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"Ulysses" was first serialized in the American magazine "The Little Review" from 1918 until it ended in 1920. It was later published as a full book. It was subsequently recognized as "one of the most important literary works in modern literature". The so-called "Ulysses" is Homer's "Odyssey". The book has nearly 270,000 words (English) and uses 30,030 vocabulary words. As soon as it was published, it aroused great curiosity. Because the author uses "stream of consciousness", a popular psychological research technique in the early 20th century, and carefully considers the layout, the book uses many distinctive methods such as puns, metaphors, and humor. It is now recognized as "the most remarkable novel". In 1998, the Modern Library of America listed this novel among the "Best Novels in the English-speaking World of the 20th Century" and ranked it at the top of the list, which shows how much influence this novel had on 20th century literature.

Dedicated to every young man who never compromises! A must-select translation of domestic portraits, the well-known translator Huang Yisi has newly revised 606 parts of the text. Oxford University Press introductory edition (with an introductory page of a comprehensive analysis of Joyce by an Oxford University professor). Selected into the Top 3 of Random House's "100 Novels of the 20th Century". The pioneering work of stream-of-consciousness novels, it is a century classic praised by Yeats, Woolf, Beckett and other masters. Prequel to "Ulysses". Stephen, a young artist born in Dublin, has been sensitive and thoughtful since he was a child. In his childhood, he was ignorant, but he actively studied but was beaten; in his youth, he was impulsive and enthusiastic, but he strayed into the path of desire; in his youth, he finally became mature and rational, but in the end he chose to live in exile. He said: "Ah, life! I am ready to come into contact with the reality of experience for the millionth time."

A boy who has a crush on the girl next door, but doesn't know how to say it and is suffering; a girl who has found her ideal partner and longs for a new life, but lacks the courage to change her current situation; a man who is already in his thirties but has accomplished nothing and faces a boring job and a busy family all day long; 15 stories, 15 kinds of deep loneliness. From boyhood, youth, adulthood to old age, this book illuminates the loneliness that has nowhere to go at all stages of life. No matter who you are, how old you are, or where you are, you can find yourself in it.

"Dublins" is James Joyce's prestigious short story collection, which can be regarded as the most famous short story collection in the entire West in the 20th century. Published in 1914, it was set in Dublin in the 1920s and 1930s. It captures a cross-section of the lives of the middle and lower class people, a group of people at a moment, and fifteen stories gathered together. It is like an impressionistic painting, with concise brushwork and scattered pieces. It emerges a desolate world, distant, cold, but exquisite, which is the best.

A classic work of stream of consciousness in the history of literature, a great self-portrait of an artist. More than 30 original illustrations perfectly set off the scenes. This book is a must-read for Qiao fans around the world. This book is the first novel written by Joyce using the stream of consciousness technique, and it is also one of the earliest and most successful stream of consciousness novels in the history of world literature. The novel has a strong autobiographical flavor and describes how Stephen, a young boy from Dublin, escapes the oppression and bullying of boarding school and talks about beauty and imagination on this poor island even abandoned by God, in an attempt to seek and discover a way of life or art in which the human spirit can be expressed freely without hindrance. He broke out of his cocoon and became Stephen, a young artist. His painful process of trying to get rid of the various influences that hindered his development - family constraints, religious traditions and narrow nationalistic sentiments, to pursue the true meaning of art and beauty, is actually a portrayal of the young Joyce's life and creative career from awakening to maturity. Joyce's subsequent masterpieces "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" can be regarded as the sequel to "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

In the first chapter of the novel, the young protagonist Stephen appears, but he cannot describe his world with complex vocabulary. He does not care about the causal relationship of the world around him, so the world in front of him presents a chaotic and unorganized situation during his experience. A few years later, Stephen became obsessed with religion. At this time, his thinking ability seemed to have greatly improved, and he was able to think about the world with clearer logical thinking and a more adult way of thinking.

