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Fitzgerald is the most outstanding and popular writer in the United States in the 20th century. 2016 Coincides with the 120th anniversary of the author's birth. Shanghai Translation has launched a new edition of the collection, which is more comprehensive and detailed than Fitzgerald's works in the market. This is the fifth volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. It discloses Fitzgerald's essays and letters for the first time, showing a portrait of the famous writers and literary figures of the Jazz Age. It acutely and accurately summarizes the spirit of the "Jazz Age" and reveals the essence of New York, an international metropolis. "Echoes of the Jazz Age" and "My Lost City" keenly and accurately summarize the spirit of that "Jazz Age". Especially for those of us living in this era, some of the descriptions may even make us feel a little bit sympathetic. Although we have never had the opportunity to experience such an era of shocking wealth, we know very clearly what "young people are exhausted both mentally and physically early - they live a difficult and exhausted life at the age of twenty-one, and no one contributes anything." Something new..." He revealed the essence of New York as a model of a modern cosmopolitan city: "... Behind the vast amount of entertainment that the city pours into the country, there are just many people who are both lost and lonely. The world of movie actors is similar to our own world in that it is in New York, but it is not New York. It has almost no self and no core..."

Fitzgerald is the most outstanding and popular writer in the United States in the 20th century. 2016 Coincides with the 120th anniversary of the author's birth. Shanghai Translation has launched a new edition of the collection, which is more comprehensive and detailed than Fitzgerald's works in the market. "The Love of the Last Tycoon" is Fei's last unfinished feature film, describing the desperate love of a Hollywood tycoon at the end of his life. The Hollywood movie "The Last Tycoon" based on the book stars "Peacock" Matt Bomer and Lily Collins. This book is the ninth volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. Through the characterization of Stahl's character and the truthful depiction of the world around him in "The Last Tycoon", Fitzgerald more powerfully and effectively demonstrated his deep understanding of the spiritual essence of the "American Dream" and his strong sense of worry about the "American Tragedy." In this unfinished work, the author seems to have combined two novels into one work: it is both a "psychological novel" describing Munroe Starr's personal struggle and spiritual experience, and a "social novel" that reflects the real scenes of Hollywood and exposes the dark inside story of the film industry. With his extremely high literary talent and extraordinary ability to control materials, the author organically integrates two creative ideas, giving this novel a strong shock and tragic effect.

In 1959, a kind-hearted widow, Florence Green, took her only property and decided to open a bookstore. It was the only bookstore in town. This seemingly unrealistic idea eventually succeeded, but it also aroused the hidden malice of the people in the small town. In order to enrich the daily life of the neighborhood, she offended Madame Gamart, a powerful lady in the town. Florence's warehouse kept leaking, seeping into the cellar, and then the bookstore followed suit. She finally began to wonder: a town without a bookstore might not want one.

"The Pat Hobby Series" contains a total of 17 short stories, all of which were serialized in "Esquire" magazine. The first article, "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish," was published in January 1940, and the last article, "Pat Hobby's College Years," was published in May 1941. The author's language is humorous and satirical, and the work is compact and interesting, microscopically recreating the style of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.

This book contains some of Fitzgerald's letters. Most of these letters are about his literary activities and literary interests. The first part is his letters to his friends, and the second part is his letters to his daughter.

Fitzgerald is the most outstanding and popular writer in the United States in the 20th century. 2016 Coincides with the 120th anniversary of the author's birth. Shanghai Translation has launched a new edition of the collection, which is more comprehensive and detailed than Fitzgerald's works in the market. "Tender Is the Night" is the author's most painstaking autobiographical novel and one of the 100 greatest English works of the 20th century selected by Modern Library. This book is the fourth volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. Actress Rosemary meets the protagonist Dick Diver, a psychiatrist, on the beach in Cannes. His wife Nicole is his past patient and suffers from schizophrenia. He was gentle and courteous, and Rosemary quickly became smitten with him. Although she repeatedly expressed her feelings to him, Dick remained unmoved. After returning to Paris, his loyalty to his wife Nicole seemed unwavering, but in fact he was involuntarily attracted to Rosemary. In order to get rid of his fantasy about Rosemary, Dick began to write a monograph, trying to be as gentle and considerate as possible to Nicole, who had relapsed into hysteria and was still mentally unstable. While on vacation in the Alps, he met his former friend Franz and used part of his wife's considerable fortune to set up a clinic with him. At this time, Nicole received a letter accusing Dick of adultery with a patient. Her condition worsened and she deliberately crashed the car during an outing. Dick was extremely depressed and went on vacation alone to relax. On the way, he met Rosemary by chance, but only realized that their short-lived love was irretrievable. In the end, he drank to drown his sorrows, and his wife left him. He was once the epitome of this romantic era, but in the end he became a self-pitying loser. The novel witnesses the disillusionment of the "Jazz Age" in which Fitzgerald spent most of his life, and to a large extent achieves what the author himself calls "a thorough and painful understanding of life."

