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"The Myth of Sisyphus" is the core work of Camus' "Philosophy of the Absurd". It uses the endless absurd fate of Sisyphus pushing the stone up the mountain in the Greek myth as a metaphor to explore "how people can fight against absurdity and live out their values ​​in a meaningless world."

"The Outsider" uses an objective record-type "zero style" to describe the protagonist Meursault's various absurd plots and experiences from attending his mother's funeral to accidentally becoming a murderer, and then to being sentenced to death. Meursault seems to be indifferent to everything, existing rationally and irrationally indifferently, maintaining an excessive honesty and unvarnished and flattering frankness. Even if this kind of catering is to avoid unnecessary trouble, or even to obtain favorable conditions related to life and death, he categorically refuses to regard false scams as the eternal hope. He fully acknowledges the limitations of life and lives a sober, unflinching life based only on honesty and courage. Living in truth to preserve the dignity of life, this "outsider" style that is incompatible with society eventually led to his death, or in other words, made him freely move towards his own destiny. Meursault's experience promotes the absurdity and meaninglessness of life, and also shows the free and passionate spirit of resistance. "The Outsider" is one of Camus' famous and representative novels. It can be called one of the famous novels with epoch-making significance in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. "The Outsider" has thus become the most classic character image and keyword in Western literature and philosophy.

"The Face of Death" is selected from Hitchcock's short story collection, including more than ten short stories such as "The Face of Death", "Confession", and "The Desperate Hunter". The text is concise and plain, the plot is twists and turns, and the ending is unexpected, and often makes readers feel as if they are actually there. The novel is highly readable, full of modern features, in line with current reading habits and trends, and is very popular among the younger generation.

"Perfume" is the debut work of author Juskind, one of the most popular one-act plays in the world, written for every soul living on an island in the city; a classic play of the Shanghai Dramatic Art Center. The novel describes the inner world of an unsuccessful double bass player in a band. The whole play is composed of monologues from beginning to end: I have a father who is an official and a mother who is a musician. I have not been loved by my parents since I was a child. My father wanted me to inherit his father's career and become an official, not an artist. I did the opposite and became a musician against my father's orders. In order to get back at my mother, I chose the ugliest, bulkiest and most inconspicuous instrument, the double bass. During my eighteen-year playing career, I have developed a mixed feeling of love and hate towards the double bass that I have been with day and night. I was eager to get rid of the strict and hierarchical order of the orchestra, but I was also afraid of the unknown prospects and was stuck in my ways. At the same time, I had a crush on Sara, the female singer in the band, but I was afraid of her and felt very painful... With keen insight and delicate writing, the author depicts the inner loneliness of a little person, as well as the loss and hopelessness of being ignored by the group.

The author of "Perfume" Juskind returns to innocence, writes about the sadness of ordinary life and the helplessness of saying goodbye to childhood, subverting the perception of serious literature; it is accompanied by classic illustrations by Sambé, the royal painter of "The New Yorker" and a French national treasure illustrator. "I" is an ordinary little boy who goes to school, climbs trees, rides bicycles, fantasizes about his hazy first love, is afraid of the strict piano teacher, and often feels that he can fly. "My" neighbor Mr. Xia is a "weird", silently leaning on a cane, carrying an empty bag, and running around without any destination. There were only a few contacts between us, but this sensitive, irritable, hurried figure who always seemed to be enduring pain formed a dark background in my childhood. One day, he walked to the center of the lake under the gaze of "I" and said goodbye to the world that had always frightened him, and I also said goodbye to my innocent childhood.

