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Buck is a pet dog of Judge Miller's family. He was trafficked to the cold, remote and gold-rich Alaska in the northern United States and became a sled dog. In order to survive, Buck gradually adapted to the harsh natural environment and various greedy owners. After experiencing a series of life-and-death fights, the murder of his benefactor, and other events, Buck finally responded to his inner call, walked into the wilderness, returned to nature, and became the king of wolves. The American novelist Jack London shows us a vast wild world. While revealing the power of wildness and the courage to survive, he also expresses his disappointment in civilization and his thoughts on human nature.

"To Build a Fire" is a short story published by American writer Jack London in 1907. It tells the tragedy of a gold digger who froze to death in an extremely cold environment because he ignored the laws of nature. It is regarded as a classic of naturalistic literature. Through the comparison between humans and dogs, the novel reveals the fragility of human reason in the face of natural forces, and criticizes industrial civilization's arrogance towards nature.

In the 24th century, human beings are successively sent to a different world game --- [Nightmare]. In the nightmare game, a huge World Tree rises from the ground, and each leaf is a thrilling and weird copy. Only by letting all the leaves of the World Tree fall can people return to the real human world. As the highest level GM - [HX-1], Shang Yirou said that not only was she not stressed at all, she even felt like laughing... [System]: "Congratulations on successfully logging into the survival game. Here, let us open the door to a new world together!" Shang Yirou: "Oh." [System]: "Congratulations, dear [HX-1], you have successfully entered the Nightmare Game Hall of Fame!" Shang Yirou: "Haha." [System]: "Dear [HX-1], your position as the first manager will be replaced." Shang Yirou: "He is not worthy..." [System]: "By the way, that person is Ji Chao." Wait... Ji Chao? ! * [GM Sister Sa X Loose Player] "Girls, spring is here, and flower seeds have been sown in the Lost Realm. We will finish the stories that were left unfinished in the winter in the spring."

The story takes place in the southern United States and tells the story of a group of people. Apart from being very lonely, they seemed to have little in common. A young girl, a drunken man, and a black doctor are attracted to the gentle, compassionate deaf-mute John Singer, whose presence changes their lives.

"Affinity" was published in 1809. It is another profound and rich masterpiece after "The Sorrows of Young Werther". This book mainly tells the emotional entanglement between two men and women. Edward and Charlotte went through many twists and turns until they finally got married in middle age. After marriage, they lived a quiet and happy life in the countryside. One day, the calmness was broken by the arrival of the husband's friend and the wife's niece. An unexpected recombination occurred between the four people, which ultimately led to the tragic ending of the men's exile and the women's loneliness. The author successfully combines the unique arrangement of details, rigorous logical reasoning, romantic mystery and symbolic techniques. In particular, the author applies the principles of natural science to the humanistic society, using the chemical term "affinity" to describe the various relationships between the protagonists, which runs through the character relationships and plot throughout the novel.

"The Tremor of the Leaves" is a classic short story collection by the British novelist William Somerset Maugham. It includes six novels including "Macintosh", "The Fall of Edward Barnard", "Achi", "Pond", "Honolulu" and "Rain". These six novels are all set in the South Pacific island as beautiful as the Garden of Eden. As the background of the story, it tells the story of a leader who is not understood, a fiancé who wanders in a foreign land and refuses to look back, a captain who betrays his engagement, a white man who falls in love with a beautiful indigenous girl and dies for her, an indigenous girl who bravely saves her lover, and a man whose faith collapses due to temptation. In particular, the last piece "Rain" is Maugham's famous novel. Whether it is the creation of the plot or the characterization of the characters, it is qualified to be among the best novels in the world.

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a masterpiece by Mark Twain, the master of American humor literature. It is a novel full of children's interest. Tom Sawyer, this little American urchin, hates studying, fights and makes troubles, and does not follow the rules, but at the same time he is upright, kind, resourceful, and adventurous. His pursuit of a free and passionate life is deeply affecting. Late one night, while playing in a cemetery with his good friend Huckleberry Finn, Tom accidentally witnessed a murder. Fearing that the murderer would discover that they knew about it, Tom and Huckleberry fled with another friend to a desert island and became "pirates", making the family think they had been drowned. Instead they showed up at their own "funeral". After a fierce ideological struggle, Tom finally stood up bravely and testified against the murderer...

"Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel. It is no exaggeration to say that although it is Jane Austen's first novel, it is full of Jane Austen-style characteristics. These Austenian characteristics were fully developed in several of her later novels. It is these characteristics that make readers love her so much. All her novels outline the daily life of British women in the 19th century. Through the novel, readers can have a considerable understanding of the various court rulings at that time, and most of the cases were related to the relationship between men and women. Some readers have concluded that British society today is almost the same as British society in the 19th century. In addition, all her novels emphasize the importance of family life. After reading "Sense and Sensibility", a careful literary critic discovered that the deep relationship between Jane Austen and her beloved sister Cassandra in life was the spiritual source that inspired her to write the novel.

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"The Nightingale and the Rose" contains seven widely circulated and popular works by the British fairy tale master Oscar Wilde, including "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Happy Prince", "The Giant's Garden", "The Faithful Friend", "The Famous Rocket", "The Young King" and "The Star Child". Oscar Wilde's fairy tales are full of suspense and fascinating with gorgeous diction, vivid plots and twists and turns. Wilde's fairy tales are both beautiful stories for children and spiritual fables for adults. They were translated by Lin Huiyin, a famous talented woman in the Republic of China. The language is delicate and beautiful, the images are vivid, sad and elegant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The work uses the first-person voice and takes the experience of a person known as "Nine Deaths" as the main line. It records what he has seen, heard, and felt over the past 20 years, and outlines more than 200 "strange situations." In the work, the various characters that the protagonist has come into contact with for 20 years are divided into three categories: one is snakes, insects, rats and ants, the other is jackals, tigers and leopards, and the third is monsters and monsters, thus showing the dark reality of the late Qing Dynasty society from around the Sino-French War in the tenth year of Guangxu (1884) to around the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905).

"The Tale of the Heike" is a Japanese war-themed historical novel. It takes the historical chronology as the main axis and from the perspective of the Heike family, narrates in detail the entire process of the Genji and Heike families' struggle for power. This book excerpts and translates the wonderful chapters of "The Tale of the Heike" for readers to read and understand initially; it is also accompanied by a large number of exquisite illustrations, so that readers can have a deeper understanding of the plot of the story more intuitively while reading.

"Ulysses" is a novel published in 1922 by Irish stream-of-consciousness literary writer James Joyce. In chronological order, the novel describes the protagonist, a depressed and hesitant Dublin citizen, advertising salesman Leopold Bloom's various daily experiences in Dublin during one day and night on June 16, 1904. "Ulysses" is a representative work of stream-of-consciousness novels and is known as the first of the 100 best English novels of the 20th century. It is the most experimental and controversial work in modern British novels.

For eleven years, writer Nathan Zuckerman lived alone in the mountains of New England, living an isolated life. In order to treat the sequelae of prostate cancer surgery, he returned to the bustling city when he was over seventy years old. He walks along the streets of New York like a ghost who doesn't seem to exist at all. He re-encounters his idol in his youth, Amy Bellette, late-life lover of the late writer E. I. Ronov. She is old, suffering from brain cancer, and is in a sad state of desolation; he is attracted by a house-swapping advertisement and meets a young couple of writers. The elegant young woman Jamie rekindles his male passion. ; He was entangled by Richard Kliman, a young man who was preparing to write a biography of Lonoff, who revealed to him the secret that Lonoff had hidden his whole life... Aging, degradation, shame, disgust, sexual desire, politics, scandal, literature, rumors, voyeurism, "The Exiting Ghost" has multiple levels of interpretation. Ross's language is as sharp as a thorn, and there is a ironic humor in the coldness, and he has a tough guy temperament. The book's brutal honesty makes it an excellent conclusion to Nathan Zuckerman's series of literary adventures.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" mainly describes a story of revenge that took place during the French Bourbon Dynasty. Dantes, the young first mate of the Pharaon ship, was entrusted by the captain to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party before his death. He was framed by two despicable villains and the sinister prosecutor Villefort, and was put on death row, depriving him of the beautiful sunshine, love and future that should have belonged to him. Eighteen years later, he escaped from prison with the secret told to him by his fellow inmate Faria before his death. After finding the treasure hidden by Faria, he became extremely rich. From then on, he changed his name to the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor, punished three enemies who wanted to kill him, and repaid his kindness to his benefactor.

