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operation Overlord" Normandy Landing Battle (part 2)

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115K0

Hitler, who was already confused by the war situation, quickly issued the order "the armored troops and infantry heading from Calais to Normandy to stop immediately." In this way, the German 15th Army, equipped with heavy equipment and battle-tested, still stayed in Calais. Hitler's decision saved the Allies at a critical moment. If the 15th Army entered the Normandy battlefield, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Youth Slipping Through Fingertips

Sand

200K0

We tend to hurt those closest to us. Because our ability is limited to hurting those around us. Youth, that's what it is...

Wood is Tea

Wood is Tea

Martial Arts

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2K0

A realistic book. The vegetation is called tea, and its taste is called Tao.

Detailed Explanation of 300 Song Ci Poems with Color Illustrations: Complete Volume

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323K0

Ci is a precious pearl in the treasure house of Chinese literature. For more than a thousand years, it has been hanging high in the sky of history, shining with dazzling brilliance. After this long historical precipitation, it still plays an indispensable role in today's society. In modern society, material life is becoming increasingly prosperous and the pace of life is accelerating. People have gradually turned into a rapidly rotating top. When people feel exhausted, if they can hold up a book of Song poetry and read a few poems gently, their anxious hearts will gradually calm down, just like a long-term drought encountering a gentle spring rain.

Goethe's Spoon

Goethe's Spoon

Literature

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119K0

The articles in Zhang Wei's selected collection of essays "Goethe's Spoon\u002F Zhang Wei's Juvenile Book Series", winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award and the Five-One Project Award, have been selected as the college entrance examination modern literature reading test questions for many times. "Goethe's Spoon" is divided into "Green Remote Thoughts" Six series, including "Standing Silently", "Renhe Fangcao", "Goethe's Spoon", "Dreams under Jixia" and "Let Me Find", include more than 60 representative essays by Zhang Wei from different periods from the perspectives of friendship, love, growth, philosophy and travel. Zhang Wei blends his passion into the earth and ocean and sows many seeds of thought. His prose is very thoughtful and can make you gain a lot of understanding. The articles in "Goethe's Spoon" have been selected as the modern literature reading test questions for the college entrance examination many times. About the author Zhang Wei was born in Longkou City, Shandong Province in November 1956, and is originally from Qixia County. Published poetry in 1975 and novel in 1980. Chairman of Shandong Writers Association and professional writer. He has published more than 10 million words of works, which have been translated into English, Japanese, French, Korean, German, Swedish and other languages. .

I Don't Want to Grow Old in Mediocrity

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99K8.629

Have you ever been in a trance, for a moment, and suddenly asked yourself: How have I been doing for so long? Walking alone on the street, you suddenly stop and don't know where to go. You ask yourself: Is your current choice the right one? Alone in a strange city, on an autumn morning, you open your sleepy eyes and sit up. Suddenly you feel like crying. You ask yourself: Is it worth it to work hard outside alone? Riding in a car alone, traveling alone, getting drunk alone in a bar, attending a wedding banquet alone, you wonder: How long will it take for the right person to show up? Struggling alone, going to and from get out of class alone, fighting alone under the desk lamp, you ask yourself: Will your current efforts really pay off in the future? Year after year, year after year, maybe you are still struggling for your ideal life. But it doesn't matter, you always have to learn to grow up alone and learn to be brave and strong in lonely time.

I Love You, I Have Planned it for a Long Time

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[Cong You Chapter]My name is Cong You. My love affair with Li Hua has been full of misunderstandings from the beginning to the present. When I was twenty years old, I met him in my best years. I stared at his back again and again, in exchange for the opportunity for him to turn around for me. But I got his heart, but I couldn't keep his affection. [Zhou Wenxue] My name is Zhou Wenxue. The love between Li Baitian and I has always been that I love him, but he loves others. When he picks up girls, I write love letters for him, when he fights, I hand him bottles of wine, when he takes photos, I clean his lens, and when he makes money, I count the money for him. [Yan Xiaochang] My name is Yan Xiaochang. My love with Wang Zhaoyang, before it even began, was already destined to be an unblessed love. What stands between us is not only identity and age, but also my and his self-esteem. I don't care about other people's opinions, I just want to love you quietly, can't I? You said I was naive and ignorant. Well, when I grow up, I will continue to love you.

Our Warring States Period

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138K014

The work tells the history of Japan's Warring States Period from 1467 to 1616 from the first-person perspective of dozens of celebrities during the Warring States Period. It is based on historical materials, takes the era and specific characters as the main line, and adds novel writing techniques to give a panoramic display of the characters and stories in the Warring States Period. The author gave up the main line of "Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu" that was generally used in the original history of the Warring States Period. The common characteristic of the more than ten protagonists described in the work is that "they have never unified the world, but they are still the trend-setters in the river of history." History is everyone's own history, and the Warring States Period is also everyone's own Warring States Period, so it is named "Our Warring States Period."

