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It reveals the inside story of the literary and journalistic circles, and concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deep feelings about life. It is one of the most valuable works in "Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and had their ideals shattered. The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution.

"Grass of the Night" tells the story of a writer who discovers traces of a past time in an old notebook from the 1960s. Fifty years later, the words recorded in the notebook took him back to Montparnasse, the university town, the Left Bank and the era of "decolonization". At that time, he had a close relationship with a young woman named Dani. However, walking on the streets of Paris in 2012, what happened in 1966 became suspicious. She concealed many facts: her real name, her activities, and a person who fascinated her. The huge secret that really troubles her... There are files on her and several acquaintances and friends in the police station, but the clues to the pursuit of the truth are still looming. The dislocation of space and time, the confusion of reality and poetry, make this novel a confusing youth fantasy.

"Chasing Lost Time" is a novel that is different from traditional novels. The whole book takes the narrator "I" as the main body and integrates what he sees, hears, thinks and feels. It is not only a true description of social life and human relations, but also a record of the writer's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. In addition to narrative, it also contains a lot of reflections and discussions. This book is an excerpt from "In Search of Lost Time". In order to allow readers to appreciate the charm of Proust's unique style as much as possible, French translator Zhou Kexi adopted a "large-span" excerpting method. He first selected the essential paragraphs in each volume of the novel.

"The Needle of Time" is Maria Dueñas's first novel. Without any marketing promotion, this debut novel by a newcomer has been enthusiastically sought after by readers due to the charm of the novel itself. It has sold more than 1.5 Million copies in Spain alone and has been translated into more than 20 languages ​​​​and distributed worldwide. Sheila, an innocent tailor girl, opened the door of a typewriter store with her fiancé on the eve of her wedding. Her originally determined fate was completely changed: a huge fortune and a father she had never met fell from the sky! This is just the first page of the immortal copy of time. As the pages of the war years are gradually opened, the entire Mediterranean coast has become her stage. Politics, espionage, conspiracy, and adventure, which originally had nothing to do with her, are all related to her...

Jacob's Room was published in Woolf's home press in 1922. The main plot of the book tells the story of a young man's short life. Childhood at the seaside, studying in Cambridge, growing up independently, relationships with different women, studying in France and Greece, and finally losing his life in the First World War. This book is generally considered to be Woolf's first large-scale exploration and experiment in literary innovation. It was a turning point in her creative process and the beginning of her attempt to create using the stream of consciousness technique. The novel is set in England and begins with Jacob's childhood.

A respected doctor with unknown origins, a cunning and cunning captain with his own principles, and a melancholy young man charged with murder. A storm trapped them on a remote island in the Pacific. When the indifferent and charming girl comes with the style of summer night, everyone's fate is involved in the whirlpool of love, conspiracy, jealousy and death.

During the Anti-Japanese War. Accompany the capital Chongqing. Dark and chaotic, ghosts are rampant. Mr. Ou has been studying all his life and has taught his four children to study hard and make a living using the knowledge they have learned. However, prices in Chongqing have skyrocketed, supplies are in short supply, and people are in dire straits, making it difficult to live on wages. As a result, Mr. Ou's third son abandoned Wen and drove a truck and made a fortune; his second son abandoned medicine and went into business and lived a well-off life; and his eldest son was still a civil servant and was in poverty. The friends, colleagues, neighbors, and relatives around him are all speculative and profit-seeking, working hard day and night to make money. It is truly "tight ahead, tight behind"!

"Going to Swann's House" is the first volume of the multi-volume novel "In Search of Lost Time" by the famous 20th century French novelist Proust. The book is divided into three parts, the first part is "Combray", the second part is "Svann's Love", and the third part is "Places and Place Names; Place Names". 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.

I don't know what life is, but I just want a better life! This is the story of the life of a man named Garp. Garp has been without a father since he was born, because Garp's mother chose a different life: "I want a job, I want to live alone, and I want a child, but I don't want to share my body or life with others for this." So, she raised Garp in her own way and gave him all the freedom she could. And Garp has been trying to figure out how to live a good life. He couldn't distinguish between love and lust, and was trapped by lust for half his life, which put his marriage in trouble. He cares about his career, but is sometimes arrogant and anxious. He experienced a person's growth and destruction, and also felt the madness of the world and the fragility of people. But he always insisted that everyone must be full of energy and live a better life!