"The Castle" is Kafka's most distinctive and important novel (unfinished). The work tells the story of the protagonist K. Who applied for a job as a land surveyor in the castle. After traveling long distances and crossing many snowy roads, he finally arrived at a poor village under the jurisdiction of the castle in the middle of the night. In the village guest house, the exhausted K met all kinds of people, all of whom were civilians struggling at the bottom of society. Among them were the owner of the guest house, the landlady, the waitress, and some other miscellaneous staff. Although the castle was within easy reach, he went through all kinds of troubles, even seducing the mistress of Cram, the castle official, but he could not get in. K was exhausted from running around and could not enter the castle until his death. In "The Castle", Kafka describes a desperate struggle in a cold tone, thereby revealing the absurdity, alienation and indifference of the world.

"The Metamorphosis: The Complete Works of Kafka's Short and Novels" includes Kafka's classic masterpieces "The Metamorphosis", "The Judgment", "The Cave", "In the Penal Colony", "The Hungry Artist" and other nearly 80 short stories and short stories. It is divided into three volumes. The novelist Wenzel, who lives in Germany, spent three years to finalize the translation. The chapters are all literal translations from the original German versions. To help readers better understand the novel text, the translator's notes and footnotes are attached. The appendix of this publication is "Letter to My Father", a long letter written by Kafka to his father.

I kept thinking over and over again, trying every possible means to delay the step of confessing that I should have taken long ago. So this is not my story, it is her story. This is her majestic travelogue through the magical night of Kyoto. It is also a bitter record of my failure to ascend to the leading role and have to be a pebble on the roadside. Readers, please carefully consider her cuteness and my stupidity, and feel the joy of life like the taste of almond tofu. Please also support me.

Kazuo Sugishita was demoted to artist assistant by the president for contradicting his boss, and had to go out to work with stargazer Shiro Hoshizono. The two were invited to a mountain resort, but they were trapped in heavy snow together with UFO researchers, novelists, and their secretaries. The sudden murder panicked everyone, and the delay in waiting for rescue made their situation worse. Hoshizono and Sugoshita temporarily serve as "detectives and assistants", working together to find the truth of the case. But when the seemingly incredible phenomena and all illogical behaviors have reasonable explanations, the case investigation has fallen into a puzzle. Where is the secret murderer hiding?

Ranked at the top of the list of "Time" weekly crime novel masters, a pioneering representative of 20th century crime novels, the first classic work of Patricia Highsmith, the author of "Carol" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley". It won the American Edgar Allan Poe Award, the French Detective Literature Award, the British Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger Award, and was adapted by Hitchcock. It is one of the American Film Institute's top 100 thrillers in the past century. The book begins with an encounter on a train: Guy Haynes, a well-known architectural designer, is about to divorce his cheating wife. On his way back home, he meets the playboy Charles Bruno. Bruno was deeply attracted by Guy's talent and temperament, and he invited Guy to his private room for a drink. Bruno, who had been drunk for three rounds, hated his father and was well versed in the murder game, learned that Guy was deeply troubled by his wife, so he proposed a murder plan that he thought was perfect, that is, Bruno helped Guy get rid of his wife, and Guy needed to kill Bruno's father. Guy rejected this plan and made up his mind to stay away from Bruno. However, Bruno, who was unwilling to die, committed suicide without permission and then used various ways to force Guy to do it. The pain tortured Guy, and he finally killed Bruno's father and lived in guilt and fear ever since. Everything seemed to be returning to peace, but Bruno's father's private detective discovered clues. When the truth came to light, Guy and Bruno ushered in the judgment of fate.

"Wandering" is a novel about constellations. In Tokarczuk's own words, "The combination of constellations, not the sequence, contains the truth." It is a book that originated in the waiting room. The author went to the doctor for a blood test. While waiting for the doctor, he suddenly realized that he had almost no understanding of his own body. Then the research began, and the author even spent a whole year studying anatomy in Amsterdam for this purpose. It is a novel composed of 116 long or short chapters. Centering around two constantly intertwined themes - travel and human body preservation - fictitious stories, real events, and ideological fragments are arranged in a circle. The metaphorical and metaphysical issues of the body, travel, flight and movement unfold along the main line of the movement of the human body in the world.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The original Polish book is titled "The Sound of Drums". In 2002, it won Poland's highest literary award, the Nice Prize Readers' Choice Award. The collection of novels includes 19 works: a bored woman enters the detective novel she is reading; a man becomes obsessed with "the ugliest woman in the world" and follows her throughout his life; a British psychology professor is trapped in a foreign land for a week and encounters many dangers; a female dancer pays tribute to her long-lost father over and over again Writing letters that will never be mailed; foreigners entering a strange city and "changing" their identities inspired by the sound of drums on the street... Tokarczuk uses 19 elf-like stories to write about all kinds of loners in different senses, unfolding their unique adventures in the overlapping of the soul and the real world.

