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This book is one of the "Comprehensive Translation of Detective Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty: Gao Luopei's Embroidered Portrait Edition". "Necklace·Gourd" tells the story of Duke Dee's experience when he passed through Binhe Town on vacation. Binhe Town is a prosperous town and is the location of the Royal Hunting Garden. All administrative and military affairs are directly managed by the Royal Family. As soon as he arrived in the town, Judge Dee was involved in a series of inexplicable dilemmas. First, he met the mysterious gourd Taoist priest, and then he was inexplicably named a doctor. Then there was the mysterious appointment of the three princesses, and the fierce gangsters he encountered in the woods... Around the string of jade beads, there is a case within the case, which is extremely complicated. Day and night, Di Gong peeled off the cocoon and finally found the string of jade beads, allowing the truth to surface. The novel is exquisitely conceived and is one of Gao Luopei's more mature works. It better integrates Chinese and Western reasoning and better presents the essence of Chinese culture.

My uncle has a friend named Shinji Yanase. The Yanase family, if we trace its origins, should belong to a branch of the Hongjia family. Of course, that's a long way off. By his father's generation, only a palm-sized piece of dry land was left. Like most other families in the town, they were just an ordinary family. The difference is that his family no longer depends on the weather, because Yanase stayed in the city and worked in a company after graduating from a university in Osaka. Nearly ten years passed like this, and three years ago, Yanase returned to his hometown with his wife.

This book selects six novels written by Edogawa Ranpo in his early days: "D-Saka Murder Incident", "Psychological Test", "Two Coins", "Red Room", "Human Chair" and "Doubt". Among them, "Two Coins" is Edogawa Ranpo's famous work in the literary world; in "D-Saka Murder Incident", the most classic detective image he created, Akechi Kogoro, made his debut on the stage. The remaining works also have the full characteristics of Edogawa Ranpo's rich imagination and unique conception. After reading this book, readers will be deeply impressed by the style of Edogawa Ranpo's works.

This book is part of the 007 Collection Series (Second Series), which includes five 007 short stories: "Conspiracy Under the Roses", "Top Secret", "Yu Wei", "Knife to Kill" and "Murder on a Yacht". Among them, the novel "Top Secret" was adapted into a movie of the same name. In the novel, three British intelligence officers were murdered in the United States. Bond was sent to a foreign country to investigate the truth, and unexpectedly discovered that this case also involved a drug case that affected the world. Bond bravely breaks into the drug lord's lair and begins a journey full of crises.

Poirot, who was on vacation, was accustomed to going to the "Happy Café" for dinner and coffee at seven o'clock every Thursday night. This Thursday, he met a woman who called herself Jenny. She looked panicked and claimed that someone was going to kill her. Jenny was horrified by this, but admitted that she deserved it. That night, three murders occurred in a famous luxury hotel in London. The victims all died alone in their rooms. The scene was exactly the same. The most important thing was that each of them had a gold cufflink with letters engraved in his mouth. Three pairs of cufflinks have appeared. Who is the murderer going to put the remaining one into?

Mochizuki Yoshio owns a green Mazda Demio, and one day he meets a hitchhiker who turns out to be the famous star Sui Araki. The good husband happily sent the star away, but before he could show it off, he learned that Araki Sui died in a car accident that night, and the person in the car was her cheating lover. Wherever there are humans, there is gossip. This tragedy has become a hot topic because it involves a celebrity's affair. Wherever there are humans, there is stupidity. In fact, after a long time of doing this, humans have not figured out the truth of the incident at all! There is another hidden story behind this tragic car accident, which has long been known in the automotive industry. Xiao Lu, the car owner of the Mochizuki family, wanted to tell the owner the truth so much that the windshield wipers were so anxious that they started to swing! So don't underestimate cars, give them a little gas and they can rock the world!

"Kill me". The man who made the emergency call in the early hours of the morning and is now in critical condition has these three words carved on his chest. The murder "souvenirs" scattered around the room point to him as a serial killer who has never been caught. The emergency doctor who arrived was hesitant because her sister was one of the victims. Unexpectedly, this is just the beginning. A forensics expert looking for the truth behind her husband's death, a criminal tracker who has lost his memory, a series of unsolved mysteries that have resurfaced... The "Eternal City" of Rome is surrounded by dangers, and murderers who have been lurking for a long time appear in turn, and behind them is a secret that has been hidden for hundreds of years. The true face of the perverted murderer will be revealed one by one...

