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Koizumi Yakumo was born in Greece and grew up in Ireland, but he was obsessed with Japanese culture and created a large number of well-known ghost stories. The earless Yōichi, the snow girl, the green willow spirit, the dream-eating tapir... These monsters originally only had vague images in the village night talk. It was not until they met Koizumi Yakumo that they became flesh and blood, affectionate and meaningful, and were truly known to the public! This book conducts a comprehensive review of all 17 volumes of Koizumi Yakumo's works, and compiles all the ghost stories from "Keidan", "Spiritual Japan", "Amagawa Kitan and Others", "Old Art" and other books, and makes up the number of "Keidan" from 17 in the first edition to 69! Looking at life through the eyes of ghosts, I find that ghosts are more affectionate and righteous than humans!

The story of the book takes place on a seaside street in Monterey Bay, California before World War II. In the early 1940s, the production of canned sardines was the main feature here, so it was called Cannery Row. The central character of the novel is a marine biologist named "The Doctor". Being highly educated, he did not look down on his neighbors - gamblers, traders, prostitutes, and homeless people. In his eyes, these people were "very healthy and surprisingly clean." Another group of characters, Mark and his friends, are a group of penniless vagrants with no ideals or pursuits. They live happily in Cannery Row. Their lives are simple. They neither hide their desires nor let money corrupt their souls. They are sincere and helpful.

In a house in Anning Village, two people lived. The man is the applicant who chooses to start over because of unforgettable pain and grief. The woman is the inspector, responsible for teaching the man a series of simple things and their uses - what language is, what a name is, how to dress, how to go down the stairs, what actions to take when facing others, and record his healing process. He had forgotten most of these things and had no memory of why he was here. He felt safe in this paradigm of life. During this period, the man's condition recurred many times, and his past cognitions once again invaded his purified brain. When he meets an attractive, emotionally volatile woman at a party, he questions everything he's learned. What is this village for? Why is he here? Has he ever been someone else, and will he truly become the person he is allowed to be?

Selected from Hitchcock's short story collection, including more than ten short stories such as "The Husband's Trick", "The Boxer" and "The Strange Weapon", the text is concise and plain, the plots are twists and turns, and the endings are unexpected, and often make readers feel as if they are actually there. The novel is highly readable, full of modern features, in line with current reading habits and trends, and is very popular among the younger generation.

"Disillusionment", written by the French realist writer Balzac, is a novel that reflects the commercialization of literature and art and the shady world of journalism. It is also one of the most profound masterpieces in "Human Comedy" and the one that best reflects the spirit of the times. Through the encounters of two talented and ambitious young people, the novel reflects the situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution. It points out that with the disintegration of the feudal system and the victory of capitalism, there will inevitably be competition between people, which will inevitably produce poems of personal struggle and tragedies of shattered ideals.

"Aunt Bei" is a novel written by French writer Balzac in his later years. The story takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The Baron had served as a military auditor and director of munitions in the republican era. Now he was the head of one of the most important departments of the War Department, and was also a counselor of state. He was awarded the second class of the Legion of Honor. The novel describes how, driven by crazy passion that lost his reason and morality, he gradually ruined the reputation of his family and the honor of the army, embarked on the criminal path of speculation, fraud, and embezzled military funds, and finally lost his reputation. Hulot is a very symbolic character. His fall means the end of the glory of the old era and reflects the moral corruption of the entire upper class. The typical example of Aunt Bei belongs to Balzac's style and also shows the deepening of Balzac's creation. This is a "paranoid" character, and a complex full of contradictions: city and countryside, civilization and barbarism, rebellion and decadence, are cleverly intertwined, integrating rich life connotations and social consciousness.

Elegy of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's novel, translated by Mr. Wu Ningkun, a famous literary translator from Southwest Associated University. It profoundly reproduces the dream and decadence, arrogance and temptation of America in the 20th century. In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, the poor clerk Nick breaks into the secret world of the spendthrift tycoon Gatsby. He is surprised to find that the only bond in his heart is the little green light on the other side of the river. In the flickering light, lives his beloved Daisy. However, reality cannot tolerate misty dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the earthly world. When all the truth is revealed, Gatsby's tragic life is like fireworks. The brilliance is only for a moment, and the disillusionment is eternal.