This book is a collection of plays by the former Soviet drama master Bulgakov. It is the first large-scale translation and introduction in China. These works fully demonstrate the drama master's realistic concern and "magic realism" style. This book contains a total of seven plays: "The Turbins", "The House of Zoika", "The Purple Island", "Molière", "Ivan Vasilyevich", "Escape" and "Batumi".

"The Outsider" is one of Camus' famous and representative novels. It can be called one of the most epoch-making and famous novels in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. "The Outsider" has thus become one of the most classic characters and one of the most important keywords in Western literature and philosophy.

When the disaster is over, the home recovers, and the children grow up unknowingly. "Sons" begins with Wang Lung's death and tells the fate of Wang Lung's three sons. Wang Lao Er has a weak and lazy personality, loves women but is henpecked, and is a nominal landlord; Wang Lao Er was sent to work as a clerk in a grain store since he was a child. He knows how to plan and do business. He values ​​profits over righteousness and even keeps buying the land of his elder brother and younger brother, becoming a famous shopkeeper in the city. Originally, Wang Lung's third son, Wang Laohu, who was most looking forward to taking over the farming duties, broke with his father because of a maid and joined the army. Wang Laohu is cautious, does not approach women, and does not kill innocent people indiscriminately. He has experienced ups and downs in the warlords' melee, and has become a respected general...

Taking the bond between farmer Wang Long and the land as the main line, it depicts the survival picture of rural China and won the Pulitzer Prize, promoting the West to understand the real China.

"Wolf Smoke" takes the emotional entanglement of four brothers in the frozen soil as a clue. It is a unique story full of weirdness, bizarre kidnapping by bandits, rare beard legends, and the secret world of gamblers. It interprets the various lives of all kinds of middle- and lower-class people... Under the bayonet, more lives pass through the billowing smoke and accept the test of blood and fire...

Nick Adams is one of the male protagonists in many of Hemingway's short stories. This unforgettable character grew from a child to an adolescent, a soldier, a demobilized soldier, a writer and a father - a process that paralleled the events in Hemingway's own life and clearly emerged as the first of a long series of incarnations of himself in Hemingway's works. All the male protagonists who appeared in Hemingway's novels later had Nick's history. This book contains a total of 24 articles, which is the first time that they have been collected and published in a single volume.

David Copperfield (1850) is a semi-autobiographical novel that surpasses all other Dickens works. Through the unfortunate experience of an orphan, it paints a broad and colorful social picture, exposing the exploitation of working people by the bourgeoisie, the dark corruption of the judiciary, and the oppression of the people by the parliament. The novel still ends with everything being successful, showing the author's consistent thoughts.

Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. The heroine makes reasonable speculations and judgments based on superficial phenomena. Although careful readers may have various doubts from time to time, their thoughts will naturally develop with good observations. When the final result appears, it will be completely different from the superficial phenomena, resulting in an unexpected comedy effect. If you read it over again, you will find that the factors that lead to the inevitable result have already been seen between the lines. The plot of the novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the bad habit of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status in the British social trends at that time, and the ugly fashion of focusing on family status and ignoring women's feelings and human rights. The heroines in the novel all pursue equal communication and exchange of thoughts and feelings with men, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on independent observation, analysis, and freedom to choose men. In Britain at the time, this was almost a cry of defiance.

"Heidi" tells us the growth history of a little girl who has no father or mother and is dependent on her grandfather. It conveys to readers that no matter what difficulties they encounter, as long as they have a kind and pure heart and care for everyone around them to the best of their ability, life can also be colorful. In the author's writing, the picturesque natural scenery and simple and honest folk customs of the Alps are described. And Heidi seems to have become a child of nature and the embodiment of love. Wherever she goes, she is filled with light, hope and joy. And every reader can follow the author's footsteps, experience the child's feelings, perceive the child's life, and awaken the long-sleeping innocence in his heart through each touching story. Through reading this book, readers not only appreciate the healing natural scenery of the Alps, but also feel the optimistic and kind-hearted innocence of the protagonist.