"Yu Shi Ming Yan" mainly collects stories or scripts based on real folk life in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. The themes cover love, marriage, friendship, etc., Showing the various social conditions at that time. Most of them are old scripts from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, such as "Shi Hongzhao's Meeting of the Dragon and Tiger Monarchs and His Ministers" and "The Four Dukes of the Song Dynasty Raised the Soul-forbidden Zhang", while a few are scripts from the Ming Dynasty, such as "Brother Jiang Xing Meets Again in Pearl Shirt" and "Shen Xiaoxia Meets as a Teacher". The themes are also closely related to urban life. For example, "The Golden Jade Slave Beats the Lover with a Stick" condemns the unfaithfulness of a heartless man; "Jiang Xing Ge Reunites in Pearl Shirt" describes the unforgettable old love for his wife who lost his virginity and reunited with her husband; "Redemption of Friends" and "Fan Juqing's Friend of Life and Death" extol the spirit of loyalty to friendship regardless of life and death; while "Yang Siwen meets an old friend in Yanshan", "Mu Mian'an Zheng Huchen avenges injustice", "Yang Balao's unexpected encounter with the country of Yue" touch on real political themes such as alien invasions and powerful ministers mistreating the country. In addition, some historical legends are included and adapted, such as "Yan Pingzhong's two peaches killed three men" and so on.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924), one of the greatest Austrian writers, has had an influence all over the world and is respected as a master of modern literature. Born in Prague during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he worked as an insurance company employee and engaged in creative writing in his spare time. He was almost unknown in the German literary world during his lifetime. After his death, he attracted widespread attention and became the focus of fierce debates in aesthetics, philosophy, religion and social concepts. This book includes the author's most outstanding short stories and short stories such as "Country Doctor".

There is Greek specialty wine exuding the scent of pine, roasted guinea chicken served on a silver plate decorated with the coat of arms of the Medici family, Pecorino goat cheese, and snacks made of almond flour wrapped in cream that can be swallowed in one bite. There are also studios of artists in the center of Florence in the 16th century, major banks all over Europe, and a dazzling array of shops filled with foreign goods. You will pass by plainly dressed civilian women cooking Egyptian bean soup in a cauldron, and you will have a heated discussion about Machiavelli's prophecies with aristocrats wearing fine satin and lace. What's even more incredible is that you can also go to watch and "interrupt" Michelangelo's own creation of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling frescoes! Not only that, the love drama between a handsome man and an elegant geisha, the power struggle between ambitious young people, and the complex relationships between the great powers at that time are all presented in this "Renaissance Novel" series. What was it like to live in the Renaissance era? After reading this book, you should have the answer in your mind. Returning to Venice to decide the fate of the world, Marco returns to politics and once again confronts Türkiye. After the death of Sultan Suleiman of Türkiye, war broke out between the two countries and evolved into an all-round conflict that no one expected. Nearly 500 warships fought fiercely at sea, and more than 15,000 people lost their lives in the Battle of Lepanto. In just one day, the fate of the world was decided. Venice and Türkiye negotiated peace. At this time, the Venetian diplomat Marco was over 75 years old and lived a retired life on Burano Island.

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has been obsessed with it for 25 years and insisted on making it into a movie of the same name. It was named the best adapted screenplay in 2016 by the National Board of Review and was selected as one of the top ten feature films of the year. "Silence" won the 2nd Junichiro Tanizaki Award and was translated into more than 20 languages ​​and sold well all over the world. The novel tells the story of a Portuguese Jesuit priest who smuggled himself to Japan to preach in a small village near Nagasaki during the Tokugawa Shogunate's ban on Christianity. It tells a thrilling story about faith and challenges, and answers the questions hidden in everyone's heart: What is the meaning of life, why should we have faith, and what is the purpose of our lives when we wake up every day?

"Catman" is an important work that established Updike's reputation as a master. For this work, he won the National Book Award for the first time. It is also one of the most artistic masterpieces among all his works. The story of "Catman" is not complicated. It tells the story of a father's love for his son. But this is a work of great emotional strength. This father's love is written in the novel in a profound and tragic way. This book almost reminds us to pay attention to two points: one is the extraordinary theme contained in the weird image of the horseman, and the other is the perfect combination of theme and expression. It interweaves myth and reality, has both symbolic meaning and beauty, and the sharpness and cruelty of reality. It tells a story of father and son, love and sacrifice beautifully, profoundly and touchingly in the way of surrealism and cubism painting. An out-and-out "masterpiece".