The god of short stories will teach you how to see through murderous plots at a glance! Sweeping the Mystery Novel Awards: Original Mystery Award, Secret Room Award, Original Mystery BSET10, this mystery novel is amazing! , The annual "Golden Character", the BEST10 mystery novels of "Weekly Bunshun"... Highly recommended by Japanese mystery masters Yukito Ayatsuji and Yusaka Maya! "Alphabet Mystery": When you feel something is wrong, deadly malice is quietly approaching! "Museum of Trickery": When the evidence from 25 years ago opened up, it was discovered that the murderer had been around all along! "Absolute Alibi": The essence of cracking all alibi tricks is to see through the loopholes in time. "The Collector of Locked Rooms": A guide to the locked rooms of the God of Short Mysteries.

Here are 11 bad news and 11 good news, as well as countless farces in between: Bad News 1: The single woman Nell was induced by a successful woman to become her stand-in and sneak into her marriage. Good news 1: Nell has become the new mistress and has a cow that loves to escape, a lamb that loves to bump into people, and a pony that loves to be lazy. Bad news 2: The doctor told Nell that her sister suffered from schizophrenia and asked her to take special medicine. Good news 2: Another doctor told Nell that as long as she stopped taking these special drugs, her sister would recover immediately. Bad news 3: Nell's mother gradually became blind and deaf, and began to avoid everything in reality. Good news 3: In her memory, my mother never seems to have lost anything: her youth, her wreaths, her wild horses, and the boys in the laboratory...

This book collects 14 representative short stories and short stories by Chekhov, which reflect the tragic life of the little people, reveal the helplessness of the little people struggling to survive, and their trembling and groveling mentality and appearance. It reveals the suppression of society by the autocratic system and its conservatism and weakness, and shows the ghastly current situation of Russian society under the autocratic system. The whole book is written in English-Chinese format, which is of certain benefit to English and literature lovers.

If the world is a magic show, there must be a great magician behind it. I hope that one day, I can find him out. But if the magician never shows up, how can you unravel his tricks? Hans and his father traveled from Norway to Greece in search of his mother who had been away from home for many years. On the way, Hans encountered an adventure and got a bun book that could only be seen with a magnifying glass. The content was that a sailor was shipwrecked and was stranded on a strange island. There were 52 weird characters on the island. It turned out that a card in one person's fantasy became a living character. The story was illusory and confusing, and the story contained another story. However, Hans had to keep a secret, peeking at the bun book on the way, unable to tell his father, and finally discovered that this story from two hundred years ago was related to Hans...

"Anyway, come back quickly and be sure to go through the back door." Yamagata Taisuke, the director of Dadi Residential Sales Department, went out to discuss business and suddenly received an emergency call from the company. Someone posted a photo online that was suspected of killing a woman in a park. The account name is "Taisuke @taisuke 0701". A few hours later, Taisuke Yamagata was identified as a "murderer". His real name and photo were exposed, and he became the target of netizens across the country. It's obviously not me! --At first, Taisuke Yamagata optimistically thought that this ridiculous misunderstanding would be resolved soon, but the more he looked at the content on that account, the more he felt that it was his own account. At the same time, no one believed his statement, colleagues, friends, and even family members... In desperation, he could only escape desperately.