"As I Lay Dying" is one of Faulkner's classic works. The novel tells the story of farmer Ans, who, in accordance with his deceased wife's last wish, led his family to carry the coffin to his wife's family cemetery in Jefferson Town for burial. There were constant hardships along the way: the second son Dahl believed that the corpse was rotten and should be disposed of on the spot, so he set fire to the coffin and was treated as a lunatic and was sent to a lunatic asylum; the eldest son Cash broke a leg in order to save the coffin that fell into the water, and the increasingly heavy body odor attracted a large group of vultures. ; The third son Jewel lost his beloved horse; the daughter Del wanted to take the opportunity to go to the city to have an abortion, but was bullied by the clerk in the pharmacy; the mentally retarded younger son failed to get the toy train he longed for; only the father Ans got a pair of dentures and found a new wife. The literary world calls the novel "As I Lay Dying" the modern "Odyssey", which is an ironic epic and an absurd comedy.

"A Tale of Two Cities" is the representative work of Dickens, the master of critical literature. Under the pen of Dickens, the novel will interweave three independent but interrelated stories of injustice, love and revenge. Against the background of the French Revolution, scenes of family grudges are grandly staged, and good, evil, life and death are all blended in fierce conflicts. Whether they are upright and kind-hearted doctors or mean and proud aristocrats... These characters embody Dickens's sympathy for the lowly people and his contempt for the powerful, showing the two eternal themes of mankind - hatred and love.

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"Queen Oda" is a full-length historical novel written by Yasushi Inoue, a giant of Japanese literature in the 20th century. This work is translated and published for the first time. This is also a historical novel written by Yasushi Inoue, following "Yang Guifei", which was set in the eighth-century Tang Dynasty palace. It is set in the seventh-century Japanese palace and features a legendary Japanese aristocratic woman as the protagonist. Queen Oda, the only waka composer in the "Man'yoshu", Japan's earliest poetry collection, not only left behind twelve waka that have been praised for thousands of years, but also had a tortuous life, and had touching romances with two princes of the Yamato court. These two princes were the later Emperors Tenchi and Tenmu. Dahua reform, dispatching envoys to the Tang Dynasty, moving the capital several times, sending troops to the peninsula, defeating the Baicunjiang River, and the Renshen Rebellion, the historical trend is rolling forward. The life experience of Queen Etian, like Concubine Yang Guifei of the Tang Dynasty who lived slightly later than her, has aroused endless reveries in later generations.

There are nine volumes of carefully selected mystery works by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, including: "Silent Night of the Lambs", "The Black Lady", "The Disintegration of Causes", "The Man Who Died Seven Times", "Scottish Game", "The Night She Died", "The Substitute", "Dependence", and "Pity the Devil". A deeply reflective work by the talented writer Nishizawa Yasuhiko, recommended by the God of Mystery Shoji Shimada as a must-read.

The three letters that the rich man desperately left behind before his death turned into the perfect testimony for the high-intelligence murderer to be exonerated? An actress was killed on a rainy night. What was the mystery behind her last phone call? A man was shot dead in a group-rented apartment, but the gun-wielding lady captured at the scene was not the murderer? .........16 Complex and difficult puzzles, 16 exquisite reasonings. When the message before death is turned into a murder weapon by the murderer, can you use logical reasoning and work with the great detective Ellery Quinn to find out the final truth of the case?

