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On a small island called Emerald Island, high-end jewelry industry tycoon Yi Linge is about to hold a high-end jewelry auction in Emerald Villa. However, on the eve of the auction, murders occurred one after another, and the suspects disappeared mysteriously... After the investigation of female detective Li Xiying, it was discovered that everything in front of her was inextricably linked to a murder case fifteen years ago, and behind the ruthless killings was a long-standing shocking conspiracy...

Is it a dream or hallucination? She can always see scenes that happened in the past. Clear, blurry, and fragmented pictures can all confirm the facts of the past. She saw the boy who committed suicide by jumping off the building a year ago and walked into the elevator with her, and saw the basketball players who suddenly collapsed from poisoning on the playground a few months ago... Ying Jiani didn't know if she was sick or crazy, "What on earth is wrong with me?" She often asked herself. Many bizarre incidents occurred in different universities in a university town, and important fragments of each incident can emerge in the mind of an unrelated person. It is unbelievable. This happened to Ying Jiani. People are still puzzled as to why this girl has such "special powers"... The unsolved cases in the university town are being solved one after another. At the same time, the unknown dangers from the darkness are also approaching "them" step by step...

These are four stories under the same worldview - "Murder Alice": Female college student Ari discovers that she has the same dream every day - the world of "Alice in Wonderland". What's even weirder is that every time a fairy tale character dies in the dream, a teacher or classmate dies in reality. Is this really just a coincidence? The appearance of the boy Jing Morijian convinced Ari that there was some connection between the dream world and reality. But the terrible thing is that Alice in the dream is regarded as a serial killer and will be sentenced to death. Does this mean Ari is going to die? In order to save Ari, Jingsen worked hard to travel between the two worlds to find the murderer. But at this time, they didn't know that all this was just an appearance, and a greater collapse had begun... "The Murder of Clara": Somehow, Imori got lost in his dream and came to the world of "The Nutcracker". There, he met Clara, a girl in a wheelchair, and her uncle. After waking up from the dream, as if designed, Jingsen met a girl named Kelala and her uncle at school. Kelala said that she was Clara in the dream. Her life was being threatened at the moment and she needed Jingsen's help. Jingsen promised to protect the girl, but from now on, what awaits him is death that he cannot escape... "The Murder of Dorothy": Jingsen wanted to find a way out in his dream, but met Dorothy and his party, and was taken to the Emerald City of Oz in "The Wizard of Oz". Dorothy advises him to stay here because Oz is a happy land where there is no crime or death. But Jingsen always felt that something was wrong. Soon, the Queen of Oz held a birthday party, and Dorothy died tragically in a secret room guarded by powerful magic and guards. The strange thing is that everyone seems too calm in the face of death in front of them. What is going on in this country? How was Dorothy killed? "Dink Bell Murder": Jing Mori attended an elementary school reunion at Blizzard Villa, and there was also an annoying class teacher. In contrast, Jing Mori came to the world of "Peter Pan" in his dream and witnessed Peter's tyrant-like rule. Wars on Dream Island continued one after another, and a large number of dead people appeared in Blizzard Villa. Jingsen knew that he had to stop Peter! But, can we really make it in time? What kind of dark and cruel childhood is hidden in the boys' evasive eyes?

The book includes three novellas: "Walking through the Angry Sea", "Ice Floe" and "Miss Pelican". The captain Lao Jin seeks revenge for the death of his beloved daughter, and Zhuang Lisong, who goes out to hunt whales in the polar sea and is stranded on the ice floe, wants to write the story of his ex-girlfriend's murder. The novelist Qima who entered the work... In the pursuits and escapes again and again, the vastness and coldness of the sea echoed with the complexity and coldness of human nature. Everyone is trying to wade through the turbulent sea in their own hearts and reach the other shore of love and forgiveness.

Three stories and one interview. The story is adapted from a script co-written by the two authors, as if people who have lost their identities are trapped in absurd situations, and they are living in their own Rashomon: a man from Angola broke into the airport with vinegar, causing a dispute about identity during the interrogation; a man planned to kill his lovers who carried past memories, but was defeated in their narrative; a robber who visited his grandmother and granddaughter during the civil war unexpectedly revealed a secret past. The interview revolved around the two's upbringing and writing concepts. They "laughed, joked, and bet that literary creation is not always an act of deep loneliness."