"That Night in August" is the sequel to the best-selling "Island". It is also a novel with rich emotions and ups and downs of plot, telling the tragedy and secrets of the Vandorakis family on the island of Crete. It begins after Maria's sister Anna marries Antonis in "The Island". Anna's marriage to her husband Andreas is bright on the surface, but in fact it has an undercurrent. Her secret love affair with her cousin Manolis and her fear of her sister Maria's return from the leprosy quarantine constitute an important conflict in the story. At a family celebration, Anna is murdered, and the murderer turns out to be her husband. The incident shocked the entire community and revealed long-hidden family secrets. The story uses a dual-line narrative. On one side, it tells how Anna's lover Manolis escaped from Crete after Anna was killed by her husband, spent a long time digesting his longing for Anna, and finally went to Australia. At the same time, it also tells how Anna's sister Maria slowly forgave her brother-in-law who killed Anna and insisted on visiting him in prison, so that the brother-in-law finally got the salvation of his soul and reconciled with his family. It expressed the need to use love and courage to overcome inner uneasiness and fear, and explored the themes of love, betrayal and redemption.

Sakaguchi Ango was also one of the many writers influenced by the "Detective Age" trend after World War II. He believed that mystery novels were "a high-level entertainment", a "decryption game" and a "wisdom competition between the author and the reader". "The Shadowless Prisoner - A Collection of Mystery Novels by Ango Sakaguchi" contains the author's most famous six mystery novels, "The Pitcher Murder Case", "The Shadowless Prisoner", "The Noon Murder Case", "The Psychic Murder Case", "The Election Murder Case" and "The Matricide Boy". Sakaguchi Ango, who was born into a wealthy family, has written works such as "Dr. Wind" and "Black Furukawa" that are highly recognized by the literary world. In his youth, he taught at the Department of Indian Philosophy at Toyo University. He lived a life of less than 4 hours of sleep a day in order to study Buddhism, and developed neurasthenia as a result. He once said that "in order to survive, you must fall", and his work was reviewed as "a model of Japanese post-war literature". Ango Sakaguchi died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1955 at the age of 49.

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On the outskirts of Kyoto stands a European Gothic-style mansion, which is the castle of the Imaka family. Because of a letter of authorization and a threatening letter sent at the same time, private detective Yuya Kisarazu and his assistant Xiangyue arrived at Imakagami's house and stepped into the murderous world of Crow City. The members of the Jin Jing family have lost their heads and places, and there are also incredible secret rooms and ghosts who have been resurrected from the dead. The god of death spreads his dark wings in the Crow City. No one can figure out the murderer's intentions and layout. In the predicament, another detective Mercator appears... The subversive debut of Maya Yusong, a representative writer of the new style. Out of print for many years, it has been newly revised and reprinted. Multiple answers, a collapse ending, a showdown between famous detectives and Detective Ming! Mercator's final case. Paying tribute to "The Black Death" and Ellery Quinn, reasoning masters such as Shoji Shimada and Yukito Ayatsuji praised it highly.

An enthusiast who loves to collect insect specimens was very excited to capture a golden beetle. In order to describe the appearance of the beetle to his friends, he drew it on paper, but the beetle he drew was like a terrifying skull! The insect lover became mysterious from then on, and his servants believed that he was bitten by the beetle and thus suffered an evil curse! But he himself insisted that he was very sane. And regard beetles as wealth given by God. Are the almost crazy insect lovers contracting an unknown disease that leads to mental disorder, or is there another mystery behind it?

