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When you calm down and listen, the world begins to change. There's a record store here. A bright little record store. There is no store name on the door and no display in the window, but the store is filled with various vinyl records of classical music, rock music, jazz, pop music, etc. It is often open late into the night. Lonely, insomniac, sad or with nowhere to go... All kinds of people come here to look for records, or to find answers to their own lives. The boss, Frank, is forty years old, a tall and gentle man like a bear. Just tell him how you are feeling at the moment, or tell your story, and he will always find the most suitable record for you. A healing story about crossing barriers and not being afraid of the unknown, a moving love song that beats with hope and warmth, and the magical power of music to soothe people's hearts.

Xu Dishan, whose name is Zankun and whose courtesy name is Dishan. Modern writer and scholar. When he was a child, his father once used the metaphor of falling peanuts to educate his children, which left a deep impression on Xu Dishan. When he started writing in 1921, he took Luo Huasheng as his pen name (in ancient Chinese, "hua" means "hua"), encouraging himself to be a person with the character of Luo Huasheng.

It is good to discover new things and new feelings, and it is even more profound and sweet to feel that there is a new meaning in old things.

"Salome: Lady Vendéme's Fan" is one of Oscar Wilde's dramatic works in the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics by Xu Yuanchong". The book includes two plays. The story frame of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" (1891) comes from the Bible, but the plot is different: the young and beautiful Salome is the daughter of Herodia, the second wife of King Hero, the ruler of Galilee in Palestine. King Hero can't control his obsession with his stepdaughter Salome and wants Salome to dance for him; but Salome is obsessed with the imprisoned prophet Jocanan and falls madly in love with him, but is rejected. In order to kiss Jokanan, Salome agreed to dance for King Hero on the condition that King Hero agreed to a request she made - no matter what the request was. After the dance, Salome offered to ask for Kannan's head. King Hero could not break his promise and had to satisfy Salome's bloodthirsty demands. Salome finally kissed Jocanan's head, but was eventually executed by King Hero. The plot of "Lady Bonaventure's Fan" (1892) tells the story of Lady Bonaventure, who did not know that Lady Irene, whom her husband was secretly supporting and insisting on inviting to her birthday party, was her mother who had eloped. She suspected that her husband had an affair with Lady Irene, and angrily came to the home of Lord Darlington, who was pursuing her. Lady Irene came to persuade her to go home. Just as Lord Darlington and several guests returned, the two ladies hid, but Lady Vendéme's forgotten fan was discovered. In order to prevent her daughter from making a fool of herself, Mrs. Irene came out and admitted that the fan was hers, allowing her daughter to leave secretly, preserving her daughter's reputation and marriage.

A young undertaker goes behind the scenes to delve into all the terrifying (yet fascinating) aspects of this strange profession. Most people don't want to think about death, but Caitlin Doughty, a twenty-something medieval history major, chooses to work in a crematorium, turning her morbid hobby into a lifelong career. She works with all kinds of living and dead people, trying to find a place in the secret culture of undertakers. This book tells an unusual coming-of-age story, full of quirky adventures and unforgettable scenes. Caitlin handles corpses of all races, shapes, and encounters, and in the process quickly becomes an explorer of the world of the dead.

"Adventures in the Slums" by George Orwell, the author of "1984", a little-known story of Orwell's early life. What kind of person was a prophet before he became a prophet? George Orwell, the author of "1984" and "Animal Farm" and the prophet of dystopia, was always a staunch socialist throughout his life. This may confuse today's readers who do not understand the changes in the political spectrum, but for Orwell, this was a natural choice. "Down and Out in Paris and London" is Orwell's first officially published documentary work. It tells the story of Orwell's true experience of voluntarily entering the slums in Paris and London to experience life at the bottom of society. After feeling completely disgusted and despaired of the British colonial system, Orwell's literary dream finally came to fruition for the first time after several setbacks. The experiences in Paris and London can be seen as Orwell's journey of repentance and redemption for his service to the colonial system. As a loyal believer in the socialist system, perhaps Orwell's deliberate choice of wandering and poverty was a test of his ability to persist in implementing socialist ideals. Paris and London are the most prosperous places in the capitalist world, but the poverty and hardship at the bottom of society is shocking. Orwell's sincere attitude of "resigning himself to suicide" and treating the working people as equals is truly unusual among British left-wing literary writers. It is this spirit that makes "Down and Out in Paris and London" a classic documentary work that exposes social injustice, and it still resonates with readers today.

