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This novel creates a shocking "absurd man" - the protagonist Meursault who is indifferent to everything. He is indifferent to everything happening around him. He has no feelings about the death of his mother and even being sentenced to death...

European and American readers spend an average of three nights reading it! "Fall of Giants" author Ken Follett's landmark masterpiece, the sequel to "Temple Spring and Autumn", the second part of the medieval trilogy, best-selling in 15 languages ​​​​in various countries! This novel lets everyone know that we have the ability to transcend the mundane and touch the eternal. England, fourteenth century, an old era is about to end, and a new era is about to come. In Wangqiao Town, the descendants of architects have their own troubles. Behind the pain of growing up are the pains of an era: the Renaissance, church architecture, royal power struggles, the Black Death, church conflicts... Where will their fate go?

"No matter how dark and thick the clouds are, there is still silver on the back." A powerful work about trauma, introspection, confrontation, and rebirth, facing irreversible loss and facing unspeakable evil. "I", who came from a major, originally loved abstract painting, and became a professional portrait painter in order to support my family. On the eve of the sixth wedding anniversary, my wife suddenly confessed that she was having an affair and asked for a divorce, so "I" drove away from home alone. Finally, at the invitation of my friend Masahiko Amada, I stayed in his father Tomohiko Amada's old home and studio in the mountains outside Odawara to adjust my body and mind. When "I" was teaching at Yamashita's drawing board, I became lovers with two wives in the class. Through the careful planning of my mysterious neighbor Menshiki, I also established a close relationship with the girl Marie. The homeowner, Tomohiko Amada, was originally a famous painter. "I" accidentally discovered a masterpiece of Tomohiko Amada's work unknown to the world in the attic, called "Assassination Knight Leader", thus opening up a dusty history. After that, "I" was involved in a series of incredible events... The ringtone in the middle of the night and the entrance to the ancient temple, the mysterious neighbor Wataru Menshiki and the female student Mari Akikawa in the painting class, the "Knight Leader" and the "Man with a Face", the real world and the metaphorical world... Haruki Murakami uses his special writing method of peeling off layers to lead readers step by step into a wonderful world. The major Chinese publishers of Haruki Murakami's works and translator Lin Shaohua have joined hands to present a new revised edition of Haruki Murakami's long-running series. In terms of design, we cooperated with the internationally renowned illustrator NomaBar. The three colors of black, white and red depict the subtle blur in Murakami's works between the square and the circle, and the overall presentation is both simple and classic. In terms of content, a lot of revisions have been made around foreign words, restoring the details of the author's intentional emphasis in the original version. Lin Shaohua updated the prefaces of the translations of many works, and made slight adjustments to some of the tone and expressions in the translations. The chronology of Haruki Murakami has been updated to the latest, and a music list is attached at the end of each book.

The masterpiece of Maupassant, the world's master of short stories! Maupassant, the world's master of short stories, raised realist literature to an unprecedented level and opened up a broad path for short story creation. Gide praised him for his excellence, and Turgenev hailed him as a genius in French literature. It contains 29 representative works of Maupassant, including classic works such as "The Necklace" and "My Uncle Jules". Classic translation by Liu Mingjiu, a master in French translation. New curriculum standards, recommended readings by the Ministry of Education. The book comes with an interpretation manual: Maupassant's Literary Life. This book contains 29 masterpieces of Maupassant's short stories.

"Don't Lose, Never Forget" is a dystopian science fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and the American Book Critics Circle Award. In Hailsham School, deep in the English countryside, three good friends, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, grew up here. They were carefully cared for by their tutors and received a good education in poetry and art. However, Hailsham, which seems like a paradise, hides many secrets. After the three Caseys grew up, they gradually discovered that the beautiful growth process in their memories was full of untraceable confusion and terrifying question marks...

"Pride and Prejudice" is Jane Austen's masterpiece. Describing the emotional entanglements between the arrogant single young man Darcy and the prejudiced second lady Elizabeth, the wealthy single aristocrat Bentley and the virtuous eldest lady Jane, it fully expresses the author's own views on marriage and emphasizes the impact of economic interests on love and marriage. The plot of the novel is full of comedy and the language is witty and humorous. It is one of Austen's most popular novels and has been adapted into movies and TV series many times.

