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Men and women of different identities, occupations, and ages gathered together and took turns telling the strange stories they had seen - a series of incredible ghost stories, which is the prototype of the story in this book. Now, please slowly unfold the dark gray cover and immerse yourself in the underworld of Japanese ghost stories under the dim light of the early spring snowy night... The mysterious frog god can actually enter dreams; the cursed shroud needs to be broken with blood; the cause of death of the brother and sister turned out to be verbal violence; the person is dead, but the ring suddenly appears; the chessboard is possessed by a cat's soul... Various characters take turns to play, and the ghostly and colorful atmosphere continues to spread under the dim light. The stories written by Kitou Okamoto are full of awe-inspiring and subtle beauty, which will make your blood rush. The incredible feeling creeps up your back and seeps into your bones... Fourteen mesmerizing twists and turns stories are skillfully told by Kitou Okamoto's light pen, and the slightest chill will hit your face as the pages unfold. This misty and drifting atmosphere makes people even more memorable after reading it, and it is extremely frightening and creepy to think about it.

Weird gang customs reappear, the thrilling life in the bandits' lair is revealed, and a little-known story told to you by a bandit's descendant. This is a strange book that describes bandits from their perspective and depicts the life of bandits in Northeast China. An old wolf covered in blood, holding a box gun in his mouth, staggered towards the depths of the wilderness. The wolf and Beard forged a grudge against each other in the wilderness on a moonlit night when Big Cabinet returned from gambling and met a pack of wolves. The three accompanying beardies died in the belly of a wolf to save Dakei's life. Dakei ate the wolf's heart as a sacrifice to his dead brothers. On the night of the wolf meat feast, the wolves devoured the bandit's nest.

"The House of Flowers" is one of the full-length original novels The Ballad of Hanako (1), The Ballad of Hanako (2). The poor come to the door to beg for food, the Eight Immortals travel east and I travel west, the two lips of grandma and grandma are never separated, and wandering around is happiness for the whole life. The basket for beating dogs with sticks to beg for food is filled with food for two or three years, and the leftovers are put in it. Even if I give it to the county magistrate, I won't change it.

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"Japanese Pu Songling"'s "Chinese Weird Tales" is a brain-burning reversal! A new interpretation of gods, demons and monsters! The proud work of Japanese genius Kontaro Tanaka! Manuscript found again after being lost for 80 years! This book is a collection of Chinese ghost stories written by Kontaro Tanaka, who wrote "All Ghost Stories" and other books. He collected and studied a large amount of Chinese ghost story materials, such as "Zi Buyu" and "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio". Most of the manuscripts of the book were unfortunately lost before its first publication, and some manuscripts are treasured in the collection of the Imperial Household Agency and the chaebol. When introducing Tanaka's works this time, I accidentally came across some scattered chapters. After many researches, it turned out to be the original first volume of "Chinese Weird Tales"! Reprinted and published.

Forsyth, the master of spy novels who alarmed the world's four major intelligence organizations! Forsyth worked secretly for MI6 for more than 20 years, drove a tank at the age of 6, and became a fighter pilot at the age of 19! He is well aware of the espionage techniques of various countries around the world, and is the focus of the CIA and Israel's Mossad! At the same time, he is also the winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Eight of his works have been adapted into movies, with cumulative sales exceeding 70 million copies! In the world of espionage, if you can't solve the problem, you become the problem! Terrorist attacks have occurred one after another in the United Kingdom and the United States. As the investigation deepens, the "missionary" behind the scenes gradually emerges. "Preachers" continue to exert their personal will on believers through online videos and use distorted doctrines to call on them to give the United States a full blow. His words were extremely inflammatory, and more and more believers spontaneously became suicide bombers. "Stalkers" are ordered to assassinate "preachers." However, the "preacher" lives on the Internet like a ghost and never reveals his true face. What the "stalker" knows is that the target has a pair of amber eyes...

