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This book is a collection of two of the most representative novels by the famous French writer Camus. "The Outsider" reveals the paradoxes in the modern judicial process through the true feelings of a clerk. The social significance of "The Outsider" lies in its profound revelation of absurd reality. "The Plague" is a symbolic novel. In the novel, the story of the people of Ahlan City uniting to fight and defeat the plague fully explains how people should face absurd philosophy. These two works are the shining gems of Camus's literary creation and have become immortal classics in world literature in the twentieth century.

This book is a carefully compiled collection of Naoya Shiga's short story masterpieces, including seventeen immortal masterpieces from different periods of his creative career, including "In Kinosaki", "Walking to the Net", "Van's Crime", "Seibei and the Gourd", "The God of the Apprentice", "Grey Moon", etc., Which comprehensively demonstrates the style of his short story creation.

"Snow" is not only the pinnacle of the famous Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki's personal works, but also one of the outstanding masterpieces of the entire Showa literary world. French writer Sartre praised this work as "the highest masterpiece of modern Japanese literature". "Snow" is a genre novel describing the love story between Japanese middle-class young men and women. It tells the life story of four sisters from the wealthy Shifeng family in Osaka. The story revolves around the main plot of the second daughter Sachiko and his wife arranging the marriage of the third daughter Yukiko and the fourth daughter Taeko, and finally ends with Yukiko's successful blind date.

"Three Deaths", the fourth of "Cao Ying's Translation of Leo Tolstoy's Complete Novels and Novels", takes the title of one of them as the title and includes seven of the writer's death-themed works, including "Three Deaths", "Polikushka", "Hostomir: A Horse and Life Experience", "Does a Man Need a Lot of Land", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "Crock Alyosha", and "Diary Published After the Death of Elder Fedor Kuzmich". Tolstoy thinks about death from different angles, from the death of nobles to the death of civilians, from the death of animals to the death of plants, from before death to after death. Tolstoy's concern for death is another expression of his concern for life.

Chekhov, known as the "God of Short Stories", is a master in the eyes of many literary masters. His works are dedicated to showing the constant human nature in the changing world, sadness, loneliness, absurdity and helplessness, as well as the inability to control the ups and downs of fate... His works have won many awards and are enduring. They have been selected into many language textbooks and have been translated into various languages. Chekhov is good at using wonderful and unique stories to allow every reader to instantly see himself and others he seems familiar with, bringing comfort and healing to the difficult life. This book contains Chekhov's recognized mature works, including 17 excellent works such as "The Man in the Trick", "The College Student", "On Love" and "The Sixth Ward".

This book is a collection of short stories written by John Updike, the father of the "Rabbit Tetralogy" and a master of contemporary American literature, in the last ten years of his writing career. It was first published after the author's death in 2009 and includes a total of eighteen stories, including "Tears of My Father". These novels are the final short works of a generation of literary giants. In them, Updike reveals his true feelings, looks back on the past in a farewell gesture, records the world with tender touches, and depicts the pain and joy, love and guilt, affection and betrayal, fear and relief of ordinary Americans from the "Great Depression" to the post-9/11 era.

This book selects Maupassant's most representative short and medium stories, including popular masterpieces such as "The Necklace" and "My Uncle Jules", as well as the twists and turns of "The Olive Garden" and "Pierrot". "The Necklace" uses a necklace as a clue to unfold the story. The layout is unconventional and has been included in middle school Chinese textbooks; "My Uncle Jules" reveals and satirizes the alienation of relationships between people in class society. Maupassant was good at cutting out typical fragments from ordinary and trivial things, and summarizing the reality of life with small insights. His novels have unique conceptions, ups and downs of plots, vivid and detailed descriptions, and lifelike characters, which make people have endless aftertaste after reading them.

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This book selects seven of Faulkner's most representative short stories, telling the story of the great impact and transformation that the traditional culture of the South and the values ​​of the North experienced after the outbreak of the American Civil War. It uses strange and twisted language to describe the conflict between the declining aristocracy and the common people in this special environment. Most of Faulkner's novels and short stories take place in Yoknapatawpha County, known as the "Yoknapatawpha Line". Its main context is the story of several generations of families belonging to different social classes in Yoknapatawpha County, from 1800 until after World War II. There are more than 600 named characters in the lineage that appear alternately in various novels and short stories.

When Laoguai came to Kanshang with his 5-year-old Qingguo, rapeseed flowers were blooming all over the ditches and ditches of Macun. That year, I was 7 years old. I spread my legs and blocked the wood door, stared at Laoguai and shouted: This is my home, I hate cripples. My mother grabbed my ear and said, call me dad... I said my dad was dead. My mother turned her head and glanced at me hatefully, then turned back to Laoguai and said, "The child is spoiled, and that's his virtue... Don't be angry." Lao Guai smiled innocently and said, "No, I don't care, I don't care," but his expression was extremely embarrassing. Looking at Laoguai's pitiful look, I felt very angry.

Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was not only one of the greatest novel masters in the Russian literary world of the 19th century, but also one of the most complex, contradictory, and greatest novel masters in history in the world. With his voluminous creations, he is unique and unparalleled in his profound description and in-depth exploration of human beings' complex and even divided human nature, psychology and even abnormal spirits. If Tolstoy represents the breadth of Russian literature, Dostoyevsky represents the depth of Russian literature. Shanghai Translation Publishing House's cloth-bound hardcover "Collected Works of Dostoevsky" includes all seven novels by Dostoyev "The Injured and Insulted People", "Notes from the House of the Dead", "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", "Ghost", "The Boy" and "The Brothers Karamazov", as well as the collection of short and medium stories "White Nights", totaling eight types and nine volumes, basically covering all the most important works created by Dostoyev throughout his life.

A crab-like old man, a lady as strong as an ox, a wild cat resurrected from the dead, a wall stained with water to express wishes, a glowing and bouncing watermelon, a singing and dancing leaf, a flickering but undying candle, a monster who stole a knife and returned it specially... The abandoned house in the forest seems peaceful, but those who come here to pursue dreams know the secrets. This book is a collection of Izumi Kyoka's short and medium stories, including four representative works. The work is rooted in Japanese folk customs, inherits the lineage of Edo monsters, and draws on the nested structure of Noh ballads to tell ethereal and bizarre stories, depicting the ugliness, joys and sorrows of the world.

Bunin is a master of short story writing. He uses poetic language and complex to create short stories, and uses dramatic conflicts to structure short stories. Therefore, his short stories are actually similar to Chekhov's short stories, but the creation objects and content are different. The short stories in "Selected Short Stories of Bunin" more concentratedly reflect the characteristics of Bunin's short stories: exquisiteness, intense but soothing conflicts, light but rich complexes, and should be said to have a strong sense of modernity.

Chekhov is a world-class master of short stories in Russia and the last critical realist art master in Russia in the late 19th century. Together with the French writer Maupassant and the American writer O. Henry, he is known as one of the "three major short story writers in the world". This collection contains 4 short stories. They all describe farmers. "Peasants" is the author's true description of the poor and difficult life of the oppressed peasants in the Russian Empire. "In the Canyon" writes about the other side of the countryside, the tragedy of a rich farmer-cum-merchant family. "Gusev" vividly describes the tragic misfortune of peasants being dragged to serve as "strong men".

This book includes Sakaguchi Ango's most representative works, "The Idiot", "The Island in the City", "On Degeneration", "Continued Theory on Degeneration", "Waterbird Pavilion", "Toy Box", "Study Notes", "The Golden Mean", etc. "Island in the City" writes about the isolation between people in urban life through the tragedy of A Bian. "Because everything is casual, this society is so perfect." Ango Sakaguchi proposed in "Theory of Degeneration" and "Theory of Continuation of Degeneration": "In order to survive, you must degenerate." "The Idiot" has been evaluated as "a model of Japanese post-war literature." "Study" bears the shadow of Sakaguchi Ango's own studies.

Whenever he is in trouble, Haruki Murakami turns to Chandler! There are many books to read when you want to be awake. But when you want to get drunk, read Chandler! This collection includes all three masterpieces of Chandler, Haruki Murakami's literary idol and a master of American literature: "The Long Goodbye", "Goodbye, My Love", and "The Big Sleep"! As the founder and soul of "tough guy" literature, Chandler created the classic image of "tough guy detective" Marlowe with his textbook-level polished writing. Since then, all tough guys have the shadow of Marlowe. Chandler is recognized as one of the spokespersons of American literature in the 20th century! Chandler is also one of the great screenwriters in film history and the ancestor of Hollywood "film noir". Famous directors such as Hitchcock and Billy Wilder have collaborated with him. Chandler's novels have been adapted for the screen 11 times, and Nobel Prize winner Faulkner participated in the screenplay of his works. Hollywood actors in the 1940s were proud to play Marlowe. The three books in the series all feature private detective Philip Marlowe as the protagonist. Watch how a lonely tough guy detective wanders around the edge of the dark city, how he faces all kinds of people and complicated cases he encounters, and how he maintains the justice in his heart in this dark world...

Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) is an American female writer of southern literature as famous as Faulkner and Carson McCullers. In her short life of 39 years, she wrote two novels, 32 short stories and many miscellaneous reviews. The Complete Collection of Short Stories published after her death won the 1972 U. S. National Book Award. This book is intended to include the most authoritative version of O'Connor's complete collection of short stories, a total of 31 pieces.

This book contains 16 of the most representative short stories and short stories by the famous Austrian writer Zweig. Among them, "Letter from a Strange Woman", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", "The Malay Madman", "The Story of Chess", "The Invisible Treasure", etc. Are all must-read masterpieces for Zweig fans.

The famous historian Barbara W. Tuchman, who has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, advocates treating history as a readable story. She calls herself a "writer with historical themes" and is praised by Fairbank and others as "a historian as an artist." She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, and her work has been hailed as one of the best historical works of the 20th century. This series includes: "Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945", "Tower of Pride: Portraits of the Antebellum World, 1890-1914", "The Craft of History: Tuchman on History", "The First Salute: The American Revolution from Another Perspective", "The Distant Mirror: The Turbulent Fourteenth Century", "March of Folly: From Trojan Horse Massacre to the Vietnam War".

Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature and a world-renowned master of short stories. William Faulkner called him "a truly American writer from whom we all descend." "Mark Twain Short Stories" collects Mark Twain's famous short stories. These popular short stories are humorous in writing, pungent in language, sharply satirical, and expose the speculation, money worship, and dark social reality that are prevalent in the United States like a plague. He is a writer in the history of American literature who writes in purely American spoken language. He is called the "Father of American Literature" by Faulkner and the "Lincoln of American Literature" by Howells. Called America's great satirical novelist by Obama.

Works by Peter Handke, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. "On Tiredness" contains five unique narrative works created by Handke from the late 1980s to 2013. These five "novels" deconstruct traditional narrative forms further than all Handke's previous works, and can almost be said to have created a new style of writing. No matter how the narrative form changes, Handke always focuses on the relationship between self and the world. Tiredness in "On Tiredness" is an important way of perceiving the world; "On the Jukebox" recalls and summons the passing time; the "quiet place" mentioned in "On the Quiet Place" turns out to be the toilet. The author's unique expression style completely surpasses people's habits. Taking things as commonplace and self-evident; "On the Mushroom Maniac" creates a fictional character who is obsessed with mushrooms. From curiosity, pursuit, obsession, and madness, to gradually calmness, detachment, and relief, Handke used this to review and reflect on his own life.

The book "Love from a Shipwreck" is a work commemorating the 25th anniversary of Yiyi's career as a writer. Narrated by his real name Adachi Kantaka, he wrote under the pen names Otoichi, Nakata Eiichi, and Yamashiro Asako respectively. Presenting 11 fantastic novels. After Yiyi's "Love from a Sinking Ship" hit the iceberg of marriage, the ship "home" gradually sank. What is the measure of "love"? Where should the families who once loved each other on the ship go now? "The Man Nailed to the Earth" by Eiichi Nakata. I had accomplished nothing and accidentally obtained a time jumping device, but I could no longer return to the original time and space. I keep jumping to other timelines, looking for the happiest version of myself──then, I want to kill him and replace him! Yamashiro Asako's "People in the Background" I came to the mountains for filming, but strange things happened one after another. The camera captured strange figures, the radio recorded strange sounds... And I never mentioned that there were other more terrifying things...

This book collects the essence of Anne Prue's eleven short stories, many of which have won individual awards. "Brokeback Mountain" not only won the 1998 O. Henry Short Story Award and the National Magazine Award, but was also adapted onto the screen by director Ang Lee, winning multiple international film awards. All stories are set in Wyoming. The author uses sharp writing techniques to dissect the passion and desire for life behind the cowboys' rough and wild lifestyle, and uses poetic language to extract beauty and hope from the cruelty and roughness.

In the eight short stories of "The Purple and the Black", K. J. Parker fully demonstrates to readers his unique knowledge and his profound insight into human nature - the former makes the construction of his worldview solid and complete, and the latter gives life to the characters.

"I Came Following the Firelight" is Zhang Yueran's new short story collection. Nine stories, a group of lonely men and women, carrying an unspeakable past, persistently looking for the fire in life. These characters are innocent and sophisticated, cold and passionate, sensitive and tough. They do evil because they punish themselves, they become suspicious because they believe, and they betray because they love. Zhang Yueran writes sharply and with rich poetic flavor, contemporary fables about love and loneliness, money and talent, cultural prejudice and class separation, and the glory and shadow of our era are vividly revealed on the page.

Alai, male, Tibetan, born in Markang County, Sichuan Province in 1959, is a famous contemporary writer, the youngest winner in the history of the Mao Dun Literature Award, a representative of the National People's Congress, chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Writers Association, and a member of the Presidium of the Eighth National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association. In 2000, Alai, who was only 41 years old, won the fifth Mao Dun Literary Award for his novel "The Dust Has Settled", becoming the youngest winner in the history of the Mao Dun Literary Award. The judges believe that this novel has a unique perspective and "has rich Tibetan cultural implications. A light layer of magical color enhances the opening and closing of the artistic expression", and the language is "light and charming", "full of smart poetry", and "shows the author's outstanding artistic talent". The famous military writer Liu Jianwei even said with certainty that Alai will win the Nobel Prize for Literature for this book.

"The Last Lesson" includes the short story collection "Monday Stories" and the prose story collection "The Mill Letters". In 1912, "The Last Lesson" was translated and introduced to China for the first time, becoming one of the famous French literary works that is well-known in China and has a strong mass base. With exquisite brushstrokes and exquisite conception, the work shows the sincerity, trustworthiness, kindness, strength and other qualities of the people at the bottom of France. It depicts the beautiful and picturesque scenery of southern France, reflects the deep patriotism of the French people, and embodies the author's exquisite artistic creation skills and ultimate humanistic care.

Ancient Greek literature and art are an important source of Western civilization and culture. They share the same spirit with ancient Chinese civilization and complement each other brilliantly. Ancient Greek drama not only occupied an important position in people's cultural life at that time, but even today, its important historical value and high artistic achievements are still amazing. As the beginning of the development history of European drama art, ancient Greek drama had a significant impact on later European literature and drama. This book contains more than ten comedies and tragedies by ancient Greek writers such as Aeschylus and Sophocles. The selected plays include "The Persians", "Agamemnon", "Antigone", "Medea", "Knights", etc.

Yukio Mishima's collection of self-selected short stories is a masterpiece that uses all techniques to depict the real themes of life; the gorgeous writing that despises daily life, the sound and realistic presentation of the decadent taste of literature, and the extreme depiction of the forgetfulness of fate and hunger. When a loved one dies, can those left behind be saved? "Death in Midsummer" is a collection of short stories written by the author in the 1940s and 1950s. It contains 11 short stories in total. "Death in Midsummer" was created in 1952. It was conceived by the author based on a true story he heard in Kanaihama, Izu. It depicts the joys and sorrows of lovers, life and death, and is a tear-jerking novel. "Tobacco" is his famous masterpiece and was recommended by Kawabata Yasunari. The work depicts the social, political, cultural and other realities of Japan after the end of World War II, as well as the Japanese people's mentality of emerging from the shadow of the war.

This book is a collection of short stories, including six novels created by the author based on characters in his own life. "Chastity" is an unexpected love story in which the author is indirectly involved, involving infidelity and death. "The Whole Dozen" tells the story of a man who regards marrying a dozen wives as his life pursuit. "Human Nature Is Unpredictable" describes the unrequited love of an infatuated man. "Jane" depicts Jane, a woman who suddenly becomes attractive in middle age. "A Foreign Land" tells the life of a Jewish family who immigrated to Britain and the tragedy of a young man's life. "Eureka" is the story of a female writer regaining inspiration after experiencing the shock of her husband's departure.

This complete collection collects all of Mr. Alai's masterpieces of novels: "King Gesar" is a well-known classic historical novel, which has been adapted to the big screen many times as Alai's most anticipated work; "The Empty Mountain" trilogy and "The Dust Has Settled" can be described as twin peaks in artistic thought. The structure and artistic pattern of the novel is Alai's new artistic exploration, and it presents a completely different style from "The Dust Has Settled". If "The Dust Has Settled" is a closed structure and a complete story, "The Empty Mountain" expresses the major theme of "the secret history of a village" and uses a common culture, a common background, and different people and things to form a three-dimensional picture of the contemporary Tibetan countryside, which is the so-called "petal" structure.

"Selected Novels of Dazai Osamu" includes 16 short and medium-length novels, including "Disqualification in the World", "Setting Sun", "Good Bye" and "Cherry". They are the author's masterpieces from different periods and styles. Read these words, go deep into Dazai Osamu's heart, feel the sadness under the hustle and bustle, and find hope in loneliness. This is the fate of every modern person, and it is also the tolerance and comfort that Dazai Osamu offers to everyone.

In the literary history of France and the world, Maupassant, a 19th-century French writer, is not only famous for his novels, but also for his short and medium-sized novels, with more than 300 pieces in total, and is known as the "King of Short Stories". "The Complete Collection of Maupassant's Novellas and Short Stories" consists of five volumes. These short and medium-sized novels reflect the breadth of materials, covering all aspects of French social life at that time, allowing readers to have a glimpse of the master's superb artistic skills. The second volume includes the following 4 short story collections: "Harriet Miss", "Sisters Rondorie", "Yvette" and "Story of Day and Night". Published from 1884 to 1885. This volume collects Maupassant's earlier works, and the writer's style is slowly taking shape. Take "Harriet Miss" as an example, which became a bestseller at the time and was deeply loved by French readers.

The creation of short stories and short stories runs through Sienkiewicz's entire literary career. "Selected Novels and Novels of Sienkiewicz" selects more than ten short stories and short stories from the more than sixty short stories he wrote throughout his life. They all take real life as the main content and are full of strong emotional color. These works are not only an important part of Sienkiewicz's creations, but also treasures in world literature. They are widely circulated in countries around the world and are loved by readers. "Yanko the Musical" and "Angel" reflect the tragic fate of Polish rural children, and the former was selected into Chinese textbooks. "Charcoal Sketch" and "Memories of a Tutor" reflect the darkness of Tsarist Russia's rule at that time and the tragic fate of the people. "The Lighthouse Keeper" tells the story of Polish exiles and was introduced to the country by Lu Xun in the early 20th century.

The original novel of the movie "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" was rated 8.8 On Douban. The story takes place in a high-end apartment at No. 7, Rue de Grenelle, in a high-end area on the Left Bank of Paris where political and business celebrities frequently interact. Paloma was never a peaceful girl. She is very smart, even a genius. Born into a wealthy family, her father is a congressman, and her little eyes have seen through the hypocrisy and emptiness of the adult world. Because he often hides and thinks about existential problems, he is mistaken for a mental disorder by his fussy mother. Facing the absurd outside world, she set a life goal for herself - to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday and set fire to her parents' mansion. At the same time, Renée, the concierge whom everyone dislikes, has lived an invisible life in this high-end apartment filled with dignitaries and elites for twenty-seven years. Pretending to be stupid, ugly, and vulgar is what she must abide by every day. Behind the scenes, her inner sanctum is filled with Husserlian phenomenology, Freud, and medieval philosophy...

"Collected Works of Camus 3: The Anti and the Right Wedding Summer Collection" is the third volume of the "Collected Works of Camus". The prose collection "The Anti and the Right" narrates childhood life; "The Wedding" and "Summer" express the love of life and the fear of death; the attached "Swedish Speech" is a speech delivered by the author after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist and dramatist, one of the representative writers of existentialism, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Before the 1950s, Camus was always regarded as an existentialist, although he denied it many times. After Camus published his philosophical essay "The Rebel" in 1951, it triggered a year-long debate with Sartre and others, and finally broke with Sartre. Only then did people discover that Camus was a representative figure of the philosophy of the absurd and its literature.

This book was written during World War II. Shrouded in the smoke of war, the author's family had no choice but to enter a small air-raid shelter to avoid air raids. In order to appease his restless little daughter, the father adapted Japanese legends and told them to her, and this is how the classic "Ogakuji" was created. "Life is always a story like this. This is the so-called tragedy and comedy of human nature." Osamu Dazai adapted it based on familiar Japanese legends such as "Tumor Removal", "Urashima Taro" and "Tongue-cut Sparrow", showing reflections on human nature and real destiny, but the style has changed from the past gloomy decadence to relaxed and peaceful. "Ogakashi" is a rare tender work written by Osamu Dazai. In addition, this book also includes "Bamboo Green" and "Wei Yong's Wife".

This is an illustration of the life of a woman in the world. It contains Dazai Osamu's stunning female monologue novels, which vividly describe women's thoughts and accurately capture the human emotions of the world. This is another survival pillow book for sensitive souls. Aoki Oizo who is struggling in the quagmire of life, Meles who runs for friendship and faith, and the Aqing couple who bring light to "me"... The author boldly breaks through the traditional literary style and reveals the reflection of the weak striving to make progress from the perspective of a small character.

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"The Burning Field" On the solid, cold land, the dust on the shoulders of the poor is as small as grass. Because of poverty, a cow can decide the fate of a young girl. They were allotted to the ground, but there was not even a blade of grass to protect them from the wind. The raindrops that accidentally fell were swallowed up by the thirsty earth and disappeared in an instant. He committed a crime by begging for grass for the poor animals and hid for most of his life, but they still refused to let him go... On the plain, the wind was dark black and the time was long. No one remembers the time, only the silence contained in the loneliness of all things. Death is a hope for all.

Chekhov, the king of short stories, created seven to eight hundred short stories in his life, most of which were based on the ordinary lives of the people at the bottom. The 14 short and medium-length stories included in this book are all Chekhov's masterpieces. Some reflect the tragic life of small people, such as "Anguish" and "Wanka"; some reveal the helplessness of small people struggling to survive, as well as their trembling, groveling mentality and appearance. Such as "The Death of a Petty Official", "The Fat Man and the Thin Man", and "The Oyster"; some whipped the servile and obsequious people who act according to the wind, such as "The Chameleon"; some portrayed the faces of the defenders of the autocratic system, such as "Sergeant Prishbeev"; some exposed the oppression of the society by the autocratic system and its conservatism and weakness, such as "The Man in the Trick"; some criticized the pursuit of vanity, vulgarity and boredom, and short-sightedness. Light's philosophy of life, such as "The Jumping Woman", "Anna Hanging on the Neck", and "Gooseberry"; some reveal the gloomy and terrifying current situation of Russian society under the autocratic system, such as "Ward No. 6"; Some express the pursuit and longing for a better life, thereby arousing people's disgust for the muddy and half-dead life, such as "Talk about Love" and "The Unmarried Bride".

I'm all for short stuff, so if I started a humor magazine, I'd give anything long a cross. --Chekhov. Chekhov's short stories are witty, humorous, and ironic, short, concise, and profound in meaning. He is extremely good at discovering creative materials from ordinary daily life. Through ridiculous plots, he draws lifelike characters and directly touches the essence of life in a calm manner. Chekhov connected the living conditions of the little people with the reality of life in Russia, or ridiculed, joked, or ridiculed, behind which he was full of tolerance and deep love for the little people, and expressed the majestic social reality in a limited space. "With just one word he can create an image, with just one sentence he can create a wonderful short story."

A representative work of philosophy by French Enlightenment thinkers, a must-read classic. Diderot is known as the "standard bearer of the Enlightenment philosophers" and his works have influenced ideological trends for hundreds of years. The pinnacle of Diderot's philosophical novels and a masterpiece of dialectics. "The Nephew of Rameau" is the second volume of the "Collected Works of Diderot", which includes "The Nephew of Rameau" and "This is Not a Story". "The Nephew of Rameau" is a dialogue-length philosophical novel written between 1761 and 1762, but was not published during the author's lifetime. In 1805, Goethe translated it into Germany, but it was not until 1823 that Lameaux's Nephew, compiled from Diderot's own manuscript, was first published in France. "Ramaou's Nephew" is as much a conversation as it is a debate. On one side of the conversation "I" is a philosopher who represents universal values, and on the other side is the nephew of the musician Rameau, a poor young man. The two met in a cafe and started chatting. The argument became more and more intense. Their words were full of laughter, curses, ridicule and speculation. Engels praised him as a "masterpiece of dialectics". "This is Not a Story" is a short story published in "Literary Letters" in 1773, telling two short love stories.

Raymond Chandler is good at creating cold, hard, and dark story atmospheres. His short stories are thrilling at every step. Lonely and dangerous souls can be found in every corner of the metropolis. Celebrities, prostitutes, gangsters, businessmen, private detectives, policemen... All fight openly and secretly for their own purposes. The protagonist is entangled in a conspiracy. With his sophisticated skills and shrewdness, he can see through each sinister conspiracy and uncover the shocking inside story hidden in the darkness.

"Wandering" is a novel about constellations. In Tokarczuk's own words, "The combination of constellations, rather than the orderly arrangement, 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. "The Ancient Times and Other Times" is a famous work by the famous contemporary Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk. The novel has a total of 84 chapters, each chapter is named after "xxx time". It tells the story of various characters in ancient times, even animals, plants and things, from different perspectives: a girl who touches the border of the world, a landowner addicted to puzzle games, a lonely housewife, an old woman who curses the moon, and even angels, water ghosts, pugs, mycelium, small coffee grinders... The life stories of three generations reflect the turbulent historical destiny of Poland in the 20th century. Primeval is a place, located at the center of the universe. Its four borders are guarded by four angels. The world beyond the ancient times does not exist. People who think they have stepped out of the ancient times are actually standing on the border and dreaming that they have entered the outside world. When they wake up, they go home and regard their dreams as memories. The border will also produce mature people, just like they come from the outside world... "House by Day, House by Night" tells the story of a border town, from the first knifemaker who pioneered here to settle here, to the heroine and her husband moving to this countryside, the same land has different historical moments and different life migrations over the millennium. Various legendary figures appear here: a saint with a beard, a monk with a gender inversion, an alcoholic with a bird living in his body, a small-town teacher who transforms into a werewolf, an old lady with a wig who can hibernate, a woman who collects dreams on the Internet... The human world has undergone changes and ups and downs for thousands of years, but for the land, people's joys and sorrows, and the changes in people's generations are just a fleeting dream of the land. This is a wonderful novel that mixes multiple genres and intersperses multiple story lines. Short stories, essays, folk tales, hagiographies, and even recipes and notes are intertwined and presented. Each story is an exquisite short story, and when connected together, it becomes a wonderful novel full of foreshadowing and echoes.

Hemingway's 120th anniversary edition. Hemingway can be said to be the most well-known writer in my country and the most loved by Chinese readers among all Nobel Prize winners in literature over the past century. It collects all of Hemingway's short stories with standardized classification and complete catalogue, focusing on the classics of Hemingway's creation of a generation of writing style and profound influence on later writers. Famous translators include Chen Liangting, Wu Lao, Cai Hui, Zhai Xiangjun, Lu Jin and other elite translators of the generation of British and American literature. The earliest and most enduring works that made Hemingway famous were his short stories that created a generation of writing style. His short stories are mainly declarative sentences, with precise descriptions and short dialogues, giving readers the most direct and vivid impression and influencing many modern and contemporary writers in the world. This book is divided into two volumes and contains all of Hemingway's short stories. The first volume contains the writer's first complete collection of short stories published in 1938, namely the "First Collection of 49 Stories", including famous works such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"; there are another 6 stories that are not included in the "First Collection of 49 Stories", and the works that obviously belong to the same period are placed in the "Appendix". The second volume includes short stories published in books and magazines after the "first series of 49" and previously unpublished novels, a total of 21 stories. There are another five articles in the appendix, which were not included in the original complete collection and were only discovered in the mid-1980s.

Zweig, the humanistic fighter, is a true masterpiece in confronting war and society! A new authoritative translation, a literal translation of the original German version, translated by Pang Wenwei, professor of the German Department and Director of the Teaching and Research Section of Tongji University. Humanist fighters questioned and resisted the war, and showed concern and sympathy for the people. That is the most tortured punishment. When a person is locked up alone in a room, shrouded in endless loneliness and fear, a chess book is both a life-saving straw and the source of madness. The horn of war swept every inch of Europe, and the dawn of peace was far away. Zweig, with his infinite concern for life and his humanistic feelings, showed the powerlessness of small people swept up in the huge whirlpool of fate and the absurdity of war to the world. He caressed the scarred land with his scarred soul.

European literary geniuses comparable to Kafka and Proust, great works praised by Sontag, Milosz, Coetzee and others, directly translated from the original Polish text, presented in full in Simplified Chinese for the first time! This book collects all the surviving fictional works of Runo Schulz: 32 independent but interconnected stories. In these works, Schulz describes unusual childhood memories with a high degree of originality, blending reality and fantasy with beautiful language and full of whimsy. Like Kafka, he used a lot of grotesque surrealist techniques to create one of the most frightening father figures in the history of literature, which is still shocking to read today.

In the literary history of France and the world, Maupassant, a 19th-century French writer, is not only famous for his novels, but also for his short and medium-sized novels, with more than 300 pieces in total, and is known as the "King of Short Stories". "The Complete Collection of Maupassant's Novellas and Short Stories" consists of five volumes. These short and medium-sized novels reflect the breadth of materials, covering all aspects of French social life at that time, allowing readers to have a glimpse of the master's superb artistic skills. The first volume includes the following four short story collections: "The House of Tellier", "Miss Fifi", "The Story of the Woodcock" and "Moonlight". Published from 1881 to 1883. This volume contains Maupassant's earliest works. Although his writing style is still a little green, the style of a famous artist can already be seen. The heroine Mrs. Tellier depicted in the short story "The House of Tellier" is considered to be the plumpest female image except Ball of Suif.

"Sangeuki": a Chinese historical fanfic written by the Japanese writer Nakajima Atsushi, based on "Zuo Zhuan", "The Analects of Confucius", "Zhuangzi", "Historical Records", "Journey to the West" and "Tang Dynasty"; "Light and Wind Dream": a collection of folk tales spanning South America, North Africa and Southeast Asia, which depicts the ideals and realities written by the Japanese writer Nakajima Atsushi.