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"Three hundred poems, poems are innocent." The Book of Songs, a Chinese classic, has been recited for thousands of years and has been subject to numerous studies and interpretations. "Shi Wuxie: \u003C The Book of Songs\u003E Appreciation, Analysis and Textual Research" is the lecture notes of Mr. Fu Sinian's lecture on "The Book of Songs" when he was a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in the 1920s. With his profound historical knowledge, the author proposes many new research methods, concepts and viewpoints on the Book of Songs. It is a classic work that systematically and comprehensively studies the Book of Songs.

This collection of works by Elias Canetti includes the following two works: "Crowds and Power" explores the dynamic relationship between the masses and groups, and how and why the masses obey the power of their rulers. Human history in the 20th century was filled with devastating disasters such as collective persecution, group fanaticism, and world wars, which prompted Canetti to think about the relationship between the masses and power. "The Territory of Man" is a collection of four notebooks by Elias Canetti, the winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, including "The Territory of Man", "The Secret Heart of the Clock", "The Pain of the Fly" and "Hampstead Supplement". The creation time spans from 1942 to 1985. It is an important supplement to Canetti's novels, political commentaries, memoirs and dramas. It is the crystallization of an independent reflection process that lasted for half a century. It can be called the ideological map of this literary master, showing the origin, formation and transformation of his thoughts, and testifying to the history of the 20th century.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, this book collects all representative works of the "saint" and "martyr" Pasternak of Russian literature, covering poetry, novels, letters, and essays; a spiritual epic that influenced Chinese intellectuals, Chen Zhongshi, Yan Lianke, Chi Zijian, Ye Zhaoyan, Liu Xiaofeng, and Deng Xiaomang all spent sleepless nights and forget to eat for it; the only Su who can compete with Akhmatova Russian poet, the master of the Silver Age; a great writer whose works are inspired by Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago"; he was banned for 30 years, and Maugham, Russell, Eliot, Camus, Huxley, and Graham Greene all fought against him; by reading him, you can understand the suffering and secrets, freedom and anger, lyricism and pain of the 20th century. "Collection of Pasternak's Works (set of 4 volumes in total)" contains four representative works of Pasternak, the 1958 Nobel Prize winner for literature and the "saint" and "martyr" of Russian literature, covering novels, poems, letters, and essays in various genres: "Doctor Zhivago", " "Line of Apelles" (including the short stories "Line of Apelles" and "Air Passage", the novella "The Boyhood of Ljuwels", and the autobiographical essays "Safety Protection Certificate" and "People and Things", a total of five works), "The Breath of Lyric Poetry" and "The Complete Poems of Pasternak".

In this book, there are all the things you like above, and there is absolutely no unnecessary moaning text. A book with a small size and comfortable hand feel, suitable for you to open it anywhere. The moving subway, the fragrant cafes, the sofas where you can relax, the slightly heated benches in the park... Reading it is a wonderful thing. Everything is fresh, cheerful and lovely. Breathe smoothly and freely. The sun is pouring on the earth, and the soul is absorbing heat at this moment. Everything is awakened, yet everything is silent.

Among Ba Jin's many novels, "The Torrent Trilogy", which consists of three novels: "Home", "Spring" and "Autumn", is the most accomplished and influential work. "The Torrent Trilogy" is set in the Chengdu area of ​​Sichuan in the early 1920s after the May 4th Movement. It describes the history of the collapse of a large feudal family (the Gao family) in the new revolutionary period. The work unfolds the entire family life of a feudal bureaucrat and ruthlessly exposes the decadence of the feudal landlord class and the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudal ethics. "Selected Works of Ba Jin (Volume 3)" is "Autumn" in "The Torrent Trilogy".