Li Bingyin has been involved in literary activities and engaged in literary criticism writing for nearly 20 years. Compared with this short period of time, the results achieved appear very meager. Every time I think of this, I can't help but feel ashamed. There are three parts to the papers selected for inclusion in this book. They are reviews of writers' works, reflections on the creation of novels and essays, and articles on research on the creation of reportage. The time when these articles were written and published almost accompanies my entire history of literary criticism research.

In the early stage, it was enlightenment education and a cry for national salvation. In the later stage, it was first a praise of construction, and then a new image of China was reshaped through obscure revelations. He pointed out that the national image of a literary work should be a comprehensive factor of the high level of the literary work itself that enhances the aesthetic value and social significance of the work itself, so that the quality and influence of the work itself can be used to establish and enhance the national reputation of the place where the work was born. Wang Guoying (Zhejiang University) took Lu Xun's "Sorrow" and Xia Yan's "The End of the Grass" as examples and pointed out that although they were twenty years apart in terms of creation time and story time, the escape consciousness and behavioral logic hidden in the bones are surprisingly similar, and have historical inheritance, thus gaining universal value. Li Hangchun (Zhejiang University) took "Yu Dafu's 'A Tale of Two Cities'" as the title and pointed out that the presentation of Shanghai and Hangzhou in Yu Dafu's works reflects two different moods and also shows two different styles and realms of modern Chinese city images from one aspect.

Book Three: The Family Book - Nowadays, oppression and resistance seem futile and comical. The world of book witches is facing an unprecedented crisis: something called "idea" is spreading, swallowing up one sanctuary after another, and the entire world of book witches is about to be eaten away. Freya was swallowed by "thoughts", but she did not disappear completely. Instead, she was thrown to the Evernight Sanctuary - the bloody battlefield more than thirty years ago, the current place of ruin, and the exile of the Seven-Pointed Star. There, she met the ragged Heptagram, the "Mother of Book Witches" Phaedra, and the powerful book demon Mentana. Everyone asked Fulia to rewrite the "Book of Creation" according to their ideas, so that reality would become what they wanted. After all, according to the records in the Book of Creation...

This set of books is Younesbo's classic police detective suspense novel, including "Snowman", "Cheetah", "Ghost", "Police", "Mockingbird" and "Redeemer", a total of 6 volumes.

When writing "Quanguaitan", the author was not satisfied with collecting the classic legends of strange monsters that are well known to women and children in his country. He was also particularly good at digging out and recording the ghost stories that circulated in a small area. In addition, he also turned his attention abroad, and ghost stories from China and North Korea became his favorite material. Some of these stories are short and exquisite, some are thought-provoking and terrifying, some are twists and turns, with rich themes and different styles. Every story makes people think deeply and have a long aftertaste when reading it. Just like picking up pearls in the sea, they are extremely precious.

In 1903, various forces were fighting overtly and covertly, the Russo-Japanese War was about to break out, and the entire China was in turmoil. In order to seize profits, Japan sent spies to bribe important officials of the Qing government. Doi, who is in the antique business, is also among them, and his target is Wen Baotai, a rubbing expert who has close relations with important officials in the court. However, the day after Wen Baotai was successfully bribed, Wen's body was found in the Youyou Pavilion with the windows and doors locked, and the 250,000 yen used as bribes disappeared. Soon, the Wen family's housekeeper was mysteriously killed, the maid Fang Lan disappeared for no reason, and finally even the spy Doi was kidnapped... Japan, Russia, the Qing government, and various underground forces were all involved, and the entire Youyou Pavilion and even the city of Beijing were shrouded in fog.

The story of this book slowly unfolds from a manuscript left behind by a woman: the heroine is hired as a tutor to go to Bly Manor in the countryside to take care of the little boy Miles and the little girl Flora who have lost their parents. During her tenure, the female teacher often saw the ghosts of the deceased former female teacher and the manor servant. At the same time, she discovered that the two young children seemed to have a secret connection with the two ghosts. The female teacher tried to fight against the evil ghost to save the children, but she herself fell into doubts and suspicions about the children and was unable to extricate herself... Can courage fight against evil? Suspense and tension are stacked step by step, just like screws that are getting tighter and tighter.

