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After the death of his father, a tea ceremony master, Kikuji had a relationship with his father's mistress, Mrs. Ota, in order to find his father's shadow. Afterwards, Mrs. Ota felt deeply guilty and committed suicide because of her guilt. Later, Kikuji's longing for Mrs. Ota was transferred to her daughter Fumiko. Another mistress of his father's, Kurimoto Chika, wanted to marry Kikuji and his apprentice Inamura Yukiko. At this time, Fumiko quietly left Kikuji. Finally, Kikuji got rid of Kurimoto Chiko's entanglement and went out to look for Fumiko... "Thousand Cranes" shows the conflict between morality and reality by narrating the abnormal love between two generations.

"A Farewell to Arms" is a masterpiece by Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. The hero and heroine of the story met in a small town in northern Italy during the war. An American lieutenant who volunteered to join the Italian camp and a Scottish nurse from the Red Cross fell in love with each other. The war almost destroyed their love, but the injured lieutenant was saved from death after a shelling. The two reunited in a hospital in Milan and spent a rare sweet time together. The lieutenant who returned to the battlefield had doubts about the meaning of war, and witnessed the annihilation of humanity during the retreat. He did not hesitate to return to his lover at all costs... This work, written by Hemingway in Paris, is the practice of Hemingway's famous "journalistic" writing and "iceberg theory". "Vicious" critic Ford Madox Ford commented Regarding this work, "Every word directly touches the heart. It is as if pebbles were taken directly from the creek, so vibrant and shiny, staying in their respective positions." This publication is a full translation of the 1948 SCRIBNER final version without abridgement. J. K. Rowling and McCullers translator Mr. Lou Wuting were specially invited to carefully translate and annotate it. It contains a selection of Hemingway's image archives and a long author's preface from Hemingway's twenty-year reprint to help you better understand the classics.

In my lonely youth, you were half of the poem in my heart. "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is a poignant, romantic and sad novel written by Kawabata Yasunari based on his personal experience. The work describes a high school student "I" who traveled to Izu alone and met an innocent dancing girl, and then developed a beautiful and regretful innocent love. By describing the beautiful scenery of the green mountains and green waters of Izu, the author highlights the pure love between the two people, combines the beautiful scenery with a touch of sadness, and shows a world of sad beauty and a fresh and elegant lament through the beauty of nature, women, nirvana and mystery. The accidental intersection of lives has gently wiped away the loneliness and sentimentality of youth for us.

Based on an uncomplicated love story, many interesting and exquisite thoughts about love are based on it, giving people space to think deeply and resonate. With the appearance of Eric, love hits Alice. She abandons her independence and embraces passion, sweetness, and love; she humiliates herself and ignores Eric's self-centeredness of greed and cowardly commitment. But love still exists, but romance will eventually overdraw one day. At this time, Philip's appearance makes her fascinated again... When a woman falls in love with a man, it is often not the man she falls in love with, but love. With the appearance of Eric, love hits Alice. She abandons her independence and embraces passion, sweetness, and love; she humiliates herself and ignores Eric's self-centeredness of greed and cowardly commitment. But love remains the same, but romance will eventually overdraft. At this time, Philip's appearance makes her heart moved again... Therefore, falling in love is not as good as falling in love with romance; this is every woman's story.

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The most popular comedy novel by Nick Hornby, the most popular British writer today, and the film version of "About a Boy" starring Hugh Grant is known as "the most important British comedy". One is a twelve-year-old boy who has no childhood and is "the oldest in the world", and the other is a thirty-six-year-old man who "refuses to grow up" and is least willing to mature. The background is our noisy post-industrial era. There's sex, rock 'n' roll, lies, and more genuine laughter; it's cool enough, avant-garde enough, nonsensical enough, and speaks directly to your heart. Teach you what growth and maturity are in humor and sadness, laughter and tears.

This article is the most famous work of American children's literature writer Mrs. Burnett and a classic in the world's children's literature. "The Secret Garden" tells a story: Mary, a willful and lonely little girl from a rich family, became an orphan due to a sudden plague and was sent to a relative's home in an old manor in England for adoption. In the secluded and quiet countryside and among the simple villagers, her temperament gradually became peaceful. Late one night, following the faint cry coming from one end of the corridor of the mysterious mansion, she was brought to an equally weird and lonely little life. Colin, Mary's cousin and the young master of the mansion, was born weak and has been bedridden for many years. His temperament is surly and unpredictable. In order to help Colin, Mary took him into the secret garden in the manor that had been closed for many years. The children played undisturbed in the vibrant little world, learned to be friendly to others, and restored their pure and happy nature. A garden that had been closed because of its involvement in the memory of death was now reopened because of the vitality of new life within it. This cannot but be said to be the secret of natural force and the miracle of vitality.