"The Concrete Garden" is one of McEwan's two "small masterpieces" and one of his most acclaimed masterpieces. This story told by a fifteen-year-old boy who was in the rebellious period of youth is indeed a bit sensational from a secular perspective. After their parents died one after another, the four children - Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom - were trapped in the cement garden like prisoners in the vast world, like survivors on an isolated island. In an isolated world, they interpret the conventional ethics between parents, brothers and sisters, and children, as well as stories that transcend ethics, are shocking yet reasonable.

Although Mr. Sherlock Holmes occasionally suffers from rheumatism, which makes walking somewhat inconvenient, his friends are pleased to know that he is still alive and well. For many years he had lived on a small farm in the Downs of southern England, five miles outside Eastbourne. He spent his time thinking about life and doing farm work. During his seclusion, he refused to take on all kinds of extremely lucrative cases because he decided to retire completely. However, as the war with Germany was about to break out, he decided to respond to the government's call. He perfectly combined wisdom and practical activities and achieved outstanding achievements, which were collected in "Holmes Takes a Bow". To make this collection perfect. The story includes nine chapters: The Wisteria Apartment, The Cardboard Box, The Red Circle, Bruce Partington's Submarine Project, The Dying Detective, The Disappearance of Ms. Frances Carfax, The Devil's Feet, and Sherlock Holmes' Final Bow.

This book contains a total of eleven short stories, among which "The Last Case" is Conan Doyle's work to put an end to Sherlock Holmes. Although Holmes is widely popular and fascinated by people, and although he is a hero created by Conan Doyle, Conan Doyle himself hated him very much and wanted to end the creation of Sherlock Holmes. Therefore, in "The Last Case", he arranged for Holmes to have a decisive battle with London's crime boss Professor Moriarty at Thunder Bay Falls. As a result, both of them fell off the cliff. As a result, as soon as this work was released, it unexpectedly aroused crazy anger and protests among the contemporary people. After that, Conan Doyle could only arrange for Holmes to return in "The Adventure of Nothing". The work promotes the humanitarian idea of ​​punishing evil and promoting good to a certain extent, and caters to the psychology of the general public.

"Cheer up!" She shouted, "Look at those clowns!" "What clowns? Where are they?" "Oh, they are everywhere. All around you. Plants and trees are clowns, words are clowns. Scenes and numbers are clowns. Put two things together, one joke, one image, and you have a three-part clown. Come on! Play! Fictional world! Fictional reality!" I really did. Oh my gosh, I really did. To commemorate those first daydreams, I invented this great-aunt, and now she is walking tremblingly along the marble steps of the front porch of memory, sideways, sideways, poor lame lady, touching the edge of each step with the rubber tip of her black cane.

This book is Nabokov's first novel, which embodies the themes of youth's first love and homesickness in exile. The story describes the evil officer Ganin who was exiled in Berlin. From a neighbor's photo, he discovered that the neighbor's waiting wife Mashenka turned out to be his first love in middle school. In the following days, Ganin kept reminiscing about his past and the good times he spent with his loved ones. Time then set the neighbor's alarm clock to pick up Mashenka on his behalf, hoping to rekindle the old relationship with Mashenka. However, while waiting for the bus, Ganin suddenly realized that today's Mashenka is someone else's wife, and no matter how nostalgic the past was, it is gone forever. Finally, Ganin boarded another train and left Berlin to start a new life in France.

"The Story of Lena Fox" took shape from about 1170 to 1250. It started as a long story poem. There are many authors, most of whom are difficult to trace. Later, there were many sequels and imitations. The version widely circulated today is the 33 prose stories rewritten by the French female writer Madame Marie-Ache Zino. In the book, the scheming Lena Fox can skillfully avert danger no matter what kind of danger he finds himself in. Lena Fox lied on the road and pretended to be dead to deceive the fishmonger, and calmly feasted on delicious eels; he asked the old wolf Yesengren to stick his tail into the ice hole to fish, and turned into a bald-tailed wolf; he played tricks on the envoys sent by the Lion King again and again, and defeated all the enemies with his wisdom...

