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Akutagawa Award-winning writer Nanae Aoyama's collection of short stories about introverts, six short stories, six women, and six atypical life fragments, written for all people who don't need to shine and just want to live in their own little world. Our individuality is reflected in the way we distance ourselves from others and form relationships with them. Yuko is very frustrated when she returns to her hometown town from a big city. She used to be a teacher and is currently working odd jobs in a local doll production company, and her life is dull and dull. By chance, Yuko won the grand prize for a trip to Hawaii, which gave her renewed hope in life. However, the nosy ladies in the company mistakenly thought that Yuko would travel with a male colleague in the company. This atmosphere is like a quagmire trapping Yuko, who is not good at words. What makes Yuko even more overwhelmed is that a student he once taught appeared in front of him...

Among all his works, the short stories that made Hemingway the earliest and most enduring are his short stories that created a generation of writing style. These novels are mainly declarative sentences, with precise descriptions and short dialogues, giving readers the most direct and vivid impression and influencing many modern and contemporary writers in the world. This book contains all of Hemingway's short stories. The second volume includes short stories published in books and magazines after the "first series of 49" and previously unpublished novels, a total of 21 stories. There are another five articles in the appendix, which were not included in the original complete collection and were only discovered in the mid-1980s.

One of the masterpieces by Toyoko Yamazaki, the author of "The White Tower"! The genuine Chinese electronic version is on sale for the first time! The sales of the entire series exceeded 5 million copies! An adaptation of the Japanese drama "Barren Land" starring Tomeaki Karasawa and Yuki Amami, scored 8.6 On Douban! One trillion fighter jet orders, South Korea's subway construction rights, competition for oil mining areas in the Middle East... This is a transnational trade war around the world! The shopping mall is a more naked battlefield of human nature! Open this book and watch an exciting business war! Former Army Lieutenant Colonel Ikimasa, who once served as a staff officer at the Japanese base camp, was detained in Siberia and did hard labor for eleven years. After returning to Japan, he joined the Kinki Corporation and began his "second life." However, the intricate business war is more dangerous than the real battlefield where bullets are raining. The one trillion yen Defense Agency fighter jet order, South Korea's subway construction rights, and the competition for oil mining areas in the Middle East... This is a transnational trade war with the whole world as the stage, and it is also a heart-wrenching human wrestling! In the white "barren land" of Siberia, the red "barren land" of the Middle East desert, and Japan after its defeat in World War II, Iki is constantly struggling in the shadow of the great era.

The novel is set in a ten-story apartment building at 11 rue Simon Clobelier in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and tells the story of the people who live there. This apartment building was cut open vertically by the author, and the rooms, corridors, elevators, and basements were divided into a chess board with 10 squares horizontally and vertically. Except for the square in the lower left corner, the remaining 99 squares correspond to a chapter in the book. The author starts from the corridor on the fourth floor and describes the objects, characters, and stories in each grid in turn. The order of description follows the steps of the knight in chess. Repeat, the story ends in the room on the immediate left side of the fourth floor. The entire novel methodically depicts the all-encompassing lives of 1,468 characters according to a strict mathematical structure.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" tells the story of naturalist Professor Aronnax who accepted an invitation to participate in tracking the so-called narwhal. Unfortunately, he fell into the sea together with his follower Conseil and whaler Ned Rand. They were lucky enough to swim to a floating "island", which was the "narwhal" they were tracking - the submarine Nautilus. Captain Nemo allowed them freedom on the boat, but did not allow them to leave. In this way, they followed the Nautilus and began a fantastic underwater exploration journey. They crossed the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Antarctic and Arctic Oceans, saw the wonderful and spectacular underwater world, experienced various thrilling dangers, tried to escape many times but failed, and finally survived the desperate situation and returned to land. The submarine Nautilus was missing. Professor Aronnax makes his ten-month adventure public.

