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This book mainly tells the story of a 19th century first mate named Edmond Dantès who was about to achieve happiness but was framed for no reason and his tragic experience, as well as his subsequent successful revenge as the Count of Monte Cristo. The Gothic storyline, philosophical human laments, vivid characters, and fascinating ending have attracted countless readers and are a classic among Alexandre Dumas' novels.

I never really lived until I started living for myself! A milestone in modern Japanese literature, the pioneering work of romantic literature, and a history of spiritual change during the Enlightenment Period in modern Japan. A must-read masterpiece to understand Japanese literature! Ogai Ogai, a modern Japanese writer who is as famous as Natsume Soseki, is a Japanese writer that Lu Xun particularly loves, and has profoundly influenced literary masters such as Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Mishima Yukio and Dazai Osamu! The reason why "Dancing Girl" is a must-read in Reader's Classic Library! 1. Carefully select 8 masterpieces of Mori Ogai's short stories, including not only "Dancing Princess", the debut novel that made Mori Ogai famous in one fell swoop, but also "Goose", "Takase Fune" and other works that are regarded as classics in Japan. 2. The classic translation by Japanese translator Gao Huiqin strives for excellence in wording and sentence making, truly restoring Mori Ogai's language style. 3. Specially includes the translator's preface, providing an in-depth interpretation of Mori Ogai's creative career and understanding the story behind "Dancing Princess". Japanese young man Ohta fell in love with a dancing girl during his study tour in Germany. He longed for freedom and love, but did not have the courage to give up his originally smooth career. In his imprisoned life, Ota's self gradually awakens. How will he choose? In the history of human literature, "Maihime" by the representative Japanese writer Ogai Mori is full of self-establishment and exploration of the liberation of human nature. It can be called a history of spiritual change in modern Japan's Enlightenment period and is known as a milestone in modern Japanese literature.

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"Rain Drum" tells the story: In the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire sent troops to besiege the castle in Albania. The 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.

Lao She is a famous modern Chinese writer and a representative figure of Beijing School literature. His works have a unique humorous style and rich flavor of life, and are deeply loved by readers. This book collects many of his works. The three-act drama "Tea House" is a classic in the history of Chinese drama. Each character's lines are designed to be very vivid, expressive, full of personality, concise and concise, and have profound meaning. It is still a standing repertoire of modern theaters. Mr. Lao She's works are wise, concise, simple and humorous. The chapters selected in this book are all representative works praised by experts and readers, allowing readers to appreciate the writer's unique literary characteristics.

In Moscow in 1913, Nellie, the wife of printing company owner Frank, suddenly left home and abandoned their three children. Compared with the upcoming big changes, Frank's life fell into chaos in advance: Selwyn, a devout believer in Tolstoy, Culkin, a Russian businessman who raised bear cubs, and Volodya, a student who secretly sneaked into the printing factory with a gun... Frank shuttled among them, trying to properly solve all problems, but always one wave after another. Why exactly did Nellie leave? What caused this series of changes? The mystery continued until early spring came, when all the houses in Moscow opened their windows.

"Love and Sacrifice" describes Goethe's ability to write "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and tells the story of the famous British actress Sidneys and the story of the British novelist Lytton. Several stories are all based on real historical achievements, and they contain profound lessons that smart readers will understand.

"The Good Soldier" is one of Ford's most important masterpieces. It was created before the First World War and tells the tragedy of "The Good Soldier" Edward Ashburnham, with a complex and tortuous plot. In fact, the novel uses the narrator John Dowell to tell the emotional story between two couples in a seemingly casual tone. Among the four protagonists, three are dead and one is crazy... A large number of disorderly flashbacks are mixed in, and there is also a lot of space left for the readers to imagine and fill in... Ford's concept of "literary impressionism" has been fully reflected in this novel. No wonder some commentators call it "the father of impressionism in British novels." The original title of this novel was "The Saddest Story", and the first sentence at the beginning was: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." After the outbreak of World War I, Ford changed the title of the novel to the current ironic "The Good Soldier" (The Good Soldier). In 1998, this novel was ranked 30th among the "100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" by Random House Modern Library. In addition, it has been adapted into a TV series.

