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"Heart" is the work of Natsume Soseki, a master of modern Japanese literature and a critical realist writer. It is still among the ten works that Japanese middle school students like to read. It is a confession of an egoist, which profoundly exposes the conflict between selfishness and morality. In 1910, Natsume Soseki suffered from gastric ulcer and experienced the experience of struggling on the verge of death. He changed his original humorous and game-like creative style, explored life from the front, focused on the psychological description and analysis of characters, and turned his writing directly to analyzing the hateful, sad, and lamentable lonely inner world of the egoists among the intellectuals in the Meiji era, thus creating the classic work "Heart".

"The Stranger", one of Camus' famous and representative works. In an objectively recorded "zero style", it describes in broad strokes the various absurd things that the protagonist Meursault experienced in an absurd world: from attending his mother's funeral to becoming a murderer by mistake, and then being sentenced to death. Meursault is indifferent to everything, existing indifferently and indifferently.

This book is based on the author's personal experience of traveling in China from 1919 to 1920. The story takes place in the British colony of Hong Kong and a place called "Meitan Mansion" in inland China. The heroine Katie Finn had an affair with Charlie, the assistant chief secretary of Hong Kong. Her husband Walter (a bacteriologist in the Hong Kong government) found out and forced her to go to Meitan Mansion where cholera was rampant. Unfortunately, Walter eventually contracted the disease and died. Katie returned to Hong Kong and fell into the arms of Charlie. She was so ashamed that she finally returned to the UK to reconcile with her father and went to live with her father in the Bahamas. From the book, readers can see the ambiguity and contradiction behind a seemingly indifferent narrator: as a part of the imperial narrative, the author's orientalist political and cultural views are hidden under the veil; as an individual writer who pays attention to human nature, his doubts and longing for love, ridicule and tolerance of human nature are hidden under his veil.

Austen's popular classic; the translator Wu Lao wrote the "Translation Preface", which provides a comprehensive analysis of the classic. This book is Austen's first published work, and it can be called a companion volume to Pride and Prejudice. Two sisters, Eleanor and Marianne, were born into a decent British squire family. The elder sister is good at controlling her emotions with reason, but the younger sister has no restraint in emotions. Therefore, when they encounter setbacks in love, the two have different reactions: the older sister endures humiliation and is always kind to others; the younger sister is arrogant and almost collapses... And the fate of the protagonist The love-related idle squire's wife, the snobbish and ruthless brother-in-law's family, the hypocritical distant sisters of the philistine, and the lovers who are either morally corrupt or upright and weak in the hearts of girls all appear in this storm, creating a classic story that is famous for its delicate writing and vivid dialogue, and tells the story of the marriage and love of girls without a wealthy dowry.

After the aid construction in Longxia County was getting better, Guo Yiqing was ordered to withdraw and continue to take charge of the Jinghan City Party Committee Office. He still served Miao Buju, the executive of the provincial party committee and the secretary of the municipal party committee. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the GDP growth rankings of cities in Hanbei Province were released. Jinghan City fell back to the middle and lower reaches of the province. Miao Buju, who broke out in a cold sweat, tried to find a solution. As a policy, he created an evaluation method for economic and social development, and handed over this political wisdom to Guo Yiqing at the helm. Departments at all levels strived not to be ranked last in the quarterly evaluation, and managed top and bottom, competing. Poll representatives also tried their best for their own interests, secretly public relations, Guo Yiqing worked hard to deal with the outside world and the inside side. During this period, Guo Yiqing gradually became confused and confused by the bloody fights between evil forces, the behind-the-scenes operations in corporate restructuring, the hidden rules in demolition compensation, the confusion in the love field, etc. Facing the "big test" and the whirlpool of love, Guo Yiqing struggled...

