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Golding, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is another masterpiece that explores the darkness of human nature after "Lord of the Flies". The subject matter of the novel focuses on primitive humans, using the perspective of prehistoric Neanderthals to witness the conflict between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens - a profound reflection on the inheritance of human civilization. Nobel Prize winner William Golding considers his most successful work to be even more profound in theme than "Lord of the Flies". The novel tells the story of the arrival of spring, when a small group of primitive Neanderthals returned to their familiar habitat as in previous years. But this year, strange things happened - mysterious sounds and smells, unexplainable acts of violence, and looming, unimaginable creatures hiding behind the leaves. These Neanderthals, their life or death was uncertain, their world hung in the balance. Through their eyes, the story explores the emergence of a new race - ourselves, Homo sapiens - and the catastrophe it brings to ancient races as its dominance continues to strengthen. At the end of the novel, Homo sapiens snatched away a Neanderthal baby, leaving a glimmer of hope that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens once thrived together. The great thing about "The Heirs" is that Golding created a language to express Neanderthals, leading readers to see everything from a Neanderthal perspective, enter the interior of a life, and experience its various senses. At the same time, Golding uses plain, cold and simple language to describe the most solemn cruelty and pain in the world. The progress of human civilization has to pay such a cruel, bloody and moral degradation price.

Mrs. Curran, who lives alone in South Africa, was diagnosed with cancer and her life began to countdown. She wrote a letter to her daughter in the United States, telling her about the life she was going through and everything in her heart. She was talking like she was mumbling to herself. As a white intellectual woman, she was protected by the political system, but she witnessed with her own eyes the tragedies suffered by those around her due to the apartheid system. Faced with her own approaching death and the death of others caused by the sins of the system, she fell into deep powerlessness, anger, sadness and shame... In telling her daughter, she revealed another self, and also vented without reservation her questioning, spurring and reflection on herself and this era. Quotes from the book: "I don't know what freedom is, yet I know what unfreedom is." "I sometimes feel angry at people who have dirty hands - you have seen, a shameful anger, as stupid as the person who caused it - but I admit that, in a sense, they live in me too. So, when I am angry Curse them to death, and I wish death to myself. In the name of dignity. A dignity in an honest sense. "For all those who have been insulted and harmed, who have been trampled upon and ridiculed."

This book includes sixteen independent short stories. These stories do not have complicated and bizarre plots, nor the climaxes of traditional novels, but only fragments of life and inner monologues interspersed in these fragments. In "Death in the Forest" and "Death of a Brother", which have a heavy color of death, death is no longer the end of life, but a retrospective of the starting point of life; in "She Was There - She Was Taking a Bath" and "Mountain Dweller", people who are squeezed by the living environment and have no chance to breathe can finally see their fate clearly and realize the true meaning of life. The author Sherwood Anderson is one of the first American writers to express the subconscious. To a certain extent, he is a psychological novelist. He was familiar with and learned from Freud's psychoanalytic theory, and was even called "the American Freud" by some critics. Although this book does not analyze the psychology of the characters, readers can interpret the characters' hearts through the detailed descriptions in the book, deeply unearth the hidden and suppressed desires, pain, helplessness and struggles behind these stories, and start a journey of exploration of the characters' inner world.

"Babylon" centers on two middle-class couples living in an apartment in the suburbs of Paris, telling the story of a murder caused by a "spring party". The sixty-two-year-old heroine reconstructs the story of a murder case involving a neighbor and his wife. The motivation is difficult to fully explain, but we seem to be able to detect the danger of collapse hidden under the ordinary life, and can feel the pessimistic and solemn atmosphere contained in the entangled intimate relationship. Under the appearance of a crime novel, Yasmina Reza uses her unique humor and sensitivity to unfold absurd dramas about daily trivialities, husband-wife relationships, and social life, showing the loneliness of losing belonging in a complicated world. He has won the Renaudot Literature Prize and the Goncourt Prize for Secondary School Students.

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.

The original novel of the animated film "Arrietty the Borrower" produced by Hayao Miyazaki won the Carnegie Children's Literature Award and was selected as one of the "Top Ten Children's Book Classics in the Past Seventy Years". There has never been a book about villains that has received as many enthusiastic praises as "The Borrower". It has almost become a milestone in villain literature. Why can't I find the gadget that is clearly placed on the table? Maybe it was "borrowed" by the villain under the floor. These little people used matchboxes as chests of drawers, blotting paper as carpets, and small tureens as bathtubs. The leftover scraps from people's meals were enough to last them a long time... But they had to be careful not to be discovered, otherwise they would have to move. By the way, they are still a family. There is father Pod, mother Homily, and daughter Arrietty. They live in a quiet old house in the English countryside. Until one day, a strange boy came, and a wonderful journey began.

