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A woman, a piece of hot land, a wonderful and touching experience, a sincere and free life experience. In 1914, 29-year-old Karen set foot on the hot land of Africa, full of longing to run a coffee farm with her husband. Horse riding, hunting, practicing medicine, planting her own coffee garden... She lovingly recorded every detail of her life in Africa, feeling the most profound call and response between soul, life and nature.

The confusion of being a human being, the hesitation of being unable to love. It is an in-depth analysis of the soul and a profound interpretation of human nature by the writer Dazai Osamu. It is the source of inspiration for Haruki Murakami's works, an immortal masterpiece widely circulated in Japan. "Disqualified in the World" begins with "I"'s thoughts after seeing three photos of Ye Zang. In the middle are three notes written by Ye Zang. The three notes correspond to the photos and introduce Ye Zang's experiences in childhood, youth and adulthood respectively. In the work, Dazai Osamu cleverly hides his life and thoughts in the life experiences of the protagonist Ye Zang. Through Ye Zang's monologue, we can get a glimpse of Dazai Osamu's inner world - "a life of shame and shame". After reading it, you will find that you are not alone, let your soul breathe a sigh of relief, and let you see the sunshine in the darkness.

34 years old, but shockingly raw, Edsel Bronfman leads a bleak and unknown life: a stable job, a rented single apartment, working 9 to 5, rejecting the Internet, no friends and no girlfriend! But Bronfman is quite satisfied that there is no need for so many twists and turns in life. However, an invitation letter for an "extraordinary adventure" breaks Bronfman's peaceful life, and the "free beach trip" prize that falls from the sky makes him itchy. He wanted to go, really wanted to go. But there are conditions for "receiving the prize". He must bring his partner to claim the prize within 79 days! However, he has no partner. Never. As a result, Bronfman, who has been a "Buddhist" for 34 years, felt the "strong desire" in his heart for the first time. From then on, he began a series of extraordinary adventures to find a "true partner": dangerous neighbors, crazy mothers, all kinds of dates, all kinds of strange and bizarre adventures Encountering the secret sadness of growing up that is constantly being cut and turned into chaos... The cracks in his 34-year lonely life were pried open. With his yearning for family, friendship, love and ultimate happiness, Bronfman used courage and faith to change his destiny and start a beautiful new life full of sunshine.

"Fisting All the Way: Selected Novellas by Sun Chunping" includes five novellas written by Sun Chunping in recent years. The works maintain his consistent creative style. They not only reflect the realistic theme "The Year of the Ears", but also "The Independent Division of the Northeast Army" about the brave resistance of the Northeast people against foreign aggression decades ago; "Who Are You, Second Uncle" which focuses on the realistic rural theme, and "Fisting All the Way" which writes about urban life at close range. The works accurately and uniquely reflect the huge changes in the concepts of various groups during the social transformation period. "The Bunker at Bodhi Bay" focuses on a railway bunker and writes about the development and changes of a village for decades. It contains both a profound reflection on history and a vivid description of the current reality. The many characters in the work are lifelike and have their own characteristics.

"Villa Bleue" was published in 1975. It is Patrick Modiano's fourth novel. It was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt that year and won the French Booksellers Award the following year. In 1994, it was adapted into the film "The Perfume of Ivonne" by French director Patrice Lecomte. Eighteen-year-old Parisian youth Victor Kemara wandered to a summer resort across a lake from Switzerland. In a luxury resort hotel, he met the beautiful girl Ivona and fell in love. Also with Ivona was Dr. René Mante, who was several years older than them. The three of them went to casinos and parties and lived a leisurely life with nothing to do. Ivona wants to become a movie star, and Victor is determined to go to the United States with Ivona to fulfill her movie dream. He asks her to meet at the train station and leave together... Twelve years later, Victor revisits the old place to pursue the lost time, and the past is like the mist shrouding the lakeside, leaving many mysteries.

"The Dying Ao" is the masterpiece of the 16-year-old genius writer Otoichi who made a sensation in the Japanese literary world. It is another dark masterpiece after "Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse" that looks directly into the abyss of people's hearts. "The Dying Green" uses a suspenseful and gripping strange story to delicately depict the pain and warmth of growing up, as well as the coldness and beauty of human nature. It is written for everyone who lives alone in the crowd. Synopsis of the story of "The Dying Blue": "'I am worse than everyone. I am like a slug. I am stupider than an earthworm. I am fat. I am a pig. I am inferior to everyone. I have no value in living. I am a fool. I should die. I have a dark personality and am not good at sports, so I can't make friends.' The teacher asked me to repeat these words twenty times each." Masao was disgusted by the teacher and ostracized by his classmates. In front of him, a mysterious boy with blue skin appeared. Masao discovered that no one else in the class was aware of the boy's existence.