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Does the invisible soul exist? Do invisible atoms exist? On the Cambridge campus before World War I, physics researcher Fred's life was dominated by problems such as this. In London's upper class society, Daisy was left alone after her mother's death, and encountered harassment and dismissal one after another while working. In an era when even women's suffrage needed to be fought for, she was strong and independent and almost had no choice. Will it be a miracle that she meets Fred by accident? Here, truth escapes certainty in various ways: atoms are as unobservable as ghosts, and love and faith generally have no appeal to reality. The world in 1912 stood on a threshold that would change forever.

Women are weak by nature, but mothers are strong. This is the world's greatest malice towards women. Five reasons why you must read this annual work on women's voices: 1. Mainstream media such as Beijing News, Jiemian Culture, and The Paper are reporting on the screen; 2. KOLs such as Wu Zhihong, Anti-Pants Front, and Luo Zhen are hotly discussed; 3. Sir movies, Film and television public accounts such as Independent Fish and Crow Movies meet each other late; 4. The adaptation of the play of the same name continues to be on the Douban Weibo topic list, with hundreds of thousands of netizens calling in unison; 5. Hao Jingfang, Hou Hongbin, Ku Suo, Zhang Yiwei and other seven cultural women have sincerely recommended it. Risako, a new mother, was selected as a jury to face the trial of an "evil mother" who killed her young daughter. As the trial progressed, Risako discovered that the defendant was so similar to himself... He gave up his career to raise children, but lost the last bit of his own space; no matter how much hard work he put in, he would be taken for granted, and no matter how little his husband helped, he would be praised by the outside world; there were countless questions and difficulties in child care, but they would only be dismissed as "this is how everyone gets here." Risako began to wonder: "Is it possible that every mother will become a suspect in the dock because of these experiences?"

The 36-year-old dentist Kenichi Kuhara, who has always been single, lives happily after a blind date and marriage with the beautiful Hariko. Kuhara knows that the 27-year-old Hariko has a cousin who committed suicide due to a failed crush on him. Kuhara does not care. The second night after marrying Kuhara, Hariko felt guilty because she dreamed about her dead cousin. With the help of a doctor friend, Jiuyuan investigated the condition of his cousin's neurasthenia and reassured Zhizi. However, the good memories and God-given blessings of Zhizi seemed to be gradually disappearing.

"You are on the Plateau (set of 10 volumes)" edited by Zhang Wei is full of shocking and adventurous reading. I can't help but tell you about the spirit Aya, which is a tortuous and profound treasure in my heart. In this era of vigorous awakening, on the road of breathless pursuit, stop and listen to me recount the memories of love and childhood, cruelty and mercy, misfortune and immortality.

This book is a representative collection of novels and essays by the famous French writer Daudet. This book includes Dode's famous novel "The Last Lesson" and the prose he wrote when he lived in the mountains of Provence. In these words, Dode is full of tenderness and tenderness, using simple brushwork and clear tones to depict beautiful and moving pictures: the quiet mountains and forests under the scorching sun in the south, the fields covered with grapes and olives, the charming starry sky, etc. This book has strong literary appreciation value.

"Little Women" was influenced by Emerson, a great thinker at the time, and emphasized the concepts of personal dignity and self-reliance. This book shows you this classic work of "women's self-civil war, the battle between tradition and freedom" in the form of a Chinese-English bilingual abbreviation.

"Gulliver's Travels" is a novel in the form of a travelogue. Through Captain Gulliver's own narration, it depicts the protagonist's strange experiences in Lilliput and the Land of Adults. It is full of whimsical plots and humorous wit. The author used exaggeration to exaggerate the vitality of the era, and used absurdity to denounce the shortcomings of the era. He is famous in the history of world literature for his sharp and profound satirical art.

"The Outsider" reveals the paradoxes in the modern judicial process through the true feelings of a clerk. By completely excluding the client from the judicial process, he is placed in an outsider status of being "replaced" and "excluded", and ultimately the client is sentenced to death. The social significance of "The Outsider" lies in its profound revelation of absurd reality.

