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Natsume Soseki's classic masterpiece was lovingly translated by the famous translator Lin Shaohua. The novel "Heart" is a rare masterpiece among modern Japanese literary works, and it is still among the ten most popular works among Japanese middle school students. "I" met a "Mr." And later received a long letter from "Mr." ("Mr." Was no longer alive at that time). The letter told that "Mr." And his friend K fell in love with the landlord's beautiful only daughter when they were in college. "Sir" designed K to commit suicide, and he got his wish. But after marriage, she often suffered from conscience and moral condemnation, and finally committed suicide.

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The fourteen short stories included in this book extensively explore the problems women encounter in their growth from women's experiences and perspectives, including rape, extramarital affairs, obesity, childbirth and other real-life encounters closely related to women. With her extremely original and restrained writing style, Atwood splices together fragments of fantasy, humor and even violence, and uses realism, inner monologue and montage to reveal the complexity of human relationships through her stories, injecting life into her characters that deeply touch readers, evoking fear and laughter, empathy and recognition, and showing the increasingly complex inner world of women in modern society and their disparate moods when facing the external world dominated by men.

"Old age is not a battle; old age is a massacre." Philip Roth's late masterpiece, which describes the grief, anger and helplessness of the ordinary world, has been highly recommended by many authoritative European and American book review media. The title "Mortal" comes from a medieval morality play that tells the story of a "mortal"'s deathbed experience when he is summoned by death. Roth's "Mortal" is a story about loss and regret, illness and death. The protagonist of the novel was once the creative director of an advertising company in New York. He had three failed marriages, two sons who hated him and a daughter who loved him. He also has a good brother who always takes care of him, and his healthy body even makes him jealous. From witnessing his first death at the beach in the summer of his childhood, to his vigorous career success as an adult, several marriages and family reunions, to his old age when he watched his contemporaries wither away and suffered from repeated illnesses, loneliness and powerlessness became the themes of his life. This is the life of the "mortal" described by Roth, which is frank, profound, and of universal significance.

The novel narrates the tragedy of the life of rural young Jude in a tragic tone. Jude was diligent and studious, but was rejected by the university because of his poor background. He broke through the shackles of religion, regardless of worldly views, and firmly married his cousin Sue. However, he was not tolerated by the church and despised by the world. In the end, his love and dreams were shattered, and he died of illness in despair and loneliness. This work reflects the moral and religious prejudices of ordinary poor people represented by Jude as a typical representative, as well as the social tragedy under the legal and educational systems at that time. It effectively attacks the moral concepts and marriage system of the Victorian era, and has far-reaching significance.

The novel describes Grandet's family life - the cunning, greedy, stingy and cruel upstart father Grandet, his daughter Eugenie who longs for love but is indifferent to money, and Eugenie's cousin Charles, a vain, cruel and greedy Parisian swinger. It revolves around Eugenie's love tragedy and tells a story about how money destroys humanity and causes family tragedy. This book is "one of the most outstanding pictures" in the "Human Comedy" series by French critical realist writer Balzac. Grandet is one of the four classic images of a miser in the history of world literature.

Natsume Soseki's classic masterpiece was lovingly translated by the famous translator Lin Shaohua. "Brother" uses the various dramatic conflicts between an unsophisticated, frank and upright reckless brother and the vulgar people around him after he enters society. It denounces despicability, power and hypocrisy, and praises justice, straightforwardness and innocence. It combines the countryside with harmony, making it full of fun.

"Wen Shu Chao" is a collection of short stories written by Junichiro Tanizaki during his artistic maturity. "Wen Shusho" takes the decline of the Toyotomi family as the background, and through a blind mage's narration of Ishida Mitsunari's daughter, it outlines for readers the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's nephew and adopted son - Toyotomi Hideji. According to legend, he was bloodthirsty, violent and cruel, and was known as "Kuan Bai". His life experience is like a gorgeous but cruel picture of hell. The work depicts the beauty of women through the perspective of a blind mage, relying only on smell and touch, which is also a characteristic of Tanizaki's works. In addition to the title "Wen Shu Chao", this book also includes three works: "Three Masters", "The Case of the Lacquer Miner of Kii Province Possessed by a Fox", and "The Case of the Man Who Became a Tengu in the Sea".

