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"Ancient Capital" is a Nobel Prize-winning novel by Kawabata Yasunari. The author uses light and delicate writing to describe the joys and sorrows of the twin sisters Chieko and Miaozi, as well as the loneliness of the world.

Guess My Finger

Guess My Finger

General Fiction

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The book "Guess My Finger" selects seven novels from the famous writer Deng Yiguang, including "Experiencing Death", "Guess My Finger", and "Raising the Falling Yang". Most of the themes of this book are selected from many fragments of people's lives after the new era, vividly reflecting social life. The author's language is simple and accurate, the structure is rigorous, and the story is moving, making the reader's reading process always full of interest.

Hero's Weapon

Hero's Weapon

Literature

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This book contains 17 stories written by Akutagawa Ryunosuke with Chinese elements as the background. It not only restores the famous historical allusion of the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, but also uniquely adapts it based on strange people and strange events in the late Qing Dynasty. It has a unique perspective and far-reaching ideas, and profoundly presents the literary giant's exploration and thinking of human nature. This is China in the eyes of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and the words reveal a Japanese literary giant's love and admiration for Sinology.

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General Fiction

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91K01

This book contains a total of 11 short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The works represented by "Hell Transformation" express the life tragedy of a lonely person "art for art's sake". To achieve the ideal of "art supremacy" through self-destruction, behind this heavy price is the painful roar of a lonely soul. Starting from a unique narrative perspective and narrative structure, the author sternly observed the Japanese social psychology of that time where "others are hell". This abnormal individual psychology gradually evolved into a habitual social psychology, which is thought-provoking.

Nocturnal Flowers

Nocturnal Flowers

General Fiction

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111K0

This manuscript is a collection of short stories by the famous modern literary writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke. It is the fifth of his eight short story collections published from 1917 to 1927. It contains a total of 18 short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Aryu and the Children", "Autumn", "Omo no Shinichi", "Dance", etc. These works have their own characteristics in terms of subject matter, content and artistic conception. Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a well-known Japanese novelist and a representative writer of the new school of thought. His creations have both romanticism and realism tendencies. His works are widely known and have wide influence. They are well-known in China and have literary value. His literary creation has influenced a large number of domestic writers including Lu Xun and is a treasure in the field of short stories.

Dulan Funny Words

Dulan Funny Words

General Fiction

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321K0

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style.

Doctor Zhivago (part 2) (pasternak's Works Series)

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Synopsis of "Doctor Zhivago (Part 2)": Zhivago, a surgeon who was born into a family of intellectuals, served in the Tsarist army during World War I. He saw the weakness and incompetence of the Tsarist army and the corruption of the old army. His smart mind had a premonition that the revolutionary power was maturing. He expected that the revolution would bring new life to the country and the people, and supported the new regime with positive actions. However, the harsh reality of the civil war and the subsequent implementation of a series of policies by the new regime made this honest and upright old intellectual develop deep doubts and fears about violence and centralization, and he was under tremendous pressure in a forced and systematic double life. He praised the simple and tranquil Russian quality and yearned to live a quiet life and do meaningful work; but this ideal of life, as well as his difficult and beautiful love with Lala, were ultimately not tolerated by the harsh reality.

Golden Pavilion Temple (collection Edition)

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General Fiction

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There are houses in certain provincial cities that look like the gloomiest monasteries, the most desolate moors, the most desolate ruins, which makes people unhappy. Perhaps this kind of house has a little bit of the silence of the monastery, the monotony of the wilderness, and the decay of the ruins. The daily life inside is so quiet. If it weren't for the sound of strange footsteps on the street, a man with a face like a monk would suddenly poke out of the window and remain motionless, staring at the strangers with his dim and cold eyes, foreign guests might regard those houses as empty houses without anyone living in them.