Children's Day, College Entrance Examination, Dragon Boat Festival, a busy June, this issue of the magazine includes for you: Cai Jun's "My Old Bestie's Secret Night" reveals for you the secrets of the College Entrance Examination 30 years ago... Get an early preview of "Silkworm", the sequel to the international number one bestseller "The Cuckoo's Calling"!

Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature 21 times, the true "Uncrowned King" of the Nobel Prize, Graham Greene's classic masterpiece, a master of the 20th century British novelist, a masterpiece of "serious fiction", has been twice adapted into an award-winning film of the same name. Green divided his works into two categories: "serious novels" and "entertainment novels". "Brighton Lollipop" is one of the most famous "serious novels". The so-called seriousness means that the work explores certain issues in life that are worth pondering. Greene's novels focus on exploring crises of faith and crime, and their popularity has endured. In this book, Green uses a gangster-detective novel as a shell to stage a spiritual tragedy that explores sin and redemption.

From "Songs of the Four Seasons: A Selected Collection of the Bucket Rider", The Bucket Rider is known as China's Kafka. He makes Chinese fantasy become real literature. He also integrates the simplicity, ethereal, beauty and weirdness of Chinese characters, where the poetry, absurdity and imagination of the East reach their peak.

The visitor with a colorful beard brings a strange commission to Inspector Sam - to keep a special letter. The visitor insisted that there was a secret worth millions hidden inside, and that during special times, the presence of Jerry Lane was needed to open it. Next, Inspector Sam faced a series of bizarre cases: the mysterious man in the blue hat who appeared and disappeared for no reason; the rare book that was stolen and then returned; the clever daughter who was robbed on the road... The mystery of Shakespeare's life and death three hundred years ago had to rely on the wonderful performances of Shakespeare's actors three hundred years later to clarify the truth.

"G Boy Winter's War" is the seventh book in Ishida Iroshi's "Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park" series. It includes four stories: "The Man on the Telephone", "Venus the Fraudster", "Serial Arsonist" and "G Boy Winter's War". "G Boys Winter War" continues Ishida Kira's consistent style, with twists and turns of the story and rich urban fashion elements, plus a cool, dark and warm writing style, making it highly readable. The four stories in "G Boys Winter War" are all wonderful, and they all reveal important social issues. "Telephone Man" tells the story of a young man who cannot find a job due to character flaws and engages in phone fraud; "Venus the Fraudster" tells the story of a beautiful fraudster who defrauds customers with her beauty; "Serial Arsonist" tells the story of a child who sets fires continuously to attract everyone's attention; the main feature of "G Boy's Winter War" is that An Tengchong's status as king is threatened and G Boy faces civil war...

This book is one of the masterpieces of Verne, the world-famous French science fiction writer. The author lets readers board the "Nautilus" and travel under the sea for nearly ten months at an average speed of twelve kilometers per hour. Captain Nemo and his "guests" enjoy the ever-changing strange landscapes and various creatures on the seabed. The voyage has climaxes, such as undersea hunting, visiting undersea forests, exploring the ruins of Atlantis under the sea, salvaging treasures from Spanish shipwrecks, witnessing the funeral of the Coral Kingdom, fighting giant spiders, sharks and octopuses, repelling the siege of indigenous people, etc. In the second half of the 19th century, "exotic scenes" were favored by many writers, painters and sought after by readers. The wonderful journey of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" opened up a new way for exotic scenes, which was refreshing. This is why this "ocean novel" not only became a bestseller when it was published, but also became popular among generations of readers in the future.

There are many volumes of Verne's works. This set of works includes Verne's representative works "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Captain Grant's Sons and Daughters", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in Eighty Days", "The Mysterious Island", "The Five Hundred Million Frans", "Green Light", "Beacon Island", "Fifteen Boys" and "Machine Island". It concentrates the essence of Verne's works and is very suitable for a wide range of readers.