"I Am a Cat" is the representative and famous work of Japan's "national master" Natsume Soseki, which has a profound influence on Japanese literature. The writing angle of "I Am a Cat" is very novel. It observes the people and things around it from the perspective of a cat.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is a masterpiece of war novels. The protagonist Paul Boymer and his classmates were incited by chauvinist education and joined the First World War with "patriotic enthusiasm". He witnessed the horrific casualties and the devastation of war on humanity. The initial enthusiasm was gone, leaving only physical and mental pain and doubts about militarism. "Idealism" cannot resist the brutal fighting. Disillusioned, their only motivation is to survive, and their spiritual support is the friendship formed during the war. This book was translated by Qiu Yuanwei, a teacher from the German Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University, based on the German classic version. The translation is faithful, smooth, vivid and vivid.

During a thrilling sea voyage, the ship Robinson was riding sank unexpectedly. He fought against strong winds and huge waves, and finally came to an uninhabited island. In order to survive, he overcame various difficulties that were difficult for ordinary people to overcome. He built residences and boats alone, hunted, fished, raised animals, and rescued captives who were being chased... Finally, he was rescued, bid farewell to the desert island where he had lived for more than 20 years, and returned to the UK on the ship. This book is the representative work of Daniel Defoe, the "father of British novels", and the pioneer of British realist novels. The positive attitude towards overcoming difficulties advocated in the book still has great reference significance today.

"Wuthering Heights" is known as "the Sphinx in literature" and "the most magnificent epic of human love" in the history of British literature. It is "an outstanding work whose brilliance has not been obscured by the dust of time." "Wuthering Heights" is Emily Bronte's masterpiece. The protagonist of the story, Heathcliff, is an abandoned child who was adopted by the old Mr. Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights. Here he was jealous of and enmity with the young master Hendry because of his favor, but he had a deep relationship with his sister Catherine and fell deeply in love with him. After the death of old Earnshaw, Hendry demoted Heathcliff to a slave and persecuted him. Catherine was influenced by the concept of family status and married Edgar of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff was hit by this and ran away from home. Three years later, he returned to Wuthering Heights as a wealthy gentleman and began his revenge plan...

"Pride and Prejudice" is Jane Austen's masterpiece. This work uses daily life as the material. It goes against the content and artificial writing methods of sentimental novels that were popular in the society at that time. It vividly reflects the conservative and closed-off British rural life and world conditions from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century. Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. The novel takes the tortuous and complicated marriage turmoil of the two heroines as the main line, and raises issues of moral and behavioral norms through the humorous comparison of "reason and emotion". Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. Emma, ​​the protagonist of "Emma", is a beautiful, intelligent and wealthy girl, and she is also an out-and-out dreamer. She enthusiastically pays attention to the romantic stories around her, but stubbornly believes that she will never fall into them. She took it upon herself to direct love affairs again and again for the orphan Harriet. When Harriet mistakenly thought she was in love with the magistrate Mr. Knightley, Emma was shocked to realize that she was also in love with Mr. Knightley. Although this was contrary to the vow she had announced from the beginning that she would never marry, she had to give up her innocent vow when she fell in love. "Sanditon" This book includes Austen's unfinished novel "Sanditon" and the novella "Lady Susan". "Sanditon" was Austen's final work, and she died after writing only twelve chapters. "Lady Susan" is one of Austen's early epistolary novels. It describes the widow Lady Susan's plan to find a new husband for herself and also decides to marry off her daughter, which fully demonstrates Austen's satirical characteristics. In addition, this book fully demonstrates her accurate grasp of the character's psychology and has an unexpected Austen-style ending.

This book is based on a real event. It mainly describes the male protagonist Nekhlyudov seducing his aunt's maid Maslova, making her pregnant and driving her out of the house. Later, she became a prostitute and was tried for murder. The hero appeared in court as a juror and was deeply condemned by his conscience when he saw the woman he had seduced in the past. He ran to avenge her and asked to marry her to atone for his sins. After his appeal failed, he accompanied her into exile in Siberia. His actions touched her and made her fall in love with him again. But in order not to damage his reputation and status, she finally did not marry him and married a revolutionary.

