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Wilhelm von Habsburg was both an imperial prince wearing the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece and a red prince wearing armor. The fall of the Habsburg Monarchy in World War I shattered his dream of establishing the Kingdom of Ukraine. Since then, he has changed his identity many times: he was an associate of the German imperialists, he was a notorious lover of France, he was an angry Austrian monarchist, he was an opponent of Hitler who looked on with cold eyes, and finally he became a desperate supporter of Ukrainian independence. William's ups and downs life demonstrated the fluidity of personal identity and the diversity of national identities, and reflected the historical truth and political reality of the rise of European nation-states.

Humans live on the streets, tanukis crawl on the ground, and tengu fly in the sky. In the quaint Kyoto, humans, tanukis, and tengu stand on three pillars, turning the huge wheel of the city. The second act of the magnificent "Furball Story" begins! After the death of the great father, the mother and four useless sons continued to live a wonderful life. The eldest brother is running around to succeed the pseudo-emon; the second child challenges the tanuki shogi competition in the form of a frog; the third child is looking for wild mallet snakes and does not forget to mind the affairs of the tengu and humans; the fourth child is devoted to making pseudo-denden Byakuran in the laboratory. At this time, Tengu, the successor of Hongyu Teacher, returned to Kyoto, bringing an ambiguous and chaotic situation to the city. The battle of the century between the Tengu father and son, the shocking conspiracy in the tanuki world surrounding the successor to the pseudo-emon, and the appearance of humans who confuse the tanukis into flattering the Tengu... In order to protect the reputation of the Shimogamo family and protect the love in his heart, the "blood of fools" in Yasaburo's body is boiling - "Go stir up the waves and make the world more interesting!"

At this point, the murderer has spent more time on death row than the victim has ever lived on earth. "He put us through hell," the sheriff declared. "I can't forgive." After brutally kidnapping and killing teenage girl Sally Smith, Larry Gene Bell repeatedly called the girl's family to harass her. He openly defied the police and even committed another crime while being hunted, killing a nine-year-old girl. How to find this serial killer? John Douglas used criminal profiling to predict his next move and planned to catch him before he started another killing spree. To this end, Douglas decided to take a risk and asked his sister Dawn, who looked similar to Sally, to serve as bait to lure the snake out of its hole. Dawn and her family bravely accepted the offer. ? The case of Larry Gene Bell is one of the most unforgettable cases in the career of legendary FBI agent and criminal profiling expert John Douglas. It clearly demonstrates the importance of controlling the killer's psychology through accurate profiling of criminal behavior in solving cases. Sally's family took unimaginable risks to lure the killer to reveal themselves. This was also an attempt by John Douglas and the FBI to push criminal profiling technology to the extreme.

When my body decays like a broken piano, I will still remember the many gifts of life. I was born into a declining rural family in Ireland. His father was violent and alcoholic, while his mother was patient and tenacious - like most women of that era. As a child, I loved writing outdoors and escaping with words. Later, I was sent to a monastery, but I longed for a more "sinful" life. After running away from Dublin and moving to London with my husband, I finally found the freedom to write. But my literary ambitions were thwarted by him and not forgiven by my mother. My books were burned, the phantom of love was shattered, my marriage collapsed, I fought for custody, and became a single mother... Along the way, I also met Samuel Beckett, Jacqueline... The world was vast, and I found my voice. This life is full of extreme joy and sorrow, success and failure, fame and killing. I know that this is the secret of writing: it comes from suffering, from times that are torn apart, moments when the heart is cut open. I know that the joy of life is always short. We are all on the road, going somewhere else, spiraling up, up.

17 cross-era works, dream-core aesthetic experiments by world literary masters. "The Banshee" I went to Cowtown Manor to deliver the script, and John told the story of the Banshee. A mysterious woman's cries were heard outside the door. John heard the sound and went out, but never came back. There was only the remaining wailing in the night wind. "Dead Man" Martin, the weirdo who claims to be dead, is always laughed at, but Miss Wilton treats him differently. He prepared new clothes for her, and the two of them walked to the newly bought house - the "real estate agent" there sold cemeteries. "Master Stonesteel's Authentic Homemade Egyptian Mummy" Charlie felt that life in the small town was too boring, so Master Stonesteel took him to make a fake Egyptian mummy and buried it in the fields for others to "dig". When the town was boiling, they secretly moved the mummy - the show officially started...