Thirty-two-year-old single white-collar worker Higashiyama Yui works in an Internet company. Unlike her colleagues who consider the company as their home, since she joined the company, she has worked from nine to six and got off work on time, no matter how busy she is. However, this style of work is gradually under threat as "full-time hard-working models" join the company and postpartum mothers with a sense of crisis return to the workplace, burdened with the pressure of being seniors and superiors. How does she face doubts and criticisms, and how does she balance work and life?

With his excellent work ability, Higashiyama Yui was promoted to management. The workload and pressure increased a lot, and he also needed to spend more time training new people. Today, Yui not only faces challenges to her "no overtime" principle, she also encounters gender discrimination and workplace sexual harassment at work. At this moment, she received an olive branch from another company. Will she choose to escape the quagmire, or bravely accept the challenge?

"I'm here, I'm downstairs at your Mei Group." A deep male voice rang in her ears... She looked around the empty office and said impatiently: "Who is playing tricks in my company? Come out -" "I'm here, I got on the elevator that goes directly to the president's office floor." She dropped the phone to the ground as if she was getting an electric shock. This was really the most awesome prank she had ever encountered! "I'm here, I'm..." Suddenly, a pair of men's leather shoes grabbed her with force, and Meilin screamed hysterically, "Help..."

In 1933, Kuomintang agents broke into the Communist Party and caused great damage to the underground party organizations of the Communist Party of China. During the two years, more than 800 Communist Party members were persecuted in Shanghai. The party's most important document, "File No. 1," Is at stake. At this moment, the lonely underground party members are lurking in the heart of the enemy, fighting desperately to protect "File No. 1"...

Grandpa Rafael is a well-known witch doctor. His talents include but are not limited to talking to the dead, predicting the future, curing diseases and saving people, and summoning the clouds and calling for the sun... Even when he was buried, many people rushed to stuff notes with wishes into the coffin, hoping that grandpa's magic would help them realize it. Mother, a strange woman who doesn't abide by the rules and is not afraid of tradition, is what my grandfather calls a "little mountain beast". She is smarter and wilder than any man my grandfather knew. Not only does she have the ambition to inherit witchcraft, she can also talk to ghosts and gods in two places. I am in college in Chicago, have a satisfying boyfriend, and live an ordinary life with peace of mind. Amnesia in a car accident awakened the psychic ability, and I was summoned by my deceased grandfather in a dream, and was pulled by a magical destiny... Several relatives, including my mother, all dreamed of my grandfather. This was a shared dream. We decided to return to Colombia, dig up my grandfather's coffin, and unearth the hidden family history.

[Reunion + Suspense + Loyal Dog] A cool and aloof expert in the criminal investigation world, but there is a loyal dog living in his heart? Taotao is a sincere work of reasoning and romance. The aloof and loyal criminal investigation boss VS the cold-blooded criminal consultant reunited after a long separation, tit-for-tat, and worked together to solve major cases, and finally reunited. He had been waiting for her to come home. When they were in love in college, one time they were all sweaty from playing soccer, but he refused to take off his shirt in public. Instead, he took her hand, pressed it on his abdomen, and said, "This kind of benefit is only for you." When they met again, he glanced at her several times, but choked her for a long time with "I won't cooperate with this woman." When she was writing briefings, he would always criticize her, but he would also praise her when she was furious. When we were investigating cases together, he would always say something that disturbed her mind, intentionally or unintentionally: "I have not changed, and where I am, your home is." Until one time he came into the room and announced to her: "From now on, I will completely belong to you." No matter how cold the criminal investigation expert Zuo Qingcang is to the outside, there is a loyal dog living in his heart, and he only protects this reunion for the criminal psychologist Shu Xun.

