of 36," Paul Kalanithi is one of them. By the time you read this, he will no longer be alive. In the past, he graduated from Stanford, Cambridge and Yale medical schools. After years of hard training, he was a neurosurgeon with superb medical skills and a bright future; now, he is a patient whose lungs are covered with tumors and is getting weaker day by day, requiring regular chemotherapy. When the end of his life suddenly came, and when he had the opportunity to re-examine his soul, he began to review and record his life as a doctor and a patient, exploring medicine and ethics, family and love, and why people are worth living. As the body gradually fails, the soul becomes stronger and stronger. On the way to the end of his life, Paul created a new future and gave the ultimate answer to life - "I cannot move forward. I will still move forward."

It has been adapted into the TV series "Rivals", starring Zhao Wenxuan, Feng Yuanzheng, Huang Weide and Wu Qianqian. During World War II, the Japanese military established the "Purple Code" intelligence center, headed by Major General Takeo Yamamoto. In order to decipher the "Purple Code" as soon as possible, the Chinese military gathered cryptography research experts from across the country to jointly establish the "Military Commission Cryptozoology Technology Research Laboratory". The military commander even hired Chandler, the father of U. S. Navy cryptography, with a high salary from the United States to form a second echelon. Thus, a little-known cryptographic war between the Chinese and Japanese militaries began. Takeo Yamamoto sent ace spy Keiko Kiyota to sneak into Chongqing, and with the cooperation of the traitor "Wandou Jian", he engaged in anti-decryption activities, and transferred his sister Yoshiko Kiyota to seduce Chandler to steal secret intelligence; Lin Ping, an underground member of the Communist Party of China, shed his last drop of blood in order to bring back the structural diagram of the Japanese "Purple Code" No. 3 New cipher machine that Wen Weijun obtained from Hong Kong.

"Chrysanthemum Zen" (author Xu Donglin) is a unique writing essay. It exudes the fragrance of grass and woods, the fragrance of rouge, the coolness of the evening breeze and drizzle, and the lonely melancholy of youthful feelings.

Marianne Messmann longs to escape her loveless marriage. On a trip to Paris, she committed suicide by throwing herself into the Seine River, but was saved by a passerby. During her treatment in the hospital, she saw a painting depicting a beautiful seaport town and decided to embark on her final adventure. As soon as she arrived in Brittany, she made friends with a group of people who often gathered in a seaside tavern called "Almore". They were full of personality and interesting people. In food, music and laughter, Marianne discovered a new self - passionate, carefree and full of strength. Until her past calls her...

The novella "The Statue Man" is the posthumous work of German writer Günter Grass, written around 2003. Authorized by the Grass Foundation in 2022, it was published in Germany for the first time. This work is based on a reading tour that Glass took in the Democratic Republic of Germany in the late 1980s. It uses the sculptures of the 13th-century statue master in the Naumburg Cathedral in Germany, its prototype model, and the young woman who is currently makeup as a statue to perform as protagonists. It weaves a magical realism "legend" that interweaves reality and history, and is both real and illusory. This book also includes some of Glass's essays and short stories, such as "Five Birds", "Left-Handed", "The Rabbit and the Hedgehog", etc.

Carl Sandburg is not only a journalist and biographer who represents the strength and genius of the United States, but also a poet laureate who embodies the American spirit and writes in the American colloquial language. "He is the United States." He dropped out of school at the age of thirteen and entered the workforce. He saw the world from the noisy streets and alleys of the city and from the bottom of the caravan. He also had an extremely rich experience of wandering and fighting. Because his poems were "people's poems", they were deeply loved by the people and he was called the "people's poet". This book is a collection of Sandburg's poems. It selects the main representative works from his iconic poetry collections - "Chicago Poems", "The Cornhuskers" (Pulitzer Prize-winning work), "Smoke and Steel", "Slates of the Sunburned West", "Good Morning America", "The People, Yes", and "Collected Poems" (Pulitzer Prize-winning work). It contains all high-quality works from his early, prime and late years, and comprehensively presents the evolution of his poetic ideas, techniques and style. In his poems, there are the prayers of steel - smoke-belching chimneys, quenching sprockets, low-level workers in blue; there is the vast imagination - the dreams of humans and machines; there is silence - the skyscrapers entering dreamland and the cornfields soaked in the sun; there is the loneliness of distant times - the open space between the urban rubble and other scenes. Borges once commented: "There is a kind of tired sadness in Sandburg, a kind of sadness in the evening on the plains, the sadness of mud and sand, the sadness of useless but accurate memory, the sadness of a man who feels the passage of time between day and night."

For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated the front pages of newspapers in the United States and around the world, and international volunteers flocked to Spain to help its democratic government fight a right-wing coup initiated by Francisco Franco and assisted by Hitler and Mussolini. This was an extremely brutal war that can be regarded to a large extent as the opening battle of World War II, but it was quickly overshadowed by the latter. The author of this book, Adam Hochschild, presents many important figures in the Spanish Civil War, including Hemingway and Orwell, and weaves their fascinating stories together to fully reveal the tragedy and importance of this war.