After World War II, the young writer Stingo met the Polish woman Sophie and her lover Nathan in their apartment in Brooklyn. The three admired each other and quickly became friends. The beautiful and sad Sophie attracts Stingo deeply. Sophie is a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp. After the war, she came to the United States and fell in love with the talented Jewish artist Nathan. However, the relationship between the couple seems to be passionate, crazy and tense. What makes Stingo particularly puzzled is that in the face of the suspicious and manic Nathan, Sophie always suffers silently and is unwilling to leave. Stingo became curious about this woman who seemed to be burdened with a mysterious spiritual burden, and gradually learned about Sophie's nightmarish past. Sophie had two children. In the Nazi concentration camp, she could only let one child survive. She chose her son and pushed her daughter to the crematorium. Later, in the process of inquiring about her son's whereabouts, she used her father's identity as an anti-Semite to accept him against his will. Serving as a pure officer... These painful memories have always tortured Sophie and made her unable to escape. Even if she gained Stingo's love, even if she had the chance to start a new life, Sophie still chose to return to her already crazy lover Nathan and go to death with him...

"The Man Who Laughs" He was in desperate need of silence. But his relatives complained endlessly; the rain was pounding like drums, and he picked up the meat cleaver and remembered the incident that made them smile. After a while, behold! They all smiled! "How Do Dogs Die?" >>The Bentley family's dog passed away, and the whole family was grieving. They held a funeral for him, played old songs, and recalled the past. However, at this time, a familiar bark came from the back door. "Nowhere to Hide" The Webbs planned to cross the border by car, but their tires were punctured by machete fragments and the car was damaged. They were forced to abandon the car and walk into a hostile town.

"Midnight in June" In the middle of June, he waited in the dark for Lavinia to return home, using fear as bait and immersed in the memories of hide-and-seek. Then he showed up at the restaurant and while he was waiting again, his refill of milk spilled over the rim of the glass. "The Town Has Fallen Asleep" Lavinia and her friends watched the evening movie and heard rumors of a lone man murdering someone in the town. She ran home alone, feeling someone following her all the way. Finally entering the house, just as he was still in shock, he heard movement coming from inside the house. "Sailor, Returning from the Sea" The calm and storm before a thousand storms and calms were enough for him to remember for the rest of his life. The old captain stayed with the houseboat for the rest of his life, just because he remembered the epitaph carved by his wife with her life: "Never touch the land."

This book is the sixth volume in the series "Collection of Edogawa Ranpo Mystery Masterpieces". "Black Lizard" is one of Edogawa Ranpo's full-length masterpieces. It tells the story of the battle of wits between the legendary female thief "Black Lizard" and detective Akechi Kogoro. The novel takes the abnormal and twisted criminal psychology as the core, and depicts the process of detective Akechi Kogoro's gradual growth into a famous detective through six cases. In the novel, the description of Black Lizard's criminal psychology is extremely impactful. His perverted behavior is intertwined with his obsession with love, showing complex human nature. "Black Lizard" involves profound descriptions of criminal psychology, such as the Black Angel's extreme pursuit of a beautiful girl and the tragic situation of the girl in the water tank, which is horrifying. The plot of the novel is confusing and full of suspense, showing Edogawa Ranpo's superb reasoning skills and deep insight into the dark side of human nature.

"Swan" a strange dish of lime vanilla ice cream, a pair of old friends chatting on the bench. Summer is coming to an end. For a moment, he saw the fleeting swan. "Lone Walker in the Dark" On a foggy winter night in 2053, Leonard was walking at night as usual when he was suddenly intercepted by an unmanned police car. Just because of his walk, he was accused of being abnormal and taken to an unknown place. In the night, the streets returned to deathly silence.

This book is the fourth volume in the series "Collection of Edogawa Ranpo's Mystery Masterpieces". It selects eight classic short stories by the Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo, covering the most bizarre, curious and philosophically profound works in his creative career. From the voyeur's criminal carnival to the inhuman abnormal love, from the madness of the mirror world to the death game of mechanical devices, Ranpo uses amazing imagination and delicate psychological description to construct a dark maze that wanders between reality and madness.

This book is the fifth volume in the series "Collection of Edogawa Ranpo Mystery Masterpieces". "The Ghost on the Island" is a novel that combines elements of reasoning, suspense, heterogeneity and curiosity. It is Edogawa Ranpo's debut novel and a typical embodiment of his "Ranpo fun". The novel tells the love story of the protagonist Miura and Kizaki Shodai. The story unfolds from an old manuscript and a mysterious island. The protagonist goes to the island based on the manuscript and discovers the unusual scene in the mansion and island described by Shodai during his lifetime, and reveals the mystery of Shodai's life experience. The novel involves suspenseful plots such as secret room murders and stabbings in the crowd, showing the complex relationship between human desire and family ethics. "The Ghost on the Island" is not only a mystery novel, but also a work that integrates social gender awareness, human exploration and literary innovation, demonstrating Edogawa Ranpo's literary achievements as the father of Japanese mystery novels.