"The Waves" is a novel written by British female writer Virginia Woolf in 1931. The author uses a very hazy and symbolic brushwork to describe the inner monologues of six characters: Bernard, Neville, Louise, Susan, Jenny and Rhoda from childhood to twilight. The six parallel streams of consciousness respectively express the six types of consciousness and the growth and experience of the "six eras of human beings".

"The Count of Monte Cristo (Set of Volumes 1 and 2)" is a masterpiece by the famous French popular historical novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Captain Dontes, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was commissioned to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party. He was framed by two despicable villains and a judge, and was sentenced to death. The inmate Father Faria taught him all kinds of knowledge, and before his death, he told him the secrets of a group of treasures buried on the island of Monte Cristo. After escaping from prison, Dontes found the treasure and became a millionaire. From then on, he was known as the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies...

This book is about a musical genius's struggle with himself, art and society, tracing the evolution of a German musician through many artistic struggles. The protagonist, John-Christophe, is an extremely sincere artist with a contradictory and uncoordinated character, full of passion for life but misunderstood by a hostile world. Edmund Coss called this book the noblest novel of the 20th century. This book is the masterpiece of the famous French writer Romain Rolland, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The young writer Tanabe returned to his hometown of Sapporo and once again saw the photos and paintings of Junko, his first love. Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Junko chose the most brutal and poignant way to commit suicide and fell in the ice and snow of Lake Akan; twenty years later, Tanabe, still lingering on his first love, determined to find out the truth about Junko's death. Why did she end her life in her most beautiful years? Who is her favorite person? After Tanabe visited several people who had a close relationship with Junko one by one, he gradually restored the true appearance of the girl hidden under the aura of the talented painter...

When her father died two months after passing the teaching qualification exam, Anne Ernault used this as an opportunity to tell the story of one man's life. Born at the turn of the century, he had to leave school early and worked first as a farmer, then in a factory, and later as the owner of a small grocery store in Normandy until his death in 1967. He exercised self-restraint, worked hard, was cautious in his words and deeds, and tried hard to maintain his position as a man in society, but he could never get rid of the fear of slipping back to the lower class. The author uses cold observation to reveal the shame that plagued her father throughout his life, as well as the alienation and pain between father and daughter caused by class restrictions. This biography of a father is also the story of an intellectual's daughter's betrayal-of her parents, her upbringing, the schism between affection and shame, between belonging and alienation.

In a small port city on the banks of the Paraná River, after an erroneous kidnapping operation, all parties involved were in a dilemma. The honorary consul who was innocently kidnapped, the guerrillas who were riding a tiger, the British doctor who was tortured by his conscience, the young wife who was hesitant between her lover and her husband, and the ruthless politicians... Religious doctrines, social ideals, and the bottom line of human nature. In this chaotic chaos, what choices will each of them make?

"The Sleepwalker" is the first novel by the Austrian writer Hermann Bloch, and is known as "the immortal masterpiece after "Ulysses"." The novel focuses on the turbulent thirty years in Europe from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, and creates the image of three generations of "sleepwalkers" in the form of a trilogy. The sleepwalker walks between waking and deep sleep, reality and dreams, which is a condensation of people's mental state in an era when social values ​​continue to collapse. Because of writing "The Sleepwalker", Bloch became a well-deserved literary giant in modern Europe.

Prince Myshkin, who suffers from epilepsy, returns to St. Petersburg from Switzerland. Unexpectedly, he is involved in a sinful transaction of money, power and sex. The upper class laughed at the Duke's naivety and gullibility, calling him an "idiot". Blackmail, betrayal, and murder surrounded him from then on. An idiot is like a mirror, seeing the truth behind everyone's disguise, and believes that "beauty can save the world." The beautiful woman who had been raised and sexually assaulted since she was a child made him obsessed and painful. He saw through her pure nature beneath her perverse appearance, and tried to save her with love, but it seemed to accelerate her self-destructive fate... "The Idiot" is a representative work of Dostoevsky's literary maturity. Before the perfection of modern psychology, the author used this literary work to prophetically explore the human unconscious. Those who are sick, crazy, and deviant reveal the inescapable chaos and irrationality of human thinking. The kind, docile idiot who loves all mankind is the embodiment of the author's philanthropic ideal. His tragedy may be the failure of an idealist, but the human pursuit of loving and being loved will always exist.