Mallarmé: the Realm of Clarity and Its Hidden Side

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Mallarmé was a French Symbolist poet and essayist, and he was a representative figure of early Symbolist poetry along with Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Mallarmé made an indelible contribution to the development of French poetry and literature. Mallarmé is very difficult to understand. These two reasons are enough to explain why the master of Symbolism, Mallarmé, is still being continuously and patiently interpreted by scholars in France and around the world even after the death of symbolist literature and art for so long. Sartre conducted research on Mallarmé and Symbolist poetry. Sartre raised a universal question through his critical biography of Mallarmé: Does the literature of the death of God (Nietzsche's language) still exist? Mallarmé's tragedy lies in his determination to become a "capital man", to engage in "capital poetry" at all costs, and then turn the great failure of poetry into a great failure of poetry.

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General Fiction

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122K0

"The Wall" is combined with three short stories "The Bedroom", "Aerostratus", "Secrets of the Boudoir" and a novella "The Childhood of a Business Owner" to form a collection of short stories and short stories. It tells the story of three International Brigade members who were sentenced to be shot by the enemy during the Spanish Civil War while waiting all night. One of them is frightened to the point of going crazy, the other is barely holding on, and the protagonist "I" has a very complicated mood: I hate the various abnormalities of my comrades, but I can't resolve the melancholy in my heart. During the countdown to life, he truly realized the preciousness of life through intermittent memories, and regretted endlessly for squandering his youth and thinking that he could live forever. The five works put forward a basic proposition of existentialism: people are free, and their destiny depends on their own choices.

Collection of Lin's Translated Novels: a Piece of Meat's Remaining Life

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Lin Shu, a famous translator in the Republic of China, is known as the founder of modern Chinese literary circles. His translations use ancient Chinese, and all of them adopt the form of joint translation, that is, with the cooperation of other people's oral translation, "the sound has stopped when the ears are followed by the hand." With his excellent classical literacy, skillful expression skills and fluent writing style, he has formed a unique style, which is favored by Qian Zhongshu, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren and others, and is rated as better than the original work. This article is a legendary novel, translated today by David Copperfield. It tells the story of the protagonist's life from childhood to middle age. Taking the birth of "I" as the source, the sincerity and darkness of friends, the childishness and impulsiveness of love, the sweetness and triviality of marriage, and the conflicts and harmony of family members are gathered into a stream that slowly flows on the river bed of fate and eventually merges into the tolerant and magnificent sea.

The Marchioness of O: the Complete Novels of Kleist

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This book includes all eight of the author's novels, among which "Marquise O" portrays the image of a woman who dares to control her own destiny and is not bound by feudal ethical concepts.

Mushroom Circle

Mushroom Circle

General Fiction

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99K02

Si Jiong in "Mushroom Circle" has gone from an era of political absurdity to the present, experienced many changes in personnel, and faced the vagaries of the times with a pure power of survival. The novel follows Alai's consistent observation of "people" in Tibetan areas, with a very poetic writing style, blending reality into ethereal time, embracing the history of a nation with ordinary life, and revealing Alai's "rooted love" for people in Tibetan areas.

Dance of Soul

Dance of Soul

General Fiction

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148K01

"Short Classics by Mao Dun Literature Award-winning Writers: Dance of the Soul" is a collection of short stories by Mao Dun Literature Award-winning writer Alai. "Short Classics by Mao Dun Literature Award-winning Writers: Dance of the Soul" includes: Fish, Silversmith in the Moonlight, Forever Galu, Savage, Dance of Souls, Gela Grows Up , Bungarus snake, red fox, locust flower, Agudunba, old house, sound, boundary, the sound of conch in the morning, the legend of Zanla toast, the legend of Wori toast, the end of the world toast, remembering an ancient man, camping under the stars, from the countryside to the city, visiting an elm tree, the falling dust and other articles.

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General Fiction

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Maugham's father was a lawyer who worked at the British Embassy in France. Maugham lost his mother at the age of eight and his father at the age of ten. He was later sent back to England to be raised by his uncle who was a pastor. With books as his companion, he developed a lonely and melancholy temperament in his character. Later, he studied at the Royal College of Canterbury. He was discriminated against because of his stuttering defect, which left a psychological shadow. When he was in college, he studied medicine, but gradually developed a strong interest in literature. Based on what he saw and heard while working as a trainee doctor in the slums of London, he wrote his first novel "Lisa of Lambeth", which received good reviews and embarked on the path of literary creation. While he was writing, he traveled around the world to collect materials for writing, but the novels he initially wrote did not cause much response until "The Shackles of Humanity" was fully recognized. He wrote many plays, among which "Lady Frederic" was finally staged after being rejected by seventeen theater troupes. It was a great success and started his first step towards great fame and wealth.

