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"Run, Dad" is Jin Ae-ran's first collection of short stories and the first in the "Jin Ae-ran's Works Collection" (a total of 6 books). It consists of 9 short stories including "I Go to the Convenience Store", "She Has a Reason for Insomnia", "Who Sets Off Fireworks at the Beach", "The Forever Narrator", "Home Without Knocking", "Greetings from Love" and "Bounce-Stilts", covering family issues, cities and young people, living in a small house. The author uses subtle observations, fresh feelings and rich details to brilliantly describe the daily life and life status of young people, reproducing modern Korean literature with trauma, pain, and sorrow as representative words.

"King Lear" is one of the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics by Xu Yuanchong" and one of Shakespeare's famous tragedies. The story told is familiar to readers: King Lear, as the king of Britain, likes to listen to sweet words, and uses this to judge the extent of his three daughters' love for him. As a result, he was deceived by the sweet words of the eldest daughter and the second daughter, and granted them territory and power. The younger daughter was not accepted by King Lear because she was not good at speaking out. Although she was loyal and filial in her heart, she was left out and married away. After King Lear was deceived and abused by his two daughters and had no place to stay, he finally distinguished between the loyal and the traitor. Unfortunately, the tragedy had already occurred.

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"The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's important early work and a highly satirical comedy. It was made around 1596-1597. The theme of the script is to praise benevolence, friendship and love. It also reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law and religion in bourgeois society. An important literary achievement of this play is the creation of the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking, ruthless loan shark.

"Twelfth Night" is a play written by the British playwright Shakespeare. It tells the story of Sebastian and Viola, a twin brother and sister who unfortunately died during a sea voyage and fled to Illyria. After some interesting twists and turns, Viola and Orsino, Olivia and Sebastian both form a happy marriage. With a lyrical style and romantic comedy form, this work once again eulogizes the beautiful humanistic ideals of love and friendship, and expresses the beauty of life and love.

"Red Flowers" is a book that elaborates on the pursuit of love and the suppression of good, evil, beauty and ugliness. The story takes place in England in 1880. The protagonist Mark Linenan experienced the emotional ups and downs of three periods of life: "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn". "Spring" describes the protagonist's ignorant love when he was seduced by his mentor's young and beautiful wife when he was studying at Oxford University; "Summer" describes his passionate love with a congressman's wife who had an unfortunate marriage after returning to China after studying abroad; "Autumn" describes his mature love for the only daughter of one of his early classmates who pursues him infatuatedly after he gets married and becomes famous. Although there are three romances, they are organically connected. Although it is a novel, the text is as beautiful as poetry. The three chapters of "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn" are step-by-step, exciting and touching, and you won't be able to put it down.

This book is a classic novel by Mr. Tang Haoming, a famous historical novelist and expert on Zeng Guofan. A young man, a young man, a middle-aged governor, and an old minister, Zhang Zhidong has an unparalleled successful life. He was a senior official who followed the trend of the times and had great foresight. He was also a feudal bureaucrat who regarded officialdom as his life and was loyal to the court. He lacked modern knowledge and was full of Confucian restrictions. He was a man who was willing to do things and had a decisive spirit. He is a practical man in general, and an official who is self-motivated, focusing only on form but not on practical results... This book is a long historical novel written by Tang Haoming over a period of five years after "Zeng Guofan" and "Yang Du", and reproduces Zhang Zhidong's complicated life.

A literary classic that transcends time and space, Woolf's soul mate and legendary writer Vita writes life lessons for all women, novel version of "A Room of One's Own". It is never too late for women to realize their self-awakening, self-liberation and self-worth. During his lifetime, Lord Slane served as the Governor-General of India and the British Prime Minister, and was a major figure in British politics. After his death, the outside world thought that his eighty-eight-year-old widow would continue to be a well-behaved and decent "vase" and gradually wither in grief. But Mrs. Slane, contrary to everyone's expectations, ignored the self-righteous arrangements of her children, moved to a rented house in Hampstead, and started living an independent life. There, she regained the freedom she longed for and met some special companions. During the conversation with them, she recalled her ambitions when she was young, and slowly discovered how much she had sacrificed in the past years in order to live up to others' so-called expectations...

