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Not everyone was celebrating on the day of Cardiff's biggest anniversary event in New York City's history. Qin Tianshi, a genius with a twisted heart and powerful abilities, is planning a special "celebration" for his "anniversary", and a long-planned revenge operation is quietly unfolding...

Roland, the last "gunslinger" from "Middle World", travels through the wilderness to track down his mortal enemy, the Man in Black. On the way, he meets a beautiful lady, Alice, and a little boy from the human world, Jack. In the end, Roland met the man in black and drew seven tarot cards that predicted his future destiny. Soon he will face a painful choice: should he capture the man in black to obtain information about the "Dark Tower", or save the life of the little boy Jack?

"The Wind Through the Keyhole" is an extra chapter written by Stephen King for his most famous fantasy masterpiece "The Dark Tower" series. The narrator of the story is Roland. After his mother's death, Roland, who had just become a gunslinger, was sent by his father to De Villa to investigate the "Skin Man". The Skin Man can transform into the shapes of various beasts at will, and his methods of committing crimes are bloody and cruel, and he has already caused several tragedies. During the investigation, Roland met Billy Street, the only survivor and witness of the massacre on the farm. In order to comfort little Billy and help him muster the courage to cooperate with the investigation, Roland told him the story of "Brave Heart Tim" "The Wind Through the Keyhole" that he heard from his mother.

Roland continues his journey to find the "Dark Tower". Along the way he was attacked by various mysterious creatures and brought Eddie Dean, a New York drug addict, back to his world and became friends. They travel together and meet Odetta, an African-American woman with autism, and the evil side of Odetta's self, Detta. The four continued on the road, and Odetta and Detta gradually merged into one, becoming a new person, Susanna, and married Eddie.

The newly revised edition of "Looking for Jack", a collection of short stories by the genius writer Zainer, includes "Rush to the Front" for the first time. The most important fantasy writer in the 21st century and the founder of the "New Weird" style - China Miéville, a recognized genius novelist, has repeatedly won many fantasy honors around the world: Locus Award, Hugo Award, Arthur C. Clark Award, British Fantasy Award, Philip K. Dick Award, World Fantasy Award, etc. Known as "Kafka in the fantasy world", there are 14 bizarre stories: wild roads wander around the world, old glass leads to another world; "parasitic word" disease makes people only repeat one word; festivals have become luxury brands; criminals are equipped with mechanical arms as punishment; the world in the mirror fights back against the human world... This is Miévi's only short story collection, with amazingly bold imagination. He uses a unique perspective to show everything that may happen in the future, and uses cautionary fables to remind people to learn to reflect.

Why did the academic authority in the college become famous and gradually drifted away on the road of academic fraud?

The second volume of the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer Gurner's works focuses on the situation of refugees in the gap between different cultures, focuses on the immigrant identity crisis, and continues to write about the loneliness and struggle of those wandering in a foreign land. Specially included is the unabridged translation of Gurna's award-winning speech, giving a glimpse into the secrets of growth and writing that span two continents and blend with multiple civilizations. "2021 Nobel Prize Writer Gulnar's Works (Second Series)" includes 5 representative works of the Tanzanian British writer Abdulrazaq Gulnar: "Dotty", "Memory of Farewell", "Pilgrim's Road", "Abandonment" and "Gravel Heart".

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There is a special museum that collects bizarre mysteries that no one can solve. There is a pair of strange partners who vow to solve the murderous conspiracy that is hidden from the sky. Unsolved Case No. 1: Murder of a female high school student on the roof. On the rooftop of the teaching building, when the girl confessed her love to her senior, blood splattered everywhere. Unsolved Case No. 2: Serial arson cases in residences. Arson cases occurred one after another in many places, and the criminals just wanted to see someone at the scene. Uncensored Case No. 3: The case of strange dismemberment on the river bank. Ten bags of body parts were dumped by the river. The cutting points of the body parts were all at the joints. Uncensored Case No. 4: A murder case in which a million-dollar debt was owed. The creditor died suddenly at his home. The IOU was not touched at all. The suspect also had an alibi from the surveillance video. Unsolved Case No. 5: Son kidnapped by his biological mother. The mother kidnapped her biological son for money, but gave up the plan midway and disappeared from the world. Open this book and uncover the real criminal motives behind the unsolved cases!