100,000 Years of Being Changed by Humans and Changing Humans

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96K0

Renowned British historian Jeremy Blake will take you on a whirlwind tour, quickly reviewing important moments in human history, and telling you a fascinating story without reservation: How did humans shape who we are today? The author draws inspiration from the latest advances in historical research and focuses on environment, cities, science, politics and daily life, giving us a new perspective on the evolution of human history. From the most outstanding figures in history to brutal wars and genocide, this book tells the incredible evolution of humankind from 100,000 prehistoric times with rich text and hundreds of illustrations.

Chernobyl: a Tragic History

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218K04

"Chernobyl: A Tragic History" is a new masterpiece by Harvard University professor Shahili Ploki. It is an authoritative historical work on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its geopolitical impact. Professor Puluoji used newly disclosed government files and a large number of interviews with survivors to describe in detail the background, causes, process, and follow-up of the Chernobyl incident, as well as its profound impact on humans, nature, and the international community. The book involves more than 400 characters, ranging from national leaders to ordinary people. All the people of all colors involved in this nuclear disaster are described, all loud and weak voices are recorded, and all vague and one-sided understandings are clarified.

A Hundred Years of Loneliness: Twelve Essays on Modern Chinese Intellectuals

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258K0

Rong Hong, Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Ding Wenjiang, Fu Sinian, Yan Shutang, Chen Hansheng, Wen Yiduo, Zhang Shenfu, Qu Qiubai, Feng Yingzi, these twelve modern Chinese intellectuals are like stars in the historical galaxy. The lonely stars; their life experiences are connected in series from the Opium War, the Westernization Movement, the Reform Movement, the Revolution of 1911, the warlords' chaos, the Anti-Japanese War, the Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the vicissitudes of the century after 1949. Learning from barbarians and developing skills, Mr. De and Mr. Sai, the New Culture Movement, sorting out the national heritage, the debate between science and mystery, democracy and dictatorship, scholarship and political inquiry, the connection between tradition and modernity... Between the ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China, what they show is the spiritual history of Chinese intellectuals for more than a hundred years since the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Time Flies

Time Flies

General Fiction

J

88K0

This book is composed of four stories. Three best friends with different styles, personalities and interests - Liangpin, Shanghai and Guoer - stand at the crossroads of emotions. In an unhurried year, the three people experienced suffering, pain, and hysterical friendship tempering, and finally transformed, each turning into a cocoon and becoming a butterfly. Whether it's "The Years Are Like a Flow" for a mature woman, or "The Plum Blossoms Fall" for the first time in the city, whether it's "The Golden Years" where love and sorrow are equally annoying, or "The Long Days" where love is no longer possible, all of them are filled with the delicate and full heart of extravagant love of every woman. However, it is always because we love too hard that we lose each other forever, so those years become a fleeting time that can never be returned...

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General Fiction

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165K0

"Anne's Diary" was written by Anne in the form of a letter to her friend Kitty when she and her family were hiding in the "back room" to escape the brutal persecution of Nazi Germany. The diary was written from June 12, 1942 to August 1, 1944, truly describing Anne's worries, joy, love and desire for freedom. Since World War II, many works with anti-fascist themes have appeared in the European and American literary circles, including many well-known masterpieces. However, in terms of printed editions, number of readers, and far-reaching influence, none of it can compare to "The Diary of Anne Frank", the work of an unknown Jewish girl.

Works of Liu Yunruo (classic Library of Modern Chinese Literature)

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271K0

Liu Yunruo (1903-1950) was a famous social romance novelist in Tianjin in the 1930s. His original name was Zhao Xiong, also known as Liu Cunyou and given the courtesy name Weixian. The portrayal of many cultural images in the novel vividly embodies Liu Yunruo's great sorrow and resentment that the modern life is too numb, smooth, depressed and lazy, which constantly destroys people's vitality and fighting spirit, as well as his eager yearning for the true, gentle and vital "human beings". He wrote serialized novels for four or five newspapers at the same time. He wrote them into chapters without any drafts. The plots are different and not mixed with each other. It is like a work that has been practiced repeatedly and is ready to be read immediately. Writing is never limited by time and place, and manuscripts can be written on a variety of papers.