This book is a collection of two of the most representative novels by the famous French writer Camus. "The Outsider" reveals the paradoxes in the modern judicial process through the true feelings of a clerk. The social significance of "The Outsider" lies in its profound revelation of absurd reality. "The Plague" is a symbolic novel. In the novel, the story of the people of Ahlan City uniting to fight and defeat the plague fully explains how people should face absurd philosophy. These two works are the shining gems of Camus's literary creation and have become immortal classics in world literature in the twentieth century.

Everyone who is wandering in a foreign land must read "The Missing" to live the life he wants! Kafka used a Chaplin-style comedy story to once again brilliantly create a protagonist who is exiled from society and reveal the eternal dilemma of life. The unfinished posthumous work of Kafka, the pioneer of Western modernist literature, is one of the "Loneliness Trilogy". Six reasons why you must read "The Missing" in Reader's Classic Library: 1. Based on the 1983 revised edition, the deleted content and unfinished manuscripts are restored to truly present the original appearance of Kafka's work! 2. Includes a professional introduction by Geng Yiwei, director of the China Taipei Arts Festival! 3. Includes the foreword by Klaus Mann, son of Thomas Mann! 4. Included is the postscript edited by Newst Schilenmai, the editor of the revised edition! 5. Includes the postscript of Kafka's friend Max Brod! Contains Kafka's chronology and rare photos! "The Missing" is Kafka's first novel after he entered his creative period. Like the footage of a black-and-white documentary, it calmly and faithfully expresses those real and long-lasting stories. The protagonist Karl is a kind and ordinary young man, born in a wealthy family in Prague. When he was sixteen, he was seduced by the family maid and became pregnant, and was expelled to the United States by his father. In the United States, his uncle helped Carl enter the upper class. However, in that era when capital was particularly crazy, Carl experienced various difficulties and his life deteriorated...

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Disgusted by people's vanity, sinologist Peter Keane gave up his official position and lived in isolation, spending all his time with books. Unexpectedly, his housekeeper was evil-hearted and tried every means to win his trust and marry him. However, she humiliated him in every possible way after the marriage. Isolated and helpless, Keane introduced a liar as his best friend, was tricked and fooled again, and was even falsely accused of being a psychopath. Although his brother finally drove away the evildoers and recovered his property, Keen, who was mentally stimulated, became frightened. After a daydream, he ignited a collection of thousands of books and threw himself into the sea of ​​​​fire. "Confusion" was written in 1935. It is Canetti's only novel and his masterpiece. His unique and profound insights, wise and pungent language, criticism of vulgar society, and prediction of the rise of totalitarianism are all vividly displayed in this work.

Tess, a graceful woman, as sensitive as gossamer and as pure as snow. On a misty moonlit night, Tess followed her "cousin" Alek, who was pretending to be a noble, into a hunting forest. From then on, her life suffered an irreversible change. The shadow of this sad experience enveloped Tess, and she could not let go even if she met the love of her life, Claire. Tess experienced sweet love and suffered painful separation. When her husband left and life was difficult, Alek's entanglement again pulled her into a deeper quagmire. Fiery love and strong hatred, bright light and heavy darkness, intertwined into Tess's life that ended in tragedy. This is the trauma of an era, which is touching, worrying and sad.

After Jiang Renhao, a former businessman, failed in his business, he came to Wujin from Seoul alone with his wife's help, and applied for a teaching position in a school for the deaf and mute. His purpose is very simple, he just wants to make some money and live a better life so that he can go back to the big city to reunite with his wife and daughter. But slowly, he discovered that the entire school was enveloped in a tense and depressive atmosphere that was suffocating. A shocking secret was exposed, layers of darkness were slowly unveiled, and the truth shocked everyone... Faced with the unbearable reality and crazy life, as a husband who has to earn a living to maintain his family, a father who wants to set an example for his daughter, and an ordinary person who is kind and cowardly with his own disgraceful past, how should Renhao choose? It is adapted from a true incident at Inhwa School in Gwangju, South Korea.