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General Fiction

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"Carmen" tells the story of Carmen, a free and uninhibited bohemian woman, and her adventures in smuggling. The protagonist Carmen is beautiful, straightforward and daring. She seduced the soldier Don Jose, causing him to be expelled from the army, and also induced him to commit smuggling crimes with her. Later, Carmen fell in love with another woman, and the conflicts between Don Jose and her continued until she paid for it with her life. The work was adapted into an opera and was widely circulated.

Colomba (complete Works of Fu Lei)

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"Colomba" tells the story of the Gaussian islanders' custom of "collecting blood debts" of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, interspersed with a love story. The article is lively, lively and full of laughter, which contrasts well with the original sentiment and bloody smell of the story.

Merry's Selected Novels

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"I don't want to be entangled with others, especially I don't want to listen to others' orders; what I want is freedom, to do whatever I want..." This is a kind of strange and wild beauty, this is a face that will surprise you when you first see it, but you will never forget it. Her eyes, in particular, had an expression both sensual and fierce that I had never seen in anyone else's eyes since. --"Carmen" Mérimée's novel creations are few but precise, short and beautiful. The achievements of his short stories alone are enough to occupy a place among the world's short story writers. "Matteo Falcone", "Etruscan Vase", "Venus of Il", "Colomba" and "Carmen" translated in this book are undoubtedly the most wonderful and representative ones.

The Collected Works of Trollope: Bassett's Last Chronicle (set Volume 1 and 2)

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This book is the last novel in the "Barsettshire Chronicle" series of novels. This book takes a check lost by Mr. Soames as the main line and the love of two young couples as the secondary line. It narrates a civil dispute that occurred in the small British town of Bassetshire in 1841. A poor priest was inexplicably involved in a theft case. This was a trivial matter, but Trollope made a detailed description of the life values ​​​​of the British society at that time around this trivial matter. Although the story is small, and the protagonists are ordinary, and some even have low status, the author uses such an angle and style to capture the readers' hearts. This little incident sticks closely to the British society described by the author, making anyone who reads it feel like they are actually there and resonate strongly with it.

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General Fiction

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Dedicated to every young man who never compromises! A must-select translation of domestic portraits, the well-known translator Huang Yisi has newly revised 606 parts of the text. Oxford University Press introductory edition (with an introductory page of a comprehensive analysis of Joyce by an Oxford University professor). Selected into the Top 3 of Random House's "100 Novels of the 20th Century". The pioneering work of stream-of-consciousness novels, it is a century classic praised by Yeats, Woolf, Beckett and other masters. Prequel to "Ulysses". Stephen, a young artist born in Dublin, has been sensitive and thoughtful since he was a child. In his childhood, he was ignorant, but he actively studied but was beaten; in his youth, he was impulsive and enthusiastic, but he strayed into the path of desire; in his youth, he finally became mature and rational, but in the end he chose to live in exile. He said: "Ah, life! I am ready to come into contact with the reality of experience for the millionth time."

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General Fiction

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A boy who has a crush on the girl next door, but doesn't know how to say it and is suffering; a girl who has found her ideal partner and longs for a new life, but lacks the courage to change her current situation; a man who is already in his thirties but has accomplished nothing and faces a boring job and a busy family all day long; 15 stories, 15 kinds of deep loneliness. From boyhood, youth, adulthood to old age, this book illuminates the loneliness that has nowhere to go at all stages of life. No matter who you are, how old you are, or where you are, you can find yourself in it.

Dubliners (collected Works of Joyce)

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"Dublins" is James Joyce's prestigious short story collection, which can be regarded as the most famous short story collection in the entire West in the 20th century. Published in 1914, it was set in Dublin in the 1920s and 1930s. It captures a cross-section of the lives of the middle and lower class people, a group of people at a moment, and fifteen stories gathered together. It is like an impressionistic painting, with concise brushwork and scattered pieces. It emerges a desolate world, distant, cold, but exquisite, which is the best.