Love should be reserved for those who deserve it. "Snow Country" is a crystal clear artistic world carved by Kawabata Yasunari's pen. This place, far away from the hustle and bustle, is full of the emptiness and silence of the original state of life. Through the portrayal of the three main characters Shimamura, Komako and Ye Zi, the novel shows the unremitting pursuit of beautiful love, the ultimate yearning for the beauty of reality, and the infinite sorrow for nihilism. Perhaps, love is like the blurry scene on the car window in the snowy country, hazy and as light as the mist before the rising sun, adding a touch of smudged color to the white and cold world...

This book contains three Nobel Prize-winning novels by the famous Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari. "Snow Country": The young Shimamura met two women with very different personalities in the pure white snow country. His heart that deeply felt the futility of life was healed by the pure and pure love. "Ancient Capital": In Kyoto, the ancient capital with deep tradition, a pair of twin sisters were forced to separate and embarked on completely different life paths, but fate brought them to each other again. "Thousand Cranes": The new owner of a tea ceremony family oscillates between several women with different identities. After experiencing love, hate, life and death, gathering and separation, everything finally calms down.

Vera Drake can count the defining moments of her life on one hand: In 1967, she was an elementary school student coping with the sudden disappearance of her mother; in 1977, she was a college student contemplating her boyfriend's proposal; in 1997, she was a young widow trying her best to rebuild her life; in 2017, she longed to be a grandmother but felt she might never get the chance. One day, Vera received a strange phone call from a stranger. Then, without knowing the reason at all, she flew from the west coast of the United States to Baltimore on the east coast to take care of a young woman she had never met, her 9-year-old daughter, and a puppy named "Airplane." This impulse leads Vera into an unknown life - surrounded by eccentric neighbors who treat each other like family, she finds comfort and contentment in this unexpected place. A Dance of Time is a captivating novel of hope and transformation that allows us to see Ann Taylor at the height of her powers.

It is a novella by the famous British detective novelist Conan Doyle. It tells the story of Douglas, the owner of Burststone Manor, who was unfortunately killed in a horrific manner. There was a card next to the deceased's body with the words "V. V.341" Scrawled on it. Holmes unlocked the code, but was involved in a bizarre murder case. The reasoning of this work is fascinating, the structure is ups and downs, the characters are vivid, and it touches on the social reality of Britain at that time.

Osamu Dazai's helpless swan song of life deep in the soul is written to the self in our hearts that was once cowardly but eager to realize. "Disqualified" is the last work of Dazai Osamu's life, and it is also an eternal classic of Japanese literature. The whole book describes Ye Zang's continuous sinking in order to escape reality from childhood, adolescence to middle age. He experienced self-exile, alcoholism, suicide, numbing himself with drugs, and finally walked towards the tragedy of destruction step by step. Through Ye Zang's life experiences and the process of constant self-denial, Dazai Osamu also expressed the depressed emotions buried deep in his heart and the desire to be loved. Therefore, this work is regarded as Dazai's semi-autobiographical work. Through this work, he attempted to raise the most sincere and sharp questions about being a human being to the world. The contradictions and struggles accumulated throughout his life can be seen between the lines. The wonderful thing is that even though Ye Zang mocks himself for "a life full of shame," he is still fascinating, as if he is the only one who truly sees the essence of human beings in the world, shouts out the ugliness of human nature on behalf of the world, and steps towards the road of gradually losing his qualifications as a human being like atonement. After completing this work, Osamu Dazai committed suicide by drowning at the age of 38, marking the final end of his disqualified life.

This book selects 10 novels by the famous American writer Jack London, including "Love of Life", "Call of the Wild", "Northern Odyssey", etc. Among them, "Love of Life" tells the story of how a lonely gold digger trudged hard in the wilderness and won by fighting against hunger, cold, injury, wolves, etc. With his strong will to life. It vividly, realistically and almost cruelly demonstrated the two great qualities of bravery and perseverance in human nature. "The Call of the Wild" tells the story of how a dog named Buck was forced to leave the warm and comfortable countryside, went through many hardships, and became the leader of the forest wolves. It has been adapted into movies many times and put on the screen, and is deeply loved by readers all over the world.

