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"Macbeth" is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. It tells the story of General Macbeth, cousin of King Duncan of Scotland, who murdered Duncan and became king driven by ambition. In order to conceal others and prevent others from seizing the throne, Duncan's bodyguards, Banquo, and the wife and children of the noble Macduff were killed step by step. In the end, with all the rebels and relatives separated, he faced the siege of Duncan's son and the English reinforcements he invited, and ended up as a tyrant.

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A masterpiece of the great writer Shakespeare, a popular classic of Shakespeare's plays, a model of complex and profound characters, and a highly praised poetic translation. Shakespeare's masterpiece is recognized as a treasure of human culture, and "Hamlet" is Shakespeare's most famous tragedy and the most famous chapter in the history of human literature and even civilization. The translation of this book is an important result of Mr. Fang Ping, a famous Shakespeare scholar and translator, who devoted himself to the study of Shakespeare and translated poems into poems. It fully meets the needs of readers for studying Shakespeare plays and collecting books.

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The fourteen volumes collected in this collection include the most valuable, powerful, and thoughtful works from Weixi's literary creation and throughout his entire creative career of more than 60 years. It includes 10 volumes of novels and 4 volumes of documentary literature and prose. It is a collection of Mr. Weixi's life creations. In the literary world of the 1950s, Cong Weixi, Wang Meng, Liu Shaotang, and Deng Youmei were known as the "Four Little Swans".

A masterpiece that cannot be ignored in Chinese studies. Zeng Guofan, Liang Qichao, Hu Shi, Zuo Zongtang, Zhang Taiyan, Qian Mu, etc. Highly praised it! Zeng Guofan spent the day fighting during the day and proofreading at night, and set up a special "Jinling Bookstore" to publish the book. Wang Fuzhi interpreted Chinese classics such as "Four Books and Five Classics" and "Zizhi Tongjian" one by one. In 1865, the "Jinling Engraved Edition" was the only simplified horizontal version. Wang Fuzhi, one of the three great Confucian scholars in the early Qing Dynasty, read it sentence by sentence and gave a new interpretation of the Chinese classics. Ten types of biographies and two types of chronologies are added, covering politics, economics, philosophy, history, literature, astronomy, geography, exegesis, textual research and many other aspects. There are more than 5 million words.

Zhu Shenghao's translation is recognized as a translation that perfectly reproduces the charm of Shakespeare's drama and is extremely easy to understand! The authoritative final version, completely unabridged! Among Shakespeare's plays that have survived to this day, tragedies and comedies are the most popular. This set of books collects all 10 tragedies and 13 comedies by Shakespeare. The plays in this set of books are arranged in order of the time of Shakespeare's writing. Readers will more easily understand Shakespeare's writing context. The complete set of books is divided into 5 volumes. Volume 2 of tragedies includes 10 plays including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Volume 3 of comedies includes 13 plays including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love in vain, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night.

A dream classic of the Jazz Age, Haruki Murakami's favorite writer. His works deeply depict the modern and prosperous urban life in the United States in the 1920s, and the poetic and picturesque language shows the dreams, love and disillusionment of the American dream in the "Jazz Age". Won the first prize of the 12th Shanghai Book Award, it is a collection of Phil's important short and long essays and letters, a perfect fusion of Phil's works and the "Jazz Age". The translators are a collection of famous translators, including Wu Ningkun, Tang Xinmei, Tang Yongkuan, Cai Hui and other translators, as well as young talents in the field of translation such as Huang Fuhai, Huang Yuning and Bao Huiyi. The translation agency adopts the authoritative edition of Scribner's American Press, which first published Fitzgerald's works, in its overall structure, and arranges the entire collection according to their editing style. It also supplements the contents of the more authoritative Oxford and Penguin editions of Fitzgerald's collected works abroad. The translator is invited to excerpt the wonderful articles from "The Talented Life of Fitzgerald" by Bruccoli, an authoritative scholar who studies Fitzgerald, as an appendix to help readers understand the background and historical atmosphere of each work written by Fitzgerald. It is a complete and valuable collection of Fitzgerald's essays with pictures and texts.