"Sleeping Beauty" is a stunning masterpiece by Nobel Prize-winning writer Kawabata Yasunari, which shows Kawabata Yasunari's unique and weird spiritual world. "An old man Eguchi who was nearly seventy years old went to a secret inn to spend the night, while the young beauty here took medicine and fell into a coma without knowing anything..." The old man Eguchi in Kawabata Yasunari's works reveals a sense of terror of approaching death, a sense of sadness for the loss of youth, and at the same time mixed with a sense of regret for his own immoral behavior. This theme of indulgence, temptation and atonement is expressed in a surreal and grotesque way. The description of the old man's treatment of Sleeping Beauty is not rough, but quietly bursts out the original desire and strength of life. It can be said that this is the main theme of life and also the variations of life.

The 120th anniversary commemorative edition of Hemingway's birth; the continuation and deepening of "Death in the Afternoon"; an excellent book that deeply understands Hemingway's philosophy of life and ultimate pursuit, and feels Hemingway's unique charm up close; it contains many precious historical images and vividly reproduces the art of bullfighting written by Hemingway. Bullfighting was Hemingway's lifelong passion, and Spain was his passionate country. In 1959, he went to Spain again. After returning to China, the manuscript he submitted in response to the invitation of "Life" magazine was reasonably deleted by the editor, and the essence was retained. Therefore, after nearly thirty years, he had this second "bullfighting book" "Dangerous Summer" after "Death in the Afternoon". This is a book about life and death written by an energetic man in his sixties. This man had reason to worry that he had only a few years left to live, so he returned to Spain, where he had lived in his passionate youth, and reexperienced the art of bullfighting that can give people a "sense of immortality." Finally, he left us a record of understanding life and understanding life and death.

Summary of "Impermanence": These are four stories that happened in Huangshan. The first story, a plausible martial arts revenge story, explains the swordsmanship and people, mysterious and philosophical; the second story, tells the distortion of human nature under the impact of the commodity economy, and the color and space behind the diverse world, beautiful and meaningful; the third story, a Buddhist koan, narrates the process of a woman's meditation and enlightenment, ethereal and quiet; the fourth story, describes beauty and life, reality and fantasy, life and death, erratic and uncertain. The four stories, each in its own chapter, seem to be connected by some kind of uncertain reincarnation. When combined together, they blur the concept of time and space and reveal the meaning and questions of life.

This is a novel and a history, more like a movie. From Venice, Rome, to Florence, and back to Venice, you follow the beautiful man Marco, penetrate into every pore of the Renaissance era, and be a Renaissance man for a day. There's roasted guinea chicken served on a silver platter decorated with the Medici coat of arms, Pecorino goat cheese, and bite-sized pastries made of almond flour and wrapped in cream. There are also studios of artists in the center of Florence in the 16th century, major banks all over Europe, and a dazzling array of shops filled with foreign goods. Not only that, the love drama between a handsome man and an elegant geisha, the power struggle between ambitious young people, and the complex relationships between the great powers at that time are all presented in this "Renaissance Novel" series. Marco, who was dismissed from his job, traveled to Florence to adjust his mood. He happened to meet Olympia, who had used him for espionage, and "fell in love" with her again. The "Flower Capital", once governed by the benevolent Medici family, has now become a puppet capital - the Holy Roman Emperor secretly controlled Alessandro, the illegitimate son of the Medici family, to rule dictatorially. Alessandro also coveted the sister of Lorenzino, who also belonged to the Medici family. This made Lorenzino, who was already rebellious and self-blame, determined to kill Alessandro by using the secret passage between the Medici Palace and his home, and fled to Venice that night. Marco and Olympia were also involved in the quagmire of internal strife within the Medici family, and they decided to leave Florence for Rome.

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...