Terrorist organizations secretly plotted to launch a second 9/11 attack on the United States. The date of the attack was set on September 12, 2016, the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attack. The weapon used in the attack was a super virus that could spread rapidly. The attack method was both clever and secretive... In 2028, personnel from an advertising company flew three airships over Tokyo. Paper flower flyers were distributed over Tokyo, and then a terror alert was spread. The super virus had been scattered all over the city along with the paper flowers, and at least one million people were infected... The entire Tokyo was filled with extreme panic... Shortly thereafter, the suicide bombers carried the Ebola virus and began to bite innocent civilians like crazy in crowded places. The world was once again facing a crisis...

Hans, who was born in a small town, was extremely talented and had excellent academic performance since childhood. After passing the state examination he was able to enter the seminary. In the seminary, the taciturn Hans was a solitary person, often attending classes alone. By chance, he met Hermann, and they had a good rapport. Unlike Hans, who was conscientious and obedient, Hermann was rebellious by nature and frequently had verbal conflicts with teachers, so he was expelled from school. After that, Hans felt lonely and the depressive life made him at a loss. After a serious illness, he chose to drop out of school and go home to become an ordinary worker...

Zadig is the representative work of Voltaire's early philosophical novels. It is the first work of Volde's writing philosophical novels. The content is humorous and witty. "Zadig" is set in the ancient East. Through the life experience of the protagonist Zadig, it shows a world full of philosophy but a blend of reality and reality, which is very mythical and exotic. The content in the book is composed of more than a dozen seemingly independent but interconnected stories, connected by Zadig's life experiences. Mr. Fu Lei's translation is beautiful and smooth, which adds a lot of color to the book.

"Dream of the Floating Bridge" depicts the protagonist Jiu'er's strange attachment to his mother, or to his mother's breasts. The scene of sucking on the breast of my birth mother as a toddler is unforgettable. After his biological mother passed away and his father married another woman, Jiu'er showed no affection towards his stepmother. Even when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, he often sucked his stepmother's breasts. My father also turned a blind eye. It wasn't until his stepmother gave birth to a baby but was sent away that Jiu'er began to realize the inappropriateness of his relationship with the wet nurse. The baby may be the child of the stepmother and Jiu'er. This incestuous relationship became the talk of the neighborhood for a while. Later, his father and stepmother died one after another, and Jiu'er went to find the baby and raise it alone.

The novel adopts humorous, satirical and comical techniques, using the vision, hearing and feeling of a cat. It takes the daily life of the protagonist, middle school teacher Jinno Kusami, as the main line, interspersed with the conflicts of neighbor capitalist Kaneda who fails to marry a girl and plots revenge on Kusami, making it laugh. It explores the empty spiritual life of intellectuals in the Meiji era, and satirizes them for claiming to be noble but doing nothing; being dissatisfied with reality but unable to resist; being mediocre and boring, but denouncing the contradictory character of the world, and lashing out at the snobbish, vulgar, and cruel nature of Kaneda and other bourgeois figures and their accomplices. The novel has ingenious conception, exaggerated description, flexible structure and distinctive artistic features.

During World War I, American young man Larry's comrades died trying to rescue him. This experience completely changed Larry's thinking. He began to ask his inner questions: Since there is good in the world, why does evil also coexist? After the war, he stubbornly pursued the answer. He first went to Paris to study philosophy, and then came to a monastery in Bonn. However, Christian doctrine failed to provide him with a satisfactory answer, so he went to Spain and tried to find the true meaning of life through art. After getting no results, he ran to India and stayed there for five years before finally finding his true faith in Indian religion. "The Knife's Edge" is Maugham's full-length work published in 1944. It is based on the famous philosopher Wittgenstein. It profoundly shows the mental journey of an entire generation of Western intellectuals in their search for the meaning of existence, and presents a picture of life in the Western world after World War I. , From the United States to Europe and India, from Paris and London to Chicago and New York, from the city to the seaside, from the upper class to the lower class, the author provides us with a group of vivid and flesh-and-blood characters in a broad geographical and social background.

This book is one of Roth's few historical novels. He uses magnificent and delicate writing to describe the ups and downs of Napoleon's "Hundred Days Dynasty" and the ups and downs of that era through the two different perspectives of Napoleon the Great and the maid Angelina. In this work, Roth uses poetic language to narrate the joys and sorrows of big figures during the period of social turmoil and transformation, as well as the intersection and collision between the fate of individuals and the current of the times. It can be called the elegy of an era.