A quiet and beautiful dead body suddenly appeared in the locked suitcase in the corner of the attic. A unique specimen on the autopsy table tells the story of his life. In the traveling circus, complicated and confusing crimes are staged one after another. In a small town where no one got off the bus, a stranger broke the peace. Ventriloquists, androids, and lifelike marionettes. In the silent big house, the owner never leaves home and the strange smiling man. The past, present and future intersect here. Literary master Ray Bradbury uses 20 colorful thrillers to reveal the fears, desires and loves hidden deep in our consciousness.

To love, to live, to "buy flowers myself." The story focuses on one day in the life of the heroine Mrs. Dalloway. Throughout the day, Mrs. Dalloway made various preparations for the dinner party to be held at home. And this was just an ordinary day in her ordinary life, passed peacefully, as usual. Mrs. Dalloway played her part, refusing to comment but still thinking. She knew that the essence of life was not joy, so she wanted to create joy for others... In our lives, there are many Mrs. Dalloways walking past us. Sometimes it's even our self, but we don't recognize it...

"Mom's Bank Account" tells the story of a Norwegian immigrant family making a living in the United States from a child's perspective. Mom uses the white lie of "bank account" to protect her family with wisdom and tenacity, conveying warmth and strength.

"The Dead" is a masterpiece of short stories by the famous Irish writer James Joyce. After the Christmas party, intellectual Gabriel falls into a mental breakdown as his wife Greta reminisces about an old lover who died of illness. The image of "it's snowing all over Ireland" at the end sublimates personal emotional crisis into a meditation on life and death, love and national destiny. The image of snow covering the living and the dead has become a classic scene in modernist literature.

This book is based on "The Complete Works of Osamu Dazai" published by Japan's Tsukuma Shobo in 1985. It is mainly selected from the collection of works of Osamu Dazai published during his lifetime, "Later Years", and includes the main works in "Later Years": "Fish Suit", "Train", "Map of the Earth", "Island of the Ape", "The Sparrow Game", "The Crowned Ape Face", "Retrograde", "He is Not the Former Himself", "Legend", "Yin" 11 short stories and short stories including "Fire" and "Blind Paper".

This book is a novella in "The Complete Detective Collection of Arsene Robin". It tells the story of Robin's adventures when he went to Egypt to explore the treasures hidden in the pyramids. Along the way, he met the hermit Dr. Tulton who raised cheetahs, an indigenous slave like Friday, a ferocious wizard and a monk, and the mysterious tribe of the Elephant Snakes. However, a bigger conspiracy was waiting for him ahead.

David, a young American, is searching for himself in Paris, while his fiancée Hera wanders alone in Spain. David meets an Italian bartender named Giovanni in a bar owned by Guillaume. Giovanni awakens the desire in David's heart, and David enters Giovanni's room, which is cramped, disorderly, and far away from the city. From the beginning of the novel we know that David abandoned Giovanni, that Hera returned to the United States, and that Giovanni was sentenced to death for killing the bar owner. Baldwin moves freely through the timeline, and David oscillates back and forth between man and woman. With a keen and profound imagination, James Baldwin explores the abyss of love and creates a moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspeakable complexity of the human heart.

Happiness is short-lived, but loneliness is permanent. "Ancient Capital" is a literary postcard of the city of Kyoto carefully drawn by Yasunari Kawabata. The novel uses light and delicate writing to narrate the joys and sorrows of the twin sisters Chieko and Naeko, and writes about their bitter life experiences, pure love, and their yearning for a better life. Cleverly, the author places the beautiful relationship between the sisters in the four seasons of Kyoto to describe it. The scenes blend together, allowing readers to appreciate the beauty of Kyoto's ancient culture. Loneliness is like a shadow, coexisting with life. And only lonely people can understand life more deeply. Don't be demanding, don't be envious, explore the true nature of life in the flowers and leaves in front of you.