"The Unfinished Legend of Númenor and Middle-earth" brings together various anecdotes of Middle-earth from ancient times to the end of the War of the Ring, spanning thousands of years: the wizard Gandalf's vivid account of the dwarves gathering at Bag End and resurrecting the Lonely Mountain; Isildur's accident and the causes and consequences of the Ring falling into the river; Galadriel's past and the forging of the Ring of Power; Gondor and Rohan Why the two countries formed a life-and-death covenant with the same hatred; the * records left over from the long history of the sunken land of Númenor; and how Tuor, the ancestor of the Dúnedain, saw Ulmo, the god of water, appearing on the seashore of Beleriand before the first generation of the Dark Lord was defeated, and why the legendary hero Tulin lamented that he had "groped in the dark mists of Morgoth since his childhood."

The original movie "Atonement" was rated 8.4 On Douban, starring James McAvoy, Kate Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, and Benedict Cumberbatch. In the summer of 1935, Briony, a 13-year-old girl from a well-off British family, had just begun to try writing and had a rich imagination. One day, she secretly discovered that there was an affair between the housekeeper's son, Robbie Turner, and her sister, Cecilia. Briony's rich imagination invented all kinds of terrible things and imagined them. When her cousin Lola was raped, Briony arbitrarily determined that he was the criminal and testified against him, and Robbie was imprisoned. But Cecilia, who firmly believed that Robbie was innocent, did not hesitate to sever ties with her family and fell in love with him persistently. "Atonement" is the representative work of British writer Ian McEwan. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Film and the original novel of the same name, and the British Booker Award nomination.

Moore Flanders was a beautiful woman who was born in Newgate Prison. Before she was born, her mother used her to escape hanging. She gradually grew up with the help of a wealthy family, but was deceived and defiled by the young master of the family. Later, she married the second young master of the family and used her beauty to gain opportunities for survival; when her youth passed away, she became a thief. When she was arrested and returned to the place of her birth, Newgate Prison, her life also formed a cycle full of irony.

The famous French writer, thinker, and feminist leader Beauvoir's masterpiece, a work that won the French Goncourt Literary Prize, and a documentary of post-war European society and culture. Based on the writing and social life circle in which she lived, Beauvoir described the activities and ideological processes of a group of intellectuals in Paris from 1944 to 1945, when France was at the end of World War II and about to fall into the Cold War. This novel has a strong documentary color, and the relationship between Dubreuil and his wife corresponds to the mutual attachment, respect and independence between Beauvoir and Sartre. Anna Dubreuil's image of an intellectual woman and Robert Dubreuil's identity as a famous writer involved in politics are very consistent with Beauvoir and Sartre in reality. Henri Perron corresponds to the French writer Camus. Camus met Sartre in 1943, and Sartre became Camus's leader in the literary world. As an active activist, Camus had founded the left-wing underground daily "Combat". He made Sartre, who was hoping to "intervene", truly participate in the resistance movement. In 1952, the magazine "Modern" edited by Sartre published an article criticizing Camus, which eventually led to the breakdown of the relationship between the two. In the novel, the American writer Lewis gave the ring to Anna. In reality, Beauvoir wore it and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

The representative Japanese healing writer Ogawa Ito wrote the sequel to "Camellia Stationery Shop"! Don't wait for "someday," convey your feelings to the people who matter most now. For those unspeakable feelings, Kamakura's Shancha Stationery Store is still here to express them for you. What can be preserved for a long time is, after all, paper letters. All emotions are bonds. Each ghostwritten letter gently soothes the lonely, angry, and helpless moments in life. At the foot of a hill in Kamakura, Hatoko runs a ghostwriting house. Recently, she was busy with housework and childcare, and finally reopened the store. Unexpected ghostwriting commissions appeared in front of her one after another. Among them, there were resignation applications from employees who had been unfairly treated and were forced to resign, letters from a mother who had just died to her daughter who was about to get married, and letters to an elderly father who refused to return his driver's license... These were all things that could not be said directly in person and would become boring in emails, so they could only be conveyed through letters. At this time, she accidentally discovered the secret love letter hidden by her former ghostwriter..."