This book is an excerpt from "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" in vernacular Chinese. Most of the characters in the book are flower demons and foxes. Pu Songling uses his extraordinary imagination and profound insight to build a netherworld that is both real and illusory, and both human and ghost. It is a true projection of human society, revealing the bitter and tragic life scenes of the world and the tragic life experiences of characters. It is a dream embodiment of an ideal society.

In Gu Town, Wang Changlin, who is over eighty years old, is the last Gu master in the town. He uses ancient secret techniques to make poisonous insects and poisonous weeds into Gu, and heals and protects the remaining elderly and children in the town. The red spots on the face of his "yaogong" Zai Zai mysteriously overlapped with the map of the town. In order to leave the country, Zai Zai hoped that the red spots would disappear. But after the red spots really disappeared, Zai Zai's life came to an end. The last days of the life of the last Nuo noodle master in the Nuo village were also the last remaining days of Nuo noodle skills. As the successor of carving Nuo opera masks and the guide soul boy of Nuo village, Qin Anshun has built a bridge between the present people and their ancestors, the living and the dead.

As the name suggests, the goods chaser, combined with the definition of rare goods, refers to a person who chases rare goods. This kind of person is rare in the world. The skill of palm and eye is not passed down from son to daughter. Even if you want to accept an apprentice, you must collect four strange items from four different directions and have different functions to be worthy of the title of Cargo Chaser and then you can accept an apprentice. However, no cargo chaser has ever dared to establish a sect. At the same time, according to legend, the cargo chaser has never been passed down for more than five generations. Usually, the family is suddenly wiped out, or disappears from the world and disappears. After all, it is not just the cargo chaser who covets rare goods. Xingshu is one of the rare collectors in the contemporary era, but he is different from other collectors, and even different from those antique collectors. He is not even a player. He became a collector entirely because he was born in Youfu Hospital, also known as a mental hospital. After he was born, his mother disappeared...

It describes an ancient god (Cthulhu) who lived on the earth long before the birth of human civilization and fell into a deep sleep for unknown reasons. Therefore, their bodies and civilization are sealed in the deep sea or the Antarctic, waiting for the moment of recovery to enslave the earth's creatures again.

"Star Wars" is a masterpiece of horror novels, but in addition to horror, we can also find many elements in it and label it with many labels - it is an allegorical novel that euphemistically alludes to British colonialism, a monograph that discusses nature and hypocrisy and cunning, a satire that satirizes hypocritical religious beliefs, and so on. When we say that H. G. Wells was ahead of his time, we don't mean that he was ahead of the scientists who made space travel a reality or discovered the mysteries of the genome, but that he was ahead of Stephen Edwin King and M.

This is a novel written by Shirley Jackson in 1959. It was shortlisted for the National Book Award. It is now regarded as the best Gothic novel in the literary history of the 20th century. The story takes place in an eighty-year-old mountain house, which is also known as a "haunted house". Dr. Montague, who specializes in investigating supernatural phenomena, led three young people to live in this mountain house. They experienced various strange situations in the house, and got deeper and deeper into the mysterious atmosphere, and finally couldn't extricate themselves. "The Evil House" is one of the top 100 English novels of the 20th century voted by readers of Random House's "Modern Library" and is also included in the Penguin Classics series.

This book collects representative works of the world's top thriller novelists, allowing readers who love this genre to experience the charm of words and the power of horror.

"The Song of the Dead Dreamer and the Gloomy Scribe" brings together the debut novel collection "The Song of the Dead Dreamer" (1986) and the subsequent "The Gloomy Scribe" (1991). It is the author's famous work of horror novels. Because of its unique style, it goes beyond the scope of genre novels. Some commentators call it "supernatural horror" and "philosophical horror". The novel mostly describes the secret things hidden in our lives. Through some weird events, it attempts to re-examine modern society, explore its weaknesses, and give us a different perspective on the connotation of life. For example, in the first chapter "hilarious", the scene is set in the living room of Dr. David Munk's house at night. He has just arrived at the prison in Norgate Town. He and his wife Leslie are chatting about a patient named John, who makes handicrafts that look like little boys.

