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"The Painter of the Floating World" won the "Whitbread Literary Award". It is an early masterpiece by Ishiguro Kazuo and the most Japanese-style work. It describes the devastation of Japan after the war, and the painter Ono's later life, which seems to be idle and idle, has a hidden spiritual undercurrent. In order to create a good social relationship for his little daughter when she gets married, he regained his memory. The past events of his old friends were connected one by one like an ukiyo-e, showing a battlefield without smoke. The bilingual version of "The Painter of the Floating World" includes for the first time a preface specially written by Kazuo Ishiguro for the 30th anniversary of the book's publication, recalling the creative process and interpreting it in detail. Attaching the original text of the work allows readers to appreciate Ishiguro's exquisite and beautiful original English text at the same time, and enjoy a double beauty.

"The Drowned City" is the second part of the classic science fiction series "Blood and Rust". In a flood-ravaged city, mutant species roam around, and various forces fight each other for resources... The girl Maria, the boy Moss, and the hunted half-orc Tur, who wander in the flooded city, not only have to face the pursuit of government forces, but also face deception and betrayal from within. In this world full of dangers and challenges, they are constantly looking for freedom and truth, trying to find their own way of survival amidst chaos and violence. This book vividly depicts a world in crisis, where people are forced to make difficult decisions in order to survive, and the lines between good and evil become increasingly blurred. The story culminates in a fierce and violent conflict between different forces vying for power and control. "The Drowned City" explores themes such as loyalty, betrayal, and the impact of environmental disasters on human society. It is not only a reflection on the consequences of climate change and environmental destruction, but also an exploration and reflection on how humans respond to these disasters.

The Plague is one of Camus's most influential and socially significant works. A plague broke out in the North African city of Oran. The protagonist Dr. Rieux stepped forward to rescue the patients at the critical moment and led a large number of people to rise up against the terrible plague, which finally brought the epidemic under control. In a very calm tone, Camus praised the true brave men who faced the bleak situation, and expressed his infinite desire and passion for life.

Based on the first volume, this series adds Murakami's classic masterpieces, showing Murakami's re-understanding of life and family, focusing on the heart, and reflecting on society. The author uses the confusion of teenagers to continue shouting for youth, looking for the meaning of life under the shell of love, and popping the bubble of capitalism's prosperity and decline through lost women and families. "Collection of Ryu Murakami's Works, Volume 2 (Set of 5 volumes in total)" includes Ryu Murakami's second work "The War Begins Across the Sea" after his debut novel "Infinitely Approximating Transparent Blue" published in 2021, the long love novel "The Melancholy of the Tennis Boy", the author's most famous semi-autobiographical novel "69", "Ibiza", a work that shows the loss of the times, and "The Last Family", a work that asks "what is an ideal modern family relationship". Ryu Murakami once again used his bold and precise brushwork to present a scene with great sensory impact, vividly expressing the despair and confusion of the characters, and the chaos and collapse of society, which is breathtaking.

In the spring of 1975, in Istanbul, the 30-year-old wealthy son Kemal Kemal was engaged to the socialite Sibel, but unexpectedly met his distant cousin from a poor background, the 18-year-old innocent girl Füsun. After the passionate love between the two, Kemal finally broke off his engagement with Sibel, only to find that Füsun had already left him. Kemal followed the girl's shadow and ghost deep into another Istanbul, walking through the poor back streets and hanging out in open-air cinemas. On the streets destroyed by nationalist bombs, on the strait illuminated by the fires of oil tanker collisions, under the curfew after the military coup, he tried to get closer to Füsun until the unbearable longing made life completely deviate. In order to calm the pain of love, he carefully collected everything about his sweetheart, everything she loved, and even everything she touched, and collected them into his "Museum of Innocence"... Pamuk said: "Everyone should be able to gaze into each other's eyes and talk about love, so that we can have true love." In this work, Director Pamuk proves one thing, what exactly is love?