This book tells the political situation in the Russian Empire and Europe from 1741 to 1762. Peter III came to Russia from the age of fourteen when he was designated as the heir by his aunt Tsar Elizabeth Petrovna to being overthrown by his wife Catherine the Great in 1762. What kind of legendary life did he experience in his short life of thirty-four years? What significant impact did his becoming Tsar have on the Seven Years' War? How did Tsar Peter III disrupt European politics? Why did his wife stage a coup to depose him? In his short reign of more than 180 days, what impact did the various bills passed have on the church, the people at the bottom and the nobility? Why did Peter III die? What indispensable preparations did the reign of Peter III make for the coming of the era of Catherine the Great? This book will answer it in detail.

This book is Professor Wei Feide's doctoral thesis, an academic work that studies China's transformation into modern times in the late Qing Dynasty. The main "gate" to China in the Qing Dynasty was Guangzhou, and the "strangers" were foreigners. As the name suggests, "Strangers at the Gate" is related to the history of foreigners breaking into Guangzhou (the gate of China), and about the foreign invasion of China during the Opium War. However, this book is not mainly based on this study. Instead, it uses the two Opium Wars of the British invasion of China as clues to study the social dynamics of Guangzhou and Guangdong Province during this historical period, such as the attitudes of the government, gentry, regiment training, farmers, etc. Towards foreign countries; their respective activities, mutual relationships and changes, thereby revealing some trends in the beginning of modern Chinese history.

This volume is a specific regional study. It describes and studies the cartography and map use during the Renaissance in Germany, the Low Countries, France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, East-Central Europe, and Russia, as well as the social basis and driving factors for the development of cartography, as well as the role of cartography development in society. The content of this book is informative and extensive. On the one hand, it presents in detail the important figures, map works and map drawing activities in various regions of Europe during the Renaissance, changing the previous narrative model that only focused on a few cartographers and works. At the same time, it also provides a detailed introduction to Ireland, Suzhou and other countries that have rarely been involved in the Chinese world. The history of map drawing and use in the Netherlands, Northern Europe, Hungary, Poland, Russia and other regions is also described and excavated as much as possible. It is of great enlightenment for us to understand the development process of cartography, geography, and even the entire scientific system and society during the European Renaissance in a three-dimensional and multi-dimensional way.

"American Political Tradition and Its Founders" is the representative work of the famous American historian Richard Hofstadter, first published in 1948. Through the analysis of twelve famous figures who "represent the mainstream of American political sentiment", it provides a new interpretation of the American cultural tradition, especially the political tradition, from the aspects of thought and political culture, and puts forward the theory of "consistency theory" in American history. This book is a must-read for those studying American political history.

"The Birth of Japanese History" is the work of the famous Japanese historian Hidehiro Okada. It mainly explains the history of Japan's founding from the perspective of East Asian history. Hidehiro Okada believes that no matter what kind of civilization, the historical framework originally written limits people's consciousness. The ideas in the early Japanese documents "Kojiki" and "Nihon Shoki" permanently determined the character of the Japanese people and were the limitations of Japanese history. Hidehiro Okada also pointed out that the history of Japan formed so far is only the history of Japan as a country and is separated from the rest of the world outside the Japanese archipelago. Therefore, he proposed that the history of Japan should be written in the context of the entire world history. In the book "The Birth of Japanese History", Hidehiro Okada broke the traditional views of Japanese historians, jumped out of the historical distinctions between the Jomon period, the Yayoi period, and the Kofun period, and interpreted ancient Japanese history as part of world history. He pointed out that the founding of Japan was closely related to the changes in the political situation in East Asia in the 7th century. At the same time, he opposed using 660 BC as the year of the founding of Japan. He believed that the origin of the Japanese royal family and the founding of Japan should not be treated equally, let alone that myths should not be regarded as history. In short, Hidehiro Okada's historical thoughts are distinctive and unique, his analytical framework is grand and ambitious, and his views on Japanese history, world history, etc. Deserve people's attention.

This book traces the history of Prussia's participation in religious conflicts and political competition on the European continent: from the destruction of the Thirty Years' War to the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire, from King Frederick the Great's Enlightenment to Napoleon's devastating conquests, from Bismarck's iron-blooded policy to the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, and the impact of all this on the turbulent 20th century. Prussia was once considered the cause of Europe's two wars in the first half of the 20th century, but Clark shows us how this country made an immeasurable contribution to the fate of Western civilization. People often forget that Prussia was once a model of European humanistic tradition. It had an efficient government, a clean civil service and a tradition of religious tolerance. It was considered to have the mission of leading the unification and prosperity of Germany. "The Iron Kingdom" is an authoritative work on the key role played by Prussia in modern history. Christopher Clark uses delicate writing, rigorous logic, profound thinking and comprehensive examination to tell the fascinating and ups and downs of this country and the Hohenzollern dynasty for more than 300 years.

Let's meet Mira. She is a small-town girl who loves reading. She has been an independent and smart child since she was a child. When she was fourteen, she read Nietzsche and Paine. She finished all the textbooks on the first day of school, and the school had to let her skip a grade. But this was the United States in the 1930s. The most common occupation for women was "typist" and the theme of life was "family." Her mother's greatest expectation for her is to "marry into a good family." In a small, closed place, her intelligence and independence make her an outlier. Over time, she succumbed. She got married hastily like other girls, wore a corset, learned to cook, kept the house in order, gave birth to two children, and tried hard to be a "good wife and mother". Her husband has a decent job and she lives in a big house that many people dream of. She has a graceful manner and is always smiling. And only she knew that beneath the calm surface of life, she was silently collapsing...