The American young man Barnes suffered a spinal injury during the World War and lost his sexual ability. After the war, when he was working as a reporter in Paris, he fell in love with the British Mrs. Ashley. She pursued pleasure blindly, while he could only drink to drown his sorrows. The two went to Pamplona, ​​Spain, with a group of male and female friends to participate in the bullfighting festival in pursuit of spiritual stimulation. The lady rejected the pursuit of the Jewish young man Cohen, but fell in love with the 19-year-old bullfighter Romero. However, after getting along for a period of time, due to the huge age gap between the two parties, and Mrs. Ashley could not bear to ruin the future of the innocent young man, the relationship ended sadly. Madame eventually returned to Barnes, although both parties knew that they could never truly be together. "The Sun Also Rises" is a novel by Hemingway, and Hemingway became the spokesperson of the "Lost Generation".

One of Roth's most famous series of works, the "American Trilogy", was published in 1997. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year and was selected into the "100 Best English Novels" sponsored by Time magazine. His sharp words, profound thoughts and surging passion are rare and precious in today's world literary world. Seymour Lvov is blond and nicknamed "The Swede". As an athletic figure on his high school campus, he was a magnet for men, women and children throughout the community. After graduating from college, he inherited the family business in a regular manner, became an entrepreneur with a prosperous family, and married a New Jersey beauty pageant girl. After World War I, the U. S. Economy rose rapidly and faced no disadvantages. Semore was deeply obsessed with the independent new continent at his feet, and wanted to weave his "American Dream" with hard-working hands. However, his beloved daughter Mei Li became a radical anti-war activist at the age of 16 and used bombs to take four innocent lives one after another. The seemingly perfect Lvov family has since fallen into a nightmare from which they can never escape.

Hardy's most outstanding work and one of the greatest works of English literature. The novel takes the heroine Tess's experience as the main line, describing the conflict between the beautiful poetic image and the surrounding gloomy reality, and vividly and concretely describes the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy after capitalism invaded the British countryside at the end of the 19th century and the painful process of individual farmers heading towards poverty and bankruptcy. At the same time, Hardy also showed strong pessimism in his works.

This article starts from the perspective of the Chinese world, based on Said's concept of "journey of theory", and presents the situation of Said's translation, dissemination and reception in Taiwan at the beginning of this century from the perspective of translators, scholars and cultural production. It reflects to a considerable extent the situation in which Said's works first entered the Chinese world and its significance in cultural history. The article reviews some of Said's important concepts, such as theoretical travel, representation, representation, beginning, anti-essentialism, secular criticism, affiliation and identification, worldliness, hybridity, culture and imperialism, geography, resistance, postcolonialism, anti-postmodernism, criticism, intellectuals, etc., And attempts to connect these concepts with Chinese literature and cultural studies.

Remarque is a top novelist of the 20th century, a master highly respected by Zweig, Günter Grass, Lin Yutang, Ba Jin, Wang Shuo, Mu Xin, Wang Xiaobo, Zhou Guoping and others. His life spanned from a small German town to the battlefield on the Western Front, from the Swiss countryside to the streets of Paris, from Hollywood to Manhattan; his works describe youth during war, love in troubled times, and wandering in the city... Witnessing half a century of cruelty and romance, his stories are the shadow of his life. The collection of Remarque's works series includes three works with different styles created by Remarque at different stages. "All Quiet on the Western Front" was created based on Remarque's personal experience. Its simple and powerful words shocked millions of readers, sold well all over the world, and became a classic that has influenced generations of people. He was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for this book. "Lisbon Nights" is the last work published by Remarque during his lifetime. It is written with skillful writing and uses crazy love to fight against the crazy times. "The Promised Land" is Remarque's posthumous work. It is written like prose and depicts the life of a group of displaced people in New York. As Zweig said: "You will be conquered by his works without persuasion; without exaggeration, he will shock your heart."

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, probably written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This epistolary novel was Jane Austen's early completed work, but she never submitted it for publication. It describes the widow Lady Susan's plan to find a new husband for herself and her decision to marry off her daughter as well. The Watsons is an unfinished novel written by Jane Austen. She began writing the work around 1804 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. The work has 5 chapters. The Watsons is the story of a widowed pastor and his four daughters. Sanditon, also known as Sandand Sandition, is a work that Jane Austen began writing in 1817, but the author did not complete it, and the full text of the book was not published until 1925. It is said that Austen's original intention was to tell the story of a series of profound social changes taking place on the southern coast of Sussex, England, through the eyes of the heroine Charlotte Heywood.