This set includes Camus's work: L'Envers et L'Endroit (1937). Noces, 1938. L'? Tranger, 1942. The Myth of Sisyphe (Le Mythe de Sisyphe), 1942. L'? Té, 1954. La Chute, 1956. L'Exil et le Royaume (Exile and the Kingdom), 1956. Selected Collection of "Camus' Notes" (Carnets), 1935-1959. Guo Hongan's work: "The Interweaving of Sunlight and Shadow: Guo Hongan Reading Camus".

"Sand Country Almanack" is the crystallization of Leopold's lifelong observations, experiences and thinking, the founder of the new environmental theory in the United States and the father of ecological ethics. It is a book describing the relationship between land and people, and is known as the pioneering work of land ethics.

In the tavern deep in the alley, the best "drinking dish" is none other than the venomous tongue of Takeshi Kitano! Sometimes it is a hilarious and clever talk, sometimes it is a jaw-dropping frankness, sometimes it is a serious argument that makes people sigh... Japanese director Takeshi Kitano sharply self-analyzes the first half of his life, "The car accident was the turning point of my life. From then on, I lost interest in living", "In order to succeed like me, thousands of people fell." The rare genius Kitano Takeshi uncovers various diseases of modern society from five aspects: life and death, education, interpersonal relationships, rules, and movies, and awakens the public to think in reverse.

The ultimate goal of love is the mutual consent and union of body and mind. The essence of love is nothing more than the process of realizing the desire of a man and a woman to attract and pursue each other. However, in this process, one cannot just rely on bravery and enthusiasm to charge forward as one wishes, but there are indeed some rules that no one can avoid.

If there was a profession called a reader in the world, no one would be more suitable than Maugham. It seems natural that writers love reading, but like Somerset Maugham, he followed the chart, from the writer's works to the writer's life and character, and then turned around from their life and character to care about the writer's work, and wrote a wonderful collection of essays based on this, which is also a rare thing in the history of literature. This is a book of gossip by a master, and also a book of Maugham's insights into reading and philosophy. The spicy secrets and interesting humanity of the literary giant, Jane Austen's kind "meanness", Stendhal's inner inferiority, Flaubert's first love on the beach in childhood, Leo Tolstoy's confusion and confession in his life, Dostoyevsky's betrayal...

"Awakening the World" is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty. This book collects 40 stories in different styles since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Some of these stories come from historical biographies, some come from notes and novels of past dynasties, and the most fundamental sources are directly from folklore stories and from the actual life of society. Through these storylines and characters, the social life and people's wishes at that time are reflected from different angles and to varying degrees. It is rich in content, some reflecting love and marriage; some praising feudal officials and exposing the darkness of officialdom; some praising chivalry and denouncing ingratitude. The plot of the story is bizarre and twists, the characters have distinctive personalities and are full of interest.

"Johan Christophe" is a Nobel Prize-winning work and a representative biography of Romain Rolland. "Johann Christophe" is based on Beethoven and describes the life of the musical genius John Christophe, who struggled with himself, art, and society, from the awakening of his musical talent in his boyhood, to his contempt and resistance to social and artistic dignitaries in his youth, to his pursuit of career, friendship and love as an adult, to his almost being destroyed by the great difficulties of life, but finally reaching a clear and lofty state. Although John-Christophe had an irreconcilable contradictory character, he had great enthusiasm for life and art. Even if he was misunderstood, he still maintained a sincere heart and fought tenaciously and bravely.

"The Odyssey" is an ancient Greek-Chinese version, the latest in the "Rizhi Classical Series". The Greek text of this book adopts the version of "The Odyssey" in Loeb's Classical Series, which is the authoritative revised version that has been in use for nearly a hundred years. The immortal heroic epic "The Odyssey" created by the ancient Greek poet Homer, together with the "Iliad", is called the "Homeric Epic" and is recognized as the ancestor of Western literature and the source of Western culture.