Japanese reasoning master Aoyagi Aokito's black humor reasoning subverts fairy tales! The series has sold a total of 450,000 copies in Japan! Reversed fairy tale × black humor × Japanese mystery × confusing Little Red Riding Hood! When Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and the little match girl are involved in the mystery, what is the truth... A novel interpretation of the classic fairy tale, a subversive reading experience! Netflix's original live-action movie?, Japanese national idol Hashimoto Kanna plays the protagonist Little Red Riding Hood, and is very popular! Little Red Riding Hood, who was bewitched by the witch, took a pumpkin carriage with Cinderella to the castle to attend the ball, but they killed someone on the way... Little Red Riding Hood stayed in the candy house, only to find that the person they had been looking for was dead... After arriving in the land of Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood helped others, but unexpectedly another person died next to her... Little Red Riding Hood was about to reach the end of the journey, and suddenly heard that a girl had become the boss of the match company... Everything was ordinary, but everything was extraordinary. The fairy tale world that subverts fairy tales is waiting for you to explore.

Ryusei Yushu is determined to avenge his childhood friend, and he wants to kill three people. The stage for revenge will be the isolated island - Youshi Island. Youse Island is known for its secret festivals that are held regularly. As early as forty-five years ago, a bizarre tragedy occurred on the island, killing thirteen people. Since then, the island has become an uninhabited island. A group of nine people came to Yuse Island to film a TV show. Yushu, who had murderous intentions, found that one of the revenge targets had been killed... Who made the first move? Will the murderer continue to commit crimes? To complete the revenge plan with his own hands, Yushu must find out the truth.

An impossible crime happened in a special hotel, and the detective had to leave the hotel to solve the case immediately. In this hotel, the law is not the criterion. You can still be protected if you commit a crime, but you must abide by: ① Do not damage the hotel ② Do not harm anyone within the hotel. Once the above rules are violated, the hotel's exclusive detective will come out to investigate and get to the bottom of it. This book contains several incidents that took place in this hotel and shows how hotel detectives uncovered the real culprits from the best in the criminal field. Following "Visitor from the Lonely Island" and "Sweet Death for the Detective", this is a collection of short stories by the emerging novelist Takahiro Takahiro.

Conan Doyle died in 1935. His main literary achievement is the creation of the literary image of Sherlock Holmes. Although his works lack profound and real social significance, due to their logical logic, thrilling and fascinating plots, ups and downs of structure, and vivid characters, they involved the social reality of Britain at that time, and even became popular in Europe and had a wide influence in the world. Regarding his artistic achievements, the famous British novelist Somerset Maugham once said: "Compared with "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" written by Conan Doyle, no detective novel has ever enjoyed such a high reputation."

Translated and published for the first time in the Chinese world, it is the ultimate embodiment of artistic supremacy, a lifelong pursuit of the beauty of the human body, and a gorgeous death that achieves true art! "Golden Death" is an early collection of representative short stories by Junichiro Tanizaki. Composed of two novels, "Killing A-yan" and "The Golden Death", "Killing A-yan" tells the story of a man and woman who eloped, Xinzhu and A-yan, living absurdly and discovering that violence can bring pleasure. Later, when A-yan fell in love with another girl, Xinzhu killed her. "Golden Death" tells the story of "my" boyhood friend Okamura, who pursues the beauty of the human body, creates art with living people in Hakone many years later, covers his body with gold foil, and dies suddenly at the moment when he reaches the peak of joy. These two works by Tanizaki Junichiro are shocking and depict the beauty of the senses. This is how he got the name of "Devil" in his early days. They attracted the attention of the literary world at that time. Mishima Yukio once said that he was greatly shocked after reading them.

I woke up from a mental hospital with no memory. The only sounds in my ears were the roar of a strange woman and the sound of banging on the wall. Until a doctor told me: When I was 16 years old, my mother, who was dependent on me, was strangled to death by my side, but I was sleepwalking when the incident occurred. When I was 18 years old, my fiancée died naked in front of me, and after the incident, I was actually tracing the portrait of the corpse... Is what the doctor said true? Am I the real culprit in these two murder cases? The key to retrieving memories lies in the incomprehensible papers, strange suicide notes, and mysterious picture scrolls. After my memory awakens, is what awaits me a redemption or an even more unfathomable trap?