Train Dream

Train Dream

General Fiction

M

41K0

A miniature epic that condenses the history and style of the American West, "a writer among writers" - Dennis Johnson's representative work, winner of the O. Henry Award and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The thrilling ordeal of a mortal in extraordinary times and the disappearance of a unique American way of life. Dennis Johnson's "Train Dreams" is a mini-epic and one of his most moving and poignant novels. This is the story of a mortal Robert Greiner in that extraordinary era at the beginning of the twentieth century. He made a living doing odd jobs in the American West. Suffering the loss of a loved one, Greiner struggles to find meaning in this strange new world. As the story unfolds, we see the thrilling personal suffering he endured and witness the dramatic changes in America during his lifetime. The novel seems to immerse readers in the rich history and landscape of the American West - where there are exotic animals and plants, as well as strong lumberjacks and bridge builders - and captures the disappearance of a unique American way of life. "Train Dreams" was first published in "The Paris Review" in 2002 and won the O. Henry Award the following year. In 2011, FSG Publishing House released a single volume revised by Dennis Johnson. In 2012, the novel was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Neutral

Neutral

General Fiction

M

447K0

Hosseini, the author of "The Kite Runner", highly recommended by media queen Oprah, Anne Hathaway, and Stefanie Sun! After Marquez, Kundera, and Suskind, there is a name you cannot miss: Jeffrey Eugenides! A heavyweight contemporary classic epic, it won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was selected by the BBC as one of the 12 greatest English novels of the 21st century! It tells the story of an adolescent boy's difficult self-identification process from the special perspective of a bisexual person and a collection of literary techniques, unfolds the fate of a Greek family in the long history of the United States, and explores the mysteries of human nature in a detailed and insightful way across the past and present. The Greek-American writer Eugenides' novel "Neutral" won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The Greek-American protagonist Stephanides was "born" twice: the first time in Detroit in 1960, when she was a baby girl; the second time in 1974 in Michigan, when he became a fourteen-year-old boy. According to the medical report, she\u002FHe is a rare "hermaphrodite", but her\u002Fhis fate, or the common fate of mankind, is: one must choose a life, either "he" or "she". Tracing up the family tree, tracing the genetic destiny that spans two continents for hundreds of years, this traceback is not only physical and personal, but also literary. All of this makes "Neutral" simultaneously reveal the dual aspects of male and female, tragedy and comedy, classical and postmodern.

Marcovaldo (calvino Centenary Edition)

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71K0

This Marcovaldo has a pair of eyes that are not very suitable for urban life: signs, traffic lights, shop windows, wide rainbow lights, propaganda posters, those things that are designed to attract attention, have never been able to retain Marcovaldo's eyes. He looks at these things as if he were scanning the sand in the desert. As the seasons pass, Marcovaldo uses his ingenuity to make wonderful observations about the world. He can interact and play with mushrooms and migratory birds, and he can also take his children to get lost and sigh in the consumerist supermarket. "It was the silence that woke him up that morning when it snowed." This is Calvino's last love poem dedicated to the city. In the lightness and color, we find more things to look forward to.

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J

General Fiction

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157K02

"Maihime" is a collection of Mori Ogai's novels, including the "Maihime" trilogy, "Tower of Silence", the novella "Wild Geese", the spiritual autobiographical color "Delusion", "Fish Mystery", the masterpiece of historical novels "Takase Fune", "Cold Mountain Lost" and other thirteen short and medium-length masterpieces. It is accompanied by a 10,000-word introduction to present the creative career of a generation of literary giants in a three-dimensional way. In "Dancing Princess", Mori Ogai imagined a young elite with similar experiences to his own, and explored the possibility of realizing the modern self in this era. Influenced by modern Western free thought, the protagonist Toyotaro Ota realizes that the "right path" of hard work, study and excellence, and then officialdom is actually a passive life path that suppresses the self and buries the individual. He fell in love with a foreign dancer and escaped from the orbit of the system, but the West is not a paradise where his "true self" can be displayed. "The joy of pure love is far from enough to compensate for the huge sense of loss of having no livelihood and no future."

Watch Orchard

Watch Orchard

General Fiction

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124K0

Between the two world wars, in the remote and desolate town of Red Branch, Tennessee, Marion Hilde, who was transporting bootlegging wine for profit, accidentally killed a man who hitched a ride with him and tried to rob him one night, and threw him into a pit in a roadside orchard. The orchard's old caretaker, Arthur Ownby, discovered the body and periodically cut a clump of branches over it over several years. A few years later, on another trip to transport wine, Marion's car broke down and overturned, and he was rescued by a little boy, John Wesley Ratner. Marion was John Wesley's father-killing enemy, but neither of them knew it. For John Wesley, who lost his father when he was young, Marion took on the role of his father when he was growing up and lived happily without knowing their relationship. As time goes by, this sense of happiness is inevitably eroded by death, decay, and modern civilization.

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X

General Fiction

H

131K0

"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" is the most representative novel by the famous Japanese writer Mishima Yukio. The story is based on the actual arson incident that occurred in July 1950. Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with a stutter, was ridiculed by his classmates and the woman he loved, but his spiritual world was extremely fertile. After coming to the Golden Pavilion from a poor country to become a monk, he was obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion all day long, imagining the magnificent scene of dying together with the Golden Pavilion in the flames of war. However, this wish ultimately came to nothing. In despair, he resolutely burned the Golden Temple to the ground. It embodies Mishima's so-called "beauty of destruction".