"Ukiyo Soko (Full Translation)" written by Ihara Saizuru is the last peak of Japanese classical novels following "The Tale of Genji" in the Heian period and "The Tale of the Heike" in the Kamakura period, and has had a great influence. The famous 17th-century writer Ihara Saikaku plays an important role in literary history, and his works have been translated and introduced to many European and American countries. Saikaku's floating world view makes him focus on two major themes and themes the most, one is the description of the emotional life of the town people, and the other is the economic activities or economic life of the town people, which is called "town characters" and belongs to: economic novels. This book has selected six representative works of these two types of works for translation. The six works are now combined into "Ukiyo Kusuko", which is published in its entirety in China for the first time.

"Eugenie Grandet" is a novel written by the French critical realist novelist Balzac. It narrates a story about money destroying human nature and causing family tragedy. The whole book takes Eugenie's love and marriage tragedy as the center of the conflict. Through a plot without poison, no sharp knives, and no bloodshed, it profoundly exposes Grandet's ugly way of getting rich, creates an image of a greedy, cunning, stingy, and cruel upstart, and nakedly shows how money can lead to the destruction of human nature. In this work, Balzac used comic exaggeration, personalized language and detailed character descriptions to perfectly portray the immortal image of the miser in the history of world literature, and profoundly demonstrated the endless greed and ruthlessness of capitalists.

Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man, is a simple man. One day, a painter friend created a lifelike portrait for him. In the praise of Dorian, he realized that he had amazing beauty. Under the constant influence of his friends, Dorian began to worry about losing his youth and appearance, and felt miserable about it. He even made a wish to let the portrait bear the crushing time of time on his behalf. Dolin, who wanted to be beautiful all the time, was lost in hedonism and sexual carnival, and the dark sides in his heart were exposed one by one...

He is revered as the "Father of Time" because he invented the first clock; he was severely punished by God like Prometheus because he dared to measure time, which is the best gift from God to mankind. He was imprisoned by God in a bottomless cave, listening to the same words year after year, which are the same words that will never be restored. They are the earnest pleas from the people on the earth. They are diligent and demanding for time. They want to turn back the clock and let time stop for them. Just when the "Father of Time" was about to suffer a mental breakdown from being tortured by these pleas, he was forgiven by God and accepted a mission: to carry a magic hourglass to the earth to enlighten all living beings and reveal the true meaning of "time". At the same time, God also assigned two partners to him, one is a girl who wants to commit suicide because of a broken love, and the other is a rich man who hopes to rely on modern technology to live forever. The "Father of Time" must save them both before he can finally redeem himself.

"Maugham's Life Trilogy" is composed of the famous British writer Maugham's classic masterpieces "The Moon and Sixpence", "The Blade" and "The Shackles of Life". Maugham adopts a calm and analytical outsider attitude in his works, from "The Moon and Sixpence" to "The Blade" ", and finally "The Shackles of Life", which lists all the choices and problems in life, leading readers to think: Do you choose the moon or sixpence? Everyone walks on the blade of their own life; Man is born free, but he is always in shackles...

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's absolute masterpieces "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Forest", this book not only includes Akutagawa's talented literary masterpieces "The Nose", "Yam Porridge" and "Hell Transformation" in his early creative period, but also "Warnings of the Dwarf" which deeply analyzed the inner world in his later years. ", "Kappa" and "The Life of a Certain Idiot", with a special focus on Akutagawa's creative turning period, and selected three works full of modern humanistic colors, "Miscellaneous Mandarin", "Autumn" and "Christ in Nanjing", to provide readers with a complete and complete picture of the creative trajectory of Akutagawa's entire life. Early stage - classical origins, brilliant "Rashomon": a sharp-edged debut. A glimpse into the darkness of human nature. "Nose": Natsume Soseki was full of praise. "There are people who laugh, but there are no people who hate." "Yam Porridge": as famous as "The Nose". Realizing a dream is also a tragedy. "Hell Change": Mishima Yukio personally adapted the stage play. The human heart is hell. The turning period - focusing on the present and seeking redemption "Miscellaneous Mandarin": fresh, tranquil, and a rare life novel by Akutagawa. "Autumn": the first attempt at a modern emotional novel. "Christ of Nanjing": Liang Jianhui stars in the movie of the same name. Talk about the power of believing. "In the Bamboo Grove": The real original work of Akira Kurosawa's film "Rashomon". Later years - self-analysis and seeing through human nature. "Warnings of the Dwarf" - a collection of aphoristic essays, full of golden sentences. "Kappa" - a fable that is beyond reality but extremely true. "The Life of a Certain Idiot" - Akutagawa's posthumous manuscript, alluding to his own life.