What is it like to deliver food on Monster Earth? I, a former sci-fi researcher preparing to make it big in a food startup, accidentally lost my job and became a food delivery driver. At the critical moment when this job was about to be ruined, an old acquaintance who often ordered takeout offered me an olive branch: I would go to an animal protection base to work in my old profession - transporting goods. However, this old acquaintance did not tell me that the so-called base is not on the earth at all, at least not on the earth we have been living on! When I came to Greenland, a lush island, and saw strange creatures the size of hills and self-contained ecosystems wandering on a land where no humans had set foot, I had an ominous premonition. 2023 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel Popular Work! Is it unbearable to live on earth without monsters? Delivery workers save the world, an alternative survival guide for social animals! Humorous science fiction × monster aesthetics, sweeping away the long-standing heaviness and difficulty in the science fiction world. If you also like "Jurassic Park", "Godzilla" and "The Big Bang Theory", please don't miss this book!

A work commemorating the 25th anniversary of Nishizawa Yasuhiko's debut! A collection of mature character reasoning short stories. When I came to my senses, thirty-eight years had passed, the era had changed from Showa to Reiwa, and I had become a ghost. Who killed me and why am I buried in this hole? A teacher troubled by murderous nightmares woke up and found that the dream had become reality. He drove to the abandoned house and found that the bodies were increasing one by one. Could it be that the female student who commissioned the murder has the ability to manipulate people's hearts? Writer Thomas brought his newly written novel to his friends to read. The content is about an unsolved murder case more than forty years ago. Are those unnatural places a flaw in the novelist's creative skills or does he have another agenda? The five short stories are like falling into an illusion, like watching a movie that has never happened in the past but is quite real. The mysteries of the past are gradually becoming clearer, but people today are trapped by delusions...

Seventy years later, she never really fell asleep. When the body is asleep, the soul is awake; when the soul is asleep, the body is awake. Like a lonely ghost wandering in memories. She remembered the strange names on the house number, as well as the bodies rushing toward those names. She remembered the Buddha's head flowers that the girls breathed out with force, and the blood that was as black and shiny as briquettes... The memory of being broken into pieces was as clear as yesterday, but she couldn't remember who she was. The status of "survivor" is like a heavy curse. She struggled to escape from her hometown, the crowd, and herself. But fear and shame always pursued her, swallowing up all her laughter and tears, and cutting off all her connections with the world. Why can't I live uprightly in this world like others? Is it a sin to come back alive? Even from hell. Watching the news of "Only the last survivor left" playing on the TV, she murmured in a low voice: - No, there is still one person here. She wanted to tell everything before she died.

"Utopia" is a travelogue written by Thomas More, a famous British utopian sociologist and famous humanist thinker. It was first published in 1516. The book is divided into two volumes. The first volume uses the words of a traveler to talk about what he saw during his travels around the world, which leads to the observation and criticism of the situation in Britain at that time; the second volume is a description of an imaginary country named after "Utopia". The book "Utopia" is the first book on utopian socialism in Europe. It describes the picture of utopian socialism completely for the first time. In the history of socialist thought, it criticized the evils of primitive accumulation of capital for the first time, put forward the principles of public ownership and equality based on organized production and universal labor, laid the foundation of utopian socialism, and provided valuable ideological materials for the future development of scientific socialism.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray", also known as "The Picture of Dorian Gray", is a novel written by the British dramatist and novelist Oscar Wilde. The story tells the story of Dorian, a young aristocratic boy with good looks and good heart, who saw his portrait made by a painter and discovered his amazing beauty. Under the instigation of the painter friend Lord Henry, he made a wish to the portrait: the beautiful boy will remain young forever, and all the vicissitudes of the years and the sins of the boy will be borne by the portrait. So he began to indulge his evil desires... This book is translated by Li Jiazhen.

"The Mayor of Casterbridge" is a novel written by the British novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. It is a part of the "Wessex Novel System" and was published in 1886. The work tells the story of the protagonist Henchard, who was originally a haymaker who betrayed his wife and daughter due to drunkenness. He later regretted it, never drank again, worked hard to get rich, and became the mayor of Casterbridge twenty years later. Later, his wife and daughter returned to him, but disasters also followed... Through this tragic description, the author reveals the disasters that capitalist development has brought to the working people, and condemns the irrationality of the capitalist system. This book is translated by Zhang Ling and Zhang Yang.