The girl who accidentally became paralyzed while saving others was starved to death two weeks after the end of the world. However, at the moment of her death, she met another species that traveled through time and space, and they began a journey across the universe...

One day, someone conducted a simple interview with Lin Luo Question: When did you become attracted to him? Answer: One night when I was 16 Question: Can you tell us in detail how you were attracted to sex? Answer: It was a dark and windy night. I was walking on the streets of a foreign country and got slightly injured in a fight over something. After returning home, my fiancé felt extremely distressed and kept apologizing to me for not taking good care of me. Q: His love for you moved you, so you fell in love with him? Answer: No, you misunderstood. He was the one who fought with me. Question:...... ---- Male protagonist: "You fell in love with me the first time you met me, without even seeing my face clearly. What does this mean?" Lin Luo: It was too dark at that time, so I couldn't tell the difference between humans and animals. Male protagonist:...... One sentence introduction: They were all blind at first Quick article

The new book "The Stepmother Reborn and Raised Her Children to Counterattack and Get Rich" has been released. If you like Baozi, please support it! ! ** In an accident, Qin Lili took her whole family to a parallel space in the 1980s. She looked around and saw that this family was too poor. They had no savings and a huge amount of foreign debt. It was raining heavily outside and light rain inside. She also gave away three cubs for nothing and became someone's vicious stepmother for no reason. Qin Lili was kind to the children, but she was thought to be selling them. She roared fiercely, but others thought it was normal. She wanted to change the situation at home. Now that the land was divided, she had to leave her job and go to the city to do some small business. She would definitely be able to pay off the foreign debt and her life would be better and better. Everyone in the village joked that each member of the family was lazier than the other and must have been fresh for three and a half days. If her family could make money, the sows would be able to climb trees. She is bound to a system, but what is going on with this? This system actually collects resentment values. The higher the resentment value, the more points you get. On the contrary, the more others like her, the more she will gain nothing. Then this system becomes an empty shell. Doesn't this force her to become a villain? [This article is fictitious. Do not compare it with others. Do not make any comparisons.]

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"The Song of the Sad Cafe" collects seven of McCullers' legendary works, including his debut novel "The Prodigy" published at the age of 19, and six short stories and short stories published by McCullers in different periods. The novella "The Song of the Sad Cafe" is the most famous. There used to be a café in this town, an old boarded-up house that was unlike any other. There used to be tables covered with tablecloths, colorful paper bags fluttering in front of electric fans, and it was even more lively on Saturday nights. The cafe has been closed long ago, but everyone still remembers the stories that happened in the cafe...

On April 24, 1933, a young couple committed suicide in a rented Paris apartment. That night, the young couple probably met some people and went to a dance club. Why did they finally choose to commit suicide? Thirty years later, a young man who accidentally learned of the incident began to investigate this old mystery again and tried to restore the situation that night. He gradually discovered that he had met many of the parties involved in that case. An investigation did not yield the expected answers, but instead opened more investigations. Those old friends who linger like ghosts, those names and figures blurred by time, and the explanations that have yet to come. These are the secrets of Paris. Can the protagonist find the truth of the case? This is a story about loss, pursuit, and reinvention.

This book is divided into two categories in terms of content, detective reasoning and bizarre stories. Category 1: Detective mystery novels, with interlocking plots and infinite reversals, which are amazing. Evidence pointing to the truth is hidden everywhere in the text, making the reader's confusion gradually disappear while reading. It can be called a textbook-style introductory book on character reasoning, and a must-read for suspense reasoning enthusiasts. Edogawa also created the character of Kogoro Akechi, a genius detective with an eccentric temper. He always solves bizarre cases with unexpected methods. His name is almost a household name in Japan. Kogoro Mori in "Detective Conan" is named after Kogoro Akechi. ; Category 2: Bizarre tales, which go deep into the spiritual world of criminals, unfold a phenomenon-level analysis and examination of human nature, and use delicate brushstrokes to describe the struggle and confusion of human nature when faced with temptation. Each story uses a limited length to convey profound meaning, which is thought-provoking and intriguing.

"Left Holding Huang and Right Holding Cang" is a collection of excellent novellas by the powerful writer Deng Yiguang. Among them, "The Evil Dog Agron" is the best and most classic novella in contemporary China. It is about the 1960s and 1970s. Two young educated youths fell in love in the difficult environment of going to the mountains and countryside. However, they could not escape the dragnet set by the people in power. In the end, they ended up fighting mandarin ducks, separated from each other. The two dogs beside them also fell in love while living together, and actually staged a tragedy of loyal love.

