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This book is an early novel by Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. An old white girl living with her father in South Africa discovers something she hates - her father is having an inappropriate relationship with a young woman of color. She kept constructing fantasies in her mind that included getting rid of both of them, but in reality, everything revealed that the old girl herself wanted to have an affair with the family servant. This book is written in a stream-of-consciousness style, and the story it tells has no clear ending. Readers can only look for clues from the heroine's notes. The inner monologue of women blends harmoniously with the natural environment of the African land, making people extremely entangled but unable to stop.

In this collection of essays, Russell explores the social and political impact of his beliefs with characteristic clarity and humor. In Praise of Idleness is a masterpiece that only Bertrand Russell could have done.

Looking at the European coordination in 1815 to internationalism in the 19th century, as well as the League of Nations during World War I and the United Nations after World War II, we can see that state status determines the development of international organizations. When Britain was strong, the League of Nations was a vassal of Britain. As the United States gradually grew stronger and became the world's largest power, the early United Nations had to take orders from the United States. However, since the 1960s, the Third World began to enter the international political arena as a real political force, and the United States began to lose its leading position in the world's discourse. The gaudy, exaggerated and comical expectations of the 1990s are also reproduced in the book, and the disintegration of post-millennium optimism and the subsequent fear it has spawned has made the Western world laugh. In the past 200 years or so, Europe and the United States have successively achieved a certain dominant position in the world, but they are no longer what they used to be. A new system of polycentric global balance is taking shape, and a new world of ideas is coming. This work not only fundamentally redefines our understanding of the past, it also offers us an opportunity to reexamine the present. As China rises, what is particularly worth thinking about for Chinese readers is what influential ideas China can provide to international politics. This book should not be missed by anyone who cares about the human condition.

This book mainly briefly describes a large lake called Liuhu near Ailao Mountain on the lower reaches of Panjiang River in southern Yunnan. Here, Zhao Lin and Long Qiaogu, who were anonymous, came out of the world for various reasons. Later, they returned to Liuhu and got married. They went to the mountains to practice with Wang Jin, and all three of them became Sanxian.

This book is the representative work of the owner of Huanzhu Tower, and is as famous as "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman". It focuses on describing the martial arts stories of Luo Lu, Qiu Yuan, Yu Nanqi, Di Shengnan, Di Wubao, Ji Yi, Lu Linggu, Yang Yong, Yang Yingxue, Ji Deng, Tao Jun, Yang Yi, Chen Taizhen, Hu Yanxian, You Huang, Fang Huan, Siming, Tu Lei, Yan Hu and other nineteen disciples of Qingcheng Sword Immortal in the early Qing Dynasty.

This book collects nine of the most representative short stories by the science fiction genius Philip K. Dick: "The Second Generation", "The Impostor", "The Planning Group", "Minority Report", "War Games", "Ah, Be a Blobel!" ", "Words of the Dead", "Total Recall" and "Electronic Ants". Philip Dick was unique in the golden age of American science fiction with his unique writing style and bizarre imagination. The plots of his short stories are ups and downs, and the structure of many stories is unique.

Ocean Chronicles, Artificial Intelligence, Doomsday, Experimental City... Six stories that combine science fiction, fantasy and horror, a collection of classics.

At this time, in the early years of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, the Yellow River was full of rapids, turbulent waves, and overwhelming water power, and the bottom layer was full of floating sand, making it impossible to build a bridge. Only during the consecration period of the tower top and the two major floods a year did the local gentry and merchants raise funds to hire seven large wooden rafts, linked with iron chains, to build a temporary pontoon bridge to ferry people. On weekdays, we rely on flat-bottomed square-headed ferries unique to the Yellow River. The river is wide and the waves are strong, and the boat is crossing diagonally. It takes at least more than an hour to cross the river. When the wind is not favorable, it may even flow diagonally for twenty or thirty miles, and it takes half a day to reach the shore. Another misfortune happened when a sudden arch of silt at the bottom of the river blocked the boat, making it impossible to come or go, sometimes delaying it for several days. The river is difficult to cross, and there are many supernatural sights in the Yellow River. Originally, everyone on the boat was superstitious, and the ferry was opposite the White Pagoda, so the legends became more and more popular.