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is a semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Betty Smith, first published in 1943. There are no weird and exciting plots in the book, but it touches people's hearts with plain and delicate experiences. It tells the story of the little girl Francie Nolan's growing up experience in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York in the early 20th century. She suffered from family misfortune, discrimination from classmates and social injustice while growing up. However, under the care and influence of her relatives, she loved reading, was strong and unyielding, and was full of enthusiasm for life. She was admitted to university by self-study after work, and finally walked out of the slums. It shows the courage of ordinary people to pursue their dreams and face the hardships of life calmly.

Selected from Dickens's horror novels, including eight short stories such as "The Temptation of Suicide", "Confessions of a Madman" and "The Post-Coach Terror", these stories are among Dickens's most praised works, and readers can get a glimpse of Dickens's talent for horror novels. While some of the stories are chilling to read, others are comical. Dickens inserted representative weird comedy plots into the stories and arranged for the most unforgettable characters to appear, including humans and ghosts, making these stories come to life on the page and become ukiyo-e paintings with a unique and humorous style.

"The Long Day" is a novel by Irish writer Sebastian Barry. The work won the 2016 Costa Literary Award, the 2017 Scott History Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize. The novel "The End of the Day" fully demonstrates the ups and downs of the Irish refugees who fled to the United States due to the Great Famine in the early 20th century. They rushed to board the "coffin ship", endured hunger, plague and extremely harsh climate conditions, and finally arrived at the "promised land" in their dreams after months of wandering at sea. They were engaged in jobs at the bottom of the food chain, digging stone mines, building railways, and working as lumberjacks. Many of them were even drawn into the army to participate in wars for unknown reasons from beginning to end, and died in the wilderness of unknown places. The two male protagonists of the story, John and Thomas, are also survivors of the Irish Famine. They started wandering when they were teenagers. Forced to make a living, they worked as dancers (in disguise) in the declining Grand Rapids City. They joined the army for meager military pay and experienced extremely cruel battles. Blizzards, long periods of severe cold, floods and plagues, battles and killings with Indian tribes, behind every serious disaster are the scars of the times. After everything, John and Thomas have become each other's closest friends, accompanying each other and redeeming each other, while the exiled Indian girl Winona symbolizes immortal hope, like the glimmer of light after the snow, illuminating the endless years.

"The place we lived in before has long since disappeared from the earth and has become a specimen in memory. The past will never come back, what is left behind?" When the memory hit him involuntarily, Park Minyu recalled the world he thought he had left behind - the low slate roofs covering the entire mountain, the intricate narrow alleys and the smiling faces of children gathered in front of small shops. Drive out, demolish, reorganize, neon covers the stars, cement replaces the land. He kept chasing the sunny land, glad that he had escaped from the rough and dirty slums, and never wondered where those old friends who were driven out of their homes went and what they did for a living. When I stop and turn around suddenly, there is no one around me, and there is no trace of my hometown in my memory. Forging ahead is the attitude of a pioneer. If you don't leave your back to others, you will be left behind. Without destroying the old world, you cannot reach the new utopia. The bonds are getting less and less, the eyes are getting colder and colder, and in the end only memories are left to accompany myself as life approaches the evening.

Ernault began writing in 1974. Most of her works draw themes from her own experiences, so her writing and life are closely integrated. She has published about 15 works so far, including "The Empty Wardrobe" (1974), which depicts a woman's inner journey; "Position" (1984), a first-person recollection of her father, which won the Renaudeau Prize; and "Reminiscences of her mother". "A Woman" (1987); "Pure Passion" (1992), which recalls childhood; "Shame" (1997), "The Incident" (2000), which recalls abortion, and "Occupy" (2002), which depicts jealousy, etc. As soon as this book was published, it won the Duras Literary Award in France that year. Adopting the method of "untitled autobiography" actually prompts others to recall while remembering oneself, reflecting the evolution of the times with people's shared experiences, thus arousing strong resonance in people's hearts. From big things like international affairs, to small things like food and clothing, family gatherings, and even personal privacy, everything is simple and vivid. Reflecting the process of the world through personal experience actually writes collective memory. The novel spans sixty years, so readers of all ages can find the content they are most familiar with and the clearest memories in it.

