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When George was four years old, his father died. More than ten years later, while sorting out old toys, grandma discovered a personal letter written by her father to George. In the letter, his father used the Hubble Telescope to cut in, named it the "Eye of the Universe", and looked into the entire universe, telling George a story with the intention of leading George to explore the true meaning of life. Faced with the questions raised by his father, how would George answer?

Xi Youren, a wealthy businessman from Nanyang, went to Japan to meet his benefactor. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived in Japan, murders occurred one after another around him - first an old man living alone was strangled, then the nephew of a local politician was poisoned and died, and then his benefactor also died of gas poisoning! A series of confusing murder cases, but the murderer left no clues. What is the key to uncovering the truth? But the truth will always come out. But when all the doubts are cleared away, I wonder if the emotion that has gone through the years is still as meaningful and sweet as before...

Introduction to "Selected Novels of O. Henry": This book selects dozens of masterpieces of O. Henry's short stories such as "The Gift of the Magi", "The Cop and the Hymn", "Twenty Years Later", "Children in the Jungle", "The Intention of the Drunkard", "Double Liar", etc. O. Henry's novels show ironic compassion, unique humor and never-guessed endings. O. Henry's works can give you an unexpected ending every time, leaving you stunned and leaving you alone to think, cry and smile alone.

My memories of my hometown Keflavik are getting deeper and deeper. The broad-minded grandmother Margaret became a symbol of sacrifice, spending half her life waiting for her lover to return, and half her life mourning the death of her beloved son. Uncle Sojour is a child of the ocean, and obeying his nature also means betraying his relatives. Fathers were not lucky enough to inherit happiness. The ancient history of the Eastfjords continues to draw closer to Keflavik's past.

The plot of the novel is not fundamentally unfamiliar; in fact, I suspect that two respectable writers, Balzac and Dreiser, would accuse me of gross imitation, but, I swear, I had not read their absurd works at the time, and even now have no idea what they said in Under the Cypresses. After all, Charlotte Humbert's husband wasn't that innocent either. The question of the title of the book. The three face cards were all heart cards, so I kept them and discarded a small pair. The two new cards I was dealt might prove that the gamble was right, because I always have an ivory thumb in this game of gambling. Evenly matched, very lucky, and inextricably squeezed out a slight advantage through the sting of smoke. I can only hope that my good old poker partners, who all have a full house and a straight, think I'm trying to scare off my opponents with big bets.

"The Wizard of Oz" is the masterpiece of L. Frank Baum, the father of American children's literature. The story tells the story of a little girl Dorothy and her puppy Toto who were blown to the Munchkin Kingdom by a tornado. In order to return to her hometown, Dorothy embarked on a long journey and experienced numerous hardships along the way. During the long journey, she met some new partners: the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion. They traveled together and embarked on a mysterious adventure. Overcoming many difficulties, they arrived at the Emerald Castle and finally met Oz. However, what awaits them is bigger trouble...

A volume of white drawings full of love and affection between an adopted daughter and her parents, showing the true love in the ordinary. The autobiography of Kawabata Yasunari, a "leading figure" in the Japanese literary world and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a precious work that peeps into the depths of the soul. It describes the symbol of Japanese beauty with a unique style and strong emotions. It has superb narrative skills and expresses the spiritual characteristics of the Japanese people with extraordinary sensitivity. "The Son of God" is a collection of autobiographical novels by Kawabata Yasunari, which includes four short stories: "Hometown", "Tokaido", "Tower of Sentiment", and "The Son of God". From the age of two to fourteen, Kawabata Yasunari's parents, sister, and grandparents died one after another. The plot of "Orphans from the End of the World" lingered in his life. In "Hometown", the author takes the opportunity of welcoming his adopted daughter to review his lonely boyhood; "Tokaido" remembers his old friend's journey to Beijing and explores the relationship between art and eternity; "God-given Son" describes the father-daughter relationship with his adopted daughter and records the activities of the Japanese PEN Association after the war... "God-given Son" is a precious work that peeks into the depths of Kawabata Yasunari's soul.