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"My Purple Scented Novel" tells the story of two writers, Jocelyn Tabet and Parker Sparrow, and reveals some of the dark sides of the literary world and the publishing world. From the first-person perspective of Parker Sparrow, the novel tells the story of two good friends who are obsessed with literature and started their careers at the same time, but their development trajectories are completely different: after Tabat accidentally became famous by writing scripts, his literary path became smoother and smoother, and he became a national writer in his middle age. Sparrow, who had published works in magazines before him, published several novels but was always depressed, until one time Sparrow accidentally read the first draft of a novel at Tabat's house. Under an uncontrollable impulse, Sparrow made a move that changed the fate of the two of them.

"The Rescued Tongue" is the first part of Canetti's autobiographical trilogy. It is written from birth to the age of 16 and is connected by three main threads: the close and tense relationship between him and his mother, his love for words and language, and his pursuit of academics and knowledge. Using a child's narration tone and an adult's sophistication, Canetti recalls his life in the home of his strict and demanding grandfather, the pain of losing his father at the age of seven, and his rapid learning of German under the pressure of his mother. He also has impressive descriptions of cities where he lived, such as Ruschuk, Manchester, London, Vienna, and Zurich.

On the morning of Joseph K.'S 30th birthday, he was arrested by two strangers who broke into his home. But K. Did not know his crime and did not lose his personal freedom. He just needed to be tried regularly. During this year, K. Traveled around for this difficult lawsuit. He turned to painters, businessmen, lawyers, priests, etc., And obtained a lot of information about the courts and the law. However, the more K. Knew, the more confused and helpless he felt. On the eve of his 32nd birthday, K. Was arrested again and the trial came to an end.

"Sunset on the Long River" is the third volume of the series of novels "Emperor Qianlong". On the one hand, Qianlong withdrew his generals in exchange for positions and devoted all his national power in an attempt to restore his dignity by severely punishing Shaluoben in the war against Jinchuan and Jinchuan. On the other hand, he sent Liu Tongxun and Liu Yong and his son to try to stabilize the domestic situation in the struggle to destroy the female leader "Yizhihua". Based on Confucius's thoughts on benevolent government, he reused Fu Heng, Liu Tongxun, A Gui, Ji Yun and others, and continued to implement the policy of lenient government to prosper the economy, in an effort to create the heyday of feudal society. However, due to his wrong strategic guiding ideology and his incompetence, the Jinchuan War was defeated again and again. The corrupt forces in the court and the public, represented by Gao Heng, merged with the land, and the internal contradictions in the feudal society of inequality between rich and poor were fueled and intensified. Although Qianlong called for diligent administration and severely punished corruption, he was unable to save the embarrassing situation that Qianlong's prosperous period was in decline.

The whole book is about the experience of the protagonist "Youngster". As a teenager, he joined the U. S. Military and went to Mexico. Soon he was fatally attacked by the Indians. Later, he accidentally joined a team of bounty hunters composed of criminals, veterans and Indians. The nominal leader of this team was Granton, a veteran of the American-Mexican War. In fact, it was Judge Holden who directed life and death. This team of hunters hunted Indians everywhere in Mexico, regardless of age or sex. Naked violence raged across the wilderness. Twenty-eight years later, all team members died one after another. This is a book composed of books. Elements of literature, philosophy, theology, science, and mythology can be seen everywhere. The superposition and integration of multiple dimensions create a huge text capacity and endless interpretation possibilities for the book.

"The Dawns Here Are Quiet" is a famous work by Soviet writer Vasilyev. "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" describes the story of five Soviet female soldiers fighting bravely against four well-trained German airborne troops in a mountain village north of Leningrad during the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War. After the novel was published, it was quickly adapted into a screenplay for stage and screen.