"Let me live like a rocket taking off, let myself burn up, and let the night sky gain instant light." Mishima Yukio's thirteen short stories between the ages of seventeen and thirty-one are the masterpieces of Mishima's creative career. The elegance and passion behind his violent death. This book collects thirteen short stories written by Mishima Yukio between the ages of seventeen and thirty-one. When the opening chapter "Moon in the Water" was completed, Mishima was only seventeen years old. The full text consists of seven letters. The unfolding first-person narrative style makes the dialogue between the two parties closely connected and inseparable. The delicate and full psychological monologue is gripping. "Goat Head" reflects the subtle and dramatic changes in the protagonist's heart by describing whether a man can see the transformation of a goat's head when he interacts with different women before and after the war. The combination of realistic scenes and allegorical images brings the story to an abrupt end when it takes a major turn. Mishima's surprising expressiveness and distinct control of rhythm are impressive. In the title work "The Death of Radiguet", Radiguet, a talented writer whom Mishima had admired since his boyhood, passed away under the protection of Cocteau, ending his life at the age of twenty, as predicted: "Within three days, I will be shot by a magic weapon."

"Eight Years Old" is a collection of short stories written by Deng Yiguang in his later period. The author's later short stories shifted the setting to coastal cities such as Shenzhen. His creative techniques became increasingly mature and varied, and his characters were created with a strong sense of the times. However, his eyes were downward, reflecting the unchanged feelings of people and things at the bottom, and they have a strong sense of reality.

"The Girl Who Eats Birds" contains a total of 14 short stories. These stories are short, concise, and extremely explosive. A short scream, then the sound of water flowing, a divorced father hoping not to hear the sound of his teenage daughter eating a bird; a group of parents waiting for their children to finish school at the school gate, a father squeezing a butterfly to death, and then a large swarm of butterflies flew out of the school; a A man was ordered to kill a dog in the square, but in the end he found himself facing a group of dogs... Samantha Schwieblin is good at integrating incredible fantasy into the details of daily life, and uses an open ending to let readers ponder the hidden meaning in shock.

"The Boy and the Sea of ​​Silence" is Siegfried Lenz's masterpiece of a novel that was translated and published in mainland China for the first time. It has long been included in the must-read list for German middle school students. Twelve-year-old Ana is the only survivor of a family tragedy. He comes to his adoptive parents' home on a cold winter day and begins to live with the three children in this family. The sensitive and melancholy boy loves the sea as deeply as his father, but his father, who experienced the stormy waves, did not die in a shipwreck. Why and how he led his family to death is the eternal pain in Ana's heart, and it is also the biggest secret hidden deep in the boy's heart. The past is like a nightmare that haunts Ana. He repeatedly struggles to get out of the pain, but he continues to suffer misunderstandings and failures in his true friendship and young love. The fate of the two generations reached the same juncture, and Ana walked onto the boat alone in the storm...

"Twilight" was first published in 1986. It is one of the few short story collections to win the PEN Faulkner Award. Each story included is a masterpiece of enduring power and elegant writing. Two upstarts in New York's legal profession embark on a wanton trip to Italy; an ambitious young screenwriter accidentally discovers the true meaning of art and honor; a female rider is involved in a terrible accident in a remote field. As night falls, she must face her fate alone... Salter's language is frugal and has a long aftertaste, and each story is heavy and calm, thrilling in silence. It shows Salt's strong language control as a novelist.

"Tokyo Tales" contains five short stories, namely "The Accidental Traveler", "Hanalei Bay", "Wherever You May Be Found", "The Kidney Stones Move Every Day" and "Shinagawa Monkey". The most bizarre of the five stories is the last one, "Shinagawa Monkey". A young woman named Ando Mizuki suffered from a kind of "amnesia syndrome" and could not remember her own name once or twice a week. After many twists and turns, it was found that the "amnesia syndrome" was caused by a monkey... Although it is a "fantasy", Haruki Murakami still discusses metaphysical life issues in the novel. Tan Tongtan, Qitan means strange talk and strange news. As we all know, most of the titles of Murakami's novels are frivolous and avoid reality, but this collection of short stories is exactly the same as what it appears to be. It is indeed a strange story that took place in Tokyo.

"The Magic Marsh" includes George Sand's famous pastoral novels "The Magic Marsh" and "Little Fadette". "The Demon Swamp" is about a young farmer named Germain who is unfortunately widowed and struggling to survive with his three children. Her father-in-law kindly introduced her to a wealthy widow from a neighboring village as his wife. Germain took his young son and a poor girl from his neighbor to propose marriage. On the way, he slept beside a pond called "Magic Swamp" by the locals. The young man and woman took care of each other, increased their understanding, developed feelings, and finally got married. The girl in "Little Fadette" lost her parents when she was young and was raised by her grandmother who was familiar with herbal medicine knowledge. Therefore, she was discriminated against by the villagers. After understanding her noble character, a handsome young man named Lang Deli from the same village fell in love with her despite the opposition and ridicule of others. Under the influence of love, the girl who used to be naughty, willful, and unkempt changed her bad habits and became a neat, respectable girl. Everyone also changed their inherent prejudices, and the lovers finally got married.