A box of poisoned chocolates, six detectives, seven completely different "perfect" truths - one day, a knight in the club received a box of chocolates, which he gave to another member of the club. Hours later, the member's wife died of poisoning after eating the chocolate. When the police were helpless, six reasoning enthusiasts from the Crime Research Club came forward, but they each derived completely different conclusions - each answer was logically rigorous and pointed to a different murderer. However, each answer can also be overturned by the next answer... Can reasonably arranged clues and seemingly smooth logical reasoning really construct the so-called "ultimate truth"?

At the beginning of the story, Patty is dead. Film director Richard Lees embarks on a long journey of mourning. He meets another lost soul. During the journey, Florence, a magical 12-year-old child, walked into the sludge of dirty reality. What connects Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, North, South, East, West, a man mourning a lost era, a woman trapped in the modern age? Spring. Great connection. Ally Smith looks at how stories change over time and uses one of Shakespeare's most intriguing works, Pericles, Prince of Tire, to tell an impossible story set in unbelievable times. Between the wall and the blockade, Smith opened - the door. We live in an era that is changing nature. Will it change the nature of the story? Hope lasts forever.

This book selects the wonderful chapters of Arsene Robin's detective stories, including five independent short county mystery stories: Young Robin, The Secret of the Wedding Ring, The Stolen Black Pearl, Robin's Big Failure, and The Weird Passenger. The style of the novel is weird and bizarre, full of suspicion, short and exquisite, and easy to carry. It is a convenient book for readers to read when traveling, working, or in their leisure time.

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style. The content mostly involves human affairs and personal relationships between men and women. However, under the cover of all kinds of frivolous jokes and vulgar words, there is no lack of penetrating satire and praise of beautiful human emotions. The translator, Shi Kangqiang, is a famous French translator and writer in China. In this book, Balzac uses Old French. At the request of Xia Wen, senior French editor of the Humanities Society, he translated this strange book in a style that imitates the Song and Yuan dialects. It is both faithful to the original text and consistent in form and tone. It is a rare translation masterpiece.

The work of Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, nine touching moments about love, is the first collection of Zhuyu short stories published in China. "People Who Love" is a short story collection by Nobel Prize-winning writer Kawabata Yasunari. It includes nine short stories including "Mother's First Love", "A Woman's Dream", and "Letter About a Black Mole". A girl who was adopted by her mother's first love after her mother's death and fell silently in love with her mother's first love; a girl who has been unable to successfully date because of her first love's suicide; a wife who feels guilty because of her quirks; a dancing girl who is keen on playing dice; newlyweds who have just begun to feel the loveliness of children... Kawabata Yasunari's short stories are delicate, gentle and natural. The whole book centers on "love" and describes nine subtle moments about "love".

The immortal work of the genius novelist Somerset Maugham, a classic full of idealism based on the famous painter Gauguin. The plot of "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on the life of the French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. The protagonist was originally a securities broker. After reaching middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and abandoned everything to live with the indigenous people on the island of Tahiti in the South Pacific. He gained inspiration and created many artistic masterpieces. Maugham deeply explores the contradictions and interactions between life and art in his novels.

This book is a masterpiece of short stories by Richard Yates. He focuses on ordinary little people: children who are isolated by their classmates after transferring to another school, young men and women who are anxious about their upcoming marriages, instructors who are serious and responsible but not understood by others, who pretend to be ordinary people after being fired. The middle-aged white-collar workers who work outside the home, the clerks who have lofty ideals but have never been able to realize them... Yates's writing style is gentle and a little humorous, but he profoundly writes about the loneliness of ordinary individuals who are out of tune with the rhythm of the times, and outlines the life outline of the little people who can't help themselves. Eleven different stories, every time you open one, there are shadows of thousands of people, and they are all sighs from the deepest heart. Inadvertently, we all fell into the web of loneliness woven by Yates, unable to escape, just as everyone cannot escape their own lives.

"The Story of Chess" is a novel written only three days before the end of Austrian writer Zweig's life, and it is also his true masterpiece. Because he was deeply influenced by Freud, Zweig was very good at psychological description and was known as the "hunter of the human soul". The novel tells the story of an amateur chess player who defeats a talented player. This amateur chess player had almost never played real chess; he accidentally stole a chess book when he was under fascist supervision. Since then, this book has become his only spiritual sustenance. He studied chess books crazily and even split into two selves playing chess in his mind. In the endless time and extremely limited space, he could only use this method to relieve the huge pain in his soul. In this work, Zweig truly presents the psychological changes that occur after people are imprisoned physically and deprived of their spiritual life.