She has a truly free soul because she is true to her feelings! Somerset Maugham's own preface describes the original intention of creation, expert reading, and original picture and text interpretation. Reader's Three Circles Classic Library. After the famous writer Edward Driffield died, his second wife asked someone to write his biography. The narrator "I" of the novel, the young writer Ashenton, was invited by the biographer Roy to go to Driffield's country mansion to recall the story of his interaction with the writer. However, in the depths of my memory, what shines more dazzlingly than the writer is his ex-wife Rosie, a charming woman who was not bound by etiquette, was frank, passionate and innocent like a child. This story originates from real gossip in the British literary and art circles. A memory slowly reveals the anecdotes surrounding Rosie: she is charming, innocent and kind, and is willing to give up everything for her lover; she is fun-loving, frank and true, and is never shy to express her true feelings! Therefore, she became the only charming and perfect woman in Maugham's works.

"Peter the Dreamer" is a book written by McEwan for children. It tells the story of seven daydreams of a ten-year-old boy, Peter. As the author himself said in the preface, the reason why we like children's books is because our children enjoy reading these books, which has less to do with literature and more to do with love. As McEwan was writing and reading "Peter the Dreamer" aloud to his children, he began to feel that it might be better to forget about the great tradition of children's literature and write a book about children for adults, using language that children can understand. He wanted its subject-imagination itself-to be engaging for anyone who picked up a book.

The work is narrated from the first-person point of view. The protagonist is a writer who meets the Strickland family. The family seemed happy and happy, but Mr. Strickland always seemed lifeless. Soon after, Strickland left the family without any warning and went to Paris, determined to pursue his dream. Five years later, the protagonist met Strickland in Paris. He was living in poverty, but he still walked alone on the road of his dreams and never regretted it. In the process of pursuing art, his talents were gradually recognized. Later, Strickland decided to abandon civilized life and came to Tahiti, which is close to the primitive South Pacific Islands, and met the protagonist by chance.

Templars, alchemy, and Kabbalah are melted into one pot, providing an antidote to the disease of postmodern mysticism. In Milan in the 1970s, the passionate years were gone and mysticism was reviving. Dr. Casaubon, a scholar who is proficient in medieval history, and his two friends, Belbo and Theotalevi, senior editors of an academic publishing house, are responsible for publishing a set of "Hermes Series" aimed at profit. In the influx of manuscripts, and in the process of contact with occult enthusiasts, a repeated and ambiguous "Templar conspiracy theory" appeared repeatedly. The three partners claim to be knowledgeable and skilled, and in a playful spirit, they weave the many mysterious events, characters and associations circulating in history into a seamless "plan", almost "rewriting" and "rewriting" the entire world history. In order to make the "plan" more complete, they created a secret society: "Teleis". Unexpectedly, the mystics took all the orders and actually organized the "Teleis" to track Casaubon and Belbo, and would search the world for the fictitious "secret map" in the "plan"...

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Akutagawa Award-winning writer Nanae Aoyama's collection of short stories about introverts, six short stories, six women, and six atypical life fragments, written for all people who don't need to shine and just want to live in their own little world. Our individuality is reflected in the way we distance ourselves from others and form relationships with them. Yuko is very frustrated when she returns to her hometown town from a big city. She used to be a teacher and is currently working odd jobs in a local doll production company, and her life is dull and dull. By chance, Yuko won the grand prize for a trip to Hawaii, which gave her renewed hope in life. However, the nosy ladies in the company mistakenly thought that Yuko would travel with a male colleague in the company. This atmosphere is like a quagmire trapping Yuko, who is not good at words. What makes Yuko even more overwhelmed is that a student he once taught appeared in front of him...

