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This book is written by American historian Mary Pratt Parmelee. The book is divided into 26 chapters. Each chapter is concise but all-encompassing. The chapters are both independent and related to each other. All historical events are used to connect Russian history together. It is highly interesting and easy to understand.

Red London - the balanced world protected by magic; Gray London - the cruel ordinary world; White London - the representative of power and absolute control; Black London - the source of magic destroyed by the plague and isolated from the world. Hundreds of years ago, the door connecting the worlds in London was opened, and the world was balanced and stable. But the good times didn't last long. Humanity's thirst for power, endless demand for magic, and expansion of desires led to the fall of Black London, and the magic disappeared. People closed the door to travel and stayed away, assigning the few remaining "travelers" selected by magic to travel through it and exchange information through letters. Red London, which lost Antari, fell into chaos. The evil shadow calling itself "God" controlled the entire city, intending to force everyone to surrender and seize the world. Laila went to White London alone to rescue the scarred Kyle. After the two returned to Red London, they found that the world had become riddled with holes. They had to sail away to find the hope of victory. After successive blows, forced growth, and tragic betrayal, the grieving Len had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the entire kingdom, guard the palace alone, never give up, and defend his Red London...

One, two, buckle the shoes; three, four, close the door; five, six, hold the branch; seven, eight, straighten it; nine, ten, the fat hen; eleven, twelve, explore deeply; thirteen, fourteen, the female courting; fifteen, sixteen, the cooks; seventeen, eighteen, waiting; nineteen, twenty, finally dispersing. How scary is going to the dentist? When the great detective Poirot went to Dr. Morley's clinic for a dental check-up, his self-confidence dropped to zero. Unexpectedly, Dr. Morley committed suicide in the consulting room a few hours later. Why did a dentist commit suicide during a busy working day? A shoe buckle becomes the key to solving the case. Now, true to the nursery rhyme, can Poirot pick out useful branches and build them into a bird's nest?

A new species that completely overturns the history of fantasy! Mainstream fantasy no longer equals "Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones"! The wildness of ancient Africa is finally reborn! "The child is dead, there is nothing else to say." In prison, the tracker, the man with wolf eyes, told a legend. His story was so weird and absurd that no one dared to believe it. The tracker has a good nose and can find anyone by smell, even if that person is at the end of the world or the kingdom of the dead. The Black Panther in human form found him with a suspicious commission - to find a child who had been missing for three years. He found that he had to travel through the dangerous corners of the continent, across the filthy and ominous dark land, and through the nineteen ancient and mysterious gates. What stood in front of him were man-eating and blood-sucking monsters, dangerous and dirty conspirators, and night demons who manipulated and buried everything. The tracker has always despised all orthodoxy and ridiculed all righteousness. The only thing he wanted to do was to find the child and return it to his mother...

The Ghost Tower was built at the end of the Tokugawa period by Tokaiya Ichibei, a wealthy man from Kyushu. With a fanatical hobby for clocks, he decided to build an unprecedentedly complex clock tower. However, when the clock tower was completed, Tokaiya Shirobei suddenly disappeared mysteriously. Time came to the early years of Taisho. The 26-year-old young man Kitagawa Mitsuo was entrusted by his uncle Tamaki Taro to inspect the bell tower. However, he met a mysterious woman here. She always stood in front of the clock tower where ghosts were said to wander and felt sad. Embracing secrets, she deeply attracted Kitagawa Mitsuo. Regardless of any dissuasion, Kitagawa Mitsuo decided to get close to this mysterious woman. Unexpectedly, he was involved in a shocking conspiracy.

Summer vacation is boring. I hope school starts early. I don't have a computer or a mobile phone, the room still doesn't have air conditioning, and I haven't made any progress on my homework. Every day passed slowly, unbearably slowly... I got a call from the school saying that my good friend was dead forever. I can't believe it... The girl I like, Kunofuda, didn't come to school. Her body was found... Now, I can no longer calmly write in my diary. But I still have to write calmly.