Unabridged version, Maugham's analysis of human nature, Maugham's former residence collection version, high score on Douban, a classic for women's spiritual awakening! Marquez, Haruki Murakami, George Orwell, Eileen Chang, and Naipaul unanimously recommend it. The Maugham House Collection version is highly recommended by Douban!

"Shadows on Distant Mountains" is Kazuo Ishiguro's debut novel, a masterpiece that is still being reprinted more than 30 years after its publication. The fusion and balance of "sentimentality and irony" are still memorable. The novel tells a memory full of mist, both real and illusory. After the war, a suffering mother and daughter in Nagasaki yearned for stability and rebirth, but they could never escape the shadows and inner demons brought about by the war. In the end, the mother and daughter successfully immigrated, and the daughter committed suicide as a tragic ending. At the end of the play, the remembrancer peels off his disguise, and the story is full of tragedy. The bilingual version of "Shadows of Distant Mountains" comes with the original text of the work, allowing readers to appreciate Ishiguro's exquisite and beautiful original English text at the same time, and enjoy double beauty.

This book is Nabokov's third novel. It tells the story of a chess genius who gradually became insane due to his long-term addiction to the game. The protagonist Luzhin was an unattractive, withdrawn and melancholic child when he was a child. He was like a mystery to his parents and the object of ridicule by his classmates. Real life always made him anxious, so he used chess as a refuge from real life. It turned out that he was a chess genius and became a chess master. However, he also paid a price for this: the game of chess gradually replaced his real life. In one game, his carefully designed defensive strategy became worthless due to the opponent's unexpected move. This reality made his mental world finally collapse.

The story of "Saturday" takes place on Saturday, February 15, 2003. The protagonist of the story, Henri Perroin, is a successful man - a famous neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and has a harmonious relationship with his grown-up children. However, the situation in the world he lives in makes him worried - the war in Iraq is approaching, and the general gloom and pessimism are spreading from New York and Washington... On Saturday morning, Perroian passed through the thousands of anti-war demonstrations that filled the streets of London and rushed to play squash with the anesthesiologist. In a minor incident, he had a minor run-in with a thug named Baxter. Perroian relied on his professional sensitivity to see that this guy had a brain malfunction - he had encountered a mental patient. He wanted to get rid of Baxter as soon as possible, but he didn't know that Saturday's troubles would start from here and get out of control...

An elderly woman who has lived a life of elegance, gentleness, obedience and obedience. After her husband died, her children arranged her widowed life without authorization. However, she resolutely cut off contact with her children and rented a house in a remote place to live by herself. She recalled the ideals of her youth and enjoyed her own complete freedom.

How many bodies does a person have? Perhaps we have all heard, and many people believe, that people have more than one body. People can be separated, resurrected, and reincarnated. In addition to the flesh and blood body, humans also have a spiritual body, which is called a "spiritual body" in the Bible. Pavich tells us at the beginning of the novel that he has passed away. After his death, he (his second body) told us a story of a double body.

"Everything That Rises Must Converge" is a representative collection of short stories by the famous American female writer Flannery O'Connor. In the last ten years of O'Connor's life, she used her pen as a torch to write this short story collection "All Things Rise Must Converge", illuminating those weird but real corners of the American South. O'Connor used her unique black humor and strong satire to create eccentric, paranoid, selfish or hypocritical characters on the stage of the American South, a land full of contradictions, and directed scenes of absurd and bizarre dramas. In the end, all the stories came to an abrupt end in a strong emotional impact.