The elderly apartment located in Ginza, Tokyo, was built by the operator, Kurusu, with the desire to allow the elderly who are no longer bound by work and worldly life to live happily, casually and enjoy life. In the apartment filled with a free and relaxed atmosphere, the established concept of "aging" was completely broken. Revolving around the "love" and "sex" of the elderly, stories that were either tender, desolate, funny or bitter happened one after another...

Name is a spell that connects destiny, telling the American dream of an Indian immigrant family; a hardcover version of Juppa Lahiri's first novel, a sensation in the world literary world alongside Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The novel tells the life experience of Gogol, an Indian boy born in the United States, from childhood, adolescence to youth. Gogol's father's name is Ashoke, which means "the one who transcends sorrow"; his mother's name is Ashima, which means "the infinite woman". When Ashoke was young, he suffered a train derailment and survived because of a copy of "The Collected Novels of Gogol". For this reason, when his son was born in the United States, he named his son "Gogol." Gogol has the diligence of an Indian immigrant child and the rebellious personality of an American teenager. As an adult, he has a successful career and has a girlfriend from an upper-class New York family. He wanted to break out of the Indian circle, but in the end he married an Indian girl... After experiencing life and death, reunion and separation, between the East and the West, everyone in the story was torn, struggling, escaping and returning between the two cultures. Where is the real destination?

It reveals the inside story of the literary and journalistic circles, and concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deep feelings about life. It is one of the most valuable works in "Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and had their ideals shattered. The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution.

"Grass of the Night" tells the story of a writer who discovers traces of a past time in an old notebook from the 1960s. Fifty years later, the words recorded in the notebook took him back to Montparnasse, the university town, the Left Bank and the era of "decolonization". At that time, he had a close relationship with a young woman named Dani. However, walking on the streets of Paris in 2012, what happened in 1966 became suspicious. She concealed many facts: her real name, her activities, and a person who fascinated her. The huge secret that really troubles her... There are files on her and several acquaintances and friends in the police station, but the clues to the pursuit of the truth are still looming. The dislocation of space and time, the confusion of reality and poetry, make this novel a confusing youth fantasy.

"Chasing Lost Time" is a novel that is different from traditional novels. The whole book takes the narrator "I" as the main body and integrates what he sees, hears, thinks and feels. It is not only a true description of social life and human relations, but also a record of the writer's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. In addition to narrative, it also contains a lot of reflections and discussions. This book is an excerpt from "In Search of Lost Time". In order to allow readers to appreciate the charm of Proust's unique style as much as possible, French translator Zhou Kexi adopted a "large-span" excerpting method. He first selected the essential paragraphs in each volume of the novel.

Within four years, five of the author's relatives and friends died unexpectedly one after another. Their deaths seemed unrelated, but were intertwined by their identity and location. These young black men live in the Deep South, where intergenerational poverty looms over their lives. In remembrance of the past, the author shows how today, more than a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, racism is deeply institutionalized through economic and educational disparities, plaguing generations of black youth. With the warmth of nostalgia mixed with the guilt of the living, the author finally returned to his hometown and wrote down their and his own stories, allowing those fresh faces obscured by cold statistics to resurface.

The novel describes the city of London under the attack of the Great Plague in 1665. The novel is likely based on records kept by Defoe's uncle, Henry Defoe. In this book, Defoe took great pains to achieve a realistic effect, describing in detail the specific neighborhoods, streets, and even which houses the plague occurred. In addition, it provides a table of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes. The book is often compared to contemporary accounts of the plague, particularly the diary of Samuel Pepys. Although Defoe's account is fictional, it is more detailed and systematic than Pepys' first-person narrative.