You may have read the novel "The Master" by the famous Irish writer Colm Tóibín (this novel won him the 2006 Dublin International Literary Award), and you may have also read "The Author, the Author" by David Lodge, known as the British money writer, but you have probably not really appreciated the true style of the works of Henry James, the subject of these two novels, a master of novels. You can start with this book "Daisy Miller" - the beginning of a perfect journey.

"The Wings of the Dove" is one of Henry James's controversial novels. It is listed as the "final trilogy" along with "The Envoy" and "The Golden Bowl". It is also the pinnacle of James's novel art. In 1998, "The Wings of the Dove" was ranked 26th among the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century" by Modern Library. A pair of desperate mandarin ducks who do anything to seize wealth, an innocent girl with a lot of wealth and a serious illness, a deformed love triangle, when the innocent, rich, and democratic United States meets the ancient, decadent, and degenerate Europe, what kind of contradiction will arise between the two cultures. Kate Croy, who comes from an ordinary family, and journalist Morton Dash, are a pair of financially strapped British lovers. They fall in love with each other, but cannot get married due to lack of money. Once Kate met the wealthy American heiress Milly Till by chance, and they formed a deep friendship. After Milly came to England, her huge wealth attracted all kinds of people to come to her. Some were sincere and some had evil intentions. Young Milly saw the complex hearts of ancient Europe. Soon, Milly became terminally ill and learned of Kate's plan before she died: She tried to get Morton close to Milly to defraud her of her property. In the end, Millie left Morton a huge sum of money and passed away. Can Kate and Morton get the wealth and live the life they longed for?

After the "Hunter Special Forces" received the combat mission, the Meng Army led the team to attack quickly, but got into trouble in the jungle. They accidentally discovered a little boy (Lin Sheng), and with the help of his magical sense of smell, they successfully captured the international spy "Blood Bat". Taking this as an opportunity, Lin Sheng grew up step by step from an illiterate child in the mountains to a special operations elite with numerous meritorious deeds and the best sniper in the army. He once worked as an undercover gangster, destroying the "Black Box" drug trafficking organization in Southeast Asia in one fell swoop, and personally captured the leader of the organization, the world's largest drug lord "Montenegro"; Countless battles and countless brushes with death, Lin Sheng was fearless...

According to data, there were no prisoner-of-war camps for Chinese prisoners of war during the Sino-Japanese War. Chinese prisoners of war were all directly killed or sent to do coolies. The only prisoner of war camp was in Shenyang, which only held European and American prisoners of war. The story took place in early 1940, three years after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, during the tug-of-war period between China and Japan. Eight prisoners of war, led by Lei Zi, successfully escaped from the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and entered the huge virgin forest mountains next to the prisoner-of-war camp. With joy and anxiety about the unknown future, the prisoners of war continued to go deeper into the forest, but what greeted them was a series of strange encounters: an environment without living creatures; unusually long days and nights; pools full of carrion; vampire monsters lurking around; and a creature that should not appear in the primitive world. The mysterious organization that does exist in the forest... Shao De, a puppet army officer in the prisoner of war camp, led several Japanese non-commissioned officers and a platoon of puppet troops into the forest. Various strange phenomena they encountered also followed: there was a mysterious loss of contact with the outside world; soldiers died and disappeared one after another. Following the escape route of the prisoners of war, more and more unexplainable mysteries emerged. During the pursuit, Shao De discovered that the entire prisoner of war escape incident was surprisingly similar to another incident that also occurred in the prisoner of war camp three years ago! And almost despairingly realized that he was inextricably linked to all of this. Even he, Lei Zi, a prisoner of war who is being hunted, and Cao Zheng, a prisoner of war who also escaped from the prisoner of war camp three years ago, are slowly reuniting...

During my junior year, a student from Hunan moved into the dormitory. His belly is full of weird stories. Every story is horrifying, but the ending has a touching human touch, reflecting the love and affection of ordinary people and making people think deeply. This classmate has a strange habit. He only starts telling those stories at 0:00...