The story takes place in Verona, Italy. The two families, Capulet and Montague, are hostile to each other because the two families have a deep feud and have a tendency of sworn hatred. At a banquet, a man and a woman from these two families met and fell in love dramatically. Their fate may have been decided at this moment. Although the two families have a deep hatred, they cannot stop the tide of love. They spend time together and talk to each other. The strong opposition from the two families only made the fire of love burn brighter and stronger. They further made a private lifelong engagement and held a wedding ceremony under the auspices of the kind-hearted Father Lawrence. Their hearts were full of longing for the future, and they were willing to hold hands and grow old together with their son. Unexpectedly, a fight ruined their beautiful love. A drama that tests the love and will of two young people is staged in this way. How will the conflict between the love of the two young people and the family continue to be entangled? What will be the ending?

"Half of a Yellow Sun" is a lament written by the Nigerian female writer Adichie about the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s (1967-1970). With an epic structure, the novel uses the changes experienced by several pairs of ordinary men and women in the Nigerian Civil War to interrogate how solid concepts such as identity, national boundaries, love, and friendship survived in the face of the absurd and brutal war... 13-Year-old Ugu comes from a poor family and works as a valet in the house of Odenigbo, a professor at the University of Nsukka. The learning opportunities given to him by his master gradually help him get rid of ignorance and superstition; Olanna, the daughter of the Igbo chieftain She is the girlfriend of Odenigbo. Her family had great reputation and wealth before the civil war. Olanna, who advocates freedom, has always kept a distance from her snobbish and opportunistic family. Olanna's twin sister Kenene has been taking care of the family business. She fell in love with Richard, a British journalist living in Nigeria. Richard, who hates the hypocrisy of post-colonialism, has always tried to record everything that this country has experienced fairly and objectively. When that extremely brutal war broke out, and when northern and southern Nigeria were driven by the curse of post-colonialism and headed towards the end of cannibalism, the fate of these protagonists suddenly changed, and their loyalty to self, friendship and love also faced severe tests...

What this book records is not the big events, but the small things I experienced during the fifteen months after the war began. Up to now, the European powers have been locked in this terrifying battle for more than two years. Many small countries were invaded; France was conquered. These major events have been reported in newspapers and will also be recorded in history. Life goes on. People still eat three meals a day, still fall in love, get married, and die of old age. Yet it seems to me that this natural disaster affected everyone in a thousand subtle ways, at least in Europe. These little things were insignificant to the tide of upheaval, but they were not unimportant to the people affected by them, and no one I know of thought them worthy of attention. So I thought it might be interesting if I could record those trivial things that seemed to have changed the course of my entire life before I forgot them. What this book describes is purely personal and private, and would be meaningless otherwise. But I still want to ask readers to believe that at this moment when the future of the entire world hangs on a thread, no one knows better than me how insignificant I am personally. --Maugham

Theo met Noah in South America and returned to Israel with her, settling in the desert town of Telkoda. As a town planner, Theo participated in the planning of the small town, which was very desolate because the nearby oil wells were not very productive. Theo and Noah, a couple with a fifteen-year age difference, are also increasingly estranged. Noah's student suffered a drug addiction and fell off a cliff to his death. The boy's father wanted to build a rehabilitation center in the desert town in memory of his son. Noah was obliged to participate in the preparation plan, but she did not expect how big the resistance would be. Can the two finally understand each other? Can the remaining tenderness in my heart withstand the harsh reality?

"I am a Cat" is Natsume Soseki's masterpiece. The novel vividly reflects the thoughts and life of Japan's petty and middle-class bourgeoisie at the beginning of the twentieth century, and sharply exposes and criticizes the "civilized and enlightened" capitalist society of Meiji. This work takes a poor teacher's cat as the protagonist and observes human psychology from the perspective of this anthropomorphized cat. This is a cat who is good at thinking, knowledgeable, full of justice and literary temperament, but he has never learned to catch mice until his death.

"Eugénie Grandet" tells a story about money destroying humanity and causing family tragedy. Centering around the central event of Eugenie's love tragedy, the novel is connected by three intertwined plot threads: the waves caused by the autocracy within the Grandet family, the open and secret fights between the bankers and notaries outside the family, and Eugenie's love for Charles Grandet, and the painful human experience of Charles' betrayal.