Among the world's master writers, Kawabata Yasunari is famous for the beauty of expression. Beauty is his creed. The beauty of nature, tradition, art and female beauty are its aesthetic sources and objects of expression. The seemingly otherworldly and beautiful brushwork penetrates into the darkness of human nature that has never been seen before. This set collects all the must-read works of Kawabata Yasunari (7 volumes), including the three masterpieces "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand-Feathered Crane" that were highlighted by the Nobel Prize in Literature jury, the famous work "The Dancing Girl of Izu" and the "Twin Flowers of Beautiful First Love" "Flower Waltz", the masterpiece "Beauty and Sorrow" collected in his later years, and "Flowers Are Not Sleeping", a collection of handed down essays in which Kawabata directly explains his aesthetic concepts and methods, will allow you to enter Kawabata Yasunari's heart-wrenchingly delicate and breathtakingly beautiful literary world.

In this book, Margaret Atwood dissects key questions that have long plagued many writers. She reviewed her childhood and writing trajectory, using personal experience as a mirror to examine the various metaphors novelists and poets use to explain their creative activities, the costumes writers have historically worn, the "talent" required for writing, the conditions for obtaining such "talent", the relationship between writers, social and political power and readers, etc. She quoted extensively and eclectically, talking about a large number of living and deceased writers, as well as a lot of anecdotes from the Canadian and international literary circles. Underneath her relaxed and humorous writing style is her serious attitude towards the purpose and pleasure of writing, as well as her familiarity and deep understanding of the Western literary tradition.

The novel takes the life experience of the protagonist Margaret as the main line, and truly and vividly describes the tragic story of a prostitute who is as holy and beautiful as a camellia in appearance and heart. The novel is based on a personal experience of Xiao Zhongma. It is a confession of Xiao Zhongma's emotional experience. The protagonist Margaret is a very beautiful rural girl who came to Paris alone to make a living, but unfortunately became a prostitute. The crazy love for her by Armand, a young man from a well-off family, inspired her yearning for love life, but this raging love affair ended due to the opposition of Armand's father. Armand did not know the truth and thought that Margaret had betrayed him deliberately, so he looked for opportunities to humiliate her, and eventually he died of resentment in poverty and illness.

On the pounding Izu Mountain Road, a young man from Tokyo met a group of artists and they walked together. The young man was attracted by Xun, a pure, lovely, charming and charming dancer who was traveling with him, and a ray of tenderness sprouted in his heart. He seemed to see a ray of light, and his heart, which had been troubled for a long time, suddenly forgot about gains and losses. The stubbornness and awkwardness of the past and the humiliating feeling of being given charity suddenly disappeared. The two have never expressed their feelings, but in the fleeting daily life, they have accumulated feelings of mutual admiration. Full of youthful poetry, the lyricism reveals Kawabata-style sadness, but only lightly. This novel became a masterpiece of Japanese youth literature. The book includes 11 short stories and short stories including "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "The Bone Picker", "Fragile Vessel", "Her Running into the Sea of ​​Fire", "Sacrifice for Love", "Make Up", "Pomegranate", "Red Plum", "Autumn Rain", "White Horse" and "Reunion". It also comes with a long preface by Gao Huiqin and Kawabata Yasunari's musical score.

The novel depicts the social panorama of Russia from Moscow to the countryside in the mid-19th century through the heroine Anna's tragedy of pursuing love and Levin's thinking and exploration of reform. It is a classic encyclopedia-style work. At the same time, the novel creates a series of vivid characters, especially the heroine Anna Karenina. She is beautiful, sincere, passionate, rich in inner emotions, full of vitality, and dares to rebel against the upper class in the pursuit of happiness. She has become one of the most beautiful female images in the history of world literature that has not yet been surpassed.