Zenia is beautiful, smart, and greedy; sometimes strong and sometimes weak, sometimes helpless and sometimes ruthless; she is a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is dead. To be 100% sure, Toni, Roz and Charisse went to her funeral. Zenia had taken away their husbands and kidnapped their lovers. Five years later, when these three sisters-in-law women shared lunch, the impossible happened: "waves of malice flowed out of the body like cosmic rays," and Zenia returned...

The author of the world's top best-selling book "A Pilgrimage" is a new work with great reputation. The British media said that this book has established Rachel Joyce's status in the literary world. Readers in 30 countries are moved to recommend it! Don't be afraid of losing the courage to live, because it never leaves us for a moment. There are two stories here. 1972, Boy Byron. At the age of eleven, attending Winston Private School for Boys, his future was already planned, speaking with the right accent, learning the right knowledge, and interacting with the best people. Afterwards, entering Oxford or Cambridge; the beautiful but lonely mother Diana does what an ordinary housewife should do, but has a different self. Byron loved his mother so much, she was the only beauty he wanted to protect. A misunderstanding of time changed the trajectory of life. A tear-jerking story. Across two time and space, kind, anxious, imperfect but truly charming souls strive to make up for the damage in love, and will eventually gain strength and walk from darkness to light like a hero, thus reminding us: Don't be afraid of losing the courage to live, because it has never left us for a moment.

The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" describes the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II in a cold way. It writes about eleven kinds of lonely lives. The protagonists are all people who lack security and live unsatisfactory lives: fired white-collar workers in Manhattan office buildings, people with outstanding imaginations A taxi driver, a young man who has been frustrated many times but wants to be a writer, a man and a woman who are about to get married but are extremely confused, an eccentric old teacher, a newly transferred primary school student, a tuberculosis patient, an old and sick wife, a jazz pianist, a depressed military officer and a retired soldier, etc. Yates writes about the ordinary lives of ordinary people, describing their loneliness, loss and despair. He himself once said: "If there is any theme in my works, I think there is only one simple one: people are lonely, no one can escape, and this is their tragedy."

This book is Anne Ernault's second published novel. The protagonist is Anna, an adolescent girl who has graduated from junior high school and is about to enter high school. She longs to understand the world and contact others, but she cannot escape loneliness after all. As she grows up, Anna's feelings about her parents, education, and sex change, and she becomes more mature, but also more conflicted and unhappy. She found that she had surpassed her parents in education and worldview, and was getting further and further away from them. Anna's story is splendidly narrated in a colloquial language style and stream-of-consciousness writing. The value of this work is not only that it allows us to see the beginning and development of Erno's writing style, but also allows us to witness the literary turning point of a master, which is fascinating.

"Eugénie Grandet" takes the father's wealth accumulation and the daughter's love tragedy as the main lines, depicting a vivid picture of provincial customs. The novel has a classical structure and concise writing style. It is a simple epic that has been widely loved by readers since its publication.

"The Plague" is a Nobel Prize-winning work by French philosopher and writer Camus. It tells us the story of the people of Oran, represented by Dr. Rieux, facing the sudden threat of plague and death, from initial doubts and panic to the final fight against the epidemic together, facing the disaster, and finally winning. In a city captured by the plague, a group of desperate people redeem themselves. It shows the fighting spirit of people in trouble and their pursuit of justice. It reminds each of us that in a crisis moment that is not what we want, the only right thing is to choose to walk with kindness and sincerity.

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F. S. Fitzgerald, the author of "Tender Is the Night", is a famous American screenwriter and the most important representative of the "Jazz Age". Each of his successful works is the crystallization of the poet's sensitivity and the dramatist's imagination, and is the product of the perfection of his artistic talent. "Tender Is the Night" is Fitzgerald's most painstaking autobiographical novel. It is one of the 100 greatest English works of the 20th century selected by Modern Library.