Fitzgerald is the most outstanding and popular writer in the United States in the 20th century. 2016 Coincides with the 120th anniversary of the author's birth. Shanghai Translation has launched a new edition of the collection, which is more comprehensive and detailed than Fitzgerald's works in the market. This book is the first volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. "Heaven on Earth" is Fei's debut novel that made her famous overnight. It is the first American campus novel in the true sense, recreating the "days related to youth" in the 1920s. It is the author's first novel and an epoch-making work. It reveals for the first time the spiritual mentor and first love who influenced the author's life. The protagonist of the novel, Amory Bryan, is handsome in appearance, wealthy and pampered. He was admitted to Princeton University as a college student, and later participated in World War I. The war allowed him to see clearly some of the essence of this era and human nature. After leaving the army, Brian became even more confused and decadent. At the age of 30, he became cynical and world-weary, and began to "hate this social system" and longed for a social revolution to push himself to the top of society. The novel is based on the author's own studies and overseas life, describing the protagonist's experience from preparatory school to university, and then experiencing the First World War, and brilliantly reproduces the spiritual outlook of the "lost generation".

A series of self-analytic and self-reflective essays written by Fitzgerald. In 1936, it was divided into three articles and published in the February, March and April issues of Esquire. The opening line reads: Of course all life is a process of breaking down. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940), American novelist and "Poet Laureate" of the Jazz Age, is known as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, represented by "The Great Gatsby". He has written four novels and more than 160 short stories. His works mainly explore themes such as youth, despair and the times.

Fitzgerald is the most outstanding and popular writer in the United States in the 20th century. 2016 Coincides with the 120th anniversary of the author's birth. Shanghai Translation has launched a new edition of the collection, which is more comprehensive and detailed than Fitzgerald's works in the market. This book is the sixth volume of the collection. It is the author's most mature and popular work, marking the author's remarkable success. This book is the author's first collection of short stories, including eight of his published short stories. The author faithfully depicts the life scene of American society after World War I with a new perspective and vivid writing style, praising the young generation's rebellious mentality against old morality and pursuit of a better future. "Pirates Offshore" is a fictional romantic story, and the heroine Ardita is simply the image spokesperson of Fly Girls. She is completely opposed to a mediocre life and would rather live in a beautiful lie. "The Ice Palace" is filled with a strong poetic flavor. The author uses exquisite writing to describe the differences between the South and the North of the United States, as well as the impact of pride and prejudice on people's hearts. Many major themes are condensed in this beautiful short story. "Head and Shoulders" is the most humorous piece in the collection. "The Engraved Glass Wine Vat" is an unforgettable story, cleverly conceived, in which the protagonist's life is affected by a wine vat. "Bernice Cuts Her Hair" is the most famous story in the collection. It has been adapted into a TV short and a stage play. This story also reflects the author's own attitude of admiration and confusion towards fly girls. "Blessing Ceremony" is an alternative in the collection, reflecting the author's complex mentality of awe and fear towards religious thoughts and rituals. "The Fall of Daley Limbo" is a short story with a humorous tone, which satirizes the prevailing trend of taking risks and taking shortcuts. "Four Fists" is a bitter and humorous story that reflects the four unforgettable blows a young man suffered while growing up.

This book is the eighth volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. It contains the essence of Fitzgerald's short stories. It has been selected as the number one work in textbooks and various anthologies. It is a collection of short stories with highly cited witty sayings. It is recognized as the author's most sonorous and powerful short story collection with the most artistic merit. Phil's third collection of novels, including "The Rich Man", "A Winter's Dream", "Baby Shower", "Absolution", "Pauper Martin Jones and the Prince of Wales", "The Wise Move" and "Gerry's Forty Blinks". "Winter Dreams" can be said to be a prelude or abbreviation of "The Great Gatsby". It uses a sad tone to describe love and marriage that have been distorted by money and material desires. There is a trickle of sadness and sadness flowing between the lines, making people and the author understand and appreciate this dream-like life and chaotic world. "The Rich Young Master" conducted an in-depth analysis of the nature of "very rich people". The discussion about "rich people are completely different from you and me" caused quite a shock in the literary world at that time and became a fashionable topic at the time. "Absolution" describes the fierce conflict between a teenager named Rudolf and a priest named Schwap over moral principles, religious beliefs and the pursuit of beautiful things. "Pauper Martin Jones and the Prince of Wales" uses romantic writing to describe modern women's bold and passionate pursuit of a better life. It is a bizarre and wonderful romantic story of the Jazz Age. "A Wise Move" describes the personal experience of the author and his wife Zelda. It describes the love and marriage of this literary couple in a tearful way, and truly records the author's reflections on his own unique marriage.

