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A middle-aged couple who cannot have children vs. A teenage mother who cannot afford to raise a child. Underneath the delicate emotional waves, what is surging are hoarse shouts: "What is blood relationship", "What is family", "What is mother"? The Kurihara couple were over 40 years old. After two attempts at in vitro fertilization ended in failure, they adopted a newborn baby boy through a private charity organization and named them "Chao Dou". The couple regarded Chao Dou as their own child and raised him carefully. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye Chao Dou is at the age of going to kindergarten. The family of three was enjoying family happiness, and thought that such a happy time would last forever. But suddenly one day, Mrs. Kurihara received a strange phone call, and a woman's voice came from the other end of the phone: "I hope you can return the child to me."... It is both a cruel youth story and a profound family ethics drama. It also reveals the difficult situation of single women in modern Japanese society. The famous Japanese female director Naomi Kawase adapted the novel into a film of the same name in 2020. It was nominated for various awards at the Cannes Film Festival, San Sebastian International Film Festival, and Japan Film Academy Awards that year.

The book "The Moon and Sixpence" translated by Wenzhu is one of the three masterpieces of William Somerset Maugham in the United Kingdom and was completed in 1919. The inspiration for "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on the life of the French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. The protagonist was originally an accomplished securities broker. After reaching middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and became obsessed with painting. He gave up everything and went to Tahiti in the South Pacific to live with the indigenous people, gain inspiration, and create amazing masterpieces. Maugham deeply explores the contradictions and interactions between life and art in his novels. After Maugham's novel came out, it became a sensation in the literary world for its fascinating plot and profound writing, and people rushed to read it.

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The work centers on the Russian Patriotic War of 1812, showing major historical events from 1805 to 1820. The novel depicts the social life and characters in the alternation of war and peace through the changes in fate of the four noble families of Balkans, Bezukhov, Rostov and Kuragin. The work praises peace and reflects the heroic spirit of the people in defending their motherland. It is a magnificent epic full of humanitarianism and fraternity.

The work is narrated from the first-person point of view. The protagonist is a writer who meets the Strickland family. The family seemed happy and happy, but Mr. Strickland always seemed lifeless. Soon after, Strickland left the family without any warning and went to Paris, determined to pursue his dream. Five years later, the protagonist met Strickland in Paris. He was living in poverty, but he still walked alone on the road of his dreams and never regretted it. In the process of pursuing art, his talents were gradually recognized. Later, Strickland decided to abandon civilized life and came to Tahiti, which is close to the primitive South Pacific Islands, and met the protagonist by chance.

Templars, alchemy, and Kabbalah are melted into one pot, providing an antidote to the disease of postmodern mysticism. In Milan in the 1970s, the passionate years were gone and mysticism was reviving. Dr. Casaubon, a scholar who is proficient in medieval history, and his two friends, Belbo and Theotalevi, senior editors of an academic publishing house, are responsible for publishing a set of "Hermes Series" aimed at profit. In the influx of manuscripts, and in the process of contact with occult enthusiasts, a repeated and ambiguous "Templar conspiracy theory" appeared repeatedly. The three partners claim to be knowledgeable and skilled, and in a playful spirit, they weave the many mysterious events, characters and associations circulating in history into a seamless "plan", almost "rewriting" and "rewriting" the entire world history. In order to make the "plan" more complete, they created a secret society: "Teleis". Unexpectedly, the mystics took all the orders and actually organized the "Teleis" to track Casaubon and Belbo, and would search the world for the fictitious "secret map" in the "plan"...

American female writer Louisa May Alcott is another classic after "Little Women". A book that boys can love, parents can relate to, and teachers can better understand their children. Warm, touching, simple and innocent, it conveys life insights and beliefs, allowing children to learn to face the increasingly competitive world with a beautiful and peaceful attitude. Since its publication, this book has been translated into many languages ​​and is loved by readers all over the world. It has been included in the famous book series "American Library".

The novel starts from the growth and friendship of two young men, Narcissus and Goldmund, in Mariabronn Monastery, and revolves around their life trajectories. Narcissus and Goldmund took different paths in life due to their completely different natures: Narcissus, a scholar guided by reason, cultivated his character, devoted himself to study, and became the abbot of a monastery; Goldmund, an artist who was called by sensibility, wandered and developed his own ingenuity and became a sculptor. Although they have different natures, it does not prevent the two from forming a deep friendship and cherishing each other. Through mutual inspiration, learning, and perception, they finally resonate in their minds and souls and reach understanding. Although the reality leaves regrets, the tacit understanding has been perfected.