The life of Weirui and Redna seems to be just an endless feast. The husband is successful in his career, the wife is elegant and intelligent, they have two adorable children, a group of charming friends, a dog and a pony. A model family and an ideal life, but without realizing it, like a big ship, slowly decaying irreparably...

The background of "The Mill on the Floss" is the Victorian period in England, when the British Empire was at its peak and the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The story centers on two siblings, Tom and Maggie. Maggie's father originally ran a mill by the Floss River. After going bankrupt due to debt, the lives of the two siblings changed significantly. Tom dropped out of school and went out to work, while Maggie took care of the housework. Tom relied on diligence and wisdom to pay off the debt and redeem the mill, but his father died of overjoyed. Maggie was not favored by Tom in both relationships and was kicked out of the mill. The flood surged overnight and submerged the mill. Maggie sailed back alone to rescue Tom. The brother and sister reconciled in the crisis, but unfortunately they were swallowed by the flood.

Refusing to compromise, refusing to be mediocre, fiery love ignites the crazy soul, destruction or redemption? The original novel of the French film "Wild Rose of Paris"; an alternative interpretation of the "Beat Generation" in France!

During World War I, the American young man Frederick Henry came to the Italian front as a volunteer and served as a lieutenant in a field ambulance team, where he met the British nurse Catherine. During a mission, Henry was injured and was sent to Milan Hospital for recuperation, where Catherine also happened to be transferred to work. After an unexpected reunion and Catherine's careful care of Henry, the two fell in love. After recovering from his injury, Henry, who returned to the front line, became more aware of the cruelty of war. In order to escape the punishment of the so-called "AWOL" officers, he resolutely left the army and joined Catherine, and the two fled to Switzerland together. Unfortunately, after a short period of happiness, Catherine died in childbirth, and the baby also died of suffocation, leaving Henry alone in the world.

"La Traviata" is a French love classic and the famous work of Xiao Dumas. Margaret, a country girl as beautiful as a camellia, came to Paris to make a living, but unfortunately became a prostitute. Armand, the son of a tax collector, loved her sincerely, which deeply moved Margaret, who had always been played with by others, and longed to start a new life through pure love. But Armand's father opposed their love, forcing Margaret to leave Armand. Armand did not know the truth and angrily tortured and humiliated her. Margaret finally died of injustice and illness with hatred.

The representative work of the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in the short story collection, two more shocking fables than "The Pianist on the Sea"; the masterpiece of the French "New Fable School", Miyazaki's fantasy contains the sadness of the end of the century, the most popular French writer, bringing you dangerous freedom and ultimate romance! "Accidental Encounter" is one of the most important collections of short stories and short stories written by Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature. It contains two fable-like stories, "A Chance Encounter" and "Angeli Mara". The girl chooses the sea as the destination of her soul, and the boy chooses the forest as the country of his soul. Underneath the illusions of a highly civilized world, amid pain, loss and longing, secret tenderness and dangerous freedom surge.

