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[Full-length masterpiece by Naoki Award-winning author Tsujimura Fukasuki] [Suspense reasoning + brain-burning reversal + fantasy and weirdness] This book is the first horror mystery novel by Naoki Award-winning author Tsujimura Fukasuki. The story is full of dark and eerie atmosphere, and also has a fantasy setting of urban ghost stories. The Kanbara family has always been surrounded by disasters. No matter where they move, they always bring bad luck to those around them. A smile full of malice, words without a sense of boundaries, a terrifying figure following behind... The overwhelming malice continues to spread around you, and death follows you everywhere. The mysterious transfer student, the gentle and easy-going senior, the beautiful and enthusiastic housewife, the affable company senior, darkness lurks among them...

Zoologist Kate Morrison is the only one in her family who has left the countryside through education. On the smooth road to the future, she tries to bury her bitter past and refuses to mention anything about her hometown of Crow Lake. But a letter from Crow Lake forced her to return north, back to the icy blue sky, and face the origin of her life: her home, her three brothers and sisters, and the choices they made after a death and a series of tragedies. And she didn't understand the truth behind those choices as well as she thought.

Deng Youmei's creative style can be summarized in four words: vigorous and plain. The "Beijing flavor" novels that best represent his artistic achievements are "Na Wu" and "Smoke Pot". Most of these "Beijing flavor" novels are based on stories about bannermen. The writer uses a unique perspective to paint a picture of the life of the banner people who are not familiar to today's readers, giving people historical insights and realistic inspiration. Included in this collection are his representative works "Smoke Pot" and "Na Wu", etc. These novels demonstrate Deng Youmei's rich knowledge of "folklore" and also show his extraordinary aura.

Perfumer Kingsley's beautiful wife, who always attracts bees and butterflies, is gone. She sends a telegram demanding a divorce, and Marlowe is ordered to track it down. At the perfumer's holiday cabin by Xiaolu Lake, Maro unexpectedly discovered that the blonde wife of the lame caretaker of the cabin was buried deep in the lake...

Fourteen-year-old Richard is sent to live with his uncle and aunt in the remote, isolated town of Ballantyne after his parents die in a house fire. When a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new angry boy is responsible for Tom's disappearance. No one believed him except Karen when he said the phone booth at the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like a scene from a horror movie. She is a charming outsider who encourages Richard to pursue leads that the police refuse to investigate. Richard traces the number Tom dialed during his phone booth prank to an abandoned house in the Forest of Mirrors. There, Richard glimpsed a terrifying face in the window. Then voices start whispering in his ears... When another classmate goes missing, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence and stay sane while fighting the dark magic that controls Ballantyne and destroys him.

Yusa, the successful president of a publishing house in Tokyo, develops a relationship with Kikuno, the proprietress of a long-established restaurant in Kyoto whom he met on a business trip. Ryoko, who witnessed the love story between her mother and Yusa, was at the age when she first fell in love, and fell passionately in love. In the end, the ancient legend about cherry blossoms became a reality for those who were addicted to emotions...

An immortal legendary woman in the history of literature. In the common spiritual world of mankind, "Carmen" conveys the belief of "Give me freedom or give me death." The masterpiece of French literary master Mérimée has promoted the maturity of French short stories and short stories. In the two centuries since its publication, it has been adapted into various art forms more than 150 times. This work is such a joy! - Nietzsche. Carmen is one of the few people who can skip temporal reality and enter eternity. --Steiner.

Hemingway's 120th anniversary edition. Hemingway's exhibition experience is condensed into a tough guy's story of war and love. It has been on the screen many times and has become a classic in film history. In the late stages of World War I, American young man Frederick Henry volunteered to drive an ambulance for the Red Cross and rescue the wounded on the northern Italian front. During a mission, Henry was hit by a cannonball and injured. While recovering from his injuries in a Milan hospital, he was cared for by British nurse Catherine, and the two fell in love. After recovering from his injuries, Henry returned to the front line. When he retreated with the Italian troops, he witnessed the cruel scenes of the war. He resolutely left the army, joined Catherine and fled to Switzerland. As a result, Catherine died in childbirth. "A Farewell to Arms" has a strong autobiographical flavor. It is a sad and moving elegy sung by Hemingway based on his own experience in the war, with war and love as the main line. The novel has been adapted onto the screen many times and can be called a classic of modern literature.