The story of "Tender Is the Night" takes place in Europe, but the novel still shows the social life of the "Jazz Age" in the United States. Dick Diver is a young and promising psychiatrist from the American Midwest who conducts pathological research on mental illness in Zurich, Switzerland. He was involved in the treatment of rich girl Nicole Warren, who became mentally ill as a result of incest with her millionaire father. The main content of "Tender Is the Night" introduces strong nostalgia, regret, lost hope, shattered illusions, and split personality. It is a highly autobiographical novel that explores a process of emotional and mental breakdown that is very similar to that experienced by the author.

"The Great Gatsby" is one of the most important works in the history of twentieth-century American literature. It tells the story of Nick, a clerk who left his hometown in the Midwest and came to the East in the spring of 1922, and accidentally lived next door to the rich Gatsby. He found that Gatsby's huge mansion was full of music and music day and night, but he himself was full of thoughts and always stared across the water at the shining green light at night in the residence on the other side - where his first love, Daisy, lived. Gatsby walked a long way to stand on the lawn of this mansion. When he recognized the green light of Daisy's house for the first time, he felt that his dream seemed so close that it was almost impossible not to catch it. He didn't expect that that dream had already been left behind in the boundless chaos behind the city...

"Tales from the Jazz Age" is Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, including a total of eleven short stories. Each chapter has a vivid plot, profound meaning and strong artistic sense. It records and depicts the young generation's dreams, pursuits, love, pain, disappointment, hardship, confusion and other complex life experiences. It reflects the splendor of the dazzling Jazz Age and highly dramatizes the fierce conflicts between modern consciousness and traditional concepts. Some, such as "Camel's Back" and "Rejuvenation", have been adapted into movies by Hollywood.

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The first African-American female writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature - Alice Walker's first short story collection, published in 1973. This book collects 13 short stories, telling the various experiences of black women in real life, such as marriage and family, race and faith, and how many shackles still cannot restrain their desire to pursue themselves. Through the stories of black women with different personalities and life experiences, Walker presents the survival dilemmas faced by black women in the 20th century and the tenacity to overcome them. He portrays the inner turmoil of women of "our mother's generation" and breaks through stereotypes. It is in sharp contrast to the blind and submissive image of black women prevalent in black national literature at that time. It accumulates spiritual strength for the next generation of black women to change their destiny, marking a major change in black literature. In addition, the short story "Daily Necessities" and other chapters included in the book have been included in African American anthologies many times and are also classics in the history of contemporary literature.

This book was first published in 1992. The plot of this book is closely related to Alice Walker's masterpiece "The Color Purple". Walker once said: "Tashe briefly appeared in "The Color Purple". When writing this book, she has been lingering in my mind and deeply imprinted in my heart. She made me finally decide that she needed an independent story and that she was worthy of me. Write a book of her own. "Tashe is the daughter-in-law of Celie, the protagonist in The Color Purple. The story of her and Celie's son Adam growing up as childhood sweethearts in the Olinka tribe in Africa appeared in Nettie's letter in The Color Purple. This book tells the story of Tahi and Adam's life after they returned to the United States from Africa. Tahi accepted the traditional custom of killing women's bodies in Africa - "circumcision". In the process of seeking healing, Tahi gradually realized that the female body has always been stigmatized in human history, and finally decided to return to Africa to resist her fate of being misunderstood and despised as a black woman. Tahi once read in a book written by a white person: "Black people follow their nature and they have the secret of happiness." She had never experienced true happiness until the end of her life and finally understood: "Resistance is the secret of happiness."

A landmark classic in the field of feminist literature. Susan Cuba, a well-known feminist scholar and co-author of "The Madwoman in the Attic", provides a 20,000-word introduction. A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928. In 1929, Woolf combined the two speeches into one, entitled "Women and Novel", and published it in the American magazine "Forum". It was later published as a book under the title "A Room of One's Own", which caused a sensation. The style of "Room" is humorous, quirky, and full of quotations. It uses sharp words to interrogate the injustice and oppression of "women" as the second gender in legal and social history, and eloquently puts forward the importance of economic foundation and independent space to women's mental freedom. There is also a wonderful discussion on the idea that "great souls are androgynous". Woolf encouraged women to break the cage in their minds, bravely go to the outside world, cultivate free habits, and create to their heart's content.

Woolf's famous work is the foundation of stream-of-consciousness novels. It has many innovations in subject matter, style and writing methods. Woolf created an eternal classic with her keen perception of the moment. "Mrs. Dalloway" was published in 1925 and is known as the foundation of the stream of consciousness novel. The novel describes a day in the life of the heroine Clarissa Dalloway, detailing her preparations for a dinner party held at home. However, what readers see is not just Mrs. Dalloway's activities in a day, but her temperament, her encounters, and her relationship with her family and friends. The characters' memories and the transformation of time and space are intertwined and interpenetrated, falling like raindrops in colorful colors, making us unconsciously empathize with each other, and the picture of Mrs. Dalloway's life is slowly unfolding before our eyes.