"The last knight of German Romanticism" and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hesse's new 10-volume anthology, translated by famous writers, includes novels, short and medium-length works, poetry, prose, fairy tales and paintings, comprehensively displaying Hesse's creative career. This anthology has 10 volumes in total, including "Under the Wheel", "Siddhartha", "Steppenwolf", "Natchez and Goldmund", "The Glass Bead Game", "Engagement", "The Last Summer of Klingershal", "Life in Poetry", "Song of Ticino" and "Hesse's Fairy Tales".

Everyone knows that "A Dream of Red Mansions" is good, but few people know which version of "A Dream of Red Mansions" is the most suitable to read and is closest to Cao Xueqin's original work. "Dream of Red Mansions: Commentary by Yu Pingbo" is based on the early manuscript of Cao Xueqin's original work - Qi Xuben. It compiles a relatively complete comment system of Zhiyanzhai and includes careful comments by Yu Pingbo, a master of Red Mansions. It fills a major gap in the current version of "Dream of Red Mansions". Yu Pingbo used the 80 chapters of "The Story of the Stone" prefaced by Qi Liaosheng, which was lithographed by Youzheng Bookstore, as the base, and compiled it with reference to many manuscripts (Jiaxu version, Jimao version, Gengchen version, Jiachen version, Chengjia version, etc.). This "Dream of Red Mansions" will bring you an extraordinary reading experience and restore a complete and authentic "Dream of Red Mansions" for you. In addition, "Dream of Red Mansions: Commentary by Yu Pingbo" contains the last forty chapters compiled and supplemented by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E as an appendix for readers' reference.

We plan to compile a seven-volume "Collected Works of Gogol". Gogol's works are of various genres, including novels, novellas, short stories, dramas, reviews, etc., So they are divided into volumes according to the selection principle of genre: Volume 1: short and medium-sized novels "Nights in the Countryside with Dikonka", "Mirgrad", "Stories of Petersburg", etc. The second volume: the drama "The Imperial Envoy", "The Wedding", etc.; The third volume: the novel "Dead Souls"; the fourth volume: the collection of letters "Letter with Friends", etc.; The fifth volume: literary theory.

This set of books includes: "The White Wolf Rises", "The Sword of Destiny", "Blood of Elves", "The Age of Contempt", "Baptism of Fire", "The Tower of Swifts" and "The Lady of the Lake", a total of seven volumes. He came from the north on horseback, with white hair and a weathered face; he is a stranger and a demon hunter who takes slaying demons as his own duty and walks between the fog of reality and legend.

"Collection of Haruki Murakami's Representative Works" selects ten representative works of Haruki Murakami. In the newly revised Chinese version in 2018, Haruki Murakami wrote a preface for Chinese readers for the first time. This set includes "Norwegian Wood", "Kafka on the Shore", "Hear the Wind Sing", "Pinball 1973", "Sheep Hunt" and "Dance!" Dance! Dance! "South of the Border, West of the Sun", "The Journey of Strange Birds", "Sputnik Lovers", "The End of the World and Grim Wonderland", a total of ten volumes. Haruki Murakami, a famous modern Japanese writer, was born in Kyoto in 1949. He started writing at the age of 29. His first work, "Listen to the Wind Sing", won the Japan Newcomer Award. In 1987, his fifth novel "Norwegian Wood" was released in Japan and became a phenomenon-level best-seller, with tens of millions of copies sold worldwide, triggering the "Murakami Phenomenon". His works are widely known around the world and have won multiple world-class literary awards. He is also one of the writers with the highest reputation for the Nobel Prize in Literature over the years.

Most of Hawthorne's works are based on the history of New England for more than two hundred years. Among them are the heroic spirit of the colonial people against the brutal rule of the mother country, the tragic fact that the Puritans used exorcism as an excuse to persecute heretics and suppressed Quakers, the customs and customs of ordinary people's daily lives, and the shameless actions of the upper class. Overall, there are both historical volumes and folklore sketches. "The Collected Novels of Hawthorne" translated by Hu Yunhuan focuses on Hawthorne's novels "Fan Xiao", "Retold Stories", "The Scarlet Letter", "Legends of Fortune", "The House with the Seven Gables", "Moss in the Ancient House", "Jade Figures", "The Snowman and Other Retold Stories", allowing readers to have an overall understanding and grasp of Hawthorne's novels.