Among all his works, the short stories that made Hemingway the earliest and most enduring are his short stories that created a generation of writing style. These novels are mainly declarative sentences, with precise descriptions and short dialogues, giving readers the most direct and vivid impression and influencing many modern and contemporary writers in the world. This book contains all of Hemingway's short stories. The second volume includes short stories published in books and magazines after the "first series of 49" and previously unpublished novels, a total of 21 stories. There are another five articles in the appendix, which were not included in the original complete collection and were only discovered in the mid-1980s.

One of the masterpieces by Toyoko Yamazaki, the author of "The White Tower"! The genuine Chinese electronic version is on sale for the first time! The sales of the entire series exceeded 5 million copies! An adaptation of the Japanese drama "Barren Land" starring Tomeaki Karasawa and Yuki Amami, scored 8.6 On Douban! One trillion fighter jet orders, South Korea's subway construction rights, competition for oil mining areas in the Middle East... This is a transnational trade war around the world! The shopping mall is a more naked battlefield of human nature! Open this book and watch an exciting business war! Former Army Lieutenant Colonel Ikimasa, who once served as a staff officer at the Japanese base camp, was detained in Siberia and did hard labor for eleven years. After returning to Japan, he joined the Kinki Corporation and began his "second life." However, the intricate business war is more dangerous than the real battlefield where bullets are raining. The one trillion yen Defense Agency fighter jet order, South Korea's subway construction rights, and the competition for oil mining areas in the Middle East... This is a transnational trade war with the whole world as the stage, and it is also a heart-wrenching human wrestling! In the white "barren land" of Siberia, the red "barren land" of the Middle East desert, and Japan after its defeat in World War II, Iki is constantly struggling in the shadow of the great era.

"The Poisoned Chocolates Case" is the representative work of British mystery writer Anthony Berkeley. Mr. Bendix took the chocolates sent to Sir Eustace home, and his wife was poisoned and died after eating them. Such a coincidence, who did it? For what? The police investigating this strange case immediately fell into trouble. At this time, the "Criminal Circle Research Society", an amateur society composed of people who love the art of reasoning, came to help investigate the case. Unexpectedly, six of the reasoning fans found six perfect reasoning conclusions. Six different conclusions can effectively explain the case and "solve" the case logically, but there is only one truth...

The novel is set in a ten-story apartment building at 11 rue Simon Clobelier in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and tells the story of the people who live there. This apartment building was cut open vertically by the author, and the rooms, corridors, elevators, and basements were divided into a chess board with 10 squares horizontally and vertically. Except for the square in the lower left corner, the remaining 99 squares correspond to a chapter in the book. The author starts from the corridor on the fourth floor and describes the objects, characters, and stories in each grid in turn. The order of description follows the steps of the knight in chess. Repeat, the story ends in the room on the immediate left side of the fourth floor. The entire novel methodically depicts the all-encompassing lives of 1,468 characters according to a strict mathematical structure.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" tells the story of naturalist Professor Aronnax who accepted an invitation to participate in tracking the so-called narwhal. Unfortunately, he fell into the sea together with his follower Conseil and whaler Ned Rand. They were lucky enough to swim to a floating "island", which was the "narwhal" they were tracking - the submarine Nautilus. Captain Nemo allowed them freedom on the boat, but did not allow them to leave. In this way, they followed the Nautilus and began a fantastic underwater exploration journey. They crossed the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Antarctic and Arctic Oceans, saw the wonderful and spectacular underwater world, experienced various thrilling dangers, tried to escape many times but failed, and finally survived the desperate situation and returned to land. The submarine Nautilus was missing. Professor Aronnax makes his ten-month adventure public.