A new storm has arrived. Ashes and crimson thunder swept across the land, awakening ancient enemies. The soul of the dead enemy came out of hibernation and stirred up again in the name of the Destroyer. Human beings opened their eyes and discovered that this war had never been imagined. The power of the hurricane may be within grasp, just because the light reappears here and shines there. The lieutenant who has gone through hardships is constantly searching for reconciliation; the spy who has experienced cruelty is pursuing perfection; the stranger who is bound by the oath is stepping on the stone to explore the truth; the ambitious traitor is resolutely seeking freedom. Outside of the four members, there will always be a king. Once tired of fighting, now we want to find the dusty past.

One of the original blueprints for the hit American drama "The Sun Calls"! New York Times bestselling author Lee Bardug's classic book! A prisoner hungry for revenge. A sharpshooter with a gambling addiction. A down-and-out young man who was betrayed by his family. A spy known as the Ghost. A ghetto girl who survives by using magic. A genius thief with a unique talent for escaping. The genius thief Kaz led the crow team to break through the layers of protection and go deep into the ice court, only to find that the rescue plan was just a cover. The scientist in the prison had passed away long ago, the prisoner was actually the son of the scientist, and the dangerous magic formula also died. However, the rescue plan completely deviated from the normal track. Not only did the six crows have to escape the pursuit of the Ice Court, but they were also betrayed by the Business Council. The team was in danger... The six crows redeemed each other in the adventure, and the journey of changing fate continues! ! !

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was the greatest playwright and poet of the English Renaissance and the master of European Renaissance humanistic literature. He is an unprecedented dramatic poet and the greatest literary figure in the world in history. In order to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the "Collection of Shakespeare's Works in Vertical Illustration" is specially published based on the first poetic version of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" in the Chinese-speaking world edited and translated by Mr. Fang Ping of Shanghai Translation Publishing House. It comprehensively considers tragedies, comedies, historical dramas, legendary plays and sonnets, and selects 20 published single volumes, accompanied by a full set of classic illustrations by Sir John Gilbert.

Neil Gaiman is synonymous with contemporary fantasy literature! "Smoke and Mirrors: A Collection of Neil Gaiman's Scalp-Tisting Short Stories" contains 29 Neil Gaiman's classic short stories, which cover the love, jealousy, greed, selfishness, fear and sadness of human nature. "American Gods" Odin, Rocky, Annecy... The ancient gods have actually always lived in the United States, living among us as humans, but they lost human faith and became weak. "Norse Gods" "Good Omens" According to the "Exquisite and Accurate Prophecy" written by the witch Agnes Fuko, the world will end on Saturday. To be precise, it should be next Saturday, before dinner. "The Graveyard Book" Raising a child requires the efforts of the entire cemetery. The appearance of a baby broke the thousand-year peace of the cemetery. Under the guidance of Death, the ghosts adopted the baby and named it Nobody.

A love story that has been passed down for thousands of years, an ultimate interpretation of the beauty of physical sorrow, and a literary classic that has shaped the entire Japanese nation. "The Tale of Genji" had a huge impact on the development of Japanese literature. It was the peak of Japanese classical literature and opened the era of "mono-sorrow" in Japan. The Tale of Genji, written in the Heian period, has a history of more than 1,000 years. The book has more than 1 million words, nearly 500 characters and 795 Japanese songs. The novel takes Genji's life experience and love story as the main line, describes the style of Japan's Heian period, reveals the complexity of human nature and cruel court struggles, and reflects the palace life of the Heian period.

The Sherlock Holmes series was introduced to China as early as 1896. In 1916, Zhonghua Book Company took the lead in launching "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" - the first Chinese version of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes. In 2012, Zhonghua Book Company created a new version of "New Illustrations and New Translations" (seven volumes), with accurate translations and reliable annotations! In 2022, Zhonghua Book Company will launch the "Illustrated Collection Edition" based on the 2012 edition, which will be fully upgraded - all translations will be revised and nearly 300 additional annotations will be added.