"Counterlife" is Roth's fourth novel with the novelist Nathan Zuckerman as the protagonist, following his "Zuckerman Bound" trilogy. Roth won the National Book Critics Circle Award for the novel and was a finalist for the National Book Award. ? The novel takes the fate of the two Zuckerman brothers, Nathan and Henry, as two main lines. His elder brother Nathan is a well-known American novelist, and his younger brother Henry is a slightly accomplished dentist. The two fell out over Nathan's famous work "Karnofsky," and Henry accused Nathan of irresponsibly exaggerating and distorting his private life. After many years of no contact with each other, Henry walked into Nathan's life again because of Nathan's funeral. On the other hand, in the first-person narrative with Nathan, the host of the funeral becomes Henry, and it is Nathan who attends the funeral. Henry first died in a surgical operation in the United States, and then was resurrected as Hanoch in Israel. The dual narratives of Nathan and Henry do not run parallel to each other, but intersperse, entangle, and even contradict and subvert each other. With the help of postmodern writing techniques in which the protagonist comes back from life and death, "Counter Life" reveals how environment, encounters and a series of related life choices change people's subjective initiative, how they bring people different identities and recognition and interpretation of identities.

This book is the work of the Japanese national writer Natsume Soseki during his turning period. It includes three novels, "Autumn Wind", "Two Hundred and Ten Days" and "The Miner", published from 1906 to 1908. "Autumn Wind" revolves around the poor student Takayanagi and the rich boy Nakano. Although the two are good friends, their financial situations and situations are completely different. The two young men met Mr. Doya, a poor scholar. Shirai Michoya was originally a teacher in a certain school. He once taught Takayanagi. Because he was very critical of the world and the powerful, he was kicked out of the school by the villagers and students. He currently lives a life of poverty. A series of stories about morality and ideals happened among the three people around one hundred yen. Natsume Soseki focused on portraying the idealist Mr. Doya and showed his views on society; "One Hundred and Twenty Days" tells the story of two young mountaineers thinking about philosophy and life; "The Miner" tells the story of "I", a young man from a rich family who went to work in the mines because of a temporary impulse, and was deeply shocked.

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"Keidan" is a retelling and adaptation by Yakumo Koizumi based on famous works of Japanese classical literature. It is taken from many ancient Japanese books such as "Wandering Strange Story", "Ghost Story at the Night Window", "Ten Codes", "The Tale of the Past", "Ugetsu Monogatari", "Anthology of Ancient and Modern Writings", "Hyakumonogatari", "New Hyakumonogatari", etc. These stories of loneliness or loneliness in the dark are deeply rooted in the samadhi of Japanese literature. They are an indirect reflection of Japanese history and also carry the cultural beauty shared by the East.

This book contains 15 novels by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, including "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Hell Transformation" and "The Nose". "Rashomon" tells the story of a family of servants under Rashomon who are waiting for the rain to stop at dusk. When he was at a loss, as if his life and death were hanging in the balance, he met an old woman who made a living by pulling out the hair of dead people. The desperate domestic slave became evil and determined to abandon suffering and follow evil. He stripped off the old woman's clothes and escaped from Rashomon. The plot is simple, the characters are sparse, the short length, the small scenes, the time, place, characters, and the ending are all displayed in front of the reader. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thereby showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of people, their helplessness and despair.

The beginning of the story tells that a little boy and a girl accidentally entered a different world called "Narnia", where they experienced a series of adventures and saw the creation of that world...,

"Tropic of Capricorn" describes Miller's early life experience in New York. It is a work that describes his inner spiritual world and is also a mockery of modern Western civilization. The book is all-encompassing and reveals the lives of everyone, including his colleagues, various job seekers, his childhood friends, his parents and crazy sister, his friends, etc. In Miller's world of words, everything is free and jumping, everything has no connection but is connected with each other...