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"John Christophe" describes the protagonist's life of struggle, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. Beethoven was born in an era when "breaking" and "establishing" were in conflict. He was talented and composed one song after another that has been handed down from generation to generation; he had an ill-fated fate and went through hardships, but he still insisted on "being devoted to good and loving freedom more than anything else... Romain Rolland also compiled Beethoven's will and letters into a collection. Michelangelo has the ability to A powerful force that influenced an era. Before him, the artistic sky in Florence was dull and lacked vitality. After him, Michelangelo's style influenced almost three centuries of artists...

This book includes all the novels of the Austrian writer Zweig, including the short and medium-length masterpieces "Letter from a Strange Woman", "24 Hours in a Woman's Life", "The Chess Story", the novels "Love and Sympathy", "Dreams" and the posthumous work "Clarissa" (full novel) that has not been translated into Chinese before. This will be the first collection in China that contains all of Zweig's novels and is worth collecting. The translator is Zweig expert Zhang Yushu and others.

Stefan Zweig is the Austrian-German Jewish writer with the most readers and the most beloved readers today. He also writes poetry, novels, dramas, literary theory, and biographies. He is most famous for his achievements in biography and novels. His representative works include the short story "The Story of Chess" and "Letter from a Strange Woman", the memoir "The World of Yesterday", and the biography of writers and historical figures "The Three Masters". His works have been adapted many times and put on the stage and screen. Zweig is known as "the writer who understands women best in the world" and is also "the conscience of Austria." His elegant and passionate writing style is consistent in both fictional and non-fictional works. He not only writes secret passions with cold poetry, but also tells the fate of an entire generation in his personal destiny. This set includes his novel "The Intoxication of Metamorphosis" (currently the only Chinese translation in China), classic short story collections "Letter from a Strange Woman", "The Story of Chess", "Yesterday's Journey", "The Love of Erica Ewald", representative biographies "Three Writers: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy", "Three Masters", "When Human Stars Shine: Fourteen Portraits of Historical Figures", and the final memoir "The World of Yesterday". Novels, biographies, and memoirs are all included. The works cover all stages of the author's creative career, clearly showing the author's creative context.

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Twenty years ago, Professor Lan Cheng encountered a shipwreck during a sailing trip. He and his companions were stranded on an isolated island. They could only survive by eating a lemon-like fruit and "lizard meat". When everyone was on the verge of despair, Professor Lan Cheng proposed that every night A person tells the weirdest and most bizarre stories he has ever experienced or heard in his life to satisfy some spiritual needs. However, these people died one by one not long after telling the stories, and in the end there were only three people left. Professor Lan Cheng was one of them. So, was that shipwreck really an accident? Why did the person who told the story die mysteriously? What secrets happened twenty years ago?

This book was written in 1870 and was compiled and written by the British novelist Richard Burton based on Indian folk myths. The story revolves around the adventures of King Vikram, a famous man in Indian history. When Wickram's father was in power, he once angered a magician living in the forest. In order to retaliate, he killed innocent people indiscriminately and cursed everyone with the most vicious spells, trying to make everything crawl under his spell and wand.

"Ice Is Sleeping Water" uses interlocking narratives and compact and smooth writing to describe the story of a national security agent. The novel focuses on Wang Bin, a descendant of the National Security martyr, and describes the story of Wang Bin, an ordinary teenager who gradually grew into a National Security agent under the call of a belief and bloodline. During this period, the childhood sweetheart girl Han Xiaolin was ravaged by T Army agents and brainwashed into becoming an enemy agent. As a result, a human tragedy began between two young people who deeply loved each other. The fate of the country and the nation, the misunderstandings of relatives and friends, the tribulations of life and death, love and hatred, in the face of national interests, they gave up all personal interests, just for a vow and a belief! The novel uses a unique script-style writing technique to show the lives and emotional world of these vivid characters like a movie. It is majestic and shocking, and brings readers a new reading pleasure and emotional experience.