Memory and forgiveness, revenge and peace: what choices should individuals and nations make? In England in the sixth century AD, the war between the native Britons and the Saxon invaders seemed to have come to an end - peace had come to this land, and the two groups lived side by side and lived together peacefully for decades. But at the same time, a strange "fog of forgetfulness" fills the valleys of England, swallowing up the memories of the villagers and making their lives seem like a meaningless daydream. An elderly British couple wanted to find their son who was still vaguely in their minds before their memory was completely lost, so they hurriedly embarked on an arduous journey. They are eager to let the fog dissipate, eager to regain the loving memories of their lifelong companionship - but this quiet fog conceals a dark and bloody past, that is, a giant who was buried decades ago by King Arthur of the British people in a way that goes against their ideals. A mysterious Saxon warrior comes to this seemingly peaceful valley with a mission. What secret motives are hidden behind his humble appearance? Will his mission bring to this country an olive branch of forgiveness or a sword and fire of revenge? Gawain, King Arthur's last knight, is determined to protect the king's legacy with his life, because protecting it means protecting the final peace. Memory and forgiveness, revenge and peace, the fate of the four people are inevitably intertwined, and there is only one ending. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

"The sun always has a way of shining on us, no matter where we are." Clara is a solar-powered artificial intelligence robot (AF) specially designed to accompany children. It has extremely high abilities of observation, reasoning and empathy. She sat in the store display window, watching the passers-by on the street and the children who came to browse the windows. She always expects that someone will soon choose her, but when the possibility of permanently changing her situation arises, Clara is reminded not to put too much faith in human promises. In Clara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro observes the ever-changing modern society through the perspective of an unforgettable narrator and explores a fundamental question: What exactly is love? This is the first work published by the British-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. It is also the first novel he published five years ago. The story takes place in a future where science and technology are highly developed, and the subject matter involves one of the hottest social topics at the moment: the development and ethics of artificial intelligence technology. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece and collection of classic short stories incorporate his own musical life into the Ukiyo-e, and explore how people who start with talent but are trapped by fate can save themselves. Timeless old songs, depressed musicians, singers who have lost their glory, solitary piano music... Kazuo Ishiguro, who determined to be a rock singer at the age of 20, in this collection of classic short stories, created a set of ukiyo-e of musical life through clever copying of reality and self-integration. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Ukiyo-e of the life of the disillusioned generation after the war. Includes the author's preface written for the 30th anniversary of the book's publication. After the war, Japan was in dire straits. Painter Ono's seemingly idle life in his later years has an undercurrent. In order to create a good social relationship for his little daughter to get married, he regained his memories. The past stories of his old friends were connected one by one like an ukiyo-e, and he was depressed and hesitant about where to place the "artist role" on the battlefield where there was no smoke of gunpowder. This book won the "Whitbread Literary Award". It is an early masterpiece by Ishiguro Kazuo, and it is also the most "Japanese" work. In the preface written for the 30th anniversary of the publication of this book, the author analyzes a kind of "fear" in life, that is, he is afraid that despite good intentions, a person may support a cause that has been proved to be wrong or even shameful by the times and history, and waste his most precious time and talent for this. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

The story of "The Song of the Sad Cafe" takes place in a small town in the southern United States in the 1940s, dominated by textile workers. There is a wealthy Miss Amelia in the town. She has slanted eyes, is strong and aggressive, and looks like a man. On her wedding night, she once kicked out of bed Marcy, a handsome man who had been pursuing her for several years, and then walked out. But after she met Xiao Luo Guo Li Meng, she fell in love at first sight. In order to please Li Meng, she opened a cafe at home, giving the residents of the town a cheerful entertainment place. Marcy, who became a criminal, came back on parole to seek revenge on Amelia, but Hunchback Lemon suddenly became obsessed with him. In order to "win back" Li Meng's love, Amelia and Marcy have a wrestling duel in the cafe. Just when Amelia was about to win, Li Meng jumped up to help Marcy knock Amelia to the ground. From then on, Amelia retreated to the small building to live in seclusion, while Li Meng and Marcy destroyed the cafe and fled to a foreign country with no idea of ​​where they ended up. The ruined cafe made the town even more dreary than before. "The Song of the Sad Cafe" tells the story of loneliness, hopeless love, and the weirdness and alienation of human nature. McCullers does not provide cheap comfort, but uses sharp eyes and cold writing to explore the imbalance between loving and being loved, and the fatality of loneliness, leading readers to face the complexity and absurdity of life. It is for this reason that her words can transcend the times and resonate with the lonely and sensitive hearts of generations.

Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize winner and author of "The Grapes of Wrath", once again writes about the tragic and joyful fate of small people under the torrent of the great era, and it is a touching book of the century. This is a modern fable that touches the soul, telling the dreams and losses of farm workers at the bottom of American society. They tried their best to find their place in this world, but in the end they could not resist the torrent of fate. Their dreams are nothing but a fragile joke in the face of reality. Steinbeck, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, uses fourteen stories to show the sorrows, joys and plight of small people under the torrent of the great era. "Of Mice and Men", a touching story of two outsiders trying to find a place in a cruel world, "Murder", a chilling short story masterpiece that won the O. Henry Award, "Chrysanthemum", which may be the writer's most ambitious female story, and "Little Red Horse", a well-known American coming-of-age novel... Under Steinbeck's refined and sensitive writing, these stories present a moving appeal, which makes us not only moved by the tenacious vitality of the characters, but also deeply attracted by the hidden cruelty and sadness.

This set of books includes ten classic works by the German-American novelist Remarque. Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), a German-American novelist, was born in a working-class family in Germany. He participated in World War I at the age of 18. After the war, he worked in various jobs such as teacher, reporter, and editor. In 1929, "All Quiet on the Western Front" was published, making him a world-famous writer. After the Nazis came to power, Remarque was forced to live in exile in the United States because of his anti-war stance. He did not return to Europe until 1948 and settled in Switzerland. Most of Remarque's works are autobiographical, with concise words and an objective and cold temperament in his lyrical writing. He has been compared to the German Hemingway. He wrote a total of fifteen novels, three screenplays and two collections in his lifetime, among which many works such as "All Quiet on the Western Front", "Arch de Triomphe", "March of Companions" and "The Age of Love and Death" were adapted into movies.

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Lin Baba's life is difficult to describe in one word. He was an idealist, a philosopher, a poet, then a drug addict, a robber and a wanted criminal. Destiny threw him to the other side of the world - Mumbai, India. There he became the first white man to integrate into the slums of Mumbai. He learned how to bathe with clothes on in rural India; he lived in a slum and became a beloved doctor; he joined a gang, engaged in smuggling and arms trading, and rushed into the hail of bullets again and again; he fell in love with a woman with green eyes, and fell into a deeper secret... He witnessed many deaths, but also found real life. His story is much crueler, braver, and passionate than others.

Selected into "50 Spiritual Classics", Zipei's translation of the classic has been circulated for 35 years; in 1944, in the smoke of World War II, "Blade" appeared in front of readers who had been tortured by the war. In fact, this book was written before World War II when the author was traveling in the United States. The story told takes place around the First World War. When a friend of his friend suddenly died in the war, American young man Riley began to ask deep questions in his heart: If there is good in the world, why does evil also coexist? After the war, Larry felt the enthusiasm of the United States to build a "magnificent and prosperous era" in his hometown, but it was difficult to stay out of it. He stubbornly wanted to pursue the question in his heart that he couldn't let go of. He discovered it in books and sorted it out in meditation. To this end, he devoted almost all his energy and enthusiasm, and even broke off his engagement with his lover Isabel. After that, he fled to France, and then began to travel around the world.

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.

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A collection of representative short stories and short stories by Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow. "How Was Your Day" collects three short stories and short stories by Saul Bellow, namely "Cousins", "Zetland: Personality Witness" and "How Was Your Day". Saul Bellow's short stories have a broad vision and turn thunderous insights into eloquent and powerful words. They not only pioneered the theme of describing self-awareness and alienated society, reflecting the contradiction between self and reality, but also created a unique "Bellow style" in narrative art, that is, a style that combines dramatic self-deprecation with serious thinking.