Albanian European Parliament official Mr. Y and his lover Rowena were killed in a traffic accident. The surviving taxi driver was in shock and vague about the cause of the accident. He only repeatedly said that he was frightened when he saw the two passengers "trying to kiss" in the rearview mirror. The special identity of the victim and the vague testimonies of the survivors attracted the intervention of the security agencies of many Eastern European countries. However, the investigation was fruitless and they withdrew one after another. In the end, a persevering investigator uncovered the hidden story behind the traffic accident by analyzing the witness testimony, the two people's notes and the memories of Rowena's close friends.

This book is an iconic work of the German Sturm und Drang movement. A young man named Werther fell in love with a girl named Lotte, who was already engaged to someone else. The setback in love made Werther heartbroken. Later, he committed suicide because he was out of tune with the feudal society and felt that his future was hopeless. The novel unfolds in the form of letters, recording the completely honest emotional experience of a young soul - the passionate but unattainable love for Lotte, the resistance to the order of reality, and the pain of the unattainable ideal. The gap between reality and ideals eventually pushed him into tragedy. This work shocked the entire European youth - Werther's sensitivity, loneliness and resistance became a symbol of the spirit of the times.

"Black Spring" was created during the same period as "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Cancer". The book traces Miller's teenage years in Brooklyn and his time living in Paris. Through constant replays from New York to Paris, as well as surreal dreams and symbolic techniques, Miller outlines people and the cities they live in in a subversive and self-revelatory way, and on a deeper level, he is seeking the spiritual home of the soul.

Parallel Worlds: The Neanderthal Trilogy. Primitive people (translated by Niu Zhenyu), humans (translated by Xia Xing), and hybrids (translated by Dai Yuan). In another parallel world, Neanderthals lived. Neanderthals reached a level comparable to ours in culture and science, but their development history, social customs and philosophy of life were completely different from ours. Ponte Budit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally crossed the passage between two worlds and came to a completely unfamiliar world. After he was identified as a Neanderthal, he was isolated and studied, feeling very lonely and helpless. But here, he still found friends who shared weal and woe, and developed a special relationship with Mary Vaughn, a Canadian female geneticist.

Selected from the collection of Sherlock Holmes detective stories, including "Black Peter", "Three College Students", "The Case of the Copper Beech" and many other popular short stories. The novel has a rigorous structure and a bizarre and fascinating plot. The literary image created by the author has a distinctive personality, and he integrates pathology, psychology, etc. Into the detective art in his writing, forming a unique style of detective novels.

Selected from the collection of Sherlock Holmes detective stories, including "The Silver White-breasted Horse", "The Man with the Yellow Face", "The Hospitalized Patient" and many other popular short stories. The novel has a rigorous structure and a bizarre and fascinating plot. The literary image created by the author has a distinctive personality, and he integrates pathology, psychology, etc. Into the detective art in his writing, forming a unique style of detective novels.

Ms. Burnett tells us a story about love and the magic of nature. Mary, a surly little girl whose parents are dead, lives in her uncle's gloomy manor. Led by the robin, she opens the secret garden that has been closed for a long time. From then on, she played and worked with the farm boy Dickon and the sick young master Colin. In the process of reviving the garden, the children develop a deep friendship and both Mary and Colin become healthy and sunny. After witnessing the magic of nature, Mr. Craven's fatherly love for Colin was awakened, and he also found the long-lost happiness.

The full text is composed of dozens of long and short letters written by Qiao Ruosa to Daddy Long-Legs, thus showing how a girl who grew up in a long-term repressive environment has self-esteem, self-love, and self-improvement, and finally the process of her talent being recognized and getting love. This book is essentially a woman's personal growth history.