Due to a disability in his arm, Dionisio Binzon can only earn a living by doing manual labor as a "caller" in the village. At a temple fair, he rescued a dying golden rooster and took good care of it, but his mother died of overwork. Being poor and destitute, he pinned his fate on the rooster and decided to go out alone. The golden rooster repeatedly won in subsequent cockfights, unexpectedly giving him the courage to live. Traveling all over the country, Bin Song met a "capon girl". Wherever she was, he was invincible. Just when he thought things were going smoothly, fate had its own plans...

"The Stranger" is the starting point of Camus's thoughts. It is written in the form of a autobiography by Meursault, an employee of a shipping company in Algiers. The novel shocked the reading world with its concise and almost dry writing style and its calm and almost indifferent tone. "The Myth of Sisyphus" demonstrates the basic idea of ​​"The Stranger" in philosophical language. Camus discusses the "Philosophy of the Absurd" in his book, which is a complete philosophical system from awakening to action.

"The Odyssey", also translated as "Odyssey", "Odyssey", or "Odyssey", is one of the two most important epic poems in ancient Greece (the other is "Iliad", collectively known as "Homer's Epic"). "The Odyssey" continues the storyline of "The Iliad" and is said to have been written by the blind poet Homer. This epic is the foundation work of Western literature and is the oldest existing Western literary work except "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "The Iliad". It is generally believed that "The Odyssey" was composed in Ionia, the coastal area of ​​Anatolia, Greece, at the end of the 8th century BC.

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Hamlet is the longest of all Shakespeare's plays. This play is the most frequently performed play by the Royal Shakespeare Company, formerly known as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. One of the world's famous tragedies, it is also Shakespeare's most famous play. It has profound tragic significance, complex characters and rich and perfect tragic artistic techniques. It represents the highest achievement of the entire Western Renaissance literature. Together with "Macbeth", "King Lear" and "Othello", it forms Shakespeare's "four major tragedies".

This book includes two famous drama scripts by Mr. Lao She, one is "Teahouse" and the other is "Longxugou". "Teahouse" was created in 1956. The play uses a teahouse called Yutai to show the social changes in the three eras of the Reform Movement of 1898, the warlord war, and the eve of the founding of New China for nearly half a century, as well as all the living beings in this society. There are dozens of characters appearing in the play, but all of them have distinct personalities. You can "know the person by hearing their voice" and "outline the outline of a character in just a few words." This play has been performed many times at home and abroad and has won high praise. It is a classic work of contemporary Chinese drama creation. "Longxugou" was created in 1950. The play describes the different experiences of several families in a small courtyard in Beijing during social changes, and shows the earth-shaking changes in the old and new eras. The play creates unique characters such as Madman Cheng, Aunt Wang, Niangzi, and Sister-in-law Ding.

"People are not fruits. You can't eat oranges and throw away the peel." "Death of a Salesman" is the pinnacle work of Arthur Miller, the famous dramatist known as "the conscience of American drama." Willy Loman was a salesman. In his prime, he had reliable business skills. His wife Linda was a good housekeeper, and his two sons, Biff and Happy, made him proud. However, as time goes by, his good luck seems to be leaving him, and his life is gradually getting out of control... The author tears apart the glamorous appearance of the "American Dream", compassionately understands the tragic fate of the little people, and quietly presents his hope and pain on the dramatic stage. The play was published in 1949 and ran for 742 consecutive performances on Broadway. It won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It was the first play to win the three major drama awards in one fell swoop, making Arthur Miller a household name in the United States. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1985, starring Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman. The translator of this book, Mr. Ying Ruocheng, is a famous Chinese performing artist, translator, and drama director. He played the leading role in the Chinese premiere of "Death of a Salesman" directed by Arthur Miller himself.