Is life a gorgeous adventure or a shackled skin? The protagonist Philip was born lame, his parents died early, and he was adopted by his uncle. A lack of care in his childhood resulted in his sensitive and shy personality. Philip's life path was not smooth. He traveled to many countries, tried various careers, and had several love affairs that ended in failure. After experiencing countless pain, he finally saw clearly the shackles placed on people by faith, love, friendship, worldliness, personality, etc., And his heart returned to peace. We have been asking about the meaning of life all our lives, and we have devoted our youth and even our lives to it. In fact, everything in life will eventually return to the ordinary, and ordinary is the true meaning of life.

"Beautiful Loser" came out in the mid-1960s and is known as Canada's first postmodern novel. It is the most provocative and unruly work of Cohen, who is a poet, writer, singer, painter, and monk. He is known as the "Byron of rock and roll." The novel is set in Montreal in the 1960s and outlines a love triangle: an unknown scholar dedicated to the study of Indian tribes, his wife Edith, the last descendant of a certain Indian tribe, and the scholar's homosexual lover F. The three are entwined in a tangled relationship linked by sexual compulsion and the legend of a seventeenth-century Indian saint named Katherine Tinkawiser. The novel sometimes talks in sleep and sometimes howls, expressing people's desire for order and the terror of spiritual loneliness. The work is weird and exaggerated, but also full of fun; the spirit of the 1960s embodied, such as free and novel sex, exploratory experiments such as revolution, are all the characters in the book experience, a kind of super hippie, which is regarded as a treasure by a generation of readers looking for spiritual leaders. This work breaks through the traditional form of the novel and provides the rather conservative literary world in Canada with the possibility of bohemianism. It is one of the most important novels in the Canadian literary world.

The story takes place in England at the end of the seventeenth century. The protagonist Guan Bolan is the son of a British senator and the heir to property and title. In order to achieve ulterior motives, after the death of his parents, the king ordered him to be sold to child traffickers. The child traffickers performed disfiguring surgery on the child's face, leaving an everlasting weird smile on his face. By chance, due to the needs of the British political arena, Guan Bolan regained the title of knight. However, he hated the aristocratic life. After the parliament denounced the crimes of the aristocracy, he returned to his companions. At this time, Deya was very ill and was dying. After seeing Guan Bolan for the last time, she passed away. Guan Bolan was so sad that after Deya passed away, he chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea...

"Gadfly" was written by the Irish female writer Egel Lillian Voynich. This book describes the life of Gadfly, an Italian revolutionary. The protagonist, Arthur, a naive and naive patriotic young man, was misunderstood by his revolutionary comrades, so he pretended to commit suicide by drowning in a river and fled to South America. Thirteen years later, when he returned to his hometown with a disability, the painful experience had tempered him into a determined revolutionary. He participated in the struggle against the Austrian rulers and fought for the independence and reunification of the country, and finally gave his life for it. The novel touches on the colorful themes of struggle, faith, and sacrifice.

"Asceticism" is the early famous work that established Mark Twain's status as a master of humor. The book narrates the author's prospecting experience in the western United States, and vividly describes the difficult gold mining life. Some of the exaggerated and funny stories fully reflect the author's talent and language style as a master of humor. The author uses a unique perspective and technique to describe the various aspects of American society in the mid-19th century: getting rich and squandering, pursuing and taking risks, ambition and desire, strength and ingenuity, hope, struggle, deception, failure, poverty, disillusionment... In the crowded golden dream, a dazzling comedy scene is presented.