[Original novel of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! The leisure time has come to an end. This time, Maple faces a new challenge - the guild competition! The members of "Big Maple Tree" are gearing up and waiting to show off their talents. But everyone seems to only care about the powerful showdown between "Holy Sword Gathering" and "Fire Emperor Kingdom"... "Big Maple Tree" has been marginalized! In order to overturn the situation, "Big Maple Tree" has a trump card and makes a high-profile appearance! Maple finally let herself go, heading towards the title of "The Strongest Girl"!

Always wanted to change your lifestyle? Lived a life as free and wild as "Out of Africa"! The original novel of the movie that won 7 Oscars! A masterpiece nominated twice for the Nobel Prize! A beloved reading that inspired Haruki Murakami, Hemingway, and McCullers! Newly included are 7 African plateau paintings by South African artist Pierneef, presenting "the most beautiful love letter to Africa" ​​in a panoramic manner. Translated from the American Penguin Classics 2001 authentic original, the refined translation restores the wild beauty of Africa. Hemingway: I would be even happier if Karen won the Nobel Prize because she wrote "Out of Africa"! McCullers: I read "Out of Africa" ​​every year because it always gives me endless courage and strength! Haruki Murakami: "Out of Africa" ​​is a book that must be read slowly, just like time flowing on the land of Africa. Truman Capote: "Out of Africa" ​​is a work that rarely reaches the pinnacle of beauty in the 20th century! In 1914, Karen, a newly married Danish girl, came to Kenya, East Africa, with her husband to run a coffee farm. Here, she galloped in the wilderness and saw herds of zebras; here, she also experienced divorce, farm losses, and the crash of her beloved... Here, Karen finally discovered her brave and wild soul.

He was called Balthasar, the Seven Suns, because he could see things in the light; she was called Blimunda, the Seven Moons, because she could see things in the dark. He has the iron hook growing out of his broken arm, and she has eyes that pierce everything; their bodies and minds love each other, and love makes people dare to go against the grain. It was a time of little imagination. The great king wanted to build a unique monastery, and the 31-ton boulder was moved purely by manpower; the crazy priest and the young lover wanted to build a machine that could fly into the sky, but people said flying was a sin. Eventually, the craft crashed, the body was burned, and the monastery was built. In the end, the divine power was deposed, the royal power was reduced to ashes, but love and will remained forever.

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is the masterpiece of the famous American novelist Mark Twain, published in 1876. The novel describes the colorful and romantic lives of a group of children headed by Tom Sawyer. In order to get rid of boring homework, hypocritical teachings and rigid living environment, they did all kinds of risky things. Although the novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is written for children, it is also a book for everyone. As Mark Twain wrote in the original preface: "I wrote this novel mainly to entertain children, but I hope adults will not shelve it just because it is a book for children." Because reading this novel can "adults think of themselves, their emotions, thoughts, words, and some incredible actions at that time."

O. Henry is a famous American critical realist writer and one of the world's three major short story masters. His works have novel ideas, humorous language and often surprising endings. His representative works include the novel collections "Cabbage and the King", "Four Million", "The Road of Destiny", etc. Some of his famous works, such as "The Sacrifice of Love", "The Police and the Hymn", "The Furnished Room for Rent", "The Gift of the Magi", "The Last Vine Leaf", etc., Have won him world reputation.

Raymond Chandler is good at creating cold, hard, and dark story atmospheres. His short stories are thrilling at every step. Lonely and dangerous souls can be found in every corner of the metropolis. Celebrities, prostitutes, gangsters, businessmen, private detectives, policemen... All fight openly and secretly for their own purposes. The protagonist is entangled in a conspiracy. With his sophisticated skills and shrewdness, he can see through each sinister conspiracy and uncover the shocking inside story hidden in the darkness.

This book consists of a total of 33 stories about miracles in "The Book of Miracles" and "Stories of Miracles", which are respectively the fifth and sixth original novel collections by the Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany. Critics believe that many fantasy literature authors were deeply influenced by the style of Lord Dunsany's works, including J. R. R. Tolkien (author of "The Lord of the Rings"), H. P. Lovecraft (author of "The Myth of Crusu"), and Ursula Le Guin (author of "Tales from Earthsea"). Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was an Irish writer and playwright, famous for his fantasy novels. He created hundreds of works in his lifetime, which profoundly influenced dozens of writers including H. P. Lovecraft (author of "The Myth of Crusu") and J. R. R. Tolkien (author of "The Lord of the Rings"). He is one of the founders of modern fantasy literature.