Keflavik is known as the darkest place in Iceland, a barren lava, a sea that cannot be fished, and a US military base that cannot be driven away. Writer and publisher Ali returns here because of his seriously ill father, and memories of his childhood flood back, including Pink Floyd, stealing supplies from US military trucks and a girl he can't forget. My grandfather and grandmother were Icelanders who built their lives on the sea of ​​the East Fjords with courage and will. At that time, the ancient custom was still popular, men brought glory and glory by going to sea, and women endured the cruel wait on the shore. The love of his ancestors, the praise of nature and the glory of life all deeply attracted Ali. In this same place of mountains and oceans, why did the former glory turn into a life with only profits instead of heartbeats? An unbearable question mark arose in Ali's heart.

"The Life of Monsieur Molière" is a biographical novel written by Bulgakov for the French comedy master Molière. Molière was one of Bulgakov's favorite comedy writers. Bulgakov not only adapted many of his plays, but also wrote biographical novels about him, recording his life of "laughing and telling the truth" like a play in a vivid and humorous way. Although the two masters who are well versed in the highest spirit of comedy live more than three hundred years apart, there is an emotional resonance and spiritual agreement between them. They used sarcastic, humorous and absurd comedy language to tear off the ugliest coat of society and system of their respective eras. They all marched hard on the road to adhering to their creative ideals and never gave up.

"The last knight of German Romanticism" and the autobiographical masterpiece of Hesse, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Haruki Murakami recommends reading works and is a spiritual book for the young generation. The protagonist Hans has been extremely intelligent, diligent and studious since he was a child, and is regarded as a child prodigy by everyone. He was sent to a seminary to study. Influenced by his extended family and society, he was eager for fame and studied hard in an isolated school without any free time. His physical and mental health was damaged. His classmate Herman is stubborn by nature, despises fame and is not tolerated by the school; but Hans feels that only Herman is his confidant. Hans worked too hard, became physically weak, and his grades dropped; the school blamed Hermann for this. Hermann was expelled from school, and Hans felt even more lonely. He was scolded by teachers and ridiculed by classmates from time to time. Later, he suffered from neurasthenia, which made him unable to continue his studies and had to return to his hometown to work as a fitter to make a living. Social discrimination and frustration in life made him feel as if he had fallen under a ruthless and huge wheel.

The time spans from the late Qing Dynasty to the Anti-Japanese War, and the area spans Guangzhou, Hankou, London and Nanjing. From the revenge of the protagonist Zheng Yinchuan, a young man full of ambition and tragedy, to his sadistic love affair with the heroine Pan Jingning, it depicts the life of modern professional managers in China and shows the ups and downs of business war legends behind their luxurious lives. The grievances and hatreds of two big families, a thrilling revenge story of a prince, a rolling pain and love in the world of mortals... The love between children, the dream of family and country, the past is as vague as smoke.

Dr. Himiko, who serves as the director of the mental hospital, is from a famous family, is beautiful, noble, and has superb medical skills. However, he was found to have performed unconventional "special treatment" on several patients. The nurse Beitaxiang was obsessed with Himiko. Although he was suspicious of his behavior, he still followed her without hesitation. Is it for financial purposes or to satisfy the "devil's heart"? With the patient's sudden death, the truth was revealed step by step, and Himiko's unknown past gradually surfaced...

The work "Collected Works of Woolf: Voyages" took nearly nine years from conception to final publication, and went through several revisions. It was finally published in the UK for the first time in March 1915, and received a very good response at that time. In April of that year, the "Observer" published an article congratulating Woolf and making the following evaluation of the novel: "... The humor, irony, and occasionally spicy writing and creative talent shown in the book are impressive..."

The story of this book is majestic, the plot is twists and turns, and the characters are distinctive. It is the author's masterpiece of this kind of work. What is shown in front of readers is not only the anti-corruption struggle within the party (represented by the secretary of the provincial party committee, a large number of pioneers who are loyal to the party's cause and insist on putting the interests of the people first), but also the desperate struggle between the public security officers and disciplinary inspection cadres (represented by the one-armed hero, the public security director) and the underworld group who are not afraid of sacrifice and regardless of personal life and death. It's a thrilling and soul-stirring read.

Li Jieren's novel trilogy "Still Water Waves", "Before the Storm" and "Big Wave" was praised by Guo Moruo as "the modern history of novels". This book was selected as one of the top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century by Asia Weekly. This book takes the seven years from the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War to the signing of the Xinchou Treaty as the latitude and longitude of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, and the Western Sichuan Dam formed by its suburbs. It depicts the lives and struggles of the people at the bottom of society in the late Qing Dynasty. In the work, the author expresses his sympathy for the suppressed people - especially the lower class women. The novel also combines character creation and plot advancement, and delicately describes the folk customs, daily attire, etc. Of the time, enhancing the historical authenticity and having a strong local color of Bashu culture.