The young Mizoguchi was born with a stammer. He was withdrawn since childhood and loved the Golden Temple. After his father's death, he followed his last wish and became a monk at the Kinkakuji Temple. During the war, he imagined that the Golden Temple would be destroyed by air raids, but the war never affected Kyoto. At school, he befriended Kashiwagi, who was lustful and had a disabled foot. After successive encounters with the death of his friend Tsurukawa and the indecency of the abbot, he finally burned the Golden Pavilion to the ground on a rainy night. Perhaps, there is a golden pavilion in everyone's heart. It contains desperately desired dreams and obsessions. These dreams and obsessions may also be a kind of beauty. Because I yearn for beauty, I want to destroy it.

The whole book describes the brothel life in the Shili Foreign Market in Shanghai, China in the late Qing Dynasty, covering the officialdom, business circles and the social aspects linked to them at that time. It has created a group of prostitutes, madams, clients and servants with different experiences and personalities. Its artistic structure interspersed with hidden flashes and its plain and natural description method have always been praised by people.

Jesse, who had just lost her love, was still immersed in sadness, but the copyright of her novel was bought by the publisher, which gave her a glimmer of hope. In order to concentrate on writing, Jesse moved to a historic Yule Cottage in Cornwall. An additional condition for renting a cabin is that the mysterious "aboriginal person" must take care of the cabin, a beautiful and proud black cat named "Perrin". Jesse, who originally wanted to write in seclusion, was accidentally involved in a dispute over the property rights of Yule's cabin, and thus had an intersection with two families competing for property rights. Through constant conflicts and misunderstandings, the secrets of Yule's cabin and the black cat Perrin are gradually revealed, a touching story about love, friendship, people and cats that lasts for five hundred years. In order to protect the cabin and Perrin, Jesse is determined to join in, but who will protect her own happiness?

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The best novel of the year by The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly. It was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize. Ali Smith's tender novel was shortlisted for the Orange Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Miles Garth attended a dinner party held in Greenwich. After the main meal, he suddenly went upstairs and locked himself in an empty bedroom. He refused to leave and refused to talk. He only communicated with the outside world by stuffing notes under the door. The incident sparked intense coverage in local media. People gathered outside the window just to find out the underlying reasons behind this behaviorism. Using rhetorical sophistication and a distinctive style, Ally Smith describes four distinct but occasionally intertwined lives, exploring the conflicting needs for separation and true connection while striking a balance between wit and compassion, the surreal and the profound and moving truth-a balance that only Ally Smith can achieve.

A deck of tarot cards that can predict the future! A transshipment book that can be read in infinite reincarnations! A magical and peerless book! Pavic depicts the experiences of two Serbian families who worked for Napoleonic France and anti-Napoleonic Austria respectively, representing Serbia's choice between the two forces of East and West. However, no matter which side they fight for, they are not fighting for the future of Serbia, but for things that have nothing to do with their own nation. At the same time as the Napoleonic Wars, Serbia's revolution to break away from Turkish rule was also in progress. This major event was consciously ignored by the author and was almost never mentioned in the book. This highlights the characters' indifference to their own nation and the absurdity of the war. It does not have an ending in the traditional sense. Everyone in the book is driven by the wheel of fate. While struggling and resisting, they have to accept the guidance of fate.

Markham Burrell climbed into the cockpit of the Vega Herring Gull and pulled up the control column. She will fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, something no one has ever done before. She is a free-range daughter of Africa, a legend chosen by God - archery, hunting, horse taming, growing up without control, and escaping from the lion's mouth. She loves horse racing and obtained a horse racing trainer's license at the age of 18; she loves flying and became a professional pilot at the age of 29 - she is a female pioneer in Africa entering these two fields. But she's not invulnerable. Two careless marriages, children abandoned in other countries, affairs with many men, love triangles entangled among friends... Countless secrets are circulated in Kenyan social circles. People said that she was a wild woman; for greater freedom, she turned from the horse farm to the sky. It was many years before I flew across the Atlantic Ocean. This voyage is like a portrayal of the first half of Burrell's life: wind and rain, the future is uncertain, and he moves forward resolutely with only a lonely courage. The love affairs in life have been settled, and Burrell took off. Before setting off, she stuffed a bottle of brandy into her back pocket.