The long epic "Divine Comedy" is divided into "Inferno", "Purgatory" and "Heaven". The story adopts the form of medieval fantasy literature. The protagonist is the poet Dante himself, telling him that "in the middle of my life, I found that I had lost the right path and entered a dark forest." After wandering for a night, he walked out of the forest, but was blocked by three wild beasts - a leopard, a lion, and a wolf. In a critical moment, the ancient Roman poet Virgil appeared to rescue him and guide him to travel. This book is considered the most important landmark work of the Renaissance movement.

"The Divine Comedy" is a long classical poem written by the famous Italian poet Dante for more than ten years. It is divided into three parts: "Inferno", "Purgatory" and "Paradise". The whole poem begins with the traveler Dante getting lost in the dark forest. It tells the story of Dante, who, under the guidance of Virgil, passes through the center of the earth, walks out of hell, climbs to the top of Mount Purgatory, flies through the heavens layer by layer with Beatrice, and finally sees the Trinity. It is a journey to a wonderland that combines magic, novelty, terror, thrills, and wisdom. The translation of "The Divine Comedy" introduced by Utopia this time is the first complete Chinese translation of the three-rhyme "Divine Comedy" translated into Italian by the well-known Hong Kong translator Huang Guobin for more than 20 years. While conveying the style of Dante's original poem to the greatest extent possible, it also uses encyclopedia-like detailed annotations to help readers clarify the religious changes, mythological allusions and even historical context in the Middle Ages. To appreciate the profound meaning of the Divine Comedy, this volume is enough.

"The Divine Comedy" is a long epic poem. Each part of the trilogy has thirty-three cantos, plus the first canto as the overture to the whole book, for a total of one hundred cantos. This symmetrical structure is based on medieval concepts of the mysterious meaning and symbolism of numbers. "The Divine Comedy" extensively reflects reality, gives an artistic summary of medieval culture, and at the same time shows the dawn of humanistic thought in the Renaissance era. Therefore, Engels called him "the last poet of the Middle Ages and the first poet of the new era."

Homer's epic is the collective name of "Iliad" and "Odyssey". It is the earliest epic in ancient Greek literature and a model of European narrative poetry. It has greatly influenced the creative style of Western literature starting from ancient Greece, breaking the tradition of epics being limited to historical records, and beginning to pay attention to the hearts of characters. It is the originator of poetic novels. "The Iliad" tells the story of the Greek coalition's siege of Troy. It centers on the quarrel between the Greek coalition commander Agamemnon and the general Achilles, and focuses on what happened fifty days before the end of the war. "The Odyssey" tells the story of Odysseus, who wandered for ten years on his way back home after conquering Troy, and finally returned home after going through hardships.

Who is holding an oil-paper umbrella, walking through the sentimental rainy season, looking for the old dream of prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River; who is sipping a cup of tea, leaning on the railing and quietly looking into the distance, waiting for the lonely lotus to bloom; who is taking a small boat, in the frosty sky with a bright moon like water, to salvage the passing years; and who is breaking a cold plum and writing elegant and romantic poems? The book contains 39 fresh and beautiful essays. Bai Luomei, a powerful author of Jiangnan Wanyue School, interprets Tang poetry from a new perspective. It is divided into six series, each with different themes, bringing readers different spiritual enjoyment. In a feast of culture and history, cleanse the soul, pour passion, refine the mind, and transcend aesthetics. In the perfect blend of novel Tang poetry and prose, readers can taste the charm of words, realize the truth of life, and explore the eternity of nature.