Caizigou Xiaheyuan is an old house with a history of a hundred years. In order to treat his stupid son whose life is hanging by a thread, Dongjiazhuang is determined to let his son marry a 22-year-old girl, Deng Yan, to come in to "make happiness". On the way to welcome the bride, the insidious and vicious housekeeper Liu Gen tried every means to kill the bride, so that the "happy" event would not happen, and Zhuang Di's only son Ming Wang would die, so that he could seize the opportunity to annex the huge family property in Xiaheyuan. Unexpectedly, the bride, Deng Wick, saved the day and successfully married into Xiaheyuan. She also used her resolute methods to expose a series of conspiracies of the housekeeper Liu Gen...

The masterpiece of the famous writer Isherwood, the original work that became a Hollywood and Broadway classic, is a sketch of the chaos when Berlin fell before World War II. "Farewell, Berlin" is the most famous Berlin story written by the famous writer Christopher Isherwood. It is based on the bohemian decadent life of the author's youth. It depicts the chaotic chaos of Berlin before and after the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, and people's last carnival when the doomsday comes. The six short stories focus on various characters: the landlady Mrs. Schroeder and her tenant; two men with gay feelings; a struggling Norwegian family; a wealthy Jewish shopkeeper; the innocent yet sophisticated British gold digger Sally... Through the fate of characters of different parties, nationalities, and classes, the author accurately depicts a society heading into decline, allowing people to have a glimpse of the storm gathering over Berlin before and after the Nazis came to power, as well as the glimmer of humanity hidden within. "Farewell to Berlin" was adapted into the world-famous Broadway classic "Cabaret" (Cabaret). The film of the same name directed by Bob Fosse won eight Oscars in 1973, including Best Director and Best Actress. "Time" magazine and the U. S. National Library named "Farewell to Berlin" among the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century."

Werther is an emotional young man who yearns for a free life. At a dance, he met the judge's daughter Lotte and fell deeply in love with her. But not long after, Lotte's fiancé came back, and Werther also left under the persuasion of his friends and returned to the city to work as a clerk. The conservative and corrupt officialdom, the vulgar citizens, and the arrogant nobles all caused him to constantly conflict with the reality around him. In the end, the disillusioned Werther ended his life with his lover's husband's pistol.

McCullers was only twenty-three years old when he published "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." This novel was a sensation in the literary world as soon as it came out. It is still a best-seller today. It is an important representative work of McCullers and is listed in the "Top 100 English Novels of the Twentieth Century" in the American Modern Library. The work describes the loneliness and frustration of five abnormal people in a southern town in the United States in the late 1930s - the deaf-mute Singer, the coffee shop owner Biff, the girl Mick, the worker Blunt, and the black doctor Copeland. This group of "small town freaks" compete and struggle with their inner world and real life all day long. They observe and watch each other, and sometimes they interact and attract each other; they repeatedly speculate and try, but they gradually drift away from their dreams. In this poor, dirty town, they were hit hard and bloody on the way to find a way out of life. Even with the deepest love, they could not escape the ultimate loneliness.

The story takes place in Chongqing, the capital of the Nationalist Government in 1945. Here gathered a group of people who were feasting, feasting, and living in intoxication. Everything revolves around money. Corruption of officials, speculation by businessmen and bankers, and women being swindlers have become a common trend. The novel uses the clues of Wei Duanben, a young civil servant, and his beautiful but vain wife Tian Peizhi as they live together and break up. It takes the opportunity of many characters to rush to buy gold savings certificates to make the country's hard-earned wealth, and unfolds a complicated story. When the Anti-Japanese War was won, everything for the speculators was in vain. The work directs criticism towards the ugly, humble world in the Kuomintang-controlled areas on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It reveals the loss and struggle in the face of human nature and money in a special era.

"The Painter of the Floating World (work by 2017 Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro)" also uses the protagonist's meeting as the keynote, and vividly displays the protagonist's memories and thoughts with extraordinary novel skills. The writing style is implicit, euphemistic, and thought-provoking. The protagonist was once a prominent ukiyo-e painter. After Japan's defeat in World War II, he suddenly woke up from a big dream: it turned out that the entire Japanese nation had dedicated itself to an absurd and illusory ideal in the past, and his artistic ideal was as baseless and illusory as its name.