The story all takes place in a teahouse in Beijing. People come and go in the teahouse, and people of all colors and religions gather together. A big teahouse is like a small society. Mr. Lao She captured the characteristics of this scene and highly condensed the time span of half a century and 60 to 70 primary and secondary characters into the teahouse, showing life scenes in three eras after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 in the late Qing Dynasty, the period of the Beiyang warlord separatism in the early years of the Republic of China, and the eve of the fall of the Kuomintang regime. He summarized the sharp opposition and conflicts between various classes and forces in Chinese society, and revealed the historical destiny of semi-feudal and semi-colonial China.

"Hamlet" is one of the four tragedies of the great dramatist and poet William Shakespeare. The story tells that the father of Prince Hamlet of Denmark suddenly died mysteriously while taking a nap in the garden. His uncle Claudius succeeded as king and married Hamlet's mother. Prince Hamlet met his father's ghost in pain. The ghost told the prince that his life, throne and wife were taken away by his uncle Claudius in his sleep, and told Hamlet to avenge him. So Hamlet begins a tortuous journey of revenge... There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers, and everyone will see their own inner struggle in this story. When your faith collapses in the face of reality, what choice will you make? To live or not to live, that is the question.

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Two hundred and two themes talk about life, ideals, morality, love, friendship, pain, etc. These constitute the constants of human life and weave into each person's complex destiny. This is a sincere book of life and a wisdom secret with powerful spiritual power. It teaches us how to love, how to heal, how to let go, how to face death, and how to overcome fear... Malloy, a writer known for his melancholic and elegiac style, is also a wise and profound essayist, a persevering and self-denying thinker, and a friendly and compassionate life mentor: he cares about people's living conditions and the meaning of life, asks about the truth, feels about the world, and laments the circumstances; and then, he is warm-hearted. This collection of essays condenses Malloy's life's exquisite musings and fully reveals his inner world. It is precious and a complement to him as a thinker. In addition to being a writer, Malloy was also an important intellectual in the twentieth century.

"My Beautiful World" is a collection of essays by Mori Mori, the "Japanese Zhang Ailing". This is a love letter to life. Mori declares: "Even without love, life can still be rose-colored." After spending most of her legendary life, Mori still used her rich sensibility in her later years to collect small but certain glimmers of beauty from tired daily life. In a willful and naughty tone, she detailed the Japanese style life in her mind. Living in a humble house in Tokyo, she recalls the Meiji elegance and European romance half a lifetime ago; she talks about food, clothing and other things, as well as the "beautiful laws" of human behavior and behavior. When imagination and memories are intertwined, black tea is fragrant, roses bloom, and demons and beasts appear. The seventy-nine precious essays are highly condensed "Jasmine Aesthetics" and interspersed with "Sen's Civilization Criticism", which is spicy and enjoyable.

"Shakespeare and Bookstore" is a memoir by the founder, Miss Beech. The book not only tells the joys, sorrows, achievements, regrets and details of interactions with many well-known writers and artists in the bookstore business, but also records the cultural and social changes in the 1920s and 1930s. With candid and funny writing, Miss Beech slowly unfolds the bustling left bank scenery of Paris: the grand publication of Joyce's banned book "Ulysses"; the crazy performance of Ansel's "Ballet Mechanica"; Hemingway's heroic appearance of liberating Theater Street; following the bookstore sign to climb up to his apartment George Antheil, Fitzgerald who almost jumped downstairs when he was drunk, Gide who teased people with turtles... Guarding this castle made of books, Sylvia Beach, a simple book lover, has seen all kinds of writers, tasted the warmth and coldness of the world, and witnessed a literary legend connected with books.