The writing date of "The Story of Luoka" is generally believed to be around the end of the tenth century. The author is unknown and is presumed to be a man of relatively low status. The story describes that the daughter of Minamoto Tadayori Nagoya was neglected by her stepmother and was forced to live in a low-lying house, known as "Lokaku". Luokawa met a major general, and they lived a happy life after marriage. The stepmother held a grudge and severely attacked the servant who had pulled the strings. After Tadayori Minamoto passed away, her stepmother completely lost power. The major general forgave her when he saw that his stepmother had repented. "The Story of Rakubo" completely adopts the creative method of classical realism and faithfully reflects a corner of aristocratic life. On the one hand, it promotes the idea of ​​karma and retribution that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil. On the other hand, it also proposes a new moral code and values ​​​​for aristocratic society, highlighting the valuable spirit of loyalty to love.

This book is the first collection of 15 representative works compiled and selected by the famous writer Lin Xi. The story is told like a cross talk, and almost every novel has been put on the stage, a Tianjin urban legend in the style of Along the River During the Qingming Festival. In the past hundred years, only Lin Xi has truly understood the details of the city of Tianjin. "Little Son" won the first Lu Xun Literature Award.

Carlos Fuentes, the leader of the "Latin American Literature Explosion" and a Mexican literary master who has won numerous awards throughout his life, is a mature masterpiece in his tenth year of debut; four of the seven fantastic stories full of magic have been adapted into movies and put on the big screen; the story concept is exquisite, the plot design is full of drama, and the plot reversal is unexpected. The short story collection "Songs of the Blind" was first published in 1964 and is the second collection of short stories by the Mexican literary master Carlos Fuentes. The book is composed of seven fantastic stories full of magical colors, namely "The Two Elenas", "The Doll Queen", "Destined", "Old Morality", "The Price of Life", "Pure Heart" and "Sea Serpent". Four of them have been adapted into movies and put on the big screen. Each story is well-conceived and the plot is full of drama. The fate of the protagonist often reverses suddenly at the end, which is unexpected. The title of this book, "Songs of the Blind," comes from the last part of "The Book of True Love," a collection of poems compiled by the Spanish poet Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Ita, in the fourteenth century. This book was published ten years apart from Fuentes's debut novel "The Day of the Mask". During these ten years, Fuentes accumulated rich writing experience and skilled writing skills through the creation of four novels: "The Clearest Area", "Conscience", "The Death of Artemio Cross" and "Ola".

This book selects Su Tong's most representative novels over the years, including "Multimeter", "Red Pink", "Wives and Concubines", "God-sent Relatives" and other famous works. Su Tong is a master and master of contemporary Chinese short stories, representing the highest level of short stories. Su Tong's novels have remarkable pioneering characteristics. The theme images in the novel are diverse and rich. He replaced the theme discourse of traditional novels with personalized thematic discourse. Su Tong's novels seem to be "restored" again and again. He uses a simple narrative to tell a story about something that is not simple in life. He does not have too many skills or subtle meaning, but there are many interesting things for people to appreciate after reading it. Most writers will consciously complicate simple things in pursuit of sharpness, profundity and strength, but Su Tong's novels try to cut out the complex and simplify. In the restoration of narrative, he looks at the complex world and human nature with tender eyes. Such works are often unforgettable.

Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 21 times, the true "Uncrowned King" of the Nobel Prize, the work of Graham Greene, one of the British novelists widely praised by experts and loved by readers throughout the Western world in the 20th century, is a masterpiece in the field of writer's autobiography, and has been translated by Lu Gusun, a leading figure in British and American literature research and the compiler of the "English-Chinese Dictionary". Green's literary creation and achievements are closely related to his ideological contradictions and even mental illness. His life is like his novels, and he himself is a character in his works. In the late period of his life and creation, he deliberately calmed down and recounted his life and ideological experiences from the beginning, thus creating two masterpieces in the field of autobiography: "Life Was Like This" (1971) and "The Road to Escape" (1980). "The Guardian" and "The Times Literary Supplement" honestly praised it as "one of the most outstanding achievements in autobiographical writing". In "Life Was Like This", Green recalls his student days and Oxford years, how he encountered psychoanalysis and Russian roulette in adolescence, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he hurriedly resigned from The Times after the publication of his first novel to become a professional writer.