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K. Was a land surveyor employed by the castle. When he arrived at the village below the castle and wanted to stay overnight in the village, he was given a cold reception because he did not have a stay permit from the castle. In order to confirm his appointment by the castle, K. Tried every means to get close to the castle. But facing the castle with strict management system and the villagers who abide by the rules, K. Felt very helpless. It seemed that every step forward would block a road to the castle. Although the castle is close at hand, it is beyond K.'S reach...

It exposes the current situation of reorganized families that is more common than "Shoplifters" and "In the Name of Family". In the face of various negative news about "original family PUA", "child abuse", "irrational chicken baby", "fear of marriage and childbirth" and "high divorce rate", it is a literary work with great freshness, reflection, care and educational significance! Yuko Morimiya is an ordinary 17-year-old female high school student, but she has an amazing family structure. Her mother died when she was 3 years old, and her father left everything behind and went abroad. Her stepmother and two stepfathers lived with her successively. For this reason, her name was changed a total of 4 times, and the family structure changed 7 times in 17 years. The sudden disappearance of her parents, the caution of being dependent on others, the betrayal and rejection of her friends, the feeling of loneliness being questioned by the eyes of those around her... Various sensitive scars from her native family and adolescence have all brought Yuko sad and helpless life problems. "Why do parents leave? What is the secret they are trying so hard to protect?" How much tender companionship does a girl need to break out of her cocoon? Cherish the people around you who love you and move forward bravely!

The Crimes of Woman (1798) is Wollstonecraft's unfinished posthumous work and is generally regarded as her most radical feminist work. The novel adopts a gothic absurdist approach and revolves around a woman who is imprisoned in a mental hospital by her husband. Maria, who came from a good family, sought satisfaction outside of the shameless marriage behind the halo of respectability. After everything fell apart, she started a love affair with a fellow patient in the same hospital, and at the same time established a friendship with a lower-class woman who took care of her. The author believes that what obscures reason is often not the illusion of emotion, but passion. It is passion that leads ordinary people to the edge of dangerous mistakes, leading to the most intense emotions and leaving an indelible mark.

Miss Du, 32, felt like she was about to collapse. Obviously he returned to his hometown to take care of his mother who suffered from menopausal disease, but how could the days he lived with his parents become increasingly depressing? Workplace life also makes people want to escape. Sexism and work pressure are enough troubles, but at this time, they are also sexually harassed by their bosses. Even her boyfriend, who has always been happy with her, seems to have never considered a future with her. With a junior high school education and an uncertain income, can he be relied on? Will his parents accept him? ... When will the days of spinning and revolving come to an end? This is her story, this is my story, and this is your story.

There are four sisters in the March family, who live a simple, poor and warm life. The four sisters have very different personalities: Meg, the eldest, is dignified and beautiful, and bravely pursues true love; Jo, the second, is free and independent, and longs to be a writer; Beth, the third, is simple and kind, and faces death calmly; Amy, the fourth, is smart and lively, and hopes to become a "lady" in the upper class. Despite their different personalities and ideals, the four sisters all share a nostalgia for family, loyalty to love, and attachment to family ties. When the Civil War intensified, the peaceful and happy family became fragmented. The four sisters began to use their ideals as sails to find their own destiny...

Zweig's collection of short and medium stories, including "The Invisible Collection", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", "The Story of Chess" and other masterpieces. Among them, "The Story of Chess" was the last novella published by Zweig during his lifetime. In 1939, Zweig fled to Brazil with his family, and the story background of "The Story of Chess" is set on a ship bound for Buenos Aires. By chance, a mysterious stranger played against world chess champion Czentovic and easily defeated him. But just as the game continued, the stranger encountered an unexpected situation... This was his last game of chess. Where is he from? What kind of experiences have you had? His story is surprising and sad at the same time.

"How was your summer?" " Is the author's third collection of short stories, including 8 works. As the most representative female writer in the Korean literary world, Kim Ae-ran has won the love of a large number of readers, largely due to the power of the protagonist of the work. Most of the various characters in the book are faced with desperate situations, nakedly exposed to reality, but trying to find records of hard work with even slimmer hope. What is particularly worth mentioning is that six of the articles in this book are all about young women in their 30s as protagonists, describing the current psychological state of Korean women in this age group in terms of love, friendship, and self.