Zweig, no male writer knows women better than him! In classic works such as "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life" and "Letter from a Strange Woman", Zweig used meticulous psychological descriptions to nakedly display the emotional world of women's undercurrents and breakaway from reason. The stories are wonderful and exciting, and while readers are amazed, they also have a better understanding of society and human nature. This book selects three masterpieces of Zweig's novels. Opening any one of them will shock your soul and make you think deeply.

After World War II, Leonard, a young British electronic engineer, was sent to Germany to participate in British-American cooperation in intelligence projects. Post-war Berlin was devastated, but the kind and simple Leonard met the beautiful and gentle German woman Maria here, and was involved in a crazy world full of love and sex. Just when the two were inseparable, an accidental murder finally caused the two to pass each other by each other, regretting it for the rest of their lives. This is a romance during the Cold War, a spy war after World War II, and a thrilling criminal psychological novel... As always, McEwan perfectly blends elements such as love, war, suspense, crime, sex, and black humor. What he writes is a desolate and desperate Berlin city, where pure and innocent people have no place to stay, and fear and coldness surround them everywhere until they move into the endless night.

Philip's parents died when he was young and he was adopted by relatives. What's more unfortunate is that he was born with a lameness. When he was a student, Philip was ridiculed and bullied by his classmates. He swallowed his anger and could only get spiritual comfort through reading. As an adult, he was overwhelmed by the many shackles in life that he could not break away from, escape from, or avoid: physically, he had difficulty moving; mentally, his faith collapsed; emotionally, he was repeatedly frustrated; at work, he fell into confusion... After a series of changes, Philip, who was in his thirties, finally accepted the imperfections of life and learned to move forward calmly while wearing the "shackles of human nature."

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is the latest novel to restore a Thomas Mann full of desires and secrets. The British Frio Literary Award-winning work was selected as one of the top ten historical novels of 2021 by The New York Times, and was selected as the annual book by The Washington Post, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek. "The Magician" opens in the small German town of Lübeck at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where the boy Thomas Mann grew up with a conservative father who was bound by ethics and a charming and elusive mother from Brazil. Young Mann hid his artistic ambitions from his father and his sexual orientation from everyone. He was attracted by the richest and most educated Jewish family in Munich, married the family's daughter Katia, and had six children. While on vacation in Italy, Mann developed a desire for a boy he met on the beach and wrote the story of "Death in Venice." While accompanying Katia to recuperate in Switzerland, he was fascinated by the inescapable mountain atmosphere and wrote "The Magic Mountain". He became the most successful novelist of his time, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and people repeatedly looked forward to his political statements. He fled Germany and traveled to Switzerland, France, and the United States. His wanderings ended in Kirchberg, south of Zurich. This is an epic family saga set across half a century, through World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II and the Cold War. Tóibín crafts a complex yet sympathetic writer who has struggled throughout his life with his inner desires, his family, and the turbulent times they lived through.

This is Bear Town, where storms, bitter cold, ice, and endless forests are all waiting for an opportunity to kill people. Do you want to understand the people here? Really want to understand? Then you have to know the best of all that we can do - our dreams, our courage, a few little girls who make us proud, a few little boys who make us great. Do you want to get to know the people who live in a small town? Really want to know? Then you have to understand all the worst things we are capable of doing. Fear can make some people heroes, but in the shadow of fear, most of us only bring out our ugliest sides, and good people will do terrible things because they believe they are just trying to protect the people they love. How should we live? How to love? How to win? How to protect those precious things? How to choose and be a better person? Society is the sum of our own choices, and everything that unites us will eventually become our history.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the spring of 1464, the young king on horseback met the most beautiful woman in England, Elizabeth Woodville. Rose discovers that the war has come to an end, and a secret love that is romantic but betrays the family begins. People say that this commoner queen must have used some kind of magic to confuse the king and put herself in a high position; but this rumor seems to be nonsense, but it is half true and half false - Elizabeth, who has inherited the blood of the river goddess, will make waves at the intersection of England's destiny.