At the beginning of his accession to the throne, the young emperor Seth ambitiously tried to force modernization and Westernization in this primitive tribal country; at the same time, Basil, a daydream king who was ridiculed by the British upper class, came to this magical black land by accident. He was spotted by the emperor and became the minister of modernization without hesitation, becoming the standard-bearer of "progress". This pair of Don Quixote and Sancho, who are confused in time and space, staged a ridiculous play that is both ironic and ridiculous. The novel is full of hilarious plots and characters, which are both humorous and vivid. On the other hand, humor is closely followed by irony and tragedy. The characters in the novel are not treated as cartoons. They live in a wild world without having to bear any consequences for their actions. Fate is cruel, and the author's humor does nothing to hide it. As a result, readers can't help but feel their scalp numb while laughing, and this is where the black humor of "Black Mischief" lies. At the same time, for today's readers who are accustomed to romanticizing the customs and customs of all backward areas, this work written in the first half of the twentieth century can be regarded as an excellent antidote: wilderness does not mean simplicity, and ignorance does not mean innocence.

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.

"Just like every madman thinks he is God, each of us thinks he is mortal." The prison version of "The Truman Show" is a Kafkaesque absurd story in which innocent people become the protagonists of farce, trapped in the prison of time, waiting for their belated death. "Invitation to the Beheading" is the masterpiece of Nabokov's novels, which is recognized as the master of novels in the 20th century. It is like a prison version of "The Truman Show". The protagonist Cincinnatus was sentenced to death. While waiting in prison for the execution date to be finalized, he endured the pain of impending death while involuntarily becoming the protagonist of a farce. The warden, fellow prisoners, guards, executioners, relatives, and lovers all seem real but false. The cell, the fortress, and the execution square are actually props for the performance. Death is delayed, and if there is any hope, it seems that there is no hope. The bizarre and comical scenes in the novel are dizzying. It shows the illusion of an irrational world, but behind the absurdity lies a spine-chilling dark daily routine.

Sylvia Chang directs the film of the same name, produced by famous director Ang Lee and starring Rene Liu. Among Yan Geling's many works, short stories and short stories are an extremely important part. "Girl Xiaoyu" collects 12 wonderful "stories across the sea" created by Yan Geling: "Girl Xiaoyu", "Red Luoqun", "Haina" "The Edge", "Charlie the Robber and Me", "The Kite Song", "The Love Affair of the Insomniac", "Wu Chuan is a Yellow Girl", "Jasmine's Last Day", "The Riddle in Las Vegas", "The Lime Bird", "The Landlady" and "The Whisperer". The main chapter "Girl Xiaoyu" tells the story of Jiang Wei and his girlfriend Xiaoyu, who traveled thousands of miles from mainland China to New York. Unable to obtain residency, Xiaoyu worked as an illegal worker in Chinatown. Jiang Wei also came to the United States as a student and worked part-time. In order to get rid of the difficult life, he was forced to arrange a fake marriage for Xiaoyu with Mario, an Italian man in his 60s, hoping to get her a green card.

This book collects 12 short stories and short stories by Dickens. Dickens's short stories and novellas, like his novels, embody the great writer's unique creative ideas and aesthetic pursuit of brown literary attainments. At the same time, they profoundly reflect the contradictions of real society and vigorously promote the humanitarian ideas he advocated throughout his life. In terms of creative skills, short stories pay more attention to the flexibility of form and the interest of plot, which are reflected in "A Poor Man Talks about Patent Rights" and so on.

This book tells the story of how a bishop rose from obscurity, lurked at the bottom, and was suppressed by others for more than ten years. When everyone saw that he was about to die and relaxed their vigilance and showed sympathy and pity, he gradually succeeded in climbing to the position of bishop by means of tricks; and how he turned around and attacked at the most hopeless moment.

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The novel "Sha Ning" begins when the protagonist Shan Ning returns to his hometown and ends when he leaves by train. It writes about what he did during that time in his hometown. Shan Ning left home when he was young, and his character was developed outside the family. He was as free as "a tree in the wilderness." He has an indifferent attitude towards everything and hates almost everyone around him. He spent the night with the farmer's granddaughter, and took possession of the beautiful female teacher Karlsavina on a boat on the river on a moonlit night. He even had impulses for his sister Lida; he beat the officer Zarudin and shattered the fantasy of the Jewish young Solovychik, which directly led to the relationship between these two people. He committed suicide; he hated almost everyone around him, even his own relatives, and was always indifferent to the death of acquaintances, thinking that there was another fool missing in the world; he was tall, strong, smart and flexible, and could do whatever he wanted. At the same time, he was lonely, bored, and wandering. This image appeared in an era when Russian intellectuals generally felt lost and depressed, and was therefore regarded as a symbol of the overall "degeneration" of the Russian cultural elite.