It selects the wonderful pieces of Edgar Allan Poe's suspense stories, including 5 independent short suspense stories, including The Mystery of Mary Roger, The Black Cat, The Affair, Berenice, and The Man in the City. The novel has a weird and bizarre style, full of horror atmosphere, is short and exquisite, and is easy to carry. It is a convenient book for readers to read when traveling, working, or in their leisure time.

"The Poisonous Sun" is one of Jack London's masterpieces. This book is divided into two parts. The first part tells the story of the protagonist "Poisonous Sun" who pans for gold in the Arctic and fights against the ice and snow. The description of the Arctic scenery is considered a classic in literature. In the second part, the "Poisonous Sun" returns to the city, and civilized society seems to be even more cruel... In the end, the "Poisonous Sun" finds the true meaning of life. Once published, this book became an extremely popular seller. It was Jack London's most popular book during his lifetime and has been adapted into movies many times.

It selects the wonderful pieces of Edgar Allan Poe's suspense stories, including 5 independent short suspense stories, including The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Ligeia, The Stolen Letter, A Barrel of Monterey White Wine, and Moreira. The novel has a weird and bizarre style, full of horror atmosphere, is short and exquisite, and is easy to carry. It is a convenient book for readers to read when traveling, working, or in their leisure time.

A clever and evil black farce, a self-destructive carnival of death, the work of Martin Amis, a representative British contemporary literary writer as famous as McEwan and Julie Barnes. In a humorous and satirical style, the author faithfully presents the radical liberal social storm that arose in the Western world in the 1960s and 1970s to readers. This storm broke through the bottom line of Western moral tradition, caused huge impact and harm to a generation, turned innocent and kind-hearted young people into "civilized savages", and became a countercurrent in the long river of human history.

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.

The young Wheelers lived in a house on Revolutionary Road in the American suburbs. Her husband, Frank, is a regular office worker, and his wife, April, raises a pair of children at home and is an amateur actress. When they felt that they were about to enter middle age, the two were tired of the empty and boring life atmosphere around them and quarreled endlessly. Aibo proposed to abandon everything now and go to Paris to find new passions and dreams. The gears of fate began to turn at this moment... The boss said to Frank: You are a promising young man, give you a promotion. And his wife, Ai Bo, is pregnant again. Can "going to Paris", a short-lived dream that once changed their lives, bring them a "revolutionary road" in life?

"Shuncho" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. This book includes a total of 9 works including "Shuncho", "Tattoo", "Kirin", "Youth", "Gang Xian", "Secret", "Devil", "Demon Continuation" and "Oedipus". Elements such as love and hate, affection and resentment, pain and beauty, virtuality and reality, are used throughout the book, rendering a beautiful world of Japanese aesthetic literature. The perfect fusion of sensual pleasure and Japanese classical taste inspires a strong Japanese aesthetics of things. The beauty of physical sorrow, tracing back to its origin, is the love that is undying in the absurd ups and downs of the human world.

This book selects Mark Twain's representative short stories from various periods, including works that have long been known and loved by readers, such as "Millions of Pounds" and "Running for Governor". Through these masterpieces, you can appreciate the humorous and satirical style of Mark Twain's novels. These novels are rich in unique personal wit and witty remarks, as well as profound social insights and analysis. They are masterpieces of humor and poignancy, but also tragic and serious!

Michael Davenport was a young man who retired from the European battlefields of World War II. He was ambitious and dreamed of becoming a poet and playwright. He is aloof, lives for art, and does not want to get involved with his wife's money, but he still has to write articles for a business magazine to maintain his hobby of writing poetry. His wife Lucy is extremely rich, but she never knows what she wants. She just feels that others seem to be happier than her. As time went by, the couple's anxiety grew as they watched others achieve success while they themselves remained unknown. Their once happy lives are being swallowed up by adultery and isolation, and the monotony they thought they had escaped lingers like a nightmare. In this novel, Yates once again chose the broken American dream, which he is best at, as his theme. He used the heavy hammer of reality to smash the innocence of the dream, bringing an incomparable dull pain, making people feel the sentimentality of the times and personal difficulties when reading.