The twisted and intertwined tragedy of exclusivity and betrayal, the whirlpool of beauty and sin that grow together, is the controversial "private novel" of the master of "demonism" Junichiro Tanizaki. Passion and immorality are entangled to the point of destruction. The twisted love hell described by Junichiro Tanizaki. The story takes place in the third year of the Showa era. Sonoko, the daughter of a wealthy family, obeyed her parents' orders and married her husband Kotaro, who was from a poor family but worked hard. After supporting her husband to complete his studies, she became a lawyer's wife with no worries about food and clothing. After getting married, Sonoko had no common language with her husband. In order to kill the extra time, she attended a private school that cultivated women's skills, and thus got acquainted with the lady Tokumitsu Mitsuko. Sonoko called Mitsuko a "goddess like Guanyin". When she first saw Mitsuko, she was deeply attracted to her, and the two became sisters. Mitsuko's boyfriend Watanuki is a sinister person and is not willing to let Mitsuko marry another person. He devises a series of conspiracies to destroy Mitsuko and the garden that he has become friends with. In order to save Sonoko, Kotaro was also forced to participate. As the situation changed, the four people began to be jealous and suspicious of each other, and were tied into a knot like the character "Swastika"... In the process of entangled with the devil's beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki portrayed the various psychological states and behaviors surrounding jealousy, such as possessiveness, suspicion, dependence, etc., In a real and delicate manner. Whether it is Sonoko, Mitsuko, or Kotaro, they are all born with a lack of love. On the way to the world without jealousy, all love eventually entered the tomb together.

The Henry gun and the bear hunting gun are the most precious weapons of the old iron hand. The drunkard in Xinke's mother's inn, the spear hanging on the branch, the black hole of the gun sticking out of the window, the mysterious man giving alms, the secret of the gold mine... Everything tests the old iron hand's wisdom and courage. The confusing and thrilling adventure stories unfold in the vast and infinite land of the American West... The suspense, vivid plots, charming natural landscapes and customs and culture, the sense of distant history, and the integration of myths, adventures, travel notes and philosophical novels constitute the eternal charm of Karl Mai's novels.

The second book of the "Berlin Trilogy" is a pioneering work that reshapes the form of spy novels. The film adaptation of the same name won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Berlin in 1963 was dark and full of crises. The unsung hero of "The Yipcrest Files" is assigned a mission - one of the Soviet Union's most brilliant scientists attempts to defect while hiding in an elaborately forged coffin. But he soon discovers that the deception hides a deadlier truth, revealing the dark, gloomy, and chilling atmosphere of this divided city.

The character of Sherlock Holmes has been popular around the world for more than a hundred years since his creation in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. For countless Sherlock Holmes people around the world, they have no doubt about the authenticity of Sherlock Holmes' existence. Ever since Arthur Conan Doyle brought Sherlock Holmes to life in 1887, the thin man with a hooked nose, a hunting hat, a trench coat over his shoulders and a pipe in his mouth has always lived in people's hearts.

It writes about the growth of a girl, the pain of childhood, the struggle to survive in college, and love, deep-rooted love. The girl turned out to be a Taurus. So I want to give, give, and have so much love. Eventually they broke up.