Yilin's "Audio Bilingual Classics" original version introduces English classics specially written by American education experts for students, and selects classic works that are close to the English acquisition level of Chinese students. The series of books selects high-quality Chinese translations, accompanied by introductions, introductions to the authors' works and illustrations, and employs senior college entrance examination listening test anchors to read English audio books. The audiobook playback platform is easy to operate. Just scan the QR code in the book to listen and download. The book series covers classic literary works from various countries, allowing children to improve their literary appreciation and English listening and reading skills during reading. The famous children's literature writer Huang Beijia recommends a long article introduction. "Pride and Prejudice" is the masterpiece of British writer Jane Austen. The book describes the love and marriage of several young men and women, vividly presents the social life and human emotions in British towns in the early 19th century, and reflects women's pursuit of independent personality and marital autonomy. It is an enduring classic in English literature. This classic work by Jane Austen tells the love story of the two daughters of the Bennett family. At a dance, the elegant new neighbor Bentley and his eldest daughter Jane fell in love with each other; Bentley's good friend Darcy was arrogant by nature. He was dissatisfied with the frivolity and shallowness of the Bennett family and refused to dance with his second daughter Elizabeth. Soon after, Darcy developed a liking for the intelligent and decent Elizabeth. However, Elizabeth was prejudiced against Darcy and rejected his advances. The relationship between Jane and Bingley also fell into crisis. Can they get out of their misunderstanding and gain happiness?

This book is a collection of love poems written by many famous Chinese writers throughout the dynasties. It has a unique entry point and is divided into eight chapters: secret love, first love, passionate love, life and death love, long-distance love, extramarital love, bitter love, and lost love. It uses alternative text expressions and combines ancient and modern times. It is not limited to the literal understanding of classical love poems, nor is it a simple appreciation in the traditional sense, but a comprehensive explanation with a unique style and rich emotions. The highlight of this book is that it not only satisfies readers' knowledge needs for love poems themselves, but also satisfies readers' understanding of the historical stories and even unofficial anecdotes behind love poems. It combines modern love story analysis and understanding of love, which is informative, interesting, and popular. It is a book that goes into your soul, cleanses away your impetuousness, and makes you yearn for it like a river, and your meditation becomes like a dream.

"Three hundred poems, poems are innocent." The Book of Songs, a Chinese classic, has been recited for thousands of years and has been subject to numerous studies and interpretations. "Shi Wuxie: \u003C The Book of Songs\u003E Appreciation, Analysis and Textual Research" is the lecture notes of Mr. Fu Sinian's lecture on "The Book of Songs" when he was a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in the 1920s. With his profound historical knowledge, the author proposes many new research methods, concepts and viewpoints on the Book of Songs. It is a classic work that systematically and comprehensively studies the Book of Songs.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, this book collects all representative works of the "saint" and "martyr" Pasternak of Russian literature, covering poetry, novels, letters, and essays; a spiritual epic that influenced Chinese intellectuals, Chen Zhongshi, Yan Lianke, Chi Zijian, Ye Zhaoyan, Liu Xiaofeng, and Deng Xiaomang all spent sleepless nights and forget to eat for it; the only Su who can compete with Akhmatova Russian poet, the master of the Silver Age; a great writer whose works are inspired by Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago"; he was banned for 30 years, and Maugham, Russell, Eliot, Camus, Huxley, and Graham Greene all fought against him; by reading him, you can understand the suffering and secrets, freedom and anger, lyricism and pain of the 20th century. "Collection of Pasternak's Works (set of 4 volumes in total)" contains four representative works of Pasternak, the 1958 Nobel Prize winner for literature and the "saint" and "martyr" of Russian literature, covering novels, poems, letters, and essays in various genres: "Doctor Zhivago", " "Line of Apelles" (including the short stories "Line of Apelles" and "Air Passage", the novella "The Boyhood of Ljuwels", and the autobiographical essays "Safety Protection Certificate" and "People and Things", a total of five works), "The Breath of Lyric Poetry" and "The Complete Poems of Pasternak".

This set includes Camus's work: L'Envers et L'Endroit (1937). Noces, 1938. L'? Tranger, 1942. The Myth of Sisyphe (Le Mythe de Sisyphe), 1942. L'? Té, 1954. La Chute, 1956. L'Exil et le Royaume (Exile and the Kingdom), 1956. Selected Collection of "Camus' Notes" (Carnets), 1935-1959. Guo Hongan's work: "The Interweaving of Sunlight and Shadow: Guo Hongan Reading Camus".