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" tells the story of naturalist Professor Aronnax who accepted an invitation to participate in tracking the so-called narwhal. Unfortunately, he fell into the sea together with his follower Conseil and whaler Ned Rand. They were lucky enough to swim to a floating "island", which was the "narwhal" they were tracking - the submarine Nautilus. Captain Nemo allowed them freedom on the boat, but did not allow them to leave. In this way, they followed the Nautilus and began a fantastic underwater exploration journey. They crossed the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Antarctic and Arctic Oceans, saw the wonderful and spectacular underwater world, experienced various thrilling dangers, tried to escape many times but failed, and finally survived the desperate situation and returned to land. The submarine Nautilus was missing. Professor Aronnax makes his ten-month adventure public.

A quiet and beautiful dead body suddenly appeared in the locked suitcase in the corner of the attic. A unique specimen on the autopsy table tells the story of his life. In the traveling circus, complicated and confusing crimes are staged one after another. In a small town where no one got off the bus, a stranger broke the peace. Ventriloquists, androids, and lifelike marionettes. In the silent big house, the owner never leaves home and the strange smiling man. The past, present and future intersect here. Literary master Ray Bradbury uses 20 colorful thrillers to reveal the fears, desires and loves hidden deep in our consciousness.

To love, to live, to "buy flowers myself." The story focuses on one day in the life of the heroine Mrs. Dalloway. Throughout the day, Mrs. Dalloway made various preparations for the dinner party to be held at home. And this was just an ordinary day in her ordinary life, passed peacefully, as usual. Mrs. Dalloway played her part, refusing to comment but still thinking. She knew that the essence of life was not joy, so she wanted to create joy for others... In our lives, there are many Mrs. Dalloways walking past us. Sometimes it's even our self, but we don't recognize it...

"Mom's Bank Account" tells the story of a Norwegian immigrant family making a living in the United States from a child's perspective. Mom uses the white lie of "bank account" to protect her family with wisdom and tenacity, conveying warmth and strength.

"The Dead" is a masterpiece of short stories by the famous Irish writer James Joyce. After the Christmas party, intellectual Gabriel falls into a mental breakdown as his wife Greta reminisces about an old lover who died of illness. The image of "it's snowing all over Ireland" at the end sublimates personal emotional crisis into a meditation on life and death, love and national destiny. The image of snow covering the living and the dead has become a classic scene in modernist literature.

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is a semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Betty Smith, first published in 1943. There are no weird and exciting plots in the book, but it touches people's hearts with plain and delicate experiences. It tells the story of the little girl Francie Nolan's growing up experience in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York in the early 20th century. She suffered from family misfortune, discrimination from classmates and social injustice while growing up. However, under the care and influence of her relatives, she loved reading, was strong and unyielding, and was full of enthusiasm for life. She was admitted to university by self-study after work, and finally walked out of the slums. It shows the courage of ordinary people to pursue their dreams and face the hardships of life calmly.

Selected from Dickens's horror novels, including eight short stories such as "The Temptation of Suicide", "Confessions of a Madman" and "The Post-Coach Terror", these stories are among Dickens's most praised works, and readers can get a glimpse of Dickens's talent for horror novels. While some of the stories are chilling to read, others are comical. Dickens inserted representative weird comedy plots into the stories and arranged for the most unforgettable characters to appear, including humans and ghosts, making these stories come to life on the page and become ukiyo-e paintings with a unique and humorous style.

Zweig, no male writer knows women better than him! In classic works such as "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life" and "Letter from a Strange Woman", Zweig used meticulous psychological descriptions to nakedly display the emotional world of women's undercurrents and breakaway from reason. The stories are wonderful and exciting, and while readers are amazed, they also have a better understanding of society and human nature. This book selects three masterpieces of Zweig's novels. Opening any one of them will shock your soul and make you think deeply.

After World War II, Leonard, a young British electronic engineer, was sent to Germany to participate in British-American cooperation in intelligence projects. Post-war Berlin was devastated, but the kind and simple Leonard met the beautiful and gentle German woman Maria here, and was involved in a crazy world full of love and sex. Just when the two were inseparable, an accidental murder finally caused the two to pass each other by each other, regretting it for the rest of their lives. This is a romance during the Cold War, a spy war after World War II, and a thrilling criminal psychological novel... As always, McEwan perfectly blends elements such as love, war, suspense, crime, sex, and black humor. What he writes is a desolate and desperate Berlin city, where pure and innocent people have no place to stay, and fear and coldness surround them everywhere until they move into the endless night.

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is the latest novel to restore a Thomas Mann full of desires and secrets. The British Frio Literary Award-winning work was selected as one of the top ten historical novels of 2021 by The New York Times, and was selected as the annual book by The Washington Post, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek. "The Magician" opens in the small German town of Lübeck at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where the boy Thomas Mann grew up with a conservative father who was bound by ethics and a charming and elusive mother from Brazil. Young Mann hid his artistic ambitions from his father and his sexual orientation from everyone. He was attracted by the richest and most educated Jewish family in Munich, married the family's daughter Katia, and had six children. While on vacation in Italy, Mann developed a desire for a boy he met on the beach and wrote the story of "Death in Venice." While accompanying Katia to recuperate in Switzerland, he was fascinated by the inescapable mountain atmosphere and wrote "The Magic Mountain". He became the most successful novelist of his time, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and people repeatedly looked forward to his political statements. He fled Germany and traveled to Switzerland, France, and the United States. His wanderings ended in Kirchberg, south of Zurich. This is an epic family saga set across half a century, through World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II and the Cold War. Tóibín crafts a complex yet sympathetic writer who has struggled throughout his life with his inner desires, his family, and the turbulent times they lived through.

This is Bear Town, where storms, bitter cold, ice, and endless forests are all waiting for an opportunity to kill people. Do you want to understand the people here? Really want to understand? Then you have to know the best of all that we can do - our dreams, our courage, a few little girls who make us proud, a few little boys who make us great. Do you want to get to know the people who live in a small town? Really want to know? Then you have to understand all the worst things we are capable of doing. Fear can make some people heroes, but in the shadow of fear, most of us only bring out our ugliest sides, and good people will do terrible things because they believe they are just trying to protect the people they love. How should we live? How to love? How to win? How to protect those precious things? How to choose and be a better person? Society is the sum of our own choices, and everything that unites us will eventually become our history.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the spring of 1464, the young king on horseback met the most beautiful woman in England, Elizabeth Woodville. Rose discovers that the war has come to an end, and a secret love that is romantic but betrays the family begins. People say that this commoner queen must have used some kind of magic to confuse the king and put herself in a high position; but this rumor seems to be nonsense, but it is half true and half false - Elizabeth, who has inherited the blood of the river goddess, will make waves at the intersection of England's destiny.

The twisted and intertwined tragedy of exclusivity and betrayal, the whirlpool of beauty and sin that grow together, is the controversial "private novel" of the master of "demonism" Junichiro Tanizaki. Passion and immorality are entangled to the point of destruction. The twisted love hell described by Junichiro Tanizaki. The story takes place in the third year of the Showa era. Sonoko, the daughter of a wealthy family, obeyed her parents' orders and married her husband Kotaro, who was from a poor family but worked hard. After supporting her husband to complete his studies, she became a lawyer's wife with no worries about food and clothing. After getting married, Sonoko had no common language with her husband. In order to kill the extra time, she attended a private school that cultivated women's skills, and thus got acquainted with the lady Tokumitsu Mitsuko. Sonoko called Mitsuko a "goddess like Guanyin". When she first saw Mitsuko, she was deeply attracted to her, and the two became sisters. Mitsuko's boyfriend Watanuki is a sinister person and is not willing to let Mitsuko marry another person. He devises a series of conspiracies to destroy Mitsuko and the garden that he has become friends with. In order to save Sonoko, Kotaro was also forced to participate. As the situation changed, the four people began to be jealous and suspicious of each other, and were tied into a knot like the character "Swastika"... In the process of entangled with the devil's beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki portrayed the various psychological states and behaviors surrounding jealousy, such as possessiveness, suspicion, dependence, etc., In a real and delicate manner. Whether it is Sonoko, Mitsuko, or Kotaro, they are all born with a lack of love. On the way to the world without jealousy, all love eventually entered the tomb together.

Stephen King's best collection of short stories, 2 volumes in total. They are "Vigil" and "The Impermanence of Things" respectively. "Vigil": Listen to me; friend. Never go to the town of Jerusalem; never mind how quaint the church spires are and how quiet the streets are. And don't walk into the endless cornfields; there are a group of children hiding there; they worship the God who walks in the cornfields. And don't clean out an unused basement just to make a buck; there may be a basement beneath it. Don't go for a walk in the strawberry spring; don't approach the parking lot next to the highway; don't envy the boy whose eyes are illuminated by love; don't fall in love with the person who understands all your needs; don't expect someone to catch you when you fall off the ladder... And don't talk to me in a wheelchair; I am just a door; those eyes hidden under my bandages are about to wake up. "The Impermanence of Things": The mysterious event of death can only be understood by those with full imagination. The man with flames in his eyes told the boy fishing by the stream: Your mother just died. The taciturn young man regularly poured change into the sewer outside the house. The dull desperado is good at tying flies with cotton string, just like a man on the prairie tying a horse. A man saves his wife who wants to divorce him from a machete wielded by a madman, but the wife wants him dead. The husband gave his wife a cute kitten, but she eventually ran away from home because she hated the cat and was never heard from again. A poor college student who was eager to visit his sick mother accidentally took a ride in a car driven by a dead man. He tried his best to pretend not to see the smoke rings seeping out from between the sutures on the driver's neck. The successful man lay straight on the autopsy table, unable to tell the two doctors who were flirting while working: He was still alive. The tired salesman took stock of his memories in his motel room, considering the appropriate way to say goodbye. The streets were bustling with people, and no one knew that there were people behind the brick walls fighting for their lives in the dark. How many people have slept in that hotel bed before you? How many people have taken out their Bible from their bedside drawer, read a few passages, and then hung themselves in the closet next to the TV? Well, anyway, let's check in first. This is your key.

11 groups of warm food stories and 33 miracles of life reversal. A person will always experience countless dinners in his life, and the memories of each dinner are unique: the dinner when he came home from school, the dinner on graduation day, the dinner before breaking up, the dinner before going to work, the dinner before going abroad, the dinner with old friends, the dinner before moving, the dinner before divorce, the dinner before parents passed away... Memories about dinners constitute the continuous scenery of our lives and the testimony of our continuous progress. Perhaps, while you are eating today's dinner, the reversal of your life has quietly happened in an invisible place.

Selected from Dickens's horror novels, including "The Ghost War" and "The Ghost Trial", these stories are among Dickens's most praised works, and readers can get a glimpse of Dickens's talent for horror fiction. While some of the stories are chilling to read, others are comical. Dickens inserted representative weird comedy plots into the stories and arranged for the most unforgettable characters to appear, including humans and ghosts, making these stories come to life on the page and become ukiyo-e paintings with a unique and humorous style.

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Faust is a scholar who is over fifty years old. In order to explore the mysteries of life and self, he tirelessly pursues knowledge, hoping to devote himself to the universe and nature through books and feel all the pain and joy in the world. Suddenly, he discovered that the knowledge he had been pursuing tirelessly over the years had no effect or significance. His study was dark and narrow, hindering his communication with the natural world. He became angry, cursed the world and everything around him, and even thought of ending his life to get rid of the pain of unfulfilled desires.

"Silent Spring" is the representative work of American female writer Rachel Carson and one of the most influential books in the world in the past 50 years. The beginning of "Silent Spring" depicts the mutation of a beautiful village to us, describing that humans may face a world without birds, bees and butterflies, and comprehensively reveals the dangers of chemical pesticides. It was this unusual book that attracted people's attention to wild animals and aroused people's environmental awareness around the world. It is recognized as the foundational work that started the world environmental movement. Carson's main argument is based on science. Carson spent four full years collecting and reviewing a large amount of data and literature surrounding pesticides, insecticides and other harmful modern chemicals. The book ends with a "primary information list" that is dozens of pages long. The list includes dozens of scientific reports, the author's interviews with leading experts in various fields, and various related academic papers. From a scholar's perspective, this not only shows that the materials used by the author in writing almost exhaust the scientific research on the hazards of chemicals that could be searched at that time, but also shows that many scientists were aware of the hazards of chemicals and started research accordingly.