"Human love and human appetite for cruelty are basically the same thing." This book collects twelve short stories written by Mishima Yukio from the age of fifteen to forty-four, giving a glimpse of the trajectory of his entire writing career. "The Locked Room" is a collection of short stories by Yukio Mishima, which includes twelve short stories in total. "Stained Glass" is the first work in this book. It mainly talks about pride and prejudice in the upper class society, and depicts the psychological wars with meticulous brushwork. "The Locked Room" tells the story of an abnormal love story between an elite young official and a nine-year-old girl, set in the chaotic and chaotic post-war Japan. Different from the tough and clear writing style in the past, the author in this work uses complicated and decadent writing to describe the loneliness of modern people from the inner level, reflecting the social status quo and the spirit of the times at that time. "The King of Ranling" is Yukio Mishima's last short story, which was based on his simple and plain life in the Self-Defense Forces camp. It describes the protagonist's infinite emotion when he heard "The King of Lanling" played on the flute. Different from the noisy city on weekdays, people feel the quiet life of a hermit. It also includes works such as "Charity", "Monster", "Fruit" and "Beauty God".

A quiet and beautiful dead body suddenly appeared in the locked suitcase in the corner of the attic. A unique specimen on the autopsy table tells the story of his life. In the traveling circus, complicated and confusing crimes are staged one after another. In a small town where no one got off the bus, a stranger broke the peace. Ventriloquists, androids, and lifelike marionettes. In the silent big house, the owner never leaves home and the strange smiling man. The past, present and future intersect here. Literary master Ray Bradbury uses 20 colorful thrillers to reveal the fears, desires and loves hidden deep in our consciousness.

"The Mortgated Heart" is a posthumous collection compiled by McCullers' sister after her death, including her early and later short stories, essays, critical articles and poems. The impossibility of loving and being loved has always been at the center of McCullers' novels, and the pain of this isolation is ultimately a torture, both physical and mental. In this posthumous work, she is still a paranoid child, still grasping the propositions of "human loneliness" and "inability to love", and indifferently describing the loneliness and alienation in her eyes.

"A wonderful American play about novelty, imagination, and love." The master of postmodern novels writes about the emotional entanglements of contemporary literary youth. When the marriage tradition no longer works, how should love end? Pulitzer Prize winner, author of "The Virgin Suicides" and "Neuter" is a novel masterpiece. It was selected as the best novel of the year by North American independent bookstores and selected as the annual novel read by the National Book Critics Circle. "Marriage Change" tells the story of the twists and turns and confusion experienced by three liberal arts students from Brown University in the United States before and after graduation, who are world-famous as writers. "Marriage plot line" is the topic of English major Madeline's thesis. In her thesis, she elaborates on the importance of marriage plot to traditional novels. In reality, she is also trapped in a marriage and love dilemma. Despite their completely different backgrounds and personalities, Madeleine and the talented Leonard are still an enviable campus couple. Unexpectedly, Leonard suffers from manic depression due to family inheritance and a damaged childhood, and their relationship is overshadowed. Falling in love with Leonard, who suffered from mental illness, made her both painful and unable to let go. She even gave up thinking and working on the future for this reason. Madeleine grew up under the wings of her parents and was unlikely to act out of line like her rebellious sister. However, she was deeply influenced by the atmosphere of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and she longed for independence in her heart. She originally wanted to get rid of her parents' control and live with her lover after graduation, but Leonard's illness made it impossible for her to refuse her parents' help. On the other hand, Madeleine's academic path is equally confusing...

In Making Poison, "Making poison is just as much fun as making cake," so a five-year-old girl likes to think of making poison as creative play. In the title story "Murder in the Dark", the clever author invites clever readers to play script killing. Please regard the author as a murderer and this book as an object murdered in the dark, and you are a detective who must decipher the lies and mysteries in the author's narrative. In "Slowly Boiling", men strive to occupy the kitchen, while women carry briefcases and go to work. New rules of the game are being born. If you simply want to play the game, please turn to page 60 of "Happy Ending": John and Mary meet. If you imagine a happy ending, please choose A. In a world designed for men, women must-and are-changing the game.

The book selects 25 representative works of Edgar Allan Poe, covering his masterpieces in the fields of thrillers, detective novels, science fiction and humorous satirical novels, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Black Cat", "The Golden Beetle", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "Manuscript in a Bottle", "Spectacles", "The Rise and Fall of the Moscone Whirlpool" and "A Barrel of Monterey White", which are familiar to readers, and is translated by Cao Minglun, an expert on Poe's works. In addition, the book uses 11 illustrations created by Irish painter Harry Clark based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, bringing readers a unique and graphic reading experience. "The Raven" is a widely circulated poem by Edgar Allan Poe. This book is named after the poem. The raven on the book cover is an illustration created by the French Impressionist painter Manet for this poem, which further highlights the melancholy beauty of disillusionment and mourning in Poe's works, as well as his unique dark style.