In the West, Chekhov is often called the Shakespeare of the twentieth century. He changed the long-standing drama system and presented a simple and natural rhythm of life in "prose style", but also unearthed the deepest sadness, expectation and eternal longing in the seemingly trivial daily life. The year 2024 coincides with the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death. This series is a master-guided collector's edition of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas", which fully includes Chekhov's dramatic works, including the multi-act plays "Uncle Vanya", "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters" "The Seagull", "Ivanov", "The Fatherless", "The Forest Monster" and the one-act drama "Swan Song", select classic translations by masters such as Li Jianwu, Jiao Juyin, Tong Daoming and others, and include audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. At the same time, scholars spanning the fields of performing arts, literature, and translation are specially invited, including Dong Xiao, dean of the School of Literature at Nanjing University, Peng Tao, professor of the drama department of the Central Academy of Drama, Wu Xiaojun, professor of the Shanghai Theater Academy, Yang Shen, a scholar of neo-fantasy realism drama research and theater director, Zou Zhuofan, a teacher of the musical theater department of the Beijing Dance Academy, Wang Xiaoying, a well-known director, Xu Le, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, etc., To interpret the work in depth and trace their encounter and fate with Chekhov's stage.

Molière's comic art is presented in its original form. The drama master Molière and the super translator Li Jianwu are a perfect combination and complement each other. It compiles precious materials such as reviews of famous writers of the same era and chronological records of writers. Molière is one of the most important figures in the history of European literature and drama. He adhered to the classic rules of comedy - comedy educates people while entertaining, and elevated comedy to almost the same status as tragedy. In fact, later Western comedy creations followed Molière more than Shakespeare, because the "comedy" of Molière's period can be regarded as "critical and breakthrough." He promoted the advancement of drama throughout his life and exposed the darkness of society in a comic form. His artistic achievements are highly admired by future generations. "The Complete Comedies of Molière" contains a total of 27 comedies translated by Molière by Li Jianwu, including the masterpieces "The Ridiculous Talent", "The School of Wives", "Dardufo or the Liar", "The Scrooge", "The Cynic", etc. It also includes important reference materials such as the translator's preface, the original preface, the author's chronology, and comments by famous contemporary writers.

Shakespeare's Comedy Collection is a collection of Shakespeare's classic comedies, including the four famous comedies "The Merchant of Venice", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night", "Tit for Tat", "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and other famous works. The translation of this book is based on the translation by Zhu Shenghao, a famous translator of Shakespeare's plays, and has been carefully edited and equipped with exquisite illustrations and collector's stamps. The content is classic.

Shakespeare's Tragedies collects the tragic classics in Shakespeare's plays into one volume. There are three volumes in the book, which collects the four major tragedies of "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juliet" and other famous works. This book is based on the translation of Shakespeare's drama translator Zhu Shenghao, and has been carefully translated and proofread to show the richness and splendor of Shakespeare's plays.

"Su Shu" occupies an extremely important position in ancient Chinese works on self-cultivation and governance, wisdom in life, and life strategy. This book, which has only six chapters, 132 sentences, and 1,360 words in its original text, is similar to a "quotation style" book. It has been regarded by hermit masters and counselors throughout the ages as a strategy secret book that has not been passed down through the ages and a perfect guide for achieving great things. It has been widely circulated and has great influence. According to legend, the author of the book was Huang Shigong, a famous hermit in the late Qin Dynasty. After many tests, Zhang Liang finally passed the book to Zhang Liang. Zhang Liang relied on the strategic principles in this book to assist Liu Bang in achieving hegemony. The book is written in the form of scriptures, with highly concise language and extremely rich connotations. It observes subtle changes in personnel and the development trends of things, and has a profound understanding. It summarizes a complete set of rules and experiences on how to improve one's self-cultivation, conduct oneself in society, manage one's family and govern the country, seek good fortune and avoid evil, and achieve great achievements.