Lucy Maud Montgomery writes beautifully about life and the ordinary and extraordinary people we encounter. The plot is very novel and fascinating, and it contains the sweetest love in the world. The most important thing about "The Castle of Dos" is its message: accept who you are, no matter what others say, and have the courage to be yourself. This is difficult for me to do, but the story of "The Castle of Dos" inspired me to start enjoying my life and accepting myself!

The book has 18 chapters in total. The book takes the love between Tie Zhongyu and Shui Bingxin, a famous scholar from Daming Palace, as the main line. It tells the story of the two people who acted chivalrously, fought against the strong and helped the weak, and at the same time strictly abided by the ethics, and finally got the imperial decree to marry. The book is full of interest, the writing is beautiful, and it is a pleasure to read. It is a work worth reading. "The Legend of Haoqiu" is the first Chinese novel that was translated into Western languages ​​and published. It has had a great influence on Western literati and is also of great significance in the study of Chinese translations.

He believed that people are born with the ability to fly, but he died outside the studio window while flying. She begged God to punish the person who had betrayed her heart for her. As a result, while she was praying, the person was shot several times in a distant place and died in the white snow. Is the person who dances lonely dance every night a demented old man or a poor man possessed by a vixen? Perhaps the most important of all the intricate mysteries is this one: Why on earth did Mitarai stay in Japan? Standing at a crossroads in life, how is he doing now? The feast of short stories comes again, and the most gorgeous mystery and the most sincere emotion meet again, bringing readers new excitement and lasting touch.

A mysterious guest calling himself Smith arrives. Smith disliked Fitzgerald extremely, but was willing to spend a lot of money to buy his manuscripts. At the same time, an old woman died in the red-walled villa on Ninety-second Street. Bernie Roddenbart was not only a thief, but also a gentleman, so he could not remain indifferent to the old woman's death. While he teamed up with New York police officer Ray Kirchman to solve the mystery of the red-walled villa, he continued his life as a thief, moving between expensive paintings, silver spoons and countless buttons. No one could have imagined that Smith's real purpose was...

Japan's "Bookstore Award" Top 2, the new work of treasure healing writer Michiko Aoyama! The sequel to "Thursday, Drink Cocoa"! If you feel tired, just sit down, open this book, and drink a cup of fragrant matcha together. As long as you keep going back, you will find countless people who serve as "links". Without any of these "ties", we would not be able to live the life we ​​have now. Any encounter is the result of people who have never met before and choose to hold each other's hands. The most beautiful thing is that those who become a "connection" from a distance have no idea that they have brought happiness to someone. The life-related products that I manage with my heart have invisibly promoted the lives of strangers. Since we were born in this world, we have had countless bonds... Love and destiny meet, and you and I are both in it. "Monday, Drink Matcha" continues the warmth and touching feeling of "Thursday, Drink Cocoa". This is a story that makes people embrace life again and fall in love with it.

"Ecstasy: A Study in Happiness" was published in 1892. Kupelles explored both happiness and suffering in this work, so the work is considered a psychological novel. It tells the story of a widow named Cecil Van Iven and a dissolute man named Tucker Carr. The two have different concepts of life and love. The New York Times Book Review in 1919 said that this work is delicate and mysterious, and the writing style is seemingly relaxed but extremely firm, which prevents the novel from appearing too weird or too tragic.

A year and a half after Will's death, Lou has not gotten over her loss. She misses the Paris fashion class she agreed to sign up for and returns to Will's empty London apartment to work a crappy job as an airport barmaid. She promised Will a good life, but she didn't feel that she was still alive at all. Can people only rely on memories to get through life? After an accident, Lou got acquainted with Sam, a gentle and reliable ambulance driver, but she never dared to respond too much for fear of forgetting Will or being hurt again. Until one day, a wild and rebellious fourteen-year-old girl rang Lou's doorbell and claimed: Will Traynor is my father.