Stephen King's best collection of short stories, 2 volumes in total. They are "Vigil" and "The Impermanence of Things" respectively. "Vigil": Listen to me; friend. Never go to the town of Jerusalem; never mind how quaint the church spires are and how quiet the streets are. And don't walk into the endless cornfields; there are a group of children hiding there; they worship the God who walks in the cornfields. And don't clean out an unused basement just to make a buck; there may be a basement beneath it. Don't go for a walk in the strawberry spring; don't approach the parking lot next to the highway; don't envy the boy whose eyes are illuminated by love; don't fall in love with the person who understands all your needs; don't expect someone to catch you when you fall off the ladder... And don't talk to me in a wheelchair; I am just a door; those eyes hidden under my bandages are about to wake up. "The Impermanence of Things": The mysterious event of death can only be understood by those with full imagination. The man with flames in his eyes told the boy fishing by the stream: Your mother just died. The taciturn young man regularly poured change into the sewer outside the house. The dull desperado is good at tying flies with cotton string, just like a man on the prairie tying a horse. A man saves his wife who wants to divorce him from a machete wielded by a madman, but the wife wants him dead. The husband gave his wife a cute kitten, but she eventually ran away from home because she hated the cat and was never heard from again. A poor college student who was eager to visit his sick mother accidentally took a ride in a car driven by a dead man. He tried his best to pretend not to see the smoke rings seeping out from between the sutures on the driver's neck. The successful man lay straight on the autopsy table, unable to tell the two doctors who were flirting while working: He was still alive. The tired salesman took stock of his memories in his motel room, considering the appropriate way to say goodbye. The streets were bustling with people, and no one knew that there were people behind the brick walls fighting for their lives in the dark. How many people have slept in that hotel bed before you? How many people have taken out their Bible from their bedside drawer, read a few passages, and then hung themselves in the closet next to the TV? Well, anyway, let's check in first. This is your key.

"The most underestimated writer of the 20th century" Robert Walser's debut novel has been translated into Chinese for the first time, and is the prelude to the autobiographical Berlin novel trilogy. Respected by Hesse, Benjamin, Sontag, Musil and Zweig! A soul who does not want to be bound by the professional society seeks his own freedom in wandering. Literal translation of the authoritative German version, with special inclusion of the editor's postscript. "The Donner Brothers" is Robert Walser's debut novel and the prelude to his autobiographical trilogy of Berlin novels. The protagonist, Simon Downer, wanders around the world forever, meeting and separating from his brothers and sisters. He is always full of utopian fantasies about life. In modern society where people generally pursue personal and career development, only Simon Donner, an outsider and dreamer, strives to pursue the reunification of poetry and life. He constantly changes careers, trying to break away from the constraints and influence of the external world, which is controlled by time, on human behavior and consciousness. He refused to surrender himself to a world full of alienation and complex relationships, and could only seek his own salvation in fantasy and dreams. In this novel, the writer does not intend to accurately describe a specific scene or event in the world, but focuses on the pure and transcendent inner world through seemingly ordinary and trivial life episodes.

The work centers on the Russian Patriotic War of 1812, showing major historical events from 1805 to 1820. The novel depicts the social life and characters in the alternation of war and peace through the changes in fate of the four noble families of Balkans, Bezukhov, Rostov and Kuragin. The work praises peace and reflects the heroic spirit of the people in defending their motherland. It is a magnificent epic full of humanitarianism and fraternity.

In this book, Hesse tells the inside story of his own married life through the story of the sentimental painter Johann Ferraguth. In the modern family system of Europe and America, which is extremely civilized, Hesse describes how a depressed artist devotes himself to the creation of an artistic world to save the family from collapse. The lonely lyrical private Hesse used realism to depict the inner struggle and depression of the tragic painter. It is another famous masterpiece by the poet Hesse after "The Song of Life".

"The Deer Park" tells the story of Jody, a boy who lives with his parents on the Florida island during the Reclamation Era after the American Civil War, and his one-year-old fawn. The first half of the novel is busy and sweet. Penny, a hard-working and honest man who longs for peace, comes to the land to build a warm home for his wife and children. There are also moments of leisure and tranquility in the barren and difficult land life - the phantoms of Spanish knights, the thrills of fox hunting, bear hunting, and wolf hunting all make life on the land seem busy and joyful. Penny subtly guides Jodi with his simple and kind outlook on life. In the jungle, there are charming and changing scenery, as well as amazing animal wonders.

11 groups of warm food stories and 33 miracles of life reversal. A person will always experience countless dinners in his life, and the memories of each dinner are unique: the dinner when he came home from school, the dinner on graduation day, the dinner before breaking up, the dinner before going to work, the dinner before going abroad, the dinner with old friends, the dinner before moving, the dinner before divorce, the dinner before parents passed away... Memories about dinners constitute the continuous scenery of our lives and the testimony of our continuous progress. Perhaps, while you are eating today's dinner, the reversal of your life has quietly happened in an invisible place.