This book selects 39 short stories and short stories by the famous French writer Maupassant, including "Ball of Suet", "My Uncle Jules", "The Necklace" and other immortal masterpieces. The content is rich and colorful, and the structure is ingenious and moving.

This is a bright and sad story on the Aegean Sea. Well-known British writer and best-selling author of "The Island", Victoria Hyslop's latest collection of short stories includes ten works. The book contains cheese-like sunsets, amber seas, and touching stories that are enough to touch and nourish the coldest heart.

This volume includes "The Love of Magicians", "Hotels and Others", "Correspondence of a Genius" and "Shen Congwen's First Collection", which was published from July 1929 to June 1930. The author's short story creations tend to mature. Whether it is dialogue, psychological portrayal, or the emphasis on the surrounding environment of the characters, they all reflect Shen Congwen's enthusiasm.

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"The Wandering Child" tells the story of a boy named Remy who was rented to a busker Vitaly by his adoptive father. From then on, he began a wandering life. On the way to wandering, he learned musical instruments, traveled and performed, escaped from the mouth of a forest wolf, found himself in a den of thieves, and was unjustly imprisoned. Even in a snowstorm, his master gave his life in exchange for his dying... But he always had firm faith, maintained the kindness in his heart, and finally found relatives and friends, reunited with his biological mother, punished the mastermind behind his wandering, and lived a good life with his whole family together. "The Wandering Child" is the most well-known of Hector Marlowe's works. After the novel came out, it has been translated into English, German, Russian, Japanese and other languages. Today, more than a hundred years later, it has been reprinted and published in France and has been adapted for the screen many times.

The legendary Japanese female writer Hayashi Fumiko was a model of female literature in the Showa era. She was highly praised by famous writers such as Kawabata Yasunari and Mishima Yukio. Film master Naruse Mikio was even more in love with her and adapted her works for the screen six times. After going through the difficult years of survival and the ups and downs of love, Hayashi Fumiko has always loved passionately, lived brilliantly, and written passionately. She has strived forward in the face of adversity and thrived under the nourishment of love and desire. She injects this wildness and vitality into her works and characters, and with her unique "bohemian" style, she leaves a bright figure in the field of private novels. "Late Chrysanthemum" is a complete collection of Hayashi Fumiko's short masterpieces, including the classic work "Late Chrysanthemum" adapted into a movie of the same name by Naruse Mikio, as well as other representative works such as "The Accordion and the Fishing Town", "The Story of Poverty", and "The Oyster". Also included are the essays "Literary Autobiography" and "The Tip of Love", which are Fumiko Hayashi's sincere confessions about her literary life and emotional experience. The whole book covers every stage of Hayashi Fumiko's creation and completely presents the trajectory of her literary life. Translated by professional translator Liu Xiaojun, it is a reprinted work that has been carefully revised by the translator and comes with a new preface. Writers, travel traders, dancers, geishas... The female characters are vivid, three-dimensional, strong and independent. Their stories demonstrate women's will to survive in the turbulence of the times, and record the lingering love in trivial daily life. The delicate portrayal of female psychology, the precise capture of people's mental state before and after the war, and the detailed outline of complex human nature, through Fumiko Hayashi's simple and clear words, directly hit people's hearts and aroused resonance.

This book comprehensively collects Izumi Kyoka's classic works in three different genres: dramas, novels and sketches: the drama masterpiece "Tenshu Monogatari", which was first published in Simplified Chinese version and was the peak of her creative career, "Even if the world is full of war, butterflies will still fly, and Nadeshiko and Platycodon will still bloom"; A Cold War A charming fantasy, "Uta no Yue" is a mature work by Kyoka Izumi pursuing "artistic supremacy"; a remarkable work of early conceptual novels, "Surgery Room", a story of pure love that transcends physical pain in the operating room; there are also playful and strange sketches "Yōkai Chronicle" and "The Seven Mysterious Incidents in Kagurazaka". It describes love, entanglements and regrets across the human world and other worlds, dreams and reality. The meticulously crafted magical language builds a "mirror world" like Pandora's box: gorgeous and ghostly, lifelike. He has a flat, three-quarter-length hair, a clean face, and wears thin gold round glasses. He has the appearance of a literary young man. What makes him have the imagination to travel to other worlds and reality? The book includes a "Writer's Anecdotal Column - Izumi Kyoka's Incredible" that profiles Kyoka's phobia, paranoia and collecting addiction, leading readers to add another touch of Kyoka's daily life interest when they are lost in the glorious and bizarre world of Kyoka.