Directed by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth, the original novel of the movie "A Single Man"; the twenty-four hours after a single man loses his beloved; a farewell letter to a profound love, a different minority declaration. "A Single Man" is the masterpiece of the famous British-American novelist Christopher Isherwood. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 2009 and won multiple international awards. The novel describes in detail the life of a single man who has lost his beloved in Los Angeles in 1962. The male protagonist George is a university professor. On the one hand, he is immersed in the pain of losing his lover. On the other hand, he scans the surroundings with a gaze as cold as a camera, pretending that everything is normal, going to work, teaching, attending banquets, visiting patients, and chatting up like a zombie. He plays the role of a decent "normal person", but there is already a turmoil in his heart. Isherwood uses a restrained yet playful writing style to outline the conservative, hypocritical, and suffocating atmosphere of American society in the early 1960s. He writes about people's suppressed emotions due to solidified social roles, the rupture between the inner and the outer world, especially the inner world of marginalized groups who are not accepted by society.

This is a story about a young girl who gradually gains love and happiness. After leaving the villa where Qingxia's parents lived, Mercer and his party embarked on their way home, but unexpectedly encountered the enemy leader Gan Shuizhi ambushing on the way. Gan Shui called Mercer "my daughter" and claimed that he would come to welcome Mercer in the future. In order to escape from Gan Shuizhi's clutches, Mercer lived a life of going to the alien spy team's duty station every day to receive protection. And the female soldier Kaoruko who was assigned as a personal guard to protect Mercer turned out to be Qingxia's former fiancée candidate. Seeing Qingxia and Xunzi enjoying themselves, Mercer was very distressed, but he also tried to open his heart and get along well with Xunzi. However, the person who is eyeing Mercer is always approaching her secretly...

Cheryl, an extremely sensitive 43-year-old single woman. Living alone, she suffered from globus hysteria: an imaginary lump in her throat continued to torment her. She works in a women's self-defense studio and has a sweet crush on a colleague who is 22 years older than her. She believes that she has been a couple with him since the Stone Age. In a rather eccentric way, Cheryl organizes her life in an orderly and carefree way. But it all came to an end when the boss couple forced her to stay with their 20-year-old daughter Corrie indefinitely... As a selfish and cruel sexy blonde, Corrie broke into Cheryl's life like the little girl in the "Three Bears" story. However, it was her day-to-day provocation and bullying that drove Cheryl from fantasy into the real world, and to everyone's surprise, led her to meet the love of her life.

In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, Nick, a poor clerk, breaks into the secret world of Gatsby, a lavish spender. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the other side of the river. In the bright shadow of the light, lives Daisy, who has always dreamed of him. However, the cold reality cannot tolerate misty dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the 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.

16-year-old Han Xiaoying lost her parents when she was young and grew up with her uncle and aunt. By chance, she met Shen Juncheng, a lively and cheerful sunny boy. The two gradually developed a good impression during the contact and developed a sweet and beautiful first love. However, Shen Juncheng's mother obstructed them in every possible way, and a sudden change made their relationship even more difficult and rugged. Finally, under the pressure of his mother, he embarked on the road to study in a foreign country, and he and Xiaoying were separated from each other in the vast sea of ​​​​people... Eight years later, Han Xiaoying unexpectedly reunited with the new general manager Shen Juncheng in the company. The love of the past still lingered in each other's hearts, but at this time, Shen Juncheng not only held a high position, but also had a legitimate girlfriend by his side. In the company, there is a gentle and elegant engineer named Li Zhen, who is also launching a love offensive towards Xiaoying. Their story has reopened...

We try to receive and reciprocate love, but we always go astray. Seven years later, Ilana decided to write a letter to her ex-husband Gideon. As a result, a long-dusted marriage past gradually surfaced. Ilana had a hurried divorce back then, and many mysteries have yet to be revealed. For example, why does she always refuse to take a paternity test? In the process of writing letters, they discovered that each other's memories were not the same, and the addition of their current husband, Somo, involved their relationship in a new mystery... The whole book is composed of letters, interspersed with private detective reports, brief telegrams, etc. The structure is exquisite, just like a black box waiting to be cracked.