Apart from "The Case of Judge Dick of the Tang Dynasty", this is the only detective novel written by Goloupe. He takes off the mask of Judge Dee and returns to the Amsterdam of yesterday. The Chinese version is released for the first time, with a special preface by Thomas Van Gulick, son of Goloupe. "God-Sent Day" is the only detective novel set in Amsterdam besides the "Tang Dynasty Dickon Case" series by Goluope. The story has twists and turns. It not only describes the difficult life of ordinary people during and after World War II, including various practical and psychological dilemmas, but also There is also an investigation of Eastern culture, especially Zen Buddhism. In the collision and confrontation between Eastern and Western cultures, the pursuit of human spiritual salvation and way out reflects an important aspect of the multi-cultural personality of Goloupe himself, that is, the spiritual characteristics of the Dutch.

"The Life and Times of Michael K" is a Booker Prize-winning novel, the highest award for English literature. In war-torn South Africa, Michael K embarks on a journey to take his sick mother back to her home in the countryside. Halfway through, his mother died, leaving Michael K alone in this chaotic world, surrounded by brutal and roaming armies. Michael K was imprisoned, but he could not accept the imprisonment and was determined to live with dignity, so he escaped. This life-affirming novel goes to the heart of the human experience: the need for an inner, spiritual life, the need to find connection with the world we live in, and the need to maintain a pure perspective.

At the beginning of Natsume Soseki's later trilogy, rational life is still full of flaws. "After the Vernal Equinox" is a novel by Natsume Soseki. It was serialized in the "Asahi Shimbun" from January to April 1912, and was later compiled into a book. It describes the newly graduated Keitaro who was running around for a job, and later obtained the position with the help of his friend Suunaga. As a result, he became acquainted with Suunaga, Suunaga's uncle, and his cousin Chiyoko. He watched the love troubles between Suunaga, who was strongly self-aware and regarded himself as a philosopher, and his passionate and naive cousin Chiyoko. It describes the state of Japanese intellectual circles after the Meiji Restoration and the confusion and hesitation of intellectuals.

After the death of the great writer Driffield, his wife asked someone to write a biography of him. Ashenden, the narrator of the novel, was invited by the biographer to recall his interactions with the writer, and the story unfolds from there. Deep in Ashenden's memory we discover the writer's ex-wife, the charming Rosie. She is romantic by nature, always merciful, yet still kind, frank, elegant and lively. In this book, Maugham changed the prejudice against women in his previous works and recalled the life of a beautiful woman as an admirer, embellished with many anecdotes from the literary and artistic circles. The layout of the entire novel is well-proportioned, reality and memories are interspersed with each other, and the writing is clean, sharp and profound, creating the most vivid, vivid and radiant female image in all Maugham's novels.

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After reading "Goodbye, My Love", I discovered that there are some people you just can't quit, and there are some things you just can't compromise on! Haruki Murakami's literary idol, author of "The Long Goodbye", and Chandler, a master of American literature, is another masterpiece! Haruki Murakami once personally translated "Goodbye, My Love", setting off a reading frenzy! Murakami: "Chandler is my idol!" In addition to Murakami, great masters such as Camus, Maugham, Eliot, O'Neill, Auden, Qian Zhongshu, etc. Also regard Chandler as their literary idol. The "Chandler-style" writing style has influenced countless writers in later generations! Reader's Classic Library "Goodbye, My Love" is an exclusive and must-read reason: 1. A young translator and die-hard Chandler fan has created a brand new translation to restore the "tough guy" refined writing style. 2. Brand new hand-drawn comic-style illustrations, vividly showing the charm of Chandler's writing. 3. Specially comes with an original [Illustrated Book of Marlowe's personal belongings], which displays wine, clothes, cars and other items in an illustrated way - take the illustrated book to the pub and order a glass of wine that Marlowe drank. 4. Special bonus: [Marlowe's Map of Los Angeles], original map and landmark illustrations, taking you through Chandler's Sin City. The desperado who had just been released from prison was looking around for his lover's whereabouts. He didn't care that his lover had never visited the prison or written a letter in eight years. The day he was released from prison, he bought new clothes and looked for her everywhere. He just wanted to see her, he just loved her, but his lover... "Hello, honey, long time no see."