"Childhood" is the first of Gorky's autobiographical novel trilogy, which truly reproduces Gorky's difficult childhood experience. The protagonist of the novel, Alyosha, lost his father when he was three years old. With a beautiful vision for the future, he was fostered by his mother in his grandmother's house. Alyosha's grandfather was selfish, greedy, bad-tempered, and often abused his workers. Alyosha's uncles often fought in order to earn more profits. Fortunately, he had a kind and loving grandmother who was good at singing and dancing, and spent countless cold and lonely nights with Alyosha. Later, Alyosha made some friends, and their friendship brought joy to Alyosha's life. However, the departure of his friends made Alyosha fall into pain and loneliness. Later, the death of his mother and the bankruptcy of his grandfather completely pushed Alyosha into a hopeless life. At the age of ten, Alyosha embarked on the arduous road of making a living alone.

This set includes "Color of Steel: Trilogy of Court Sword Fighting", "Strength of the Bow: Trilogy of Court Sword Fighting", and "Armor of Death: Trilogy of Court Sword Fighting".

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In 2006, Paulo Coelho, who was about to turn 60, was already famous all over the world. But he was dissatisfied with his overly stable status quo, and was called by his inner uneasiness. He decided to listen to his inner voice, travel, and re-understand the world. Paulo Coelho visited seven strange places as a way to find answers: In Russia, he met a sensitive Turkish girl and took a train to Siberia with her; on the train, he and her accidentally entered "Aleph", a point where time and space intersect; in Aleph, Coelho suddenly discovered the truth of life that he had never faced face to face...

Duroy, who was born as a peasant, was bold, cold and cruel. He broke into Paris alone with his good looks, mixed in the circle of Parisian noble ladies, and acted like a fish in water, performing scenes of debauched farces. However, those cuckold husbands rushed to recommend and promote him, so that he quickly entered the upper class and became a political upstart. The novel reveals the emptiness, debauchery, and depravity of the upper class society, shows the shamelessness of bourgeois politicians, exposes the dark inside story of the political world and the press, and strongly criticizes the dark social reality. This novel has a very profound and broad influence in the world and has strong practical significance.

She was in her fifties and began dating a man thirty years her junior. He left his girlfriend who was his own age and fell in love with her with an unprecedented passion. But this intimate romantic episode was also political, and they were constantly met with malicious looks on the streets, in restaurants and at the beach. She became the "Scandal Girl" of her youth again, but now she felt no shame at all, but a sense of relief. At some point, he can no longer stand the beauty she once was, and she's just repeating her past. Although "he was her angel, evoking the past and making it everlasting," what does this mean for the future? "Young Man" is not a simple love story, but a powerful and powerful philosophical work that has overcome classism, ageism, and sexism over the years. It is the writer's questioning of time and the meaning of writing, so naked, like a sharp knife.

Charles Strickland is a British securities broker with a successful career and a prominent family. What puzzled everyone was that in middle age, he suddenly abandoned his wife and children and came to Paris penniless to study painting. In a foreign country, he was poor and sick, but he became more determined and persistent in his dream. After experiencing various bizarre encounters, he came to an isolated island in the South Pacific, married a local girl, had children, and successfully created a series of stunning masterpieces. At this moment, he was struck down by terminal illness and blindness. Before he died, he made an astonishing decision... The protagonist of this novel is based on the famous French painter Gauguin. The novel mainly expresses the contradiction between dreams and survival, the contradiction between responsibility and self, and the contradiction between genius and madman. "There were six pennies all over the ground, but he looked up and saw the moon." Charles has been pursuing a kind of pure and shocking beauty throughout his life. Perhaps this kind of beauty is the real value of life. May you and I both be the ones who always chase the moon.