Recommended by Chen Qiaoen on Weibo. This is a family of three with only two people, and they must keep this secret. Heisuke's happy life was destroyed at the age of 39. The wife took her daughter back to her parents' home to visit relatives, and the bus she was riding accidentally fell off a cliff. The wife tried her best to protect her daughter, but eventually died of her injuries; her daughter was unhurt but remained in a coma. Heisuke endured the grief and held the funeral for his wife. When he saw his daughter's sleeping face, he couldn't help but cry out to his wife. At this time, a voice suddenly came: "... Mr." Heisuke was startled, but he looked around for no one. When he was confused, he heard the voice again: "Honey, I... I am here." Japanese readers of "Secret" voted Higashino's second place, second only to "White Night Walk", and the Japanese version sold more than 2 million copies. "Secret" is the starting point for Keigo Higashino's works to enter the Western world. In 2004, "Secret" was the first to be translated into English and has been translated into 7 languages ​​and distributed in 11 countries and regions.

In 1975, both people's hearts and society seemed to be less sleepy than during the day. Once after nine o'clock in the evening, people are really fast asleep. In the streets and alleys of Shanghai, whether it is an old garden house from the 1940s, an American-style apartment from the 1930s, or a Shikumen lane from the 1920s, the wooden houses painted with brown-red paint from the 1900s gradually emit the animal-like body odor of a depressed and disappointed body sleeping. The deep and lonely sleep floated heavily like night fog on the streets, covering the whole city. Three years ago, Burnstone, the American translator of Mao Zedong's poems, returned from a visit to Shanghai and expressed his opinion that Chinese bodies have no sense of identity at all. They are so calm, like mountains and rivers in nature.

Beauty to the extreme is destruction. The pinnacle of Mishima's aesthetics, a benchmark classic novel that is both perfect and original. Anyone can easily feel ashamed when facing the beauty of the Golden Temple. Mizoguchi, a young monk who stutters, is particularly sensitive. Mishima follows Mizoguchi's story, showing one by one the joy, awe, surrender, rebellion, hatred, and even desperate behaviors of defective people in response to "ultimate beauty". It logically completes the functional reversal of "ultimate beauty" from pleasing people to suppressing people. It is shocking to see a young man's relaxed aesthetic activity turn into a tragedy of fighting for his life. This shocking work pushed Japanese literature to a more prominent position in the world literary world upon its debut, and later became a benchmark literary classic that is both perfect and original.

The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". The "Good School" of the title is a fictional Connecticut preparatory high school. The story takes place in the early 1940s. Boys in a "good school" must join the army immediately after graduation. Teachers have mixed feelings about their profession and the school they attend. Although this is a school, as one teacher in the book said, it "contains huge potential energy". This is true for students and teachers. In some ways, this book continues a theme explored in Revolutionary Road: the fragility of marriage. The husband is disabled, the wife is cheating on her, the husband wants to commit suicide, but he is unable to do so. The "good school" in the title is undoubtedly the biggest irony of the entire book, and it makes people sigh after reading it. This book is one of the few works written by Richard Yates that is gentle and full of compassion. The protagonist's growth background and experience in the novel also overlap with Yates himself. The sad and restrained emotions in it are very attractive.

Recommended reading by the Oxford University Library. The first edition sold 500,000 copies in the United States. It has been adapted into movies twice and was shortlisted for Oscars and other awards. Maugham, the "genius novelist" who was a great storyteller in the 20th century, is a masterpiece of word-of-mouth, and a "full version" without deleting a word! This is a book about life written for millions of young literary and artistic people seeking to find themselves. It is recommended by Bai Yansong, Yu Hua, Haruki Murakami, Gao Xiaosong, Yang Lan, Cai Chongda, Liu Yu and Yu Minhong with emotion. We only have one life, how should we spend it? "I want to travel every road in the world, through deep sadness, inexplicable sadness, and endless joy, just to give it a go and experience life and pursue the stars in my soul."