"Tess of the d'Urbervilles" (Tess of the d'Urbervilles) is one of the series of "Masterpieces of World Literature in Chinese Translation" and is Hardy's representative work. Story: The heroine Tess was born into a poor peddler's family. Her father, John Derby, accidentally heard that his family was the descendant of the ancient nobleman Deb, and he became so proud that he decided to let his daughter go to a rich old woman's house to seek relatives in order to get financial help. After Tess went there, she was seduced by the old woman's son, Alley, and she left after becoming pregnant. The child died after birth. A few years later, while working on a dairy farm, Tess met Angel Clare, the pastor's son, and the two fell in love and got engaged. Tess wanted to tell him several times that she had been raped by Alec. A few days before her wedding, she wrote a long letter telling Claire about the past. She stuffed the letter under the door into Clay's room but stuffed it under the carpet, so Claire didn't see it. Claire only learned about Tess's experience on their wedding night, and he failed to forgive her. The two separated, Clay went to Brazil to develop his career, and Tess was still working on some farms to make ends meet. But fate allowed her to meet again, Alec Deb, who had already put on the black robe of a priest. For the sake of her mother and younger siblings, Tess was forced to live with Alec. Soon, Claire returned from Brazil, found her wife and expressed regret for her past ruthlessness. Tess believed that it was Alec d'Urberville who made her lose Claire for the second time and ruined her happiness. She killed Alec. After five happy, content days with Claire, Tess is arrested and hanged.

Martin Amis's masterpiece, "a literary master dipped in enchantment," was nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. The ugly crimes of Nazi war criminals in World War II are reproduced in flashbacks: concentration camps, Jewish ghettos, human experiments... Every detail described is shocking, and every word is filled with anger! "Time's Arrow: The Nature of the Crime" tells the life of Nazi war criminal Todd Friendly in flashback. He "rewinds" his life from the moment he is about to die, to his seemingly respectable life as a doctor in his later years, to the heinous crimes he committed in Auschwitz as a youth, to his birth, marriage, adolescence, and finally his return to his mother's womb and his impending death. He followed the entire world in rewind, "eating" in the toilet, waiting for letters to be "born" from the flames, injuring people turned into healing wounds, shooting civilians turned into saving lives, burning corpses turned into returning souls, dismembering living bodies turned into regenerating people... This book once again reveals to us that extremely cruel and shocking dark history in a seemingly humorous way, and completely subverts the reading experience of readers. Among the works describing the Nazis, "Time's Arrow: The Nature of Crime" opens up astonishing and profound insights for us.

"Gulliver's Travels" is a novel that combines satire and adventure. In the fictional country of these authors, there are strong traces of the British society in the 18th century. Through the protagonist's travels through different countries, the author reveals the various contradictions in British society at that time and makes a bitter satire on the British political system. Because he encountered a storm during a sea voyage, the surgeon Gulliver accidentally broke into a strange place, and his incredible adventure began: he encountered a war in the Lilliputian country, successfully defeated the enemy and became a hero worshiped by thousands of people; he was treated as a doll in the adult country, and he escaped with a narrow escape; in the flying island country, the strange phenomenon of black self-inversion and confusion of right and wrong makes people laugh and cry... The story is full of whimsical ideas, which makes people laugh and think at the same time. The focus and innuendo on real life also won "Gulliver's Travels" a high honor, making it one of the representative works of British satirical novels.

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 fourth volume includes the following four short story collections: "Mrs. Yu Song's Chaste Boy", "The Left Hand", "Empty Beauty" and "Misty". Published from 1888 to 1890. This volume collects Maupassant's later works. As the "king of short stories", Maupassant analyzed the customs and customs of French society at that time with his capable writing style and keen eyesight.

"A Wanderings in France" is a travelogue written by Henry James. It is a record of the author's travels in France in 1882. At that time, James visited nearly forty places in France from north to south. He had mixed praise and criticism for France, and he freely commented on these places with his own likes and dislikes and the style of a novelist. The grapes in the south were harvested, and he couldn't help but admire the beautiful scenery of the vineyards dressed in October red; the Loire River was majestic and full of scenery, and its bends slowly reflected half of the skylight. At the same time, he also spent a lot of space recording filthy hotels, musty museums, substandard churches, boring cultural relics, etc.

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The movie of the same name ranked first in both the imdb top 250 and the douban movie top 250. This book is Stephen King's beloved masterpiece, collecting four of his novellas. As soon as its English version was released, it topped the New York Times bestseller list and sold 280,000 copies in the United States that year. The book has been translated into thirty-one languages, and three of the four novels have been adapted into blockbuster movies. The most talked about among them is "The Shawshank Redemption", which was nominated for seven Academy Awards and is hailed as one of the perfect films in the history of cinema. This novel demonstrates Stephen King's extraordinary skills beyond the thriller genre that he is good at. The other two novels in the book, "The Nazi Disciple" and "The Corpse" also won good reputations after being made into movies. Among them, "The Corpse" is also regarded as Stephen King's most autobiographical work.