Two months, two corpses, two missing mobile phones - a female corpse was found on the coast. According to the ID information on her body, her name was Tsumi Shino. Suddenly receiving news of the death of his wife who had been missing for many years, detective Ji Xiao rushed to the scene with all kinds of questions and complicated emotions. However, what he saw was a completely unfamiliar face. Who is she? Why did you take your wife's name? Xiaoxiao suppressed the anger in her heart and tried her best to trace her true identity. Soon, a man's body was found in the park, also carrying his ID. His mobile phone was missing, but his face and fingers were damaged. How are the two related? All they want to hide is their identity? Or something other than identity? Xiaoxiao felt like she was entangled in invisible threads...

Xunzi and Hechang, a seemingly inseparable couple, decided to divorce after their daughter Ruisui's primary school interview. However, while waiting for the interview test, they received news that their daughter had accidentally drowned. Mizuho's brain was severely damaged and he was unable to breathe on his own. Xunzi and Hechang were heartbroken, but they could only face the reality. Just when they accepted the fact of their daughter's death, agreed to organ donation before the brain death was determined, and said their final goodbyes to their daughter, Mizuho's hand suddenly moved. Seeing this reaction, Xunzi insisted that her daughter was still alive. The family was about to face an uncontrollable situation and difficult choices they had never imagined...

Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize (2008), and selected into The Guardian's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century (2019). An architect built a dream summer villa on the lakeside outside Berlin, but he had no idea what this land had and would experience: a young woman went crazy and drowned in the lake; Jewish neighbors sold their property at a low price and then disappeared; the advancing Red Army requisitioned the house; fled the Nazi government The author Quan returned from exile and wanted to drag out an ideal home that could last for a long time from the ruins; decades after the reunification of the two Germanys, her granddaughter was forced to give up the property rights, and the successor was the heir of its original builder... In the same place, residents of different eras separated and came. The huge invisible force of history continues to erode mankind's efforts to establish lasting values, and above all passion, pain, reconciliation and destiny stands a landscape that no amount of madness or turmoil can truly change. The "iceberg-like transcendence" poetic narrative of "A Guest" is an echo of Germany's centuries-old vicissitudes. From the Weimar Republic to the years after reunification, twelve fragments of life form a mosaic in which the past and the future collapse. The real teller of the story is time. "Eternal life has existed in the lifetime of an individual human being."

George and Lennie are a pair of homeless people who work everywhere to make ends meet. They have a dream to own a small piece of land of their own, with a small windmill, a small shed, a chicken coop, a pig pen, an orchard, and an alfalfa field so that Lenny can raise his favorite rabbits. However, all this is a dream. But George and Lennie did not give up. This time, they came to work on a new farm, hoping to work hard here and save more money, but they didn't want Lennie to get into trouble again...

Where does the real story begin? 5 Legendary stories × 5 murder mysteries: "The Story of Detective Bamboo" The bamboo cutter Aju found the girl Kaguya in the bamboo and took her home to adopt her. He thought he could live a happy life until... "The Seventh Rice Ball Gurulu" Grandpa Sochi is greedy and lazy. Hearing that he could get a treasure bag with a rice ball, he rolled down the hillside into a mouse hole. Unexpectedly... "The Multiple Murders of Rice Straw" The impoverished Hanta was desperate for life. He obeyed the oracle and walked west with a straw, constantly making exchanges on the road... "True" Have you heard of that story? The despicable monkey killed the crab with a persimmon, and the crab's friends retaliated harshly. But the truth is... "Saru Roku and Bunfu exchange crimes:" The civet cat Chataro's specialty is the art of transformation. In order to repay his kindness, he turned into a tea tripod and performed acrobatics. An accident happened...

At first glance, a second-hand house listed for sale in Tokyo looks like a very ordinary single-family house. There's just something strange about the floor plan of the house. There is a "mysterious space" between the kitchen and the living room on the first floor. Carefully look at every corner of the house plan, and you'll find puzzling designs everywhere. Double doors, a windowless children's room, a dressing room with an unobstructed view... The various inconsistencies hidden behind the bright open room are intertwined, ultimately pointing to a truth... A truth that sends chills down the back and that no one wants to believe.