"Gone with the Wind" During the American Civil War, Scarlett, the beautiful daughter of a plantation owner, fell in love with Ashley. But Ashley was engaged to her cousin Melanie. On the day of Ashley's engagement, Scarlett, who had confessed to him but was rejected, lost her temper, only to find that Rhett Butler had overheard the confession... The war destroyed love and their past comfortable pastoral life, but Scarlett grew up to be tough, cunning and brave in the life of rebuilding their home at the rear. The novel depicts the life of southerners before and after the American Civil War, and creates vivid images of many southerners of that era. The four emotionally intertwined male and female protagonists fully demonstrate the complexity and vividness of human nature, making them among the most unforgettable characters in the history of literature.

The middle-aged widowed American financier and art collector Adam Wayville and his only daughter Maggie both have very noble moral sentiments, are pure in heart, and are cautious in dealing with things. They found their respective loves while traveling in Europe and got married successfully. After getting married, the father and daughter unexpectedly discovered that there had been an abnormal relationship between Mr. Weiweier's new wife and Maggie's husband...

A timeless classic! "Plague" helps you understand the rumors, panic and truth during the epidemic! This is the most important masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Camus. Camus won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature for this book! It was published in 1947 and has been selling well ever since! The whole world is re-reading "The Plague" in 2020! It topped the bestseller lists in Italy, France, and the United Kingdom; Japan printed an additional 150,000 copies in just one month, and the cumulative print volume exceeded one million, triggering a purchase restriction craze! Recommended reading list by Shanghai infectious disease expert Dr. Zhang Wenhong: If you understand the epidemic, you will not panic! When the epidemic disrupts the life we ​​are accustomed to, this book tells you: the plague is life, nothing more than that. When all kinds of chaos, panic, and rumors break out with the epidemic, this book tells you: the only way to fight the plague is to be sincere. When we are overwhelmed by the explosive news about the epidemic and fall into anxiety, this book tells you: in times of crisis, the first way ordinary people can play a role is to do their jobs well. The new "Reader's Edition" of "The Plague", 4 must-read reasons: 1. Original 10,000-word introduction: Written by a doctor of literature from Sorbonne University in Paris during the epidemic, it provides an in-depth interpretation of "The Plague". 2. Classic translation: French literal translation by Li Yumin, a French translator and professor at the First Normal University. 3. Special production: "A Brief History of Viruses Affecting Humanity", sorting out the top ten viruses that affect human civilization. 4. Special compilation: "Chronology of Camus's Life and Creation" A plague swept through an ordinary small town unexpectedly. The increasing death toll broke the ordinary lives of the citizens: panic spread, rumors spread wildly, chaos replaced calm and became daily life... But there is a group of people in this city who spontaneously assume the responsibility of treating plague patients and maintaining urban order. They come from all walks of life: doctors, civil servants, journalists, priests, etc. They are not shining heroes. They are just a bunch of ordinary people. "The Plague", first published in 1947, describes this sudden epidemic and the story of how ordinary people fought against it. It presents many attitudes of human beings against suffering and death. It affirms the power of human beings to face absurdity and fight against fate, and gives modern people important enlightenment about survival.

"Animal Farm" is one of Orwell's outstanding works. It is a dystopian political allegory that penetrates the heart. A group of animals on the farm successfully carried out a "revolution", driving their exploitative human masters out of the farm and establishing an equal animal society. However, the animal leaders, those smart pigs, usurped the fruits of the revolution and became more dictatorial and totalitarian rulers than their human counterparts.

"Love and Sacrifice" describes Goethe's ability to write "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and tells the story of the famous British actress Sidneys and the story of the British novelist Lytton. Several stories are all based on real historical achievements, and they contain profound lessons that smart readers will understand.

"The Adventures of Huck" is a novel written by the famous American novelist Mark Twain. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and in the United States in 1885. The novel is generally considered one of the "greatest American novels" and remains at the forefront of "American literature". The novel mainly describes the situation on both sides of the Mississippi River in the United States and the lives of the people living there. The most distinctive thing is that the characters in the book all have their own language, especially the description of the language of African Americans, which leaves a deep impression on the readers. In other words, only by reading the original English novel can you appreciate the scenes depicted by the author. This version is the version used in many student textbooks in the United States.

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Starbuck Sr., 66, Is about to go to jail for the third time. In the past few decades, he has attended Harvard University, edited avant-garde newspapers, and entered the White House, working hard for the peace, prosperity, and happiness he imagined. In the hearts of some people, he is a hero; in his own heart, he is a habitual criminal - he has never risked his life for all mankind. For many years, he has just been a "prisoner" who followed the instructions and rules of others. Now, he willingly goes to jail. Because for him, everywhere is a prison.