On a closed and crowded tram, a person was poisoned to death with a strange weapon in full view of the public. It was pouring rain outside, but no trace was left at the scene. Everyone in the car was a suspect, but police could find no evidence. In desperation, the police asked Jerry Lane, the "Emperor of Drama", a retired actor who was proficient in reasoning and human nature for advice. After listening to the police's brief description, Lane immediately announced that he had locked the identity of the real murderer "X", but refused to announce his guess before gathering all the clues. Until on the closed ferry, the murder happened again in front of Ren's eyes. This time, the person who died turned out to be a key witness who claimed to have clues to the murderer... Faced with the murderer's exquisite plan that risked everything, can Renn really lock down the murderer's identity?

"Hyakuki Night Walk: Yin" contains ten short stories written by ordinary people who feed monsters in their hearts. It is the first collection of short stories in the Kyogokudo series, giving you a glimpse into the terrifying abyss hidden in daily life.

The protagonist is Kyogokudo, the owner of a used book store. He believes that "nothing is incredible in the world" and uses careful reasoning to solve various seemingly mysterious and strange events. The story combines folk customs, modern history and the subtleties of the human heart, creating a new pattern of "monster reasoning". The protagonist of "Wind" is the same as "A Hundred Utensils Bag of Use - Rain", the detective Enokizu Reijiro who never reasons or investigates. Because he can see other people's memories, any intricate crime cannot be hidden from him. "A Bag of Useless Weapons" is the last part of Toriyama Shiyan's collection of monster paintings. Various utensils turn into monsters. Toriyama himself said that it was "transformed by dreams." The painter's dream comes to life on the page, and people's memories burst into the detective's field of vision. It cannot but be said that there is some coincidence. Enokizu Reijiro has a bold and unrestrained personality and is good at making trouble. The first-person narrator of the story is "I" who was accidentally involved in various incidents. From "my" point of view, Enokizu is an extremely terrifying person and must be kept at a distance. The story is full of humor.

"Hundred Utensils of Vain Bag - Rain" is a three-part novella with one of the protagonists in the main story, Reijiro Enokizu, as the core character. In the main story, Enokizu relies on his special ability to see other people's memories, and works with Kyogokudo to break through obstacles and eliminate evil spirits. In this novella in which he is the protagonist, Kyogokudo takes a back seat and cooperates with Enokitsu's whimsical ideas for solving crimes to complete the three mystery stories of "Narukkama", "Bottle Chief" and "Shan Hao". Enokizu's performance in this work is more unrestrained and unrestrained, making people feel both happy and healed. The word "in vain" means "time passes slowly" in Japanese. Toriyama Shiyan named his monster atlas "Hundred Weapons in vain bag", which means both "stories of hundreds of utensils collected at different times" and "one hundred utensils that have become spirits through the passage of time". The "I" in the story was indignant because of the misfortune that befell my niece, but because of my own meager strength, I was unable to compete with the murderer and even the prejudice of the entire society. It was not until I got to know Enokizu that I relied on his "god"-like power of action to successfully resolve the incident. Running around that seemed futile before finally showed its meaning. "In vain" may not be in vain. The power accumulated over time can still give people something to look forward to. This is the heartwarming part of this work.

The complete works of Kotaro Isaka, a total of 14 volumes. Contains: The Desert, Coin-Operated Lockers for Domestic and Mallard Ducks, Vacation for the Rest of Your Life, Duel, Koopa in the Land of Darkness, Gravity Clown, Oh! Dad, Captain Thunder, A Punk to Save the Earth or You'll Move to Mars, Concerto for the Man with the Broken Neck, Gasoline Life, A Serenade, Audubon's Prayer. If childish rebellion and superficial idealism are the essence of punk, then only stupid students can inherit the punk spirit. This is Kotaro Isaka's youth novel, where you can still imagine the youth you grow up with.

A unique historical mystery novel that doesn't even look like a mystery novel. The so-called case in the novel is a well-known story in British history: Richard III murdered two young princes imprisoned in the Tower of London in order to seize the throne. The suspect's "crime" is outrageous and even more thought-provoking. But Inspector Grant, sitting on the hospital bed, relied on his careful reasoning to overturn the four-hundred-year-old historical conclusion in one fell swoop, and told us: the truth of the matter may not be what you hear or see!