Portrait of a Young Artist

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In the first chapter of the novel, the young protagonist Stephen appears, but he cannot describe his world with complex vocabulary. He does not care about the causal relationship of the world around him, so the world in front of him presents a chaotic and unorganized situation during his experience. A few years later, Stephen became obsessed with religion. At this time, his thinking ability seemed to have greatly improved, and he was able to think about the world with clearer logical thinking and a more adult way of thinking.

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Satan pretended to be a foreign professor, Woland, and visited the Soviet capital Moscow in the 1930s. He met Berlioz, the chairman of the Moscow Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the young poet Ivan. They did not believe in God or the devil. Woland refuted each one and predicted Berlioz's death that day. Ivan witnessed the tragedy of Berlioz being run over by a tram, and suspected that Woland was a foreign spy. He pursued him, but was imprisoned in a mental hospital and met the master. The master is an unknown writer. His lover Margaret admires his talent and calls him the master, and he regards himself as such.

Escape

Escape

Literature

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This book is a collection of plays by the former Soviet drama master Bulgakov. It is the first large-scale translation and introduction in China. These works fully demonstrate the drama master's realistic concern and "magic realism" style. This book contains a total of seven plays: "The Turbins", "The House of Zoika", "The Purple Island", "Molière", "Ivan Vasilyevich", "Escape" and "Batumi".

The Good Earth Earth (english Version)

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Taking the bond between farmer Wang Long and the land as the main line, it depicts the survival picture of rural China and won the Pulitzer Prize, promoting the West to understand the real China.

Wolf Smoke

Wolf Smoke

General Fiction

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"Wolf Smoke" takes the emotional entanglement of four brothers in the frozen soil as a clue. It is a unique story full of weirdness, bizarre kidnapping by bandits, rare beard legends, and the secret world of gamblers. It interprets the various lives of all kinds of middle- and lower-class people... Under the bayonet, more lives pass through the billowing smoke and accept the test of blood and fire...

Chasing the Lost Time: under the Girl's Flower Shadow (volume 2)

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"In the Shadow of the Girl's Flowers" is the second volume of the multi-volume novel "In Search of Lost Time" by the famous 20th century French novelist Proust. The book is divided into two parts, the first part is "Beside Mrs. Swann" and the second part is "Place Names and Places: Places". At the end of the book is a summary of each section. This book is one of the "Collected Works of Zhou Kexi's Translations" published by East China Normal University Press, which accurately and vividly demonstrates the original author's beautiful and unique stream-of-consciousness style. The translator of the new version, the famous translator Mr. Zhou Kexi, has revised it again and made it more perfect.

Nick Adams Stories (translated Classics)

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Nick Adams is one of the male protagonists in many of Hemingway's short stories. This unforgettable character grew from a child to an adolescent, a soldier, a demobilized soldier, a writer and a father - a process that paralleled the events in Hemingway's own life and clearly emerged as the first of a long series of incarnations of himself in Hemingway's works. All the male protagonists who appeared in Hemingway's novels later had Nick's history. This book contains a total of 24 articles, which is the first time that they have been collected and published in a single volume.

Bubble

Bubble

General Fiction

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Short stories are a literary genre that Rabindranath Tagore is good at. The book "Bubbles" selects 29 of his best works, which show the living conditions of people of all walks of life in India in a wide range of life. The writer brings rich poetry into the creation of novels, while constructing moving plots, or portraying characters or describing psychology. Famous works such as "Stairs by the River", "People of Kabul", "Bubbles", "Suba", "The Hungry Stone", etc. Are closely related to national culture and reveal the truth in human life.

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Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. The heroine makes reasonable speculations and judgments based on superficial phenomena. Although careful readers may have various doubts from time to time, their thoughts will naturally develop with good observations. When the final result appears, it will be completely different from the superficial phenomena, resulting in an unexpected comedy effect. If you read it over again, you will find that the factors that lead to the inevitable result have already been seen between the lines. The plot of the novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the bad habit of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status in the British social trends at that time, and the ugly fashion of focusing on family status and ignoring women's feelings and human rights. The heroines in the novel all pursue equal communication and exchange of thoughts and feelings with men, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on independent observation, analysis, and freedom to choose men. In Britain at the time, this was almost a cry of defiance.