The American young man Barnes suffered a spinal injury in World War I and lost his sexual ability. After the war, while working as a reporter in Paris, he fell in love with the British Mrs. Ashley. She pursued pleasure blindly, while he could only drink to drown his sorrows. The two went to Pamplona, ​​Spain, with a group of male and female friends to participate in the bullfighting festival in pursuit of spiritual stimulation. The lady rejected the pursuit of the Jewish young man Cohen, but fell in love with the 19-year-old bullfighter Romero. However, after getting along for a period of time, due to the huge age gap between the two parties, and Mrs. Ashley could not bear to ruin the future of the innocent young man, the relationship ended sadly. Madame eventually returned to Barnes, although both parties knew that they could never truly be together.

This book contains 154 sonnets and miscellaneous poems from Shakespeare's two long poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Humiliation of Lucrece". The translation closely follows the original poem, and there are two translations of semi-free verse poetry and prose. The advantages and disadvantages complement each other and complement each other. This is a complete collection of Shakespeare's poems that everyone can read. This book is also equipped with dozens of exquisite copper plate illustrations, which vividly and intuitively help readers understand and appreciate Shakespeare's poems.

"Mom's Bank Account" tells the story of a Norwegian immigrant family making a living in the United States from a child's perspective. Mom uses the white lie of "bank account" to protect her family with wisdom and tenacity, conveying warmth and strength.

"The Dead" is a masterpiece of short stories by the famous Irish writer James Joyce. After the Christmas party, intellectual Gabriel falls into a mental breakdown as his wife Greta reminisces about an old lover who died of illness. The image of "it's snowing all over Ireland" at the end sublimates personal emotional crisis into a meditation on life and death, love and national destiny. The image of snow covering the living and the dead has become a classic scene in modernist literature.

Edgar Allan Poe's novels are full of gorgeous imagination, grotesque and bizarre, shrouded in a fog of terror, and possess a unique mysterious charm. "The Murder in the Rue Mauger", "The Mystery of Marie Roget", "The Stealing of Letters" and "The Golden Beetle" tell the story of solving mysteries; "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" are bizarre and weird stories, murder is not the focus, but the horrific artistic conception, the release of morbid emotions, and the unexpected ending are the focus; "The Remaining Life of the Maelstrom" tells the story of a sailor who was drawn into the maelstrom and almost died, but in the end It is a thrilling story of escaping from death; "Manuscript in a Bottle" is about being in danger on the tropical ocean and encountering a ghost ship; "William Wilson" is a profound and true story. The protagonist Wilson went to the same university that Poe attended. It can be said to be the self-portrait and portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe. This novel describing dual personality has had a profound influence on some great writers in later generations. Every story selected in the book is unique, thrilling, and fascinating.

"The Temporary Gentleman" is a novel written by Sebastian Barry in 2016. It is also the last book in the "Sebastian Pentology". This is Barry's third novel about the McNulty family. The hero of the story, Jack, is the brother-in-law of Roseanne, the heroine of "The Secret Manuscript", and the brother of Enes, the protagonist of the novel "THE WHEREABOUTS OF ENNIUS MCNULTY" (not published in mainland China). Jack is the only character in the Five Parts who appears in a negative light. He was an alcoholic, a gambler, an absentee father, and a neglected husband. He is dissolute and lazy, lacks responsibility for marriage and family, and is confused and indifferent in the face of war and the army. Almost everything he does has a beginning and an end, and he is used to wasting away his time in a muddle-headed manner, until 1957, which is the time when the novel begins. At that time, World War II had ended many years ago, his wife Man had passed away, and his children had grown up. Jack lived alone in Accra, Ghana, recording the past years in words amid aging, loneliness, hesitation and regret. What tormented Jack was not the sadness of his dying years, nor the disease, nor the cruel memories of the war, but his grief for his wife, a "gnashing guilt" that kept eating away at his soul. The title of the novel seems to be a satire on Jack's absurd life, a temporary gentleman for whom virtue seems to be forever fleeting.

This collection of short stories by Saramago, the only Nobel laureate in the Portuguese-speaking world, is rare in his writing career! The sofa becomes feverish; the car kidnaps its driver; the mailbox and the entire building disappear out of thin air; the chair falls, and the dictator sitting on it falls with it; the king attempts to surround the city of the dead with a city of the living, but death once again stands out... Life repeatedly flows backwards, back to the starting point. This time, you must live like a human being.