The literary witch Atwood's masterpiece is published for the first time in mainland China! Nobel Prize winners Kazuo Ishiguro, Alice Munro, and Liang Yongan are all loyal readers of Atwood. The mother said that she was born with the power of a witch and turned her long-absent father into a goblin; a black cat named "Taint" died of illness, and the hostess rewrote ancient poems, hoping to freeze her memories with the black cat every word; the female bank employee felt that she was a The snail was forced to endure crude human love one after another. She felt that the snail's soul was gradually separated and dying in the human body. The old lady knew that all the teeth would eventually collapse into a rotten wall, and some people would inevitably sail away first, leaving her alone in the cold moonlight. All death in the world separates us from each other, but memories bring us together again and again. Open this book and listen to the imagination and memories of Atwood, the literary witch.

If time bends, can I meet myself in my youth? Blurring reality and fiction, exploring the essence of time, and practicing Einstein's theory of space and time in novels. "Bending Time of Krems" is the latest work of Italian writer Claudio Magris. It contains five short stories related to time. The protagonists of each story have different identities. An old doorman who was an entrepreneur in his youth, an old music teacher who met his students, a speaker who met a strange lady, a late-blooming writer, and an old professor who watched youth movies. In each story, the protagonist recalls a certain episode from the past, and everyone searches for time that has been lost and found. Those times associated with life, love and experiences. Time and cause and effect go hand in hand: the cause leads to the result, the effect will become the subsequent cause, and in the end everything will return to its origin.

It tells the story of Robin's search for the French royal treasure, interspersed with adventures and a battle of wits with a high school detective fan. The plot of the story is full of twists and turns, full of suspense, and makes you reluctant to put it down.

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Gorky (1868-1936), a famous Russian writer, "Childhood", "In the World", and "My University" are his autobiographical trilogy. "Childhood" recalls the difficult childhood that the protagonist Alyosha spent at his grandfather's house. "In the Human World" describes the rough experience of young Alyosha who was expelled from his home by his grandfather and went to the "human world" to make a living on his own. "My University" tells the story of Alyosha, who has just entered his youth and came to Kazan with the desire to go to university. However, he learned knowledge in the "social university" that could not be learned in a walled university. He broadened his horizons and raised his awareness. After painful ideological exploration, he finally grew into a revolutionary intellectual. The trilogy shows the social life of Russia at the end of the 19th century. It is an excellent work with profound educational significance and great artistic charm.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Gorky's birth, we chose to publish Gorky's autobiographical series to help readers understand the writer and better understand his works. Among them, "In the World" is the second part of the trilogy. It describes the life of the protagonist Alyosha and his grandmother. On the road of life, he went through many ups and downs, met many people, read many books, and determined to "be a strong person and not give in to the environment." With such firm belief, he left his hometown and went to Kazan.

This book selects eight of Gorky's works, most of which are his early short stories. As we all know, among Gorky's rich literary heritage, short stories are a treasure. It was from short stories that Gorky began his creation and became famous for his achievements. His short stories are both romantic and realistic. Romantic works aim to praise freedom and light and entrust the author's lofty revolutionary ideals and passion for fighting, such as "Makar Chudra" and "Old Lady Izegil".

"My University" is the third part of Gorky's famous autobiographical novel trilogy and one of Gorky's "Life Trilogy". The remaining two are "Childhood" and "In the World". The author describes his life experiences in his youth. From this truly recorded tutorial, we can see that as a teenager, Gorky had a deep hatred for the habits of the petty bourgeoisie, a passionate pursuit of freedom, a strong yearning for a better life, direct contact with the working people at the bottom of life, going deep into society, accepting the influence of revolutionaries' ideas, and eagerly absorbing knowledge and nourishment from books. These were important conditions for him to grow up and climb to the peak of culture from the bottom of life.

A literary girl who studied abroad fell in love with a weak literary youth. Regardless of the opposition of others, she resolutely entered into the marriage she was looking forward to. The creed of the future... The disillusionment of reality, a woman who doesn't want to be a caged bird, bravely faces the loss of ideals, and reaches out to touch freedom. "Escaped Nobuko" is an autobiographical novel written by the Japanese writer Miyamoto Yuriko based on her personal experience. It tells the story of a young woman from a middle-class background, Nobuko, who went to the United States, fell in love, got married, had conflicts with her husband, divorced, resumed literary creation, and finally awakened her self-awareness and moved towards an ideal life. In the novel, Nobuko's relationships with her husband, mother, and female close friends are intricately intertwined, and the scenes are described in a gripping manner. Japanese private novels are good at self-revealing narratives and are known for their in-depth exploration of the characters' psychology. The usual life seems calm and without violent conflicts, but the characters' feelings are full of crises and undercurrents. In terms of text narrative, because the author was influenced by Tolstoy and other Russian novelists, he shows a very delicate realistic style.