Arzhibasev's collection of short stories and short stories includes his true debut novel "Pasha Tumanov" and "The Death of Rand" which made him famous. It can be seen from this collection of novels that "suicide" is a major theme in his novel creation, and death is almost the protagonist of his novels and novellas. Along with this, the protagonist often falls into exhausting loneliness and meaningless despair. Arzhibasuifu showed people his main creative characteristics and style, which is to express "purely personal experience" and his own unique personality, "because this personality is both broad and rich."

The set contains 3 volumes, namely: "The First Day of the Rest of My Life", "You Will Understand When You Grow Up" and "It's Time to Light Up the Stars Again". "The First Day of the Rest of My Life": How difficult is it to escape from a life you can see at a glance? Many times, Mary felt that her life was boring. She threw herself into life with all her enthusiasm and dedicated everything to her family, but she only lost herself. Finally one day, on her husband's 40th birthday, she decided to give him a surprise: she embarked on a cruise around the world alone, hoping to escape from the life she saw and give herself a chance to be reborn. "You'll Understand When You Grow Up": 32-year-old Julia had to learn to face separation. Drinking, shopping sprees, and overeating, Julia used depraved behaviors to fight against the pain in her heart. Until one day, an unexpected job opportunity made her become a psychiatrist in a remote nursing home called Tamariu. She battles wits and courage with these "old partners" every day, and she doesn't even realize that she has changed. She has become less afraid of separation and loss, and has become shining and full of strength. "It's Time to Light Up the Stars Again": Anna felt that she was a bit of a failure. As a single mother with foreign debts, she had just been informed that she was fired. The estrangement between the eldest daughter Chloe and the youngest daughter Lily seems to be getting deeper and deeper recently. The terrible reality gave her a crazy idea - to go to remote Scandinavia to watch the aurora with her daughters! So, a second-hand RV that creaked and could break down at any time set off. Can they find their love for each other? Can he break his own predicament and move towards a broader life?

The suspenseful love masterpiece that moved the United States in 2016! More than 30 countries are competing for the copyright, and CBS has invested heavily in launching the American drama of the same name. Her soul is engraved with the death of everyone, including the people she loves deeply... Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk praised: This is the perfect combination of Six Feet Under and Stephen King's works!

Following the 2 million best-selling book "Passing Through Your World", Zhang Jiajia tells the funny life between the dog and its owner, warm and touching urban stories and extraordinary imagination from the perspective of the golden retriever Maisie in the book "Let Me Stay by Your Side" Dog fairy tales, and the stories of the world in the eyes of these dogs are clearly adult fairy tales. Maisie's friends are like friends around us. Maisie's daily life seems to be happening around us at zero distance, and Maisie seems to have always been by our side.

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Proust is one of the greatest literary masters of the twentieth century. "In Search of Lost Time" is a voluminous volume and is one of the most famous and difficult works in the entire history of literature. The whole book takes the narrator "I" as the main body and integrates what he sees, hears, thinks and feels. It is not only a true description of social life and human relations, but also a record of the author's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. It can be said to be a novel tree with many branches derived from the trunk of a novel, or it can be said to be a giant symphony intertwined with several themes. "Swann's Love" is the only independent novella in "Reminiscence of Lost Time". The French call it "narration" or "narrative", and musicians call it "solo" or "solo". It is like the Wagner overture favored by Proust. In short, it can be published or performed alone. "Swann's Love" is originally a chapter of the first volume "At Swann's House", but it is the only one narrated in the third person in the entire masterpiece, and "I" (Marcel) is responsible for everything else. In 1913, Proust pointed out in a letter: "At Swann's House", especially the chapter "Swann's Love", is full of foreshadowing. It can be said to be a kind of "preface" and a condensation of the entire book "Reminiscence of Lost Time".

This book specially selects three small masterpieces from the early, middle and late stages of Gide's creative career: "Palude", "Pastoral Symphony" and "Theseus", in order to provide readers with a unique perspective, to experience the unique charm of this most complex and changeable master in literature, aesthetics and philosophy.