The ultimate goal of love is the mutual consent and union of body and mind. The essence of love is nothing more than the process of realizing the desire of a man and a woman to attract and pursue each other. However, in this process, one cannot just rely on bravery and enthusiasm to charge forward as one wishes, but there are indeed some rules that no one can avoid.

The first prize winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle, it has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 21 weeks. The "Border Trilogy", as a representative work of McCarthy's western novels, established him as a master in the modern American literary world. These moving epics that took place in the U. S.-Mexico border area include nightmarish massacres, shocking violence, as well as picturesque pastoral poems and tender requiems. They are called by critics "a symphony of hell and heaven" and "a contemporary classic comparable to the masterpieces of literary superstars Dante, Edgar Allan Poe, Melville, Faulkner, and Steinbeck since the Middle Ages."

The "Sea of ​​Fertility" tetralogy includes "Spring Snow", "Galloping Horse", "Akatsuki Temple" and "The Five Decline of Heaven and Man". It is a panoramic work of Yukio Mishima's grand scale that spans time and space. From the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War to the end of Japan's period of rapid economic growth. Each part of "Sea of ​​Fertility" centers on a main character, connected sequentially through three moles, and interprets the story around the theme of "reincarnation", with one person, Honda Nobuni, running through it. It can be said that the content is intricate and the scenes are grand and magnificent. It's both easy to let go and tight at the same time. Integrated and full of fun. Therefore, Kawabata Yasunari praised the "Sea of ​​Fertility" tetralogy as "a masterpiece of Japanese novels since "The Tale of Genji"".

"Johan Christophe" is a Nobel Prize-winning work and a representative biography of Romain Rolland. "Johann Christophe" is based on Beethoven and describes the life of the musical genius John Christophe, who struggled with himself, art, and society, from the awakening of his musical talent in his boyhood, to his contempt and resistance to social and artistic dignitaries in his youth, to his pursuit of career, friendship and love as an adult, to his almost being destroyed by the great difficulties of life, but finally reaching a clear and lofty state. Although John-Christophe had an irreconcilable contradictory character, he had great enthusiasm for life and art. Even if he was misunderstood, he still maintained a sincere heart and fought tenaciously and bravely.

The long epic "Divine Comedy" is divided into "Inferno", "Purgatory" and "Heaven". The story adopts the form of medieval fantasy literature. The protagonist is the poet Dante himself, telling him that "in the middle of my life, I found that I had lost the right path and entered a dark forest." After wandering for a night, he walked out of the forest, but was blocked by three wild beasts - a leopard, a lion, and a wolf. In a critical moment, the ancient Roman poet Virgil appeared to rescue him and guide him to travel. This book is considered the most important landmark work of the Renaissance movement.

Homer's epic is the collective name of "Iliad" and "Odyssey". It is the earliest epic in ancient Greek literature and a model of European narrative poetry. It has greatly influenced the creative style of Western literature starting from ancient Greece, breaking the tradition of epics being limited to historical records, and beginning to pay attention to the hearts of characters. It is the originator of poetic novels. "The Iliad" tells the story of the Greek coalition's siege of Troy. It centers on the quarrel between the Greek coalition commander Agamemnon and the general Achilles, and focuses on what happened fifty days before the end of the war. "The Odyssey" tells the story of Odysseus, who wandered for ten years on his way back home after conquering Troy, and finally returned home after going through hardships.

Who is holding an oil-paper umbrella, walking through the sentimental rainy season, looking for the old dream of prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River; who is sipping a cup of tea, leaning on the railing and quietly looking into the distance, waiting for the lonely lotus to bloom; who is taking a small boat, in the frosty sky with a bright moon like water, to salvage the passing years; and who is breaking a cold plum and writing elegant and romantic poems? The book contains 39 fresh and beautiful essays. Bai Luomei, a powerful author of Jiangnan Wanyue School, interprets Tang poetry from a new perspective. It is divided into six series, each with different themes, bringing readers different spiritual enjoyment. In a feast of culture and history, cleanse the soul, pour passion, refine the mind, and transcend aesthetics. In the perfect blend of novel Tang poetry and prose, readers can taste the charm of words, realize the truth of life, and explore the eternity of nature.