"The French Harbor" comes from the author of the immortal literary classic "Butterfly Dream" and is one of her three masterpieces. Literary giants Jin Yong and Stephen King, and film master Hitchcock are all her loyal readers. Winner of the National Book Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Master Award, and the Order of the British Empire. The author who has been loved by British readers for a century has been selected into the BBC's "Reading of the Century" and "Inspiring the Century" top 100 lists. In fact, be an extremely simple person, dare to love and hate, and you will be happy. In one month, Dona will turn 30, but she is tired of everything around her. This is a life crisis that she has to face alone. The thought of escaping life drove her to a manor in the countryside. The tranquil harbor soothes her nerves, until the intrusion of a sailing ship and French pirates inspires a passion deep within her. She risked her life and plunged into this once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

Huang Yanwu woke up and stretched. This was a really good sleep. He strolled to the yard and took a deep breath in front of the rose flowers that were blooming happily. The fragrance of rose flowers has a refreshing and pleasant effect on the brain and can help him get rid of the tiredness after sleep quickly. At this time, there was a knock on the door. Huang Yan opened the door. It was a stranger in his twenties. The visitor's eyes were bright and he asked, "Is the dragon slayer at home?" Huang Yan said, "I am." The visitor raised his hands and said, "I've heard about his name for a long time, so I came here to visit." Huang Yan smiled slightly and said, "Please come in." Huang Yan is a well-known local chess player. He is fierce and aggressive in chess, and often kills the opponent's big dragon, so he is known as the "dragon slayer".

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.

As the large Jiefang brand car drove slowly, she appeared in front of the neighbors. Over the past few days, residents in the Nujiang Square area have become accustomed to seeing those arrogant Jiefang vehicles or other vehicles swaggering through the streets and alleys. When they see those vehicles, the residents no longer hide at home and peek around like they did at first, but dare to stand on the street and watch the excitement as if they were welcoming. Those who promoted Mao Zedong Thought on the bus were sometimes workers, sometimes farmers, sometimes students, but no matter who they were, they all held slogans, waved colorful flags, shouted slogans, and held red-tasseled guns or large knives or short daggers or long wooden sticks, majestic and murderous.

For a mother, life is a series of choices. Hold on... Let go... Forget... Forgive... Which path will you choose? For 18 years, Judy Farrard put the needs of her children before herself. Her twin children, Mia and Zach, are a pair of well-behaved and happy teenagers. When Lexie moves into their small, tight-knit community, no one welcomes her more than Jude. Lexie was an adopted daughter with a dark past. She quickly became Mia's best friend. Next, Zach falls in love with Lexi, and the three of them become inseparable. Judy did everything she could to get her children into college and out of danger. This used to be a piece of cake until my senior year of high school. She was suddenly at a loss. Nothing was safe anymore; she worried about her children every time they left the house. One summer night, her fears came true. One choice will change the trajectory of their lives. In an instant, the Farad family would be torn apart, and Lexi would lose everything. In the years that follow, each must face the consequences of that night and either find a way to forget... Or find the courage to forgive. The author vividly tells an intricate and touching story, raising profound questions about motherhood, personality, love, and forgiveness. This is a novel that leans brightly and is heartbreaking, capable of eliciting both the overwhelming grief of loss and the astonishing power of hope. About the longing for family, about the resilience of the human heart, and the courage to forgive a loved one, Kristen Hannah does her best to tell an unforgettable story.

A global phenomenon-level bestseller, a cautionary fable that has sparked heated discussions at home and abroad. "Every word in this book has truly happened." The female version of "1984" has the highest demand for the Nobel Prize; the American drama of the same name defeated "Game of Thrones" and won 5 Emmy Awards. It has been announced that it has been renewed for a fourth season. The sequel to the novel "Testimony" won the 2019 Booker Prize. It is the most influential dystopian novel masterpiece by "Queen of Canadian Literature" Margaret Atwood. Offred is a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She was one of the few fertile women in the country and was assigned to the families of commanders who had no offspring to help them give birth to children. Like other women in this country, she had no freedom of movement and was deprived of property, the right to work, and the right to read. Except for some special days, the maids are only allowed to go shopping together once a day, and their every move is monitored by "eyes". What's worse is that in this crazy world, humans not only have to face problems such as ecological deterioration and economic crisis, but also fall into a chaotic situation of mutual hostility, class differentiation, and wanton killing. Women are not the only victims of oppression in this catastrophe. Everyone is a victim in this seemingly absurd world.