Ken Follett, author of "Fall of Giants" and master of all-night novels, has a new work! At the end of the 18th century, the British Industrial Revolution was quietly rewriting the world structure. Machines replaced manual work, factories swallowed up villages, and war spread across Europe. Technology is running wild, beliefs are being torn apart, old systems are collapsing, and a new era has yet to come. In such great changes of the times, a tenacious female textile worker, a small workshop owner who sympathizes with the workers, and a cloth merchant who survives in the cracks - they come from the bottom of society, but they struggle, fight, fall in love, and betray each other, looking for value and dignity under the rolling wheel of history. They failed to change history, but with the power of fighting against fate, they jointly wrote an epic that belongs to mortals. Ken Follett, with his usual profound writing power, outlines the pain and hope of social transformation, and tells how ordinary people struggling in the center of the storm become the masters of their destiny.

A tear-jerking work comparable to "Coco", it is written for all of you and me who were once children, to understand the life that our mother has never told; the famous writer Bi Shumin wrote a loving preface, and was recommended by the queen of talk show Oprah in her special episode. "Almost everyone, no matter how happy they may appear on the outside, has a small place deep inside them where they hold a loved one who has passed away and longs to be reunited one day." - Mitch Albom. Let a long-dead relative spend another day with you. Only one day. If you can do it, do you need such an opportunity? The opportunity, at an awkward moment, fell to Charles Bennett. The retired baseball player could no longer find any reason to live amidst the frustration and alcohol consumption - his career was on the wall, his marriage was broken, he was addicted to alcohol, and his family was betrayed and separated. Even his daughter's wedding was unwilling to let him show up... Charles had the idea of ​​​​suicide. He thought that as long as a high-speed car and a selfless run, he could wave goodbye without taking away a single cloud. However, in the flash of lightning, his physical body wandered between this place and the other side; when he suddenly woke up, he actually saw his mother who died unexpectedly many years ago. Mitch Albom's perception of life is like an ever-growing seed. It sprouted in "Tuesday", drew a long arc in "Five People You Meet in Heaven", and firmly took root in "Reborn in a Day". The soil is the state of the world and the human heart, and the root is love.

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The death of any one leaves me somewhat deficient, for I am inseparable from mankind; so never ask for whom the bell tolls; for you the bell tolls. --John Donne (British poet) "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is one of Hemingway's major works. Robert Jordan, an American young man, volunteered to join the Spanish government army and engage in blasting activities behind enemy lines. In order to cooperate with the counterattack, he was ordered to contact local guerrillas to complete the task of blowing up the bridge. In the midst of the raging war, he fell in love with Maria, a little girl who had been raped by the enemy, thereby smoothing out the trauma in Maria's soul. In three days, Robert experienced the conflict between love and duty and the test of life and death, and his humanity continued to sublimate. On the way to retreat after the bridge was blown up, he gave up his hope of survival to others, but his thigh was broken by a cannonball. He stayed alone to stop the enemy, and finally gave his young life for the Spanish people.

A masterpiece by "Master of Storytelling" Somerset Maugham, a classic translation by famous translator Fu Weici, and highly recommended as "a good book". The British painter in the novel is based on the French post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin. The protagonist was originally a successful securities broker, but became obsessed with painting after reaching middle age. He suddenly abandoned his home and went to Paris to pursue the ideal of painting. He finally chose to abandon the civilized world and fled to the isolated island of Tahiti in the South Pacific. There he finally found the tranquility of his soul and the atmosphere suitable for his artistic temperament, and created one artistic masterpiece after another that shocked later generations. Through the life experiences of such a geek who devoted himself to the pursuit of art and was ignorant of the world, Maugham deeply explored the origin and essence of art, the relationship between personality and genius, as well as the contradictions and interactions between artists and society, art and life, and other thought-provoking issues.

"The Story of a Donkey's Skin" has a magical and realistic color that is rare in Balzac's works. It is a classic philosophical novel that combines criticism, reality, and symbolism. At the beginning of his creation, Balzac aimed to bring together his personal life experience and philosophical thoughts to respond to the changes in society at that time - "Money is the only God." The book visualizes the contradiction between desire and life as a donkey skin. With this donkey skin, all your wishes can be fulfilled, but each time the donkey skin shrinks a little, until it disappears and your life is over. The person who owns the donkey skin is lucky, he can get everything, but he is also unlucky, because in the face of death, he dares not ask for anything. "Donkey Skin" made Balzac, who had been writing silently for 10 years, become a best-selling author in one fell swoop. Three years later, we began to build on this "Human Comedy", which is truly a foundation work.