This book is a novella in "The Complete Detective Collection of Arsene Robin". It tells the story of Robin's adventures when he went to Egypt to explore the treasures hidden in the pyramids. Along the way, he met the hermit Dr. Tulton who raised cheetahs, an indigenous slave like Friday, a ferocious wizard and a monk, and the mysterious tribe of the Elephant Snakes. However, a bigger conspiracy was waiting for him ahead.

Happiness is short-lived, but loneliness is permanent. "Ancient Capital" is a literary postcard of the city of Kyoto carefully drawn by Yasunari Kawabata. The novel uses light and delicate writing to narrate the joys and sorrows of the twin sisters Chieko and Naeko, and writes about their bitter life experiences, pure love, and their yearning for a better life. Cleverly, the author places the beautiful relationship between the sisters in the four seasons of Kyoto to describe it. The scenes blend together, allowing readers to appreciate the beauty of Kyoto's ancient culture. Loneliness is like a shadow, coexisting with life. And only lonely people can understand life more deeply. Don't be demanding, don't be envious, explore the true nature of life in the flowers and leaves in front of you.

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is a semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Betty Smith, first published in 1943. There are no weird and exciting plots in the book, but it touches people's hearts with plain and delicate experiences. It tells the story of the little girl Francie Nolan's growing up experience in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York in the early 20th century. She suffered from family misfortune, discrimination from classmates and social injustice while growing up. However, under the care and influence of her relatives, she loved reading, was strong and unyielding, and was full of enthusiasm for life. She was admitted to university by self-study after work, and finally walked out of the slums. It shows the courage of ordinary people to pursue their dreams and face the hardships of life calmly.

Selected from Dickens's horror novels, including eight short stories such as "The Temptation of Suicide", "Confessions of a Madman" and "The Post-Coach Terror", these stories are among Dickens's most praised works, and readers can get a glimpse of Dickens's talent for horror novels. While some of the stories are chilling to read, others are comical. Dickens inserted representative weird comedy plots into the stories and arranged for the most unforgettable characters to appear, including humans and ghosts, making these stories come to life on the page and become ukiyo-e paintings with a unique and humorous style.

"The Long Day" is a novel by Irish writer Sebastian Barry. The work won the 2016 Costa Literary Award, the 2017 Scott History Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize. The novel "The End of the Day" fully demonstrates the ups and downs of the Irish refugees who fled to the United States due to the Great Famine in the early 20th century. They rushed to board the "coffin ship", endured hunger, plague and extremely harsh climate conditions, and finally arrived at the "promised land" in their dreams after months of wandering at sea. They were engaged in jobs at the bottom of the food chain, digging stone mines, building railways, and working as lumberjacks. Many of them were even drawn into the army to participate in wars for unknown reasons from beginning to end, and died in the wilderness of unknown places. The two male protagonists of the story, John and Thomas, are also survivors of the Irish Famine. They started wandering when they were teenagers. Forced to make a living, they worked as dancers (in disguise) in the declining Grand Rapids City. They joined the army for meager military pay and experienced extremely cruel battles. Blizzards, long periods of severe cold, floods and plagues, battles and killings with Indian tribes, behind every serious disaster are the scars of the times. After everything, John and Thomas have become each other's closest friends, accompanying each other and redeeming each other, while the exiled Indian girl Winona symbolizes immortal hope, like the glimmer of light after the snow, illuminating the endless years.

"The place we lived in before has long since disappeared from the earth and has become a specimen in memory. The past will never come back, what is left behind?" When the memory hit him involuntarily, Park Minyu recalled the world he thought he had left behind - the low slate roofs covering the entire mountain, the intricate narrow alleys and the smiling faces of children gathered in front of small shops. Drive out, demolish, reorganize, neon covers the stars, cement replaces the land. He kept chasing the sunny land, glad that he had escaped from the rough and dirty slums, and never wondered where those old friends who were driven out of their homes went and what they did for a living. When I stop and turn around suddenly, there is no one around me, and there is no trace of my hometown in my memory. Forging ahead is the attitude of a pioneer. If you don't leave your back to others, you will be left behind. Without destroying the old world, you cannot reach the new utopia. The bonds are getting less and less, the eyes are getting colder and colder, and in the end only memories are left to accompany myself as life approaches the evening.