"The Tragedies of Sophocles" collects five tragedies by the ancient Greek tragedy writer Sophocles, including "Antigone", "Oedipus the King", "Electra", "The Maiden of Trachis" and "Oedipus at Colonus". The works of Sophocles reflect the ideas of the heyday of Athenian democracy. Sophocles advocated the spirit of democracy, opposed tyranny, praised heroes, and valued people's talents. Sophocles' tragedy style is simple, concise and powerful, with rich and colorful characters, tight and harmonious layout, and perfect form, which greatly advances the art of tragedy.

In broad daylight, a businessman was kidnapped on the streets of New York's Upper East Side, and a miniature noose used for hanging was left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl was the only witness to the crime. This case is full of doubts and requires the intervention of the highest level criminal investigation experts. Criminal investigation experts Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs were ordered to investigate. Soon, the case took an even stranger turn: a video surfaced of the victim being slowly choked. The struggling gasps became the background sound of a strange music. The author of the video claimed to be a composer... Despite the best efforts of the police to solve the case, the suspect escaped. So when a similar kidnapping occurs on a dusty road outside Naples, Italy, Rhyme and Sachs don't hesitate to join the hunt.

This book is one of the "Comprehensive Translation of Detective Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty: Gao Luopei's Embroidered Portrait Edition". "The Strange Case of Liuyuan Pictures" tells the story of the raging plague in Kyoto and the undercurrent. Mei Liang, a wealthy businessman, mysteriously fell down a ladder and died. While the case was being solved, Lord Yehou was also killed... As the case progressed, the hidden past of the three wealthy families of He, Mei, and Ye was implicated in a picture of Liuyuan. At the same time, a suspected case of torturing and murdering a maid that occurred many years ago was implicated...

Claire whose last name is unknown. This is your role in my life, the little girl of my childhood, transformed into a woman today, a childhood sweetheart memory, a wish that the God of Time did not grant. A thin little boy who is always bullied by his classmates becomes powerful because he has a special ability: he can "steal other people's shadows", so he can see other people's thoughts and hear the secrets in people's hearts that they don't want to say. He began to become a spiritual partner for those in need, finding the little light that lit up life for every stolen shadow. One glorious summer day, he met a deaf and mute girl at the beach. How should he use his abilities to help her? How will he keep the promise he made with her? \

This book is the new version of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", which not only restores the original appearance as much as possible, but also strives to be suitable for today's readers. It is accompanied by more than 300 widely circulated embroidery illustrations, adding to its artistic appeal.

Myth is a product of human childhood and has an everlasting fascination. Greek mythology has been around for a long time because of its relatively complete system and unique literary charm. Greek mythology and biblical mythology have had a comprehensive and profound impact on the religion, philosophy, thought, customs, natural science, literature and art of the entire West and even mankind. When you come into contact with Western culture, you are bound to encounter allusions from Greek mythology. Almost every important classic Western literary work involves characters and plots from Greek mythology, and some are even directly based on Greek mythology. Today, although we do not have to "call everything Greek", a systematic understanding of Greek mythology is necessary for every modern person.

"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese from the Qing Dynasty that is well-known at home and abroad. Pu Songling used his concise and vivid writing style and romantic and unrestrained imagination to create nearly 500 bizarre stories about humans, ghosts, foxes and demons, creating a large number of bizarre artistic images and becoming a representative work of Chinese classical Chinese novels. There are many editions of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". Among them, "New Annotations from a Chinese Studio" edited by Mr. Zhu Qikai (People's Literature Publishing House, October 1989) has a relatively complete collection and editing, and Mr. Li Boqi also participated in the annotation work. , Which was used as the basis of this book, from which nearly fifty excellent articles were selected, supplemented by precise annotations; People's Literature Publishing House also selected exquisite color illustrations from the late Qing Dynasty's "Liaozhai Illustrations", with both pictures and text, perfectly showing the style of the original work. With a volume in hand, readers can enter the beautiful artistic world of flower demons and foxes created by Pu Songling, appreciate the crossing of emotions and thoughts between real life and fantasy imagination, and appreciate the elegant, concise and vivid expressive power of classical Chinese.