Molière's comic art is presented in its original form. The drama master Molière and the super translator Li Jianwu are a perfect combination and complement each other. It compiles precious materials such as reviews of famous writers of the same era and chronological records of writers. Molière is one of the most important figures in the history of European literature and drama. He adhered to the classic rules of comedy - comedy educates people while entertaining, and elevated comedy to almost the same status as tragedy. In fact, later Western comedy creations followed Molière more than Shakespeare, because the "comedy" of Molière's period can be regarded as "critical and breakthrough." He promoted the advancement of drama throughout his life and exposed the darkness of society in a comic form. His artistic achievements are highly admired by future generations. "The Complete Comedies of Molière" contains a total of 27 comedies translated by Molière by Li Jianwu, including the masterpieces "The Ridiculous Talent", "The School of Wives", "Dardufo or the Liar", "The Scrooge", "The Cynic", etc. It also includes important reference materials such as the translator's preface, the original preface, the author's chronology, and comments by famous contemporary writers.

Shakespeare's Comedy Collection is a collection of Shakespeare's classic comedies, including the four famous comedies "The Merchant of Venice", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night", "Tit for Tat", "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and other famous works. The translation of this book is based on the translation by Zhu Shenghao, a famous translator of Shakespeare's plays, and has been carefully edited and equipped with exquisite illustrations and collector's stamps. The content is classic.

This set includes: four great tragedies: "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Othello" and "King Lear". Four major comedies: "The Merchant of Venice", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Twelfth Night". Classic tragicomedy: "Romeo and Juliet".

Shakespeare's Tragedies collects the tragic classics in Shakespeare's plays into one volume. There are three volumes in the book, which collects the four major tragedies of "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juliet" and other famous works. This book is based on the translation of Shakespeare's drama translator Zhu Shenghao, and has been carefully translated and proofread to show the richness and splendor of Shakespeare's plays.

The first of the three major essays in the world, the most undisputed Western canon in the aristocratic era, and the source of influence on the writing of Shakespeare, Bacon, Pascal, Flaubert, Emerson, and Maugham. In the social tide of madness and bestiality, how to maintain rationality and avoid becoming a mob? Any reader will find quotes and aphorisms that will last a lifetime. "Collected Essays of Montaigne" is the most precious spiritual wealth left to the world by Montaigne, the most important humanist writer after the Renaissance. It is also a prose work that he began to write in 1572 and is called "a collection of various knowledge in the sixteenth century". Among sixteenth-century writers, few are as revered and accepted by modern people as Montaigne. He was an intellectual authority and critic in France before the Enlightenment. He was also an encyclopedic scholar who conducted dispassionate studies of various national cultures, especially Western culture. He could be called a cold observer of human emotions. Judging from his thoughts and feelings, people seem to regard him as a modern man in his time. His prose, mainly philosophical essays, is world-famous for its rich ideological connotation and is known as the "treasure house of ideas." "The Complete Essays of Montaigne" independently translated by Mr. Ma Zhencheng won the first Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Award. This edition of "The Essays of Montaigne" was specially selected by the translator for our agency. It can be said that the best of the three volumes of "The Complete Works" are contained in it. It can truly be called a comprehensive and accurate selection of Montaigne's essays and the translation is excellent and elegant.

Virginia Woolf's diaries written over twenty-four years, including more than five hundred private murmurs of nights and days. "Perhaps I will not become 'famous' or 'great,' but I will continue to take risks, continue to change, broaden my horizons, refuse to be trampled on by others, and refuse to stick to the rules. The important thing is to release myself and find my own space without restriction." This book is a diary selection compiled by Virginia Woolf's husband, Leonard Woolf, and collects the precious diaries belonging to Woolf during the twenty-four years from 1918 to 1941. We can see how she walked through the thorns. As a female writer, her creations were almost as much denigrated as praised. On one side, she said, "I can write whatever I want," and on the other side, "I searched hard to find my own name in articles and reviews."