Famous Family

Famous Family

General Fiction

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143K0

The latest work of Tobin, the author of "Brooklyn" and "The Master", rewrites the family tragedy of Agamemnon from a modern perspective, an ancient Greek version of "House of Cards". "I have become familiar with the smell of death." A few years after King Agamemnon of Mycenae led the Greek coalition to attack Troy, his wife Clytemnestra began to tell her story. At this time, Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus ruled Mycenae, and the two planned to assassinate Agamemnon on the occasion of his triumph. Clytemnestra, who was hated and cursed by the gods, revealed the family tragedy that led to this bloody assassination: Three years ago, in order to please the gods and bless her victory in the Trojan expedition, Agamemnon tricked her eldest daughter Iphigenia into the military camp and killed her on the pretext of organizing a wedding. Clytemnestra turned Aegisthus, the hostage in the dungeon, into his bedfellow and accomplice; when Agamemnon returned, the captive Trojan princess Cassandra had also become his lover; in the end, Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon to avenge her daughter. In his latest novel "The Famous Family", Colm Tóibín retells the ancient Greek classic story of the death of Agamemnon in modern language, giving new life to Clytemnestra, the famous evil woman in Greek mythology, making us not only understand her desire for revenge, but even sympathize with her. Tobin brilliantly reveals her love, desire and pain. This is the story of Clytemnestra, the story of her son Orestes who later killed her, and the story of her second daughter Electra who witnessed it all.

Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio

General Fiction

J

111K0

"Winesburg, Ohio" The small town of Winesburg, Ohio, still retains its old-world style, and New York and Chicago are at the far end of the railroad. The farmer who longs for God's grace, the whimsical oil company agent, the female clerk who wasted her youth, the hotel proprietress who was depressed to death, the passionate and depressed female teacher, the lonely and thoughtful teenager... The twenty-four stories are interconnected with each other, like concise and profound spiritual sketches, vividly depicting a group of abnormal people who are obsessed with their own truths in an ordinary and noisy world.

Biographies of Villains

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36K0

Borges's first novel, published in 1935, tells the stories of "villains" from all over the world, including slave traders in the American South, gang leaders in New York, and British tramps who pretend to be children of noble families. They even include Kira Uenosuke, a courtesy official in Japan's Edo shogunate period who insulted Lord Ako and was eventually avenged, and Widow Zheng, a female pirate in China's Qing Dynasty. The real historical background is intertwined with the author's imagination, depicting the images of "anti-heroes" growing up in the chaotic corners of society.

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General Fiction

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"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a work created by American writer Mark Twain in the 1870s. It describes the life of an ordinary American small town along the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century, and is also a microcosm of American life at that time.

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U

General Fiction

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169K01

"The Lost Love List" is a love confession book for a man who is about to enter middle age, a black box of love that has been destroyed and buried in the deep sea, and a mental portrait of a man completing the transformation process from childishness to maturity. In an alley in North London, thirty-six-year-old Lou Fleming owns a small second-hand record shop. After living together for three years, his girlfriend Laura abandoned him and moved out of his home filled with records, tapes, and CDs. Luo began to list the most sad dumped people in his life in chronological order. In his smart and ironic self-mockery, Luo's life was flowing in it, just like writing a life biography in the order of album titles, song titles and tracks...

Diary of Jane Summers 1: Diary of a Good Neighbor

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187K0

Jane Summers is an independent-spirited middle-aged woman with an enviable job in a fashion magazine and an upper-class social circle. After Jane lost her husband and mother, she questioned and thought about her original emotions and living conditions. By chance, Jane met the old man Modi, and the two women developed an extraordinary friendship and a relationship that changed each other's attitudes towards life.

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General Fiction

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320K01

Nana was noticed by the entertainment theater manager, and her starring role in "Blonde Venus" was a success. Men from Paris's upper class fell under her skirt. She was successively supported by the banker Steine ​​and the Queen's attendant Count Mifa. She became a popular socialite in Paris, eating up the money of the men who pursued her, making them bankrupt one by one. Some even died in hell. She eventually died of smallpox, just as the Second Empire was about to collapse in the Franco-Prussian War. The rise and fall of Nana's life became a portrayal of the corrupt and degenerate society of the Second Empire.