The protagonist of the story, Charles Ryder, and the aristocratic Sebastian are classmates and friends at Oxford University. Through Sebastian's introduction, Ryder gradually enters the other person's life world and learns about the little-known past events of the family living in Brideshead Manor. Sebastian's father, Marchman Sr., Abandoned his wife and emigrated abroad; his mother, who appeared dignified and virtuous, actually lived a selfish and extravagant life. Her irresponsible parents left a mark of shame on the lives of several children and distorted their nature. Sebastian couldn't stand the depressive family atmosphere, ran away from home, and drank all day long to drown his sorrows. Although Ryder and Marchman's daughter Julia were in love with each other, religious reasons prevented the two young people from getting together after all. Ryder also realized that he had a considerable distance from them in terms of social status and spiritual beliefs.

Lao She is a famous modern Chinese writer and a representative figure of Beijing School literature. His works have a unique humorous style and rich flavor of life, and are deeply loved by readers. This book contains two novels, "Camel Xiangzi" and "Divorce", both written in the 1930s. The characters are distinctive, the details are vivid, and the language is ironic and humorous. It is humorous and relaxed. It is a rare treasure of modern literature.

The story begins in a building in Paris called the Apartment Vauquer. One of the two daughters became a countess and the other became a banker's wife. However, the old father, who only had a few hundred francs left for living expenses every year, had to do everything possible to raise money to pay off their debts. In the end, he died of poverty in his attic on the left bank of the Seine. A poor student who wants to squeeze into the upper class, a gangster who is good at disguise, a timid and timid apartment owner... From the poor and shabby alleys between the Latin Quarter and the gates of Saint-Marceau, to the magnificent aristocratic mansions in the Saint-Germain district, a dazzling Parisian society slowly emerges before our eyes...

"We Are Orphans" is the fifth novel by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, first published in 2000. London, England, 1930s. The young and successful Christopher Banks is a well-known detective throughout the UK. His legend of solving crimes has long been spread word of mouth in London social circles. However, for many years, an unsolved case has lingered in the mind of the famous detective for a long time. That is the mysterious disappearance of his biological parents in old Shanghai when he was a child. "Chasing the shadow of the disappearance of his parents", our protagonist searches all the way from the rich and luxurious London upper class, and finally returns to Shanghai under the gunfire of the Japanese invaders. This was by no means a tender homecoming. In this city that was once bustling with traffic and is now full of smoke and smoke, what awaits him is a dark secret and a cruel truth, and his Sherlock Holmes-style fairy tale life will also be reduced to ruins like his childhood hometown...

This book is a collection of Zhou Lili's short stories, including "Transplantation", "Ice Release", "Chief", "Eight Gates", "Principles of Mechanics", "How to Cross the Four Yuan Bridge", "You Are Old", "Changing Clothes", "East China Sea, East China Sea", "Sinking in the Sand", "Back and forth", etc. The work dares to face reality and contradictions, breaks the long-standing hard shell, and embodies a strong spirit of realism and criticism and thinking from a unique female perspective.

This is the first in-depth exploration of the suffocating living conditions and distorted inner lives of ordinary people in the "era of total control". The Stalinist era (1924-1953) was both the beginning and the climax of an era of total control. The transformed Soviets both feared political power and worshiped it. Almost every one of them has become a "whisperer" - either hiding in a corner and whispering to each other, or secretly pandering and becoming a whistleblower to the authorities. Many historical works about the Soviet Union focus on the horrific external phenomena of the gulag, arrests, sentences, imprisonment and even killings, but almost no one pays attention to the private lives of ordinary Soviet people and what they really thought and felt. "The Whisperer" focuses on the living conditions and inner souls of the most extensive ordinary people. It is the first oral history work to deeply explore personal and family life during the Stalin period.

The famous work of "National Great Writer" Natsume Sakiki is printed on the Japanese yen! A classic unanimously praised by Lu Xun, Haruki Murakami, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa! This book was serialized in the "Cuckoo" magazine in 1905. It vividly reflected the thoughts and life of Japan's petty and middle-class bourgeoisie at that time, and sharply exposed and criticized the "civilized and enlightened" capitalist society of the Meiji era. As the epitome of the cat owner Kushaya in the novel, Natsume Soseki mocked the helplessness and ignorance of intellectuals in the Meiji era, as well as the ugly face of the supremacy of money. The cat's own world is also an interesting part of the novel. The funny scenes of doing the cat dance with the rice cake demon and trying to catch mice but ending up in embarrassment make people laugh. Cats' usual sports, such as "catch cicadas", "sliding on the pine", and "walking on the fence", are all reminiscent of the funny behaviors of cat people outside the novel world. The social life of cats is equally colorful. The bad cat "Heizi" from the coachman's family and "Sanmaozi" from the two-stringed harp master's family enrich readers' imagination of the world of cats. The world of cats also reflects the world of humans.