It won the 1978 Booker Prize, the highest award for English literature, beating Kingsley Amis and Penelope Fitzgerald's novel by a true artist. She is a British post-war female writer as famous as Doris Lessing, a lover hurt by Canetti, and Sontag's philosophy teacher. She was slandered and hated, and she worked hard for literature. A provocative text in the same vein as "Cutting the Audience", it uses the accusations and confessions of a theater director in his later years to aim at a subversive rewriting of Shakespeare's magical drama "The Tempest". Taiwanese novelist Luo Yijun highly recommends this contemporary British novel that left Harold Bloom in awe. "The Sea, The Sea" is the 1978 Booker Prize-winning work. The novel tells the story of sixty-year-old Charles Arrowby, a director, playwright and actor who is a highly admired idol in the British theater world. When he was ready to retire from his glamorous world in London, "vowing to renounce magic and become a hermit," he chose to return to live by the sea. He hoped, at least, to escape "those women"... But unexpectedly, he met his first love from the past, and Charles' cousin James, who believed in Buddhism, also came to the seaside. The peaceful life he originally expected to live completely changed. Not only was he horrified when he saw a monster rising from the waves, but he also found that although he wanted to live in isolation, he was surrounded by his own fantasies and delusions and was deeply troubled. The novel is majestic, complex and exquisite, fully demonstrating the contradictory motivations of the main characters: vanity and jealousy of human nature, as well as selfishness and callousness under the disguise of society.

Maurice Hilleman is a heroic legend in the history of modern medicine. Among the 14 vaccines that almost every child in the world can receive, 9 are his inventions. These vaccines made previously extremely common and deadly diseases, including mumps, rubella, measles, chickenpox, etc., Forgotten by the world, and he was revered as the "Father of Modern Vaccines." In addition, he was the first person to predict the timing of the influenza pandemic and successfully developed a vaccine before the epidemic reached the United States; he has won all the awards that American medical researchers can win; his work can save about 8 million lives every year. And because of the birth of vaccines, human life span has been extended by 30 years compared to 100 years ago. With his enterprising spirit, Hilleman broke through scientific obstacles time and time again to develop vaccines. His life is the epitome of modern epidemiology and vaccinology, and the story of vaccines is largely Hilleman's story. Offit, who co-invented the rotavirus vaccine with Hilleman, provides insight into the life and career of the great scientist in his final months. The author vividly describes the details of Hilleman's development of various vaccines, and also uses this as a basis to introduce vaccine development in a global context, outlining the history of public health for more than 200 years. While showing the gains and losses of epidemiology, he also uses strong evidence to remind people to pay attention to the value of vaccines and the power of science to save lives and protect human well-being.

The protagonist Yelena comes from a wealthy and aristocratic family, and has several enthusiastic suitors around her, but none of them are satisfied. Later, she met Insarov, a Bulgarian who actively fought for the liberation of the motherland and was prepared to fight for his whole life. She admired and loved him very much and married him despite the opposition of his parents. He went with him to Bulgaria to participate in the national liberation movement against Turkish slavery.

"Easily Forgotten Name" is the first collection of essays by Kim Ae-ran, a powerful female writer in the contemporary Korean literary world. It presents the author's seventeen-year literary career since she entered the literary world! The writer uses his unique delicate and warm writing style to describe the stories of the people around him, the stories of himself and his loved ones, as well as the stories of forgotten people. The first part is "Call My Name", which includes 16 articles, and contains the author's growth and family stories; the second part is "The Name Called with You", which includes 8 articles, recording the surrounding literary friends and the author's in-depth observation of the surrounding society; the third part is "Calling Our Names", which contains 8 articles, and is Kim Ae-ran's experience talk about creation and literature. Preface by translator Xue Zhou.

Can we change our destiny? French national writer Schmitt uses four imaginative and strange stories to try to answer this mysterious problem of life. Each story has an unexpected ending. In a small French town, a woman who poisoned her three husbands refused to plead guilty. But facing the handsome priest, she decided to confess everything to God. When the moment of atonement comes, can she cross that threshold? On the sea, a crew member with four daughters got the news: "Your daughter is dead." He was in a dilemma - which daughter died? Which daughter did he wish was dead? Does he have the right to make such a choice? After an accident at a music summer camp, the perpetrator and the victim reversed the positions of good and evil in human nature. When the "Concerto in Memory of Angels" plays again, is it the devil or the angel who dies? Finally, there is the love affair between the President and the President's wife at the wrong time in the Elysee Palace - they love each other in front of others and kill each other in private. Which one is true? What changes may not be life itself, but the way you look at life...