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"The Waves" is a novel written by British female writer Virginia Woolf in 1931. The author uses a very hazy and symbolic brushwork to describe the inner monologues of six characters: Bernard, Neville, Louise, Susan, Jenny and Rhoda from childhood to twilight. The six parallel streams of consciousness respectively express the six types of consciousness and the growth and experience of the "six eras of human beings".

The Count of Monte Cristo (set Volume 1 and 2)

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"The Count of Monte Cristo (Set of Volumes 1 and 2)" is a masterpiece by the famous French popular historical novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Captain Dontes, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was commissioned to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party. He was framed by two despicable villains and a judge, and was sentenced to death. The inmate Father Faria taught him all kinds of knowledge, and before his death, he told him the secrets of a group of treasures buried on the island of Monte Cristo. After escaping from prison, Dontes found the treasure and became a millionaire. From then on, he was known as the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies...

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The young writer Tanabe returned to his hometown of Sapporo and once again saw the photos and paintings of Junko, his first love. Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Junko chose the most brutal and poignant way to commit suicide and fell in the ice and snow of Lake Akan; twenty years later, Tanabe, still lingering on his first love, determined to find out the truth about Junko's death. Why did she end her life in her most beautiful years? Who is her favorite person? After Tanabe visited several people who had a close relationship with Junko one by one, he gradually restored the true appearance of the girl hidden under the aura of the talented painter...

A Man's Place (new Revised Edition)

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When her father died two months after passing the teaching qualification exam, Anne Ernault used this as an opportunity to tell the story of one man's life. Born at the turn of the century, he had to leave school early and worked first as a farmer, then in a factory, and later as the owner of a small grocery store in Normandy until his death in 1967. He exercised self-restraint, worked hard, was cautious in his words and deeds, and tried hard to maintain his position as a man in society, but he could never get rid of the fear of slipping back to the lower class. The author uses cold observation to reveal the shame that plagued her father throughout his life, as well as the alienation and pain between father and daughter caused by class restrictions. This biography of a father is also the story of an intellectual's daughter's betrayal-of her parents, her upbringing, the schism between affection and shame, between belonging and alienation.

Honorary Consul

Honorary Consul

General Fiction

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In a small port city on the banks of the Paraná River, after an erroneous kidnapping operation, all parties involved were in a dilemma. The honorary consul who was innocently kidnapped, the guerrillas who were riding a tiger, the British doctor who was tortured by his conscience, the young wife who was hesitant between her lover and her husband, and the ruthless politicians... Religious doctrines, social ideals, and the bottom line of human nature. In this chaotic chaos, what choices will each of them make?

Beautiful Loser

Beautiful Loser

General Fiction

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"Beautiful Loser" came out in the mid-1960s and is known as Canada's first postmodern novel. It is the most provocative and unruly work of Cohen, who is a poet, writer, singer, painter, and monk. He is known as the "Byron of rock and roll." The novel is set in Montreal in the 1960s and outlines a love triangle: an unknown scholar dedicated to the study of Indian tribes, his wife Edith, the last descendant of a certain Indian tribe, and the scholar's homosexual lover F. The three are entwined in a tangled relationship linked by sexual compulsion and the legend of a seventeenth-century Indian saint named Katherine Tinkawiser. The novel sometimes talks in sleep and sometimes howls, expressing people's desire for order and the terror of spiritual loneliness. The work is weird and exaggerated, but also full of fun; the spirit of the 1960s embodied, such as free and novel sex, exploratory experiments such as revolution, are all the characters in the book experience, a kind of super hippie, which is regarded as a treasure by a generation of readers looking for spiritual leaders. This work breaks through the traditional form of the novel and provides the rather conservative literary world in Canada with the possibility of bohemianism. It is one of the most important novels in the Canadian literary world.