Compared with the creation of novels in his early period, Bellow mainly concentrated on the creation of short and medium-length novels in his later period. At this time, Bellow's cultural stance and value orientation as a Jewish writer had changed, or deepened. Most of these short stories and short stories have the theme of "searching". By recalling the ancient and warm Jewish tradition, they show the confusion and spiritual crisis encountered by contemporary Jewish immigrants in the United States. The writing style is implicit and alert, reflecting the author's consistent control over words. It is full, steady, and broad-minded, giving people the feeling of reading a novel, but it is also refined and controlled. This is in interesting contrast with Bellow's statement that "novel should be written as short as possible."

The direct descendant of Borges, Argentinian literary giant Cesar Ella devoted his efforts to create it; it has been shortlisted for the Booker International Prize and the Neustadt International Literature Prize, and is highly recommended by Roberto Bolaño, the author of "2666". "Musical Brain" is a collection of short stories by Argentinian writer Cesar Ella, which includes: "Musical Brain", "Picasso", "Brick Wall", "Shopping Cart", "Athena Magazine", "Dog" and "Two Men", as well as an introduction written by the translator Mr. Konyare himself. The stories in this collection of short stories are full of fantastic fantasies, and the plot trends exceed readers' expectations. They do not deliberately pursue the completeness of the stories, and often lack clear endings. In other words, the novel "Music Brain" actually provides readers with a huge space for imagination, and also weaves each story structure from another aspect to be fuller and fuller.

Brand-new translations, real award-winning inside stories, and detailed and vivid introductions of writers and works not only show the creative trajectory of the writer, the style and characteristics of the works, but also reveal the inherent laws of literature. With a wide range of themes and different techniques, people can not only enjoy the charm of art, but also gain varying degrees of enlightenment in various ideological realms, thereby understanding the true meaning of life. Although these writers with very different approaches have different languages, concepts, and backgrounds, their majestic attitude of holding high the banner of ideologicalism is the same, and their spirit of freedom of courageous pursuit is the same. Their majestic appearance is reflected in their works; their spirit is reflected in the words of these works. This series of books contains all the essence of their works that are revered by all generations.

In the French literary world of the 19th century, Maupassant was known as the "King of Short Stories". Maupassant's best subject matter is the Franco-Prussian War in which he personally participated, his ten-year clerkship career, and his life in his hometown in Normandy as a teenager. These three environments provide extremely rich themes for his short stories. These works extol the people's patriotic enthusiasm, express rural customs and world conditions, and truly reflect the monotonous and stereotyped life of small clerks. They have their own artistic characteristics and are not the same. They are like the various schools on a gemstone, which jointly reflect brilliant light.

This book is a collection of novellas by the master of Russian literature Andrei Platonov, which includes four works: "Primordial Sea", "Potutan River", "The Elusive Man" and "Epifan Sluice". Among them, the novel of the same name "Primitive Sea" was a work that Platonov never published during his lifetime. The novel tells the story of the protagonist, Nikolai Vermo, a strong electricity engineer who goes deep into the grasslands of southeastern Russia and shows off his skills in the state-owned livestock farms. He hopes to use arc technology to drill into the underground primitive sea and use groundwater to turn the dry grasslands into rich land suitable for animal husbandry. The protagonist and his companions intend to use technology to change the laws of nature and transform the universe, thereby realizing the happiness of all mankind. Platonov's weird and bizarre language created a completely unique, difficult-to-imitate, and unattainable world of Platonov's art, constituting a unique landscape of Russian literature.

The characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe's novels are "elevating the funny to the grotesque, the terrible to the horror, the wit to the mockery, and the strange to the weird and mysterious." In order to achieve this effect, he always crafted and constructed cleverly in his creations. In subjects such as abnormal psychology, the horror of death, and resurrection from the dead, he used this method to heighten the atmosphere and make readers feel a thrilling and strong horror effect. They are concerned with associations with the beauty, joy and cruelty of death at its highest level. The protagonists of the story are all shrouded in the shadow of death. They are seriously ill and unable to escape.