A book highly recommended by former U. S. President Obama, a winner of the National Book Award, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a touching letter to his son. It writes about the love between father and son, reveals racial discrimination, and understands the American dream. This is a candid letter written by black writer Thanasis Coates as a father to his son. Through beautiful words, he describes the endless fear he felt as a boy in a seemingly peaceful country. With its sharp writing style, mixed writing style, and philosophical and poetic language, this book reveals the harsh reality of racial discrimination in today's American society. It has had a huge impact and won the 2015 National Book Award for Best Nonfiction. The author starts from the harm of racial discrimination to black bodies (lives), describes the personal experience of being a black man, and emphasizes that racial discrimination in the United States has a long history, is deeply rooted, and will continue to persist. The work's incisive analysis of this social phenomenon made it a blockbuster work on the topic of race in the United States in a short period of time. This book is also an analysis of the grand issues in the country's history, pointing out to readers that "the American dream is the enemy of all art, brave thinking, and honest writing."

This book is one of the representative works of Mr. Soetsu Yanagi, the father of Japanese folk arts. As the founder and first president of the Japan Folk Art Association, Mr. Soetsu Yanagi has decades of valuable collecting experience. With his love for things and his rich collection experience, he recorded these precious insights and essence in these famous essays, talking about why people collect, good and bad tastes in collecting, what he gained from his own collecting experience, etc. He put forward views such as "collecting is a deep love for objects" and "taking pride in buying at a high price is a shallow taste". Constructed an oriental aesthetic system with unique significance and discussed the principles of beauty. Collection is a kind of love for objects.

"Walden Pond" is a record of what the American writer Thoreau saw, thought, and realized when he lived alone on the shores of Walden Pond. He lived in a cabin he built by the lake for two years, two months and two days. The Walden Pond in his works is clear and pure, deep and meaningful, suitable for winter and summer, sunny and rainy, suitable for viewing from a distance and close up, suitable for close reading and shallow appreciation, and suitable for the ages. He uses it as a means to wash away the worldly dust and cleanse the spirit. This great poet was wandering by the lake. He had talents and philosophical thoughts that transcended time and space. With his wonderful pen, he turned this small lake of only 61 acres into a bright starry sky that the whole world looked up to. This is a simple book, but also a profound book, a simple book, but also a gorgeous book. Today, when the natural ecology is subject to unprecedented pollution and damage, it has even more special significance. Walden Pond has become a symbol of mankind's desire to return to nature.

In California, no matter where you go, you can always see mountain peaks one after another, and every place is so beautiful and charming. The overall landscape of California looks so majestic yet simple. In the center of the main body is a valley, and on both sides of the valley are two rows of mountains that appear to have extremely regular trends and heights: the Coast Mountains to the west, and the undulating Sierra Nevada Mountains to the east. The mountains are arc-shaped and closed at the north and south ends, enclosing a huge basin in the middle. The bottom of the basin is a flat land more than 400 miles long and 35 to 60 miles wide. This is the Central Basin of California, and its only water system is the Golden Gate estuary. Although the overall characteristics of the landscape are simple at first, they contain extremely complex details. The Coast Mountains rise from the ground and form a huge green barrier along the coast, ranging in height from 2,000 to 8,000 feet. They are composed of countless lush mountain spouts, ridges and rolling hills; these hills in turn surround numerous small valleys, including Some overlook the sea through continuous rows of trees, others with sparse trees lead to the central valley, and a thousand other small valleys are hidden among the soft eyebrows of the hills, each with its own different climate, soil and products.

The book "The Adventure Crew" describes a group of nature-loving teenagers who are determined to discover the "New World" of nature, that is, new things, just like Columbus. For children, in fact, the old things they don't know or understand are also "new". The young Columbuss decided to go to the forest to find it first. The author is particularly good at describing the life and habits of animals and plants, so he uses fascinating storylines in the book to introduce the characteristics of many birds and animals, forests and their interdependence, etc. The language is light and lively, and the descriptions are vivid and delicate.