About youth, about the sexual revolution, about life, "To love or not to love is your freedom, and pain and numbness are my footnotes." This is the best work of the talented British novelist Martin Amis in the past twenty years. This book describes the summer of 1970, when Keith, a 20-year-old nerd, a literature college student, and his friends were on vacation in a castle in Italy. At this time, when the sexual revolution was raging and in full swing, at this unprecedented historical moment, sex filled everyone's mind. Girls behaved like boys, and boys behaved like themselves. Keith dealt with three women, and his friends were also caught up in it. In the mud of chaos, everyone was intoxicated, with their true nature revealed but unresolved, and in unbearable pain. However, they soon discovered a very disturbing fact, that is, in the changes of social order, there will always be a threshold of purification, and this is the "pregnant widow" once described by the great Russian thinker Alexander Herzen - a long night of chaos and loneliness between the death of one and the birth of another. At this moment, Keith is struggling and being baptized... "The Pregnant Widow" is considered "Amis's best work in the past twenty years" because it evokes the not-innocent youth and the sting of the sexual revolution. This atypical "romantic comedy" is also a burning echo of the British sexual revolution and feminist movement in the Italian countryside.

"Notes from the House of the Dead" is one of Dostoevsky's most important and influential works published during the Russian serfdom reform period. Based on his own personal experience, the author described his experiences during hard labor in a calm and objective style in "Notes from the House of the Dead". The book is composed of independent chapters such as memories, essays, close-ups, and stories. Due to its ingenious structure, it is interwoven into a vivid picture of prison life in Tsarist Russia and outlines the unique personalities of various characters. The whole book is composed of independent chapters such as memories, essays, close-ups, and stories. It is cleverly structured and interwoven into a vivid picture of prison life in Tsarist Russia. The work truly reproduces the barbaric, brutal and extremely horrific scenes of Tsarist Russia's slave labor prisons.

When people who crave meaning suddenly face a meaningless world, they first show two mentalities. Resigned to meaninglessness: decadence. Impassioned resistance to futility: tragic. There is also a third state of mind: boredom. In the 19th century, the Russian aristocratic elite intellectuals had manors and serfs at home. They lived a comfortable life and were well educated. Under the high-pressure rule, social consciousness was first enlightened. They were full of enthusiasm, dissatisfied with reality, and eager to make a difference. However, they repeatedly encountered obstacles and were unable to change the class status quo, and became painful, depressed, cynical, and contemptuous of all moral norms in life. This boredom of unwillingness to accept and resist is reflected in Russian literature, which is the emergence of a series of "superfluous people" images. Always looking for meaning, but never getting it. They are not heinous and evil people, they are even honest and upright people. Any efforts you make will bring harm to others. In the end, his soul was gradually corroded by this unfathomable loss, and he became even more zombie-like. But this mentality of hating life and admiring death seems to be very close to the current "little mourning". There are such "superfluous people" in every era. Because they can't find the meaning of life, they feel that they are excluded by the era and are a dispensable person. Following Pushkin's Onegin and Lermontov's Pycholin, they are an unavoidable image of a "superfluous man" that condenses the spirit of an entire era in Russia. Lermontov's "The Superfluous Man" is the beginning of Russian social psychological novels. It is a travelogue, a diary, a love adventure and a confession.

One of the most famous series of works "American Trilogy" by Philip Roth, the first American literary figure. It won the English Commonwealth Ambassador's Book Award the same year it was published in 1998, and was shortlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award in 2000. A bitter and slightly humorous story that reproduces the destruction of post-World War II idealism due to selfishness, hypocrisy and betrayal. Ella Ringgold lost her mother when she was young, dropped out of school at an early age, and could only hang out at the bottom of society for a long time. During World War II, he studied hard on his own, and with the help of opportunities, he became a well-known radio actor. He married the famous actress Eve Fleming, but soon after their marriage, Eve's daughter from her previous husband became unruly and willful, bringing their marriage to the edge of breakdown. At this time, McCarthyism was prevalent in the United States, and Ella, who had lofty political ambitions, was included in the political blacklist. Frustrated by her marital problems, Eve is exploited by her political opponents and publishes a memoir that slanders Ella as a Soviet spy, bringing fatal destruction to Ella.