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"Gut" is a novel by American contemporary cult fiction writer Chuck Palahniuk. In the book, a group of people come together in response to an advertisement for a "writer's workshop", but find themselves in a desperate situation. They begin to tell stories to comfort each other. As these storytellers become more and more desperate, their stories become more and more extreme. The book contains a total of twenty-three various stories, some are funny, some are scary, some are disgusting, or some are despairing. Various stories interweave a bizarre life, reflecting the absurdity of the world.

During the Republic of China, a sad bride dressed in a brocade cheongsam threw herself into the water amidst the bright lights on the banks of the Qinhuai River. Anyone who comes into contact with this cursed cheongsam will die. The terror of death continues to spread, and resentment always clings to the cheongsam, cursing everyone who wears it... Antique shop owner Tang Chao met horror novelist Lin Han in the third year when Li Ying went crazy. Lin Han was not loved by his parents since he was a child. After arriving in Shanghai, he stayed at the house of his godmother He Sulan. Attracted by the secret of He Zhai, he accidentally became the heir of the He family. After writing the last book based on the He family, and on the day she was about to leave, Li Youde (Huan Ye), who had helped her create a web page and had disappeared for two years, suddenly appeared and pointed out a village in her novel that he knew where it was, which aroused the interest of eight Lin Han fans, including Lin Han himself who was extremely curious, so nine people went to that village with Li Youde...

With different horror stories, different strange plots, and different weird scenes, it is gripping and has captured the curiosity of readers all over the world, triggering a wider and weird imagination space for horror novel lovers. Returning from "The Twilight Saga" to "Dracula", Bram Stoker's vampire image created his irreversible status as the originator of horror novels. The Bram Stoker Award, named after him, is the highest award for horror novels.

Washington Irving's short story "The Adventures of Negro Fisherman Sam" tells a story about adventure, treasure hunting, and ghosts. Sam's discovery of the treasure led many gold diggers to embark on the road of treasure hunting, but they all failed. Wolfert was one of them. He encountered ghosts during his two treasure hunts and almost died in the end. Fortunately, a windfall came from heaven, and the dying man got better, and his golden dream came true. The plot of this article is full of twists and turns, full of fantasy, and inadvertently portrays the greedy face of the Nuggets.

This book is an excerpt from "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" in vernacular Chinese. Most of the characters in the book are flower demons and foxes. Pu Songling uses his extraordinary imagination and profound insight to build a netherworld that is both real and illusory, and both human and ghost. It is a true projection of human society, revealing the bitter and tragic life scenes of the world and the tragic life experiences of characters. It is a dream embodiment of an ideal society.

The novel, a political novel distinct from Conrad's nautical novels, is now considered one of Conrad's best novels and predicted the rise of terrorism, anarchy, and secret agencies like MI5 in the 20th century. The New York Times praised this book as "the most outstanding novelistic study of terrorism" and it is one of the most quoted novels on the theme of terrorism by the American media after 9'11. It was also included in the American Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century and the American Society of Mystery Novelists' list of the 100 best detective novels of all time. Mr. Verloc is the owner of a small shop in London selling pornographic films, contraceptives and knick-knacks, but accidentally gets acquainted with a group of anarchists.

In my last life, I was slandered and killed by a Gu-stealing insect. But I am a well-known Gu refining girl in the village and the perfect candidate for the Miao Territory Saint, so I don't need to do this at all. In my rebirth, in order to avoid tragedy from happening again, I personally killed all the refined Gu insects. In the end, she used her body to refine Gu, tortured herself until she was neither a human nor a ghost, and fought her way through it, and took the position of a saint. In the face of slander, I can take action but remain silent. "Is a dog that steals other people's worms through illusions worthy of barking in front of me?"