Liu Dong is a dull and boring Ph. D. In biochemistry. A sudden unemployment forced him to work in a company run by his wife's ex-boyfriend. Life began to turn into being ridiculed by the boss at the company, and being said to be useless at home by his wife, the school beauty and top student. Even his eight-year-old son Songsong began to think that he was a joke. By chance, Liu Dong participated in a talk show and met the actress Lu Jun. He found that talk show could be an outlet for his inner monologue, and gradually regarded talk show as a refuge in life, hoping to realize his own value on the stage. But Yao Qiang's wife opposed his dream of acting and asked Liu Dong to make a choice between her and the talk show. This book tells the twists and turns in the pursuit of dreams by Liu Dong and several young talk show actors. It also presents the love story of Liu Dong, Wang Yan and Lu Lu who broke up and reunited because of the talk show.

Highly praised author Zhou Sujie's latest novel! Three young people born in the 1990s, Xiao Shui, Da Yu and Qi Tian, ​​and their parents born in the 1960s, jointly weave a web of love-hate relationships. The book has ten chapters in total, echoing the "book within a book" - the eight short stories of "Empty Love". Each chapter tells an almost independent and complete story, with different characters as the protagonists, telling the joys and sorrows of "destiny". The tentacles extend to real-life issues such as family of origin, intimate relationships, social class, and career difficulties that every contemporary person cannot escape. They quietly record the real and credible moments in life, explore and explore multi-dimensional complex human nature, and find the true meaning of "heart" in love and non-love.

"Falling Flowers" is a novel. The background of the story is Shanghai. The novel revolves around the protagonist Cheng Jinheng's initially ups and downs and ultimately twists and turns in his career and the ups and downs of emotional experiences that accompany it, expressing the author's thoughts on life, life and social development. The implicit theme of this book is that even if life is a journey against the odds, there will be ups and downs in the journey, but there will also be beauty; even if we feel that life has treated us badly, we cannot extinguish the flame of love in our hearts, and we cannot simply give up passively because the probability of realizing our ideals is small, because we firmly believe that as long as we persist, we will eventually gain something, either now or then. In the novel, in addition to the male protagonist, there are also the heroine Zheng Ruoxi, who has returned from overseas, and the secular and confused wife Liu Jialing of the male protagonist Cheng Jinheng. There are also Zheng Ruoxi's brother Zheng Ruoyu and Zheng Ruoyu's childhood and business partner Tang Wangyao. Zheng Ruoxi's father, retired professor Zheng Xiuzhi, mother is Shen Panjuan, an obstetrician and gynecologist who uses her spare energy, Zheng Ruyu's full-time wife Ni Yaqin, and his love object dance school teacher Liu Qingqing, Cheng Jinheng's family, and Xiaobaicai, the proprietress of a home-cooked restaurant in his hometown town, etc. All the characters in the novel are ordinary people we meet in our daily lives. Their work, life, and relationships embody and contain the enterprising, tolerance, grandeur, and beauty of the city of Shanghai. Of course, partial descriptions also reflect the unknown loss, anxiety, and even struggles of ordinary people in society.

"The Calculator" is a collection of novellas and science fiction novels by Alexander Gromov, the "Grand Slam" Russian science fiction writer. It includes "The Calculator", "The Eleventh Class Civil Service Officer" and "The Flying Monkey and the Stallion" which won the Best Short and Medium Story Award at the Russian Science Fiction Convention. "The Calculator" has been adapted into a movie of the same name. Gromov believes that his novels belong to "social science fiction". He is good at analyzing human nature and group psychology in extreme environments. His works have both forward-looking vision and realistic allegory.

Margaret, a courtesan in Paris, was conquered by the sincere love of Armand, who was not rich, and fell in love. Just as the lovers were looking forward to a better life in the future, Armand's father secretly forced Margaret to leave Armand. Armand does not know the truth and thinks that Margaret abandoned him intentionally. Margaret endured the humiliation and died of hatred due to the double torment of illness and grief. This innocent love ended in tragedy.

"The Tale of Genji" is set in the heyday of the Heian Dynasty in Japan and describes the life experience and love story of the protagonist Genji. The book has a total of fifty-four chapters and involves more than 400 characters, among whom there are 20 or 30 memorable ones. The characters are mainly upper-class nobles, but there are also middle- and lower-class nobles, palace maids, maids and common people. The book uses several major events as the key and turning point in the development of the story, and methodically passes through various small events to integrate the development and climax of the story with each other, gradually revealing the inside story of aristocratic social life. "The Tale of Genji" reflects the cultural life and social background of the Heian period. While implementing the realistic "real" aesthetic idea, it also created the Japanese romantic idea of ​​"mono-sorrow".

"The Moon and the Bonfire" is Cesare Pavese's representative work. The protagonist of the book, Eel, returns to his hometown after being tired of the endless search for dreams and mythical wanderings. He was pleasantly surprised that time had not passed by the hills of his hometown, but that everything else had changed. Although his childhood was difficult, he still recalled it. Things are different and people are different, so he can no longer find a kind of harmony to let go of his nature. With mixed feelings, he embarked on his journey again.

Another mysterious masterpiece by Pavich, the author of "Khazar Dictionary" and "The Romance of the Fish-scale Hat". It is a masterpiece for imagination lovers and a literary giant that reinterprets Greek mythology. A tragedy of pure love. In a parallel universe, the couple with the same name as the Greek mythological characters suffered a more tragic fate than Hero and Leandre. The story comes from ancient Greek mythology: Hero is the priestess of Aphrodite. Leander swam across the Dardanelles every night to meet her. Hero used a torch to guide Leander every night. On a stormy night, the torch was blown out by the storm. Leander was lost and drowned. Hero was so sad that he jumped into the sea. This fantasy lyrical novel has a special funnel-shaped structure, consisting of two legendary stories. The first half of the book, following the convention of ordinary books, tells the story of Hailuo. Turn over the book and start from the beginning, that is the story of Leander. The stories of these two people are connected together by fragments of Greek mythology. Leander of Pavich was born in the 17th century and was a trader between Belgrade and Constantinople. He was inspired to become a monk, and later he built a magical castle at the Sava Gate in Belgrade and gained great fame. The landscape gradually became desolate as Austrian and Turkish armies looted and burned, and Leander was killed in a bloody battle. The story of Hero took place between 1920 and 1930. It tells the story of a Serbian chemistry student who was eventually killed by her jealous lover. Like Leander, Hero had a premonition of his own death.

Works by Nobel Prize winner Gide, a work of fiction in the true sense recognized by Gide. The translator Sheng Chenghua is the first person in China to study Gide, and he once had contacts with Gide. Penal accidentally discovered his identity as an illegitimate child and ran away from home. By chance, he became the secretary of the writer Edward, who was also the uncle of his best friend Olivier... The novel truly records the confusion, doubts and resistance of young people, and how they continue to explore and get lost in a society with sinking morals and lost values. "Counterfeit money" has rich meanings; tracking down counterfeit money means exposing all kinds of lies, disguises and false appearances woven through words and actions. The world constructed in the novel "The Counterfeiter" is composed of three parts: family, religion, and literature. "Counterfeit money" is their common feature. Together, they form a very absurd world.

The work of Gide, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, is a ridiculous scam that reflects the weaknesses of human nature. It has been translated by veteran translator Gui Yufang. In fact, each of us is trapped in our own cognitive world and has become a prisoner of ourselves.A masterpiece of Gide's novels, the humorous and absurd plot reveals the essence of human nature. It all stems from a secret: the Pope was kidnapped and imprisoned in the Vatican cellar. What is currently on the stage is a puppet and false Pope. The church is in urgent need of funds for rescue operations and looks forward to the generosity of believers. Rumors spread quietly among the people, some were frightened, some were suspicious, and some believed. Three brothers-in-law with different personalities-a scientist who converted to Catholicism, a writer with limited talent, and a timid businessman-were involved in this fraud case one after another. Their originally unrelated destinies converged in Rome, and then deviated from the normal track, eventually leading to a murder...

It is an important work in Xiao Hong's life and a representative of modern Chinese novels and prose. Written in Hong Kong in 1940. Mao Dun spoke very highly of this book. He said: ""The Story of Hulan River" is not like a novel in the strict sense, but it is different, and there is something else, something more attractive than a novel. It is a narrative poem, a colorful folk painting, and a string of sad ballads."