"Three Strangers Riding" is also a humorous novel that makes people laugh. The protagonists are still the characters in "Three Strangers Canoeing". This time they are not rafting, but riding bicycles through the Black Forest of Germany. In the introduction to the famous 1957 "Renren Library" edition of "Three Strangers on a Ride", D. C. Browning commented on the book: "Compared with "Three Strangers on a Boating", "Three Strangers on a Ride" is slightly inferior, but only a little bit inferior. For a long time, "Three Strangers on a Ride" has been a textbook used in schools in Germany."

"The night of spring is short, girl, go forward!" ""The Dingtian Family", "Tower of the Sun"... How were these imaginative and interesting stories born? What kind of imaginative works can be created in an apartment with four and a half stacks (about seven square meters)? A collection of all the essays written by the talented Japanese fantasy writer Noboru Morimi in the fourteen years since his debut, talking about life and creation - the books that have influenced Nobohiko Morimi: "The Complete Works of Uchida Hyakashi", Higuchi Kazuyo's "Kazuha's Love Diary", Atsushi Nakajima's "Yamagetsuki", Conan Doyle's "Five Orange Cores", "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes"... Movies that have influenced Nobohiko Morimi: "Kishiwada Young Company of Fools", "Spirited Away", "Sand Container"... The secrets of the beautiful Kyoto written by Morimi, the four-and-a-half-story apartment full of memories... In addition, this book also includes the author's never-published serial column "Idling Novelist", and for the first time publishes the specially written and previously never made public version of "Morimi Nobumihiko's Diary". How to grow from an ordinary college student to a famous fantasy artist, Morimi Nobumihiko recorded it all in this book in a cute, humorous, and effortless style!

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With unique wisdom and the power of narrative, Dubravka leads us from Russia to Japan, from the Balkan minefields to the American highway, from the 1920s to the present, exploring many topics such as the power of narrative and literary creation, the identity and situation of immigrants, women and their writing, the sequelae of war, and the situation of literature in today's era. The book is divided into six chapters, interweaving and jumping between history and regions, but it is easy to read with ease. Dubravka takes the "fox" that exists in ancient myths in various cultures as the prototype, and reveals the mystery of "story as story" layer by layer.

"Bartleby, The Scrivener" is a representative novella by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of "Moby-Dick". When Bartleby first entered the law firm, he was capable and diligent, but soon he was unwilling to do anything except copywriting. For all the tasks assigned by his boss, he responded with "I would rather not"...

You've heard of King David, the legendary warrior and king of the United Kingdom of Israel, the husband of Bathsheba, and the father of Solomon. Now, meet the real King David: a proud son of the Jews, a poet who was constantly copied, a husband and a father. In his later years, David was described as haggard and dying. With a bittersweet nostalgia, but more of a regret, he looked back on his magnificent life on his death bed: his early military exploits, eight marriages, several children who broke his heart or disappointed him, constant fights with relatives, and a God who did not know whether he had forgotten or abandoned him. "God Knows" is Joseph Heller's fourth novel, based on the story of King David. Joseph Heller used black humor to restore a more realistic and vivid image of King David. "God Knows" dissolves traditional historical writing, reveals the mystery of theological knowledge through different versions of stories, and dispels the sacred halo of sacred works of Western culture. From deconstructing David to subverting religious classics to dissolving God, Heller subverts everything sacred, from literary classics to religious beliefs. The book is Heller's meditation on his own life and an exploration of Jewish perspectives on family, life, death, and more.

"The Last Lesson" describes the last French class in a rural primary school that was ceded to Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War and bid farewell to the language of the motherland. Through the self-narration of a naive and ignorant primary school student, it vividly expresses the pain of the French people under foreign rule and their love for their motherland. Although the subject matter of the work is small, it is carefully cut and appropriately detailed. It has Dude's consistent euphemistic, tortuous and suggestive style, and the theme is deeply explored. The psychological activities of little Franz, a primary school student, are written in a delicate and touching way. As a typical example of a patriotic intellectual, Mr. Amell, a teacher, has a lifelike image. After the article was published. It has been selected as a Chinese language textbook for primary and secondary school students in many countries.