"Another Sea" is a short story by the famous Italian novelist Claudio Magris. It is an excellent work full of poetry and philosophy. In 1909, the young intellectual Enrique left Gorizia, a city with a mixed population and culture in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and took his ancient Greek texts with him across the ocean alone to the Pampas and lived a life of herding. His closest friend Carlo, a philosopher and poet, taught him to find a true life free from society's lies. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroyed every chance of a normal life; thirteen years later, even after his return to the Istrian seaside, his life became increasingly lonely, and his attempts at connection and meaningful love were thwarted.

John had a dream about a beautiful manor. Since then, he has dreamed of the same manor again and again. He has always been eager to enter the manor, until he once saw the horrific scene behind the curtains of the manor in his dream; the popular actress Olga Stormer had a past that was unbearable to look back on. The scoundrel Jacques, who is accustomed to blackmailing women, knows her background; the young and beautiful Isabel was once a man of the hour in society. She has everything but money. Among the many suitors, Isabel unexpectedly chose the then unknown painter Allen. An unexpected incident made Allen really get to know his wife. The last touch of color disappeared from Allen's work...

This book is the prequel novel of "Fate\u002FPrototype", the story prototype of the world-popular Japanese classic IP "Fate\u002Fstay night". The content of this work tells the story of seven magicians who each signed contracts with seven heroic spirits, fought to obtain the Holy Grail that can grant any wish, and performed a ritual called the "Holy Grail War." During this Holy Grail War, the magician Sajo Ayaka formed a contract with the Heroic Spirit Swordsman. Then Ayaka encountered a major crisis, but she was not affected by it. Together with the swordsman, she overcame many difficulties and resolved the crisis.

"Silent Spring" is recognized as the foundational work that started the world environmental movement. The work tells the story of the huge and irreparable harm caused to the human living environment by the widespread use of pesticides represented by DDT. The book has both a rigorous and realistic scientific and rational spirit and a humanistic sentiment of reverence for life. It is recognized as the most influential book in the past 50 years.

"The Immoral" is a famous work by Gide, the master of modern French literature and winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature. This autobiographical novel tells the story of a young scholar, Michelle, who did not know there was life outside of books at first. He was seriously ill and almost died. After recovering, he discovered the joy of life and the joy of the senses. From then on, he "renewed himself", got rid of moral constraints, and pursued a debauched life. When his wife was suffering from illness, he still found it difficult to contain his wanderlust, and eventually she died of sorrow and illness.

2017 new unabridged complete version! The elegant translation by Dong Jiping, a Nobel Prize-winning translator and poet who has gained a lot of reputation, perfectly presents the sad beauty of the original work! For the first time in China, a complete set of illustrations by Henry P. Raleigh, the benchmark painter of the Jazz Age, is included! "The Great Gatsby" is a well-known and immortal classic in the history of American literature. It has been selected as one of the "Books that Shaped America" ​​by the U. S. National Library and a standard textbook for American high schools and colleges. It has been ranked first in the classic literature category on Amazon in the United States for 10 consecutive years, and has swept the world's most authoritative lists such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, and The Guardian. In the top social circles of New York, USA, a mysterious rich man named Gatsby suddenly broke into the world. He often held lavish parties at his home. One day, Gatsby's hidden secret was discovered by his neighbor: when he was a poor boy, he fell in love with the rich girl Daisy, and they remained in love for life. For the sake of his beloved Daisy, he did whatever it took to become a rich man, but the former goddess had already married into a wealthy family. Gatsby, who was crazy about love, made a series of amazing moves and rekindled his old relationship with Daisy as he wished. However, what awaited him was self-destruction and the cruel truth of human nature...

"Dandelion Wine" is a collection of childhood stories by science fiction master Bradbury. It records the daily life in a small town full of whimsy and relives a period of youth that neither curls up nor lies down. The protagonist of the story is Douglas, a 12-year-old boy who makes dandelion wine with his grandfather every summer. Dandelion wine is "summer on the tip of the tongue", putting all the joy into a bottle and fermenting it into a panacea for growth and cold winter. Summer is the green apple trees, the mowed lawn that exudes the smell of fresh grass, a new pair of sneakers that can make people fly, the distant tram bell in the hazy afternoon; it can also be the departure of a best friend, a puzzling old girl and her A childhood treasure, a happiness machine that can predict the future, a high fever that brushes against death... All these make the boy feel the joy of "living" like never before, with miracles, sentimentality, forgiveness, magic, fantasy, and a never-ending summer.