My boyfriend of three years quietly engaged someone else, and I had a big fight with him. I said he didn't deserve to have children and a family, and he said I didn't deserve to marry a rich man. His fiancée found me and gave me the title of "mistress", nailing me to the pillar of shame. I fought back and told the truth, but he slapped my head down and accepted the unfounded charge. While I struggled and resisted, the hard-won child quietly left. My boyfriend, who suffered from asthenozoospermia, panicked and sent me to the hospital like crazy, but it was too late.

A baby who was only half a year old was suffering from serious diseases such as congenital hydrocephalus and spina bifida. Faced with such a patient, the young brain surgeon Nozu is caught in a dilemma: to cure the disease, he must perform surgery, but the surgery is extremely risky. If the surgery fails, he will personally kill a young life; if he ignores it, it will be tantamount to arbitrarily depriving the baby of the hope of survival. Looking at the beautiful and sad eyes of the baby's mother, Nozu was a little shaken...

Two soldiers whose fates were completely changed due to different orders of surgeries... The ultimate choice of an artist suffering from cancer... "Typical" patients who want to defend their dignity or just live a life... The depravity and revenge caused by love and hatred... Junichi Watanabe's well-known short story collection is not to be missed, including Junichi Watanabe's early works "Light and Shadow", "Death Sentence", "Resistance of the Monkey" and "Association of the Rose".

The "Wednesday Morning" pub in Akasaka, Tokyo is like a stage, where seven intertwined and mutually extending love stories are staged one after another. Some people "donate bones" for their lovers, forcing them to go to a dead end; some people "induced labor" for their lovers, making their husbands mature. Some people have a vigorous relationship, but they become a thing of the past. Some people only find the truest care after bidding farewell to their passion. The colorful world of love, the bizarre world of things, the ups and downs, and the flavors.

It includes nine works including "Twilight in Ginza", "Torrent", "Hearsay" and "Spring Revenge". It describes a middle-aged doctor who breaks up with his passionate girlfriend and marries another person, and in order to comfort his youthful troubles and guilt for his ex-girlfriend, he seeks information about her in a roundabout way; a business executive who is ambushed and blackmailed by a bartender and her accomplices due to vanity; a boss lady who works hard to train her daughter to inherit the restaurant business, but becomes jealous because her daughter's popularity is gradually eclipsing hers...

Dr. Enjoji left the university hospital with complicated interpersonal relationships and came to work as an attending physician in a private hospital. Many patients with hidden diseases who are unable to go to large hospitals for consultation have come to seek medical treatment. A private hospital is like a kaleidoscope, reflecting various images of people living at the bottom of society and struggling in the cracks of human nature. The doctors' benevolence and the patients' inner struggles interweave into an ups and downs story, which is full of fun and thought-provoking.

Originally titled "Heart Transplant", the work was adapted from the heart transplant procedure performed at the Sapporo Medical University Affiliated Hospital in 1968. It is a novel by Jun Watanabe. Driven by the motivation to become a heart transplant performer, the protagonist Yusuke Shigeto transplants the heart of a young man who was brain-dead due to drowning into a young patient with congenital heart disease. The process is accompanied by opposition within the hospital and doubts from the patient's family. Newspaper reporter Kentaro Tomatsuka keenly sensed the huge news value behind this incident, and worked hard to dig out internal information in order to write sensational headlines. The novel is driven by a two-line narrative, which not only has a sense of semi-documentary reality, but also develops a rich imagination of the protagonist's inner world. The tense atmosphere between characters with different positions is vividly expressed on the page through the author's vivid description. Through this work, we can find the origin of the narrative charm of Watanabe Junichi's novels.

Looking back on my youth, there was love and affection, but at the same time there were also a lot of worries, hesitation and confusion. I wrote this book because I wanted to summarize and reflect on everything in my past. The characters and places in the book are not limited to my youth around the age of 20. All the regrets, confusions, homesickness, and resentment I experienced in my teens, thirties, forties, and even today are all recorded in this book. --Junichi Watanabe

"Snow Falls in Tokyo" shows the author's concentrated observation and thinking about Japanese society over about three years, covering aspects such as natural scenery, social culture, medical care, living customs and creative experience. There are surprises and anxiety about environmental changes, concerns and warnings about the fragility of urban functions, criticism and thinking about hot social issues, and at the same time, heartfelt warnings about these issues.