"The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's important early work and a highly satirical comedy. Created around 1596-1597. The theme of the script is to praise benevolence, friendship and love. It also reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law and religion in bourgeois society. An important literary achievement of this play is to create the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking, ruthless loan shark.

Shortlisted works for the 2020 International Man Booker Prize. A dystopian masterpiece from a female perspective, a poignant and cautionary fable about the power of memory and the trauma of memory loss. It was adapted into a stage play in 2018, starring the popular Japanese actress Satomi Ishihara, which aroused enthusiastic response in Japan. The author Yoko Ogawa has become one of the most influential Japanese writers in the world after Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami. On the island where the protagonist lives, there were many beautiful things, such as ribbons, emeralds, stamps, roses, libraries, etc., Etc. But I don't know when, swept by a mysterious force, they disappeared one after another. Along with it, the memories associated with these items go. When memory loses support and ceases to exist, how should we face the future?

The novel describes the story of a pair of young people who lived on a small island between Britain and Germany on the eve of World War II. They met, got to know each other, fell in love, and then parted ways during the war. In particular, Rebecca's Jewish identity and Christopher's German identity made them deeply involved in the vortex of the Nazi concentration camp. After Jersey was occupied by the Nazis, Rebecca was deported to a concentration camp. Christopher came to Auschwitz in search of her and tried to rescue her. When he learned that Rebecca had been killed, he suppressed his grief and then used his own power to save many innocent Jews. At the trial after the war, those saved Jews came forward to testify for Christopher, proving that he was a great man. At this time, Christopher also learned that Rebecca was still alive, and their reunion was full of vicissitudes of the rest of their lives. In the end, they all returned to the warm golden island that they once thought would no longer exist, and returned to the place promised in childhood.

"No Consolation" is Kazuo Ishiguro's longest novel, an extremely dense and delicate psychological novel that makes people unable to extricate themselves. This book adheres to Kazuo Ishiguro's consistent style, which is simple on the outside but strong on the inside. The novel describes the mysterious days a pianist experienced in a mysterious city. Sometimes he is a bystander, and sometimes he is involved. The people he sees are all passionate but obsessed with it; the things he encounters are all weird, absurd, and full of variables. In this city where people's hearts are dominated by bizarre artistic values, while trying to find the exit from his dream and seeking an explanation for all this, he gradually realizes that he is facing the most severe performance in his life. The bilingual version of "No Consolation" comes with the original text of the work, allowing readers to appreciate Ishiguro's exquisite and beautiful original English text at the same time, and enjoy double beauty.

Mrs. Mallard, who learned of her husband's death, was shocked to realize that she would regain her freedom in the years to come...

The "Math Girls" series unfolds in the form of novels, focusing on a group of young people exploring the beauty of mathematics. The content is from the shallower to the deeper, and the mathematical explanation part is very exquisite. It is called "an excellent popular science book on mathematics". The protagonist "I" is a high school boy who likes mathematics. His hobby is discussing calculation formulas. He often thinks about mathematical problems alone at his desk. After entering high school, he met Mirga, a genius girl who is good at mathematics and smart, Tedora, a school girl who is curious, energetic and hard-working, and Risa, a taciturn computer expert. In addition, Yuri, a cousin with a flexible mind and gradually fell in love with mathematics under the guidance of "I", several young people traveled in the world of mathematics together and discovered the beauty of mathematics. Differential calculus from "Secret Notes of a Math Girl". The author Hiroshi Yuuki collected the questions raised by readers on the Internet about the "Mathematical Girl" series and compiled them into chapters. In the form of character dialogue and exercises, he once again explains various mathematical concepts in simple and easy-to-understand terms.