The novel "Horace" is one of the representative works of the French female writer George Sand. It tells the story of the vain and conceited young man Horace Dumont, who, with the help of his parents and friends, attempts to enter the upper class society in Paris and achieves a turning point in his life, but in the end everything comes to nothing. The author tries to illustrate through the protagonist's encounters that those who are self-interested by any means must pay the price for their selfishness, while those with a spirit of sacrifice and dedication can truly enjoy happiness.

This book uses the various situations after the plague in Oran, a city in Algeria, to express the extreme life of people in the epidemic city, the "suffocation" they felt and the "atmosphere of threat and exile" they experienced. It successfully created a great myth of a person who resists evil and whose strengths overcome weaknesses. The male protagonist, Dr. Rieux, represents the warmth of human nature. He proves with his hard work and tenacity that in the game against the plague and the game against life, what a person can win is nothing more than knowledge and memory. Humanity must have hope. Without hope, there is no peace.

A legendary novel that makes serious people laugh. In the history of human literature, the history described by Alexandre Dumas is the nail on which novels are hung. The Musketeers are passionate French legends who held up half the sky of romanticism in the 19th century. "The Three Musketeers" has been popular in the world for two hundred years. It is one of Alexandre Dumas's famous and representative works, making Alexandre Dumas famous all over the world. The story tells the story of D'Artagnan, a young provincial who came to Paris, met the king's three musketeers: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and became friends of life and death with them. The four friends embarked on a series of adventures against the background of the ever-changing palace struggle.

The protagonist, the sixty-two-year-old Ogata Shingo, has a son and a daughter. The son is mentally disabled due to participating in the "World War II", and the daughter is separated from her son-in-law and takes the child back to live with her parents. Recently, Shingo has felt strongly about his aging. He thought of his former lover, his wife Yasuko's deceased sister, the "eternally holy girl" in his mind, and saw the image of his former lover in his daughter-in-law Kikuko. After his son Shuichi had his lover Kinuko, he completely ignored Kikuko's existence. Shingo had sympathy and pity for Kikuko beyond what he should have as a father-in-law, but he still could not change Kikuko's situation. The life of Shingo's family is considered to be the epitome of ordinary family life in Japanese society at that time, embodying the consistent themes in Kawabata Yasunari's literary creation - death and dreams.

This book is like a love letter to Manhattan, exquisite, elegant, humorous, fresh love and bread. Which one will you choose? There are no always right answers in life. In New York in the late 1930s, the Great Depression was coming to an end, and there was no threat of war. Under the peaceful atmosphere, a group of young people were looking for their ideals and love here. Katie Conten, a calm and wise commoner girl full of poetry, and her roommate Eve met a noble and charming young banker Tinker in a jazz bar. Katie fell in love with Tinker, but a car accident completely changed her life.

On January 5, 1936, geologist Ding Wenjiang, who had served as a member of the Executive Yuan's Political Affairs Reorganization Committee, died of a lung infection caused by gas poisoning while inspecting the Tanjiashan Coal Mine in Hunan. On this day, he was three months away from his 49th birthday. Ding Wenjiang is one of the founders of Chinese geology. This westward expedition was to explore the coal reserves along the Guangdong-Hankou Railway and plan for long-term resistance to Japan. This workaholic died unexpectedly at the prime age of less than fifty. The news spread, and the academic circles across the country were shocked. Ten years ago, after Ding Wenjiang resigned from the Songhu Commercial Port General Office and left Sun Chuanfang, his first stop was Beijing. Beiyang is about to fall, and Ding Wenjiang, Zhang Taiyan, Chen Taoyi, Zhang Junmai and others are on the wanted list issued by the Southern Revolutionary Army. Later, he found out that the wanted order had not actually been executed, and he felt relieved.