Lu He, her boyfriend of four years, suddenly joined her in the well-known Xinglan Company in the industry. Zhongqing secured a large investment for the company, but on the night of the celebration party, she learned that Lu He was engaged to the daughter of the CEO of Xinglan Company. Lu He had no explanation for this afterwards, and the two broke up silently. Xinglan's boss suddenly became critically ill, and Xinglan was handed over to the boss's daughter Shi Xing. On the first day he came to the company, he fired Zhongqing, while Lu He was nowhere to be seen... The coolness in your eyes is confused sadness, and the curvature of your lips is the look of my love. Searching in time, wandering in the chaos of time. Although I didn't meet you at the best time, it was the best time after meeting you. Meeting you, falling in love with you, and having your warmth is the most beautiful happiness in my life.

The power of love is great. Eric Marshall is an academically successful kid from a wealthy family who was entrusted by his friends to work as a teacher in a school in the small town of Lindsay. But he accidentally walked into the orchard and met the beautiful and pure mute Qimini, and the two fell in love from then on. However, family factors and the fact that Qimini cannot speak have hindered their development. But in the end, Eric Marshall convinced Qi Meni's family, and Qi Meni broke through and was able to speak. They overcame many twists and turns and finally came together.

"The Desire of the Master": Through a peek at the fictional character of the Master, it describes the cynicism tendency of intellectuals in the post-modern situation. "Fat Man, or the Stock Quote": In the carnival of chasing financial gain, we are lost. "The Beginning of Aristocratic Life": Our imagination about noble life is just self-deception. The so-called extraordinary aristocratic life may be just a misunderstanding or a prank. "House": It is not a famous painting about a house, but a metaphor about life. Fame, interest and vanity obscure our initial enthusiasm for life. "Pretty Girl on the Century Train": Can progress in material life really bring happiness? . "The Temptation of 1 Row, 1 Seat": Behind the desire to pursue success is a complete failure in the heart. "Activities Under the Overpass": We built an overpass to connect the roads. Myths in the Palace: A myth is subverted in three tellings.

Taichi, who had been living an ordinary college life, suddenly fell in love with two girls at the same time - the wealthy daughter Mari and the self-reflective Miqiu. Miqiu's desperate and passionate feelings finally occupied his heart. However, when Taiyi and Miqiu got together, they discovered that she was actually suffering from a huge illness despite her unruly appearance. Seeing Miqiu fighting against fate in her own unique way, Taiyi was greatly shocked and decided to spend the rest of his life defending their love...

"The failure of happiness runs flawlessly and brings us to our knees." The third book in the Romanian trilogy. A female garment factory worker wanted to go to a beautiful country where exported clothes could reach, so she stuffed communication notes into the exported clothes, hoping that a foreign man would pick her up. After being reported, she was interrogated for three consecutive days. Then a second batch of notes showed up at the factory, and she was fired. From then on he had to be summoned regularly by the police. The novel begins with a day when I was summoned. "I" took a tram to go to the secret police for interrogation. Along the way, I once again remembered the unbearable past: how I was reported until being fired, my failed marriage, the villains around me, how my close friends died tragically, how my father betrayed my mother... In the end, I realized that the only happiness left - a peaceful life with my lover had been monitored and disturbed.

The Holy Son, who was new to the world, was deeply attracted by the writer Gao Ming's aloofness and arrogance, and was willing to live together with him anonymously. Even after Gao Ming suffered an amputation in a car accident, he remained by his side. However, the appearance of Kagurai broke the peace between the two. His unabashed pursuit of the Son made the Son flustered and he unconsciously approached him. Facing these two men, what choice will the Holy Son, who is swinging like a pontoon, make? ...

He is the person sent by the head office to collect evidence of her father's crime, and she is the spy specially arranged by her father to be beside him. She didn't know the stakes between him and her father, but she was innocently pulled into that dark vortex. She loved him wholeheartedly and tried her best to be good to him. When the dust settled, she sadly discovered that she was just a pawn to him... Two years later, he and her reunited, and the misunderstanding was resolved. He hoped to protect her for the rest of his life, but could she still trust him?