The first of the three major essays in the world, the most undisputed Western canon in the aristocratic era, and the source of influence on the writing of Shakespeare, Bacon, Pascal, Flaubert, Emerson, and Maugham. In the social tide of madness and bestiality, how to maintain rationality and avoid becoming a mob? Any reader will find quotes and aphorisms that will last a lifetime. "Collected Essays of Montaigne" is the most precious spiritual wealth left to the world by Montaigne, the most important humanist writer after the Renaissance. It is also a prose work that he began to write in 1572 and is called "a collection of various knowledge in the sixteenth century". Among sixteenth-century writers, few are as revered and accepted by modern people as Montaigne. He was an intellectual authority and critic in France before the Enlightenment. He was also an encyclopedic scholar who conducted dispassionate studies of various national cultures, especially Western culture. He could be called a cold observer of human emotions. Judging from his thoughts and feelings, people seem to regard him as a modern man in his time. His prose, mainly philosophical essays, is world-famous for its rich ideological connotation and is known as the "treasure house of ideas." "The Complete Essays of Montaigne" independently translated by Mr. Ma Zhencheng won the first Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Award. This edition of "The Essays of Montaigne" was specially selected by the translator for our agency. It can be said that the best of the three volumes of "The Complete Works" are contained in it. It can truly be called a comprehensive and accurate selection of Montaigne's essays and the translation is excellent and elegant.

"I have never said that I have the ability to make up stories out of thin air; I often need an event or a character to start writing, but I always use my imagination, creativity and sense of drama to make the material my own." Maugham said. Since the age of eighteen in 1892, Maugham has developed the habit of recording various creative materials at any time, a habit he has continued for more than fifty years. In 1949, Maugham, who was already seventy-five years old, carefully selected from the fifteen volumes of notes, memoranda and travel notes he had saved, and published this "Writer's Notes" with concise notes. This is undoubtedly one of Maugham's most important and authentic works. It is tantamount to making his "warehouse of writing materials", the ultimate secret of his creation, public to the public after officially giving up the creation of fictional literature. Although he later published two collections of essays and reviews, "What Happens" and "Viewpoints," "A Writer's Notes" can be seen as the starting point and end point of Maugham's literary creation, and it was his farewell to his long literary career.

Virginia Woolf's diaries written over twenty-four years, including more than five hundred private murmurs of nights and days. "Perhaps I will not become 'famous' or 'great,' but I will continue to take risks, continue to change, broaden my horizons, refuse to be trampled on by others, and refuse to stick to the rules. The important thing is to release myself and find my own space without restriction." This book is a diary selection compiled by Virginia Woolf's husband, Leonard Woolf, and collects the precious diaries belonging to Woolf during the twenty-four years from 1918 to 1941. We can see how she walked through the thorns. As a female writer, her creations were almost as much denigrated as praised. On one side, she said, "I can write whatever I want," and on the other side, "I searched hard to find my own name in articles and reviews."

"The Rebel" is one of the masterpieces of Camus, the French literary master of absurd existential philosophy. In this well-referenced essay, Camus adopts a frank and honest attitude and re-examines the spirit of resistance that has emerged in the long history of mankind: the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution at the historical level; the thinkers include the Marquis de Sade, Saint-Just, Nietzsche, and Marx; and the ideological trends from nihilism to surrealism, from anarchism to liberalism. Camus' critical spirit revealed in "The Resistance" ultimately established the book's classic status.

An insurmountable peak in the history of Japanese literature! Together with "The Tale of Genji", it is called the double wall of Japanese classical literature, and together with "The Hojo Chronicles" and "Turancao", it is called Japan's three major essays. A work that influenced Japanese aesthetics! Authoritative translation by literary master Zhou Zuoren, not a word has been deleted! Reproduce the exquisite illustrations of the 14th century "Pillow Scroll". "Pillow" was written around 1001. The book has a total of 305 paragraphs, covering geographical features, vegetation, flowers and birds, inner emotions, life interests, etc., All reflecting the author Qing Shao Nayan's delicate observation and aesthetic taste. She also recorded her life in the palace, from which readers can learn about the living conditions and tastes of people in Japan's Heian period. In the history of human literature, "Pillow" depicts the beauty of subtle details in daily life. Known as "the pioneer work of Japanese essay literature", it has shaped the unique concept of Japanese aesthetics.