That summer, the old school building that had stood in the town for 84 years was finally going to be demolished. The glass that has been distorted by time and gravity, the chalk dust that has been floating for nearly a century, and the dim and winding corridors and stairs will all be buried under the dust forever with it. However, just the day before the summer vacation started, a boy walked into the basement of the old school building and completely disappeared into the darkness. The moving things under the old school building, the corpse collection truck in hot pursuit, the teacher talking to the phosphorus fire, the strange soldiers with stiff movements... With the old school building as the center, an invisible evil force is rapidly spreading to the entire town, invading its last students' summer vacation that should be full of joy and sweat... They still don't know that the upcoming weird summer night is destined to change their lives.

The second time I took the train to the island village where I met the geisha Komako, and when I was enjoying the snowy scenery at dusk, I accidentally saw the beautiful girl Ye Zi reflected on the train window, and I fell in love with her. Subtle emotional entanglements pass through the long tunnel across the border, lingering in the snowy country. "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's highest masterpiece and one of the three novels mentioned by the Nobel Prize jury. It not only adheres to the traditional aesthetics of emptiness and silence since "The Tale of Genji", but also explores the deep and secret psychological consciousness of human nature. It also explores important topics such as fate, and uses extremely subtle and implicit poetic language, beautiful imagery and breaks the boundaries of time and space. The writing presents a profound and extensive picture of life in minimalist length, characters, and plots, allowing the original love and loneliness of human nature to reflect each other, bringing strong sensory stimulation, and at the same time, it reaches the extreme of the beauty of nothingness, purity, and sadness.

This is the story of two lonely, scrawny, rather old men who meet on a dying planet. One of them is the science fiction novelist Trout, who is unknown and thinks his life is over. The person he meets is car agent Dwayne, who has a successful career but is on the verge of a mental breakdown. After the two met, one became famous and the other went crazy. And all this is due to a theory in a science fiction novel. Its core idea is as follows: everyone on the earth is a robot, and only you have free will.

This is a story in which men are absent and women set up a household and take care of the family. What kind of skills do three generations of women have to keep the incense alive? What kind of twists and turns did the "good men and good women" in Tianxiang Garden go through before they suddenly realized the ordinary happiness of free and blossoming life?

"Laughter in the Dark" is a black allegory parodying melodrama by the novelist Nabokov. It was written in Berlin in 1932 under the title "Camera Obscura" and published in Paris and Berlin. It was translated into English by Way Loy in 1936 and published in London under its original name. In 1938, it was significantly revised and re-translated by Nabokov himself and published in New York under the name "Laughter in the Dark". The novel imitates the kind of cheap love triangle stories popular in movies in the 1920s and 1930s. It uses the movie as its title at the beginning to introduce the relationship between the main characters. The actor Obinus wants to use the new technique of animation to "animate" the paintings of ancient masters, and proposes to cooperate with the caricature painter Rex. Obinas fell in love with the theater usher Margot at first sight. Margot, who was "obsessed with watching movies," dreamed of becoming a movie star. When she was convinced that he belonged to a class that could "provide the conditions for her to be on stage and screen," she decided to associate with him. The banquet hosted by Obinas to entertain the stars creates an opportunity for Margot to reunite with her former lover Rex, thus forming a triangle relationship until the novel ends in tragedy.

"Selected Short Stories of Maupassant" is a collection of representative works of Maupassant in various periods, including "Ball of Suet", "The Necklace", "My Uncle Jules" and other classic works. In Maupassant's works, there are the urban bottom characters who are kind-hearted but are exploited and spurned by hypocritical decent people, the vain girl Mathilde who worked hard all her life for a fake necklace, and a family who were distorted by money and abandoned their family ties... These works represent Maupassant's outstanding achievements in short story creation, and are still of awakening significance in today's era.

"Tess" is one of Hardy's important masterpieces. The novel takes the experiences of the heroine Tess as the main line, describing the conflict between the beautiful poetic image and the surrounding gloomy reality. It vividly describes the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy after capitalism invaded the British countryside at the end of the 19th century and the painful process of individual farmers heading towards poverty and bankruptcy. Through the description of the double persecution suffered by a pure woman both mentally and physically, it reveals the rich and profound spiritual world of a woman, and boldly and ruthlessly exposes and accuses the laws, religion, ethics, marriage system and the essence of capitalism in capitalist society.