With the deepening of reform and social transformation, the real world is becoming more and more market-oriented. We increasingly believe in market values. It seems that the market holds the golden key to prosperity and freedom. Market values ​​dominate all areas of social life and citizen life. So, are there things that money shouldn't buy? Are there priceless treasures and social rules in this world and our lives that cannot be measured by money? American scholar Michael Sandel has made a very valuable and in-depth discussion on this in his book "What Money Can't Buy". This magazine has excerpted some wonderful chapters for the readers' enjoyment. Introduction Market and Public Good There are some things that money cannot buy, but nowadays, there are not many such things. Today, almost everything is up for grabs.

"The Gift" is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece from the early years of the novel master Nabokov. It depicts the life of the exiled young man Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev in Berlin from 1926 to 1929, as well as the rapid expansion of his literary talent. First he wrote a volume of exquisite, retrospective poetry that attracted little attention; then a brilliant, candid biography of a revered historical figure; and finally, he came up with the idea for The Gift itself. In addition to successfully creating an image of an ambitious young artist, Nabokov provided us with a capital and a continent in The Gift, namely Berlin and Eurasia. The novel is as crowded, busy and ever-changing as a city street, and as vast and diverse as the largest land mass. It shuttles between reality and fiction and contains a lot of thoughts on the current situation of Russian literature and society.

"I Am My God (Set Volume 1 and 2)" is a novel that makes people feel extremely heavy after reading it. The whole book is filled with heroic spirit and compassion, and tells the rough life of two generations of the Ulitugula family under the tremendous historical changes. The novel explains the connection and confrontation between life and emotion, sin and redemption, war and peace, existence and death in a touching style.

"The Stranger" is Camus' famous work, a masterpiece of existential literature, and a representative work of absurd novels. The novel tells the story of an ordinary young employee who lives numbly in aimless inertia all day long. One day he went to the beach for vacation, got involved in a conflict, and committed a murder. Because "he did not shed tears at his mother's funeral", he was sentenced to death by the court in the name of "the French people". The novel elaborates on an important proposition of existentialism: the absurdity and strangeness of human society lead to individual despair and emptiness.

"Old Things in the South of the City" is Lin Haiyin's classic autobiographical novel. The novel uses delicate and straightforward writing to watch the joys and sorrows of the adult world through Yingzi's childish eyes. The light sadness and deep lovesickness have infected generations of readers. This is not only a portrayal of the author's childhood life, but also a portrait of the common life and folk customs of Beijing at that time. The book was selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly, and was included in the recommended books for the new Chinese language curriculum standards of the Ministry of Education. Its chapters have been selected into Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools many times, and have been translated into Japanese, English, German, French, Italian and other languages.

Michelle is a loose, entangled and lazy young writer. At the age of thirty, he bought a house with difficulty and renovated it carefully, following the same path as his parents who were extremely contemptuous when he was young. The pressure of huge mortgage loans, unstable income, differences with his family and the departure of his girlfriend all hit Michelle hard, and his life began to become fragmented. A job opportunity as a screenwriter for a documentary brought a turn to Michelle's life. After moving out of her parents' house to live alone, her relationship with her family also eased. At this time, the unexpected appearance of the young and beautiful ballerina Cleo brought vitality to Michelle's life, and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction...

Kuzuno, a mountain village, is famous for its sword forging, and the swords it makes are said to be able to "kill ghosts." Swordsmiths believe in the god of fire, and the shrine maiden "Saihime" who communicates with the god of fire is regarded as an existence equal to the god. Miko Morimotoji adopted two homeless siblings, Jinta and Suzune, and brought them to Kuzuno to live with herself and her daughter Shirayuki. The three children soon became close friends. Jinta practiced swordsmanship diligently and became a shrine maiden; Suzune was half-human and half-demon, but lived peacefully under the kindness of the villagers; Shirayuki inherited the post of Saihime and changed her name to Byakuya. One day, two ghosts suddenly attacked the village, and Jinta went to fight them. Everyone is worried that the ghost is here to take Saihime's life, but the ghost predicts that "ghosts" will be born in Kuzuno one hundred and seventy years later, and they are here to find the key figure in the prophecy - Suzune. From Edo to Heisei, a grand picture spanning 170 years unfolds.