"The Bathhouse of the Floating World" was written between 1809 and 1812. The book consists of two volumes. The first part describes the scene in the men's section of the bathhouse, which lasts from early morning to afternoon, with a lively and noisy atmosphere. There are dozens of characters among the bathers, including the paralyzed Dou Qi, a 70-year-old reclusive old man, Kinbei with his child, a quack doctor who plays nonsense, a stranger who mistakes someone else's underwear for a towel, a drunkard, a blind man, and 19 small scenes. The second part describes the women's section of the bathhouse, which is equally lively. There are women of various identities in the bathhouse, including geishas, ​​maids, daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, mothers-in-law, wet nurses, etc., With a wide age range, and a total of 16 small scenes. The characters of each of the men, women, and children who come to bathe are vivid and interesting through dialogue. In the mist-shrouded bathhouse, the families are mixed up, and the world is mixed, weaving all kinds of interesting aspects of the life of the common people in Edo.

Selected from Dickens's horror novels, including "The Ghost War" and "The Ghost Trial", these stories are among Dickens's most praised works, and readers can get a glimpse of Dickens's talent for horror fiction. While some of the stories are chilling to read, others are comical. Dickens inserted representative weird comedy plots into the stories and arranged for the most unforgettable characters to appear, including humans and ghosts, making these stories come to life on the page and become ukiyo-e paintings with a unique and humorous style.

Elena is a widow, and her beloved daughter Yana is frail and sick. When Yana suffers from an illness, Dr. Henry brings her back to life. In the process of taking care of Yana, Elena and Henry also fell in love with each other, but Henry was actually a married man, and their reason did not overcome their lust for each other. In the end, Yana died of a sudden illness. Elena believed that this was God's punishment for her behavior, so she ended the relationship, remarried, and left Paris, spending the rest of her life in endless regret and memories.

It describes the whole process of the protagonist Clyde Griffiths being influenced by the evil in society, gradually transforming, degenerating into a murderer, and finally self-destructing.

This book tells the story of the Franklin ship that disappeared after setting off. Mrs. Branniken suffered a mental disorder after the accident. After being treated, she regained consciousness and began to search for the sunken ship and Captain Branniken in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. Mrs. Branniken arrived in Sydney, Australia, and learned that Captain Branniken was detained by the indigenous people. She organized a rescue, was plotted on the way, encountered many dangers, and finally found her biological son, rescued her husband, and reunited her family.

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The two days when Ivan Andreevich was caught in adultery: the disgusting confessions on the street, the dirty performances under the bed... All of this constitutes a vivid picture that feels like hearing the voice and seeing the person. Writers rely on ingenious structures, seize the trivial matters of daily life that can reflect the essence of things, and use vivid and humorous language to portray each character vividly.

Faust is a scholar who is over fifty years old. In order to explore the mysteries of life and self, he tirelessly pursues knowledge, hoping to devote himself to the universe and nature through books and feel all the pain and joy in the world. Suddenly, he discovered that the knowledge he had been pursuing tirelessly over the years had no effect or significance. His study was dark and narrow, hindering his communication with the natural world. He became angry, cursed the world and everything around him, and even thought of ending his life to get rid of the pain of unfulfilled desires.

The book begins with a fable and describes the mutation of a beautiful village. Through sufficient scientific argumentation and a large number of examples, it is shown that the situation caused by DDT (pesticide) actually occurs in various parts of the United States. The biological chain from land to ocean, from plankton to fish and birds, to humans, has been destroyed. "Silent Spring" describes "invisible" pollution and visible problems. The authors call for biological control methods to replace chemical control of insects. As soon as this book was published, it caused a huge response and sounded the clarion call for the environmental movement around the world. Former U. S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore described this book as a landmark work.