Goethe (1749-1832), a German literary giant. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is his most important early work. This is an epistolary novel, and the author was only twenty-five years old when he wrote it. The novel describes the experiences and feelings of progressive young people about the despicable German society at that time, and expresses the author's reaction to the feudal moral hierarchy and his strong demand for individual liberation: the young Werther fell in love with a girl named Lotte, who was already engaged to someone else. The setback in love made Werther devastated. Later, Werther committed suicide because he was incompatible with feudal society and felt that his future was hopeless. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" came out in 1775. Its publication was considered an epoch-making event in the history of German literature; it shocked the hearts of an entire generation of young people in Germany and even Europe.

"The Red and the Black" is the foundation work of European critical realism in the 19th century. The novel focuses on the protagonist Julien's personal struggles and failures, especially the description of his two love affairs. It extensively displays "the social atmosphere brought about by successive governments that pressed on the French people in the early 30 years of the 19th century." It strongly criticizes the reaction of the aristocrats during the Restoration Dynasty, the darkness of the church, and the despicable vulgarity and greed of the new bourgeoisie. Although the novel takes Julien's love life as the main line, it is not a love novel, but a "political novel".

August 8, 2012 The nursing home where Mary Green works is very close to the house where Edward and Dorethy used to live. When Edward drove to the nursing home, he would inevitably pass by their former "home". After only a few days of neglect, this small building full of life was covered with withering and decay. The ivy on the exterior wall and the roses in the garden looked like they were infected with insect diseases. The leaves were yellowing and the petals were withered, as if winter had come early. Dorece used to care most about these flowers and plants, treating them like pets.

This book mainly tells the story of the Taira family headed by Taira Kiyomori. The first six volumes describe the prosperity and arrogance and arrogance of the Taira family; the last seven volumes focus on describing the battle between the two great samurai groups of Genpei, exaggerating the tragic ending of the Taira family's eventual annihilation. The book quotes a considerable number of Chinese classics. It was once performed vividly by Master Pipa from Japan. The author mainly focuses on the two periods of the Taira family (the Taira Kiyoshi period and the Taira clan's prosperous period), and describes after the Homoto Rebellion and the Heiji Rebellion. The whole article is mainly in the form of a history book, in which the author adds his views on many events, forming a structure in which the author is looking for the reasons for the decline of the Taira clan as the main clue. This book is a hardcover version with color illustrations and inserts.

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

This book is a collection of Wilde's classic fairy tales, including "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Happy Prince", "Friends", "The Great Cannon", "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Spanish Princess", "The Fisherman and the Soul", "The Star Boy" and "The Selfish Giant". Wilde's first adult fairy tale has a unique style, ingenious conception, rich imagination, light and alert language, and a lot of irony. Every story told is full of sympathy for society. Fairy tales contain richer social content than fables. When he told fairy tales to his son, he once cried and said: "Really beautiful things make people sad."

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"Jude the Obscure" is the last novel written by British writer Thomas Hardy, published in 1895. The novel narrates the tragedy of the life of rural young Jude in a tragic tone. Jude was studious, thoughtful and diligent in self-study, but he was always rejected from the university. The heroine Shu is smart and beautiful, and more importantly, has an independent personality and thoughts, and despises secularity and rigid religion. However, her love with Jude is not tolerated by the church and despised by the world. Jude's ambition was unrewarded, he had no way to find a job, and he had no way to borrow money. In despair, his eldest son hanged together with his weak sister and younger brother. Shu suffered this tragic change and finally succumbed to fate and the church. She left her beloved Jude, and her free thoughts and independent personality were destroyed. Jude, on the other hand, indulged in drinking all day long, became depressed and became ill, and died of resentment before he reached thirty.

"Disillusionment" reveals the inside story of the literary and journalistic circles, and concentrates the author's main life experiences and deep feelings about life. It is one of the valuable works in "Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and had their ideals shattered: one was a talented young man who dreamed of gaining fame in the literary world with his pen, but in a society where literature has been reduced to a commodity, he degenerated into a shameless literary slave who sold his soul and was ruined in the strife and party struggles in the literary world; The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution.