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The pinnacle of novels in the 20th century, a pioneer of modern literature as famous as Kafka, Joyce, and Proust. "Man Without Personality" is the unfinished posthumous work of the Austrian writer Robert Musil. It is a "spiritual novel" and a literary work rich in essayistic thinking. Through the miniature world in the novel, the writer outlines the transition from the upper-class civil society shaped by enlightenment rationality to the modern mass society. It displays a wax museum of the characters of his era and occupies an important position in the modernist literature of the 20th century. The background of the novel is the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1914. In Vienna, a committee was formed to prepare for the celebrations in 1918 of the seventieth anniversary of the reign of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, the same year that Germany would celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II; so the Austrian operation was called a "parallel operation" (however, 1918 would be the year of the fall of both kingdoms, which puts a comically absurd bombshell into the basis of the novel). The protagonist of the novel - Ulrich, the secretary of the Parallel Action Committee - realizes that possibilities are more important to him than the mediocre and rigid reality; he feels that he is a person without personality, because he no longer regards people, but material, as the center of modern reality: "Today... Has produced a world without individuality, a world without the experience of those who experience it." He saw that he was forced to face various problems of the times, and to face various contradictions between reason and soul, scientific faith and cultural pessimism.

This book is Mark Twain's masterpiece, full of childlike innocence. The protagonist Tom is innocent and lively, daring to explore, and pursues freedom. He cannot bear the life that restricts his personality and always dreams of doing something heroic. The novel describes the free and lively minds of children in a cheerful style, while using satire to criticize hypocritical and vulgar social customs, hypocritical religious rituals and rigid and outdated school education. It is a pastoral pastoral of the "Golden Age" of America.

In outer space 5,000 kilometers above the earth's surface, alien enemies from 12 planets have gathered. They are watching eagerly, waiting for opportunities, and are preparing to launch an interstellar war, and their opponent is human beings. Humanity knows very little about these alien enemies. What do aliens actually look like? How do we identify aliens? How to find aliens lurking around you? If aliens invaded Earth, how would they attack? To what extent have their technologies advanced? Do humans have any chance of winning against aliens? How do we kill them and protect ourselves? John Scalzi, current president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, gave the answer. This book is his masterpiece, a super best-selling novel that is popular all over the world. It has the coolest and most comprehensive description of aliens.

The four daughters of the March family have very different personalities and have built their own "castles in the air": Meg, who is steady and dignified, dreams of becoming a good wife and mother, Joe, who loves art, is independent and free, Beth, who is quiet and well-behaved, loves to play the piano, and Amy, who is sweet and cheerful, longs to enter the upper class society. Girls will quarrel, be jealous, and shed tears of frustration; they have their own little secrets, but they are also each other's closest accomplices. Before Christmas comes, they are determined to work hard to become "little ladies" with strong self-esteem, stop losing their temper, put down their rebellion, overcome laziness, and become the pride of their parents. Life is poor and warm, and they gradually understand: to love and work in their youth.

Mr. Fogg and the members of the Reform Club bet £20,000 on whether they could travel around the world in eighty days. Then he took his servant nicknamed "Jack of All Trades" and set out from London on an incredible journey around the world. In the end, after experiencing natural and man-made disasters, in the 19th century when there were no airplanes or ocean-going ships, he actually completed this impossible journey around the earth. The protagonists of the novel are Fogg and Know-it-all, who contrast each other in character. Fogg was extremely calm and composed by nature, full of determination, generosity, rich knowledge and profound humanitarian spirit. He was an action hero with ideals and abilities. His servant Wan Shitong is loyal to his master. Although he is playful and makes mistakes sometimes, he always stands up at critical moments to help his master overcome difficulties. Without him, Fogg would definitely not be able to return to London as scheduled.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is one of the masterpieces of the famous French writer Jules Verne. The book has a total of 45 chapters. It tells the story of a professor who discovers a piece of parchment in an ancient book. This mysterious parchment records a shocking story: a man once traveled to the center of the earth. The professor decided to make the same trip. He took his nephew from Hamburg and asked a guide to accompany him when he arrived in Iceland. The three people overcame difficulties such as lack of water, getting lost, and storms, and returned to the ground from a volcanic crater on the island of Strompoli in northern Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. The book records the dangerous experiences on the journey and various wonders underground in a compact style, showing readers the author's rich scientific knowledge and imagination.

Peter Pan is a child who never grows up. He lives in Neverland, where fairies, mermaids, red-skinned Indians and a group of vicious pirates also live. One day, Peter broke into Wendy's home and took Wendy and her two brothers, John and Mike, to Neverland. So they experienced adventures that ordinary children cannot experience: living in a home under a big tree, playing games with mermaids, forming an alliance with Indians, fighting with pirates, and finally annihilating the pirate leader Hook. Although there are countless fun things in Neverland, Wendy and the others still go home. When Peter came to Wendy's house again many years later, Wendy had grown up and she could no longer fly to Neverland with Peter.

The story tells the story of a brother and sister named Matthew and Marilla who lived in a farmhouse called Green Gables in Avonlea, Canada. Due to their old age, they planned to adopt a boy from the orphanage as a helper in the farmhouse. Unexpectedly, by some strange combination of circumstances, what was sent from the orphanage was an eleven-year-old girl with red hair, freckles, and chattering all day long-Anne. She lost her parents when she was young, and her life was full of hardships, but she was still optimistic, lively, passionate and romantic, and had a very rich imagination. Although she often got into trouble and made mistakes, her smart, straightforward and kind-hearted character gradually gained her sincere friendship and the love of her teachers. Her strong will and hard work also helped her successfully pass the Queen's College, and obtain a first-class teaching certificate and a university scholarship. But she couldn't bear to leave Green Gables and Marilla, who had been together day and night, and resolutely gave up the opportunity of university and chose to stay in Green Gables, repaying her kindness and never forgetting her original intention.

The work tells the story of a plague epidemic in Florence, Italy in 1348, and 10 men and women took refuge in a villa in the countryside. They played and entertained all day long, and each told a story every day. They lived for 10 days and told hundreds of stories. These stories criticized the Catholic Church, ridiculed the church for teaching darkness and sin, praised love as the source of talent and noble sentiments, condemned asceticism, ruthlessly exposed and lashed out the depravity and corruption of the feudal aristocracy, and reflected humanistic ideas. "The Decameron" is the first realist masterpiece in the history of European literature; the modern Italian critic Sanctis once compared "The Decameron" with Dante's "Divine Comedy" and called it "Human Comedy".

"The Old Curiosity Shop" (The Old Curiosity Shop) is a novel published by the British writer Dickens in 1840-1841. Turrent, the owner of an old antique shop, and his beautiful, kind-hearted granddaughter Little Nell depend on each other. In order for his granddaughter, who was under 14 years old, to live a happy life after his death, Torent wanted to get rich through gambling, but fell into the clutches of Daniel Quilp, an upstart loan shark. The greedy Quilp used loan sharking to not only take away all the property of the old antique shop, but also wanted to take away the beautiful little Nell. The grandfather and grandson were forced to flee London and live a life of begging. In the end, Xiao Nai'er, who was physically and mentally injured, died due to mental exhaustion. "The Old Curiosity Shop" is known as "Victorian melancholy".

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"Pride and Prejudice" is a comic and fascinating work by Jane Austen. The novel reflects the world and customs of British society from the late 18th century to the early 19th century through the story of several middle-class girls from villages and towns talking about marriage. The male protagonist Darcy behaves arrogantly, causing the heroine Elizabeth to always be prejudiced against him, which also makes their love journey full of hardships. But Elizabeth finally understood Darcy's true personality. Darcy changed his arrogant attitude because of Elizabeth, and they ended up in a happy marriage. The plot of the novel is tortuous and full of comedy, the language is natural and fluent, and it is witty and humorous. It reveals the tragedy and comedy of life with superb skills.

The title of the novel is taken from Eliot's "The Waste Land". The protagonist Tony Rust and his wife Brenda live together in an old Gothic building called "Hutton Manor", leading a quiet, comfortable, almost secluded country life. When Tony went to London on business, he accidentally met John Beaver, who could only be regarded as an acquaintance. Out of courtesy, Tony invited him to his home. John Beaver was a playboy who had nothing to do all day long and soon came to visit the manor. Beaver's visit ended the originally peaceful world of Tony and his wife. He talked to Brenda about all the lively scenes and anecdotes in London's social world. Tired of the boring country life, Brenda couldn't resist the temptation, so she rented a house in London in the name of study, returned to the long-lost social world, and gradually fell in love with John Beaver. The unexpected death of Tony and Brenda's only son, Andrew, led to the eventual breakdown of their marriage. In order to relieve his depression, Tony went to the Amazon forest with an explorer to find a buried ancient city. Unfortunately, he became a prisoner of the local indigenous people and was stranded in a distant land forever.

This book "Ancient Capital" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Kawabata Yasunari. It consists of three stories: "Ancient Capital", "The Ballad of Wings" and "The Flower of Competition". "Ancient Capital" tells the story of the friendship and misunderstanding between twin sisters Chieko and Naeko who grew up in different families; "The Ballad of Wings" describes the emotional initiation process of the girl Lingzi in adolescence; "Blooming Flower" describes the complicated love-hate relationship between three women and Shimura. This book is one of Kawabata Yasunari's masterpieces and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Bosmans, who was seventy years old, began to recall his past life. He thought of a girl he dated 40 years ago, her name was Margaret LeCourz. During that time, the two often went out together because they had a common experience of being followed. Margaret was born to a man named Bouaval, while Bosmans was born to his mother and stepfather. Marguerite met Bouaval in a café, and the latter began to stalk her. In order to get rid of this man, Margaret went to Switzerland and then to Paris, where she met Bosmans. Margaret works as a nanny, and her employer is a somewhat mysterious male doctor who seems to have been associated with some cult groups in the past. Later, the male doctor was arrested, and Margaret chose to flee again, without any news. Now, 40 years later, Bosmans decided to find Margaret again, so he went to Berlin to look for this mysterious woman again...

This book is a collection of short stories by the famous French novelist Daudet. His short stories play a prominent role in French short story creation. Among them, the famous piece "The Last Lesson" can even be synonymous with Dude, and can be regarded as a model of the combination of ideological and artistic aspects in short stories. "The Last Lesson" describes the last French lesson in a rural primary school that was ceded to Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War and bid farewell to the language of the motherland. Through the self-narration of a naive and ignorant primary school student, it vividly expresses the pain of the French people under foreign rule and their love for their motherland.

"The Temptation of Saint Anthony" is a novel with a dramatic form, narrating the legendary story of the medieval hermit Saint Anthony who was tempted by the devil.

Through a novel and interesting plot, "The Water Child" vividly tells the wonderful story of how Tom, a chimney sweep, became a water child. Under the influence, education and guidance of the fairy, he embarked on his own journey of growth, overcame his own shortcomings, experienced various adventures, and finally transformed from a boy into a man. As a fairy tale given by a father to his four-year-old child, Charles Kingsley places beautiful thoughts on children in the story, such as kindness, integrity, bravery, tolerance, etc., And uses humorous writing to make children understand how to stay away from hypocrisy, greed, selfishness, laziness, and cowardice. It is a fairy tale with great educational significance.

Shakespeare, a great playwright and poet during the British Renaissance, was the master of humanistic literature during the European Renaissance. He is a rare and perhaps unprecedented great dramatic poet, and the greatest literary figure in the world in history. "Romeo and Juliet (Selected Translations of Masterpieces)" selects four famous love-themed plays, "Romeo and Juliet", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Twelfth Night" and "Antony and Cleopatra", into one volume for the readers' enjoyment.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the masterpiece of Jonathan Swift, the most outstanding British political commentator and satirical novelist in the 18th century, and a great satirical novel in the history of world literature. The novel uses Captain Gulliver's voice to narrate the experience of traveling around Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the Flying Island Kingdom, and the Houyhnhnms Kingdom. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize the British political system, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class.

Nekhludoff met Maslova, the adopted daughter of a relative, and they fell in love with each other, but he seduced her and abandoned her. After Maslova became pregnant, she was kicked out and became a prostitute. Later, she was involved in a murder case. In the court jury, there happened to be Nekhludoff. He fell into guilt and ran around for her in order to atone for his sins. In the process, the two dusty souls gradually awakened and moved towards resurrection.

Zhang Guyuo is famous for his successful translation of three of Hardy's novels: "The Return of the Native", "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", and "Jude the Obscure". Among them, the translation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is the most popular among readers. "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is Hardy's masterpiece and one of the "Wessex Series". It describes the tragic fate of a rural girl. Hardy called the heroine "a pure woman" in the novel's subtitle, openly challenging the hypocritical social morals of the Victorian era.

Rastignac, a college student, came to Paris to study from a small place. He lived in a dilapidated apartment and aspired to join the upper class society. After careful planning, he met the little daughter of his neighbor, Old Man Gao, and became her lover. When family affection encountered the impact of money, Old Man Gao watched helplessly as his beloved relatives embarked on the road of betrayal...??

"Eugénie Grandet" is a representative work of Balzac, the 19th-century French critical realist writer, the founder and outstanding representative of European critical realist literature. It is included in the "Provincial Life Scenes" of his masterpiece "The Human Comedy" and "Studies of Customs". It is regarded by the author and commentators as an outstanding picture in the "Human Comedy". This book is a classic translation by the famous translator Fu Lei. Balzac uses a network structure model, with Old Grandet as the center, and through the stories of Eugenie, Old Grandet, Charles, Crouch and others, he presents the French society in the first half of the 19th century in a three-dimensional and all-round way, and at the same time describes the diverse and complex characters. In the novel, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.

This book is the masterpiece of Italian writer Collodi, published in 1880. When the benevolent carpenter Pipano was sleeping, he dreamed of a blue angel giving life to his most beloved puppet, Pinocchio, and the little puppet began his adventure. If he is to become a real boy, he must pass the tests of courage, loyalty, and honesty. During the adventure, he skipped school out of fun, was deceived out of greed, and turned into a donkey. Finally, he fell into the belly of a big whale and unexpectedly met Pipano... After this adventure, Pinocchio finally grew up. He became honest, hardworking, and kind, and became a real boy. The work was adapted into an animated film by Disney in 1940.

Tom lost his mother when he was young and was adopted by his aunt. The smart and naughty Tom couldn't stand the control of his aunt and school teachers, and often skipped school and got into trouble. Late one night, while playing in a cemetery with his good friend Huckleberry Finn, he accidentally witnessed a murder. Fearing that the murderer would discover that they knew about it, Tom and Huckleberry fled to a desert island with another friend and became "pirates". The family thought they had been drowned, but they turned up at their own "funeral". After a fierce ideological struggle, Tom finally stood up bravely and testified against the murderer. Not long after, during a picnic, he and his beloved girl Betsy got lost in a cave. They were hungry and cold for three days and nights, and faced the threat of death...

"Anna Karenina" is Tolstoy's second landmark novel, written from 1873 to 1877. Anna is a high-society lady, young and beautiful, pursuing individual liberation and freedom of love, while her husband is a "bureaucratic machine" with an indifferent temperament. Once at the station, Anna met the young officer Vronsky. The latter was attracted by her beauty and pursued her desperately. In the end, Anna fell in love and decided to leave her husband and live with Vronsky. But the longing for her son and the pressure from the surrounding environment made her fall into pain and uneasiness, and she gradually discovered that Vronsky was not a dedicated and ideal figure. After losing her son and her last spiritual support, Vronsky, in despair, she chose to commit suicide by lying on the train. The novel exposes the ugliness and hypocrisy of the Russian upper class in the 1860s and 1970s. It also expresses the author's complex moral exploration and ideological exploration during a period of social transformation.

"The Happy Prince" is a fairy tale written by British aestheticist writer Oscar Wilde, which is included in "The Happy Prince and Other Stories". The story tells the story of the Happy Prince, who did not know what sorrow was when he was alive, and witnessed all kinds of suffering in the world after his death, and the story of the swallow who sacrificed himself to help others. The city outlined in "The Happy Prince" is a microcosm of British society during the Victorian period. Wilde incorporated various ugly phenomena that occurred in real society into the story, ruthlessly lashing and exposing the cold society at that time. He expressed deep sympathy for the compassionate Happy Prince and Swallow's charity relief activities for the people at the bottom of society and their ultimate failure. At the same time, the story itself also hinted at the author's ideal social system tendency and fundamentally questioned the moral principles of the society at that time.

This book is a selection of Andersen's fairy tales, named after his famous work "The Daughter of the Sea". The name Andersen is like an eternal monument, shining with the most brilliant light. He created countless beautiful fairy tales in his life: the poor and miserable little match girl went to another warm and beautiful world in her heart; the stupid emperor put on new clothes that did not exist at all; the little mermaid made selfless and regretless sacrifices for love; the ugly duckling finally turned into a noble white swan...

A brain-burning version of "Robinson Crusoe", an erudite version of "Don Quixote", and an exquisite version of "The Three Musketeers". The whole story is a mixture of fiction and reality, a mixture of truth and falsehood, and is wonderful. In the hot summer of 1643, a merchant ship "Amaryllis" with a secret mission to find the location of the 180th longitude line was wrecked somewhere in the South Pacific. Roberto, the only survivor on the ship, was a young man who suffered from hypochondriasis, paranoia, photophobia, and could not swim. After being shipwrecked, he was washed aboard another abandoned ship, the Daphne. Roberto relied on the remaining food, fruits, vegetables, and poultry on the ship to survive. While waiting for death, he could only pass the time by writing love letters-and memories, which eventually evolved into novels. Through these writings, the author Eco explains to readers the first half of Roberto's life - the battle for the city of Casale that affected the whole of Europe (the Holy Roman Empire, France, Spain, and the Church all appeared), the spy wars between various countries for the purpose of seeking the secret of longitude, the fierce confrontation between faith and science in that century...

"The Red and the Black" is Stendhal's masterpiece. It is the foundation work of European critical realist literature. Julien, the protagonist of the novel, is the son of a carpenter, smart, studious, and rebellious. He came to Paris because of his ambiguous relationship with the mayor's wife and party fighting. Appreciated by the Marquis. Just when Julien was dreaming of a successful career, an exposé letter from the mayor's wife shattered his ideals. Finally went to the guillotine. Through the personal struggle and ultimate failure experience of Julien, a protagonist full of desire and passion, the novel extensively displays "the social atmosphere brought about by successive governments that weighed on the French people in the first 30 years of the 19th century" and reflects some essential issues in the political and social life of France in the early 19th century.

The latest classic version of FLTRP! "Richard II" tells the whole process of Richard II being politically defeated, militarily besieged, and finally imprisoned and killed by Bolingbroke (who became Henry IV after seizing the throne).

After World War I, Hemingway moved to Cuba and met Gregorio Fuentes, an old fisherman. In 1930, Fuentes rescued Hemingway when his boat sank in a storm. From then on, Hemingway and Fuentes formed a deep friendship and often went fishing together. In 1936, Fuentes went out to sea and caught a big fish. However, because the fish was too big, it was dragged at sea for a long time. As a result, it was attacked by a shark on the way back. When he came back, only a skeleton was left. "The Old Man and the Sea" was based on this story. The novel was published in 1952 and won the 1953 American Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. Hemingway himself believed that this was "the best work he could write in his life!"

"Around the World in Eighty Days" is one of the most popular works by French science fiction writer Jules Verne. The protagonist Ford made a bet with his friends that he would travel around the world and return to London in 80 days. He and his servant Passepartout tried every possible means to overcome all the difficulties on the road, but they were still five minutes late when they arrived in London. He considered himself a failure, but unexpectedly won.

The naughty bag Tom Sawyer is playful, rebellious, doesn't like going to school, and likes to take risks. He often gets into all kinds of troubles and gives adults headaches. Late one night, Tom and his friend Huck went to the cemetery to play and accidentally witnessed a murder. Fearing the murderer's revenge, they chose to run away from home and live the adventure life they longed for. However, creepy things happened one after another... This book has been popular all over the world since its publication. Tom's optimism, confidence, and bravery when encountering difficulties have infected countless children; through Tom's adventure stories, countless adults have understood children's inner worlds and completely changed the way they communicate with children.

"Robinson Crusoe" tells the story of Robinson living alone on an uninhabited island for 28 years. It is wrong to say that life is not right, survival is the portrayal of Robinson Crusoe. He started from scratch on the island, and through hard work, finally lived a self-sufficient life, but he was very lonely, with only parrots talking to him, and his neighbors were cannibals who occasionally visited. However, he firmly believed that as long as he used wisdom, he could create all the materials needed for survival; he firmly believed that the servant "Friday" he rescued was kind-hearted and worthy of dependence; he firmly believed that he would be rescued... It was this belief and courage that finally made him return to England. Defoe uses vivid and lifelike details to write fictional scenes that make people feel like they are actually there, giving the story a strong sense of reality.

"Water Margin" is a novel with the theme of ancient peasant uprising. It vividly depicts the entire process of the peasant uprising from occurrence, development to failure, profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the resistance struggle of the uprising heroes and their social ideals, and also specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was the greatest playwright and poet of the English Renaissance and the master of humanistic literature of the European Renaissance. He is an unprecedented and arguably unprecedented great dramatic poet, and the greatest literary figure in the world in history. Shakespeare's masterpieces are recognized as treasures of human culture, and his four most famous masterpieces "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth" are known as Shakespeare's "four great tragedies" and are the most famous chapters in the history of human literature and even civilization. The translation of this book is an important result of the famous professor and poet Mr. Sun Dayu's concentration on the study and translation of Shakespeare. Mr. Sun Dayu is the first scholar in my country to translate Shakespeare's poems and plays in verse. His translation uses pentameter plain verse with the phonetic system he created to translate the pentameter plain verse of the original text of Shakespeare's plays, which is of great pioneering significance and unique style and charm. This book contains a complete set of more than 100 exquisite illustrations of the four tragedies drawn by the famous British artist and illustrator Sir John Gilbert, which is of great collection value.

Produced by Shanghai Translation and translated by famous translators Han Hulin and Zhou Kexi, it is recognized as a masterpiece among popular novels in the world, with a score of 9.2 On Douban. "The Count of Monte Cristo (Set of Volumes 1 and 2)" is a masterpiece by the famous French popular historical novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Captain Dontes, the first mate of the Pharaoh, was commissioned to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party. He was framed by two despicable villains and a judge, and was sentenced to death. The inmate Father Faria taught him all kinds of knowledge, and before his death, he told him the secrets of a group of treasures buried on the island of Monte Cristo. After escaping from prison, Dontes found the treasure and became a millionaire. From then on, he was known as the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor and punished his enemies. This book is full of romantic legend, and the chapters are unique, novel and fascinating.

"Petro Goriot" is set in Paris from the end of 1819 to the beginning of 1820, and describes a thought-provoking story: the noodle merchant Goriot made his fortune by selling grain, but was abandoned by his daughter after raising him, and died tragically in the attic of the Voquet apartment; the young man Rastinana gradually embarked on a path of depravity under the corrosion of the upper class society in Paris. Old Man Goriot is both a pursuer of money and a victim of money worship. Before his death, he uttered a long howl intertwined with love and hate. It was a blood-and-tear indictment of the sins of money, and was hailed as the "eternal masterpiece."

"Hamlet: Selected Plays of Shakespeare" includes four classic plays including "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Merchant of Venice", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet" translated by Mr. Zhu Shenghao. It includes different types of works by Shakespeare in various creative periods. They are all representative to a certain extent and basically reflect the creative characteristics of Shakespeare's plays.

Liu Meng not only edited and published many good articles and books "to make wedding clothes for others", but he was also diligent in writing and published more than 20 kinds of collections. Liu Meng's prose style is neither pretentious nor coy. The words are simple and unpretentious, the narrative is fluent, and the emotions are rich and colorful. Reading it is as friendly and natural as his ordinary conversation. His writings are like his people, both his writings and his people are affectionate and righteous. "Awakening from Dreams at Dusk" collects more than 100 of Liu Meng's classic prose works in recent years, divided into four parts: Echoes of Past Years, Romance in the Forties, Waves in the Heart, Flower Appreciation in the Literary Garden, Love Stories in Art and Literature, and Links of Friendship. Liu Meng's prose style is neither pretentious nor coy. The words are simple and unpretentious, the narrative is fluent, and the emotions are rich and colorful. Reading it is as friendly and natural as his ordinary conversation.

This book is a collection of short essays. The theme of the book is "things", and through thought-provoking small incidents, it tells readers that "if we pay attention to everything and care about everything, we will be surprised and surprised to find that the world is always trying to help us grow and mature in its own unique way." Each article in the book is preceded by the central sentence of the article, and at the end of the article is the inspiration gained from reading the article.

That spring, in order to find his lost self, the idle Tokyo dance researcher Shimamura came to Snow Country and met Komako, a maid at a hot spring hotel. By the time the two meet again in winter, Komako has become a geisha, and a girl named Ye Zi has appeared who has been taking care of the patients. The relationship between Dao Cun and Ju Zi is getting closer and closer, but they secretly fall in love with Zi Zi. In the autumn of the next year, Shimamura came to Snow Country for the third time. One night, a fire broke out in the Cocoon warehouse where the movie was shown. Ye Zi fell from the second floor of the fire scene and died.

"A writer who writes with talent, a real magician." A new collection of Nabokov's five classic novels by the author of "Lolita". It is an exercise in the style of a literary alchemist and an early masterpiece that Nabokov fans cannot miss. Vladimir Nabokov, the author of "Lolita", is recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Nabokov Collection II" selects five of Nabokov's masterpieces, from which we can see the growth of a literary alchemist: his debut novel "Mary" misses his homeland and first love; "Defense" depicts a crazy chess genius with scalpel-like precision; "The Eye" challenges novel techniques with the theme of "spy"; "Desperation" plays with "metafiction", and the protagonist has the shadow of Humbert in the later "Lolita"; "The Invitation to the Beheading" is a bizarre and surreal allegorical noir.

"The Escape of Love" is a collection of short stories by Bernhard Schlink, an important writer, novelist and best-selling author in the contemporary German literary world. It contains seven short stories. The seven independent stories told have a common theme - the secret behind love. The story tells the story of a man who has been attracted to a mysterious painting collected by his father since he was a child. When he grew up, he finally learned that the secret behind the painting was his father's controversial identity in the war. Story Two tells the story of an awkward friendship between a man from West Berlin and an East Berlin couple. The third story is about a man who discovers after the death of his wife that under the harmonious marriage for many years, his wife was having an affair with another man, and he begins to track this man. Story 4 tells the story of a successful architect who deals with three women, but encounters a bizarre incident. Story 5 tells the story of a German student whose father had experienced the war and fell in love with a Jewish-American girl. They were repeatedly troubled by differences in beliefs and the shadow of history. Story 6 tells the story of an armistice observer who once again embarked on a dangerous journey. He began to doubt his role as a peace messenger and felt guilty that he had not fulfilled his responsibilities as a father. Story 7 tells the story of a German man over fifty whose relationship with his wife has gradually become colder. He decides to travel to the United States together as a silver wedding anniversary to bring the two closer together, but he hesitates along the way. How love happens and how it ends, the emergence and resolution of misunderstandings, the unfolding of deception and the revelation of the truth, and the various twists and turns in these processes, are what the male protagonists of the seven stories have experienced, and they face more sober and brave women.

"The Battle of Tur" is the third part of the "Blood and Rust" science fiction series. In a post-apocalyptic future world, the protagonist Tur is a biological weapon created by humans with superhuman strength and agile reflexes. He was originally just a cold product of technology, but gradually gained self-awareness during the war. He tried to break through his programming limitations, made a real friend Maria, and understood the meaning of teamwork and brotherhood; as the leader of the enhanced humans, he also made other enhanced humans realize that they should not be born as slaves, but should resist human oppression and drive and become organisms equal to humans, but human greed and selfishness dominate everything. Tur decided to overcome his servility and take revenge on the master who created, enslaved and attempted to destroy him. The author explores the ethical issues of genetic engineering, the use of biological weapons and the value of human life from an extremely sharp perspective, and profoundly expresses the significance of fighting for freedom and dignity in an environment of oppression and exploitation.

Write to every lonely soul in the world! Using sharp words, it shows the original courage and strength of every life in the world. "The Call of the Wild" uses sharp words to show the original courage and strength of every life in the world. It writes about animals and talks about people. It is obviously literature, but it reads out the living world. A classic work of animal novels and a representative work of naturalism. One of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, one of the 88 books that shaped America. This book collects Jack London's representative short stories and short stories - "The Call of the Wild", "White Teeth", "Love Life" and "To Make a Fire". The stories mainly take place in the extremely cold places in northwest Canada. The style is heroic and masculine, showing the original tenacity, courage and strength of life.