Bob Slocum's life exemplifies the American Dream. He is a middle-level manager in a large company, a husband and father of three children in a middle-class family, living a prosperous life and having a steady stream of lovers. His life is stable and orderly, he follows the rules, and society demands that he be happy-or at least pretend to be. But the pretense is getting harder and harder. Slocum's heart was filled with unhappiness, which gradually deteriorated into desolation and fear, until one day, something happened.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - In the winter of 1501, the cold sun climbed into the gray sky, and the beautiful Spanish princess Catherine married the English prince Arthur. Is this a happy ritual or the beginning of a curse? Firm faith and true love eventually turn into heavy shackles on a sad soul. From an innocent girl to a political victim, see how Catherine, the mother of "Bloody Mary", fell into the quagmire of royal battles step by step... The translation has been significantly revised in all aspects to improve accuracy and fluency. The overall unified translation has improved the deficiencies of the old translation. The reprinted character relationship diagram and additional annotations make it easier for readers to read without any threshold.

The "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I may not have been a virgin. Is her lifelong entanglement with her favorites a matter of profit or true love? "The Virgin Lover" centers on the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Elizabeth I, who ushered in the "Golden Age", and her lover Robert Dudley. Many events that have been briefly mentioned in official history show different styles through their eyes, and the ambiguous relationship between the two people, which is talked about by future generations, also gets a new interpretation.

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Malloy Sandor's youth began in Germany. In 1919, he left Kausau and studied at the Leipzig School of Journalism. In Germany, he realized his literary dream and became a columnist for the Frankfurter Zeitung along with famous writers such as Thomas Mann and Theodor Adorno. Thereafter, he traveled throughout Europe, to East Asia, and finally returned to Budapest. For ten years, he was a traveler, writer and journalist. He gazed at the European continent between the two world wars with a calm and rational eye. He glimpsed the twilight moment of civilization through the prosperous surface, and revealed the decadent dark side hidden by beauty: the decline of humanistic traditions, the disintegration of moral ethics, and the disappearance of spiritual homeland. He also recalled the lost world of yesterday with his fiery and sensual pen and fiery sincerity, making his words a lasting reminder of time and history, leaving a testimony for the era behind him. From leaving a foreign land to returning home, it begins with exploration and ends with enlightenment. Malloy experienced the loneliness and confusion of wandering, the uninhibitedness and romance of youth, the friendship and love across classes, and finally confirmed and shouldered his "mission as a Hungarian writer." What he tells is not only his personal destiny, but also the destiny of a generation of European intellectuals.

From the day Hitler entered Vienna, what fate has befallen the civilization of civil society? Why did Hungary lose its mind and go to the edge of the knife? Based on extensive and detailed observations, Malloy Sandor meticulously records and analyzes a series of key events related to the fate of Hungary: the Anschluss Day, the establishment and subversion of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the siege of Budapest, and two important treaties that had a profound impact on the European political situation: the Treaty of Trianon and the Vienna Arbitration Award. Through writing that penetrates the back of the paper, he reproduces the secret struggle between domestic and foreign forces on the Hungarian political stage, and then examines the Hungarian nation at the center of the whirlpool. He questions the national and social missions that citizen class intellectuals should bear, and interprets the full weight of the word responsibility. He also gained a profound insight into the inevitable demise of citizenism through the tragic lives of three government prime ministers - Bertrand István, Telej Pal, and Baldosz Laszlo. He wanted to be silent, but in the end he couldn't. He wants to leave a testimony and let history become a mirror for the future.

Philip Roth's late masterpiece, winner of the 2005 Association of American Historians "Outstanding American Historical Fiction Award". "The Plot Against America" ​​is a shocking "counterfactual novel" that presents a semi-fictional alternative history of the United States. Philip Roth uses real details, reasonable situations, and a child's perspective to tell the story of Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous flying hero and fanatical isolationist, who overwhelmingly defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. From then on, every Jewish American family lived in the shadow of fear. During the anti-Semitic government of Lindbergh, ordinary Jewish families living in Newark experienced years of horrific violence, and millions of Jewish families were torn apart... This post-9/11 work recreates a dark period that has been gradually forgotten by the United States, dramatically showing the lingering fear that envelopes the United States.