"The Rebel" is one of the masterpieces of Camus, the French literary master of absurd existential philosophy. In this well-referenced essay, Camus adopts a frank and honest attitude and re-examines the spirit of resistance that has emerged in the long history of mankind: the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution at the historical level; the thinkers include the Marquis de Sade, Saint-Just, Nietzsche, and Marx; and the ideological trends from nihilism to surrealism, from anarchism to liberalism. Camus' critical spirit revealed in "The Resistance" ultimately established the book's classic status.

An insurmountable peak in the history of Japanese literature! Together with "The Tale of Genji", it is called the double wall of Japanese classical literature, and together with "The Hojo Chronicles" and "Turancao", it is called Japan's three major essays. A work that influenced Japanese aesthetics! Authoritative translation by literary master Zhou Zuoren, not a word has been deleted! Reproduce the exquisite illustrations of the 14th century "Pillow Scroll". "Pillow" was written around 1001. The book has a total of 305 paragraphs, covering geographical features, vegetation, flowers and birds, inner emotions, life interests, etc., All reflecting the author Qing Shao Nayan's delicate observation and aesthetic taste. She also recorded her life in the palace, from which readers can learn about the living conditions and tastes of people in Japan's Heian period. In the history of human literature, "Pillow" depicts the beauty of subtle details in daily life. Known as "the pioneer work of Japanese essay literature", it has shaped the unique concept of Japanese aesthetics.

This book selects dozens of representative articles from Schopenhauer's many works, covering life, philosophy, aesthetics, morality and many other aspects, and basically reflects the main thoughts and theories of Schopenhauer's philosophy of life. The essay has a clear theme, clear discussion, and clear organization. It deeply and comprehensively reflects the author's ideological system and fully demonstrates Schopenhauer's spiritual charm as a great philosopher. It is enough for readers to have a glimpse of the ideological world of this "out-and-out genius" and appreciate his style.

"In Praise of Idleness" is a collection of essays by Nobel Prize winner Russell. There are 14 articles in total, including work, education, society, civilization, how to obtain happiness, etc. It integrates perspectives from philosophy and psychology, economics, science and history. Russell accurately predicted the "involution" problem of modern society a hundred years ago: as technology develops, people fall into more intense competition and longer working hours. This book boldly challenges the "hardcore work theory": the belief that work is a virtue is causing a lot of harm in the modern world, and the path to happiness and prosperity lies in the organized reduction of work. The ethics of work are the ethics of slaves, and the modern world does not need slaves. Work only 4 hours a day and everything will be fine! True idleness is not about idleness, but about being freed from the pressure of work, shifting the direction of efforts from "making a living" to "life itself", and pursuing those things that truly define civilization and happiness - art, love, knowledge, leisure and exploration of the world.

"A Summer's Walk Over the Mountains" is a classic collection of essays that records Muir's expedition trip to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the summer of 1869. At that time, Muir was invited by a friend to go to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Yosemite Valley to herd sheep and investigate. This book was originally published in 1911. In the book, Muir recorded in diary form what he saw and heard in the mountains, including the magnificent natural landscapes, rich species of flora and fauna, and the deep connection with nature. Muir believed that nature was not only a resource, but also the sustenance of the human spirit. His writing integrated scientific observation and poetic expression, creating a new tradition of nature literature. In the book, Muir not only described the beauty of nature, but also expressed his thoughts on the relationship between humans and nature. He criticized mankind's destruction of nature and called on people to respect and protect nature. This book is not only a classic of nature literature, but also an important document of the modern environmental movement.

This book is the most autobiographical collection of essays and is Gissing's masterpiece of prose. It describes the life of the hermit Rycroft who is obsessed with books, natural scenery and reminiscing about the past. In fact, it was Gissing who expressed his feelings and analyzed his inner world through Rycroft's autobiography. Gissing was poor all his life, but he loved literature. His hobby and pursuit of literary masterpieces and his yearning for a quiet life in nature are fully reflected in the book. This book is divided into four parts: spring, summer, autumn and winter. It is beautifully written and fluently written. It is one of the treasures of short essays in British literature.