Neutral (exclusive Customized Version)

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[First release on the whole network, exclusive customized version for WeChat Reading] After Marquez, Kundera, and Juskind, there is a name you can't miss: Jeffrey Eugenides! He is Stefanie Sun's favorite writer. Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and media queen Oprah are all loyal readers of "Neutral". The novel won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Literature in the United States and was selected by the BBC as the 12 greatest English novels of the 21st century. Hosseini, the author of "The Kite Runner", once commented on this heavyweight work: "The author spent nine years writing it, and every minute was not wasted. Every minute was worth it." The New York Times Book Review praised "Neuter": "It is both bold and brilliant. If Homer is the ancestor of this story, "Zong, Darwin is another." The novel tells the difficult process of self-identification of an adolescent boy, unfolds the fate of a Greek family in the long history of the United States, and writes a heavyweight contemporary classic epic from the special perspective of a bisexual person and a collection of literary skills. This is a novel about adolescence, and also an epic masterpiece about Greek mythology. Everything was doomed from the moment grandpa and grandma fell in love...

Roman Story

Roman Story

General Fiction

J

268K0

Each novel in "Roman Stories" is actually a miniature version of "Alive". The reading experience is like a micro-movie, and you can feel the vivid and vivid interactions of ordinary people in Rome. 61 Short stories form a picture of post-war (World War II) Rome. "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is a film of the same name starring "Bicycle Thieves" director De Sica and comedy master Toto. It is a masterpiece of short stories by Moravia, the most important Italian "neo-realism" novel master in the 20th century, who was at the peak of his creation. The source of Italian "Neorealism" cinema. "Rome Stories" is the most important short story masterpiece of Moravia, the most important "neo-realist" novel master in Italy in the 20th century, who was at the peak of his creation. Sixty-one short stories describe the sweetness, sourness, bitterness and joy of life in the world. Workers, barbers, taxi drivers, maids... These little people in big cities, forced by life, do everything possible or even use any means to find a way to survive. "Rome Story" more or less provides literary material for Italian neorealist films and is one of the sources of film creation. The book has also been adapted into a movie, starring comedy master Toto and important neorealist director De Sica.

Kim

Kim

General Fiction

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233K0

Kim, a white boy who lives in the Indian market, is good at making friends with people from all walks of life and knows all kinds of secular routines. He is convinced that a red bull in a green field will change his destiny. A monk who came from afar appeared on the streets of India in search of the legendary Arrow River that purifies sins. As if by chance, Kim volunteered to become a disciple of the monk. The devout and simple monk, the cunning and worldly boy, embarked on a fateful adventure - "If we are destined to find those things - whether it is a river or a cow - we will definitely find it..." Prophecy, astrology, fate, war, exploration, fighting... How will they reach the end? Set in India, Kipling tells the story of an orphan named Kim and a Buddhist monk in search of the Arrow River. Through the eyes of Westerners, the customs, customs, life customs, etc. Of the Eastern world are described in detail, radiantly, and with a rich oriental tone.

Confessions of a Mask

Confessions of a Mask

General Fiction

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91K0

"Confessions of a Mask" is Yukio Mishima's famous work, published in 1949. "Confessions of a Mask" made Mishima Yukio famous and officially entered the Japanese literary circle. "Confessions of a Mask" is an exploration of the heart, a confrontation against declining aristocratic families and declining social rules, and a battle to get rid of the shackles of traditional morality, order and values. Written in person, it first narrates the male protagonist's birth and family situation, and depicts the protagonist's psychological activities from the age of 5 to puberty. The bizarre and bizarre inner world is jaw-dropping. The protagonist feels ashamed of his natural weakness, which makes him feel weak both physically and mentally. He envies physically strong and wild people and aspires to become a spiritual giant. However, his body never grows as expected. Before he could become the "strong and wild" person he wanted to be, love sprouted and he fell in love with his classmate's sister Sonoko. However, looking at his still weak body, he always felt that he was not capable enough, and finally chose to terminate the relationship. After World War II, Sonoko is married, but the protagonist still tries to secretly date her and live a life of spiritual love.

Burmese Years

Burmese Years

General Fiction

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190K0

"Burmese Days" was published in 1934 and is George Orwell's first novel. The British India described in the novel is such a picture: the white master spends his time drinking and having fun, and is corrupt; the white lady is uneducated and greedy for vanity; the natives are intrigues and flattery; but there is such a white master, Sabu (master) - Flory, who hates imperialism and can't stand his people being kings and dominators in other people's land; but the cowardice in his bones makes him cower and dare not stand up to resist. Because he was afraid of "losing the whole world in order to redeem his soul," he could only "watch his life wasted and corrupted in this shameful and terrible futility."