Flaubert was a 19th-century French realist novelist. He has been engaged in writing all his life, but the number of finished products is not very large. Including the unfinished novel "Bovard and Pécuchet", there are only five novels and three short stories in total. However, these few works are enough to make him surpass many writers of his generation and enter the ranks of masters. This set of books is the complete collection of his novels, divided into three volumes: the first volume contains "Madame Bovary" and "Salembo"; the middle volume contains "Emotional Education" and "The Temptation of Saint Anthony"; the second volume contains "Three Stories" and "Bovart and Pécuchet".

This book includes "Martin Paz" and "Ghost in Mexico" and "Dr. Cow". "Martin Paz" tells the story of Indian Martin Paz who fell in love with Sarah, the daughter of Jewish businessman Samuel, and he kidnapped her at Sarah's wedding. Between love and national rights, Martin Paz faces a life-or-death decision. "The Ghost of Mexico" describes that on October 18, 1825, an elaborate Spanish warship "Asia" and another brig "Constanzia" equipped with eight cannons unmoored and set sail on Gezhen Island. Gedrang Island is part of the Mariana Islands. The sailors on the ship were poorly fed and poorly paid. Exhausted from the six-month voyage to Spain, they were secretly plotting a mutiny. How are things going... "Dr. Niu" tells the story of Dr. Niu and the small town of Kuokuandong. Dr. Niu and his assistant came to the quiet and peaceful town of Kuokuandong. They installed hydrogen and oxygen power generation equipment for the town and conducted scientific experiments. Unexpectedly, the quiet town suddenly became noisy, impetuous, and even on the verge of war. The experiment was over, and the town returned to its former tranquility. The storyline is ups and downs and fascinating.

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.

? The Japanese "depressive" high-scoring mystery novel "The Holy Mother" + the Japanese masterpiece "Dating Intoxication", after "complaining about maternal love" the reverse masterpiece "The Holy Mother", see how Rikako Akiyoshi venomously talks about "single men and women"! A must-see masterpiece of the year with high reputation, a divine twist!

A collection of selected short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who is unique in the Japanese literary world. Japan's highest pure literary award is named after him! Carefully selected 11 short masterpieces by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including the famous chapters "Rashomon", "The Nose", "Hell Transformation", "In the Bamboo Forest", etc., Covering the entire creative cycle and wonderfully presenting the literary world of Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Haruki Murakami said: Ryunosuke Akutagawa's novels are classic works that will be passed down to future generations. No matter how many times you read them, you will never get bored. Lu Xun, Osamu Dazai, Natsume Soseki... The creations of many famous artists were influenced by Ryunosuke Akutagawa!

This book is a carefully compiled collection of Naoya Shiga's short story masterpieces, including seventeen immortal masterpieces from different periods of his creative career, including "In Kinosaki", "Walking to the Net", "Van's Crime", "Seibei and the Gourd", "The God of the Apprentice", "Grey Moon", etc., Which comprehensively demonstrates the style of his short story creation.

"Snow" is not only the pinnacle of the famous Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki's personal works, but also one of the outstanding masterpieces of the entire Showa literary world. French writer Sartre praised this work as "the highest masterpiece of modern Japanese literature". "Snow" is a genre novel describing the love story between Japanese middle-class young men and women. It tells the life story of four sisters from the wealthy Shifeng family in Osaka. The story revolves around the main plot of the second daughter Sachiko and his wife arranging the marriage of the third daughter Yukiko and the fourth daughter Taeko, and finally ends with Yukiko's successful blind date.

"Three Deaths", the fourth of "Cao Ying's Translation of Leo Tolstoy's Complete Novels and Novels", takes the title of one of them as the title and includes seven of the writer's death-themed works, including "Three Deaths", "Polikushka", "Hostomir: A Horse and Life Experience", "Does a Man Need a Lot of Land", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "Crock Alyosha", and "Diary Published After the Death of Elder Fedor Kuzmich". Tolstoy thinks about death from different angles, from the death of nobles to the death of civilians, from the death of animals to the death of plants, from before death to after death. Tolstoy's concern for death is another expression of his concern for life.