Female agent Zang Yang was lying flat on an interrogation table, holding half a piece of paper in her left hand and holding a gun in her right hand, with the muzzle pointing at her head. She raised her face, the surroundings were as silent as the empty universe, and she could clearly hear the beating drums in her temples. The gurgling flow of blood reminded her of the womb, a soft and safe place. At this time, she felt like she was lying in her mother's belly. Unfortunately, as the baby moves toward new life, she moves toward death. Just five seconds ago, when Zang Yang raised his gun, the noise outside the door quickly went through a process from loud to quiet. Cars roared past like beasts, and the whispers of colleagues fell like heavy rain... Five seconds later, when she was completely "immersed" in suicide, these sounds turned into the fading rock music played by the DJ, weakening little by little, until they disappeared into silence. Her left hand let go, and the paper flew down.

This book includes many short stories such as "Continuous Murders", "Mysteries Within Mysteries", "The Whereabouts of Defense Bonds", etc. They are all wonderful chapters in "The Complete Detective Stories of Arsene Robin". The plots of the stories are full of twists and turns, full of suspense, and you can't bear to put it down.

This book is a new translation and new interpretation based on a review of various Chinese translations of "Faust" over the past century (nine from mainland China and one from Taiwan). It draws lessons from, corrects errors and fills in omissions in translations such as Guo Moruo's and Lu Yuan's. It is an interpretation of the whole book and the plot of the whole play. In his 180,000 words of 60 explanations and 626 annotations, the translator quoted for the first time nearly 70 interpretations of "Faust" by Marx, Engels, and Hegel. From this, we can know why "Faust" is an "absolute philosophical tragedy" and why it is dialectical. Why the image textbook is the "precursor to a free and human worldview" in the future, we can know the affinity between Marxist philosophy and Goethe's thought - this affinity may be the collective complex of my country's modern intellectuals who have a special liking for "Faust".

This book selects eight of Lovecraft's relatively representative short stories, namely "The North Star", "The White Ship", "The Stranger", "The Picture in the House", "The Rat in the Wall", "Dagon", "Pickman's Model" and "The Grave". These short stories are Lovecraft's early masterpieces. Whether they are readers who are very fond of Lovecraft's Cthulhu culture, research readers who want to understand how Lovecraft used psychoanalysis to complete this kind of surrealist horror text, or light readers who are just interested in the subject of horror novels, they will find their own enjoyment in them.

"The Boy" is a very important novel by Dostoevsky in his later years. The novel takes as its main line the growth experience of Arkady Dolgoruky, a young man who is not deeply involved in the world and is deeply influenced by Rothschild's thoughts. It depicts the corrosion of the souls of the young generation in Russia by money worship in the 1870s when capitalism was developing rapidly.

"White Nights" is a collection of novellas by Dostoyevsky, the great Russian writer of the 19th century, which includes the famous stories "The Poor Man", "White Nights" and "The Gambler". "White Nights" describes the innocent girl Nastenka falling in love with a young tenant. The two agreed to meet on a bridge in Petersburg a year later, but the tenant did not show up. The protagonist "Dreamer" was deeply moved by the girl's affection and waited with her by the river for four consecutive nights until the tenant showed up.

Dostoyevsky's "Notes from an Underground" is a classic masterpiece with both profound thought and literary art. It is also the book that opens the door to his literary world. The work revolves around the heart of the "basement man", and the book is divided into two parts: the first part is a long monologue by the basement man, exploring philosophical issues such as free will, human irrationality, and historical irrationality. The second part is the story of the basement man tracing his past. This book can open the door to Dostoevsky's literature and is his literary masterpiece. It is also the beginning of five other novels. It covers all the artistic characteristics of Dostoevsky. Reading this book will help you fully experience the endless charm of literature.