"Silent Spring" is the representative work of American female writer Rachel Carson and one of the most influential books in the world in the past 50 years. The beginning of "Silent Spring" depicts the mutation of a beautiful village to us, describing that humans may face a world without birds, bees and butterflies, and comprehensively reveals the dangers of chemical pesticides. It was this unusual book that attracted people's attention to wild animals and aroused people's environmental awareness around the world. It is recognized as the foundational work that started the world environmental movement. Carson's main argument is based on science. Carson spent four full years collecting and reviewing a large amount of data and literature surrounding pesticides, insecticides and other harmful modern chemicals. The book ends with a "primary information list" that is dozens of pages long. The list includes dozens of scientific reports, the author's interviews with leading experts in various fields, and various related academic papers. From a scholar's perspective, this not only shows that the materials used by the author in writing almost exhaust the scientific research on the hazards of chemicals that could be searched at that time, but also shows that many scientists were aware of the hazards of chemicals and started research accordingly.

"Silent Spring" is the representative work of American female writer Rachel Carson and one of the most influential books in the world in the past 50 years. The beginning of "Silent Spring" depicts the mutation of a beautiful village to us, describing that humans may face a world without birds, bees and butterflies, and comprehensively reveals the dangers of chemical pesticides. It was this unusual book that attracted people's attention to wild animals and aroused people's environmental awareness around the world. It is recognized as the foundational work that started the world environmental movement. Carson's main argument is based on science. Carson spent four full years collecting and reviewing a large amount of data and literature surrounding pesticides, insecticides and other harmful modern chemicals. The book ends with a "primary information list" that is dozens of pages long. The list includes dozens of scientific reports, the author's interviews with leading experts in various fields, and various related academic papers. From a scholar's perspective, this not only shows that the materials used by the author in writing almost exhaust the scientific research on the hazards of chemicals that could be searched at that time, but also shows that many scientists were aware of the hazards of chemicals and started research accordingly. This book has added curriculum content.

"Silent Spring" is a classic work by biologist and environmental movement pioneer Rachel Carson. With a rigorous and realistic spirit of scientific rationality and poetic language, she analyzed in detail the harm caused by chemical pollution to the ecosystem on which human beings depend. The whole book is full of humanistic sentiments of reverence for life. In 1962, "Silent Spring" was first published, bringing the long-neglected problem of pesticides and insecticide abuse into the spotlight, directly challenging the vested interests of chemical giants. Like a cultural nuclear bomb, it caused huge shocks around the world. The issue of "environmental protection" has thus entered the public eye and become an important force in promoting the progress of civilization. The general illustrated version of "Silent Spring" uses detailed illustrations to intuitively display relevant natural science knowledge. The end of the book specially includes "A Brief History of the Dissemination of "Silent Spring"", revealing the book's important position and far-reaching influence in the global environmental movement.

"I understand," she said. When will she learn not to say "I understand" to things she knows nothing about? The elder sister leaves her destiny to marriage, and the younger sister pursues knowledge and freedom, but neither of them can live a happy life. Is this a human dilemma, or is this only true for women? ? After the early release of the influential "Revolutionary Road" and "Eleven Kinds of Solitude", Yates's creative career went through a period of silence. "Easter Parade" once again demonstrates Yates's extraordinary creative strength. This work contains astonishing breadth and weight. Yates' usual elegant and tragic perspective flows through the plain and restrained narrative, tearing apart the fate and dreams of the two sisters bit by bit. It is "both cruel and heartwarming, heartbreaking and cruel." "This is Yates's best novel." As children, Sarah and Emily were two very different girls. In Emily's eyes, her rational sister is always superior. She is jealous of her sister's relationship with her father (who left them due to divorce) and her sister's seemingly happy marriage. Emily chose a path for herself that was not so safe and unconventional. All the romantic affairs could not really satisfy her. Although the bond that binds the sisters has always existed, the distance between them has grown further and further until, finally, a tragic event throws their relationship into the center of a storm...

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