No one writes better than Dan Simmons! --"St. Louis Post-Dispatch". Dan Simmons won the World Fantasy Award, the highest honor for fantasy literature, for his debut novel "The Song of Kali"! Dan Simmons has won 27 major world literary awards in 24 years: World Fantasy Award (the highest honor for fantasy novels), Hugo Award (the highest honor for science fiction novels), Bram Stoker Award (the highest honor for horror novels), Locus Award, Japanese Nebula Award, British Fantasy Novel Award, French Universe Award... The goddess Kali has awakened, and eternal terror is about to come. Bobby, the editor of an American magazine, received a special task to go to Calcutta, India, to interview the famous poet Das. Friends advised him not to go because there were rumors that Das had died six or seven years ago. Bobby actually met Das and read the poem he wrote for the goddess Kali. From then on, everything around Bobby began to become terrifying, bizarre, and increasingly irreversible...

"Aditya Unleashed" is a refreshing and beyond-imagining work. The author takes the Hollywood-style, modern urban supernatural legend cliché story and develops it into unexpected twists and turns. New and old fans alike will be wowed by the book's exciting action descriptions, adventure stories, and bloody events. From Ed Wood's world's largest coven of vampires to Adya's diverse evolutions, Damian Darby delivers a whole new experience for vampire fans. You will also find that the love story in this book is unique, the plot is complicated and confusing, and the characters are extraordinary, which are not what you often see in similar works.

"Heart of Darkness" is one of Joseph Conrad's major works. Considered the first truly modernist novel in the history of British literature, the work records the story of Captain Marlowe on the Congo River as told on a ship docked outside London. In this work, the author has made profound thoughts on the theme of human civilization and human nature.

The masterpiece of American romantic writer Melville is also one of the best novels in the history of world literature. It is known as the "encyclopedia of the whaling industry" because of its description of sea voyages and the complicated whaling life. "Cambridge Literary History" calls it one of the greatest maritime romance novels in the history of world literature. In terms of its literary value, it is also known as the American "Hamlet". It tells the story of Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship "Pequod", who is determined to hunt down the ferocious and intelligent white whale Moby Dick who bit off one of his legs. After sailing almost all over the world, he finally encounters Moby Dick after many twists and turns. After three days of tracking, the harpoon was finally used to hit the white whale, but the ship was hit by the white whale. Ahab was entangled in the rope on the harpoon and was taken into the sea. They all fell into the sea, but only the sailor Ishmael was saved. The white color given by the author to the white whale symbolizes innocence and terror, and the white whale symbolizes the mixture of good and evil. This is the basic condition of the human world. Ahab wanted to catch Law's challenge. His death along with that of the entire crew was an inevitable outcome. This novel has become an outstanding work with its rich ideological content, epic scale and mature and thoughtful writing style.

When the protagonist was in his junior year, a student from Hunan moved into the dormitory, and his stomach was filled with weird stories with Hunan characteristics. Every story is creepy, but the ending has a touching human touch, reflecting the love and affection of ordinary people. Every story is creepy, but thought-provoking. This classmate has a strange habit. He only starts telling those stories at 0:00...

Liu Yukun! The Chinese-American writer who conquered the European and American science fiction circles! A science fiction epic that the entire Chinese-speaking world has been waiting for! Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award winner Liu Yukun's magnificent debut novel! The leader who promoted Chinese science fiction to the world. Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem" and Hao Jingfang's "Beijing Folding" both won Hugo Awards under his translation and recommendation. Liu Yukun combined Eastern classical aesthetics with Western scientific spirit and created a new science fiction concept of "silk punk". Once the work was published, it was translated into many languages. In "Dandelion Dynasty", Liu Yukun constructed a mysterious country composed of many islands: the Dara Islands. Here, gods and humans coexist. Tunnels are built under the sea to connect the islands. Hot air balloons, spaceships, and submarines are used to transport battles. Soldiers fight on kites. Here, countless heroes are performing legends. Between the stars and the earth, everyone is creating legends. Dandelions grow in the soil, but they have the sky in mind. It is tenacious and adaptable. As long as there is wind, it can float anywhere and build its own empire.