A complete translation of the classic by the literary master Zhou Zuoren, translated from the rare original version of "Pillows of Spring". "Pillows" is a supreme masterpiece of Japanese healing and a literary milestone classic that has been best-selling for thousands of years. The legendary female writer Qing Shao Nayan uses pure, delicate, exquisite and concise unique writing style to perfectly present the fleeting beauty in daily life, natural scenery and palace anecdotes. Ordinary things in the world bloom at the tip of her pen, and her untainted genius heart is reflected in every page of the book. Reading it is warm and healing, and you can't bear to put it down. It has won the reputation of "reading from the page where the wind blows".

This book selects dozens of representative articles from Schopenhauer's many works, covering life, philosophy, aesthetics, morality and many other aspects, and basically reflects the main thoughts and theories of Schopenhauer's philosophy of life. The essay has a clear theme, clear discussion, and clear organization. It deeply and comprehensively reflects the author's ideological system and fully demonstrates Schopenhauer's spiritual charm as a great philosopher. It is enough for readers to have a glimpse of the ideological world of this "out-and-out genius" and appreciate his style.

"A Tale of Two Cities" is a long historical novel set against the background of the French Revolution in the 18th century. "Two Cities" refers to London and Paris. The story revolves around Dr. Manette's family and the Saint-Antoine district headed by the Defarges. The upright and kind-hearted Dr. Manette was secretly imprisoned in the Bastille for exposing the evil deeds of the nobles. Eighteen years later, his orphan daughter Lucy rushed from London to Paris and was finally reunited with her father. On the way back to London with her father, Lucy met the aristocratic young man Darnay and fell in love with him. As the son of Dr. Manette's enemy, Darnay was forgiven and recognized by the doctor and married Lucy, but he was about to be guillotined by Madame Defarge, who had a sworn hatred against his family... "A Tale of Two Cities" is not only a touching and lamentable love novel, but also a well-conceived suspense novel, and a magnificent social novel and historical novel.

"The Book of Disquiet", also translated as "The Record of Panic", is a collection of late essays by the famous Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, and it is also an unfinished work. Many of the chapters in it are not like completed chapters, and there are even gaps waiting to be filled, but when added together, they can completely depict a person's soul. This is the first time that the complete Chinese translation of "The Book of Disquiet" has been released. For readers who like Pessoa, this book "The Book of Disquiet" is his long-lost classic in the Chinese market, and will open another door for us to glimpse Pessoa's vast philosophical universe.

Wherever there are humans, there must be myths. What is myth, how did it evolve, and why is myth still needed in modern society? The famous British writer Karen Armstrong uses beautiful and insightful words to succinctly narrate the mythical history from the Paleolithic Age to the Great Turning Period of the modern West.

"Shooting the Elephant" is based on Orwell's experience as a policeman in the colony. Through the decision of being forced to shoot an elephant, it reveals the individual plight under the alienation of power. The cold writing hides a profound reflection on human nature and the colonial system.

"A Summer's Walk Over the Mountains" is a classic collection of essays that records Muir's expedition trip to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the summer of 1869. At that time, Muir was invited by a friend to go to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Yosemite Valley to herd sheep and investigate. This book was originally published in 1911. In the book, Muir recorded in diary form what he saw and heard in the mountains, including the magnificent natural landscapes, rich species of flora and fauna, and the deep connection with nature. Muir believed that nature was not only a resource, but also the sustenance of the human spirit. His writing integrated scientific observation and poetic expression, creating a new tradition of nature literature. In the book, Muir not only described the beauty of nature, but also expressed his thoughts on the relationship between humans and nature. He criticized mankind's destruction of nature and called on people to respect and protect nature. This book is not only a classic of nature literature, but also an important document of the modern environmental movement.