Golden Yaksha

Golden Yaksha

General Fiction

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180K0

The Japanese version of "Wuthering Heights" and "The Yomiuri Shimbun", a masterpiece of Meiji literature that whetted readers' appetites, was serialized for several years and became popular all over Japan. Once published, it ranked first on the bestseller list for many years. It was as famous as Natsume Soseki and was highly praised by Mishima Yukio, Tanizaki Junichiro, Mori Ogai, etc. Ozaki Momiji's novel I read it in one sitting. It is really a fun book. --Yukio Mishima. "Golden Yaksha" is a bold, great novel based on reality. Money and love are in stark contrast, but underlying this theme is something much deeper. Today, the source of love is gradually drying up in the face of material desire. It can be said that this is an era of deepened material desire. --Yukio Mishima. A pair of childhood sweethearts, one is a beautiful woman from a well-to-do family, but her love is turbulent because of her extravagant desire for wealth; the other is a motivated man who relies on others to study diligently, but fails to save their love, and then hates them because of love, and turns into a money-scrupulous devil. The gradual departure is accompanied by deception, escape, hatred, and anger... Can a woman live a comfortable and wealthy life as she wishes after getting married? Can the man return to peace while frantically grabbing other people's money? This is "Golden Yasha", Ozaki Momiji's masterpiece, which Yukio Mishima once read in one sitting and praised for its interestingness. It is not only Momiji's final work, but also a novel that caused a national sensation in the history of Japanese literature. It was serialized in the "Yomiuri Shimbun" from January 1, 1897 to April 1902, triggering nationwide reading. However, Momiji died of stomach cancer, and finally the hero came to a halt when he was about to make a decision when facing the female father-in-law's confession letter, adding unlimited imagination to future generations. This book contains the complete manuscript of Ozaki Momiji, as well as three renewals widely recognized by Japanese readers and academic circles, and the "Book with Momiji Santo" written by Momiji himself. The three renewals were all written by Oguri Fuye, a protégé who deeply understood the essence of Momiji's creation. They were also collected, published and conducted for academic research by later generations.

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General Fiction

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156K0

A history of spiritual reflection of Robinson Crusoe living on a desert island, and a fable about contemporary people establishing inner order. An unexpected shipwreck trapped Robinson on an isolated island. When he was recovering from loneliness and frustration, an indigenous "Friday" suddenly broke into his world. The arrival of Friday completely broke the civilized order that Robinson Crusoe had worked so hard to build, and also brought unexpected disasters, turbulence and happiness. He is innocent, cheerful, and unrestrained. He disguises the cactus, makes the ram fly, and makes the harp sing with the wind... Under the influence of Friday, the "civilized" mark on Robinson gradually fades. And Friday also became Robinson's guide, leading him to find the meaning of his life.

This is Us (the Complete Works of Philip Roth)

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87K0

For the first time introduced in translation into the Chinese world, Philip Roth's unique novel The Adventures of President Dixon continues the political satire tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, and directly attacks the corrupt social and political phenomenon of the Nixon administration. The cover of this book is the inspiration for the collection of caricatures "Poor Richard" by contemporary artist Philip Guston. When Slippery feels confused or distressed at night under the weight of the presidency and cannot sleep, he will often get up, tiptoe through the White House, to the bomb-proof underground athletes' locker room, and then "go into battle" and put on his football jersey. Just like during the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State University shootings, simply putting on shoulder pads, cleats, a helmet, pulling his comfortable shorts up over his leather lower body, then turning his head to look in the mirror and glancing at the number on his back over his broad shoulders was enough to fill him with confidence that the actions he was taking for the benefit of 200 million Americans were justified.

The Most Beautiful Spring in Life

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131K06

Spring has really come, and my brother's hand and mine are tightly held together. My brother and I are forever fixed as two children fighting for freedom. Compared to the 60 million people who died, we are so lucky. In France in 1943, under the clouds of World War II, the government became a puppet of the Nazis and the police turned into thugs. Raymond, a Jewish boy, became Jeannault. He lost his family and relatives, and joined the resistance movement with his younger brother, becoming one of many children fighting for freedom. His belief and desire for freedom gave him incomparable courage and enthusiasm. He and his friends bombed railways and carried out assassinations, thinking that this was the unbridled youth. But what he doesn't know is that the game will eventually end, and he and his partners will become innocent victims of power and war.

City Lights: Incense

City Lights: Incense

General Fiction

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242K0

Tian Erfu, a young farmer from Tianjialing, went to the city to work. Life seemed to have set traps all along, tempting unsuspecting naive people step by step into the abyss. Tian Erfu, who was accustomed to listening to legal radio programs and accumulated a lot of legal knowledge, ended up shooting himself in the foot because of his weak legal concept...

Grinding Iron Classics Volume 8: Death of Spring

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83K0

Regarding power, George Orwell wrote "1984" and Rodoreda wrote "The Death of Spring". In the village she built with literature, cruel customs and inertial suffering repeat themselves in cycles, dragging the spring of revival of all things into a reincarnation that will eventually wither. Rodoreda's sensitive brushwork blends the repressive and gloomy undertones of Franco's regime and Nazism into a vibrant greenery. However, repression does not mean submission, but rather a smaller and more powerful rebellion.