"The Magic of Gold" contains three works by Wang Jinkang: "The Magic of Gold", "A World Without Thieves" and "Sky Fire". Professor Ren, who developed the "time machine" in "The Magic of Gold", helped the King of Thieves and the Black Panther return to any moment when "the vault was built and the gold was deposited". Through the conversion of time, they avoided the heavily guarded vault and finally changed their identity and became a gold thief. This is an early work by Wang Jinkang. It gives a technical thought to time travel, proposes how to transform the movement of time into the movement of space, and points out that the movement of space may cause travelers to "merge" with other objects. "A World Without Thieves" Chenimus, an American employee of Beijing Goldman Sachs Securities Company, participated in the betting on the Go tournament between China, Japan and South Korea. "Sky Fire" is about the frail and fair middle school student Lin Tiansheng. He has "a very big head but a very weak body, like a tiny bean sprout struggling out from under a rock." This article won the special prize of the Galaxy Award that year.

"The Killing of the Fire God" is a collection of short mystery novels by Japanese mystery writer Matsumoto Seicho. The story is clever and concise, showing the shocking moments in human nature. The book is composed of five short stories. The title "The Killing of the God of Fire" skillfully weaves historical attainments into and out of the story; in "Grape Tang Grass Pattern Embroidery", a Brussels specialty tablecloth becomes the key to the love-hate drama, vividly describing the subtle scheming of men and women; "The Strange Accused" explores the boundary between sincerity and lies, the source of creative ideas and the study of acquittal cases; "The Bond of Grace" relies on the author's childhood memories.

The novel tells the story of Galip, a lawyer born and raised in Istanbul, who searches for his missing wife. A detective story-like beginning - his wife Rumeng disappeared, leaving only a note. Galip began to search and roam the streets of Istanbul. He gradually believes that Rumeng's running away is related to the disappearance of her half-brother Yela, a well-known newspaper columnist. He began to explore the deep meaning behind Jela's words, visited the places Jela had visited, and even thought in Jela's way. Finally, he sneaked into Jela's apartment, wore his clothes, answered his phone calls, and finally even pretended to be him to write a column. This is the surface plot of the novel. And as Pamuk says in the book, there is a deeper meaning behind the story. Galip's pursuit of Rumeng and Yela seems to symbolize the exploration and revelation of an ultimate ideal. This has the same cultural logic as the mystery of words and meanings, the mystery of faces and meanings, and the theory of "the savior will come" declared in Yela's column once discussed in the book, thus forming a multi-line parallel network of meanings. At the same time, the questioning of the nature of the self and the thinking about the relationship between self and others are constantly strengthened through the plot of the novel itself and the text of Jela's column in the novel, permeating the entire novel. This in turn triggers and is connected with the narration of the history and destiny of Istanbul, and thus expands to thinking about the relationship and essence between the East and the West.

The work has been shortlisted for the Naoki Award for five times. It is as popular as Haruki Murakami and Keigo Higashino in Japan and has touched millions of readers. Spring. Let's cry once and for all for family love, justice, and the feelings between gay friends! What's really important needs to be expressed easily and clearly, like a clown swinging in the air, everyone forgets the existence of gravity.

Zhou Yiwei and Wang Likun star in the original novel of the same name in "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty". Di Renjie was transferred to Puyang County as the county magistrate. With the help of several capable assistants, he fought wits and courage, defeated the powerful enemy, and solved the case in one fell swoop... This volume contains three cases that Di Renjie encountered in Puyang County: "The Bronze Bell Case", "The True and False Beggar", "The True and False Sword" and "The Red Pavilion Case". Gaulopet is a Dutch sinologist, diplomat, translator and novelist. His representative works include "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty", "The Way of the Piano", "Calligraphy and Painting on Bells", etc.

He was a little confused. The breath of life made him feel awkward, almost suffocating. This breath was blood red, carrying the beating of his heart and vibrating his pulse, which made him very uncomfortable. The curtains all around were closed. He was sitting on the sofa, a fire was burning in the fireplace, and international news was playing on the TV. In his opinion, the news today on August 7th seems to be no different from countless previous August 7ths. After the international news, the anchor reported a local news: a woman was killed in an apartment, and the murderer imitated "Jack the Ripper" while committing the crime.

She looks like an ordinary wife, but her true identity is a spy of the special forces. She considers herself a communication expert, but she always loses control when faced with her mother-in-law's difficulties. An accidental incident triggered her suspicion about her mother-in-law - why did her mother-in-law's relatives die unexpectedly? Her professional sensitivity led her to launch an investigation into her mother-in-law... In the future world, AI systems control everything. The content of confidential conversations must be conveyed through written letters. Mito, a confidential messenger, was sitting in the train when a man suddenly sat down next to him and entrusted him with delivering a letter to an old friend. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a suicide note - the man immediately jumped out of the car and committed suicide. He worked hard to achieve his mission, but he didn't expect that this letter would make him a key criminal in the national security system...