Published in 1937, this book was Woolf's last novel published during her lifetime, and it was also her best-selling work during her lifetime. This book tells the history of the Padgett family for more than fifty years, from the unpredictable spring of 1880 to a summer night dance in the 1930s. The personal lives of the characters are placed on the stage, through dialogue and psychological activities, while various historical events serve as the background, looming. Along with the characters in the book, we grow, lose, are moved, regret, endure, and are heartbroken. Completely different from the author's previous novel "The Waves", this book focuses on the description and presentation of reality and deliberately downplays fantasy and poetry. Behind this effort is Woolf's ambition and courage to innovate in her prime years of creation.

"The Waves" is Woolf's work at the peak of her creative power and was published in 1931. This poetic experimental work does not have a story in the strict sense, but is more like a musical work composed of nine movements: each introduction is an exquisite prose poem, using the ebb and flow of the sun and waves to correspond to the ups and downs of life; following each introduction are the momentary inner monologues of six highly formalized characters without surnames in their respective life stages - from childhood, studenthood, youth, middle age to old age. The introduction and the main text map each other, opening up an unprecedented and nuanced channel for the readers' senses, and getting closer to the essence of life, time, consciousness and feeling to the maximum extent. This is a work that occupies an important position in the palace of modern literature. To this day, it still stirs our souls with its exquisite text structure and poetic style.

Renzi, a girl working hard in the city, came home from get off work one day and found that her many years of savings and belongings had been swept away by her Indian boyfriend. The sudden huge blow caused Renzi to lose the ability to speak for a while. With no one to rely on, she had no choice but to return to the countryside where she was born, seek refuge with her mother, open a small canteen, and silently do the only thing she is good at: cooking. She named it "Snail Canteen". Every day, Renzi stays in this "volute", relying on his love and sincerity for cooking, and after minimal communication with the guests, he creates dishes that suit their mood and are full of energy. As if by magic, every guest who has come here: a man who was abandoned by his wife, a young girl who hopes to be with the boy she has a crush on, a young wife who longs to meet her lover in her dream, and an anorexic rabbit, all have quietly changed their lives. And Lunzi's own heart knot is slowly opening up.

The years go by, the seasons change, and some life experiences leave traces in the days. Have those deep or shallow feelings, as well as the whispers about the world, been properly placed? Ogawa Ito's collection of prose essays records life experiences throughout the year. Turn on the "receiving antenna" and seriously experience the world through Ogawa Ito's words! --I consider myself to be 100% a cat. Longing for freedom. However, sometimes I want to rely on others. --Be kind to your neighbors with an upright heart, and work conscientiously and happily for someone without losing any sense of proportion. -- Believes that writing a diary is a kind of salvation and the only moment when she feels free. --Fancy people, cute people, calm people, elegant people, everyone is free to express their unique look. --The act of hating will corrode your own heart and will not bring any extra points to your life in the end. - No need to work hard to forgive. It's not right to say forgetting. Only by understanding the other person's behavior can you save your own wounded soul. --Decorating all kinds of things in visible places always feels messy. --It's great to drink in moderation and enjoy the aftertaste of being "slightly tipsy". Ogawa Ito's words convey not only the touch of life, but also the dialogue with oneself. Through Nuan Nuan's words, you can feel the change of seasons and the joy of life. What you get from it is not only a touch, but also the redemption and respect for life.

Various life stories that unfold through food. Slowly savor the power and meaning of rebirth that each delicacy brings to people. The mother actually called grandma Xiaohua, saying that grandma had returned to the state of a child. Grandma first erased my mother's existence from her memory. Not long after, Mayu was also forgotten by her grandmother. Grandma, who became strange, suddenly remembered the natural shaved ice that looked like Mount Fuji. The boyfriend, who is about to be transferred to Canada, takes his girlfriend to visit an inconspicuous but delicious restaurant that his father frequented during his lifetime. Here he will confess to his girlfriend the most important thing in his life. The couple who were about to divorce decided to arrange a farewell trip, enjoy delicious matsutake dishes together, and go to hot springs separately. ...Food plays a down-to-earth and reliable role in these people's lives. Food is an important emotional nutrient, a comfort that can't bear sadness, an addition to happiness, and a force that supports people to go on bravely.