In Paris in 1819, the Napoleonic era had just come to an end. Behind the prosperity of the upper class, ladies were worried about lovers and debts, nobles were weighing wealth and love, and wealthy businessmen were planning speculation and business. In a low-income apartment in the lower society, various characters are inextricably linked to the upper class: the upstart old man Gao was drained by his two daughters and died desolately in a shabby corner; the mainland young man Rastignac is determined to rise to the top and urgently needs to learn many rules of the upper class; the gangster leader Mufu Tolen is dormant in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to declare war on secular society... In "Petro Goriot", Balzac depicts the unique spirit of the times during the period of social transformation: moral decay, social tension, confusion of values, and poverty of the lower class. At the same time, society is rarely full of mobility. Human relationships and world affairs in society during the period of transformation are taking turns to be staged in this human comedy.

"Carmen" reflects the Europeans' strong interest in foreign sentiments and exotic customs in the 19th century. The story takes place in Andalusia, southern Spain, providing a colorful backdrop for the conflict between European and Gypsy cultures that the story embodies. The Gypsy nation suffers from discrimination in Europe, but is romanticized by popular literature and art. Mérimée explores the theme of temptation and conflict when encountering different cultures from different levels in "Carmen". Since 1875, more than 50 films based on the work have been released, including several adaptations of Georges Bizet's operas.

Nominated for the most controversial "Booker Prize" in history, it angered the judges and was selected into "The 100 Best English Novels" by Time magazine. It provokes society and is dedicated to everyone who is addicted to consumption and desire. John Self, a producer of "commercials for alcohol, cigarettes, junk food, and nude magazines," indulged in "drinking, fighting, prostitution, pornography, and masturbation." For money, he even more unscrupulously made pornographic videos, and often traveled between London and New York, two money-worshiping metropolises. In this web of money and sex, Self's relationships with everyone around him are laid bare. Money is everywhere and omnipotent. As the only "true god" that Self trusts, it can not only fulfill all of Self's despicable and greedy human desires, but at the same time pave the way for Self to fall into hell. In this money and sex scam, Self ultimately became the biggest loser. In its straightforward, uninhibited and decadent description, this book profoundly highlights Amis's extreme ridicule of "money" and the silent sorrow of the twisted human soul corrupted by "money". From this "Tale of Two Cities" at the end of the 20th century, we can see how commercial producers in London used erotic films to pursue their dream of the showbiz world in New York. Everything is over the top, full of madness, subverting three views, and leading the trend of British experimental novels in the 1980s. It is an all-encompassing masterpiece.

Born in a suburb of Tokyo, Tsukuda's dream since childhood was to fly into the universe. When he grew up, he became an outstanding scientific researcher, specializing in rocket engine research and development. But when he was closest to the peak of his dream, an accident caused him to resign and return to his hometown, inheriting the factory left by his father. Seven years have passed, and the word dream has long been far away from Tsukuda. Now he is a small and medium-sized enterprise operator. He has to deal with banks and compete with large companies for the sake of his employees... Just when Tsukuda has almost forgotten his dream, a lawsuit comes to his door. Just when he is struggling, Tsukuda sees a glimmer of a dream in the whirlpool. Want to give pursuit of your dreams another try?

"Eugénie Grandet" is a novel by the famous French writer Balzac. It tells the story of the innocent and beautiful Eugenie, the only daughter of the miserly and shrewd millionaire Grandet. She fell in love with her bankrupt cousin. For his sake, she did not hesitate to anger her money-loving father and spent all her private savings to help him make his way into the world. At this point, the relationship between father and daughter broke down, and the timid and virtuous mother was so frightened that she fell ill. The girl who lost her parents and her youth in the bitter expectation ended up with a heartless man who returned rich.