"The Cat, Shozo and Two Women" is a classic collection of novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aestheticism, and includes representative short and medium-length novels such as "The Cat, Shozo and Two Women", "Boy", "Horror", "Ex-Con" and "Yanagi Bathhouse Incident". The novella "The Cat, Shozo and Two Women" was written during the period when Tanizaki was translating "The Tale of Genji" (1935-1938). It uses the similarity between women and cats as a metaphor to tell the subtle, complex and interesting relationship between men and women through a cat, allowing men who are overwhelmed by the situation to perform a family comedy with them that makes people laugh. The world of Tanizaki's novels is full of absurdity and weirdness, seeking beauty in ugliness, affirming goodness in praise, and thinking about the meaning of survival in death. Whether it is the world of beautiful snow that expresses his demonic "ugliness as beauty" or the oriental culture that pursues Japanese classical traditional beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki's works are permeated with a strong sense of human emotions and psychology. Yukio Mishima once evaluated Tanizaki Junichiro's works as "the peonies blooming brilliantly against the gloomy background of naturalistic literature".

A collection commemorating the 110th anniversary of the birth of William Golding's important masterpiece, Nobel Prize winner in Literature and author of the novel "Lord of the Flies". Using Golding's representative symbolic techniques and allegorical novel style, it continues the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness in "Lord of the Flies". Golding's masterpiece uses symbolism, formal symmetry, philosophical exploration, and even religious mysticism to depict the evil of modern man. Winner of Britain's historic James Tait Black Memorial Award. "Dark Revealed" is Golding's important masterpiece and won the James Tait Black Memorial Award, Britain's oldest and most prestigious literary award. Maddie is an orphan who survived the bombing of London during World War II. Although she miraculously survived, her body was burned. Destined to suffer a lifetime of pain, Maddie became a wanderer, searching for unknown spiritual salvation. There is also another pair of twin sisters, Sophie and Toni, the former indulges in sexual sadism and the latter is involved in political violence. When another fire comes, their fates collide... This is a dark book illuminated by fire. The struggle between good and evil that continues from "Lord of the Flies" is placed in a modern context by the author, which is also mixed with religious fanaticism, terrorism, abnormal psychology and sexual behavior, and desperate attempts to escape from the world. The novel profoundly reveals that the "darkness" of human nature not only exists deep in people's hearts, but also exists in the external modern world: "You have nowhere to escape."

110th anniversary commemorative edition of William Golding, Nobel Prize winner for literature and author of the novel "Lord of the Flies". A monster spire that can never be completed, an obsessive and confusing sacred dream, a masterpiece of philosophical fiction where absurdity and reality intersect. "The Church Spire" is Golding's important masterpiece, which deeply explores the intricate mixture of human faith and despair, ideals and reality. The novel tells the story of Patriarch Jocelyn of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary who truly felt the call of the Lord, asking him to build a church steeple as high as four hundred feet for the glory of the Lord. He naively believed that as long as he was "pious" and had a firm "will", God would definitely help him build a spire that reached heaven on the ground. This grand construction without a foundation ended in failure. In "Church Spire", Golding places the hope of mankind in seeking an ideal state, and also reveals the real living conditions in which ideals are eventually shattered; noble aspirations and ugly reality, the struggle for good and sinful desires are intertwined; through the intertwined images of absurdity and reality, and the artistic technique of using both symbol and metaphor, the author profoundly reveals the truth of human nature and society.

Nobel laureate Handke's creative new work is an epic journey into the interior of France and an image of French social reality. Written for young people who cannot gain a foothold in society: Go to the wilderness to find your true self. At the beginning of the novel, on a beautiful day in early August, an old man living in the suburbs of Paris left his peaceful suburban residence in Paris, an "uninhabited bay" surrounded by forests, and went to his country house in Picardy. As he walked, observing his surroundings, he occasionally mentioned a young woman he called "the fruit-stealing girl" who seemed to be on a similar journey to northern France. This "fruit-stealing girl" is 25 years old and has been "eager to escape" since adolescence. She just returned from Siberia and immediately went out to find her mother. In retracing her footsteps (whether real or imagined) through the interior of France, the narrator is writing about her in his own way, and thus the novel is born.

"Even Without Trying" is the latest collection of novels by Choi Eun-young, one of the most popular contemporary Korean writers. It contains a total of fourteen works. In this book, Cui Enrong focuses on young and sensitive hearts: classmates and friends who cannot be honest with each other, confused and numb young people in the workplace, and teenagers who are incompatible with a foreign country... There are no ups and downs in the book, and there are no bizarre twists and turns. The plot, however, reveals the author's keen insight into inner dilemmas and emotional wounds in an understatement. She touches the embarrassment and embarrassment, shame and anger, loneliness and uneasiness experienced by young people one by one with clear and clear brushstrokes, full of kindness and understanding. Cui Enrong is unique in his fresh and gentle narrative style. His writing is simple and natural, and contains a kind of plain charm. She observes social reality with gentle eyes, explores the neglected emotions in daily life, and uses sincere and kind words to describe the connections and gaps between people. In her writing, every life, no matter how small, seems to sparkle.