This book is the most autobiographical collection of essays and is Gissing's masterpiece of prose. It describes the life of the hermit Rycroft who is obsessed with books, natural scenery and reminiscing about the past. In fact, it was Gissing who expressed his feelings and analyzed his inner world through Rycroft's autobiography. Gissing was poor all his life, but he loved literature. His hobby and pursuit of literary masterpieces and his yearning for a quiet life in nature are fully reflected in the book. This book is divided into four parts: spring, summer, autumn and winter. It is beautifully written and fluently written. It is one of the treasures of short essays in British literature.

"I hope to go to Paris for a year and then to London for a year. I want to see the world." "Annie's Diary" writes down hopes and dreams in the darkness of imprisonment, letting words become the shape of freedom.

"Sand Country Almanack" is a collection of essays by Aldo Leopold, the "father of ecological ethics". Among them, "The Return of the Wild Geese" and "Thinking Like a Mountain" were selected into middle school Chinese textbooks. The book is divided into four series. The first series is divided into 12 chapters according to the 12 months of the year, collectively called "Sand Country Almanac". The second series is called "Sketches from Four Directions" and takes Wisconsin and other places as the writing object. The third series is "Rural Reveries", and the fourth series is the conclusion. This book is the crystallization of the author's lifelong observation, experience and thinking. The book not only expresses the recollection of the harmonious life on the farm in Wisconsin's sandy countryside, but also records the lessons and pain experienced in pursuing a scientific ecological view. It also discusses the relationship between man and nature, man and land, and attempts to reawaken people's love and respect for nature. Translator Cao Minglun's translation highlights the charm of nature and beauty.

This book is the latest collection of essays by Chizuruko Ueno, a pioneer of Japanese feminism, and includes more than forty excellent works written by the author in recent years. This much-anticipated collection of essays uses a calm and melodious "mature tone" to weave every note that echoes in the writer's heart. From the family memories of childhood, the confused time of student days, to the process of academic research; from food preferences, hobbies of mountain climbing and watching dramas, to worries about aging, expectations for the next generation, and even the memory of the deceased and the pain of loss - Chizuru Ueno turns every detail of her life into notes of words and plays them gently. While discussing feminism, care issues, and reflecting on social events such as the epidemic, she also poured the notes flowing from her heart into the lines. These words are not only a sorting out of personal memories by Chizuru Ueno, but also a vivid reflection of the social and cultural changes in Japan. Through this work, we get a glimpse of this thinker's rich spiritual world and her ongoing concern for contemporary society.

The Chinese classic myths selected in "China's Wonderful Old Myths" compiled by Gong Shuguang and Zhang Xin are the same as the system of world mythology and Chinese mythology in terms of story type. They not only correspond to the academic requirements of mythology, but also correspond to the types of ancient Greece, ancient Rome and Nordic mythology. In other words, the four series of classifications in this book are scientific from an academic perspective and rigorous from a comparative perspective between East and West. "China's Wonderful Old Myths" edited by Gong Shuguang and Zhang Xin is a thorough reorganization of Chinese myths based on previous compilations. The editors have completely returned the fragmented, dotted and scattered Chinese myths to a system with basic context and basic plots, in order to present them to Chinese readers more completely. In particular, it provides Chinese teenagers with a set of detailed and reliable fairy tale readers that truly embody Chinese characteristics.

"The Earl's Family Letters" is a collection of 320 letters written by the Earl of Chesterfield, a British politician, diplomat and writer in the 18th century, to his son who was studying in Europe. In these hundreds of letters, the earl talked with his son and gave him guidance on his studies and life, covering life experience, learning methods, ideology and ethics, eating and dressing, dealing with others, and all aspects of European politics, military, economy, diplomacy, history, language, culture, society and customs. It is not only a comprehensive book of life wisdom, but also a true record of Europe in the 18th century, which is worth reading and studying.