Voyage

Voyage

General Fiction

J

260K0

"The Voyage" is Woolf's first novel. Woolf began writing this novel, originally titled Melymbrosia, in 1910. During the creation period, she suffered from mental illness. After a long period of deliberation and several changes, "The Voyage" was finally officially published in 1915. Many characters in the novel are derived from people around Woolf in real life, including herself. It is worth mentioning that the heroine Rachel Wenleith was twenty-four years old when she appeared, which was exactly the same age as Woolf when she started writing. The Euphrossini, called "her" in the story, seems to be the incarnation of Rachel Wenleith. The voyage from London to Santa Marina Island in South America is not only a journey in space, but also a journey of her own exploration. This inexperienced young woman was educated but grew up in a very traditional and conservative environment. During a journey to a foreign country, she experienced freedom and self, learned about the relationship between men and women, and tasted the taste of love. However, her life came to an abrupt end when it was about to be completed.

Magic Mountain (part 1)

F

304K0

At the beginning of the 20th century, German literature produced an epoch-making masterpiece: Thomas Mann's novel "The Buddenbrooks" (1901). This "great novel", written in just four years, not only established the 26-year-old author's position in the literary world in Germany and even Europe, but also opened a new era of German literature. A number of world-class masters emerged with it. Especially in the originally weak field of novel creation, there were many talents, and the creation of novels became more fruitful. As a result, in the first half of the 20th century, German literature reached a peak comparable to the era of Goethe and Schiller, and Thomas Mann himself was hailed as the "locomotive" of this prosperous period, and deservedly won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.

Promised Prayer

Promised Prayer

General Fiction

J

100K0

A romantic writer's unscrupulous exposure of his soul, a documentary of human nature that is both black and absurd and directly touching the soul. For many years Capote had dreamed of creating an American version of "In Search of Lost Time," and he named his planned masterpiece "Answered Prayer." Although this ambition was not realized with his premature death, the three remaining chapters present us with a portrait of the upper class and lower class society of his time. In this novel, which unscrupulously mentions the real names of many celebrities, Capote becomes P. B. Jones, a young writer with unknown biological parents and diverse erotic tastes. Following the bohemian life of this beautiful young man, "Answered Prayer" travels all the way from the infamous bars of Tangier to the long ottomans of restaurants on the Basque coast, from literary salons to high-end brothels. The works capture both scheming beauties and sadistic husbands, as well as real celebrities, such as Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Windsor. And most importantly, this viciously hilarious work showcases Capote's ruthless insight and unbridled humor.

Spring Rain Falls on the Long River·floating Life

L

211K7.714

He is a chess piece of fate, and when it falls, the outcome is destined. She is a flower in my heart, blooming on the other shore, so close to the horizon. The turbulent struggle for power and the lingering love and hate behind the war. In the prosperous age, there is gold powder, the house of comprador, the spring rain falls, and the big waves wash away the sand. It depicts the strange chess game of life in the changing world; the distinctive and delicate characters fully show the beauty and tragedy of human nature in the context of the great era. With strong realist romance and profound cultural heritage of the Republic of China, it is as sophisticated and grand a period novel as "The Golden Family" and "Beijing Smoke and Clouds", and is another masterpiece on the themes of the Republic of China and the nation.

Weight of Love

Weight of Love

General Fiction

G

89K03

Agatha Christie's "The Weight of Love" tells the story: Laura had a brother who unfortunately died young. Having been neglected since childhood, she originally hoped to replace her brother and become the focus of the family, but unexpectedly her parents gave birth to a younger sister. From then on, she kept praying to God to take away her sister quickly, until a terrible fire... The author Christie is the queen of detective novels and "the best-selling author in mankind" in the Guinness Book of World Records. The works have been sold in more than 100 countries and translated into hundreds of languages, with cumulative sales exceeding 2 billion.

N

N

General Fiction

H

49K0

"The Blind Story" is one of the masterpieces of the Japanese literary master Junichiro Tanizaki's return to classical tradition. During Japan's Warring States Period, daimyo wars raged. The most beautiful woman in the Warring States Period, Oda Nobunaga's sister, Mrs. Aichi, was initially betrothed to Asai Nagamasa by Nobunaga. Soon Nobunaga and Nagamasa went to war, and Nagamasa was forced to commit suicide. The wife and her three daughters were displaced during the war, and later remarried Shibata Katsuie. In the end, they were defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and committed suicide in the castle tower. The situation is changing and the fate is unpredictable. In the chaos, there is only one blind musician who humbly and secretly loves his wife and always stays by her side...