Jack London is a famous American realist writer who enjoys a high status in modern American literature and world literature. He is good at using the actions of characters to express themes and ideas. The characters have distinctive personalities, the plots are compact, and the writing is concise and vivid, with considerable appeal. He loved struggle and adventure throughout his life and wrote more than 50 short stories, novels and stories. Many of them can be called classics of short stories, providing vivid material for people to understand Americans and their characters.

"I have no fight with the world, and I don't want to fight with anyone; I love art, second only to my love for nature." During World War I, Larry served in the British Air Force and wanted "power and honor far beyond the world." However, the death of his comrade made him realize how short life is. Later, Larry did not go to college, get married, or work in the industry. He made the world his home and explored the meaning and ideals of his life. He just wants to live in the sea and pursue the stars in his soul.

"The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles" is the most dazzling and fascinating pinnacle of the complete Sherlock Holmes series. The novel revolves around the fateful legend spread between an ancient family and a supernatural hound in a remote and desolate manor in the countryside of England. It depicts people's greed for wealth and the insidious and vicious methods of trying to possess it. It also shows the intertwining of family affection, good and evil, love and hate.

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This book takes the lives of four pirates as the main axis and vividly reproduces the historical scenes known as the Golden Decade of Piracy (1715-1725); the author attempts to reconstruct the image of pirates in the eyes of civilians in the colonies and its relationship with the American Revolution.

It is a must-read for business elites and politicians in Japan and South Korea, and a must-read for education! Wang Shi and Wang Wei wrote the preface, and Wu Xiaobo, Qin Shuo, and Wu Bofan jointly recommended it. After Nero's death, there was no longer a lineage of divine kings to inherit the vast Roman Empire. In the chaotic year 69 AD, the military took control of the political power. Three people were elected by the legions and proclaimed themselves emperors. The Germanic and Jewish peoples also took the opportunity to strive for independence. The turmoil of the civil war and the uncertainty of the throne made Roman citizens tired. Their enthusiasm was gone and they looked coldly at the world that was about to collapse. Under this series of tests, can Rome be reborn from the ashes?

European civilization in the 27 years from 1789 to 1815 belonged to Napoleon's century. Napoleon was an unprecedented dictator, but paradoxically, he devoted his life to seeking order for France after the liberal riots. After his death, he once again became a son of the revolution, an enemy of absolutism and aristocracy, a symbol of the riots, and a moderate spokesman who constantly demanded freedom. Hegel believed that he was a world force with the meaning of transforming fragmentation into wholeness and chaos into profoundness. This zeitgeist is necessary to maintain order and end individualism, abuse of freedom and broken rule. From this perspective, Napoleon was a progressive force. Europe moved forward for half a century under his 15-year rule.

"Historical Records" is China's first biographical general history. The book is divided into ten tables, eight books, twelve annals, thirty aristocratic families, and seventy biographies, recording a history of more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to the Yuanshouyuan period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It not only records the deeds and important historical events of important historical figures from all walks of life, but also involves important discussions on the ritual and music system, astronomy and military laws, social economy, river geography and other aspects. Together with the later "Hanshu", "Houhanshu" and "Three Kingdoms", it is called the "First Four Histories". This edition is a hardcover collection. It selects the wonderful parts of the original text of "Historical Records", provides precise translations and annotations, and phoneticizes rare words for barrier-free reading.

Benjamin once said that all great literary works are exceptions, and Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is among the most unfathomable of these exceptions. This seven-volume masterpiece is known as "the most beautiful text and the most difficult to read novel". It is a symbol of French literature. It has an incredible synthesis of its own, which combines the cohesion of a mystic, the skill of a master of prose, the edge of a satirist, the learned memory of a scholar and the self-awareness of a paranoid in an autobiographical work, and it is written with great interest. It seems that there has never been a work with such rich and complex beauty, but at the same time so clear and elegant.

"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. 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.

The final masterpiece of Japanese literary master Yasushi Inoue's life won the Noma Prize for Literature and Art, and was hailed as a "little historical pearl". As a teacher, why did Confucius travel around the world? Confucius is like a vagabond, why can he attract so many fans? When did Confucius start to have the idea of ​​"governing the world"? How could Confucius stand out in such troubled times where the smoke of war and the collapse of rituals and music were ruined? Why did the Analects of Confucius become a required book for kings from generation to generation? Why can Confucius' thoughts become the "Bible" of the vast East for more than two thousand years? One question: What is the core secret of Confucius becoming "Confucius"?

"Lakeside of Lamp" is a new novel by Japanese young novelist Nanae Aoyama. It is a story about persistence and escape, confinement and growth. Kume Touko is nicknamed by her friends as \

The young girl Carrie White lives in a single-parent family. Her mother, Margaret White, is a fervent Christian who paranoidly believes that women must maintain extreme purity. Margaret has restricted Carrie's growth since she was a child. Not only did she neglect to provide her with physical guidance, but she also intensified her restrictions on her various freedoms, causing Carrie, who was of average stature and appearance, to develop a withdrawn and autistic character. Carrie did not experience menarche until she was sixteen years old. When she was helpless and asked for help from her classmates, she was laughed at crazily by them. And this is just an episode in their habit of teasing and bullying Carrie. But what is unexpected is that Carrie has the ability to control objects with her mind. Carrie, who cannot bear the insult, slowly learns to use this super power to fight back in self-defense. Once, due to the kindness of her classmates and teachers, Carrie was invited by a handsome boy to attend a high school graduation prom. Unexpectedly, when the prom reached its climax, she was cruelly teased by her classmates who had malicious intentions towards her. In grief and anger, Carrie used her powerful ability to control objects with her mind to turn the prom, the campus and even the entire town into a living hell...

A heartwarming and "healing" work by Shoji Shimada, the master of Japanese reasoning! The ultimate meaning of reasoning is not to solve the puzzle, but to redeem the desperate heart. The fearless sacrifice for strangers and the devotion of family members that melt away all resentment in the world. The "God of Reasoning" integrates selfless love into exquisitely designed reasoning, which is majestic, warm and moving. Meeting someone by chance can provide you with unforgettable warmth. The overlap of cups and plates reveals the obsession and relief deep in history and emotions. Mystery writer Ishioka was invited by female college student Satomi to attend classes at an English conversation school. He met a lonely old man Ohtawara, and the three became close friends. Ohtawara, who has a gentle temperament but behaves strangely, mysteriously disappeared after hosting Ishioka and Satomi at a Christmas Eve banquet. A series of confusing events followed. Mitarai, a famous overseas detective, came to help, and a sad past event surfaced...

This book is one of the 007 collection series and was adapted into the movie "Dr. No". In the novel, the British government sends Bond to Jamaica to investigate a missing intelligence officer. After several investigations, Bond discovers that the case is related to Dr. No on Crab Point Island. With the help of the locals, Bond sneaked into Crab Point Island and met the beautiful wasteland beauty Honey. After evading pursuit and being unfortunately captured, Bond entered the mysterious world created by Dr. No and discovered Dr. No's shocking conspiracy - a technical intelligence center capable of controlling global missile launches to threaten countries around the world and then control the world. At this moment, what awaits Bond is an extremely horrific death test designed by Dr. No for him and Honey.

Colonel Bardas Loredan, an outstanding court swordsman and feared by the prairie people, came to the small island of Scona. At this time, he could only survive under the protection of his brother and eldest sister. As the struggle between the small island and the big conglomerate escalates, the three siblings each have their own plans, plus the islander brothers and sisters with keen business sense, the former city-state college dean who relies on others, and the loyal and capable assistant who always cares about Badas... Everyone, either voluntarily or forced, invariably makes the situation more and more chaotic. In this birthplace of the invincible scorching sun, no one realizes that Yuan Principle is above all else, and uses powers they cannot understand. Some of the costs are immediately visible, while others are waiting for them in the distant future.

To escape his brother, Bardas Loredon took a job in the Empire. In order to reunite with his brother again, Gorgos Loreden invaded his hometown and asked the empire for a chance to be close to his brother in exchange for offering his country. The empire swallows everything, and the torrent of destiny will correct itself. The dead dean of the city-state academy, the leader of the prairie people who had no way to seek revenge, the islander brother and sister who accidentally reversed history, the Loredan elder sister who could foresee the future, and Bardas Loredan who should have died... Under this powerful and ruthless force, everyone returned to their place. Is there still a chance for Gorgos, who longs to be reunited, to find his brother?

He fought, drank, sold his soul, made pacts with the devil... But he was the greatest writer in the world.

"My Sixteenth Concerto," he said to me with a smile, and I could just see him in the dim light of the cell, "for now, I think it should be called an unfinished piece."