No one dies on New Year's Day. This fact is contrary to common sense. The Prime Minister called on everyone not to panic. The newspapers published the news of "New Year, New Life" as usual, but the commotion has already spread: mankind has fallen into eternal old age, and pension reserves will be overwhelmed; funeral companies are facing bankruptcy and can only bury cats, dogs and canaries; pessimistic philosophers are worried: without death, the future will be a disaster. And Death, a skeletal lady wrapped in sheets who lives in a cold basement with a scythe, is satisfied with asserting herself for the first time ever and is ready to get back to work.

The Khazar king wanted to convert to a religion and choose one of the three religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Representatives of the three major religions in Constantinople gathered in the Khazar capital and held a "Khazar Great Debate". Each of the three religions had their own opinions on the outcome. The history written by the Khazars themselves has been lost to obscurity, and the results of this great debate can only be supported by the documents of these three religions. However, the results recorded by the three religions are contradictory, and they all believe that their side has won. So at the end of the seventeenth century, that is, hundreds of years later, a Khazar dictionary came out, including records of debates by the three major religions. The book was divided into three parts, namely the Red Book, the Green Book, and the Yellow Book, which recorded the respective opinions of the three religions. The authors of the Red, Green, and Yellow books in the seventeenth century were connected through dream-catching, and gradually pieced together the situation and history of the Khazar religion, and they had the conditions to get close to Adam. But they died when they met. There are also three demons who exist as destroyers who want to prevent humans from gaining knowledge about Adam. This was less of a danger at the end of the seventeenth century, because Adan Ruani was in a weaker period of his divinity. By 1982, it was the peak of Adam's divinity. At this time, the three scholars who were reincarnated from the three seventeenth-century dictionary authors began to gather the knowledge of this mysterious doctrine, and it was possible to obtain this knowledge again. The "Holy Family" composed of three devils who were afraid of human beings approaching Adam killed two scholars and put the other in jail. This knowledge once again became fragments. These fragments were compiled into the second edition, which is the "Khazar Dictionary" in the hands of readers today.

The story took place in May 1942. Warrant Officer Waskov "helplessly" accepted the "troops" assigned by his superiors to two squads - although they were "non-drinkers", they were young female soldiers wearing short skirts; he wanted to command them to guard the 171 train station facilities. For a time, the female soldiers were stationed. Just when they were not used to the field life, they unexpectedly encountered a group of German fascist scouts. They could have let these devils go and just defended their positions and facilities. However, justice and sensitivity required them to not only defend the position and facilities, but also fight the enemy with the power of five girls-soldiers and commanders, to fight to the death...

Ernault began writing in 1974. Most of her works draw themes from her own experiences, so her writing and life are closely integrated. She has published about 15 works so far, including "The Empty Wardrobe" (1974), which depicts a woman's inner journey; "Position" (1984), a first-person recollection of her father, which won the Renaudeau Prize; and "Reminiscences of her mother". "A Woman" (1987); "Pure Passion" (1992), which recalls childhood; "Shame" (1997), "The Incident" (2000), which recalls abortion, and "Occupy" (2002), which depicts jealousy, etc. As soon as this book was published, it won the Duras Literary Award in France that year. Adopting the method of "untitled autobiography" actually prompts others to recall while remembering oneself, reflecting the evolution of the times with people's shared experiences, thus arousing strong resonance in people's hearts. From big things like international affairs, to small things like food and clothing, family gatherings, and even personal privacy, everything is simple and vivid. Reflecting the process of the world through personal experience actually writes collective memory. The novel spans sixty years, so readers of all ages can find the content they are most familiar with and the clearest memories in it.

Selected from the collection of Sherlock Holmes detective stories, including "Three Men with the Same Surname", "The Lion's Mane", "The Devil's Feet" and many other popular short stories. The novel has a rigorous structure and a bizarre and fascinating plot. The literary image created by the author has a distinctive personality, and he integrates pathology, psychology, etc. Into the detective art in his writing, forming a unique style of detective novels.

Zweig, no male writer knows women better than him! In classic works such as "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life" and "Letter from a Strange Woman", Zweig used meticulous psychological descriptions to nakedly display the emotional world of women's undercurrents and breakaway from reason. The stories are wonderful and exciting, and while readers are amazed, they also have a better understanding of society and human nature. This book selects three masterpieces of Zweig's novels. Opening any one of them will shock your soul and make you think deeply.