Jane Summers, a beautiful and capable female editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, returns to a peaceful life after losing her husband. However, she unexpectedly meets the handsome doctor Richard and begins her first serious love in her life. Two people burdened with family burdens and personal pain met each other late, but were unable to stay together. The mirrors and reincarnations of life are all in it: Jane saw the pain she had caused to her husband in Richard's cold marriage, saw her own success and failure in the excellent niece Jill, and saw her deepest fear in the old lady Anne and niece Kate... The tangled emotions allowed her to understand the regret for everything that had passed away, and also understand the true meaning of worldly affairs.

Gumdini, a beautiful girl who came from a declining family, married the domineering millionaire Motu Suden. The latter tried to forcibly instill his will into Gumdini and control her, making her her accessory. However, Gumdini had a strong character and constantly resisted Motusuden's authority, causing Motusuden to lose the battle. She even returned to her natal family and declared that she would never see Motu Suden again, but in the end she had to bow her head due to real problems such as her natal family's debt and pregnancy.

"The Blade" is one of the most important masterpieces of novels by the famous British writer and "story master" Maugham. Larry Darrell, a young American pilot, met an Irish comrade in the army. In a battle, this comrade died trying to rescue Larry. Larry therefore felt confused about life and could not understand why there was evil and misfortune in the world...

"The Wapshaw Scandal" is the sequel to "The Wapshaw Chronicle". The Wapshaw family of St. Botolphus left their New England village and scattered to various places. They either relied on their temperamental authority, or fell into the abyss of alcoholism and lust, unable to extricate themselves, or were held responsible for tax evasion by the United States Internal Revenue Service and fled everywhere... "The Wapshaw Scandal" has a grand but tender vision. The book is full of pitiful characters who are subject to unpredictable fates, but most importantly, they are fellow prisoners of human nature. Cheever treats them not with cold ridicule, but with knowing sympathy.

This book is the masterpiece of German writer Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This lyrical novel tells the story of the growth, development, and maturity of a gifted Indian young man. Through a lifetime of exploration and discovery, he finally realizes his ideal in his twilight years. It is a well-known "bildungsroman" throughout the world. Regardless of language or expression techniques, simplicity is like sketching or sketching, only seeking to achieve the desired effect. In the 1960s, Hesse gradually replaced Hemingway and became the literary idol of the American public at that time. His works provided postwar American readers with new impetus for spiritual analysis and reconstruction, and had a direct impact on the formation of the American Beat and hippie culture.

O. Henry, one of the most outstanding short story writers in the American and even world literary circles. This anthology carefully selects 30 of the author's works. In addition to representative works such as "The Last Leaf" and "Police and Hymns", it also selects some works that are rarely seen in other anthologies, thus more comprehensively reflecting the author's creative style. In addition, the translator also cleverly divided it into five themes, namely "Social Situation Novels", "Love Romance Novels", "Rogue Liar Novels", "Detective Mystery Novels" and "Philosophical Symbol Novels". This is also a highlight of this anthology that is different from other anthologies. The translator has made a concise and convincing analysis of these works in the preface, which will help readers better understand and appreciate them.

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"The Buddenbrooks" (1901) is the masterpiece of the German writer Thomas Mann's novel. This great family novel chronicles the rise and fall of four generations of the Buddenbrooks, a prominent family in Lübeck, from 1835 to 1877. This book has a strong autobiographical flavor and is based on the rise and fall of the Mann family. It depicts reality to the last detail and can be called an epic masterpiece that reflects the social reality of Germany in the 19th century. The tragic tone and elegant and delicate style throughout the book have made it praised by Chinese readers as the "German Dream of Red Mansions". Mr. Fu Weici's translation is elegant and fluent. In 1962, this book was included in the "Classical Grid Edition" of the Humanities Society.

"Wuthering Heights" is a work by the British novelist Emily Brontë and is one of the representative works of British literature in the 19th century. The novel describes the story of Heathcliff, a gypsy outcast who was adopted by the old owner of Wuthering Heights. He went out to make a living due to humiliation and failed love, and later came back to exact revenge on the squire Linton who married his girlfriend Catherine and their descendants.