Albert Camus's "The Stranger" fully exposes the absurdity of the world and the opposition between man and society by creating the image of Meursault, an "outsider" who is deviant and incompatible with the world. Meursault's behavior seems absurd and unnatural, but it is his weapon to fight against this absurd world. "The Outsider" has been reprinted many times, with tens of millions of copies printed. The "outsider" has therefore become one of the most classic characters and one of the most important keywords in the history of Western literature and philosophy.

Chen Haowen, chief of the Investigation Section of the Tianan City National Security Bureau, accidentally encountered an old man who died of an unknown virus on the high-speed train, so he followed the clues and pointed the finger at an overseas organization called the Dragon Gang. In order to solve the case as soon as possible, the Tianan Municipal National Security Bureau set up a task force and discovered that the Long Gang went to Tianan to steal the design technology of the intercity high-speed rail. Immediately afterwards, Gao Tian, the chief designer of the intercity high-speed rail, was attacked during a business trip. Fortunately, Chen Haowen and his colleagues and They arrived on time, but the Dragon Gang sent out several more killers. With the enemy in the dark and ourselves in the clear, Chen Haowen led a group of comrades to go through many difficulties. After encountering life-and-death confrontations, they finally discovered the Dragon Gang's killers and overseas spies lurking in Tianan.

The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student who was poisoned by anarchist ideas and believed that he was a superman and could do whatever he wanted. Forced to make a living, he killed the old loan shark Alyona and her innocent sister Lizaveta, creating a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sonia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on depicting the protagonist's psychological changes after committing a crime and reveals the miserable life of the Russian lower class people.

Mrs. Dalloway is a stream-of-consciousness novel published by Virginia Woolf in 1925. The protagonist's character traits may have come from a friend of the author, Ms. Ottoline Morel. The novel describes the details of one day in the life of the protagonist Clarissa Dalloway in Britain after World War I. As one of Woolf's masterpieces, the novel was named one of the 100 best English novels from 1923 to 2005 by Time magazine.

The entire novel is about the novelist Henry James in the last few years of his life. He is very famous and laid the foundation of psychological realism in the history of world literature. In his later years, he refused to be lonely and tried drama writing. As a result, on the night of the performance of his play, he was humiliated by the public and he never recovered. The writing form of "Author, Author" is very novel. If it is a novel, it contains very detailed historical facts, but it is completely different from a biography in the general sense. The author consciously arranges the facts according to artistic needs.

There is a town named Margaret. There is a house called Margaret in the town, and there are five Margarets living in the house. The giggling child Mei, the melancholy girl Mia, the sad young man Maggie, the surly middle-aged Maggie, and the deaf old lady Margaret are the same person but not the same person. A man who deeply loved Margaret was lost on the first day he came to this town. So he devoted his life to reading her heart. There is no magic in this world, we will age until we disappear, but we still firmly believe that love can last forever.

"La Traviata" has created some vivid and distinctive artistic images for us, and the most prominent and unforgettable among them is naturally the heroine Margaret. Margaret is beautiful, smart and kind. Although she has fallen into the world, she still maintains a pure and noble heart. She pursues a true love life with passion and hope, and when this hope is shattered, she is willing to sacrifice herself to help others.

This is an epic story of the era of American economic expansion. Babbitt, a real estate agent in Zenis City, has a prosperous business and a comfortable life. He always promotes moral ethics in order to gain more profits. However, his mechanical lifestyle made him increasingly irritable. When his best friend Paul is imprisoned for shooting his hysterical wife, Babbitt embarks on a journey of rebellion that offends business magnates. Babbitt, who had encountered various obstacles and sabotage in his business, was tired of rebellion and longed to get back on track. His wife's sudden illness helped him return to the group of "decent people" and re-enter the arms of the vulgar philistines and the intrigues of the business order.