Harry Harrell is a lonely, lonely middle-aged man. By chance, he read a short book "On the Steppenwolf", and he realized that he was a Steppenwolf with both human and wolf nature. In order to get rid of the pain and loneliness, he got drunk in the pub and met Hermina, Pablo and Maria one after another. He was so immersed in sensory play that he seemed to forget all his worries. When Harry is on the verge of collapse, he comes to the Magic Theater. In this place where dreams and reality intersect, he sees various split personalities and repressed selves. Through this experience, he realized that he should not deliberately oppose human nature and wolf nature, but should regard them as a whole. Eventually, Harry escapes despair and returns to real life.

"Submarine" is a novel by Japanese writer Kotaro Isaka. It tells a story about youth and hope. Although it is a little cruel, it still makes people feel extremely warm. Isaka Kotaro said: "I want to write stories that cannot be truly solved. For example, a car accident, the perpetrator who suddenly takes away an innocent life is hateful, but maybe through media reports, we will learn about the various difficulties involved and gradually feel confused. "Submarine" is the subject I gave myself." Synopsis of the story of "Submarine": My job is to contact minors who have violated the law and judge whether to impose criminal sanctions. This time, I encountered a tricky thing. A young man named Yuma Tanaoka drove without a license and killed a pedestrian. A few days later, a young man came to the door. It was he who was distracted while driving, rushed onto the sidewalk, and took the life of Bangaoka's friend. On the day when Bangaoka caused the car accident, this young man had appeared at the scene of the accident. It's like we are playing mahjong with an invisible opponent all the time. At first, everyone gets thirteen cards, and even if they have a bad hand, they have to work hard to find a way to tie the cards. People with good luck will always draw good cards, while people with bad luck can only win a small amount of money even if they draw by themselves. Even if they complain that they are not lucky and can no longer play cards, they still have to continue playing.

"Island" tells an epic and moving story about family, romance, war, illness and history that took place in Greece - over the years, Alexis discovered that her mother had always been too guarded about her past, not only burying her roots, but also trampling the soil above them. Alexis decided to open up her mother's dusty past. She came to a small town on the Aegean Sea and landed on a desolate island called Spinalonga. This was once an isolated island where lepers were imprisoned. It was a place that made the town, the Aegean Sea, and even the whole of Europe talk about it. It was also a forbidden place for mothers. The forbidden land is opened, and this seemingly abandoned island reveals unexpected bright vitality, and an astonishing secret that has been dormant for half a century is about to emerge... This is the story of Alexis' great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters. This family is torn apart by tragedy, war and passion. This story is about dreams and desires, but also about a secret that is trying to be hidden, and the indelible impact of leprosy on a family for generations. It tells how those brave people looked for hope in despair, and finally discovered that: we are ups and downs in the world, constantly struggling, just to live a calm life.

"Loneliness swells rapidly, like a fat pig." Mizoguchi, a young man, was born with a stutter, was withdrawn since childhood, and loved the Golden Temple. After his father's death, he followed his last wish and became a monk at the Kinkakuji Temple. During the war, he imagined that the Golden Temple would be destroyed by air raids, but the war never affected Kyoto. At school, he befriended Kashiwagi, who was lustful and had a disabled foot. After successive encounters with the death of his friend Tsurukawa and the indecency of the abbot, he finally burned the Golden Pavilion to the ground on a rainy night. Perhaps, there is a golden pavilion in everyone's heart. It contains desperately desired dreams and obsessions. These dreams and obsessions are also a kind of beauty. Because I yearn for beauty, I want to destroy it.

These are some of Liu Dianxue's works during his time in Xinjiang, selected from a collection published in various publications around 1995. There are many wonderful and award-winning works among them. They read with a sense of familiarity and authenticity. He has the ability to dig out these themes.

"Holy Lily" is hailed as the most important masterpiece in the late period of Updike's creative career. Through the description of four generations of the Wilmot family, the work provides a 360-degree panoramic record, report and analysis of the religious, spiritual and moral outlook of the United States for an entire century. In particular, it vividly shows the rise and fall of religion and film, the two pillars of American spirituality. It can be called a history of the decline of American spirituality and morality in the twentieth century.