This book is the latest collection of essays by Chizuruko Ueno, a pioneer of Japanese feminism, and includes more than forty excellent works written by the author in recent years. This much-anticipated collection of essays uses a calm and melodious "mature tone" to weave every note that echoes in the writer's heart. From the family memories of childhood, the confused time of student days, to the process of academic research; from food preferences, hobbies of mountain climbing and watching dramas, to worries about aging, expectations for the next generation, and even the memory of the deceased and the pain of loss - Chizuru Ueno turns every detail of her life into notes of words and plays them gently. While discussing feminism, care issues, and reflecting on social events such as the epidemic, she also poured the notes flowing from her heart into the lines. These words are not only a sorting out of personal memories by Chizuru Ueno, but also a vivid reflection of the social and cultural changes in Japan. Through this work, we get a glimpse of this thinker's rich spiritual world and her ongoing concern for contemporary society.

The Chinese classic myths selected in "China's Wonderful Old Myths" compiled by Gong Shuguang and Zhang Xin are the same as the system of world mythology and Chinese mythology in terms of story type. They not only correspond to the academic requirements of mythology, but also correspond to the types of ancient Greece, ancient Rome and Nordic mythology. In other words, the four series of classifications in this book are scientific from an academic perspective and rigorous from a comparative perspective between East and West. "China's Wonderful Old Myths" edited by Gong Shuguang and Zhang Xin is a thorough reorganization of Chinese myths based on previous compilations. The editors have completely returned the fragmented, dotted and scattered Chinese myths to a system with basic context and basic plots, in order to present them to Chinese readers more completely. In particular, it provides Chinese teenagers with a set of detailed and reliable fairy tale readers that truly embody Chinese characteristics.

"Gravity's Rainbow" is a classic work in postmodernist literature. It has a unique position in the history of 20th century world literature and has caused huge controversy. The plot of this masterpiece is complex, and the dream-like fantasy is full of confusing and intricate cross-relationships, various, weird and messy narratives, specious discussions, and descriptions of physics, rocket engineering, advanced mathematics, psychology, international politics, and abnormal sex. The background of the novel is the Second World War. German V-2 rockets frequently attacked London. The British and American intelligence agencies discovered that the place where an American intelligence officer had sex was often the landing point of the rocket. They studied this phenomenon, which attracted and implicated many people and events.

The book is adapted from a real patricide case, describing the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, as well as the court trial of the patricide case. The whole novel has two levels: on the surface, it is a case of patricide, and the victim's sons are suspected of conspiracy to some extent; but on a deeper level, it is a drama about the human spirit, telling a moral battle between lust, faith, reason and free will. The work shows an intricate tragic theme of society, family, morality and human nature.

The Nobel Prize winner is also a master of letters. Watch the tough guy Hemingway, his chivalrous character and tenderness change through the vicissitudes of life. This is the 120th anniversary commemorative edition of the birth of Hemingway, the most famous writer in China among all Nobel Prize winners in literature over the past century and the most beloved by Chinese readers. There are more than 600 letters, all of which are "dry information" and contain a huge amount of information. The humor and wildness it reveals far exceed his works, and it can be called an unconventional autobiography of a writer. Understand the vivid images behind the books of a generation of literary giants from all aspects and angles, and appreciate the significance of a "person who has not been defeated" in the world. As a celebrity biography book with vivid language and distinctive style, it can also greatly satisfy the gossip heart of reading. "Selected Letters of Hemingway" was translated by Pan Xiaosong, a famous scholar and collector at the American Institute of Social Sciences. The translation style is straightforward and unique, which is very consistent with the distinctive "Hemingway's epistolary style" presented in this book. It is pleasant and interesting to read, making the image of a "letter master" vivid on the page.