The scholar Bai Jie traveled to various feudal states and collected monster legends. During the journey, he encounters three strange people: Youchi is a charming and well-mannered person, known as the "trickster"; Ayin, a geisha who is charming and graceful, is good at dancing with long sleeves and is good at operating puppets; Zhiping is a pirate who is sophisticated and good at disguise. Bai Jie began to get involved in a series of strange and ghostly things. He was vaguely aware that these strange things were closely related to his three new friends. "Hyakumonogatari" is the first volume of Kyogoku Natsuhiko's classic "Hyakumonogatari Series". The text is elegant, tactful, delicate and enchanting. It seems to be about monsters and gods, but in fact it is about ghosts and ghosts. It was well received as soon as it was released. The series of works "Hundred Stories in Back Alleys" and "Hundred Stories in Back Alleys" were published one after another and became classics. For "Hundred Stories in Back Alleys", they won the Naoki Prize, Japan's Popular Literature Award.

Red London - the balanced world protected by magic; Gray London - the cruel ordinary world; White London - the representative of power and absolute control; Black London - the source of magic destroyed by the plague and isolated from the world. Hundreds of years ago, the door to and from the world in London was opened, and the world was balanced and stable. But the good times didn't last long. Humanity's thirst for power, endless demand for magic, and expansion of desires led to the fall of Black London, and the magic disappeared. People closed the door to travel and stayed away, assigning the few remaining "travelers" selected by magic to travel through it and exchange information through letters. After bidding farewell to Kyle, the female snitch Laila went to sea alone and boarded the privateer ship "Night Peak". However, she accidentally met the mysterious captain Alucard who had a close relationship with the royal family. Unexpected events brought Laila into the royal family again. On the other side, Kyle, who shared his life with Lai, was trapped in the royal capital. His guilt towards Lai, the blame of the king and queen, and the anger in his heart made him breathless. At this time, a magical event held in Red London brought everyone together again after a long separation. Everyone was immersed in the joy and sorrow of reunion, but no one discovered that the spies in White London had quietly sneaked into Red London with evil intentions...

"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.

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In 622 AD, Emperor Heraclius's Eastern Roman army won a complete victory in the Third Battle of Issus. This eased the empire's decline against Persia. In 625 AD, Heraclius began to take advantage of the rivalry between the three enemy generals to make achievements, and used counterintuitive tactics to lure Shahrapula Gan and Shaheen to pursue him. In this time and space, in AD 624, the Arab army, vowing revenge, fought all the way and led the army to counterattack the Roman Empire; the Persian cavalry on the other side made a comeback with the help of the power of the evil god, beating the "Oath of the Empire" again and again, and cracks appeared in the original protection of the empire. At this time, Heraclius' condition became more and more serious, the power of the government and the opposition changed, and the Roman Empire was troubled internally and externally. And Prince Maxian, who fell into the abyss of magic, realized that he had fallen into the enemy's trap and became a pawn to break the empire's defense...

It tells the story of Niels, a 14-year-old boy who doesn't like studying and loves to play tricks on small animals. Because he teased an elf at home, he was magically transformed into a little man the size of a thumb by the elf. He was then carried into the sky by the domestic goose Morton. He rode on the goose's back and traveled north and south with a group of geese. He traveled around the country and returned to his hometown after eight months. On the way, he visited the natural scenery in various places, encountered various risks and difficulties, gradually corrected his shortcomings, and grew into an outstanding young man with noble moral character.

During the Chaoxuan Eastern Expedition, wild chalk spirits appeared in the west and became a threat to all life on Hezhong Island. Those monsters were all created from chalk. They devour humans, destroy farmland, and cause disaster wherever they go. Just when humanity was on the verge of extinction, King Gregory discovered the formation system and became the first formation master in history. He used array magic to seal the monster in the Chalking Tower. In order to prevent the chalk spirit from causing trouble again, the king began to train formation masters and founded the first formation school-Magic Painting Academy. What would the world be like if objects drawn in chalk could come to life?

This book is a notebook novel compiled by Yuan Mei during the Qianjia period of the Qing Dynasty. It was originally called "Zi Buyu". Later, it was changed to "Xin Qixie" when it was found that there were similarities in the Yuan Dynasty. The stories in the book come from folk rumors, oral narrations from relatives and friends, other people's writings, real life and the author's creations. Most of the stories in the book are about ghosts and spirits, but also about strange people and anecdotes. Yuan Mei uses concise words, documentary writing, and bizarre stories to show the bizarre world, and reveals the many "evils" in ordinary life in an extremely humorous and obscure way, involving morals, systems, religions, customs, human nature and other aspects.