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At the end of the world last time, a wood beetle got into Noah's ark. What it saw Noah doing was very different from what was recorded in the book. The Ark reappears repeatedly in human history, whether it is a robbed cruise ship, a Titanic, or a lone boat on the sea in a nuclear panic... This stowaway has not left. It looks coldly at how history is distorted, and how the distortion can become "real" history; it possesses Barnes's wonderful writing, teaching him to collage a seemingly absurd but enlightening world history with pieces of wonderful articles.

History keeps repeating itself, "the first time is a tragedy, the second time is a farce." At the end of the world last time, a wood beetle got into Noah's ark. What it saw Noah doing was very different from what was recorded in the book. The Ark reappears repeatedly in human history, whether it is a robbed cruise ship, a Titanic, or a lone boat on the sea in a nuclear panic... This stowaway has not left. It looks coldly at how history is distorted, and how the distortion can become "real" history; it possesses Barnes's wonderful writing, teaching him to collage a seemingly absurd but enlightening world history with pieces of wonderful articles.

"Bashan Night Rain" was written in 1946 after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and began to be serialized in 1946. It took more than three years to complete at the end of 1948. It is Zhang Henshui's "painful lesson" work. With a cold and rational writing style, the author takes the lead in exploring the national psychology while accusing the war atrocities of the Japanese invaders. The novel takes the protagonist Li Nanquan as the axis and shows readers a picture of all living beings in the mountain village of eastern Shu. The characters are lifelike, the language is humorous and sharp, and the novel's descriptive skills have reached a level of proficiency.

"Through this cat's eye marble, I saw my entire life." The painter Elaine never thought that she would return to her hometown again after so many years. What awaits her is not the joy of revisiting her old place, but the lingering "ghost of childhood" - Cordelia, her best friend and enemy, the creator of her endless pain. Isolation, hostility, and mental violence once made Elaine's life worse than death; and it only takes one compromise for the violence to escalate step by step. As an adult, Elaine still cannot get out of the shadow of her childhood and can only keep running away from those darkest years. In fact, as long as you fight back ruthlessly once, you can break away from the false friendship.

In 1946, O'Connor, who was in his early twenties, published his first short story "Geranium", which together with several early short stories such as "The Barber", "Wild Cat" and "The Crop", demonstrated his vitality and penetrating creative talent. This book "Geranium" selects 12 short stories written by O'Connor. In addition to the early 9 short stories, it also includes "A Festival in Partridge Town" and "Why Do Foreign Countries Fight?" " "You will not be worse than the dead" are three mid- to late-stage works. Among them, "Train", "Peeler", "Heart of the Park" and "Enoch and the Gorilla" outline the prototype of his full-length masterpiece "Wisdom of Blood", while "You Can't Be Worse Than the Dead" is the beginning of the novel "Force to Take".

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"Childhood" is one of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy. It describes the growth experience of a Russian teenager from a first-person perspective. The creation of this work is based on the author's real experience. In this work, Gorky observes various bizarre events in old Russian family life through the eyes of his childhood - some of which are already commonplace in the eyes of adults, but colorful in the eyes of children - and the various people who make up these events, including relatives, domestic servants and neighbors, all of them are meticulous and lifelike. In particular, the image of the smart, capable and considerate grandmother has warmed thousands of readers and left a deep impression on them. This edition of "Childhood" is a direct translation from the final Russian version. It is accompanied by a thousand-word introduction by the translator Mr. Yuan Tinglei, character relationship diagrams, geographical diagrams and other illustrations to help readers better read and understand this century-old classic.

Like McEwan's other novels in recent years, "Sweet Tooth" is the kind of work whose plot is particularly closely aligned with the era in which it is set. As the only "female literary youth" in the Five Divisions who is keen on reading novels, and who "happens" to have a figure and appearance that seems to have come directly from a novel, Selina accepted a special task: "Operation Sweet Tooth" aims to indirectly and covertly fund writers who are ideologically aligned with British interests and have influence on the public. The person Selina is responsible for approaching and luring them to join is the only novelist in this operation, Tom Haley. Tom and Serena fell in love with each other, and they loved each other step by step, they loved each other true and false, and they survived desperate situations. But if you guess the beginning, you may not be able to guess the end.