The book tells the tragic story of two American migrant agricultural workers, George and Li Nai, who were impoverished but dependent on each other during the Great Depression of the 1930s, who dreamed-chased their dreams-came close to their dreams-and their dreams were shattered. The book not only artistically displays the conflict between pastoral farm life and cruel social reality, but also reflects people's true feelings about living conditions. "The best designs of mice and men often fail" - it is an image portrayal of the human survival situation, which embodies the tragic connotation and philosophical implications of the work and sublimates it into a modern fable representing universal experience.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" was published in Japan's "Literary Times" in 1926. It was warmly welcomed by readers immediately after its publication and became Kawabata Yasunari's famous short story. It has been adapted to the big screen six times. The novel describes Kawashima, a high school student in Tokyo, who encounters a group of six touring entertainers on his way to Izu. The dancer Kaoru has a melodious singing voice and light and graceful dance steps. Kawashima falls in love with her while getting along with her. After a brief reunion, what awaits them will eventually be parting. Kawashima, who has almost used up his travel expenses, will return to his original life, and the touring artist will have to embark on a wandering road of acting again...

Chasing the Sun is McEwan's most ambitious and controversial novel in recent years. Theoretical physicist Michael Beard, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics when he was young but has since been gradually reduced to an academic role, encountered family changes when he entered his twilight years: his fifth wife had an affair and openly had an affair with the home decorator. Beard never expected that things would get out of hand - in a typical "McEwan moment", love turns to blood, stealing turns to murder, and the story takes a sudden turn, which is both shocking and reasonable, reviving Beard's already doomed life chess game. The long-lost ideal light of "saving the earth" actually shined into the dark room of his soul again through a conspiracy that was both accidental and despicable - thus, the good, the bad, the abysmal, the ridiculous, were all forced to be exposed in front of the readers...

This book is the eighth novel of suspense thrillers in the "Adamsberg Sheriff Series" by contemporary French writer Fred Vargas. At the scene of two murders disguised as suicides, the police discovered a mysterious symbol similar to a guillotine. The investigation first led Sheriff Adamsberg to an incident in Iceland 10 years ago where travelers were trapped and caused casualties. New clues later led investigators to a research association on Robespierre's writings that was keen on restoring scenes of parliamentary debates during the French Revolution. History, cross-dressing, Iceland, human bones... Withstanding the pressure of not being understood by his subordinates, after peeling off layers of cocoons, Adamsberg finally uncovered the truth about the travel accident 10 years ago and exposed the murderer's tactics. The book sold 700,000 copies in France and won the 2015 French Landino Suspense Literature Award and the 2016 German Crime Novel Award.

Zweig, no male writer knows women better than him! In classic works such as "Letter from an Unknown Woman" and "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", Zweig uses meticulous psychological descriptions to nakedly display the emotional world of women's undercurrents and breakaway from reason. The stories are brilliant, allowing readers to have a better understanding of society and human nature while being amazed. This book selects five Zweig's masterpieces of short stories and short stories. Reading any one of them will shock your soul and trigger your thinking. Gorky once commented: ""Letter from a Strange Woman" deeply shocked me with its touching sincere tone, extraordinary tenderness towards women, originality of the theme, and strange expressive power that only a true artist can have... You wrote it just right! The sympathy for your heroine, her image, and her sad heart song made me so excited that I couldn't control myself. I actually cried without shame."

It selects exciting chapters from the detective story of Jason Robin and divides it into four chapters: The First Appearance of the Bottle Cork, The Castle on the Cliff, Perils and Secret Appointments. In this book, the protagonist Robin the Rogue encounters a powerful opponent. Not only is his every move under the opponent's control, but he doesn't even know who his opponent is. The mysterious crystal cork hides a shocking secret. Once it is made public, the entire upper class of France will be destroyed. In order to safeguard the honor of the nobility, Robin decided to stand up.