A collection of Dostoevsky's early short stories and short stories, which describe the various aspects of the world of little people; it deeply explores the human nature of the human heart and the ultimate expression of various personalities; Wang Xiaobo wholeheartedly recommends "Nedochka", Mr. Rong Rude's classic translation, which includes exquisite illustrations. "Notes from the Underground" is a collection of short stories and short stories by the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, including "Mr. Prohalchin", "The Landlady", "Nedo Chika", "Little Hero", "Trouble in the Manor" and "Notes from the Underground". "Mr. Prokharchin" and "The Landlady" are Doshi's earliest novellas. They respectively tell the life of a buffoon character, Mr. Prokharchin, and the story of a tenant who is obsessed with the landlady. They reflect Doshi's concern for the fate of little people. "Nedochka" is Doshi's first attempt at a full-length novel. Unfortunately, the story could not be completed. Even so, the tragic fate of the orphan girl Niedochka still moves countless readers. "Little Hero" tells the emotional twists and turns of a young man's first love affair, while "The Affair in the Manor" revolves around an anecdote about the reversal of master and servant identities at the farm inherited by Rostanev. In these two stories, the flattering, fickle, entangled and even self-destructive side of human nature is more clearly displayed to readers. "Notes from the Underground" is the most important novella in Doshi's middle period. Through the description of the "basement people" who want to do things that are not good for themselves, it vividly depicts people's complex, contradictory and even almost abnormal psychological states, which embodies all of Doshi's artistic features. Therefore, "Notes from the Underground" is also regarded as a sign that Doshi's thoughts and creations have entered a mature period, and it is the "general outline" of the five subsequent novels of Doshi.

Selected works by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, set in ten volumes.

This book is a collection of works by the well-known writer Kawabata Yasunari. It includes seven works: "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Reunion", "Water Moon", "Beasts", "Flower Waltz", "Celebrity" and "Flowers Never Sleep". His works are widely known, with an ethereal style, traditional charm and great literary quality. Many famous domestic writers such as Mo Yan and Yu Hua greatly appreciate and love Kawabata Yasunari's writings. Among them, "The Dancing Girl of Izu" has a quiet and light tone, which contains a very profound taste of life. "I" briefly met and accompanied the dancing girl Kaoruko and her family, but had no choice but to separate. Fresh and beautiful, a beautiful Japanese-style first love...

The handsome Ye Zang comes from a wealthy family. He has seen the warmth and coldness of human nature since he was a child, and has to play a clown to seek recognition. After growing up, he was influenced by bad friends and suffered a blow from his wife. He felt guilty for his own incompetence and was completely disappointed in others. He drank drunkenly all day long until he was destroyed.

I think my favorite place in the world is the kitchen. Sakurai Mikage's parents died young, and after the death of her grandmother, who had always been dependent on each other, she became truly alone. In times of despair, Yuichi Tanabe, a classmate who had been cared for by his grandma, warmly invited Miying to move in with him. Yuichi's mother, Eriko, has a special identity of changing from a father to a mother who wears two hats. Meiying found a sense of belonging in this strange family and settled down. While getting along with Yuichi's mother and son, Miying gradually opened up her heart, let go of her ex-boyfriend, and accepted the reality of her grandmother's death. She was reborn in her heart and began to live an independent life again. After Eriko was killed by a guest, Mikage came to comfort Yuichi, and the two, who were neither relatives nor lovers, began to live together. Yuichi's confession was not accepted for a while. A relationship that is not understood by the world is misunderstood. Okuno, who has an unrequited love for Yuichi, comes to accuse and abuse Mikage. Mikage temporarily leaves Yuichi on a business trip, and Yuichi painfully chooses to escape temporarily.