Dark Elves (trilogy)

Dark Elves (trilogy)

General Fiction

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A fantasy classic as famous as "A Song of Ice and Fire", "The Lord of the Rings" and "Dragonlance"; a boy with white hair and purple eyes walking alone in the darkness, wielding his two swords, cutting off the shackles of fate, and composing a legendary growth poem. The classic fantasy that influenced Chinese online literature is back with a Chinese version fifteen years later. "The Dark Elf" is a work by R. A. Salvador and includes 3 stories.

Asceticism

Asceticism

General Fiction

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"Asceticism" is the early famous work that established Mark Twain's status as a master of humor. The book narrates the author's prospecting experience in the western United States, and vividly describes the difficult gold mining life. Some of the exaggerated and funny stories fully reflect the author's talent and language style as a master of humor. The author uses a unique perspective and technique to describe the various aspects of American society in the mid-19th century: getting rich and squandering, pursuing and taking risks, ambition and desire, strength and ingenuity, hope, struggle, deception, failure, poverty, disillusionment... In the crowded golden dream, a dazzling comedy scene is presented.

Cats at Yule's Cottage

Cats at Yule's Cottage

General Fiction

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Jesse, who had just lost her love, was still immersed in sadness, but the copyright of her novel was bought by the publisher, which gave her a glimmer of hope. In order to concentrate on writing, Jesse moved to a historic Yule Cottage in Cornwall. An additional condition for renting a cabin is that the mysterious "aboriginal person" must take care of the cabin, a beautiful and proud black cat named "Perrin". Jesse, who originally wanted to write in seclusion, was accidentally involved in a dispute over the property rights of Yule's cabin, and thus had an intersection with two families competing for property rights. Through constant conflicts and misunderstandings, the secrets of Yule's cabin and the black cat Perrin are gradually revealed, a touching story about love, friendship, people and cats that lasts for five hundred years. In order to protect the cabin and Perrin, Jesse is determined to join in, but who will protect her own happiness?

A World of Criss-crossing

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The best novel of the year by The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly. It was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize. Ali Smith's tender novel was shortlisted for the Orange Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Miles Garth attended a dinner party held in Greenwich. After the main meal, he suddenly went upstairs and locked himself in an empty bedroom. He refused to leave and refused to talk. He only communicated with the outside world by stuffing notes under the door. The incident sparked intense coverage in local media. People gathered outside the window just to find out the underlying reasons behind this behaviorism. Using rhetorical sophistication and a distinctive style, Ally Smith describes four distinct but occasionally intertwined lives, exploring the conflicting needs for separation and true connection while striking a balance between wit and compassion, the surreal and the profound and moving truth-a balance that only Ally Smith can achieve.

The Last Love in Constantinople: a Fortune-telling Tarot Novel

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A deck of tarot cards that can predict the future! A transshipment book that can be read in infinite reincarnations! A magical and peerless book! Pavic depicts the experiences of two Serbian families who worked for Napoleonic France and anti-Napoleonic Austria respectively, representing Serbia's choice between the two forces of East and West. However, no matter which side they fight for, they are not fighting for the future of Serbia, but for things that have nothing to do with their own nation. At the same time as the Napoleonic Wars, Serbia's revolution to break away from Turkish rule was also in progress. This major event was consciously ignored by the author and was almost never mentioned in the book. This highlights the characters' indifference to their own nation and the absurdity of the war. It does not have an ending in the traditional sense. Everyone in the book is driven by the wheel of fate. While struggling and resisting, they have to accept the guidance of fate.

Flying Around the Sun

Flying Around the Sun

General Fiction

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215K0

Markham Burrell climbed into the cockpit of the Vega Herring Gull and pulled up the control column. She will fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, something no one has ever done before. She is a free-range daughter of Africa, a legend chosen by God - archery, hunting, horse taming, growing up without control, and escaping from the lion's mouth. She loves horse racing and obtained a horse racing trainer's license at the age of 18; she loves flying and became a professional pilot at the age of 29 - she is a female pioneer in Africa entering these two fields. But she's not invulnerable. Two careless marriages, children abandoned in other countries, affairs with many men, love triangles entangled among friends... Countless secrets are circulated in Kenyan social circles. People said that she was a wild woman; for greater freedom, she turned from the horse farm to the sky. It was many years before I flew across the Atlantic Ocean. This voyage is like a portrayal of the first half of Burrell's life: wind and rain, the future is uncertain, and he moves forward resolutely with only a lonely courage. The love affairs in life have been settled, and Burrell took off. Before setting off, she stuffed a bottle of brandy into her back pocket.