Chekhov, known as the "God of Short Stories", is a master in the eyes of many literary masters. His works are dedicated to showing the constant human nature in the changing world, sadness, loneliness, absurdity and helplessness, as well as the inability to control the ups and downs of fate... His works have won many awards and are enduring. They have been selected into many language textbooks and have been translated into various languages. Chekhov is good at using wonderful and unique stories to allow every reader to instantly see himself and others he seems familiar with, bringing comfort and healing to the difficult life. This book contains Chekhov's recognized mature works, including 17 excellent works such as "The Man in the Trick", "The College Student", "On Love" and "The Sixth Ward".

This book is a collection of short stories written by John Updike, the father of the "Rabbit Tetralogy" and a master of contemporary American literature, in the last ten years of his writing career. It was first published after the author's death in 2009 and includes a total of eighteen stories, including "Tears of My Father". These novels are the final short works of a generation of literary giants. In them, Updike reveals his true feelings, looks back on the past in a farewell gesture, records the world with tender touches, and depicts the pain and joy, love and guilt, affection and betrayal, fear and relief of ordinary Americans from the "Great Depression" to the post-9/11 era.

"The Gluttonous Man" is the sixth volume of "The Complete Collection of Maugham's Short Stories", which contains a total of 15 short stories. These short stories were all written before the outbreak of World War II. The background of the stories may take place in Southeast Asian countries during the British colonial period, or on an isolated island in the South Pacific, or in Capri, Italy, or in French Guiana, showing readers the humanistic and historical pictures of different regions. Some stories are embarrassing to read, some are awe-inspiring, some torture the humanity of ordinary people and praise the kindness of ordinary people, and some satirize the hypocrisy of the Western bourgeoisie and criticize the absurdity of the Western capitalist system. The descriptions of their thoughts and feelings are sincere and delicate, and the writing style is also extremely humorous. The stories are full of warning words of wisdom and aphorisms.

This book selects Maupassant's most representative short and medium stories, including popular masterpieces such as "The Necklace" and "My Uncle Jules", as well as the twists and turns of "The Olive Garden" and "Pierrot". "The Necklace" uses a necklace as a clue to unfold the story. The layout is unconventional and has been included in middle school Chinese textbooks; "My Uncle Jules" reveals and satirizes the alienation of relationships between people in class society. Maupassant was good at cutting out typical fragments from ordinary and trivial things, and summarizing the reality of life with small insights. His novels have unique conceptions, ups and downs of plots, vivid and detailed descriptions, and lifelike characters, which make people have endless aftertaste after reading them.

This book selects seven of Faulkner's most representative short stories, telling the story of the great impact and transformation that the traditional culture of the South and the values ​​of the North experienced after the outbreak of the American Civil War. It uses strange and twisted language to describe the conflict between the declining aristocracy and the common people in this special environment. Most of Faulkner's novels and short stories take place in Yoknapatawpha County, known as the "Yoknapatawpha Line". Its main context is the story of several generations of families belonging to different social classes in Yoknapatawpha County, from 1800 until after World War II. There are more than 600 named characters in the lineage that appear alternately in various novels and short stories.

When Laoguai came to Kanshang with his 5-year-old Qingguo, rapeseed flowers were blooming all over the ditches and ditches of Macun. That year, I was 7 years old. I spread my legs and blocked the wood door, stared at Laoguai and shouted: This is my home, I hate cripples. My mother grabbed my ear and said, call me dad... I said my dad was dead. My mother turned her head and glanced at me hatefully, then turned back to Laoguai and said, "The child is spoiled, and that's his virtue... Don't be angry." Lao Guai smiled innocently and said, "No, I don't care, I don't care," but his expression was extremely embarrassing. Looking at Laoguai's pitiful look, I felt very angry.

Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was not only one of the greatest novel masters in the Russian literary world of the 19th century, but also one of the most complex, contradictory, and greatest novel masters in history in the world. With his voluminous creations, he is unique and unparalleled in his profound description and in-depth exploration of human beings' complex and even divided human nature, psychology and even abnormal spirits. If Tolstoy represents the breadth of Russian literature, Dostoyevsky represents the depth of Russian literature. Shanghai Translation Publishing House's cloth-bound hardcover "Collected Works of Dostoevsky" includes all seven novels by Dostoyev "The Injured and Insulted People", "Notes from the House of the Dead", "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", "Ghost", "The Boy" and "The Brothers Karamazov", as well as the collection of short and medium stories "White Nights", totaling eight types and nine volumes, basically covering all the most important works created by Dostoyev throughout his life.