Gentle and unpretentious, Ogawa Ito tells her daily life in more than 50 essays. She is both a writer and a lifer. Being able to spend every day calmly and peacefully is such a hard-won life. Please remember this rare happiness. There are some burdens to bear in life, some of which cannot be easily told to others, some of which make oneself regretful, and some which make oneself feel guilty. Surviving is by no means a simple matter. Many times it doesn't work out. For a whole day, without deliberately doing anything special, just because of the food, singing, dancing, silence, and talking and laughing, my heart will be filled to the top and extremely happy. Life is slowly managed along these small blessings. Take off the burden on your shoulders and see the scenery that you couldn't see if you were just trying to be brave. Living life as usual is the most powerful resistance to the cruel world.

There must be many things hidden in this world that I can find if I keep looking. Ogawa Ito's words are just right and restrained, implying deep feelings, making people want to seriously cherish every moment of light in life. "If I can harvest grapefruit in my garden in the future, that will be enough to make people cheer. There should be a long, long way to go before that day." Ogawa Ito wrote an essay about his life spanning a year with his usual delicate words. Ogawa Ito's ability to create atmosphere is extremely strong, making people feel that everything is a beautiful fragment of life. Ogawa Ito deconstructs simple daily life, every word and sentence is concise and gentle, full of just the right amount of elegance and affection. No matter which page you turn and which paragraph you read, you will feel beautiful but not excessive. In monotonous days, Ogawa Ito chooses to decorate his life with different rewards. Living every day well is the greatest reward for yourself.

[Best-selling author Ogawa Ito returns with heart-warming following "Camellia Stationery" and "Sands Day at the Lion House"] In spring, feel the warmth from the heart, stand under the blooming cherry blossoms, and be a serious flower viewer. On a hot summer day, the sun shines on the lake, putting peaches into the cool lake water. Thousands of light and shadows soothe people's hearts. In the season of falling leaves, make your favorite pastries with your own hands, stay in the kitchen all day, and enjoy a pleasant cooking time. The breath of winter is coming, brew a pot of hot tea, and use chestnuts in the middle of the night to eliminate all mediocrity and fatigue. The bits and pieces that are repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated constitute life itself. It is in this daily life that I write one story after another and listen to them fall to the ground.

In order to escape from the worries of the world, a painter left the city in early spring and went into the mountains, where he stayed temporarily in a hot spring house called Nagujing. In the middle of the night on the first day of his stay, the painter was awakened by a burst of singing. He stood up and looked around, and saw a woman vaguely appearing in the attic outside the house like a phantom, and then disappeared again. The next day, he got up early and took a bath, wondering whether what he saw and heard last night was a dream, but he saw the "phantom" walking towards him serving tea. It turns out that this graceful "phantom" is the daughter of the master of this family. She appears in front of the artist's eyes like a fairy in the painting, showing a hazy and mysterious beauty. Afterwards, the painter went to a nearby barbershop for a shave. The owner of the barbershop said that the hot spring master's daughter, a girl named Namei, was divorced and had a "crazy" temper, and asked him not to get too close. A young monk who came to the barber shop to have his head shaved retorted that Namei was a very wise adult. The beauty that everyone talks about, the beauty that seems absurd and simple in conversation, has become an otherworldly and "inhuman" existence in the artist's heart. The artist feels that every move she makes is like the person in the painting, and imagines that if he develops feelings for her, can this feeling be called "inhuman"?

"I Am a Cat" is a famous work by Japan's "national writer" Natsume Soseki, which has a profound influence on Japanese literature. The novel adopts humorous, satirical and comical techniques, and from the perspective of a cat, it describes the daily life of its owner Kushamana and his friends, as well as various phenomena in the human world as seen by the cat. This cat is self-righteous, witty, humorous and witty. The author used his words to ridicule the empty spiritual world of the intellectuals in Meiji society, and exposed the snobbish, vulgar, and ferocious nature of Kaneda and other bourgeoisie and their accomplices.

Natsume Soseki's unique and gorgeous work is a long masterpiece of haiku written in a series of beautiful words. It is a confrontation between modernity and classics, and the confrontation between glitz and simplicity. Blooming in silver, and fading in silver. This flower is poppy poppy. In Japan after the Meiji Restoration, amidst the tremendous social changes, the confrontation between tradition and modernity, morality and utilitarianism was extremely fierce. A group of young men and women each chose a different life: the poet Ono was born in poverty, and he was extremely vain and tried to completely change his life by marrying a rich girl; the philosophy graduate Kono was world-weary and pessimistic, and decided to leave the hypocritical family; the beautiful but arrogant rich girl Fujio hoped to get rid of her original engagement and find another good relationship... In the end, these young people met their unexpected but reasonable endings. In the last chapter of the novel, on the silver screen in the deceased Fujio's room, there is a poppy with verdigris stems and red and purple petals, which "blooms in silver and withers in silver", gorgeous but disillusioned. Natsume Soseki took this flower as his title and used it as a metaphor for people. People are "busy making trade-offs between this way of living and that way of living." They are satisfied with the comedy of existence full of frolic, noise, deception, contempt, and trampling, but ignore the great tragedy of life under the decline of morality.