Tattoo (junichiro Tanizaki's Work Series)

H

105K0

"Heretic" Junichiro Tanizaki's masterpiece is the peak of his demonic period. It is a sincere struggle in an absurd life and a secret path leading to the self. Junichiro Tanizaki is a master of Japanese aesthetic literature and one of the representative writers of modern Japanese literature. In 1958, Yukio Mishima recommended Junichiro Tanizaki as a candidate for the Nobel Prize with his works such as "Polygon-Eating Insect". This book contains eight of Tanizaki Junichiro's early representative works: "Tattoo", "Kirin", "Boy", "Devil", "Devil (Continued)", "The Sorrow of the Heretic" and "The Tattered Light", which were created from 1910 to 1911. Over the past eight years, these early works earned him the title of "Demonist", and he was highly praised by Karika Nagai: "Junichiro Tanizaki fully possesses special qualities and skills that no one among the modern writers has."

B

B

General Fiction

H

389K03

"Snow" is a novel written by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aesthetic literature. The whole book consists of three volumes: the first, middle and second volumes, totaling more than 400,000 words. "Snow" is a genre novel describing the love story between Japanese middle-class young men and women. The story follows Yukiko, the third of the four daughters of the declining wealthy Makioka family in Osaka, on a blind date as the main line, and the marriage and love experiences of the other three sisters as auxiliary lines. The time span is five years from 1936 to 1941. In the end, Yukiko's blind date was successful, and everything ended before the Pearl Harbor incident. This book describes a Japanese story against the background of war, but the war only appears in a few words in the background. The book slowly unfolds the customs, social events, foreign exchanges, etc. Of Japanese society at that time, presenting a detailed picture of the life of the middle and upper classes in the Kansai region of Japan. It is known as a superior genre novel with a classic style. "Snow" is not only the pinnacle of Tanizaki Junichiro's personal works, but also an outstanding representative work of the entire Showa literary world. The work has been translated into various languages ​​and has been adapted into many films and TV shows.

R

R

Literature

H

141K0

"In Praise of Shadows" is a collection of essays by Junichiro Tanizaki, a well-known Japanese writer. It includes eleven classic representative works such as "In Praise of Shadows", "The Story of Laziness" and "Memory of the Taste of Childhood". It condenses Junichiro Tanizaki's exquisite views on oriental aesthetics. Every small object appears interesting in his writing. Starting from everyday objects that can be seen everywhere, Junichiro Tanizaki narrates the unique charm of architecture, home furnishings, appliances, tea ceremonies, food, body, love, drama, etc. In elegant and simple language, he reveals the essence of Japanese aesthetics, discovers beauty in the trivial daily life, explores the power to heal people's hearts, and takes you to appreciate the beauty and calmness of the world.

Key (series by Junichiro Tanizaki)

H

82K0

Junichiro Tanizaki's demonic aesthetic masterpiece, a key opens the door of desire, the secret and tortuous love relationship between the sexes, and the undercurrent of an oriental family... "The Key" is a masterpiece by Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki. The text is based on the diaries of a middle-aged couple. It is equivalent to a record of a couple's life from a dual perspective. The privacy, speculation, inducement, and secret fighting between the couple, through the four-corner relationship joined by the daughter and the prospective son-in-law, finally lead to the conspiratorial ending of the husband's death due to stimulation. This diary-style novel is a plot designed for desire written by Junichiro Tanizaki in the 1950s. It has become a classic work depicting human desires. It is unique in terms of subject matter, structure, and dramatic tension of novel art.

Just One Lie

Just One Lie

General Fiction

G

85K8.5

Keigo Higashino's best-selling series "Kaga Detective" has sold more than 9 million copies in Japan. It has been adapted into film and television works several times, starring famous actors such as Hiroshi Abe, and has received an overwhelming response. As the short story collection in the "Kaga Detective Collection" so far, this book brings five short stories that are short, concise and have a long aftertaste. To cover up a lie, a bigger lie must be created. This is the core theme highlighted by Keigo Higashino in the opening chapter. Among the suspects are a once-dazzling ballet star, a single mother running for her daughter's dream, and a once-happy housewife.

America, Another Life

K

136K0

How do bosses in the workplace become subordinates? What secrets will an American Arab fortune teller tell you? What worries do you have about giving birth to your second child? How did an illiterate American become a boss? Do Chinese people in the United States have to train their children to go to Ivy League universities? If you plant fruit trees outside your house in the United States, will house prices increase or decrease in value? Why doesn't the United States have money to participate in the World Expo? Why don't American Buddhists burn incense and worship Buddha? Based on his personal experience of living in the United States for 20 years, the author vividly describes all aspects of life in the United States, covering the real situation of the American workplace, cultural conflicts, educational concepts, sports politics, etc. Tell you about a different America, its intricate benefits and disadvantages. It presents a three-dimensional America, a kaleidoscope-like America, with its eccentricities and colors.

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