We are not swayed by the world, we are full of curiosity, and pursue the love of life; we do not hesitate to praise others, and do not forget to appreciate ourselves and love ourselves. Being elegant and free is a bit bad!

"Anti-Tang Romance" is a Qing Dynasty novel. Titled "Edited by Gusu Rulian layman". One is "Wu Zetian's Reform of the Romance of the Tang Dynasty", and is also titled "The Complete Biography of the Romance of the Southern Tang Dynasty" and "The Complete Biography of Nuwa Mirror in the Anti-Tang Dynasty", with 140 chapters in fourteen volumes. The inner cover of Ruiwentang's engraved edition is inscribed with "Comments on the Complete Works of Xue Gang's Three Sacrifice at the Tieqiu Tomb" on the horizontal side. The title in the middle is "The Complete Biography of the Anti-Tang Dynasty" and the title "The Complete Biography of the Anti-Tang Dynasty" is inscribed on the inner cover. "Revolt against the Tang Dynasty" tells the story of Xue Gang, the son of Xue Dingshan, who rebelled against the Tang Dynasty. It begins with Xue Dingshan burying his father, Wu Zetian entering the palace and being favored, Xue Gang making a lantern show, and ending with the reunion of the Xue family when Ruizong of the Tang Dynasty ascends the throne.

"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese from the Qing Dynasty that is well-known at home and abroad. Pu Songling used his concise and vivid writing style and romantic and unrestrained imagination to create nearly 500 bizarre stories about humans, ghosts, foxes and demons, creating a large number of bizarre artistic images and becoming a representative work of Chinese classical Chinese novels. There are many editions of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". Among them, "New Annotations from a Chinese Studio" edited by Mr. Zhu Qikai (People's Literature Publishing House, October 1989 edition) has a relatively complete collection and rigorous editing. Mr. Li Boqi also participated in the annotation work, so it is used as this book. From the original version, nearly fifty chapters that can be regarded as artistic masterpieces were selected, supplemented by accurate annotations; People's Literature Publishing House also selected exquisite illustrations from "Detailed Notes on Strange Pictures and Odes of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" published during the Guangxu period, with both pictures and text, perfectly showing the style of the original work. With this volume in hand, readers can enter the beautiful artistic world of flower demons and foxes created by Pu Songling, appreciate the crossing of emotions and thoughts between real life and fantasy imagination, and appreciate the elegant, concise and vivid expressive power of classical Chinese.

"Lightning Window" is a Qing Dynasty novel about worldly affairs, written by the master of Xuanting. Only 6 fragments of this book exist, and the number of original chapters is unknown. The novel tells the story of a man named Lin Kun in Zhangzhou, Fujian, who was an upright person and did not get along with three new candidates, including Wu Yunhan. When Lin went to Beijing for a test, the ship stopped in Suzhou. A fire broke out in the wealthy Lu family. The lady of the family hurriedly escaped naked into Lin's ship to save Lin. Lu's fiancé, Shen Tiansun, was also a civil servant. Hearing this, he withdrew from the engagement...

"The Scholars" is a novel written by Wu Jingzi in the Qing Dynasty. It was written in the 14th year of Qianlong (1749) or a little before. It is now handed down in manuscript and was first published in the 8th year of Jiaqing (1803). The book's fifty-six chapters use realism to describe the different performances of various people regarding "fame and wealth". On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the corruption of human nature, thereby deeply criticizing and ridiculing the corruption of officials at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, and the hypocrisy of ethics; on the other hand, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves, thus embodying the author's ideals. The use of vernacular in the novel has become more proficient, and the characterization of the characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the use of superb satirical techniques, making the book a masterpiece of Chinese classical satirical literature. This book is the second volume.