When World War II broke out, Charles's army was stationed in a vast snowfield. When the snow melted, he discovered that this was the place where the story took place more than 20 years ago - Brideshead Manor. It was a day in June when Charles followed Sebastian, an aristocratic boy he met in Oxford, to Brideshead Manor for the first time and walked into this Catholic family. His mother, Lady Marchmain, was in charge of the manor, while his father, Lord Marchmain, left his family and his mistress behind to live in Venice after the First World War. The father's deviant behavior brought shame to the entire family, and the children grew up in a distorted environment. Sebastian became addicted to alcohol, broke up with his family, and even disappeared from home like his father. Sister Julia married a snobbish politician despite her mother's objections, and her marriage was unfortunate. When Mrs. Marchmain was critically ill, she begged Charles to find her runaway son. However, Charles, who was already married, met Julia and fell in love... When Charles stepped into Brideshead Manor again, the former magnificence no longer existed, and the pastoral life was gone, leaving only infinite memories.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" was first published in 1864 and is one of Verne's early famous science fiction novels. The story tells that the German geologist Lidenbrock, influenced by a coded letter from his predecessor, took his nephew and guide on an adventure trip through the center of the earth. They descended from a volcano crater in Iceland, overcoming difficulties such as lack of water, getting lost, and storms along the way, and finally returned to the ground along a volcano in Sicily. This work has a tortuous plot and fluent language. With its extraordinary imagination, it presents readers with a fantasy world that transcends time and space.

"The Clock Without Hands" is an impressive novel by McCullers, written about people in three age groups: the 80-year-old former member of the House of Representatives, Judge Fox Klein, the pharmacy owner Mr. Malone who suffers from leukemia, the judge's grandson, Jester, a seventeen-year-old high school student, and Sherman, a black man of the same year. The novel connects these vivid characters through two main lines. The first main line is that Mr. Malone, the owner of the pharmacy, was diagnosed with leukemia. From then on, his life became a clock without hands until he calmly closed his eyes forever. Fourteen months passed in between. The second main line is that the blue-eyed black orphan Sherman Puyou is determined to find his biological mother, while the judge's grandson is interested in finding out the cause of his father's death, so the novel has a very thick "racial discrimination" main line. The novel does not have a bizarre and tortuous plot, but the characters are flesh and blood, each one vivid and vivid on the page.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the autumn of 1558, church bells rang throughout England, announcing the news that Elizabeth had become queen. Only one person was worried about it: Amy Dudley. The bells will call her husband Robert back to power and to the amorous Queen. The favored minister fell in love with the queen, but money and power could not fill Robert's expanding ambition. He dreams of regaining control of his destiny and marrying Her Majesty the Queen of England, but he believes that the only obstacle on this road is Amy... "The Virgin Lover" centers on Elizabeth I and writes about the men and women who surround her after she ascends the throne. How much sincerity and how much flattery is there in love based on power?

The story takes place in 1864. During a voyage, Sir Glenarvan, the owner of the cruise ship Duncan, got a drift bottle, which contained clues about the Scottish navigator Captain Grant who was in distress and disappeared two years ago. In order to rescue Captain Grant in distress, Sir Glenarvan took his wife, his sailors, Captain Grant's children, and the geographer who accidentally entered the cruise ship on a journey to find Captain Grant. Floods, wolf attacks, scams... They experienced numerous hardships along the way, overcame all dangers with wisdom and courage, and finally rescued Captain Grant on a small island.

"Amsterdam" is the 1998 Booker Prize-winning work, an extremely exquisite McEwan masterpiece. Two good friends meet at a funeral for the dead woman they once shared. They could not imagine that this charming woman would have relations with two other conservative and vulgar dignitaries during her lifetime. Deeply deploring the pain she suffered before her death, they reached an agreement: if one could not live with dignity, the other could end his life at any time.