The night is darker than ink. The headlights emitted two sword-like rays of light, cutting through the winding mountain road. Female reporter Liu Qi sat in the passenger seat, fastened her seat belt tightly, and supported the front of the police car with both hands to keep it steady. Gao Yi, the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, held the steering wheel tightly, his eyes were red and protruding, and he was almost in a state of madness. Yes, they were racing, but not for the sake of being cool, but chasing a red Ferrari. Location: Xishan on the outskirts of the city. The mountain road has many twists and turns and is steep. It's exciting to hike through the mountains in the dark. However, such stimulation is too much to bear. I saw the Ferrari running towards the top of the mountain. It was a dead end and there was no way to escape. The foot of the mountain looks dark and empty, hiding the vast Dianchi Lake, which is five hundred miles away. A sea of ​​lights loomed far to the northeast.

In the suburbs of Tokyo in the Meiji 20s, there was a bookstore called Diaodo. The inside of the store was so dark that you couldn't tell how deep it was, and there was an illusion that it extended to infinity. The left and right walls are filled with bookshelves, stacked with an astonishing number of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign books. The owner of the hanging hall, dressed in white, is a bookworm of unknown origin and unconventional ethics. The book explorers may be confused or hide past events that they cannot let go of, so they visit the hanging hall. The owner of the hanging hall has insight into everything, leading guests to talk about the past and unlocking sealed memories. It turns out that the guest is actually the famous...

It was selected as one of the 25 classic mystery novels selected by the American Mystery Writers Association; it was selected as one of the 1,000 novels you must read before you die by the British "Guardian"; it has been adapted into a movie of the same name four times, and the Hitchcock version is one of the most classic suspense movies in history; it was adapted into a play in 2005, successfully landed on Broadway, and won the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award. After Richard Hannay returned to London from Africa, he met a man named Scudder and revealed to him that from the first time I read John Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps", I felt that it would be made into a great movie. --Hitchcock The secret of an international espionage organization. Scudder was killed, and Hannay became the prime suspect. In order to avoid being tracked by the police and spies, he fled to Scotland and escaped from danger time and time again with cleverness and wit. Finally, based on the "Thirty-nine Steps" clue left by Scudder, Hannay successfully destroyed the enemy's conspiracy.

Awakening childhood memories also awakens the authenticity and purity of my past. Neil Gaiman, master of fantasy literature: "Sea of ​​Oblivion" is a book that is extremely close to my heart. Open "Sea of ​​Oblivion" and find the truth and purity of childhood in Neil Gaiman's childhood world. Childhood memories are often obscured by later events and become hazy, but these memories do not disappear. Years later, I returned to the Sea of ​​Oblivion and my childhood memories came flooding back to me. In that memory, the nanny was a monster from another world, and the neighbor was a mysterious witch. In that memory, the ocean can be put into a bucket, and a person can know everything if he sinks in the ocean. During that memory, I met a witch friend, Letty. She looked three or four years older than me, but I guessed she might be three or four thousand years older than me. That memory was so wonderful, but so real. Standing on the shore of the Sea of ​​Oblivion, I vaguely saw Letty sleeping in it...

"Even though he knew that human beings are a mixture of flaws and virtues, he still believed in the future happiness of mankind." The memoirs of the Yourcenar family, which have been out of print for ten years, are a magnificent triptych that explores history and eternity. It is one of the trilogy of autobiographical novels "The Labyrinth of the World", the first female "immortal" of the Academy of France. Literary masters such as Pamuk, Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua, Alai, Chen Ran, Qiu Miaojin, etc. Are the models of intellectual writing of the French "New Fable School". "Reverent Memories" is the first part of Margaret Yourcenar's autobiographical novel trilogy "The Labyrinth of the World". The author starts from his own birth and traces the history of his mother's family with a panoramic description, focusing on his two uncles Octave and Fernand, whom he has never met, and his mother Fernand, who died of puerperal fever. Yourcenar used a large number of oral materials, letters, photos, aristocratic family yearbooks and leftover items to construct a complete picture of his mother's family. He traced the roots as far back as possible to the longest past, and used a calm and objective writing style to make the images of each ancestor vivid on the page. She is not content to depict various characters in the family, but tries to clarify the theme of "eternity" through this, condensing the family that has been inherited from generation to generation into a symbol in the macroscopic time and space of the world. Standing outside of time and space, she observes with a cold eye, describes the destiny of mankind, and reveals the eternal laws of history.