"The Needle of Time" is Maria Dueñas's first novel. Without any marketing promotion, this debut novel by a newcomer has been enthusiastically sought after by readers due to the charm of the novel itself. It has sold more than 1.5 Million copies in Spain alone and has been translated into more than 20 languages ​​​​and distributed worldwide. Sheila, an innocent tailor girl, opened the door of a typewriter store with her fiancé on the eve of her wedding. Her originally determined fate was completely changed: a huge fortune and a father she had never met fell from the sky! This is just the first page of the immortal copy of time. As the pages of the war years are gradually opened, the entire Mediterranean coast has become her stage. Politics, espionage, conspiracy, and adventure, which originally had nothing to do with her, are all related to her...

Jacob's Room was published in Woolf's home press in 1922. The main plot of the book tells the story of a young man's short life. Childhood at the seaside, studying in Cambridge, growing up independently, relationships with different women, studying in France and Greece, and finally losing his life in the First World War. This book is generally considered to be Woolf's first large-scale exploration and experiment in literary innovation. It was a turning point in her creative process and the beginning of her attempt to create using the stream of consciousness technique. The novel is set in England and begins with Jacob's childhood.

A respected doctor with unknown origins, a cunning and cunning captain with his own principles, and a melancholy young man charged with murder. A storm trapped them on a remote island in the Pacific. When the indifferent and charming girl comes with the style of summer night, everyone's fate is involved in the whirlpool of love, conspiracy, jealousy and death.

"I Am a Cat" is Natsume Soseki's masterpiece, written from 1904 to September 1906. The author inherited the tradition of Japanese haiku literature and Western European satirical literature, using humorous and pungent satire techniques to expose and criticize the thoughts and lives of the Japanese petty and middle-class bourgeoisie at the beginning of the twentieth century. This work takes the cat of a poor teacher as the protagonist and observes human psychology from the cat's perspective. Taking the cat's vision as the axis, the structure is composed of episodic details and fragments, which has the prose characteristics of a novel; the language is both hard and soft, elegant and popular, and the sound and color are gorgeous. This is a cat who is good at thinking, knowledgeable, full of justice, and has a literary temperament, but he has never learned to catch mice until his death.

The collection of novels by Tsering Norbu, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize, is a hot-selling traditional Chinese version in Taiwan, and the English version is about to be released. Liu Xinglong and Alai, winners of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, and famous critics Li Jingze and Shi Zhanjun jointly recommend Tsampa milk tea, butter, butter, fragrant roasting of mulberry, spinning sutras, listening to raps, and transforming from magical style into daily inner scenery.

During the Anti-Japanese War. Accompany the capital Chongqing. Dark and chaotic, ghosts are rampant. Mr. Ou has been studying all his life and has taught his four children to study hard and make a living using the knowledge they have learned. However, prices in Chongqing have skyrocketed, supplies are in short supply, and people are in dire straits, making it difficult to live on wages. As a result, Mr. Ou's third son abandoned Wen and drove a truck and made a fortune; his second son abandoned medicine and went into business and lived a well-off life; and his eldest son was still a civil servant and was in poverty. The friends, colleagues, neighbors, and relatives around him are all speculative and profit-seeking, working hard day and night to make money. It is truly "tight ahead, tight behind"!

"Going to Swann's House" is the first volume of the multi-volume novel "In Search of Lost Time" by the famous 20th century French novelist Proust. The book is divided into three parts, the first part is "Combray", the second part is "Svann's Love", and the third part is "Places and Place Names; Place Names". At the end of the book is a summary of each section. This book is one of the "Collected Works of Zhou Kexi's Translations" published by East China Normal University Press, which accurately and vividly demonstrates the original author's beautiful and unique stream-of-consciousness style. The translator of the new version, the famous translator Mr. Zhou Kexi, has revised it again and made it more perfect.