The western side of the kingdom of Ravka is cut off by a terrifying dark curtain of terrifying monsters lurking. Hundreds of years ago, the Dark Lord created the Black Curtain, but could not effectively control it. It swallowed up the land and isolated the outside world. Someone would always die if they forced their way through the Black Curtain. Even the Grisha warriors with superpowers had no way to break it. An orphan named Alina was accidentally discovered to have the power to summon light. Summoning sunlight is the key ability to break through the shady secrets. The powerful dark master deceived her and allowed her to become a Grisha warrior and join the privileged class. However, she had to leave her childhood sweetheart Maar and enter the palace. What secrets does the mysterious dark master hide? How should Alina face her quietly changing emotions and desires?

From "Songs of the Four Seasons: A Selected Collection of the Bucket Rider", The Bucket Rider is known as China's Kafka. He makes Chinese fantasy become real literature. He also integrates the simplicity, ethereal, beauty and weirdness of Chinese characters, where the poetry, absurdity and imagination of the East reach their peak.

The novel describes the protagonist's life of struggle, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. It is a novel that reflects a series of contradictions and conflicts in real society through the life experience of the protagonist, and promotes humanitarianism and heroism.

In order to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of "Baihuazhou", the four-volume "30 Years of Literary Collection" is grandly launched. It is created by many famous writers. Thirty years of precipitation and thirty years of essence highlight the evolution trajectory of "Baihuazhou" and also reflect the changes in social life and culture in the past thirty years. These familiar and intimate words have established a lasting connection between the present and history. For today's literary reading and writing, they are undoubtedly an irreplaceable reference for the soul.

With the birth of a disabled baby, "Bird", as a father, falls into a moral dilemma. He dreamed of going on an adventure trip to Africa, but he was afraid that he would be tied to the baby, but he didn't dare to end his life with his own hands, so he chose to escape. Bird abandoned the newborn in the hospital, hoping that he would weaken and die, while he went into the tender home of his old lover Himiko, numbing himself with sex and wine. How should a bird trapped in self-purgatory find a way out of life?

The birth of the fifth child, Ben, shattered the dream of happiness for a middle-class British family. The premature and ugly Ben was born with brute force, extremely aggressive, and even bloodthirsty. The unbearable father sent Ban to the so-called "sanatorium", where he was imprisoned and treated inhumanely. The mother, who blamed herself and was uneasy, took "poor class" home again, causing the family to become turbulent again after a brief period of peace. Through how a normal family treats unusual children, Lessing explains the nature of evil and cruelly reveals the complex aspects of human nature.

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), a representative of modern Japanese literary writers, erected a monument to critical realist literature and was known as the "national writer". "I Am Cat" is his famous work and one of his masterpieces. As a cat, the protagonist looked down at the Japanese society at that time and the so-called modern civilization in the twentieth century, while making all kinds of ridicule and satire. Through the life of the protagonist Kusama, the work uses humorous language, delicate writing style and sharp writing to describe a group of literati and snobs who are accustomed to talking about the past and the present. It vividly exposes and ridicules the capitalists and rulers, criticizes the society where money is everything and the social habits of blind worship of Western lifestyle, and creates the image of a group of self-proclaimed and cynical intellectuals.

This book is an autobiographical novel written by Wu Jianren, a writer in the late Qing Dynasty. It is one of the four major condemnation novels in the late Qing Dynasty. The book takes the protagonist's "narrow escape" experience as the main clue, starting from his funeral for his father and ending with his failure in business. Through his "narrow escape" for twenty years, he describes the political situation, moral outlook, social customs and world affairs of China's increasingly colonized feudal society, and reveals the irreparable historical destiny of the late Qing Dynasty society and the feudal system. The whole book uses the first person to narrate the story, which is the first in the history of Chinese novels. The structure uses flashbacks, interludes and other methods, which provides a model for the creation of Chinese novels.

Ken Follett, the master of all-night novels and author of "Fall of Giants", is a landmark masterpiece, the third part of the medieval trilogy, and the finale of "Temple Spring and Autumn". Sweeping the best-selling rankings in 23 countries, it landed in China for the first time! Do what you love until the world changes for you. In 1558, young and ambitious Ned returned home to Kingsbridge. He did not know at that time that this year would be a turning point not only in his life, but also in the history of Europe as a whole. Religious hatred tears people's lives apart; Ned's friendships and love are also tested. After the young Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, she established a secret spy agency. A new challenge is about to begin...