"Silent Spring" is the representative work of American female writer Rachel Carson and one of the most influential books in the world in the past 50 years. The beginning of "Silent Spring" depicts the mutation of a beautiful village to us, describing that humans may face a world without birds, bees and butterflies, and comprehensively reveals the dangers of chemical pesticides. It was this unusual book that attracted people's attention to wild animals and aroused people's environmental awareness around the world. It is recognized as the foundational work that started the world environmental movement. Carson's main argument is based on science. Carson spent four full years collecting and reviewing a large amount of data and literature surrounding pesticides, insecticides and other harmful modern chemicals. The book ends with a "primary information list" that is dozens of pages long. The list includes dozens of scientific reports, the author's interviews with leading experts in various fields, and various related academic papers. From a scholar's perspective, this not only shows that the materials used by the author in writing almost exhaust the scientific research on the hazards of chemicals that could be searched at that time, but also shows that many scientists were aware of the hazards of chemicals and started research accordingly. This book has added curriculum content.

"Silent Spring" is a classic work by biologist and environmental movement pioneer Rachel Carson. With a rigorous and realistic spirit of scientific rationality and poetic language, she analyzed in detail the harm caused by chemical pollution to the ecosystem on which human beings depend. The whole book is full of humanistic sentiments of reverence for life. In 1962, "Silent Spring" was first published, bringing the long-neglected problem of pesticides and insecticide abuse into the spotlight, directly challenging the vested interests of chemical giants. Like a cultural nuclear bomb, it caused huge shocks around the world. The issue of "environmental protection" has thus entered the public eye and become an important force in promoting the progress of civilization. The general illustrated version of "Silent Spring" uses detailed illustrations to intuitively display relevant natural science knowledge. The end of the book specially includes "A Brief History of the Dissemination of "Silent Spring"", revealing the book's important position and far-reaching influence in the global environmental movement.

"I understand," she said. When will she learn not to say "I understand" to things she knows nothing about? The elder sister leaves her destiny to marriage, and the younger sister pursues knowledge and freedom, but neither of them can live a happy life. Is this a human dilemma, or is this only true for women? ? After the early release of the influential "Revolutionary Road" and "Eleven Kinds of Solitude", Yates's creative career went through a period of silence. "Easter Parade" once again demonstrates Yates's extraordinary creative strength. This work contains astonishing breadth and weight. Yates' usual elegant and tragic perspective flows through the plain and restrained narrative, tearing apart the fate and dreams of the two sisters bit by bit. It is "both cruel and heartwarming, heartbreaking and cruel." "This is Yates's best novel." As children, Sarah and Emily were two very different girls. In Emily's eyes, her rational sister is always superior. She is jealous of her sister's relationship with her father (who left them due to divorce) and her sister's seemingly happy marriage. Emily chose a path for herself that was not so safe and unconventional. All the romantic affairs could not really satisfy her. Although the bond that binds the sisters has always existed, the distance between them has grown further and further until, finally, a tragic event throws their relationship into the center of a storm...

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"Invitation to the Beheading" is a masterpiece of dystopian novels by the outstanding American novelist Nabokov. It shows the bizarre illusion of the irrational world and satirizes the Kafkaesque black comedy tragedy of totalitarian rule. It is a novel worth reading by everyone.

"Love and Sacrifice" is the work of the famous French biographer and novelist Mauroa (now translated as Mauroa). This book was translated by Fu Lei in his early years. It aims to strengthen life cultivation and improve the quality of the people. "It can give some hope to the decadent people and add some courage to the fighting heroes." It is a rare self-cultivation reading today.

"The Shackles of Life" is one of the most important masterpieces of the famous British writer and "story master" Maugham, and also his most famous autobiographical novel. The protagonist of the novel, Philip Carey, lost both his parents when he was young. Unfortunately, he was also born with a disability. He spent his childhood in an indifferent and unfamiliar environment, making his character withdrawn and sensitive. The years he spent in boarding school made him suffer from the unreasonable school system, and when he entered the society, he experienced pain in love. On the bumpy road of life, he had to struggle hard every step he took, but Kaili, who was independent in thought and personality, had been trying to break away from the two shackles that restricted his spirit, religion and petty citizen consciousness, and tried to find the true meaning of life in the chaotic and chaotic life.