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In Shanghai during the isolation period, the traitor leader died in an explosion in his apartment. In order to hunt down the assassin, the Japanese army sealed off the apartment and launched a closed terrorist investigation. Hunger and panic enveloped all residents. In order to save himself, a novelist with an imaginative mind used the mysterious woman in his novel as a bait to convince the Japanese soldiers to believe her truth step by step and complete the fatal blow. Xiaobai's story is full of suspense and reversals, recreating a Shanghai that is different from Zhang Ailing's. This book also includes the novella "Agent Xu Xiangbi", which won the 10th Shanghai Literature Award, and takes people into the mystery of twin brothers "exchanging lives".

In 1942, Lisbon, Portugal, gathered many exiles waiting to go to the United States. Late one night, two strangers met at the pier. One person is wandering around because he has no boat tickets, and the other person is willing to give away his two tickets on the condition that the other person will listen to him until dawn, and the story unfolds. The person who sent the ticket was the German Joseph Schwarz. Because he opposed the Nazi regime, he was denounced by his brother-in-law, who was a Gestapo, and was imprisoned in a concentration camp. He later escaped from Germany, but took the risk to return home to visit his wife Helen. Helen decided to leave Germany with Joseph. They traveled to Switzerland, France, and Spain, separated and reunited several times, escaped various pursuits and imprisonment, and finally arrived in Lisbon, but at the last moment they were unable to board the ship to the "Promised Land"... Joseph and Helen's escape is an "epic composed of horror, comedy, escape, bureaucracy, despair and love."

The first winning work of the Mao Dun Literature Award, the highest award for contemporary literature in China, the film of the same name is directed by Xie Jin and stars Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen. The novel makes a serious review and profound reflection on the nearly 20 years of China's history from the late 1950s to the late 1970s through the experiences of Hu Yuyin, a female vendor in Furong Town, and Qin Shutian, a "rightist" and others in a series of movements from the "Four Cleans-ups" to the "Cultural Revolution." The ups and downs in Furong Town are a microcosm of the history of contemporary Chinese society. The author adopts an almost chronological approach and expresses the true face of various characters in the face of history through the ups and downs of many characters. At the same time, he also sends out a call for humanity and a celebration of beautiful emotions. The novel's use of individual "sexual" psychological motivations to explain historical events is a major breakthrough in contemporary literature.

"Disqualified" is an influential novel by the famous Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai. This book was published in 1948. It is an autobiographical novel. The delicate autobiography reveals a unique decadence and a destructive masterpiece. This book contains various experiences in his short life and his inner confusion and struggle. Even though time has changed, the deepest despair still comes from the inner confusion, and this confusion and hesitation almost ran through the youth of Dazai Osamu and each of us. Therefore, "Disqualification in the World" is a cruel and eternal youth literature. However, after the confused soul was broken, some people chose to continue life in the hustle and bustle, and Osamu Dazai left poetically. From his works, you can understand the hesitation and despair of the past, and see the weak and eager self in our hearts.

"The Moon and the Campfire" is the last and most important novel of the Italian writer Cesare Pavese, first published in 1949. The abandoned baby "Eel" is tired of struggling in the United States and returns to the northern Italian countryside in search of his lost childhood. Unexpectedly, he learns about the cruel past of his hometown during the fascist occupation, and realizes that the hometown he is looking for has long been broken. In endless melancholy, he embarked on a journey again.

On this side of the sea is a luxurious resort hotel; on the other side is a bustling city. The two stages face each other across the sea through the hot and humid air of midsummer. The story shot switches repeatedly inadvertently as consciousness flows: the city on the other side of the sea is filled with a jubilant atmosphere and is about to usher in a grand carnival. At the same time, three teenagers picking up peaches killed wild dogs on the garbage mountain; in the military mansion, the lonely colonel continued his crazy whispering in front of his lover; in the circus, the middle-aged guard took his wife and children to watch the deserted and failed performance; in the hospital ward, the tailor watched his dying mother moaning and struggling with swelling and itching... On this side of the sea, the young painter was enjoying a luxurious beach vacation, but the shadow of that city reflected in his eyes: noisy, chaotic, dirty, filthy, rotten, degraded, and helpless. Will the sea bring the corpses from across the sea here? No, the dead body will probably disappear without a trace on the way, and the greedy and sharp-toothed fish will peck at it. The thick salt will melt the bones in the sea water. This is the sea. The sea lay between that city and us.