The handsome and kind-hearted William works in a restaurant and dreams of becoming an actor; the confident and humorous JB tries to make a name for himself in the art world; the well-off Malcolm works in a famous architectural firm but has lost his original love for architecture; and there is the introverted and enigmatic Jude, a talented assistant prosecutor. After getting acquainted with a famous university in Massachusetts, they first came to New York to make a living. They were high-spirited but penniless and drifting. As he grew older and had a successful career, the friendship spanning more than thirty years faced the greatest challenge - the elusive Jude himself. He didn't want to talk about the shadow of his past with others, and chose to harm himself again and again in loneliness. With the help of his friends, Jude's inner defenses gradually disintegrated... "I know my life has meaning..." "A Small Life" is a hymn of brotherhood and an odyssey to explore the meaning of life. In friendship, what is damaged in us becomes whole again.

The protagonist d'Artagnan in "The Three Musketeers (Set Volume 1 and 2)" is a son of a provincial nobleman. After coming to Paris, he joined the musketeers of King Louis XIII and formed sworn friends with the other three musketeers. Queen Anna had an affair with British Prime Minister Buckingham, and Anna sent a diamond pendant to Buckingham; but Prime Minister Richelieu, who was an enemy of the queen, sent people to England to steal the two diamonds on the pendant, hoping to make the queen embarrassed at the ball...

The protagonist of this book, Bi Qiaolin, is an aristocratic young officer who serves in the Caucasus. He is energetic and intelligent, dissatisfied with the worldly reality, but unable to find a goal in life, and is spiritually empty. Therefore, he develops a cynical attitude towards life, causing trouble everywhere, and consumes his extraordinary intelligence and strong energy in half-true love games and adventurous actions. His selfishness and cruelty caused great misfortune to others, and he did not get real fun. Instead, he deepened his inner pain and despair.

I thought silently and wrote slowly. Seeing the camel team approaching under the winter sun, and hearing the slow and sweet ringing of bells, my childhood came back to me. Summer passed, autumn passed, winter came again, camel caravan came again, but childhood is gone and never returned. I will never do the stupid thing of imitating camel chewing under the winter sun. But how much I miss the scenery and people living in the south of Beijing in my childhood! I said to myself, write them down, let the actual childhood pass and the spiritual childhood last forever. In this way, I wrote a book "Old Things in the South of the City".

"The Decameron" (1348-1353) is the first realist masterpiece in the history of European literature. The work begins with a prologue, describing what happened to ten young men and women who took refuge in a villa in the countryside against the background of the plague in Florence. Each of the ten young people told a story every day, and a total of one hundred stories were told in ten days, hence the name "The Decameron". Each story is of different lengths and all-inclusive in content, and humanistic thought is the main thread running through the book.

Woolf's masterpiece, a fictional biography of a great androgynous soul, a feminist classic, and a shocking work about "The Second Sex" from a literary perspective. A strange book that influenced Marquez, Borges, and Janet Vincent. The story of "Orlando" begins in the Elizabethan era in the 16th century and ends in the "present day" when Woolf wrote in 1928, lasting four hundred years. Orlando was originally an aristocratic and beautiful boy, innocent and infatuated with poetry. He entered the court because he was favored by the queen. After King James ascends the throne, the Great Frost comes. Orlando encounters a Russian princess and falls in love, but suffers a double betrayal of literature and love. After a fire in Constantinople, Orlando became a woman and first mingled among the Gypsies, then returned to England and became a noble lady of high society. Entering the Victorian era, Orlando had no choice but to compromise with the spirit of the times in order to continue writing. At the end of the story, Orlando is already a prize-winning poet in the 20th century. She returns to the mansion that runs throughout the book and comes under the big oak tree to review her eternal pursuit of literature and poetry.