The novel "The Fish King" is Astafiev's most unique masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Russian literature. The book is composed of thirteen "narrative short stories" with relatively independent contents, all centered on the relationship between man and nature. It depicts Siberia full of mysterious temptations in depth and detail, as well as the people living there, and their reflections on life. The desolate, bitter and cold natural environment is at the same time a place where nature shows its majesty, vastness and richness. Although human footprints are like claws in snow and mud, they still carry the dignity of endless life. These chapters show a unique style in terms of ideological content and artistic form, downplaying the plot, and describing the details delicately and vividly. They "integrate novels, novellas, lyrical essays, and moral discussions into one" (Wang Xiaobo). They reveal coherent content and images from different angles and methods, just like a string of pearls strung inadvertently, each one reflecting dazzling light with its own beauty.

Loss is the only way to the end of life, and it is also the only way to return to the true nature. "Sleeping Beauty" is the culmination of Kawabata Yasushi's 60th birthday. Through the five experiences of the old man Eguchi to Sleeping Beauty's house, six sleeping beauties, and three dreams, the novel tells the story of people's helplessness towards aging and death in old age, their inferiority complex towards old men and their nostalgia for youth. The whole work has a transcendent and mysterious beauty that transcends time and space. It integrates Kawabata's lifelong philosophical meditation and guides people to look at the passing time with a heart of repentance, return to the beauty of innocence with a heart of redemption, and have infinite yearning for the beauty of freedom. The old man's ravings are a person's lonely recollections of youth. Life is fleeting, only infinite silence and immortality remain forever.

For diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the prospect of a better life for his impoverished family. The dream blinded him from seeing the greed and disaster caused by the pearl. Steinbeck's classic reveals the absurdity of the American Dream - where wealth solves all problems - and how we fall from innocence and then back again.

As if awakening from eternal chaos. I don't know who I am or what I have done. There is only one powerful driving force that urges him to overcome hardships and overcome obstacles. He finally found his sister. But being reunited with your family doesn't mean you're safe. Instead, a series of adventures begins.

This book is a widely circulated collection of animal stories from Sidon. Adhering to the unique tradition of realistic animal stories, a "native specialty" of Canadian literature, Seton describes eight extraordinary individual animals in this world-famous collection: the wolf "Lao Bao", the crow "Silver Spot", the white rabbit "Huo Huo", the pet dog "Bingdog", the spring fox, the wild horse, the yellow dog "Wuli" and the grouse "Redneck". By depicting the struggle of these sentient creatures with nature and human beings for survival, the tragic fate of each animal is shown. The collection's insistence on the moral message that wild animals should also have their own rights fully demonstrates Seton's modern consciousness. One The more than 300 illustrations created by Seaton for this book are full of wit and wit, which adds to the appreciation and collection of this book.

The steak and burger restaurant "JUJU" was inherited from Mitsuko's grandfather and later run by her parents. It is a nostalgic store with sizzling burger patties, and the food and atmosphere are memorable. Mitsuko's mother's favorite comic is "Salome, Princess of Hell". After taking over the burger shop, her mother changed the name of the shop to "JUJU" based on the name of the burger shop where Salome worked in the comic. When her mother died suddenly, Mitsuko took over and ran a burger restaurant with her father. However, she did not know how to cook and had no confidence, and she was not as good at dancing as her mother. With the help of his father and first love boyfriend Shinichi, a wonderful transformation happened...

In the spring of 1922, Nick, a clerk, left his hometown in the Midwest and came to the East. By chance, he lived next door to the rich Gatsby. He found that Gatsby's huge mansion was full of music and music day and night, but he himself was full of thoughts and always stared across the water at the shining green light at night in the residence on the other side... His first love, Daisy, lived there. Gatsby walked a long way to stand on the lawn of this mansion. When he recognized the green light of Daisy's house for the first time, he felt that his dream seemed so close that it was almost impossible not to catch it. He didn't expect that that dream had already been left behind in the boundless chaos behind the city...

"The Great Gatsby" is set in the upper-middle class society living in New York City and Long Island in the 1920s. From the perspective of a poor boy, Nick, it tells the story of Gatsby's unscrupulous efforts to acquire wealth, and his eventual transformation from a pauper to a "great" rich man, as well as his emotional entanglement with Daisy, his lover whom he lost due to poverty in his first love. Gatsby had a fanatical love for luxury cars, mansions, and extravagant parties. His crazy hedonism and unscrupulous pursuit of wealth reflected the common restlessness and moral regression of the society at that time. Daisy's emotional attitude towards him also revealed the cruel social reality at that time and the destruction of the "American Dream". This book received high praise once it was published. Famous writers such as Haruki Murakami, Hemingway, and Eliot all gave the book high praise.