The 2019 Booker Prize-winning work, a talented and sharp-edged masterpiece of contemporary literary realism, has a stunning Chinese version. In a polyphonic way, it narrates the twelve very different adventurous lives of twelve British women who lived in different eras and had different skin colors, personalities and careers. "Girls, Women, Others" is the winning work of the 2019 British Booker Prize. It majesticly depicts a group portrait of black British women: from avant-garde playwrights, to serious and conservative school teachers, to non-binary social media celebrities, they are diverse and full of vitality. Their speeches are precise and dazzling, but they are often ignored by society. This book records all of this in a unique and progressive creative style. The strong realistic style, combined with free verse language, vividly outlines the survival difficulties faced by women in the past century, as well as their breathtaking courage and strength.

Dylan, a 15-year-old single-parent girl, has a world in a mess. She decided to visit her father whom she had not seen for a long time, but a traffic accident occurred on the road. After she desperately climbed out of the train wreckage, she was horrified to find that she was the only survivor, and there was a wasteland in front of her. At this time, Dylan saw the figure of a boy on the hillside not far away. Their fate took an unpredictable turn from the moment they met... After experiencing a thrilling choice, Dylan finally broke the boundary between life and death and came to the real world. At the same time, a ferryman named Susanna also yearned for life in the real world. For this reason, she deceived a soul who was extradited by her, and triggered a great change...

"Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" describes the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II in a cold way. It writes about eleven kinds of lonely lives. The protagonists are all people who lack security and live unsatisfactory lives: fired white-collar workers in Manhattan office buildings, people with outstanding imaginations A taxi driver, a young man who has been frustrated many times and wants to be a writer, a confused man and woman who are about to get married, an eccentric old teacher, a newly transferred primary school student, a tuberculosis patient, an old and sick wife, a jazz pianist, a frustrated military officer, a retired soldier, etc. Yates's works are all about the ordinary lives of ordinary people, describing the loneliness, loss and despair of ordinary people. He himself once said: "If there is any theme in my works, I think there is only one simple one: people are lonely, no one can escape, and this is their tragedy."

The book is divided into two parts. The first part begins with the death of Meursault's mother and ends with him killing the Arabs on the beach. It is a story narrated in chronological order. In the second part, the prison cell replaces the sea, and social consciousness replaces Meursault's spontaneous consciousness. In an objectively recorded "zero style", the book describes in broad strokes the various absurd things that the protagonist Meursault has experienced in an absurd world, as well as his own absurd experience. Camus sympathetically praised Meursault for his proud attitude of contempt for religion and death. Although this kind of resistance is negative, it deeply reflects the uneasiness and despair about the world that spread in Western society after the outbreak of World War II, and therefore has certain practical significance.

"Dream" is the posthumous work of Zweig's novel. The heroine Christina is a female clerk from a poor family. The vacation opportunity provided by her wealthy relatives caused her unchanging life to undergo a "change". This change was actually only "short-lived" and "dream-like." After this short-lived, dream-like change came to an abrupt end, the heroine's real life did not change at all. It was still the hopeless, poor, and monotonous life that she could not get rid of no matter how hard she tried. This was the heroine's fate, which made her resentful, suffocated, and despairing. She complained repeatedly in her heart about this, but in the end she stopped complaining and decided to use real actions to change this fate without hesitation.

"Candide" is a masterpiece among Fold's philosophical novels. The protagonist "Candide" is the illegitimate son of a German baron's sister. He grew up in a closed environment, simply trusting the optimism of his tutor, thinking for the best in everything, and firmly believing that the Baron's house was paradise on earth. However, because he fell in love with his cousin Miss Cunegon, he was kicked out of the house by the baron and embarked on a journey to explore the world. During this journey, he did not see a single positive thing. Natural disasters and man-made disasters, as well as all kinds of people in society, made him slowly abandon his optimism and become moderate and practical.