I don't know what life is, but I just want a better life! This is the story of the life of a man named Garp. Garp has been without a father since he was born, because Garp's mother chose a different life: "I want a job, I want to live alone, and I want a child, but I don't want to share my body or life with others for this." So, she raised Garp in her own way and gave him all the freedom she could. And Garp has been trying to figure out how to live a good life. He couldn't distinguish between love and lust, and was trapped by lust for half his life, which put his marriage in trouble. He cares about his career, but is sometimes arrogant and anxious. He experienced a person's growth and destruction, and also felt the madness of the world and the fragility of people. But he always insisted that everyone must be full of energy and live a better life!

"Yu Shi Ming Yan" mainly collects stories or scripts based on real folk life in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. The themes cover love, marriage, friendship, etc., Showing the various social conditions at that time. Most of them are old scripts from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, such as "Shi Hongzhao's Meeting of the Dragon and Tiger Monarchs and His Ministers" and "The Four Dukes of the Song Dynasty Raised the Soul-forbidden Zhang", while a few are scripts from the Ming Dynasty, such as "Brother Jiang Xing Meets Again in Pearl Shirt" and "Shen Xiaoxia Meets as a Teacher". The themes are also closely related to urban life. For example, "The Golden Jade Slave Beats the Lover with a Stick" condemns the unfaithfulness of a heartless man; "Jiang Xing Ge Reunites in Pearl Shirt" describes the unforgettable old love for his wife who lost his virginity and reunited with her husband; "Redemption of Friends" and "Fan Juqing's Friend of Life and Death" extol the spirit of loyalty to friendship regardless of life and death; while "Yang Siwen meets an old friend in Yanshan", "Mu Mian'an Zheng Huchen avenges injustice", "Yang Balao's unexpected encounter with the country of Yue" touch on real political themes such as alien invasions and powerful ministers mistreating the country. In addition, some historical legends are included and adapted, such as "Yan Pingzhong's two peaches killed three men" and so on.

The protagonist Guina was born of an ordinary person, with no impressive academic qualifications or outstanding appearance. She works in an ordinary company and commutes to get off work in a crowded subway every day. Although she has a boyfriend who cherishes her very much, her boyfriend's family looks down on her very much in South Korea, which attaches great importance to practical conditions, even though her boyfriend's parents are not considered noble. After several years of mediocre working life, she realized that a "uncompetitive" person like herself would not be happy in South Korea. For people like her, today's South Korea is an era of "five abandonments" (giving up on love, marriage, having children, buying a house, and interpersonal relationships), and the rest is just struggling to make a living. Everything in the future is doomed, and no miracles will happen. One of Guina's lines mentioned that "Korea loves itself, not me. It only loves those who make it shine, such as Kim Yuna, and it avoids those who shame it." Therefore, she decided to find happiness in another completely different environment. Next, she resolutely resigned, said goodbye to her family and boyfriend, and went to Australia. In a foreign country where people and land are unfamiliar, she experienced various difficulties in life and various boyfriends, faced the cultural differences between East and West, and gained a clearer understanding of the nature of Koreans. Although returning to South Korea to marry her boyfriend, who has always been in love with her, would allow her to live a more comfortable and familiar life, she ultimately chose to stay in Australia to find her own, free happiness.

"All Things That Rise Must Converge" is the pinnacle short story collection of Flannery O'Connor, a heavyweight American literary writer, before she bid farewell to the literary world and passed away. The eleven works included in the volume, including "All Things Rising Must Converge" and "Festival in Partridge Town," explore issues such as faith, morality, and race that are familiar to O'Connor's readers. These stories are both sad and happy, beautiful and grotesque, and bear a strong O'Connor mark. Most of the protagonists in O'Connor's works are incompatible with their surroundings, and the contrasting effect produced reflects his writing style. In order to make the concept obvious, the writer has to use drastic methods. "When he encounters the hearing-impaired, he shouts; when he encounters the visually impaired, he draws the characters large and shocking." O'Connor, who died of lupus at the age of thirty-nine, left behind this masterpiece that is an immortal classic in the American literary world and even the world's literary world.