A dynasty picture scroll with a mixture of fiction and reality, a romantic legend about Oedipus for a young boy, and Junichiro Tanizaki's feelings about Oedipus that have not yet been fully expressed for half a century. "Major General Ziqian's Mother" was written in 1949. It mainly describes the story of Major General Ziqian's mother in the Yuan family. The Hara family was a peerless beauty in Japan's Heian period, and she married Kunikune, who was fifty years older than her. Shihei, who was the left minister at the time, was greedy for the beauty of the Zaiyuan clan, so he planned to seize the Zaiyuan clan during the National Sutra Family Banquet and incorporated it into his own palace. The young Ziqian missed his mother eagerly, and with the help of others, he was able to visit his mother, but was later discovered by the cunning Shiping. After that, Ziqian could no longer contact his mother behind the high wall. However, the old man Guo Jing, who lost his beloved wife, could not restrain his longing for his wife, so he studied Buddhism and died in depression. In the end, Ziqian, who has reached middle age, could not suppress the longing for his mother. By chance, he finally met Zaiyuan, who had already become a monk. Aesthetic writer Junichiro Tanizaki uses the classical literary techniques of "The Tale of Genji" to narrate the ups and downs of the two families, which is thought-provoking.

The heart-warming masterpiece of French female writer Virginie Grimaldi, voted the most popular. Her works have been translated into more than 20 languages, and the copyright has been awarded to nearly 40 countries including England, Germany, and Italy. Elise, 33, looks like a neutered cat or a ballerina with a feather duster. Dio, 18 years old, has a dream that he doesn't even dare to think about. Jeanne, 74 years old, went to the cemetery to see him every morning as the most important thing in her day. When an opportunity brings three people together under the same roof, they agree: it is best not to bring anyone to visit; no noise is allowed; there is no need to eat together... This is a story of three lonely people colliding with each other, and also a story of three lonely people healing each other and reaping surprises.

At the Lyceum Theater in London in 1878, the young writer Bram Stoker was hired by the superstar Henry Irving to manage the Lyceum Theater for him, where he met the charming actress Ellen Terry. A dramatic relationship begins between the three of them, who will devote themselves to their art and each other amid passion and pain. This extraordinary experience and relationship gave Bram the inspiration to create the most iconic vampire story of all time - "Dracula". "Shadow Game" uses Bram Stoker's bizarre experience at the Lyceum Theater as a clue to vividly recreate his stormy relationship with Henry Irving and the bittersweet intimacy with Ellen Terry.

After the news of Shu Yu, a famous female psychological counselor, died at home, it immediately became a hot topic among Chengdu citizens. Reporters from various media outlets in Chengdu launched a detailed investigation into the death of the female psychological counselor, hoping to dig out some eye-catching secrets behind Shu Yu's death. But after the police classified Shu Yu's death as suicide, various media outlets stopped their efforts in this regard. Guan Suixin, a female reporter from "Life Times", did not believe that an outstanding and successful woman like Shu Yu would commit suicide. When her boss explicitly asked to stop digging into the news of Shu Yu's death, Suixin still pursued her with her stubborn personality. By chance, she got a diary written by a female psychological counselor, which led her into Shu Yu's inner world, and she was shocked by Shu Yu's delicate and surging true feelings... Suixin was a carefree girl in life and work, so she was affectionately called "brother" by her favorite person, friend and partner, photographer Fang Yongzheng, which made Suixin very angry. After several intentional or unintentional hints, Mu Mu Fang Yongzheng still didn't understand the style, and even fell in love with another woman, which made Suixin crazy. At this time, another man Shen Wei walked into her life. Shen Wei, the diamond king, loved her and accommodated her... Faced with the emotional dilemma, how should a beautiful female reporter choose?

This is a story about a young girl who gradually gains love and happiness. Mercer, who grew up under the abuse of her stepmother, is engaged to Seika, a young soldier who is rumored to be extremely ruthless. Obviously everyone is not optimistic about this relationship, but Qingxia and Mercer were unknowingly moved by each other's tenderness and gradually fell in love. In order to catch up with the beautiful and powerful Qingxia, Mercer began to learn various skills that a lady of the house should have. In order to make a perfect appearance in the famous social circle at the banquet held two months later, Mercer worked tirelessly and enjoyed it. However, for some reason, nightmares came to torture her every night. Not wanting to cause trouble to others because of his own affairs, Mercer avoided talking about it, and finally collapsed due to insomnia and exhaustion. At the same time, an uninvited guest targeting Mercer also appeared. "Mercy is the meaning of my existence. Now that she has appeared, I must bring her back to me!" With such a declaration, Mercer was taken away from Qingxia. And Mercer's feelings for Qingxia were not conveyed due to various circumstances...