"My Antonia" is the representative work of American female writer Willa Cather. It is one of the American novels describing life on the grasslands in the Midwest. The work is set in the prairie of Nebraska and describes the story of Antonia, a descendant of Bohemian immigrants, who reclaims wasteland in the wilderness and starts a business through hard work. Content of the novel: The Shermelda family, a Bohemian immigrant, left their hometown and came to Nebraska. When they first set foot on this remote land, they lived with nothing but nothing. Unable to bear the pain of homesickness and the pressure of life, Mr. Himmelda eventually shot himself. After Shimelda's death, his daughter Antonia took on the burden of the family. She\

"Little Lady" is the second part of the "Sophie Series", Countess Segur's masterpiece. It tells the interesting story between Sophie and her little sisters Madeleine, Camille, and little sister Margaret. The lives of little girls are full of sunshine and love. Although there are occasional dark clouds and storms, family affection, friendship, tolerance and teaching can always dispel the shadows and make the children's world sunny again. This book continues the narrative style of a short story in one chapter of "Sophie's Sorrows", with more colorful content and is also accompanied by exquisite illustrations drawn by the new French illustrator Sophie de La Velle Fromois.

"A Woman's Story" is Anne Ernault's touching account of mothers and daughters, youth and aging, dreams and reality. After her mother dies of Alzheimer's disease, the author embarks on a daunting journey back in time as she attempts to capture the real woman, the woman who existed independently of her daughter, the woman who was born in a small town in Normandy and died in a geriatric ward in a hospital on the outskirts of Paris. She explores the bond between mother and daughter that is both fragile and unshakable, the alienating world that separates them, and the inescapable fact that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute, Ernault wanted to do her mother the utmost justice: to portray her as herself. As the author said: "Now I write about my mother as if it was my turn to give birth to my mother again."

"1984" is the last novel written by the British writer George Orwell during his lifetime, and it is also a uniquely influential literary work in the 20th century. Since the book was first published in 1949, it has been adapted into movies many times. It has been included in the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century" and was named "one of the 100 best English novels since 1923" by the American "Time" magazine. The story of this book takes place in the future world, that is, Oceania in 1984. The protagonist Winston sticks to his beliefs in that dark social environment and strives to get rid of various shackles, but he does not expect that his fate has already been doomed... The author uses rich imagination and strict logical reasoning to show a future world that is devoid of human nature, and warns the world not to fall into such a tragedy.

During the Great Depression of the United States, large tracts of farmland in Oklahoma experienced drought and drought, resulting in crop failure. To survive, farmers mortgaged their land. But in the end, the land they relied on for survival was taken over by banks and large companies, and they had no choice but to say goodbye to their homes and leave their homes. The impoverished Joad family is also one of them. Taking a dilapidated car bought from selling off their belongings, the family headed to California in search of the rumored paradise. Along the way, their elderly grandparents passed away one after another, and their brother Noah also passed away quietly. Although bad news continued to come from the front, they could not dissuade them from moving on. After arriving in California, they were still greeted by unemployment, oppression and poverty. But the touching encounters during the journey and the longing for a better future made the family still have hope...

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The dazzling British literature of the 19th century contributed a large number of famous works to the reading world. The masterpiece "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) deserves to occupy a very prominent position in this magnificent starry sky. Becky Sharp, the daughter of a poor painter, lost her parents when she was young, but she was extremely smart. After graduating from boarding school on a part-time basis, she started out as a tutor. She seized every opportunity, sharpened her head and got into the upper class society of the Victorian era, becoming a dazzling social star. The rise of this beauty, against the magnificent historical background of the Battle of Waterloo, presents the most successful artistic image of a female adventurer in world literature. Thackeray's words are sharp, witty and humorous, and his anatomy of life is subtle.

In "Vanity Fair", the author mainly portrays a typical female adventurer in British capitalist society in the early 19th century. This character is neither evil nor kind, but very humane and completely a product of the times. In the novel, the author frequently communicates with readers, and the narrative is mixed with discussions, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes serious and sometimes wry, with a strong comedic effect. When readers participate in the thinking process, they can not only understand the author's intentions, but also learn a lot from it.