This book selects five novels by Ding Ling: "Meng Ke", "Ms. Shafei's Diary", "Girl Amao", "Shanghai in the Spring of 1930" and "When I Was in Xia Village". These works mark the rise of women in a new era, and also establish her unique position in the history of modern Chinese literature. Ding Ling uses delicate emotions and words to affectionately portray the typical rebellious, depressed, and freedom-seeking intellectual women of the petty bourgeoisie after the May Fourth Movement. They have a strong sentimentalism of emptiness, depression, and despair, and they are also deeply marked by the times and society.

This book includes Su Manshu's novels "The Story of Broken Wild Goose", "The Story of Jiangsha", "The Story of Burning Sword", "The Story of Broken Hairpin", "The Story of Not a Dream", "The Story of Red Tears at the End of the World", as well as the adapted work "The Miserable World". Most of Su Manshu's novels take love as the theme, with fresh and smooth writing, graceful diction, and moving plots. They describe the contradiction between the hero and heroine's pursuit of love and the barrier of reality. Most of the male protagonists in the novel have the chivalrous spirit of a knight to save people from danger and help the poor, as well as their dissatisfaction with the social status quo and their struggle to change reality.

The novel "Still Water Waves" was written in 1935. As soon as it was published, it became a sensation. Guo Moruo even called Li Jieren "China's Zola". "Dead Water" has been frequently put on theater stages and film and television screens, attracting great attention from all walks of life. 70 Years after Mr. Li Jieren wrote the novel, "Dead Water Waves" was adapted for the screen. "Still Water Waves" breaks out of the traditional Chinese novel emphasis on plot and story. Through a series of stories, it presents a vivid portrait of the "citizen class" of Tianhui Town in front of readers. It depicts the psychology of the citizens in a subtle and vivid way.

"Hugo Award" winning work. Sparking a reading craze. The well-known speculative science fiction amphibious writer Lu Qiucha's new work is on the market, the new science fiction writer Hai Miao rewrites the past in time and space, and top Chinese and foreign science fiction creative teams appear on the same stage to present the pinnacle masterpiece of their creative careers! "Galaxy's Edge" is a must-collect classic science fiction series!

Because of his work, Zou Kainan often goes to sea. Once, the company leader Meng Yang paid a large sum of money to invite him to go overseas to engage in the research and development of a biotechnology. Since setting foot on Huangquanyan Island, a series of strange things happened one after another, making Zou Kainan full of doubts. Ghost-haired jellyfish, giant pythons from exotic islands, submarine cemeteries, death diaries... These long-shuttered historical secrets have surfaced one by one. It turns out that the ghosts and terrifying sea monsters encountered along the way are the products of common animal gene grafting and were used as biochemical weapons during World War II; it turns out that Meng Yang went to sea not to develop drugs, but to search for the creatures that lived back then. Hidden information left behind by chemical weapons was produced; it turned out that Wang Chenfei was the son of Wang Jiyu, a scientist who went to the island together; it turned out that Zhao Biancheng and Han Xicheng were brothers; it turned out that everything was not as originally understood; it turned out that everyone has an identity that others did not know; it turned out that Zou Kainan also had another identity, but he did not know it yet...

Imani, a 15-year-old girl, grew up in native Chopi and Portuguese education. Her village was in the midst of double invasions by the African Gaza Empire and Portuguese colonizers. The village chose the protection of the Portuguese, but in the face of the invasion of the Gaza army, the Portuguese sergeant Melo was unable to mobilize the army, so Imani and the sergeant embarked on a journey of exile.

"Sword and Spear" follows "Women of Ashes". Imani's brothers died one after another, and she was sent to be a concubine to King Gaza, hoping to kill the king for revenge. The Portuguese army attacked, the Gaza army was defeated, and Imani was captured along with the Gaza royal family.

This is a novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Yan Yilong, a Chinese young man who participated in the Russo-Japanese War as a Japanese soldier, was injured and was sent to Japan together with Xiao Takahashi for treatment. Since then, he has been separated from his girlfriend Xu Wenjuan. Yan came into contact with the Chinese Revolutionary Party and Japanese gangster forces in Japan, and was later sent to Dalian to deal with several factions. During this period, he reunited with his girlfriend Xu Wenjuan, who had been separated for many years and had gone through many hardships. In order to control Yan Yilong, the Japanese gangsters designed Xu Wenjuan to commit the felony of killing her husband, so the two were forced to embark on their escape paths. The story thus unfolds. Although the two protagonists meet again after going through many hardships, they have long since changed. The plot of the book is based on real historical context, showing concern and sympathy for the humanity and destiny of small people in the big historical background. The three clues are intertwined, and the plot design has ups and downs.