Archaeologist Mr. Burlingham was about to donate an Egyptian mummy to the British Museum, but when the mummy was put on display, he disappeared mysteriously. Except for a scarab treasure from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, no clues were left. His disappearance was also related to the ownership of a rich will. When people tried to find clues about Mr. Burlingham's disappearance from the mummy that had been sealed for thousands of years, they discovered that the truth would trigger a series of unimaginable disasters and conspiracies...

Maugham's masterpiece in the middle of his creative career is hailed as one of his best works, and was praised by Borges as "using a magical pen to fully exert his imagination and combination ability." When he was twenty-three years old, Charlie Mason went to Paris alone for the Christmas holiday, intending to have some fun. Introduced by his childhood friend Simon Fenimo, he met Lydia, a Russian girl with a bizarre and tragic life experience. Lydia's husband killed someone, but she chose to sell herself in a brothel to atone for her husband's sin. In the past few days when the two got together, Lydia explained a lot to Charlie, but he still couldn't understand her behavior. After returning to London, Charlie felt empty and lost. Only one thing happened to the Christmas holiday he had longed for: his world collapsed. "Christmas Vacation" is Maugham's masterpiece in the middle of his creative career and is known as one of his best works. The novel is extremely skillful in character creation. Concepts such as life, art, love, politics, and suffering are all cleverly integrated into the characters' personalities. As Borges said: "This book has many delicate descriptions of scenes and language. Maugham used a magical pen to fully exert his imagination and combination ability."

"No matter where you want to escape, your childhood will always be with you." A mental hospital that specializes in child felons cultivates a group of children who will grow up to become murderers. They either showed obvious homicidal tendencies or attempted murder. They are haunted by the shadow of their childhood, and killing becomes their nature. Brutal murders were staged one after another, and the victims were all pairs of men and women. How could a seemingly pure soul commit such evil deeds in a calm and ruthless manner? Marcus, a criminal tracker who lost his memory, risked his life to investigate the truth, but unexpectedly discovered that a group of people were protecting the murderer in the dark, but the murderer himself did not know it...

A ship was sailing from New Haven to Dieppe. The captain saw a small yacht floating motionless on the water. From a distance, it seemed that there was a body lying on the deck. After boarding the ship, the crew found that two financial institution executives had died without any traces left at the scene. Inspector Joseph French was ordered to investigate, but found that the arrogant financial giant was on the verge of bankruptcy, 1.5 Million pounds was missing, and a business partner was also missing. The two deceased seemed to be planning to flee abroad with the money... French faced the most severe challenge in his career.

The prayers were wrapped in bloody memories and dyed the cross pitch black. Facing Ishihara who killed his daughter, Zongyou, who has been praying for redemption all his life, just wants to push him to hell at this moment. The man who exchanged four lives for a death sentence laughed wildly in court and thanked him, viewing death as a ticket to heaven. When the dawn of the execution ground pierces the fog, the conversation between the priest and the murderer has already crossed the boundary between life and death... Humanity, struggle, destruction, redemption... Approaching the darkness of motiveless murder, do you really have the courage to stare?

"If 'Lolita' is a 'dazzling butterfly', then 'The Prototype of Laura' is the 'chrysalis of genius.'" Nabokov's final manuscript was the last manuscript that Nabokov asked to be burned; the "Prototype of the Novel" reproduces the generation and evolution of inspiration in the master's mind. Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American writer who was recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Lolita", which he wrote in 1955, received great controversy and honors. "The Prototype of Laura" is Nabokov's unfinished work and the last manuscript in his later years. The novel tells the story of Philip Wilde, an extremely bloated scholar who married Flora, a slender, beautiful but promiscuous ballet dancer. On the one hand, he had to endure his wife's lies and betrayal, and on the other hand, he was addicted to the pleasure of self-destruction. "Laura's Archetype" provides a refreshing and richly detailed description of death and the afterlife, a subject that interested Nabokov since childhood. The publishing process of "Laura's Prototype" was controversial. Nabokov once asked that it be burned, but his son Dmitry finally decided to publish it. "The Original of Laura" is a key to the labyrinth of Nabokov's writing.