This book selects 11 classic short stories by the Japanese writer Nakajima Atsushi, including "The Story of the Mountain Moon", "The Disciple" and "Li Ling". The stories are all based on ancient Chinese classics. The author reinterprets the stories of Li Zheng, Zi Lu, Li Ling, Su Wu, Wu Jing and other characters, injecting modern people's thoughts into historical figures. The cold characters in the classics suddenly resurrected and became flesh-and-blood, resonant and dramatic characters. The content of this book is original and the diction is beautiful. The author is good at portraying the human heart and human nature in the article, which is both a questioning of life and an exploration of self.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's masterpiece, winning the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, fighting a big fish. It creates a typical tough guy image in the history of literature and promotes the fighting spirit of not being afraid of hardships and not succumbing to fate.

After five years, Ryu Murakami published "The Story of Loss", his first novel in his later years. Follow Murakami Ryu into the labyrinth deep in consciousness, and travel through a "lucid dream" in the ruins of life's memories. Tender nostalgia and compromise flow throughout the novel, and his thoughts are as weak as babble and full of self-doubt. This is the first time in Ryu Murakami's nearly fifty-year writing career that he has taken off the armor of verbal violence and opened the door to his inner world to readers for the first time. This book is similar to a psychiatric clinical record, but also has the characteristics of a private novel. One day, "my" domestic kitten suddenly spoke and directed "me" to an actress named "Mariko". The actress and "I" seemed to be old friends, but we both had completely different memories of the past. The actress took "me" to a restaurant "Cherbourg" that was clearly closed in my memory, and then her mother suddenly appeared in front of her. Mixed with various voices, a large number of memory fragments began to intertwine and emerge: my mother's experience in North Korea, the alienation of the painter's father from the family, "I" and the actress's travels in Rome, as well as German shepherd dogs, azaleas... "My" consciousness fell into a maze, wandering in the ruins of memory, unable to distinguish between past and present, reality and imagination, and the boundaries between advancement and retreat. Finally, guided by my mother's voice, "I" finally remembered the reason why I became a novelist: "Depression is like a twilight that never ends. I can only rely on fiction to continue to survive."

This is a black comedy murder mystery novel at the end of the 20th century. The background is at the end of the upcoming millennium. Nicola Sixx, a beautiful, sexy prostitute with the ability to foresee the future, foresaw that she would be murdered on her thirty-fifth birthday, so she made step-by-step arrangements for the arrival of this day. Who will kill her? Is it the dirty and shameless liar Keith Tallent, or the rich, tall, romantic banker Guy Clinch? But there was no definite answer to this question until the end. What's even more incredible is that she actually used her beauty to seduce the novel's narrator, Samson Young, and made this second-rate writer suffering from cancer change the plot of the story and become a super accomplice in this murder game. The "London Ground" is both a place within the city of London and a symbol of the desolation of the postmodern Western world. The death that occurs here is the death of the body, the death of the spirit, the death of faith, and the death of the soul.

The story of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" takes place in a small town in St. Petersburg, USA. Tom Sawyer is naughty and eccentric by nature. He hates the dull and boring life in daily life. He creates a lot of mischief with the wild boy Huckleberry Finn. He ran away from home, explored a desert island, experienced a free "pirate" life, and witnessed a murder. After some struggle, Tom overcame his inner fear and bravely exposed Injun Joe's crime. Unfortunately, he and his friends got lost in the cave, and the escaped criminal Joe lurked beside them... After experiencing a series of thrilling adventures, Tom gradually grew into a brave, fearless and responsible little man, and even actually found the pirate's treasure.

Another mysterious masterpiece by Pavich, the author of "Khazar Dictionary" and "The Romance of the Fish-scale Hat". It is a masterpiece for imagination lovers and a literary giant that reinterprets Greek mythology. A tragedy of pure love. In a parallel universe, the couple with the same name as the Greek mythological characters suffered a more tragic fate than Hero and Leandre. The story comes from ancient Greek mythology: Hero is the priestess of Aphrodite. Leander swam across the Dardanelles every night to meet her. Hero used a torch to guide Leander every night. On a stormy night, the torch was blown out by the storm. Leander was lost and drowned. Hero was so sad that he jumped into the sea. This fantasy lyrical novel has a special funnel-shaped structure, consisting of two legendary stories. The first half of the book, following the convention of ordinary books, tells the story of Hailuo. Turn over the book and start from the beginning, that is the story of Leander. The stories of these two people are connected together by fragments of Greek mythology. Leander of Pavich was born in the 17th century and was a trader between Belgrade and Constantinople. He was inspired to become a monk, and later he built a magical castle at the Sava Gate in Belgrade and gained great fame. The landscape gradually became desolate as Austrian and Turkish armies looted and burned, and Leander was killed in a bloody battle. The story of Hero took place between 1920 and 1930. It tells the story of a Serbian chemistry student who was eventually killed by her jealous lover. Like Leander, Hero had a premonition of his own death.