Fitzgerald is the first representative of "Jazz Age" literature. His most famous work is the novel "The Great Gatsby", and "Those Sad Young People" is recognized as Fitzgerald's most powerful and artistic short story collection. This book contains seven of Fitzgerald's short stories, including the short story "Winter Dreams" which is highly praised by the author. The writing period of this book is also close to "The Great Gatsby". Among them, "Absolution" is a story that is widely popular among readers. It was written as a prelude story to "Gatsby". This book is the most popular one among Fitzgerald's short stories among Chinese readers.

"Grasshopper" depicts the rural life in the Huanghuai region in the first half of the 20th century. This is a period when the old system has collapsed and the new system and new culture have not yet taken shape. The social life of the lower class has shown many special phenomena, such as gangsterism, the implementation of the new laws of the Republic of China, the impact of the influx of urban industrial products on traditional rural life, the demise of the gentry society, etc. Out of fear of the locust plague, the locals built a temple for the so-called "grasshopper god". The residents around the small temple are ordinary farmers. They destroy themselves like weeds, but each has their own characteristics and survival instincts that make these legends at the bottom of society endless. Social changes, the emergence of new ideas, the game of various political forces, the truth, goodness, beauty, falsehood, evil and ugliness in human nature have all appeared one after another, writing a colorful and bloody local history and humanities picture.

The novel is set during the Agrarian Revolution period, and uses the artistic expression of small characters and big patterns, small stations and big storms, and small stories and big wisdom to reproduce the difficulties and dangers, functions and contributions of the Central Secret Transportation Line at that time, as well as the wisdom and loyalty of the traffic workers.

The short story "Letter from a Strange Woman" is one of Zweig's masterpieces. A man received a letter without a signature or address on his forty-first birthday. A dying woman told an unforgettable love story, but the hero of the story, the man who received the letter, knew nothing about it. The story begins eighteen years ago. The moment she first met a man, she was still a child. Later, she experienced the obsession of a girl, the passion of youth, and even became a prostitute. However, she never changed her love for the man, and she did not decide to confess her love until her death. This book is a collection of Zweig's short stories. In addition to "Letter from a Strange Woman", it also includes such famous pieces as "The Invisible Collection" and "The Story of Chess".

Fanny was adopted by her wealthy aunt and uncle Sir Bertram and his wife since she was a child. Although she was ignored by everyone except her second cousin Edmund, she was always able to distinguish right from wrong, knew people's hearts, and always had a secret love for Edmund. Later, her noble character won Edmund's love, and the two young people finally got married.

"The Country of Pointed Pines" is the representative work of the famous American female writer Jewett. It describes the quiet life of a seaside town, depicts the inner lives and hidden emotions of the people in the town in detail, and tells the story of independent and capable women who strive to find satisfaction in life and work. The author combines the beautiful, fresh, simple and atmospheric natural scenes with the human nature of loving nature and life, fearing hardships and pursuing ideals, expressing the author's love for nature, longing for pure and friendly interpersonal relationships, and praising people for loving life and adhering to the pure land. The novel has a strong lyrical atmosphere and integrates natural beauty with human beauty, giving the work an alluring artistic charm.

This book belongs to the "Bilingual Classics" series and is the first volume of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes (seven volumes in total)". It tells two classic stories in the series. On the foggy Baker Street, there lived a detective Holmes with a sense of justice and his loyal friend Dr. Watson. "Dark Red Study·Four Signatures" records the process from the two people's acquaintance to solving two murder cases together (namely, the Lauriston Garden mystery and the Pondicherry Villa tragedy). Since then, Dr. Watson has a comprehensive understanding of Holmes's case-solving methods. As roommates and partners, the two gradually established a deep friendship and embarked on one thrilling investigative journey together.