"Laughter in the Dark" was written in Berlin in 1932 under the title "Camera Obscura". It was published in Paris and Berlin. It was translated into English by Way Loy in 1936 and published in London under its original name. In 1938, it was significantly revised and re-translated by Nabokov himself and published in New York under the name "Laughter in the Dark". The novel imitates the kind of cheap love triangle stories popular in movies in the 1920s and 1930s. It uses the movie as its title at the beginning to introduce the relationship between the main characters. The actor Obinus wants to use the new technique of animation to "animate" the paintings of ancient masters, and proposes to cooperate with the caricature painter Rex. Obinas fell in love with the theater usher Margot at first sight. Margot, who was "obsessed with watching movies," dreamed of becoming a movie star. When she was convinced that he belonged to a class that could "provide the conditions for her to be on stage and screen," she decided to associate with him. The banquet hosted by Obinas to entertain the stars creates an opportunity for Margot to reunite with her former lover Rex, thus forming a triangle relationship until the novel ends in tragedy.

"Members of the Wedding" is considered McCullers' most mature work, "the loneliest song of the soul", "a small book that cannot add or subtract a word". The novel is set in a southern town in Georgia, revolves around a wedding, and tells the story of the 12-year-old girl Frankie's four-day summer experience. The main theme conveyed is that every lonely person is locked in their own inner space, unable to have any meaningful communication.

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American young man Larry once participated in World War I and witnessed the ruthlessness and cruelty of war, so he was confused about life. After the war, Larry was eager to seek the value and meaning of life. He broke off his engagement with his fiancée, wandered around Paris, and traveled around the world from Paris. Later, he had an epiphany in the mysteries of Indian religion and had a great sense of enlightenment about life. Then he returned to the United States and lived a life of "hermitism in the city". Maugham vividly describes Larry's journey of searching for the meaning of life, revealing the contradiction between spiritual pursuit and materialism. The protagonist Larry is based on the philosopher Wittgenstein, vividly and profoundly showing the mental journey of Western intellectuals searching for the meaning of life.

This novel is first of all a satirical work, a "slander", and its object of ridicule is the various evil habits in the British literary world at that time represented by Driffield (alluding to Hardy - although Maugham once publicly denied it) and Arroy Gere (alluding to Hugh Walpole) in the book, just like a British "The Scholars". "Bi Hua Chai Video" is also a hymn, praising Driffield's ex-wife and the heroine Lucy in the book: this image of the charming Earth Mother can be called the most charming female character in Maugham's works. This image has been haunting the author for decades. In his mind, he had long thought about writing it into his own works but struggled with the opportunity. It was not until the writing of "Bi Huachai Video Recording" that this long-awaited opportunity finally came into being; Maugham himself also frankly admitted that this was the most touching female image he had ever created.

During a chance visit, Fritz fell in love with the 12-year-old girl Sophie. She is not beautiful, she is not religious, she likes to laugh. In just fifteen minutes, she came like a mysterious and transcendent force and became his wisdom, his spiritual guide, and his blue flower. Because of love, an ordinary girl may become an eternal star in a man's heart and start his romantic life. The novel is based on the early experience of the German poet Novalis and imagines the legendary life of the Blue Flower poet. The encounter with Sophie became a turning point in his life and creation. Throughout his short life, he was always pursuing the immortal and fleeting blue flower.

Verne published the novel "Road to France" in 1887. The writing style is bright and simple, vividly reproducing the customs and customs of the Alsace region. The two translators are both senior translators of Verne and have published 7 translations of Verne in our agency. Their language is fluent and close to Verne's writing style.