"The Dancer of Izu" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Yasunari Kawabata, which especially includes the famous "The Dancer of Izu", as well as exquisite short stories such as "Bonfire", "Hot Spring Hotel" and "Mother's First Love". A boy from Tokyo falls in love with an innocent and simple little dancer. The vague love transcends class, and the gentle first love becomes an unforgettable love that will last forever.

"Snow Country" tells the story of Shimamura and geisha Komako getting acquainted in the Snow Country. After a brief relationship, the lonely Komako began to look forward to the annual date with Shimamura. On the third train trip to Snow Country for an appointment, Shimamura met a woman named Ye Zi and was deeply attracted by the beautiful reflection of Ye Zi on the car window. Since then, several people have been involved in emotional entanglements, until a sudden fire brought everything to an abrupt end...

Includes two masterpieces, "Snow Country" and "Thousand Cranes". "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's highest masterpiece. The beauty of nothingness, purity and sadness depicted in this painting reaches the extreme, making people heart-thumping and melancholy at the same time. "Thousand Cranes" expresses the conflict between love and reason, and depicts Japanese scenery and psychology to the extreme. It seems that there are thousands of white cranes flying in the sunset between the lines.

This book includes the Nobel Prize-winning novel "Snow Country" and seven classic works including "Oil", "Fantasy of May", "Bonfire", "Her Dress", "Thousand Generations", "Orphan's Feelings" and "Human Heart" from the collection of first love short stories "First Love Novels". "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's representative work of aestheticism. The author uses a graceful and sad style to describe a snow world where the beauty of nothingness, cleanliness and sadness are intertwined for readers. The story mainly tells the story of a Tokyo dance art researcher named Shimamura, who went to a hot spring hotel in the snow country three times, and had a love entanglement with the local geisha Komako and the girl Ye Zi who met by chance. The article is full of delicate emotions of love and futility.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" is an autobiographical novel written by Kawabata Yasunari based on his trip to Izu when he was nineteen years old (1918). The author lost his parents when he was young, and when he was sixteen, all his relatives left him. His tragic life experience gave him a withdrawn and melancholy character. In order to relieve this depressed mood, the author started a journey to Izu alone when he was nineteen years old. On the way, he met a group of artists who made a living from touring performances. The author was moved by the innocence and kindness of one of the fourteen-year-old dancers, and followed them all the way. Unfortunately, the huge identity difference between the two made this hazy love affair end in vain. Through the delicate description of the scenery, the author allows readers to immerse themselves in the beautiful scenery of Izu and at the same time sigh at the beautiful and hazy emotions between ignorant boys and girls, achieving a harmonious blend of love and scenery. The novel is the author's early masterpiece and most famous work. It was widely praised as soon as it was published and has been adapted to the screen many times. It is a famous article in the history of Japanese literature describing the innocent love between young men and women. This book also includes several famous short stories by Kawabata Yasunari.

"Snow Country" describes the emotional entanglement between Shimamura, a dance art researcher, who went to a hot spring hotel in Snow Country three times, and a local geisha named Komako, and a girl named Ye Zi who met by chance. During this period, the beauty of nothingness, cleanliness and sadness are depicted to the extreme.

Includes two masterpieces: "Izu Dancing Girl" and "Ancient Capital". "Izu Dancer" makes its gorgeous debut in the rainy season of youth. With her dancing sleeves lowered and smiling eyes, this is the most beautiful first love in the world. "Ancient Capital" In the ancient capital of Kyoto, Chieko was adopted by a brocade merchant and became a beautiful girl. On the night of the Gion Festival, she met Miaozi, a girl from a mountain village, and was surprised to learn that the two were twin sisters. They miss each other, but they cannot recognize each other because of their different identities. The two sisters' faint sadness is woven into the beautiful scenery of Kyoto's four seasons... Before Go master Hideya retired, he decided to bid farewell to the chess world with a farewell match. Between the old and sick celebrities and the new young chess king, the old chess art and the new rules of victory and defeat, an epoch-making chess match kicked off with worldwide attention...