At 9 o'clock that night, the down-and-out poet Qiu Tian stumbled forward and came across a telephone pole covered with colorful advertisements. He raised his hand to hug it and touched it, muttering to himself: "Why has the bulletin board become thinner?" Two boys He was riding a skateboard, wearing a cultural shirt and wide denim shorts. He laughed loudly and said loudly: "Hey, look! He's almost drunk." After saying that, he jumped past Qiu Tian like two happy flying fish in the sea. The poor poet Qiu Tian didn't know that he was being pointed at, so he looked up to find out who was drunk. It didn't matter if he raised his head, the only blood in his body could no longer flow to his brain, causing his eyes to darken and he sat down on the ground. After adapting for a while, Qiu Tian finally opened his eyes. It didn't matter that he opened it, he saw the sky. The sky was dark, dotted with some twinkling stars, like a drunken man smashing the sky.

The National Book Award-winning work, the masterpiece of the memoirs of legendary artist Patti Smith, is newly hardcover and revised in 2017. "Just Kids" begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It is a tribute to New York in the 1960s and 1970s, when the city was emerging as the cultural capital of the Western world. This book chronicles its wealth and poverty, as well as its gangsters and villains. It tells a true myth and paints a portrait of a young artist on his way up, prelude to the arrival of fame.

"The Waking Forest" is a famous work by the famous essayist John Burroughs, the father of American nature literature. When you take a dip in the book, you can listen to the musical concert of forest birds, and appreciate the birds building nests, which can be said to be an encyclopedia of birds. In addition to enjoying the singing of birds, the fragrance of flowers, and the freshness of nature, you can also increase your interest and knowledge about wilderness and jungles, clarify an attitude toward nature, and awaken the soft, delicate, and sleeping poetry deep in our hearts.

Look for the personally recommended version by Camus' daughter! Original 10,000-word introduction for Doctor of Literature from the Sorbonne University in Paris; original mind map; officially authorized collection of Camus's preface; collection of famous paintings; in-depth expansion of literature handbook; hardcover collector's edition, including small page-turning animations, interactive reading! I used to feel that life was meaningless, until Sisyphus told me the true meaning of life! Why is life so tiring? What is the purpose of living day after day? What is the meaning of life? Camus said: Life is meaningless, so it is more worth living! This is a book of life written for young "workers", specializing in treating "the meaninglessness of life"! "The Myth of Sisyphus" was first published in 1942. It is a comprehensive reflection on the meaning of life by Nobel Prize winner Camus. This book directly faces the dilemma of human existence and has become an influential philosophical essay in Western literature in the 20th century.

With his amazing memory and superb writing skills, Hemingway recreates the hunting experience in the deep mountains and old forests of Africa, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the thrilling scenes of the author's battle of wits and courage with animals, and hear the unique African lion's roar and twist. At the same time, Hemingway also vividly It vividly describes the competitiveness and jealousy displayed in the process of competing with Carl, and "anatomizes" himself mercilessly, showing the frankness of a man and the personality charm of a real man. It is the best book for readers to experience Hemingway's unique charm up close.

Japanese miscellaneous cooking - Murakami's taste of trivia and survival. Fifty "rather problematic" personal essays by the "rather problematic" Haruki Murakami. Murakami is a little lucky, a record fanatic, a sukiyaki lover, and in short, an idler who loves cats. This book has been serialized in the magazine "anan" since March 2000, spanning a year and including 50 essays. "Pizza", "records", "Rhodes Island", "Virginia Woolf", "donuts", these keywords alone are enough to attract the attention of all Murakami fans. Of course, it also includes many new topics, such as "Burned Bras", "Persimmon Seed Problem", "Carrot King", etc. Among them, "Chicken Sukiyaki", "Thick Roll Sushi", "Hand Roll" and many other topics related to Japanese cuisine, the entire collection of essays is full of Murakami flavor. What is particularly impressive is that it starts with "About a Suit", a memory of attending the Newcomer Award Ceremony of "Portrait" as a writer, and then examines "death", one of the main themes in Murakami's works, while quoting lines from Chandler's novels, and ends with "Saying Goodbye." "I feel that in the corresponding background and music, I was able to successfully say goodbye to the twentieth century from a personal perspective." (Say Goodbye) This last sentence shows that this book marks an important point in Murakami's maturity or transition period as a writer.