Tully, beautiful and smart, but rebellious, is always the focus of people's attention, but no one knows that she has been living in the shadow of being abandoned by her mother, and she is even more afraid that her grandmother who has always taken care of her will pass away, leaving her completely alone. She longs for a sense of belonging and someone who can love her unconditionally. Katie is a seemingly well-behaved girl with a happy and warm family. She has a docile and lovely personality. However, under her well-behaved appearance, she is also filled with an unbreakable sense of restraint and occasionally longs to break free. When they were 14 years old, two completely different girls met warmly in the "Firefly Alley" where there were no fireflies, and their lives changed drastically from then on. Katie brought true "love" to Tully, allowing her to begin to know how to give and what "home" feels like; Tully enriched Katie's life and allowed her to see all the splendors of life. From the age of 14 to their 40s, they relied on each other to go through the short and long road of life. They also experienced jealousy, anger, hurt, and hatred, and finally reconciled. This is a story about love, growth and loyalty, and it also makes you begin to examine what the most important things in life are. No matter what, we have harvested this rare friendship in our lives, and the river of each other's lives has become rich and vast...

"Selected Short Stories of Maupassant" (China Book Compilation Center) uses real details, concise language and superb skills to make this novel form a social picture of France during the war. The good and evil in the work always form a subtle contrast, which makes the readers naturally hate the war, sympathize with the people and despise the so-called superior people. Therefore, it is worthy of being a masterpiece in both ideological and artistic aspects. ?

The protagonist in the story, Liu Jinglong, has been making a living by flipping antiques and running his grandfather's shop. Although the market has been depressed in recent years, he can still live a life without worries about food and clothing. Liu Jinglong grew up with his grandfather since he was a child. His mother died shortly after giving birth to him due to a cold. His father dragged him until he was 5 years old, and participated in a robbery with several people, and never came back again. But one day, Liu Jinglong met Shi Zi in an accident, and learned from Shi Zi that his father, like himself, had lost news in a robbery fight, and their fathers were in the same bandit team back then, so Shi Zi planned to gather the descendants of those teams to form a team to search for his father's whereabouts.

After serving in MI5 and MI6, he shocked the literary world when he first tried writing. This is the only memoir of Le Carré, the British national treasure novel master. It records nearly forty unforgettable episodes in his life and reproduces the dual identity and multiple selves of a great writer. He witnessed cruel war and cold-blooded killings; he hid in trenches with war reporters, bullets flying past his ears; he interviewed terrorists in prison, but was silenced by the other party; he witnessed the society before and after the great changes in the Soviet Union, and was filled with emotion; he witnessed the moment when Brodsky won the Nobel Prize, and also experienced the frustration of film master Fritz Lang; he wrote about the alienated and difficult family relationship between his father, a liar, and himself, and pondered the similarities and differences between spies and writers. "Evasion and deception were essential weapons in my childhood. As teenagers, we were all spies of sorts, but I was already a retired veteran. When the intelligence world embraced me, it felt like coming home."

Time travel is a technical job. If you accidentally cross time and become an alien, that would be a human tragedy! Before Bai Xiaoyou understood what was going on, he turned into a bird and ate a cup of dog blood. But she doesn't accept her fate, so what if she looks ugly? So what if you can't fly high? If a dog is patient before a pig, a pheasant will turn into a phoenix. If she can't be beaten down, don't be discouraged. Given time, when she flies up the branch, she will make those who once bullied her piss themselves in the shit and cry for their father and mother. But what on earth does that ancient and stunning young prince want to dote on her like a bird? Make jokes, laugh and curse, there is no book without laughter or abuse. He is serious and talks about love, but he does not want to live happily ever after. This is a funny time-travel story without any historical research. It is said that the heroine took it seriously and dressed up as a bird. From then on, she lived a life that was neither human nor bird...

There are no two identical leaves in the world, but there are two people who are so similar that they can be mistaken for each other, so the eldest young master of the Jing family married a fake. Must read before reading: This article is not pure love, nor is it pampering, nor is it stupid, white, or sweet. It is mildly brain-burning and mildly sadistic. The relationship between the characters is relatively complex, and the pace of writing is relatively slow. However, the update pace is guaranteed, and it is guaranteed not to be too censorship or unfinished. If you don't like it, enter with caution and don't spray!

Headline News: "In City A, where every inch of land is at a premium, the news of the sudden appearance of a building quickly spread throughout the city like wildfire, arousing intense concern and deep fear among the citizens. Neighboring residents recalled that when they fell asleep the night before, there was still a familiar open space outside the window, but in the early morning they were surrounded by this... A strange building filled the space, as if time and space had been rewritten overnight. Discussions about the building instantly flooded the social media. "One-night building" became a hot topic. Netizens shared their speculations and fears. Some people claimed that the building appeared on the night. They have heard vague strange sounds, like low roars and painful whimpering; some people have said that they saw strange lights flickering inside the building, flickering on and off, as if there were unknown objects passing through, and in the middle of the building, there was a line of large characters "Humanity Investigation Company". '" After some time, someone saw a recruitment notice on a certain website, with six big characters written on it: "Humanity Recruitment Company." Many people came here because of the name. However, I heard that the interview process was frightening. Let's find out next.