In Victorian England, there were over a million more women than men. These "leftover women" are unable to enter into marriage and struggle hard for their social roles and moral status. This book represents the lives of women from different social classes, truly depicts the late-Victorian scene, and reflects the early feminist movement.

The clouds merged in a silent silence. Suddenly, the lightning tore the sky with its sharp hands, the thunderbolt shook the earth with its thick hammer of sound, and the violent wind stirred up all space. Nature shows its vitality in this tense roar. After everything was violently and effectively washed away by the heavy rain, all the dirt was washed away, and everything showed its true color. The raging torrent made the Yangtze River, which had been silent in the past, become full of vitality again. However, it irresistibly burst its dams and overflowed...

Shi Guangrong, an old revolutionary who has spent his life in the military, hopes that his sons and daughters will continue their military ideals and inherit the glorious tradition of a military family. In the era of reform and opening up, the three sons and daughters adapt to the development of the times and have independent ideas. What kind of ideological sparks will the two generations create? Shi Lin was discharged from the army due to the national disarmament and changed his career; Shi Jing engaged in a dangerous career as a criminal police officer; Shi Hai pretended to be ill and wanted to retire from the army, and he wanted to engage in literary creation... Things kept happening in the old Shi family, and conflicts between parents and children often appeared; the "one-word" Shi Guangrong and the "hypocritical" Chu Qin also always quarreled over their children's affairs, and amidst the conflicts and quarrels, the family was surrounded by a strong family affection.

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

Decadent Dazai, run away with passion! A collection of passionate and bright novels by Osamu Dazai, a master of "rogue" literature. The selected chapters in this book subvert Dazai Osamu's decadent image of "I'm sorry for being a human being". It contains 6 short and medium-length stories in his youthful and passionate style, which are full of Dazai Osamu's enthusiasm and positive attitude towards life and being a human being. These works also fully demonstrate the youthful, persistent and egoistic side of Dazai Osamu, the "original chuunibyou".

"Dunhuang" is one of the important historical novels based on China created by the Japanese literary giant Yasushi Inoue. It has won the Mainichi Art Award. The numerous scriptures in the Mogao Grottoes are now a treasure that is admired by the world, but who buried these scriptures and why, and how many mysteries are there behind the unnamed scripture collector? Inoue Yasushi used his earth-shattering "Dunhuang" to guide people to rush to that magical land. During the Tiansheng reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, scholar Zhao Xingde went to Beijing to take the exam, but missed the exam because of sleepiness. He was lost and wandering around, and accidentally got a piece of Xixia cloth that he had never seen before. The breath of the Western Region instantly changed Zhao Xingde's fate, and also left a thousand-year-old mystery for future generations...

The Storytelling Club of the Victorian Era, with exquisite translations by the famous translator Mei Shaowu, is like a refreshing English garden. Reading them is like breathing in fresh oxygen. This book contains seven Trollope novels and short stories, including "The Flower Dog Tavern", "Turkish Bath", "A Trip to Panama", and "The Wayward Kechen Girl". Two are stories about writers and editors, and the remaining five are stories of love and marriage. "The Wayward Keqin Girl" is one of the most famous novellas, and the whole novel is full of strong local color. The story revolves around the marriage of a wayward girl in the Austrian mountains. She either marries a wealthy and old hotel owner, or partners with a young and handsome poor coachman. Through a series of psychological struggles and extraordinary actions, her reason overwhelms her willfulness, and she finally makes a major decision.

"Biography of Flowers on the Sea" is a famous novel in the late Qing Dynasty. It is the most famous novel in Wu dialect and the first dialect novel in China. Also known as "The Brothel Treasure Guide" and "The Romance of the Brothel on the Sea", there are 64 chapters. The main content of this novel is about the brothel life in the Shili Foreign Market in Shanghai, China in the late Qing Dynasty, involving the officialdom, business circles and the social aspects linked to them at that time.