The literary witch Atwood's masterpiece is published for the first time in mainland China! Nobel Prize winners Kazuo Ishiguro, Alice Munro, and Liang Yongan are all loyal readers of Atwood. The mother said that she was born with the power of a witch and turned her long-absent father into a goblin; a black cat named "Taint" died of illness, and the hostess rewrote ancient poems, hoping to freeze her memories with the black cat every word; the female bank employee felt that she was a The snail was forced to endure crude human love one after another. She felt that the snail's soul was gradually separated and dying in the human body. The old lady knew that all the teeth would eventually collapse into a rotten wall, and some people would inevitably sail away first, leaving her alone in the cold moonlight. All death in the world separates us from each other, but memories bring us together again and again. Open this book and listen to the imagination and memories of Atwood, the literary witch.

This book is a representative collection of short stories by Borges, the Argentine poet, novelist, critic, and translator, and a master of Spanish literature. It includes two sixteen novels, "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "The Collection of Fictions." In 1944, Borges officially published these stories under the name "The Collection of Fictions." Borges named his iconic work directly after "fiction", which was also the final form of Borges' version of "The Garden of Forking Paths". "The Garden of Forking Paths", published in 1941, is Borges's most well-known novel. The context of "novel-garden-time-maze" appeared for the first time in Borges' writing and became a keyword in his art. The understanding of different sequences of time that are parallel, divergent, converging, or intertwined is integrated into writing, and endless possibilities arise from this. "Apocryphal Collection" continues the theme of fictional legendary stories. The collection of novels includes the author's "most proud story" "The South", which is regarded as a turning point in Borges's writing.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Gorky's birth, we chose to publish Gorky's autobiographical series to help readers understand the writer and better understand his works. Among them, "In the World" is the second part of the trilogy. It describes the life of the protagonist Alyosha and his grandmother. On the road of life, he went through many ups and downs, met many people, read many books, and determined to "be a strong person and not give in to the environment." With such firm belief, he left his hometown and went to Kazan.

This book selects eight of Gorky's works, most of which are his early short stories. As we all know, among Gorky's rich literary heritage, short stories are a treasure. It was from short stories that Gorky began his creation and became famous for his achievements. His short stories are both romantic and realistic. Romantic works aim to praise freedom and light and entrust the author's lofty revolutionary ideals and passion for fighting, such as "Makar Chudra" and "Old Lady Izegil".

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The 37-year-old "I" Chujun owns two prosperous bars in downtown Tokyo, as well as a beautiful wife and two lovely daughters. He can be called a successful person with a successful family and career, but he always feels empty inside. Hatsumi's past consists of his emotional entanglement with three women, Shimamoto, Izumi, and Izumi's cousin. It seems that the shortcomings in his heart can only be made up for by his girlfriend Shimamoto, whom he met in elementary school and had a vague relationship with. 25 Years later, Shimamoto suddenly appeared, and the two rekindled their love. However, Shimamoto was unwilling to reveal his experience and current identity. He only hoped that Hatsumi would not ask anything and just accept herself as she was, and just treat her as the girl who loved classical music in elementary school. Hatsumi accepted these harsh conditions and accompanied Shimamoto to the Tokyo River to scatter the baby's ashes. The two spent an unforgettable night at the Hakone villa. The next day, she disappeared without a trace.

"No Consolation" is Kazuo Ishiguro's longest novel, an extremely dense and delicate psychological novel that makes people unable to extricate themselves. This book adheres to Kazuo Ishiguro's consistent style, which is simple on the outside but strong on the inside. The novel describes the mysterious days a pianist experienced in a mysterious city. Sometimes he is a bystander, and sometimes he is involved. The people he sees are all passionate but obsessed with it; the things he encounters are all weird, absurd, and full of variables. In this city where people's hearts are dominated by bizarre artistic values, while trying to find the exit from his dream and seeking an explanation for all this, he gradually realizes that he is facing the most severe performance in his life. The bilingual version of "No Consolation" 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.