In the last life, the sisters were favored by my husband and son, pretended to be my richest man, took away everything from me, and killed me. In my next life, at my son's coming-of-age ceremony, I drank green tea, cut off the parent-child relationship, and divorced the scumbag. When my family heirloom was taken away, I directly pressed the green tea on the table, and then kicked my son away in an attempt to sneak attack me. In this new life, what belongs to me, they can't even think of taking away even a cent of it!

This book is the latest original novel by Lin Sen, a writer born in the 1980s. His great-grandfather went to Taiwan with the troops evacuating Hainan Island. He returned after being away from home for many years and then died in his hometown. The return of the great-grandfather not only brought new hope for life to his descendants, but also cast a shadow. Until his death many years ago, the shadow that shrouded the family never dissipated - and the whole family began a fateful struggle. My grandfather, father, and my generation all wanted to live their own way, and each generation had their own concerns. Whether it was love or family ties, they all experienced great tests, and even wanted to escape from their homes. The elders are overwhelmed and almost crazy, while the young minds are confused and helpless. This is the story of a family, the wanderings and returns of several generations, the powerlessness and perseverance in the face of changes in the times, and it is also a spiritual book for contemporary youth.

"O Pioneers! "" Is the representative work of American female novelist Willa Cather. The heroine, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson, came to the pristine wilderness of Nebraska with her father when she was young. After her father passed away, she inherited the family business, struggled hard in extreme poverty, and faced a series of setbacks and blows... She did not waver, but relied on perseverance and confidence to move forward unswervingly. With hard work and wisdom, far-sighted plans and scientific management, she conquered the untamed wild mountains and turned them into thousands of miles of fertile wilderness.

Shimamura is a freelancer studying Western ballet in Tokyo. He comes from a wealthy family. He went to Yuzawa Town three times to meet the geisha Komako. Yukio, the son of Komako's shamisen master, suffered from tuberculosis and returned to Yuzawa Town to recuperate accompanied by a woman named Ye Zi. He happened to be sitting opposite Shimamura where he went to meet Komako for the second time. The narrative of the novel begins here. Shimamura admired the snowy scenery at dusk through the fogged car window, but when he saw the bright eyes of the leaves reflected on the car window, he couldn't help but feel moved. Dao Cun not only admires Ju Zi's beauty and character, but at the same time secretly can't let go of the simple Ye Zi...

"Animals" is a wonderful collection of micro-novels by Areola. In the book, Areola describes twenty-three animals in prose and poetic language. Areola is writing about animals on the surface, but what is reflected in the article is his views on people. Each story is very short, but Areola is always able to express rich and profound meanings in just a few strokes. Areola's metaphors are direct, straightforward, without any hesitation, and sometimes even defining. The extremely dense metaphors are intertwined into the solid outlines of animals, as sure as the illustrations made by silver needle pens. Therefore, we can feel the more profound and decisive correspondence between the ontology and the metaphor.

In this book, Thoreau described in detail the various wild fruits he saw during his walks in an almost diary form, recording their flowering, fruiting, and ripening, as well as the color, shape, and taste of the fruits, as well as their relationship with insects, squirrels, and birds. Thoreau poured his heart and soul into it. Although the writing is simple and unpretentious, it is affectionate and contains deep philosophy. Today, more than 150 years later, we can still see his sacred love for nature between the lines.

"Tales of Terror" contains 17 novels and is edited by Lawrence Block, the master of contemporary hard-boiled detective novels. Bullock invited 17 contemporary American writers to conduct an experimental proposition writing inspired by great paintings. The story spans the city and the countryside, the east coast and the west coast, the contemporary and the modern. Characters with different agendas use their strategies to raise the suspense of the mountains... It is not only a tribute to famous paintings, but also a subtle presentation of the spirit of adventure.

The collection of lectures, published in 1980, includes the contents of seven lectures given by Borges in the summer of 1977. They are respectively titled "The Divine Comedy", nightmares, "One Thousand and One Nights", Buddhism, poetry, Jewish mysticism and blindness. It tells about Borges's interaction with the "Divine Comedy", the nightmare mixed with mirrors and labyrinths, Eastern consciousness, the essence of Buddhism, the aesthetics of poetry, the concept of holy books and the tools of art, etc.