"There is no perfect article, just as there is no complete despair." The first part of Haruki Murakami's "Youth Trilogy", the beginning of Haruki Murakami's literary universe, is a youth full of contradictions but understated. Listening to the wind singing, I feel the melancholy and helplessness of passing youth. "Hear the Wind Sings", "Pinball in 1973" and "Sheep Hunting Adventures" are collectively called the "Youth Trilogy". The novel unfolds in the first person. "I" was a college student in Tokyo. When I spent the summer vacation in my hometown in 1970, I drank and chatted at the bar with my friend Rat all day long. One day, "I" saw a drunk girl with no little finger on her left hand lying on the ground in the bar bathroom. So he escorted him home and guarded him for a night, which caused a misunderstanding. A few days later, the two met by chance in a record store and started dating, and their relationship became increasingly close. This relationship lasted for 18 days until the end of "my" summer vacation. After that, "I" returned to Tokyo to continue my studies. When I returned to my hometown again during the winter vacation, the girl had disappeared without a trace. A short love affair started accidentally and ended without a clue. In the end, only "I" sat alone on the beach and listened to the summer breeze. The major Chinese publishers of Haruki Murakami's works and translator Lin Shaohua have joined hands to present a new revised edition of Haruki Murakami's long-running series. In terms of design, we cooperated with the internationally renowned illustrator NomaBar. The three colors of black, white and red depict the subtle blur in Murakami's works between the square and the circle, and the overall presentation is both simple and classic. In terms of content, a lot of revisions have been made around foreign words, restoring the details of the author's intentional emphasis in the original version. Lin Shaohua updated the prefaces of the translations of many works, and made slight adjustments to some of the tone and expressions in the translations. The chronology of Haruki Murakami has been updated to the latest, and a music list is attached at the end of each book.

"Three Strangers Boating" is a humorous novel that makes people feel relaxed. It was once rated as one of the "50 most humorous literary works in history" by "Esquire" magazine. The novel mainly revolves around a rafting trip by three weirdos and a dog. It is full of exaggerated and unrealistic plots. They fell into the water, lost things, quarreled, made up with laughter, and told each other stories; they all have lofty ambitions and high enthusiasm, but no one can get up in the morning; they all want to be great explorers, but in fact, as long as it rains, they are still willing to stay by the warm fire and sit in comfortable chairs - reading makes people happy and forgets to get tired. In addition to the humor and wit of the story, there is also a kind of love permeated between the lines. The author is obviously sharp-tongued and harsh in every word he speaks, but his satire contains deep tolerance. Like sunshine without impurities, it makes people feel warm and secure, and they can read the truth, goodness and beauty of life while laughing.

Anne, the daughter of a declining aristocrat, fell passionately in love with Lieutenant Commander Wentworth when she was 19 years old. However, she believed in the advice of her relatives and friends and felt that the other man was from a humble background, so they broke up with her. Eight years later, Anne's family fell into decline, but Wentworth returned to his hometown in glory. I have many social circles, so I have many opportunities to observe other people's love affairs and examine past loves... This book tells about a dilemma when facing love: listening to others and making rational and prudent choices, will it bring happiness or long-term regret? Sometimes, people should give themselves some confidence and not be afraid that love will ruin their lives. Love first and then talk about it.

In postwar Japan, a family of declining aristocrats-a gentle mother, a late father, a seemingly dissolute younger brother, and Kazuko who struggles for love-traveled through their lives in a villa that belonged to them and did not belong to them. Osamu Dazai wrote the story of women's inner emotional struggle and rebirth through Kazuko's first-person narration. The whole book is full of emptiness, uneasiness, decadence and helplessness, but at the end, the author sends a ray of brilliance of life to Kazuko, shining a ray of light in the dark tone of decadence. The entire era is like the setting sun setting in the west. Hezi searched for the rainbow deep in his heart and embarked on the path of pursuing new life and hope alone.