"Gravity's Rainbow" is a classic work in postmodernist literature. It has a unique position in the history of 20th century world literature and has caused huge controversy. The plot of this masterpiece is complex, and the dream-like fantasy is full of confusing and intricate cross-relationships, various, weird and messy narratives, specious discussions, and descriptions of physics, rocket engineering, advanced mathematics, psychology, international politics, and abnormal sex. The background of the novel is the Second World War. German V-2 rockets frequently attacked London. The British and American intelligence agencies discovered that the place where an American intelligence officer had sex was often the landing point of the rocket. They studied this phenomenon, which attracted and implicated many people and events.

The book is adapted from a real patricide case, describing the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, as well as the court trial of the patricide case. The whole novel has two levels: on the surface, it is a case of patricide, and the victim's sons are suspected of conspiracy to some extent; but on a deeper level, it is a drama about the human spirit, telling a moral battle between lust, faith, reason and free will. The work shows an intricate tragic theme of society, family, morality and human nature.

This set includes "Sand Country Almanac", "Water Drops in the Forest", "Wadden Lake", "Nature's Calendar" and "Wake Up in the Forest".

The Nobel Prize winner is also a master of letters. Watch the tough guy Hemingway, his chivalrous character and tenderness change through the vicissitudes of life. This is the 120th anniversary commemorative edition of the birth of Hemingway, the most famous writer in China among all Nobel Prize winners in literature over the past century and the most beloved by Chinese readers. There are more than 600 letters, all of which are "dry information" and contain a huge amount of information. The humor and wildness it reveals far exceed his works, and it can be called an unconventional autobiography of a writer. Understand the vivid images behind the books of a generation of literary giants from all aspects and angles, and appreciate the significance of a "person who has not been defeated" in the world. As a celebrity biography book with vivid language and distinctive style, it can also greatly satisfy the gossip heart of reading. "Selected Letters of Hemingway" was translated by Pan Xiaosong, a famous scholar and collector at the American Institute of Social Sciences. The translation style is straightforward and unique, which is very consistent with the distinctive "Hemingway's epistolary style" presented in this book. It is pleasant and interesting to read, making the image of a "letter master" vivid on the page.

The long epic "Divine Comedy" (approximately 1307-1313) is Dante's most important masterpiece and a landmark work in the history of European and world literature. Through the author's dialogues with various famous figures in hell, purgatory and heaven, it provides an artistic summary of the field of medieval culture, and also vaguely reveals the dawn of humanistic thought in the Renaissance era. The previous "Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series" only included "The Divine Comedy: Inferno", and this time the other two will be included in the new series.

You have only one purpose in reading him: "for life." - Flaubert. Traveling through more than four hundred years of life wisdom and philosophy. It is loved by writers such as Voltaire, Flaubert, Byron, Emerson, Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Gide. The translation recommended by translator Xu Yuanchong, "The Complete Essays of Montaigne", has a total of 107 chapters, about one million words, each chapter is of different lengths, and the structure is clear and natural. With his special keen perception, Montaigne recorded his intellectual and spiritual development, leaving extremely precious spiritual wealth for future generations. For more than four hundred years, history has proven that Montaigne is an immortal figure like Bacon, Shakespeare and other great writers. His works are an analysis of various ideological trends and knowledge in the sixteenth century. They are known as the "philosophy of life". They occupy an important position in the history of French prose and are the first of essay-type works.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" mainly describes a story of revenge that took place during the French Bourbon Dynasty. Dantes, the young first mate of the Pharaon ship, was entrusted by the captain to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party before his death. He was framed by two despicable villains and the insidious prosecutor Villefort, and was imprisoned on death row. Depriving him of the beautiful sunshine, love and future that should have belonged to him.

"Mainstream of Literature in the Nineteenth Century" is a masterpiece by Danish literary historian Brandes. It outlines the literary development of several major European countries in the nineteenth century, focusing on analyzing the rise and fall of romanticism in these countries, as well as the historical inevitability of the rise of realism. It is an important reference book for studying the history of European literature. This time, a large number of exquisite illustrations have been added to make the book more readable.