"The Viscount in Two" is one of Calvino's "Our Ancestors" trilogy. The "Our Ancestors" trilogy includes: "The Non-Existent Knight", "The Viscount Split in Two" and "The Baron in the Trees". These three stories represent the three stages leading to freedom, and are about the experience of how people realize themselves: strive for in "The Non-Existent Knight" Survival, the pursuit of a complete life that is not ravaged by society in "The Viscount in Two", and a path to wholeness in "The Baron in the Trees" - a non-individualistic wholeness achieved through unswerving efforts towards personal self-determination. On the battlefield in the Middle Ages, Viscount Medardo leaped on his horse and drew his sword, but was blasted in half by a Turkish cannon. A complete man is thus divided into half a villain and half a saint. "It's not just me who is torn and mutilated, but so are you, everyone," he said.

"I Want to Uproot Loneliness for You" is a collection of Natsume Soseki's classic essays. It includes Natsume Soseki's classic prose works "Nagahi Sketches" and "Memories" and other famous prose works. Natsume Soseki's prose profoundly describes all living beings in Japan's Meiji era society, reflects various vivid life scenes and figures of that era, and leaves a mirror of the times for future generations. The thoughts are profound and the language is vivid. It reads like flowing clouds and water, which is pleasing to the eye. Has strong readability.

In a cell in a prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina, there are two prisoners, one is a political prisoner Valentin, and the other is a gay Molina, an undercover agent sent by the secret service to Valentin. A wonderful dialogue unfolded between the two, presenting scenes where movies and reality intersect. After the book "Kiss of the Spider Woman" was published in 1976, it was translated into many languages. The charm of the novel quickly spread and was transformed into various forms of expression: the musical has been performed for many years and has become a Broadway classic; the film adaptation has had a huge impact.

Keigo Higashino wrote a mystery novel specifically for elementary school students. Reading mystery novels is the best way to train young people to think carefully. I am an elementary school substitute teacher. The school didn't take me seriously, and the students knew that I wouldn't last long. I don't like being a teacher, my ideal is to become a mystery novelist. I don't expect students to like me, and I don't want to talk about big ideas, but I will never be vague about teaching seriously. I can't help it, I'm just such an upright person. Strangely enough, every time there were students who were reluctant to let me leave, saying that I was a good teacher, and some would cry. This time I came to the second class of fifth grade at Ichimonji Elementary School. Unexpectedly, something big happened the next day! So I solved the case along the way, and leaving with doubts is not my style.

"The Written World and the Non-written World" is Calvino's experience in writing, publishing and translating throughout his life. Calvino redraws the boundaries between the literal world and the non-literary world. Words are always breaking through silence, knocking on the walls of prisons, and affecting this non-word world.

A witty and atypical guide to life, telling us how to take a meaningful vacation, how to travel with salmon, how to avoid talking about football, how to take a train in the United States, how to talk about animals, and even how to become a Knight of Malta... Joking, provocative, and humorous, it is an incredible combination of profoundness and worldliness. With his naughty wit and genius-like cynicism, Eco answers questions we have never thought of and questions the answers we are accustomed to. Football, porn, and coffee pots, these seemingly "brainless" topics, become both interesting and profound in his writing, leading us to peek into the absurdity of modern life.

Bacon was a famous philosopher and writer during the English Renaissance. He served as chief prosecutor, Lord Chancellor and Lord Chancellor. This book is a collection of Bacon's essays, covering politics, economics, religion, love, marriage, friendship, art, education, ethics, etc., Touching almost every aspect of human life. "Collected Essays of Bacon" can be said to be one of the rare world-wide works. This book is not only written for one country, but also for the whole world; Bacon's words are not only written for his era, but also for all eras.

"Border Nearby" is Haruki Murakami's travel diary from 1990 to 1995. He traveled to Mexico, the United States, China and Japan. His trip to Northeast China in 1991 was his only trip to China. It inspired him to write his largest novel "The Journey of Strange Birds", which was of great significance to his creative career.