After World War II, Leonard, a young British electronic engineer, was sent to Germany to participate in British-American cooperation in intelligence projects. Post-war Berlin was devastated, but the kind and simple Leonard met the beautiful and gentle German woman Maria here, and was involved in a crazy world full of love and sex. Just when the two were inseparable, an accidental murder finally caused the two to pass each other by each other, regretting it for the rest of their lives. This is a romance during the Cold War, a spy war after World War II, and a thrilling criminal psychological novel... As always, McEwan perfectly blends elements such as love, war, suspense, crime, sex, and black humor. What he writes is a desolate and desperate Berlin city, where pure and innocent people have no place to stay, and fear and coldness surround them everywhere until they move into the endless night.

The first novel by Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, is about a loveless family, a hopeless future, a fruitless first love, and an endless sea. Every sad young man has to say goodbye to a miserable past life. The protagonist of the story, Hassan Omar, was born into a poor Arab-Muslim family in the seaside town of Kenge. His father, Omar, was bohemian, alcoholic, and cruel; his mother was cowardly and tolerant, accepting the cruel abuse of her husband almost fatally; his elder brother, Saeed, was naughty and unruly, and died unexpectedly in a fire when he was six years old. The country's independence brought social unrest and a betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government is worried about the brain drain and has delayed announcing the results of the high school graduation examination. Unable to get a scholarship, Hassan came to Nairobi to seek refuge with his wealthy uncle Ahmed, hoping to get back the family inheritance his mother deserved. There he discovers a larger world, but soon peels back the veil of his idyllic life and sees the corruption and hypocrisy that pervades this modern African city. The hazy love with his cousin Salma ignited Hassan's hope for life, but the ugly reality will soon surface along with an unbearable family secret...

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is the latest novel to restore a Thomas Mann full of desires and secrets. The British Frio Literary Award-winning work was selected as one of the top ten historical novels of 2021 by The New York Times, and was selected as the annual book by The Washington Post, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek. "The Magician" opens in the small German town of Lübeck at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where the boy Thomas Mann grew up with a conservative father who was bound by ethics and a charming and elusive mother from Brazil. Young Mann hid his artistic ambitions from his father and his sexual orientation from everyone. He was attracted by the richest and most educated Jewish family in Munich, married the family's daughter Katia, and had six children. While on vacation in Italy, Mann developed a desire for a boy he met on the beach and wrote the story of "Death in Venice." While accompanying Katia to recuperate in Switzerland, he was fascinated by the inescapable mountain atmosphere and wrote "The Magic Mountain". He became the most successful novelist of his time, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and people repeatedly looked forward to his political statements. He fled Germany and traveled to Switzerland, France, and the United States. His wanderings ended in Kirchberg, south of Zurich. This is an epic family saga set across half a century, through World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II and the Cold War. Tóibín crafts a complex yet sympathetic writer who has struggled throughout his life with his inner desires, his family, and the turbulent times they lived through.

That sense of powerlessness that no matter how I live makes me want to live a more vigorous life. Joyce's work of genius! 20Th century short story template! Reading guide by Nankai famous teachers, original and exquisite illustrations. The heavy snow is approaching, and a sense of powerlessness that no matter how you live has long shrouded the city of Dublin. Almost everyone, men, women, and children will be spared. "Araby": The fragile and blind love when you were young, you only dare to secretly hide your love for someone in your heart. "Just the Same": When a person reaches middle age, he has lost almost everything and is tired of the ordinary life. Tragedy is like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger. "The Dead": The wife's first love comes with her memory on a snowy Christmas night, but as a husband, she has always been insignificant. ... Snowflakes fall leisurely between heaven and earth, like a mirror, reflecting and inspiring every one of us who feels powerless and struggling in the quagmire of growth, work, and marriage, to release our own vitality!

The most famous inner monologue of a transgender person, Jan Morris, Britain's greatest post-war writer. This book is about a dispute in the author's life, and some parts of it are heartbreaking. She is optimistic by nature and unwilling to self-analyze. She is very lucky in other aspects. She writes with great restraint about her inner feelings of being unable to identify with her identity and gender. Most of the abbreviations in the book are to avoid causing pain to others, and occasionally to avoid making the author regret. Things that are avoided are all for aesthetic reasons.