Faced with the heavy tax burden caused by the Hundred Years' War between England and France and the harsh labor laws after the Black Death, farmers who were once bound to the land coerced clergy and town residents to revolt and march towards London, the center of power in the Kingdom of England. How do unknown common people organize to fight against the nobility, church and wealthy businessmen who rule the country? How did the young King Richard II handle this major crisis that threatened the Plantagenet dynasty's rule, and what did he learn from it? The debut work of the well-known historical writer Dan Jones tells readers about this bloody and frenzied history of popular resistance in medieval England.

Homer's story of Helen and the Trojan War as told in The Iliad and The Odyssey has fascinated people for centuries, spawning countless scholarly articles and books, extensive archaeological excavations, epic films, television documentaries, stage plays and works of art. This book investigates two main questions based on epic poetry, classical literature, and modern archaeological findings: Did the Trojan War really happen? If so, where did it happen? The book conclusively demonstrates that one or more of the battles near Troy may have actually taken place in some way or form during the Late Bronze Age, forming the core of the story that has survived to this day through Homer's epic poem. However, Klein believes that while the Trojan War may have occurred, it was not caused by the legendary kidnapping of Helen; the conflicts had more compelling economic and political motivations more than three thousand years ago.

The second volume of the book (chapters 15 to 25) tells the story of the decline, division and decline of the Angevin dynasty, which was a history of constant disputes and wars, including the Scottish War of Independence, the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and the English Civil War known as the "War of the Roses". Heroes emerge from troubled times, so this is also a history full of legends, leaving a series of unsolved mysteries for future generations. For this reason, it has become the darling of writers and film and television media people: from Shakespeare's royal tetralogy (including "Richard II" and two "Henry IV" and "Henry V") to Philippa Gregory's "The White Queen", "The Red Queen" and "The Kingmaker's Daughter", and from Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" to Luc Besson's "Joan of Arc", history continues in the new medium.

Over the course of his long writing career, Vonnegut's novels, plays, and essays received widespread international acclaim. In this book of interviews throughout his life, we can learn what drove Vonnegut to write, his final evaluation of his works, how he embarked on the path of writing, the influence of his family and family on the formation of his life values, and his identity as a writer during the war.

Time suddenly shifted and everyone was forced to go back ten years ago, but the reality didn't seem to have changed much. The wrong bet was made again on the horse race, the wrong lover was chosen again when getting married, and the atomic bomb was dropped again. War, famine, the gap between rich and poor, entertainment to death... How much misfortune is yet to come! Don't you think this planet is a cosmic madhouse?

Aren't we given this power for a reason? In the fog, ghost trains appear and disappear mysteriously; mysterious hidden gangsters commit serial robberies, but no one can bring them to justice... Due to a family car accident, law enforcer Waxlim was forced to give up his crime-fighting activities and returned from the wilderness to the bustling city to accept a political marriage. Just when he was about to announce his engagement at a noble party, a group of robbers broke in and kidnapped his fiancée. The clues left by the robbers led to a strange case with incredible purpose and methods. The long-suppressed blood boils again, and the disappeared law enforcer reappears. Wax and his companions use their brains, bullets and allanium to tear apart the criminal shady. The unimaginable mystery must be solved by unimaginable means!

In the distant future, humans in the solar system have transcended the limitations of the physical body and realized the uploading of consciousness, and the boundaries between physical space and cyberspace have also been blurred. A female warrior from the Oort Nebula was ordered to attack the strongest "Dilemma Prison" in the universe and rescue a thief imprisoned in it. The thief will work together with the female warrior to steal a mysterious item for his employer who is hiding behind the scenes. But before that, they must first retrieve the thief's memory. Only in this way can he complete the mission. In the process of retrieving memories, the truth emerges bit by bit. Behind that seemingly simple task, there is actually the secret of the entire universe...