"Secret" is a classic collection of novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aestheticism, including "Swastika", "Secret", "A Certain Motive for Crime" and other short and medium-sized novels. The novella "" uses the criss-cross meaning of the Japanese character "" to symbolize the intricate emotional relationship between two men and two women in the novel; the short stories "Secret" and "Some Motive for Crime" both have elements and colors of suspense reasoning. The former tells the story of "I" living in seclusion in a temple and the failure of pursuing "another world", while the latter is the psychological confession of a prisoner. The world of Tanizaki's novels is full of absurdity and weirdness, seeking beauty in ugliness, affirming goodness in praise, and thinking about the meaning of survival in death. The three novels all reflect Junichiro Tanizaki's aesthetic concepts very well and are permeated with his strong awareness of human emotions and psychology. Whether it is the Miyuki world that expresses demonism and "ugliness is beautiful", or the oriental culture that pursues Japanese classical beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki's works are permeated with a strong sense of human emotions and psychology. Yukio Mishima once evaluated Tanizaki Junichiro's works as "the peonies blooming brilliantly against the gloomy background of naturalistic literature".

Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, is a representative figure of existential literature and "absurd philosophy". His writing style is concise, bright and simple. His literary works always contain both the philosopher's serious thinking about life and the artist's strong passion. This set includes three Camus masterpieces: "The Stranger", "The Plague" and "The Myth of Sisyphus", all of which have had a huge impact in Europe and the United States.

This is a collection of Maugham's many short stories, including "Rain", "Honolulu", and "The Fall of Edward Barnard", a total of thirty pieces. The background of the novel ranges from the United Kingdom to France, Spain, and to the coast of the South Pacific. It interprets one wonderful and unforgettable story after another. It not only reflects Maugham's superb short story skills, but also provides a calm and objective analysis of human nature.

"In the Bamboo Forest" is one of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's masterpieces. It was later adapted into a movie by the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and renamed "Rashomon", which won it a worldwide reputation. The plot of the novel is very simple. A samurai couple encountered a robber on the road. The husband lost his life and the wife disappeared after being humiliated. What is the truth? The accounts given by those involved and bystanders differed greatly. Everyone is beautifying themselves for their own benefit. In the author's opinion, the truth is lost in the darkness of human nature and cannot be explored...

"Pillow" is a collection of essays written by Seishonagon, a female writer during the Heian period in Japan, and has been handed down for thousands of years. "Pillow" and "The Tale of Genji" are both regarded as the two masterpieces of Japanese classical literature; together with "The Book of the Hojo" and "The Tale of Turancao", they are also regarded as Japan's three major essays. The content of "Pillow" can be roughly divided into three categories: first, clustering. List things such as "pleasant", "rare", "unfortunate", "elegant", "cute", "visible" and other things, following the same category, but expanded, and including mountains, rivers, vegetation, some beautiful and some ugly, quite subtle; the second is a diary. After the death of Queen Dingzi, during the years when Qing Shao Nayan left the palace, he recalled the old events in the palace and was deeply moved, so he wrote them down. The third is his reflections. Plants, trees, insects and fish, the changing seasons, old people and acquaintances, and the things seen in the palace all arouse Qing Shao Nayan's emotions and emotions.

A collection of Zhou Zuoren's leisurely and beautiful sketches, a unique autobiographical anthology of Zhou Zuoren's works, each chapter is classic and every word is warm. The old trees are painted with great affection, and the ink and wash reproduce the sentiments of Mr. Jiang from the Republic of China. Mr. Zhou Zuoren's relatives authorize the publication to be published. Reading one article can reveal one's mood, and reading one book can lead to a lifetime of elegance. Mr. Zhou Zuoren advocates naturalness and tolerance, and his writing style is natural, leisurely and quiet. "Don't Forget the Elegance of This Life" carefully extracts the essence of Mr. Zhou Zuoren's 7 million words in his complete works. It is divided into six parts: Tea Talk, Investigating Things, Talking About Life, Remembering People, Recalling the Past, and Discussing the World. It uniquely creates a collection of sketches with the flavor of Mr. Zhou Zuoren's autobiography. The book includes Zhou Zuoren's representative classics such as "Wild Vegetables in My Hometown" and "The Tower on the Cross Street", as well as less frequently published emotional essays such as "First Love", "Ruozi's Death" and so on.

This book is Tagore's two most famous poetry collections. Its wise words, profound observations, and beautiful prose can still resonate spiritually with today's readers.

"The Scream" is a collection of fourteen short stories written by Lu Xun from 1918 to 1922. The work truly depicts the social landscape from the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th period, mercilessly lashes out at the various shortcomings of the feudal system and feudal ethics, makes a profound summary of the experience and lessons since the Revolution of 1911, conducts a comprehensive analysis of personal tragedies in the period of social change, and shows a keen concern for the national spirit and a strong desire for social change.