Hard-core, brain-burning, you won't know the truth until the last page. Writer Donato Carisi has won the SNCF European Detective Fiction Award, the Pocket Reader Award, and the Baccarella Award, Italy's highest award. It would have been an unusual day, when she and the boy she loved were about to confess their feelings to each other. But the road to school never ended. At the last glance, she saw that the kidnapper was a bunny-headed man with heart-shaped eyes. When she wakes up again, the psychological criminal profiler tells her that she has been found, but her memories are needed to find clues and catch the kidnapper. In this way, her nightmare can end. But before that, she must know one thing: fifteen years have passed since the kidnapping. In the past fifteen years, private detective Bruno has also been unable to escape nightmares. His nightmares stem from guilt. He betrayed the trust of the girl's parents. Now that the girl has been found, he should restart the investigation, but it's a pity. She hesitated in the maze of memory, and he raced against time in the maze of the past. An old case, a strange bunny-headed man. What will be waiting for them at the exit of the maze?

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the spring of 1464, the young king on horseback met the most beautiful woman in England, Elizabeth Woodville. Rose discovers that the war has come to an end, and a secret love that is romantic but betrays the family begins. People say that this commoner queen must have used some kind of magic to confuse the king and put herself in a high position; but this rumor seems to be nonsense, but it is half true and half false - Elizabeth, who has inherited the blood of the river goddess, will make waves at the intersection of England's destiny.

The twisted and intertwined tragedy of exclusivity and betrayal, the whirlpool of beauty and sin that grow together, is the controversial "private novel" of the master of "demonism" Junichiro Tanizaki. Passion and immorality are entangled to the point of destruction. The twisted love hell described by Junichiro Tanizaki. The story takes place in the third year of the Showa era. Sonoko, the daughter of a wealthy family, obeyed her parents' orders and married her husband Kotaro, who was from a poor family but worked hard. After supporting her husband to complete his studies, she became a lawyer's wife with no worries about food and clothing. After getting married, Sonoko had no common language with her husband. In order to kill the extra time, she attended a private school that cultivated women's skills, and thus got acquainted with the lady Tokumitsu Mitsuko. Sonoko called Mitsuko a "goddess like Guanyin". When she first saw Mitsuko, she was deeply attracted to her, and the two became sisters. Mitsuko's boyfriend Watanuki is a sinister person and is not willing to let Mitsuko marry another person. He devises a series of conspiracies to destroy Mitsuko and the garden that he has become friends with. In order to save Sonoko, Kotaro was also forced to participate. As the situation changed, the four people began to be jealous and suspicious of each other, and were tied into a knot like the character "Swastika"... In the process of entangled with the devil's beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki portrayed the various psychological states and behaviors surrounding jealousy, such as possessiveness, suspicion, dependence, etc., In a real and delicate manner. Whether it is Sonoko, Mitsuko, or Kotaro, they are all born with a lack of love. On the way to the world without jealousy, all love eventually entered the tomb together.

The Henry gun and the bear hunting gun are the most precious weapons of the old iron hand. The drunkard in Xinke's mother's inn, the spear hanging on the branch, the black hole of the gun sticking out of the window, the mysterious man giving alms, the secret of the gold mine... Everything tests the old iron hand's wisdom and courage. The confusing and thrilling adventure stories unfold in the vast and infinite land of the American West... The suspense, vivid plots, charming natural landscapes and customs and culture, the sense of distant history, and the integration of myths, adventures, travel notes and philosophical novels constitute the eternal charm of Karl Mai's novels.

The second book of the "Berlin Trilogy" is a pioneering work that reshapes the form of spy novels. The film adaptation of the same name won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. Berlin in 1963 was dark and full of crises. The unsung hero of "The Yipcrest Files" is assigned a mission - one of the Soviet Union's most brilliant scientists attempts to defect while hiding in an elaborately forged coffin. But he soon discovers that the deception hides a deadlier truth, revealing the dark, gloomy, and chilling atmosphere of this divided city.

The character of Sherlock Holmes has been popular around the world for more than a hundred years since his creation in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. For countless Sherlock Holmes people around the world, they have no doubt about the authenticity of Sherlock Holmes' existence. Ever since Arthur Conan Doyle brought Sherlock Holmes to life in 1887, the thin man with a hooked nose, a hunting hat, a trench coat over his shoulders and a pipe in his mouth has always lived in people's hearts.