"Go Down, Moses" is a novel written by William Faulkner in 1942. It consists of seven related parts. Each part is relatively independent but also integrated into a complete picture. The author examines the complex and changing relationship between whites and blacks, man and nature from multiple angles, and uses unique modern writing techniques to weave a novel with a compact structure, rich connotations and implications. "Go, Moses" was originally the title of a famous black spiritual song.

There is Greek specialty wine exuding the scent of pine, roasted guinea chicken served on a silver plate decorated with the coat of arms of the Medici family, Pecorino goat cheese, and snacks made of almond flour wrapped in cream that can be swallowed in one bite. There are also studios of artists in the center of Florence in the 16th century, major banks all over Europe, and a dazzling array of shops filled with foreign goods. You will pass by plainly dressed civilian women cooking Egyptian bean soup in a cauldron, and you will have a heated discussion about Machiavelli's prophecies with aristocrats wearing fine satin and lace. What's even more incredible is that you can also go to watch and "interrupt" Michelangelo's own creation of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling frescoes! Not only that, the love drama between a handsome man and an elegant geisha, the power struggle between ambitious young people, and the complex relationships between the great powers at that time are all presented in this "Renaissance Novel" series. What was it like to live in the Renaissance era? After reading this book, you should have the answer in your mind. Returning to Venice to decide the fate of the world, Marco returns to politics and once again confronts Türkiye. After the death of Sultan Suleiman of Türkiye, war broke out between the two countries and evolved into an all-round conflict that no one expected. Nearly 500 warships fought fiercely at sea, and more than 15,000 people lost their lives in the Battle of Lepanto. In just one day, the fate of the world was decided. Venice and Türkiye negotiated peace. At this time, the Venetian diplomat Marco was over 75 years old and lived a retired life on Burano Island.

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has been obsessed with it for 25 years and insisted on making it into a movie of the same name. It was named the best adapted screenplay in 2016 by the National Board of Review and was selected as one of the top ten feature films of the year. "Silence" won the 2nd Junichiro Tanizaki Award and was translated into more than 20 languages ​​and sold well all over the world. The novel tells the story of a Portuguese Jesuit priest who smuggled himself to Japan to preach in a small village near Nagasaki during the Tokugawa Shogunate's ban on Christianity. It tells a thrilling story about faith and challenges, and answers the questions hidden in everyone's heart: What is the meaning of life, why should we have faith, and what is the purpose of our lives when we wake up every day?

"Catman" is an important work that established Updike's reputation as a master. For this work, he won the National Book Award for the first time. It is also one of the most artistic masterpieces among all his works. The story of "Catman" is not complicated. It tells the story of a father's love for his son. But this is a work of great emotional strength. This father's love is written in the novel in a profound and tragic way. This book almost reminds us to pay attention to two points: one is the extraordinary theme contained in the weird image of the horseman, and the other is the perfect combination of theme and expression. It interweaves myth and reality, has both symbolic meaning and beauty, and the sharpness and cruelty of reality. It tells a story of father and son, love and sacrifice beautifully, profoundly and touchingly in the way of surrealism and cubism painting. An out-and-out "masterpiece".

In Paris in 1819, the Napoleonic era had just come to an end. Behind the prosperity of the upper class, ladies were worried about lovers and debts, nobles were weighing wealth and love, and wealthy businessmen were planning speculation and business. In a low-income apartment in the lower society, various characters are inextricably linked to the upper class: the upstart old man Gao was drained by his two daughters and died desolately in a shabby corner; the mainland young man Rastignac is determined to rise to the top and urgently needs to learn many rules of the upper class; the gangster leader Mufu Tolen is dormant in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to declare war on secular society... In "Petro Goriot", Balzac depicts the unique spirit of the times during the period of social transformation: moral decay, social tension, confusion of values, and poverty of the lower class. At the same time, society is rarely full of mobility. Human relationships and world affairs in society during the period of transformation are taking turns to be staged in this human comedy.