The poetic works of Nabokov, the great stylist of the 20th century, are presented for the first time in the Chinese world, with 90 representative poems covering a 59-year poetry journey. Like Joyce, Nabokov was first and foremost a poet. His obsession with writing poetry began in the summer when he was fifteen, and over the next ten years he wrote thousands of poems. When his first novel, Mary, was published in 1926, Nabokov became one of the great modernists who revolutionized the novel and imbued it with poetry. At the same time, he was still writing poetry, and although the volume was not as good as in his early days, his interest and personality more than made up for it. These poems share the same ideas and themes as his novels and complement each other. "The Collected Poems of Nabokov" contains nearly one hundred poems by Vladimir Nabokov, spanning his fifty-nine years of poetry creation, including Nabokov's earliest surviving work "Music", the long poem "The University Psalms" with a capacity comparable to a short story, and a new translation translated by his son Dmitry for the first time.

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Things like life are by no means all about beautiful flowers and full moon. There are good times and there are bad times; there are the best years and there are certainly the worst years. At the age of eighteen, Yokomichi Seinosuke came to Tokyo from a small town in Nagasaki to study. After graduating from college, he encountered the "employment ice age" and was unable to find a job. At the age of twenty-four, he still relied on doing odd jobs and playing with small steel balls to survive. During this year, he competed for chairs at a small steel ball shop with a girl who aspired to become a sushi chef; he experienced the first overseas trip in his life with Xiao Zhu, a newcomer to the "social animal"; he had a new relationship and entered the life of a beautiful single mother with a three-year-old son... Even if he was frustrated, Seinosuke never changed! His simplicity, kindness and heartfelt love for life continue to infect all who meet him.

The pinnacle of realistic mystery novels! Impeccable logical reasoning and flawless evidence collection; can the most meticulous and perfect alibi be cracked? The famous work of "alibi" master Crofts; the pioneering work of the golden age of detective literature; the incredible murder case. A carefully arranged complex puzzle; a magical journey that challenges logical thinking!

No. 1 In "Best 10 Mystery Novels" of Weekly Wenchun in 2019! No. 2 In "I Want to Read Mysteries" in 2020. "If there was a Nobel Prize for mystery novels, it should be awarded to Hideo Yokoyama." - Germany's Die Zeit. On the top of a mountain slope, in a strange-looking villa, the owner and his family disappeared, leaving only footprints on the ground and an old chair. Why do homeowners who spend a lot of money to build a house and look forward to it disappear after handing over the house without even living in it for a day? Out of vague uneasiness and anger, villa designer Aoze embarked on a journey of searching for the missing person without any clues. However, as the investigation progresses, new doubts emerge far more than the answers found, and they vaguely point to the past that he does not want to think of...

If you like San Mao's Sahara, you will definitely love Zhou Jie Yayi's Bohemia... Perhaps the world's first impression of this continent is passion and intensity, but the dust-like characters in the floating world are the real soul of this continent. The book contains the mental journey that most international students have to go through, which can enable students who are about to study abroad to fully understand the loneliness and richness of European life; at the same time, it can also be used as a travelogue to show travelers a different Prague.

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Yan Lianke, born in 1958 in Song County, Luoyang, Henan, is a famous Chinese writer and is known as the "master of absurd realism". He is currently a professor at the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China. The works have been translated into more than twenty languages. His representative works include "Fleeting Time in the Sun", "Shouhuo", "Dream of Dingzhuang", "Ode to Fengya", "Four Books", "Explosion", etc. The 3rd Lao She Literary Award, the 2013 Hua Zong World Chinese Literature Award, the 2013 Cultural Task Impact, the 2014 Kafka Literary Award, the 2015 Booker Prize nomination, the 2016 Booker Prize nomination, the 2016 Nobel Prize nomination for literature. "Shouhuo" is the only award-winning novel in the 3rd Lao She Literary Award for Outstanding Novel, and ranked first among novels in the 2003 Chinese Novel Ranking.