A Small Life (part 1)

A Small Life (part 1)

General Fiction

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The handsome and kind-hearted William works in a restaurant and dreams of becoming an actor; the confident and humorous JB tries to make a name for himself in the art world; the well-off Malcolm works in a famous architectural firm but has lost his original love for architecture; and there is the introverted and enigmatic Jude, a talented assistant prosecutor. After getting acquainted with a famous university in Massachusetts, they first came to New York to make a living. They were high-spirited but penniless and drifting. As he grew older and had a successful career, the friendship spanning more than thirty years faced the greatest challenge - the elusive Jude himself. He didn't want to talk about the shadow of his past with others, and chose to harm himself again and again in loneliness. With the help of his friends, Jude's inner defenses gradually disintegrated... "I know my life has meaning..." "A Small Life" is a hymn of brotherhood and an odyssey to explore the meaning of life. In friendship, what is damaged in us becomes whole again.

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The protagonist of this book, Bi Qiaolin, is an aristocratic young officer who serves in the Caucasus. He is energetic and intelligent, dissatisfied with the worldly reality, but unable to find a goal in life, and is spiritually empty. Therefore, he develops a cynical attitude towards life, causing trouble everywhere, and consumes his extraordinary intelligence and strong energy in half-true love games and adventurous actions. His selfishness and cruelty caused great misfortune to others, and he did not get real fun. Instead, he deepened his inner pain and despair.

Thanks Life

Thanks Life

General Fiction

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The clouds merged in a silent silence. Suddenly, the lightning tore the sky with its sharp hands, the thunderbolt shook the earth with its thick hammer of sound, and the violent wind stirred up all space. Nature shows its vitality in this tense roar. After everything was violently and effectively washed away by the heavy rain, all the dirt was washed away, and everything showed its true color. The raging torrent made the Yangtze River, which had been silent in the past, become full of vitality again. However, it irresistibly burst its dams and overflowed...

Shi Guangrong and His Children

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Shi Guangrong, an old revolutionary who has spent his life in the military, hopes that his sons and daughters will continue their military ideals and inherit the glorious tradition of a military family. In the era of reform and opening up, the three sons and daughters adapt to the development of the times and have independent ideas. What kind of ideological sparks will the two generations create? Shi Lin was discharged from the army due to the national disarmament and changed his career; Shi Jing engaged in a dangerous career as a criminal police officer; Shi Hai pretended to be ill and wanted to retire from the army, and he wanted to engage in literary creation... Things kept happening in the old Shi family, and conflicts between parents and children often appeared; the "one-word" Shi Guangrong and the "hypocritical" Chu Qin also always quarreled over their children's affairs, and amidst the conflicts and quarrels, the family was surrounded by a strong family affection.

Destiny

Destiny

General Fiction

K

265K011

"Destiny" describes the story of Tibetan soldiers joining the expeditionary force and fighting with the Han people against the Japanese invaders. In a background full of rich Kham customs and Tibetan Buddhist customs, the two Kham men were driven by fate to move step by step to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. These two amazing Kham men, with their simple and ordinary actions, told the world the true meaning of faith, life, love, friendship and family affection.

Dunhuang

Dunhuang

General Fiction

H

84K03

"Dunhuang" is one of the important historical novels based on China created by the Japanese literary giant Yasushi Inoue. It has won the Mainichi Art Award. The numerous scriptures in the Mogao Grottoes are now a treasure that is admired by the world, but who buried these scriptures and why, and how many mysteries are there behind the unnamed scripture collector? Inoue Yasushi used his earth-shattering "Dunhuang" to guide people to rush to that magical land. During the Tiansheng reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, scholar Zhao Xingde went to Beijing to take the exam, but missed the exam because of sleepiness. He was lost and wandering around, and accidentally got a piece of Xixia cloth that he had never seen before. The breath of the Western Region instantly changed Zhao Xingde's fate, and also left a thousand-year-old mystery for future generations...

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