Natsume Soseki's prose essays have been continuously translated and introduced in the country in recent years and are deeply loved by readers. "Nagahi Essays" is another important collection of essays by Natsume Soseki after "Ten Nights of Dreams". It not only contains Soseki's description of Japanese people and customs, but also his reminiscences of his time studying in England. The writing may be humorous and warm, dreamlike or dreamlike; or it may be profound and philosophical.

Sanshirō, a young man who went to university in Tokyo from a small place, had three worlds in front of him. The first world is hometown, an old world that although people feel familiar with, no one wants to go back to. In the second world, there are libraries, dim laboratories, and a stable but monotonous campus world. The third world is like a bright spring, with electric lights, silver spoons, bubbly champagne, and outstandingly beautiful women, so close yet seemingly out of reach. A classic that spans a century, it vividly portrays the ignorance and confusion of young people in a small town when they face the dazzling modern city for the first time. A hometown that cannot be returned to, a city that cannot be integrated into, every young man is a lost lamb.

This book contains a total of eleven short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. It is a collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's representative works from different periods. It profoundly shows the game between human nature and desire, the choice of good and evil, and the helplessness of life. Among them, "Hell Transformation" tells the story of a highly skilled painter, Yoshihide, who, in order to pursue the highest realm of art, cruelly sacrificed his daughter to complete a "Hell Transformation" screen that shocked the world. Ryunosuke Akutagawa uses a unique layout to push the protagonist in the article to the extreme situation of life and death test, thereby showing readers the opposition between good and evil and conveying his understanding of human nature.

The Nobel Prize winner's work is Pamuk's first attempt to "write a shorter novel", although the story has been brewing for thirty years - it began in the summer of 1988, when Pamuk met a pair of well-diggers near his residence who were affectionate as father and son. The process of digging a well to get water is also a journey of digging all the way into the dark depths of memory. Jem, a young man who lost his father and became an apprentice to dig wells, gradually became a businessman with no worries about food and clothing over the years. Underneath his peaceful middle-aged life, there is an unknown past buried. Until one day, the past he tried to forget finally swallowed him up. What kind of father do we need? One who tolerates everything we do, or one who teaches us obedience? Perhaps, after trying all the freedoms, we just want to find a meaning, a center, a person who can say "no" to ourselves. Sixteen-year-old high school student Jim came to the small town of Engeran on the outskirts of Istanbul during the summer vacation and dug a well with the well-digger Mahmoud. Because water could not be found for a long time, the work became extremely boring. However, Master Mahmoud and Jim gradually became as close as a father and son. Just this summer, a red-haired woman briefly appeared in Jem's life. Because of an accident, Jem fled the town in panic. For the next thirty years, he continued to read and search for two ancient legends. He discovered that these ancient stories still mysteriously guided his destiny. Thirty years later, Jem has become the owner of a construction company and leads a prosperous and peaceful middle-aged life. He returns to Engren and discovers everything he had tried to forget...

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Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, continues to write about the loneliness and struggle of wanderers in foreign lands, perfectly interpreting what is meant by "a hometown that cannot be returned, a foreign country that cannot be integrated". Focusing on the identity crisis encountered by the descendants of immigrants, it reveals the damage caused by ethnocentrism to the human soul and attempts to explore the way out. Attached is the unabridged translation of Gurna's acceptance speech, giving a glimpse into the secrets of growth and writing that span two continents and blend with multiple civilizations. "The Last Gift" is a companion piece to his other novel "In Praise of Silence". The story tells the story of the protagonist, Abbas, who abandoned his wife and children at the age of nineteen due to low self-esteem and suspicion, fled his hometown of Zanzibar, became a sailor, traveled to major ports around the world, and lived a life of no fixed abode. It was not until fifteen years later that he fell in love at first sight with Maryam, a black mixed-race girl who was abandoned after birth in Exeter, England. The two decided to settle in Norwich and start an ordinary life of having children. However, life is not happily ever after. The humble status of British immigrants always haunts the family like a nightmare. And Abbas's silence about Zanzibar has made a pair of children like rootless duckweeds, losing themselves in the issue of identity. Abbas suffered a stroke at the age of sixty-three, and remained sick until his death. During these final years, the distant homeland that he had spent most of his life trying to forget became increasingly clear in his mind, making him dream about it. With the encouragement of his wife, he finally told a tape recorder his complete life story, leaving the last gift of his life to his children.