The evil god Gu Mao Ning, who is homely, indebted, illicit and a powerful demon... Comes to the human world to be a teacher and gathers in a class with students who all have strange identities. What story will it trigger?

"Half of the Heart" still continues the youth campus theme of the first two books such as "I'm Crazy about Singing", but it is more modern in terms of creative techniques. Zeng Wei carefully created a perfect computer game in the novel. This game is close to a magical myth that interprets poignant love. The real hero and heroine of the novel were students at the same university in modern society, but in another scene, they were actually lovers of life and death in a magical game. This is reminiscent of the touching masterpiece "The Double Life of Veronica" by the international great director Kiekilovsky. It is also in line with the dual-line structure films of a group of emerging directors in the international film industry that are full of time and space transitions. Due to the book's unique structure and strong appeal, "Half of the Heart" has been spotted by a well-known domestic film and television production organization, and the film and television cooperation copyright of the novel is currently under negotiation.

"Collected Essays of Montaigne" is Montaigne's main work and one of the three major prose classics in modern Europe. In "Collected Essays of Montaigne", Montaigne observes and thinks about all living beings in the world from the perspective of a wise man, quotes from many sources, and puts forward his own unique insights into many common thoughts and feelings of human beings, giving people the opportunity to think deeply and reflect, and can improve people's understanding of life.

Montaigne (1533-1592) was the most important humanist writer after the French Renaissance and a cold observer of human emotions. In 1572, he began writing the "Collected Essays", which is called "a collection of all kinds of knowledge in the sixteenth century". Among sixteenth-century writers, few are as revered and accepted by modern people as Montaigne. He was an intellectual authority and critic in France before the Enlightenment, and an encyclopedic scholar who conducted dispassionate studies of various national cultures, especially Western culture. Judging from his thoughts and feelings, people seem to regard him as a modern man in his time. His prose, mainly philosophical essays, is world-famous for its rich ideological connotation and is known as the "treasure house of ideas." The Complete Essays of Montaigne, translated by Mr. Ma Zhencheng alone, won the first Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Award. This edition of "The Essays of Montaigne" was specially selected by the translator for our agency. It can be said that the best of the three volumes of the "Complete Works" are contained in it. It can truly be called a comprehensive and accurate selection of Montaigne's essays and the translation is excellent and elegant.

Montaigne was the first philosopher who dared to boldly analyze himself. Many of his ideas were far ahead of his time, just like a modern person living in the 16th century. He is familiar with history, showing an astonishing amount of reading; his writing is informal and only writes what is in his heart. This book selects twelve essays from Montaigne's three-volume "Collected Essays", with concentrated themes and a wide range of topics, including analyzing one's own shortcomings, resisting bad habits in life, cultivating noble friendships, finding personal reading methods, etc. Montaigne tells us from his own experience that we must not only bravely expose our true self, but also observe the changes in the times and human nature, and always alert ourselves.

This book contains classic works created and translated by Liang Yuchun. Among them, the prose content is unique and involves various contradictory life phenomena: love and divorce, life and death, innocence and experience, tears and laughter, ruthlessness and passion, success and failure, light and darkness, comedy and humor, etc. The contents of the translated works are mostly related to these phenomena in life. Through these phenomena, the author expresses his profound understanding and philosophical thinking about life, and expresses his dissatisfaction and sentimentality towards reality. This book mainly collects works that reflect Liang Yuchun's literary achievements, covering major life issues such as education, love, friendship, marriage, etc. Most of these issues are of interest to contemporary young people, especially educated women. Therefore, the target audience of this book is mainly intellectual women. In addition, this book has a relaxed style of writing and thorough reasoning. Every word and sentence highlights the author's wisdom and wisdom. It is also suitable for cultural enthusiasts and the general public to read.

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