"Carmen" reflects the Europeans' strong interest in foreign sentiments and exotic customs in the 19th century. The story takes place in Andalusia, southern Spain, providing a colorful backdrop for the conflict between European and Gypsy cultures that the story embodies. The Gypsy nation suffers from discrimination in Europe, but is romanticized by popular literature and art. Mérimée explores the theme of temptation and conflict when encountering different cultures from different levels in "Carmen". Since 1875, more than 50 films based on the work have been released, including several adaptations of Georges Bizet's operas.

Nominated for the most controversial "Booker Prize" in history, it angered the judges and was selected into "The 100 Best English Novels" by Time magazine. It provokes society and is dedicated to everyone who is addicted to consumption and desire. John Self, a producer of "commercials for alcohol, cigarettes, junk food, and nude magazines," indulged in "drinking, fighting, prostitution, pornography, and masturbation." For money, he even more unscrupulously made pornographic videos, and often traveled between London and New York, two money-worshiping metropolises. In this web of money and sex, Self's relationships with everyone around him are laid bare. Money is everywhere and omnipotent. As the only "true god" that Self trusts, it can not only fulfill all of Self's despicable and greedy human desires, but at the same time pave the way for Self to fall into hell. In this money and sex scam, Self ultimately became the biggest loser. In its straightforward, uninhibited and decadent description, this book profoundly highlights Amis's extreme ridicule of "money" and the silent sorrow of the twisted human soul corrupted by "money". From this "Tale of Two Cities" at the end of the 20th century, we can see how commercial producers in London used erotic films to pursue their dream of the showbiz world in New York. Everything is over the top, full of madness, subverting three views, and leading the trend of British experimental novels in the 1980s. It is an all-encompassing masterpiece.

"Eugénie Grandet" is a novel by the famous French writer Balzac. It tells the story of the innocent and beautiful Eugenie, the only daughter of the miserly and shrewd millionaire Grandet. She fell in love with her bankrupt cousin. For his sake, she did not hesitate to anger her money-loving father and spent all her private savings to help him make his way into the world. At this point, the relationship between father and daughter broke down, and the timid and virtuous mother was so frightened that she fell ill. The girl who lost her parents and her youth in the bitter expectation ended up with a heartless man who returned rich.

Jane Summers, a beautiful and capable female editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, returns to a peaceful life after losing her husband. However, she unexpectedly meets the handsome doctor Richard and begins her first serious love in her life. Two people burdened with family burdens and personal pain met each other late, but were unable to stay together. The mirrors and reincarnations of life are all in it: Jane saw the pain she had caused to her husband in Richard's cold marriage, saw her own success and failure in the excellent niece Jill, and saw her deepest fear in the old lady Anne and niece Kate... The tangled emotions allowed her to understand the regret for everything that had passed away, and also understand the true meaning of worldly affairs.

Gumdini, a beautiful girl who came from a declining family, married the domineering millionaire Motu Suden. The latter tried to forcibly instill his will into Gumdini and control her, making her her accessory. However, Gumdini had a strong character and constantly resisted Motusuden's authority, causing Motusuden to lose the battle. She even returned to her natal family and declared that she would never see Motu Suden again, but in the end she had to bow her head due to real problems such as her natal family's debt and pregnancy.

This is the sequel to the author's famous work "An Angel Looks Hometown", which records the life experience of Eugene Gant from the age of 20 to 25. The novel begins with Eugene leaving his hometown to study at Harvard. It describes his living conditions at Harvard, what he saw when he returned home for a funeral, his arrest and imprisonment, his experience of teaching in New York, his travels in Europe, and his meeting Esta when he returned home by boat. By narrating the growth process of a young man from a remote town in the southern United States, the author attempts to reveal his inner confusion and express his exploration of the meaning of life and his pursuit of happiness and truth.