"This story explains everything we are going through in one sentence!" A masterpiece of the era in Hemingway's eyes, Haruki Murakami's literary creation benchmark! The commanding heights of American literature! A constant reminder of the temptations, corruptions and indulgences that money brings. In the common spiritual world of mankind, "The Great Gatsby" dissects eternal confusion and loneliness. Eliot regarded it as a pioneer of American novels, and Yeats regarded it as an annotation of American society and a milestone in literary history.

"The Great Gatsby" is a novella written by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in New York City and Long Island in the 1920s. This is Fitzgerald's third novel in his creative career. At this time, he had a deeper understanding of literature and art, so he repeatedly considered and revised it, striving for excellence, until April 1925 when he published the manuscript. The protagonist, James Katz, is a poor farmer's boy in North Dakota. He has dreamed of becoming a big shot since he was a child. After some hard work, he finally rose through the ranks and changed his name to Jay Gatsby.

Nick, a clerk, first came to New York. The house he rented happened to be next to the mansion of the rich man Gatsby, so he met Gatsby and accidentally learned about Gatsby's deep inner connection - Daisy, his old lover from New York's upper class society. When Gatsby was still an officer, he fell in love with Daisy, the daughter of a wealthy family, but the gap in social class eventually caused the two to part ways. After the war, Gatsby went to the east to make money by any means necessary, and built a mansion across the river from Daisy's house as he wished. Gatsby spent every night singing and dancing, living a luxurious life, creating topics in the upper class society, aiming to attract the attention of Daisy. At this time, Daisy had already married the aristocrat Tom, but the marriage was not happy. Tom's tryst with his lover was already known to everyone. After many twists and turns, Gatsby finally reunited with the depressed Daisy. Their romance was on the verge of breaking out, but tragedies also followed...

By chance, the poor clerk Nick breaks into the secret world of the spendthrift tycoon Gatsby. Nick is surprised to find that the only thing that binds Gatsby is the little green light on the other side of the river. In the flickering light, lives his beloved old lover Daisy. Gatsby once lost Daisy due to poverty. In order to find love, he used all means to become a rich man and built a mansion, just to let his former lover come and sit for a while. However, the cold reality cannot tolerate misty dreams, and the real tragedy quietly begins at this moment...

"The Great Gatsby" is a novella written by the American writer Fitzgerald, set in New York City and Long Island in the 1920s. It is regarded as a symbol of the "Jazz Age" of American literature. The story mainly tells the story of the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby's persistent pursuit of Daisy Fay. The novel is Fitzgerald's great work, which explores depravity, idealism, resistance to change, social changes, and debauchery; it provides an in-depth description of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, and can be called a classic representative of the microcosm of American society.

In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, the poor clerk Nick breaks into the secret world of the spendthrift tycoon Gatsby. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the opposite bank of the river - in the flickering light, lives his beloved Daisy. However, the cold reality cannot tolerate vague dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the earthly world. When all the truth is revealed, Gatsby's tragic life is like fireworks. The brilliance is only for a moment, and the disillusionment is eternal. A gorgeous "Jazz Age" elegy, written by Fitzgerald like a poem and a dream, leaving a deep mark on the history of contemporary American literature.

This novel vividly reproduces the legendary romance of Mr. And Mrs. Fitzgerald, bringing to life the glamorous Jazz Age on the page. A classic work that represents the transformation of Fitzgerald's artistic style from youthful to mature. One of the greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, a gorgeous elegy of the Jazz Age, and the work that had the greatest influence on Haruki Murakami. In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, the poor clerk Nick breaks into the secret world of the spendthrift tycoon Gatsby. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the other side of the river - in the flickering light, lives his beloved Daisy. However, Bee's reality cannot tolerate misty dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the earthly world. When all the truth is revealed, Gatsby's tragic life is like fireworks. The brilliance is only for a moment, and the disillusionment is eternal. A gorgeous "Jazz Age" elegy, written by Fitzgerald like a poem and a dream, leaving a deep mark on the history of contemporary American literature.