This is McEwan's first book for children. It tells the story of the daydreams of a ten-year-old boy, Peter. Through seven carefully linked episodes, the grown-up Peter uncovers the mysterious journeys, transformations and adventures of his childhood. Living between dreams and reality, Peter experienced an unprecedented Metamorphosis... In the United Kingdom and the United States, "Peter the Dreamer" was published in the form of an illustrated children's book, while in many other countries, it was published in a more serious form for adults to read. McEwan once again demonstrates his boundless imagination - and a children's book written for adults is born.

The sequel to the global bestseller "The Handmaid's Tale" and winner of the Booker Prize for the second time by "Queen of Canadian Literature" Margaret Atwood, it features new characters from different perspectives and reveals the secret behind Gilead for the first time. ["Dear readers: You have asked me many times about the very details of Gilead's inner workings. These questions have become the source of inspiration for this book. Another source of inspiration is the world we live in." - Margaret Atwood] Fifteen years after the ending of "The Handmaid's Tale", the rule of Gilead is showing signs of decay from within. At a critical moment when great changes are coming, the destinies of three women with different identities and backgrounds begin to intersect, leading to subversive consequences. They witnessed the changes in history from their own perspectives. Three different narrative voices constructed a larger and more open time and space, revealing for the first time the secret behind the fall of Gilead. The past and the future gradually overlap in the narrative, and the truth is presented to readers in a stunning way.

Peter and Patrick are close friends. Peter is cynical and hostile to the world, while Patrick desperately tries to please others in order to prove himself; on the outside, they are both so different, but neither of them is happy. Until one day, a life-changing adventure allowed them to discover the value and power of love, and their lives changed completely. This book explores with readers a question about the conclusion of life and the meaning of existence through a vivid and touching story. Through humorous insights, the author tells you that the power of gifts lies in giving, and that choosing love-through forgiveness, empathy, humor, or other means-can solve all problems. Key idea: Everything that happens in life is the result of a coin toss. The visionary rejects nothing, desires nothing, and accepts only what is. The great thing about intimacy is that it takes you into deep emotional realms and into old wounds that are just waiting to be healed. Anger and denial are great ways to deny and mask pain, but denying pain is denying yourself. All pain is an illusion, caused by your belief that you are divided and incomplete.

This book collects five of the most popular masterpieces among the short stories and short stories of the lyric poet Hesse. "Autumn Journey" describes a mind wandering between wandering and nostalgia. "Remembering Childhood" depicts the memory of the angels, miracles and fairy tales that linger in the past. "The Marriage" shows another side of Hesse's writing style, describing the story of a man who struggles for marriage in a distant place where he lives for a long time, surrounded by shuttles. In "The Big Whirlwind", the dreamy days of youth have not yet passed, the seedlings of love have begun, and the troubles of puberty are unbearable. "Beautiful Youth" is a work that eulogizes the soul of adolescence. It outlines the dream of young people who yearn for wandering but miss their hometown; they long for a romantic and free life but hope for a stable home. The articles are timeless in artistic conception, full of humor and warning, and are endlessly memorable.

Between truth and lies, there is a Rashomon gate. Is it because the truth of the world is too monotonous and boring, so it is dyed with mottled colors by human nature? "Rashomon" is the representative work of the Japanese genius writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa. He uses concise writing, concise language and highly charged details to present the various aspects of Japanese society in the early 20th century, and vividly depicts the selfish desires that swing between life and death, and the absurdity and sublimity of human nature. The book contains 8 representative works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's writing career, including "Rashomon", "Nose" and "Yam Porridge", allowing readers to experience the swing between good and evil at the critical moment of life and death, and to discover the hope blooming in the subtle humanity in the darkness.

The book revolves around the protagonist Hugh Person and his four visits to Switzerland. It begins with a description of his fourth return to Switzerland, the first time he came here eighteen years ago. The young Hugh Person was a melancholy, shy publisher who fell in love with Amanda, who would become his wife, on his second trip to Switzerland. Hugh Person lives in memories and insists on staying in the same hotel every time he goes to Switzerland. However, at the same time, he tried his best to avoid memories, because memories can only bring pain.

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