The work of Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer, is a contemporary women's coming-of-age novel comparable to "Jane Eyre". Focusing on identity and racial conflicts, and seeing the big from the small, it presents a vivid picture of the British post-colonial era. The work has skillful narrative skills and a thought-provoking theme. "Dottie" is the third novel in the creative career of the 2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdul Razak Gulna. It is also his only literary work so far with a female protagonist. This work continues the theme of refugees that he has always been concerned about and is good at, accurately depicting the living conditions of African refugees in the UK, focusing on identity and racial conflicts, and showing a vivid picture of the post-colonial era in Britain. Dottie in the story is an African-American woman living in the UK. By recording her interactions with all kinds of people in her life (including relatives, lovers, co-workers, landlords, social workers, teachers, doctors, etc.) - There are both tender mutual comfort and support, as well as profound misunderstandings and betrayals - it vividly outlines the image of a young woman who was born at the bottom of society. In the process of continuous learning, thinking and struggle, she gradually became full-fledged and achieved class crossing. The work's narrative skills are skillful and its themes are thought-provoking. It is a rare and excellent female coming-of-age novel.

The work of 2021 Nobel Prize winner Gurna, a fascinating story about identity, memory and immigration. A tragic song for the dispersed, a "pilgrimage road" for foreigners. Specially included is the unabridged translation of Gurna's award-winning speech. Tanzanian student Dawood came to the UK after experiencing political turmoil in his homeland. For years, he tried to hide his past. But when he meets Catherine, he is determined to tell her about the horrors of his teenage years and the torn feeling of being a "foreigner" in the face of provincialism and racism. Structured as a pilgrimage, "Pilgrim's Way" guides Daoud to immerse himself in the pain and beauty of his past and move forward with a new understanding of his life in exile, a captivating story of identity, memory and migration.

The seventh novel of Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer and shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, is one of the writer's masterpieces, with a clear autobiographical flavor. This poignant and moving love story has successfully created two African female characters belonging to different eras. The portrayal of the characters' psychology is very delicate and highly contagious. The novel "Abandonment" was first published in 2005. It is one of Gurna's masterpieces and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Award. It tells the story of the love tragedy of two generations who cannot tolerate the secular world. The first story takes place in the British colony of Kenya at the end of the 19th century. Martin Pierce, a British writer, traveler and orientalist, was in danger in the desert and was discovered and rescued by a Muslim young man, Hassanali. After being rescued, Pierce came to thank Hassanali and met Hassanali's sister Rihanna. The two fell in love at first sight and came together regardless of colonial and religious restrictions. The second story takes place in Zanzibar and London, England, before and after independence in the mid-20th century, telling the story of two brothers, Amin and Rashid. His brother Amin fell in love with Jamila, a young and beautiful but not well-known local woman - she is the granddaughter of Pierce and Rihanna in the previous story. However, due to the firm opposition of her parents, they were forced to break up. Since then, they have lived with the guilt and regret caused by "abandoning" each other. His younger brother Rashid won a scholarship to study in the UK and "abandoned" his hometown in turmoil.

"The Good Soldier Schweik" is a world-famous satirical novel, based on the author's own real war experience. The novel vividly satirizes the incompetence and stupidity of the officers, policemen and priests of the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the experience of Svejke, the "officially certified idiot", in the First World War. Since its publication, this work has continued to exert influence around the world. The image of Shuike created in this book is honest, honest, honest, humorous and smart. He is always good at exposing the lies of the ruling bureaucrats with his honest and innocent attitude, exposing the ugly face of the tyrannical and corrupt officers, embarrassing the arrogant bureaucrats, and highlighting the value of people's freedom. The "Sweike spirit" is still not out of date today!

The novel takes the hero Szeke's experience in World War I as the main plot, and vividly describes the incompetence, stupidity, and ugliness of the officers, policemen, and priests of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and profoundly exposes the vicious tyranny of the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the corruption and depravity of the army. The work uses vivid brushstrokes to create an honest, honest, humorous, and lovable image of the good soldier Szeke, who vividly reflects the wisdom of the Czech people and their dissatisfaction and spontaneous struggle against foreign rulers.

1V1 Shuang Jiewen (a collection of contemporary novels)~ -- Small theater: Chen Xinyu went out to play and broke his mobile phone. Gu Zheng couldn't get in touch and became anxious. He found Chen Xinyu and a father and son talking and laughing happily in the restaurant of the aquarium. Gu Zheng exuded the aura of death and successfully scared away the father and son. Then, Gu Zheng took Chen Xinyu to buy a mobile phone. That day, they visited many stores and looked at many models of mobile phones. In the end, Gu Zheng chose the most fall-resistant one for Chen Xinyu... -- From now on, every good night he says will be only to you. There is abuse and sweetness, different characters, different love.

Danyuan Village, an ordinary family. One morning, my son Tony refused to get out of bed. When his mother came to take his temperature, he said, "I'm not sick, I'm just sad. I just don't want to get up." His parents decided to let him rest for a day. Five days later, he was still in bed. Tony is nine years old. He suddenly gave up all sports activities, gave up socializing with friends, and sat down in front of the TV. Senior year of high school. He said, what's the use of having a diploma. This thing is just a fake piece of paper, like a fake treaty. What happened to Tony?