The newly published "Edogawa Ranpo Mystery Novels Collection" includes six works including "The Ghost of the Island", "The Banshee", "Black Lizard" and "The Dark Beast", covering more than 30 Ranpo short, medium and long stories. Several of the works that have been published so far have received critical acclaim. "Triple Vortex" is the fifth volume of "Edogawa Ranpo Mystery Novels Collection". It includes two novels, "Triple Vortex" and "Spider-Man". It is one of Akechi Kogoro's detective series. The two daughters of Shotaro Kawade, the director of H Sugar Co., Ltd., Met with accidents one after another, leaving only the clues of the "triple vortex" fingerprints at the crime scene. Dr. Munakata was ordered to investigate the case. During the investigation, two of Dr. Munakata's assistants were killed one after another. What kind of grievances are hidden behind a series of confusing cases? What's the secret behind the terrifying "triple vortex" fingerprints?

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The mysterious bar that transcends time and space is filled with a dreamlike atmosphere, inviting you to embark on an unprecedented spiritual journey; 40 European and American classic old songs, each of which is a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation after nearly a century of time; the suspenseful storyline fully demonstrates Murakami Ryu's amazing ability to integrate music into words. According to rumors, there is a dream jazz bar that transcends time and space in Tokyo, New York, Paris, or somewhere else. In order to find it, the hero talked with various men in various bars. They all remembered the passing time with him and talked about music, love and dreams with a touch of sadness. At the end of every conversation, a female jazz singer will always appear on the stage of the bar to sing jazz classics for us. The lyrics are poetic and dreamlike, integrating with the state of mind, making people forget about the world and become completely intoxicated. At the end of the story, I finally walked into that dreamy jazz bar while half asleep, and experienced the ultimate happiness in life...

This is a story about a young girl who gradually gains love and happiness. Mercer, who was born into a well-known family, grew up under the abuse of her stepmother and step-sister since her mother died young. Unexpectedly, she suddenly received an order from her father to marry Qingxia, a young soldier who was rumored to be extremely ruthless. He was the notorious man who was rumored to have caused many fiancée candidates to avoid him within three days. After stepping into the door of Kudo's house with the awareness that he might be bullied, what appeared in front of Mercer was a gentle and refreshing handsome man. Mercer, who was treated coldly when they first met, is trying hard to play the role of fiancée every day even though she cannot return to her parents' home. Can she open Qingxia's heart?

In a small village on the border of France and Germany, a mysterious stranger was killed. Brodeck, the only college student in the village, was responsible for drafting a report to the higher-level administrative agency. In the process of investigating the incident, Brodeck, who is also an "outsider" himself, retraced the strange events that happened after the strangers arrived in the village, and discovered many secrets hidden by the villagers. He gradually uncovered the darkness and ugliness of human nature, and also awakened his own painful memories of World War II.

The story takes place in a famous music conservatory in New York. The killer fled the scene and locked himself in a classroom. Minutes later, police surrounded the classroom. There was a scream from inside and the police broke in. The room was empty. The magic master who comes and goes without a trace uses his superb magic skills to not only kill people invisible, but also to escape again and again under the eyes of the heavily guarded police. Lincoln must catch the magician before his next victim dies!

The loquat ghost at the foot of Mount Laoshan; the giant turtle in the East China Sea; the Loulan Underground Dynasty in the Western Region; the Six Paths Demon Cave in the Holy Lake... What monster appears in the Corpse-Eating Cave in Kunlun Mountain? What is there in the secret underground base of the Japanese army in Tengchong, Yunnan? Where is the legendary tomb of Genghis Khan? What kind of rare treasures are there? What are water repellent beads? Are there any ancient legends in this world that we have never heard of? ...

Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard, who is good at studying faces, is hospitalized after breaking his leg. Bored, he discovers a historical mystery that has been hidden for four hundred years: Did Richard III, the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty of England, send someone to kill his two nephews who were said to be imprisoned in the Tower of London in order to retain the throne? How did Detective Grant peel off the cocoons, get closer to the historical truth, and overturn the case of Shakespeare's infamous Richard III? This book can be called a representative work of historical mystery novels. "Truth is the daughter of time." "A completely untrue story gradually turned into a legend, while those who knew it was not true stood by and said nothing."

This set of books is the most comprehensive police detective suspense novel by the king of Nordic suspense novels, Yo Nesbo. They are "Headhunter", "Bat", "Cockroach", "Mockingbird", "Avenger", "Penta", "Redeemer", "Snowman", "Cheetah: Two Volumes", "Ghost", "Police" and "Thirst", a total of 12 volumes. "Headhunting Game": An intriguing scam × two hunters with their own scheming × a headhunting game with a different tone: the plots are interlocking, the rhythm is tense and exciting, and the famous spoof scenes are frequent, absurd and funny. "Bat": Multiple blond women were sexually assaulted and then strangled to death. When all the clues pointed to a circus clown and an arrest was imminent, the clown was brutally murdered! "Cockroach": The Norwegian Embassy in Thailand was found dead in a brothel hotel. The tough-guy police detective Harry went to a foreign country again and ventured into Bangkok's red light district to search for clues, but found that he was sent just as a smokescreen and no one expected him to find the truth. "Mockingbird" from the Oslo Trilogy: A sniper rifle with unknown purpose and great power sneaks into Norway, pointing to a crime that has not yet been discovered and is brewing secretly. "The Avengers" of the Oslo Trilogy: a bank robbery with no trace, a love song of life intertwined with love and hate. Harry's ex-girlfriend dies suddenly, and he becomes the number one suspect in the murder... The Oslo Trilogy: "Pentagram": The successive murders or disappearances of women have torn apart Oslo's leisurely and quiet summer. This is a death game set by the devil, and everything is related to the number "5". "The Redeemer": the prequel to Nesboden's "The Snowman". This is the last mission and this mission requires only one bullet. "The Snowman": This year, Harry is about to enter the 40th mark, and his lover is also involved in danger... "The Cheetah: Complete Two Volumes": A terrifying weapon called an apple, a crazy hunter hiding in the dark. "Ghost": Maybe life only teaches you one thing, and that is that you cannot turn back time. "Police": There are some things in life that you cannot escape after all, because completing them is the meaning of your existence! "Thirst": His thirst is like fire. If it is not extinguished, it will engulf everything.

This book is the second part of "Three Kingdoms", the most dazzling pinnacle masterpiece of "Japanese Jin Yong" Yoshikawa Eiji. The author uses a unique modern approach to give a new interpretation of the Chinese classic "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", simplifying the war scenes, cleverly adding wonderful dialogues that are not in the original work, and focusing on Liu, Guan, Zhang, Cao Cao and other classics. The subversive reshaping of classic characters and the rich changes of the storyline have greatly succeeded in reborn on the basis of being loyal to the original work, and magnificently written a human drama in which the heroes of the troubled times staged the world and competed with each other on the stage of heaven and earth. The bold and majestic pride, the sad and sad emotions, and the exaggerated and subtle humor that come across in the book make people feel endlessly moved; the planning and games, power and tricks, military use and controlling people in it make people think deeply.

Keigo Higashino said it was difficult to write and rewrote the ending of "The Devotion of Suspect X"! In the month of its launch in Japan, one copy was sold on average every 6 seconds. Breaking the classic reasoning model and reversing the whole process with high energy, the whole story starts from the first word, and every one of your guesses and feelings is guided by Keigo Higashino! The most popular girl in the town died. The suspect used his "right to silence" to keep silent and was eventually released. This caused outrage in the town and the residents decided to teach him a lesson. Unexpectedly, he died mysteriously. The residents of the entire town have become suspects! "Once, because I exposed the truth, a man's devotion came to nothing. That incident made me very sad." Can "Silent Parade" make up for Manabu Yukawa's regret in "The Devotion of Suspect X"?

He jumped off the long-distance bus and started a new life in a strange town. Everything was on track: getting a valid ID to prove my identity, having dinner with a beautiful librarian, being recognized for my work and getting a salary increase. Good things come one after another, and he seems to be heading towards the happy life that ordinary people dream of, but at the same time, vague memories of several murder cases appear in his mind... Can he get rid of the black past mixed with alcohol and constant exile; or is abandoning everything and escaping from reincarnation a fate that he cannot break?

Although Zhang Yong is a commoner, he has ambitions, wants to make money, and wants to get rich; he borrows money to raise money, makes big bets, merges and reorganizes; joins forces, big fish eats small fish; strategizes in the fierce business competition, step by step to make small businesses bigger, make small companies stronger, and finally create his own business empire.

"The Sound and the Fury" is a novel written by American writer William Faulkner in 1929. It tells the story of the family tragedy of the Compson family, a declining landowner in the South. Readers who like Faulkner's works should not miss this book. Old Compson was idle and addicted to drinking and drinking. His wife is selfish, cruel, and resentful. The eldest son desperately clung to the so-called old traditions of the South. He was filled with love and hate because of his sister's romantic nature and her status as a southern lady, and even committed suicide by drowning. The second son is cold and greedy, while the third son is an idiot. At 33 years old, he only has the intelligence of a 3-year-old child. The full text revolves around the sister's fall through the inner monologues of the three sons. Finally, the black maid's "limited perspective" on the first three parts is supplemented. The work uses multi-angle narrative methods and stream-of-consciousness techniques such as montage. It is a classic work of stream-of-consciousness novels and even the entire modern novel.

In 1922, in post-war England, men were scarce. Frances's brother died, her father died, and her servants left. It was difficult to maintain the original decent life. She and her mother had to rent out the second floor of their home for newspapers. The young Barbour couple moved into their home, and the old bedroom was given a new look. The quiet house was filled with party noises. The intimate coexistence also awakened the desire in Frances's heart. When the secrets were lifted from her chest, the love affair was as bright as the summer in England. However, one autumn rainy night, a conflict exposed the lies beneath the gentle surface, and a fresh life suddenly ended. This was a secret that the two of them guarded quietly, but when it was stained with blood, it finally shocked the whole city.

The conflict between Fengdu City and the Phoenix Sect has been going on for a long time. Under the leadership of Princess Yulin, ten holy wars broke out between the guards and the Phoenix Sect led by Beron. Kaka, an idle little gangster, was kicked in front of the princess by a mysterious man in black by chance, and was imprisoned in a dungeon called "Cuihonglou"... The frantic Veron summoned Ana's fire to resurrect the undead army. After Kaka extinguished it risklessly, everything fell silent. Surprisingly, that absurd rebirth actually happened to Kaka...

Uncle Bangs was a musician, an honest and noble self-reliant man. He likes the art of painting very much. In order to seize the inheritance of the lonely Hambans, some high-sounding people like Camusot, the chief judge of the royal family, tried every means to murder him and would not give up until they achieved their goal. For Pons, collecting famous paintings was a noble hobby; for his wealthy relatives, famous paintings were just a means to make a fortune.

"The Castle" is Kafka's masterpiece novel. The protagonist K in the novel claims to be a land surveyor and is hired by the Earl of the castle to come to a village next to the castle. Although the castle was close at hand, it was out of reach for K. He could never enter. He sank deeper and deeper into the village, and finally cut off all possibility of contact with the castle. K was helpless with the maze created by the "castle" and endured absurd torture.

"Love Disguised as a Monologue" is Malloy's most beloved work written throughout his life, and is addressed to the true spiritual aristocrat. Four monologues, four parties recounting two failed marriages. The ex-wife was sitting in a dessert shop on the corner of the street, quietly watching her husband pack candied orange peels for his second wife. In the coffee shop, the husband, who came from a privileged background, recalled the half-pandering, half-sarcastic look in his second wife's eyes when she secretly observed him in bed. He regarded her as his true love, but his eyes extinguished all flames. The second wife, who had been her husband's maid, talked with her lover all night long. The closet full of socks, ties and books on the wall at her husband's house once made her feel that her hands were particularly dirty, and the ever-changing licorice smell on her husband's body made her feel nauseous. Many years later, the lover met her fugitive husband in a small bar in the United States and watched him disappear into the slums.

"The Curate of Tours" mainly tells the story of how a bishop rose from obscurity, lurked at the bottom, and was suppressed by others for more than ten years. When everyone saw that he was about to die and relaxed their vigilance, with an attitude of sympathy and mercy, step by step, by what means, he finally succeeded in climbing to the position of bishop; and how did he turn around and attack at the most hopeless moment?

A popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, one of the most important writers in the contemporary Spanish literary world, the famous work of Enrique Vila-Matas, the "smiling general"; a journey about "collapse and recovery", in which the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred to the point of being unrecognizable, and the overall appearance of contemporary avant-garde art emerges vividly on the page; this book originates from the author's real experience. [About the author] Enrique Villa-Matas (1948-) is one of the most important writers in the contemporary Spanish literary world and one of the contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature. So far, there are more than 40 works and have been translated into more than 30 languages. [Introduction] One morning, an unexpected phone call broke the daily life of a Barcelona writer. In this strange call, a female voice invites the writer to the German city of Kassel to attend the world's avant-garde art event: Documenta. According to the requirements of the curator, the writer needs to become a "writer-in-residence" and stay in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of Kassel, chatting and communicating with people every day, and writing in front of everyone's eyes. As time went by, Kassel became more and more like a manor full of wonders in the writer's mind, while he himself was like an idler with nothing to do, a tireless visitor, lingering among various avant-garde art exhibits.

"Possessed" is the masterpiece of the Austrian writer Hermann Bloch, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature and is known as one of the "four greatest novelists in Central Europe". The story takes place ten years after the First World War. It tells the story of a tramp who comes to a small mountain village and pollutes the entire village with his deadly and harmful thoughts, causing all the villagers to fall into a state of obsession, which then triggers a series of evil events... "Possession" provides a profound and sharp analysis of the blind obedience of the masses and reflects on the cultural shortcomings of Europe. It is considered one of the most classic works about the rise of the Nazis, comparable to Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain". So far it has been translated into English, French, Japanese, Hungarian, Czech and Polish and other languages. This is the first time it has been translated into Chinese.

"1984" is a political novel published in 1949 by the British left-wing writer George Orwell. The novel depicts a suffocating and terrifying imaginary totalitarian society with the ultimate goal of pursuing power. This novel, together with "Brave New World" by British writer Huxley and "Us" by Russian writer Zamyatin, is called the three masterpieces of dystopia. This novel has been translated into 62 languages ​​and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. It is one of the most influential English novels in the 20th century.

"The Woman Who Stirred the Water", a novel with inheritance dispute as the main plot, can be regarded as one of the most thrilling scenes in "Human Comedy". The two sides in the fight are Max Gillet, the leader of the local "Easy Riders" gang of idle scoundrels, and Philippe Bridoux, a very scheming soldier. The former is the lover of the troubled woman who firmly controls the rich man Lu Jie, and the latter is Lu Jie's new nephew. Both were once extraordinary officers in Napoleon's old army, experts in leading troops and ambush. The two demons used their bravery and resourcefulness to compete for a considerable fortune. Needless to say, this contest was fierce and intense.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" (1844-1845) is also translated as "The Count of Monte Cristo". This novel is the most righteous masterpiece among Alexandre Dumas's works. The novel tells a wonderful story of revenge. A young and handsome captain was assassinated by his friends. After experiencing a long and difficult injustice, he learned the essentials and principles of surviving in desperate situations with superhuman perseverance and wisdom. When he finally escaped from the unjust prison and breathed the first breath of free air after going through all kinds of hardships, he got a second rebirth from body to soul. Fate gave him infinite wisdom and huge wealth, which enabled him to finally succeed in revenge...

"Meeting at Terget" is a novel by Glass. In the first half of the 17th century, there were deep contradictions and constant conflicts between various religious sects, German emperors and princes in Germany. After the Thirty Years' War, a group of literati with lofty ideals gathered in the small town of Terget to talk about the past and the present. They spoke freely. While discussing serious academic issues such as poetry and drama, they lamented the fate of themselves and their motherland. With the help of poems and essays, they worked together to reunify the motherland, but while they were talking loudly, they also made jokes, used vulgar words, and were informal and unrestrained. In the end, they even drafted a "peace appeal" together, but an unexpected fire reduced the gathering place and the "appeal" to ashes, and all the good wishes of the literati and lofty ideals disappeared.

"Endless Escape" is one of Roth's early masterpieces. The protagonist Tonda is a lieutenant in the Austrian army. He was captured by the Russians during the World War. After being rescued by the Poles, he stayed in a remote farm in Siberia until the end of the war. While trying to return to Vienna via Ukraine, he was injured and rescued and became a member of the Soviet Red Army. Tongda experienced the war and peace at the beginning of the Soviet Union. After her love affair with Natasha and Alya ended, she returned to Vienna to find her fiancée Irene. At this time, everything in Europe was different from the past, and he could no longer integrate into the old life with his previous vision and attitude. The novel shows the confusion and loss of the young generation in Europe after the war. Against the background of the great changes of the times, it calmly and profoundly writes about individual hesitation and thinking. "Strawberry" belongs to Roth's works of the same period. With Roth's precise pen and ink, it describes the life of a small city in eastern Europe and records the last appearance of the old world before the advent of modern industry and commerce.

The famous writer Isherwood's life masterpiece, the most famous story of Berlin in the 1930s. On the eve of the Nazis coming to power, "The Devils in Berlin" went wild in Berlin. "Time" magazine's top 100 English-language novels of the 20th century, one of the "50 most enjoyable books of the 20th century".

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This book contains two novels by Mr. Lao She, namely "Two Horses" and "Doctor Wen". "Two Horses" presents the differences between Eastern and Western cultures through the experiences of Chinese businessman Lao Ma and his son Xiao Ma in the UK, and satirizes and criticizes the weaknesses of Chinese national character. This is one of Lao She's earlier works that focuses on Eastern and Western cultures. "Dr. Wen" tells the story of Dr. Wen, a doctor studying in the United States. He is a literary and ruffian politician who has no knowledge but is good at power. He uses the foreign brand of a doctor studying in the United States to cheat, curry favor with the powerful, and find a job as a "commissioner" with both fame and fortune. Although he also loves money, he knows that in order to make money, he must become an official. Therefore, the philosophy of life he believes in is the two-in-one of "money standard plus official standard". Lao She used a sharp pen of ridicule and ridicule to lash out at the ugly people among the "Confucian scholars" in old China.

"Missing the Wolf" is still the story of Shangzhou. "I" is a reporter who doesn't go well with anything he does. Once when I went to Shangzhou for an interview, "I" learned that Shangzhou once organized a wolf hunting team to hunt wild wolves. Now there are only 15 wolves left in Shangzhou, and they have numbered these 15 wolves. This story aroused "my" curiosity, so "I" began to look for these wolves. In the process of searching for wolves, "I" unexpectedly met my uncle, the captain of the wolf hunting team, and then they encountered a series of wolf-related things. During this period, people "transformed" into wolves, wolves "transformed" into humans, and 15 wolves were killed one by one, which triggered a series of thought-provoking stories.

When Officer Ryder saw the manor, all the memories came back. He's been here, he knows everything here. Young Charles Ryder met Sebastian, the handsome son of a marquis, at Oxford University, and entered Brideshead Manor through Sebastian's introduction. Since then, the manor has left an indelible mark on Charles' life. He developed an unspeakable relationship with a brother and sister, and witnessed the disintegration of a family. Sebastian's father abandoned his family and lover and settled abroad; his religious mother became increasingly crazy and put heavy shackles on her children in the name of love. Young Sebastian longed to break away from the prison of his family but was unable to do so. He drank all day long and eventually left his hometown and lived in poverty for the rest of his life. The young and beautiful eldest daughter Julia also gave up her love and happiness early because she could not get rid of the shackles of faith.

This is a wonderful story about a man who keeps distance from the era of desire, but lives a fulfilling life. I followed my uncle not only because he was a botanical genius, but also because he had an anachronistic quirk. He was immersed in the world of scientific research and had no intention of seeking power. He longs for happiness more, but suffers a lot in the pursuit of love, calculations and deceptions. He did not dare to endure it, let alone sink. Instead, he lamented: More people died of heartbreak than nuclear radiation. Just escape to the Arctic and spend some time with plants!

I always wanted to die, but unexpectedly I have survived until today. On top of the complete denial and destruction of the self, the poignant and beautiful flower of material sorrow blooms. Known as the "measles book" - just like every child will have measles, every Japanese will inevitably read "Heart" once in his life, Natsume Soseki's masterpiece. Natsume Soseki died of illness three years after the book was completed. This is a very dark novel, written in 1914, and it is still readable 100 years later. It is a heart-wrenching novel that is a must-read in Japan. Just like a child who gets measles once in a while, this book is known as the "measles book". It is a masterpiece that brings Japanese aesthetics into full play. Xu Jianxiong, a senior translator, advocates using "quality inspection" to pursue accurate and beautiful translations.

"Etoile" was published in 1968. It was Modiano's debut novel and won the Roger-Nimier Prize and the Fénéon Prize that year. The novel unfolds through the delirium hallucinations of the narrator Raphael Shremilovich. The protagonist transforms into thousands of bizarre and contradictory Jewish identities, but hides the most painful tragedy under humor. So we see many real or fictional characters walking around: Maurice Sachs and Otto Abetz, Lévi-Vendôme and Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust and the French Gestapo, Captain Dreyfus, Freud, Hitler and his lover Eva... Are like carousels spinning crazily in time and space, and when we close the book, the Place de l'Etoile is engraved in the center of the "City of Pain".

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This book tells the story of how a sincere musician rebelled against the hypocritical and frivolous society, thereby sublimating and perfecting himself in the struggle against social reactionary forces. It is the adventures of the protagonist Christophe, and it is a meticulous record of the artistic development process of a musical genius.

In the small town of Castle Rock, gossip spreads fast. Therefore, Scott Carey, who encountered a bizarre experience, could only confide the secret to his doctor friend: He continued to lose weight, but his body shape remained unchanged. Whether he put on clothes or took off clothes, the reading on the scale was the same. Scott's new neighbors open a restaurant in town, but the restaurant is shunned by the locals because the community cannot accept the lifestyle of the lesbian couple who owns the restaurant, Deirdre McComb and Missy Donaldson. He also got into a dispute with two neighbors because their dogs often pooped on Scott's lawn. As the town prepares for its annual Thanksgiving 12,000-mile race, Scott begins to discover the prejudices the two women face and wants to help change it. They form the unlikeliest of alliances, and Scott's mysterious illness prompts people to step out of isolation and prejudice against others and show understanding and tolerance for others.

"Notes from Boz: Scenes" is part of "Notes from Boz", the first collection of essays by the British writer Dickens. The author intercepts some scenes from life and shows them to readers, such as streets, shops, carriage stations, markets, theaters, amusement parks, parliaments, prisons, etc. Through these scenes, readers can understand the people's living conditions, joys, sorrows, and customs and political forms in the era in which the author lived.

The pain of modern people is not hysterical, it is just a bottomless ravine under the calm surface, but you never know when you will jump. Nick was talking about his childhood again, how he was abused by his father, how he was beaten and then hid in the pasture, where his Dutch teacher made him milk pudding. I burst into tears as I spoke, and it was extremely painful. But this is not his story, it is mine. He is always like this, taking other people's stories as his own, and turning other people's pain into his own. Since discovering this secret, I have told Nick everything about my past life, including how I killed my father.

Shortlisted for the second Jingdong Literature Award, McEwan's acclaimed work shows the moral and legal dilemmas in civilized society and directly attacks the cowardice, hesitation, selfishness and paranoia of human nature. The 2017 movie of the same name stars Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead and others, and they jointly perform a "teenager's affair". Fiona Meyer is a female High Court judge who has always been known for her harsh wisdom, precision and rationality. But her successful career could not cover up the discord in her family, and her thirty-year marriage was in jeopardy. At the same time, a seventeen-year-old boy, Adam, refused blood transfusion treatment due to his religious beliefs and his life was hanging by a thread. As time passed, both the prosecution and the defense gave their reasons. In order to make a fair and reasonable verdict, Fiona decided to visit the boy in the hospital in person. A sincere conversation touched Fiona's deep-seated emotions. In the end, what unexpected consequences her ruling will bring to the two of them... McEwan once again presented difficult moral dilemmas in "The Children's Act": Emotions surge under the suppression of rationality. How much impact will an accidental choice have? Should we respect religious beliefs and personal will, or should we insist on putting life first? Carrying the heavy shackles of a civilized society, which side will the balance of human nature tilt to?

The story takes place in a small town in the southern United States, where there is an old southern judge Fox Crane and his grandson Jester, as well as a young black boy Sherman with a pair of blue eyes, and a pharmacist suffering from leukemia, Mr. Malone. Jester wants to find the truth behind his father's suicide, while Sherman wants to find his mother. In less than a year, the lives and fates of several characters are intertwined. Their intersection is not because they like each other, but just because of excessive loneliness.

A pair of golden pupils, silently looking at the gap in the heart, a boring military camp, a peeping young soldier, two couples who seem to be inseparable, humiliation and betrayal, maybe death is the best ending for love. Carson McCullers is a classic that transcends an era, and Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor star in the movie of the same name. Alienation, loneliness, unavailable love, sudden death...