"False Dawn" describes New York in the 1840s. When Lewis Lacy, a wealthy man, traveled to Europe, his father commissioned him to purchase famous Italian paintings and establish the "Lacey Gallery". As a result, Lewis, who was mentored by the young art critic Ruskin and others in Europe, had a huge difference in artistic taste with the conservative old New Yorkers led by the old Lacy, which triggered a series of extremely ironic events. Through the perspective of a young man, "Sparks" shows some of the behaviors of a simple-hearted and bold-tempered banker, Delaine, who is incompatible with social conventions, making the story full of suspense, and the root of this behavior is not revealed until the end. Edith Wharton's respect for Whitman, the famous American poet of the 19th century, is fully reflected in this novel.

This book tells a pure and beautiful love story that transcends life and death. The content is not complicated - "I" accompanied my sick fiancée Setsuko to a sanatorium in the mountains to recuperate. Under the threat of death, we spent the last time together, embracing each other in life and becoming stronger. But in the end Setsuko died of illness, and "I" returned to the village alone, and heavy snow fell one after another. The work is based on the author's real experience. The author met and fell in love with Yano Honoko while he was recovering from illness, and they made an engagement the following year. The fiancée soon contracted tuberculosis and died of ineffective treatment, but the author gradually improved and managed to survive... What is more important than living itself is the good time of living! The author uses delicate brushwork to describe the delicate and sensitive inner feelings of the characters, as well as the deep affection in the small fragments of life! The atmosphere of the work is sad and touching, but also soul-stirring. It's hard to put it down after reading it...

Recommended by Jin Shijie, JJ Lin, and "Downton Abbey" Dan Stevens, "Tuesday" is a masterpiece by author Mitch Albom. It is a heartwarming fable that heals the rush of the times and breaks away from calculation and wasted time. "When we try to turn back the clock, what we are chasing is love." He is revered as the "Father of Time" because he invented the first clock; he was severely punished by God like Prometheus because he dared to measure time, which is the best gift God gave to mankind. He was imprisoned by God in a bottomless cave, listening to the same words year after year, which are the same words that will never be restored. They are the earnest pleas from the people on the earth. They are diligent and demanding for time. They want to turn back the clock and let time stop for them. Just when the "Father of Time" was about to suffer a mental breakdown from being tortured by these pleas, he was forgiven by God and accepted a mission: to carry a magic hourglass to the earth to enlighten all living beings and reveal the true meaning of "time". At the same time, God also assigned two partners to him, one is a girl who wants to commit suicide because of a broken love, and the other is a rich man who hopes to rely on modern technology to live forever. The "Father of Time" must save them both before he can finally complete his own redemption.

When it was time to talk about marriage, the young and innocent Katie impulsively married someone she didn't love. As a result, the loveless marriage left her feeling confused and in great pain. Her husband knew this very well. He said to Katie: "I know you only married me for a temporary convenience. I love you so much that I don't care." Although her husband was submissive to her in every possible way, Katie clearly realized that she did not love him. A sudden extramarital affair turned Katie's life upside down until she gained the ability to love through suffering...

"Yes, with a lover, everyday life fades away". The writer's side: The nuncio of the Holy See or the person with his nose between the seams of his underpants? The AB side of women: Sex object or Scheherazade? The AB side of the text: real chat records or fictional writing materials? Strange thoughts and impurity are the nature of writers, and every woman is Scheherazade. "Deception" is the second film in Philip Roth's "Roth Series". The entire novel unfolds in the form of a dialogue, and the central characters are an affair couple: I, "Philip", a married American writer, and a well-educated British woman trapped in a loveless and disgraceful marriage. Most of the dialogue takes place in "Philip's" studio in London. Before and after the two have sex, the dialogue is concise, powerful and full of erotic meaning. This is a veritable "audiobook" with all kinds of he-talks and she-talks that are sharp, gentle, and probing. The characters' pasts become clearer as the dialogue deepens. In terms of what is fact and what is fiction, Roth repeats his old tricks. Side A of the conversation is the real chat record of a cheating couple, and side B is the fictional writing material in the notebook. It is the writer's attempt to have a relationship with the fictional characters in the novel outside of the novel. The boundary between reality and fiction is once again broken through and blurred.