"The Great Gatsby" is the masterpiece of Fitzgerald, one of the most outstanding American writers in the 20th century. Gatsby, a boy from the Midwest, went to the East to make a fortune overnight. He entertained guests every night in his mansion, just like a generous and absurd rich tycoon. He looked dreamily at a shining green lighthouse on Long Island, New York, looking for the woman of his dreams, Daisy. 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 makes Nick's dream of the glitzy celebrity life in the East shattered. Disillusionment is eternal.

A nightmare that is both real and imaginary, the Battle of Songhu and the Siege of Shanghai are described by a Nobel Prize-winning writer. "We Are Orphans" is the fifth novel by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, first published in 2000. London, England, 1930s. The young and successful Christopher Banks is a well-known detective throughout the UK. His legend of solving crimes has long been spread word of mouth in London social circles. However, for many years, an unsolved case has lingered in the mind of the famous detective for a long time. That is the mysterious disappearance of his biological parents in old Shanghai when he was a child. "Chasing the shadow of the disappearance of his parents", our protagonist searches all the way from the rich and luxurious London upper class, and finally returns to Shanghai under the gunfire of the Japanese invaders. This was by no means a tender homecoming. In this city that was once bustling with traffic and is now full of smoke and smoke, what awaits him is a dark secret and a cruel truth, and his Sherlock Holmes-like fairy tale life will be reduced to ruins like his childhood hometown... The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing outlook and growth history in one volume.

"Narcissus and Goldmund" is a novel by German writer and Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse. The young monk Narcissus was pious and docile, while his friend Goldmund was rebellious and uninhibited. He secretly had trysts with girls, escaped from the monastery and wandered around. Many years later, he was sentenced to death for falling in love with the governor's mistress. Narcissus, who became the abbot of the monastery, rescued him from prison and asked him to specialize in sculpture art. He integrated his life experience into his creations and achieved great success. Unable to settle for the status quo, he traveled again and became seriously ill. Narcissus expressed his friendship to him before his death, making him die happily. The novel shows the conflict between two different human natures.

This is 1901, and the Ottoman Empire is in turmoil. On Mingel Island, where foreign powers are eyeing the enemy, spies are everywhere, gang disputes are rife, and rumors are rife, the plague spreads quietly and murders occur one after another. Princess Pakze, her husband Dr. Nuri, and her bodyguard Camille came to the island to fight the plague, and tried to work with the local governor to find out the real culprit who killed the empire's chief pharmacist. In just six months, they not only encountered an irresistible change in their fate, but also inadvertently rewritten the course of history... Nobel Prize winner Pamuk followed up "My Name is Red" with another suspense epic. It was conceived for forty years and presents a panoramic view of late Ottoman Empire society. How do we survive a disaster? When cruel death approaches us, some people will live alone, go into their hearts, write, and think about the meaning of life; others will go to the streets, looking for family and friends, hoping to find comfort in the community.

[Original novel of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! ]Maple, who stole the show on the fifth floor, encounters a new "crisis"! Evil spirits appear on the sixth floor, and her partner Sally retreats, forcing Maple to embark on a journey of exploration alone. Transform into a black hole in the game and force slimes to join the team... Shouldn't you explore alone? Why is the strength getting stronger and stronger! With the screams of the game operation team, Maple's new adventure officially begins!

An unavoidable classic in the history of Japanese literature, the masterpiece of Kawabata Yasunari, the winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, Shigeon's unprinted translation includes the two novels "Snow Country" and "The Songstress of Izu". The train passed through a long tunnel and headed for the snow country. Shimamura was about to meet Juzi for the second time, but unexpectedly saw Ye Zi's beautiful face reflected in the car window mirror. The three people's melancholy was involved, and the snowflakes fell on everyone. Is love really in vain?

This book is a global classic novel about dogs, written by American writer Knight. The author uses his own childhood life in Yorkshire, England as the background, and takes the Collie's thrilling and tortuous adventure of returning home thousands of miles as the main line. Through the twists and turns of the plot and beautiful and concise language, he vividly depicts the Collie's perseverance, wit, spirituality, loyalty and the young protagonist's love for dogs.