"Essays in Translation: Against Interpretation" is one of Susan Sontag's most famous collections. It is the famous work that established her status as "the most discerning essayist in existence" in the United States. The commentary has spread across European and American avant-garde literature, drama, and film. It embodies the revolutionary posture and achievements of "new intellectuals" who "oppose interpretation" and re-evaluate the entire literature and art with "new sensibility."

"In Praise of Shadow" is a collection of essays about Japanese aesthetics by Japanese modern aestheticist Junichiro Tanizaki. In the book, Junichiro Tanizaki uses poetic words to describe the shadowy beauty unique to Japanese culture hidden in details such as the dark paper windows in Japanese houses, the dark, simple, clean and elegant toilets in Kyoto temples, and Japanese candlesticks with flickering candlelight. This kind of beauty that contains calmness and pain does not exist in the objects, but in the dark shadows between objects. Just as luminous pearls can emit brilliance when placed in the dark, gemstones lose their charm when exposed to sunlight. With shadows, the beauty of shadows in Japanese culture arises.

Sometimes, we are enveloped in a sense of loneliness, feeling alone and facing this huge world alone. When we are trapped in loneliness, how can we comfort ourselves when we are vulnerable? How to broaden social boundaries? How to increase happiness in life? How to like or even love someone? How to follow your heart and find your own path? Yataro Matsuura sincerely reveals the language deep in loneliness. These 150 reassuring passages teach us to be friends with loneliness and have the powerful power to protect ourselves.

It is a collection of reading essays written by Maugham at the invitation of the "Saturday Evening Post", aiming to provide reading suggestions for readers at that time. Maugham used the special talent of a novelist to paint simple and vivid portraits of his great writers, and encouraged readers to read for pleasure. Although the book is not long, it is full of insights and is worth reading again and again.

"The Dyer's Hand" contains Auden's most exciting prose works, including his famous lectures as "Professor of Poetry at Oxford University". This is not so much an orderly collection of essays as a series of interrelated comments on a wide range of topics - Auden puts forward his own views on poetry, art and life in general. These thoughts and feelings are purely personal, original and unconventional. The focus is on poetry - especially Shakespeare's poems - but what is invested in its scope of research is the author's entire experience in the twentieth century.

People always have all kinds of desires... "Welcome to the Desire Store"! A collection of warm essays by the popular Japanese picture book writer Shinsuke Yoshitake! People always have desires of one kind or another. They are happy with desires, but also troubled by desires. Desires can be related to important issues such as money and status, but they also exist in daily life, and even manifest themselves in small thoughts that are often ignored - can I have another snack? It doesn't matter if you sleep a little longer, right? What kind of life do I yearn for? What should I do if I don't want to go to work? Everyone has all kinds of strange little desires and thoughts, and it is precisely because of this that human beings become rich and interesting. In this book, Shinsuke Yoshitake records every detail of his life and shares many unique moments and ingenious philosophical thoughts, which will make you smile knowingly and be truly moved at the same time.

"Meanwhile" is Santanger's "last" essay collection, her "last book". The title of the book is taken from the title of Susan Santan's last speech. The content is divided into three parts. The first part introduces in detail several neglected masterpieces of modern European literature in the form of narrative and discussion. The second part is commentary on current affairs. The third part is the speeches, which are the integration of Sontag's writing and actions throughout her life. It can be said that she achieved everything she praised in theory and in practice throughout her life.

This collection of Plath's diaries records her life from her teenage years to her early marriage. There are youthful days in it, full of the sweetness and sourness of a girl's growth. The most touching thing about this diary is that it clearly and accurately captures the emotions of a girl with a lot of emotions, and the touching moment when a girl grows into a woman, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon that goes through untold hardships and endures all kinds of pain, just to bloom into beauty. This growth history leads us into Plath's spiritual world and gives us a deep understanding of Plath's growth and life trajectory.