Bartleby, a strange character written by the American literary giant Melville who refused everything with "I would rather not", jumped out of the page and turned into a virus, permeating the literary world and making it impossible for many writers to write. There is no cure for Bartleby's disease, and any efforts to fight the disease are futile. The narrator of this book is a "Bartleby" patient. He once wrote a novel when he was young, but due to some kind of psychological trauma, he refused to write anymore. Until one day, he started writing a diary, recording the mysteries of writers who had the same problem as him. The strange thing is that there is no text in his diary, only footnotes, as if the text has been swallowed by some unknown virus.

The marriage that everyone admired was the reason why Tsuda decided to leave Tokyo temporarily after the operation. The story begins when Tsuda is about to be hospitalized for the second time. His father sends a notice, suspending financial assistance. This makes Tsuda very embarrassed, so his wife Ayan wants to sell her gorgeous clothes, but Tsuda, who has always doted on his wife, does not want to do this because he feels it is shameful. In this way, Tsuda planned to let some relatives of the couple interact with his father, hoping to get his father to send this month's subsidy as soon as possible. From this, two families were brought together... After going through the pain and waste of life, and on a journey of self-cultivation away from his hometown, Tsuda will eventually find the eyes that have longed for him the most.

"Yan Yi Bian" is a collection of legendary novels written by Wang Shizhen, a writer in the Ming Dynasty. Among them, from the Han and Wei Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, there are many famous stories about erotic affairs between men and women and about gods, ghosts and monsters. Readers who are interested in such topics should not miss this book. "Yan Yi Bian" collects various stories from ancient and modern stories and categorizes them into categories. Most of the content comes from legends of the Tang Dynasty and novels of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, with the majority taken from "Taiping Guangji". Song Lianbu's "Qing Zun Lu", Hong Mai's "Yi Jian Zhi", Yuan Xia Bohe's "Qing Lou Ji", Ming Qu You's "Jian Deng Xin Hua" and other books are also important sources of materials for it. In addition, materials were obtained from relevant historical books. The selection of works closely revolves around the two themes of "beautiful" and "extraordinary", focusing on the selection of articles describing the love between men and women, including the love between gods, monsters, ghosts, and humans. These types of themes have always been enduring in the field of classical Chinese novels, so they also account for the vast majority of the chapters in "Yan Yi Bian". It also focuses on selecting chapters involving the secret affairs of the palace.

Lauren, a resident doctor at a San Francisco hospital, survived a long coma caused by a car accident, but lost her memory of everything that happened. She vaguely remembered that there was someone guarding her in the ward when she woke up, but she never saw him again after that, and everyone around her never mentioned it. Architect Arthur returns to San Francisco from his self-imposed exile in Paris, with friends, work, and everything back to normal. But there was only one thing he couldn't let go of, he never forgot Lauren. He once tried to save her at all costs, but lost her the moment she came back to life. However, fate seemed to have played a joke on them. This time Arthur was hospitalized in a car accident, and it was Lauren who saved Arthur's life. This time, can they end the long wait and find each other?

The original novel of the classic opera "The Phantom of the Opera", an exclusive domestic translation; includes 1 classic color illustration of "The Phantom of the Opera". The phantom in the theater, the ghost in the human heart, the mutual redemption of love and music. Eric was born with a deformity and was abandoned by his parents and society. The kind-hearted Madame Giry hid him in the basement of the Paris Opera House. From then on, there was no peace in the opera house: items were stolen, employees died, the manager was blackmailed... Rumors about the Phantom of the Opera spread like wildfire. With his superhuman musical talent, Eric helped Christina become famous overnight, and at the same time he fell deeply in love with her. But Christina already had her heart set on something. So, Eric kidnapped her in public on the stage and performed a heart-wrenching human-ghost love tragedy... For decades, this work has been loved by readers all over the world, especially after it was adapted into a musical stage play, it became popular all over the world. Today, "The Phantom of the Opera" has become a popular classic.