"The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories" is a collection of short stories by Sherwood Anderson, the "father of modern American literature", and includes 15 works: A small egg can completely defeat a person and an "American dream"; At this moment, Mary wants to see the outside world. She has stayed in this small town for too long. The night before, her father told her that he had a heart disease and might die at any time; A man in a brown coat People keep writing, but no words in his pen can bring him into life; Rosalind abandons the town and her parents and runs forward, and every step she takes makes her experience a fresh sense of escape... Anderson is an explorer of the human soul. He sneaks into the daily life of people in the town at a glance, and concisely and accurately depicts their inner fragility and loneliness, fantasies and desires, touching the universal state of human existence.

In the book "Lost Horizon", four Western travelers accidentally come to the secret land of Shangri-La located in the mountains. The four travelers, who were originally diplomats, bankers, nuns and college graduates, were bound together by fate and encountered various bizarre events in Shangri-La. Shangri-La is like a paradise, where there are no complicated trivial matters and meaningless disputes. People are accompanied by Chopin's lost music, the girl who never grows old, the shining Karakal Mountain outside the window, and the slow flow of time. What shocking secrets are hidden in Shangri-La, protected by the light of the sun and moon? Led by local elders, the four travelers uncovered the mystery of Shangri-La layer by layer...

The successful Nathan Zuckerman came to Prague in the mid-1970s. Here he discovered a completely different literary predicament and experienced a series of fantastic and poignant adventures. "Prague Carnival" presents Zuckerman's sojourn life with the exiled artists in the form of a diary, and tells the struggle of these morally bankrupt artists in a totalitarian society: while they indulge themselves in carnival and exile, they are also using their bodies to resist the constraints of their spirits. Philip Roth uses this book to explore the difficult fate and living conditions of intellectuals in harsh political situations, and his writing reveals profound concern and sympathy.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 10 short stories, all of which describe urban life. The author describes the miserable fate of young intellectuals under the unreasonable social system: depression and sadness, or degeneration and vulgarity.

Even if you have nothing in front of you, you can get comfort from this book and embrace the ecstasy of life. The last fourteen days of the year feel like stepping into a strange parallel universe. Here, there is a store filled with lemon aroma, filled with all kinds of cleaning tools. Brushes, rags, steel wool and dusters, boxes of gloves - heavy-duty, latex, rubber, polyethylene, cotton mops, squeegees, regular brooms, trash clips. A strange silence lingered in the shop. Here, there is an inexplicable crack, extending from the wall to the tiles on the floor, like a yawning mouth. The wind passed through the cracks, and there seemed to be a small sigh floating into the distance. Here, an unpredictable weather moves toward the airport. Four cheetahs, a goat of unknown origin, a donkey, and a turtle are stuffed in the animal storage station. The parked airport stages a ridiculous comedy that makes people laugh and cry. Here, snowflakes seem to rise from the ground and fall from the sky at the same time; sheep are paired with foxes, and mice dance with insects. Here, there is a miraculous little garden, with snow falling on the treetops, and a woman with silver hair wearing a red coat walking slowly through the snow and walking toward us. All stories start from here and quietly intersect with each of our lives. You will find that the world is bigger than reality; you will find that you are not alone. Because, the feeling in your heart, I also feel in my heart.

"The Wardrobe" is a collection of novels by Olga Tokarczuk, the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, and includes three works. Among them, "The Wardrobe" tells the story of a couple who were attracted by an old wardrobe that was as mysterious as an energy pit, and eventually lived in it and refused to come out; the narrator of "Room Number" is "I" who is a room attendant. In the story, "I" wander around different rooms of the Capital Hotel, following clues to capture the clues left by guests. "Goddess" is about a programming genius who is like the god of creation. He constantly builds new worlds with programs, but is repeatedly disappointed with human beings... In these surreal stories, Tokarczuk uses her unique "fourth-person narrative" to explore the hidden world beyond daily experience. This book is directly translated from the original Polish work, and specifically includes literary interviews Tokarczuk accepted at the "Quotation Marks International Literary Festival" she planned and organized.

Maugham created more than 150 short stories in his life. The more representative short story collections include "A Trembling Leaf", "The Casuarina Tree", "Akin", "People Who Are Home Around the World", etc. His short stories can be divided into three broad categories: "Western stories" set in Europe, "Eastern stories" set in the South Pacific, Southeast Asia and China, and Ashingdon spy stories. These short stories are so witty and ingenious that we can start reading them from any story anytime, anywhere, whether it is a cold winter night alone or a moment sitting on the subway. As soon as you turn the page, you will immediately enter another world. Those oriental-themed stories with a strong "exotic" atmosphere make readers unable to put it down. This book selects twelve representative short stories by Maugham, which are humorous and full of irony.