This book includes Rabindranath Tagore's lyrical prose "Bamboo Flute", "Morning and Evening", "The Road Underfoot", philosophical prose "New Rain", "End of the Year", "Journey of Life", essays "The Humiliation of Coin", "Fearless", as well as some speeches, political papers, letters, diaries and other works. Rabindranath Tagore's prose creations have rich themes and diverse styles, and many of them provide people with beautiful enjoyment and ideological enlightenment. From them, we can feel the political views, literary thoughts and daily life of this great writer.

Natsume Soseki, a writer who was active in Japan during the Meiji and Taisho periods, is known as Japan's "national writer". Today, a hundred years later, his works still firmly occupy a prominent position in Japanese street bookstores. "The Door" is the third part of the love trilogy. Sosuke and Ami live in a world within the gate. They became husband and wife due to an accidental encounter. They fed each other with sweet love inside the gate. But when they went out, they were spurned by society and experienced the pain of deviating from morality. Compared with the simple Ami, Zongsuke is tortured by guilt all the time. In order to stay away from it all, he escapes to a temple in the mountains, hoping that Zen learning can open the locked door in his heart. However, his practice encountered more doors, and he could not muster the courage to open them anyway. He could only stand outside the door forever, staring at his lonely self.

The Bible says that people have seven deadly sins: pride, jealousy, anger, neglect, greed, gluttony, and lust. When these sins are covered up by this impetuous city, people live in impetuousness and sin. A group of little-known evil beasts living in the city appeared like messengers from hell. They are no longer myths or ghosts, but are living around us. Abandoned old houses, dilapidated buildings, damp sewers, and dark subway tunnels are their habitats.

The debut novel of Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Literary Prize and France's "Contemporary Zola"; the French version of "Snowstorm", the winner of the Mystery Criticism Award; French socialist literature, wandering in the dark midnight of France's "Tiexi District", the intertwined light and shadow lives of two generations of "small town youth". In a world on the verge of collapse, both compliance and resistance are futile. Because in the end it will just turn into animal savagery. "Animal War" is the debut novel published in 2014 by Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Prize for Literature and known as France's "Contemporary Zola". The story revolves around a factory that is about to close down in the foggy Vosges Mountains in northeastern France, focusing on the lives of young and middle-aged people in the town. In the declining and depressed old industrial areas in the post-industrial era, the passion, dreams, and even anger that once excited life are extinguished. Two desperate workers are determined to kidnap a local gang leader in Strasbourg. A female inspector from the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate sees a naked girl running out of the forest one winter evening. The new generation of boys and girls in the town seem to have endless energy and desires that need to be vented. They want to leave, but have nowhere to go... Girl, Colt 45 pistol, a blizzard blocked the road, and finally, all the clues were connected... "Animal War" is a wonderful group portrait novel, telling the story of a world that is about to end and those who have lost their support and have nothing. Won the French Mystery Criticism Award, the TV series of the same name was broadcast on France 3 in November 2018.

Conventional things are the most deceptive, and scams are always hidden in places where you turn a blind eye. Master of suspense Matsumoto Seicho, with his watertight tricks and imagination that challenges the laws of physics, he plays with the "time" that human beings rely on for survival. In the mid-16th century, Galileo Galilei invented the clock. Since then, people have eaten on time and gone to bed on time, but they have never doubted that there will be sins quietly hiding under the huge shadow of the hour hand. The suspect has almost no possibility of committing the crime unless he can appear in two locations 20 kilometers apart at the same time. Faced with the impeccable alibi, Detective Mihara followed the suspect's actions step by step to conduct an in-depth investigation, but fell deeper and deeper into the bottomless abyss of time inversion. What hinders him from unraveling the truth is people's innate blind trust in "time".