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The Golden Sparrow Award for Short Novels is the highest award in China's short fiction circle and one of the most influential and important literary awards in the contemporary literary world. "Selected Anthology of Short Novel Golden Sparrow Award-winning Writers" selects outstanding works by Golden Sparrow Award-winning writers. The works are all short novels of about 1,500 words. Many well-known domestic publications such as "People's Literature", "Reader", "Youth Digest", "Youth Expo", etc. Have reprinted the articles. "Name My Bird" is a collection of works by Song Yizhu, winner of the Golden Sparrow Award for short novels. In 2007, Song Yizhu won the first place among the top ten in the country in the "National Novel Rookie Competition" of the Little Novel Writers Network, and won the reputation of "No. 1" Among nearly a thousand contestants. In 2021, he won the 9th National Golden Sparrow Award for Novel with ten works including "Cheongsam", winning the highest award in the industry. Song Yizhu's works are deeply influenced by senior writers such as Wang Zengqi. His narrative skills are stable and consistent, his words are sonorous and his stories are warm and emotional. He is especially praised by his peers in the industry.

In 1791, a pharmacy was hidden in a dark alley in London. There was a mysterious female pharmacist named Naila, who dispensed medicines for women who had been hurt by men. Naira has two principles: first, poison must never be used to harm another woman; second, the purchaser and the victim must be registered. One day, Naila's life is suddenly threatened because her new customer, a twelve-year-old girl, Eliza, made a fatal mistake... In the 21st century, after Caroline, an aspiring historian, discovered that her husband had cheated on her, she went to London heartbroken to spend her tenth wedding anniversary alone. Perhaps as fate would have it, when she and her tour group were clearing a ditch near the Thames, they discovered an ancient potion bottle. She could not resist the investigation, and the unsolved "pharmacist murder case" more than 200 years ago slowly surfaced...

This book contains 15 masterpieces of ghost stories by the Japanese ghost story master Tanaka Kontaro. Kontaro Tanaka is an important figure in Japanese ghost story literature. He spent his whole life and energy to extensively collect ghost stories, strange stories and folklore that were scorned at the time. After his processing and creation, these stories have become classics and have been passed down to this day, influencing many ghost story writers in later generations. Among the ghost stories collected in this book, there are both heartwarming stories of ghosts repaying kindness, and scary moments of revenge by evil ghosts; there are both mysterious and weird anecdotes, and funny anecdotes about monsters. Various strange stories present Japan's unique ghost culture before your eyes.

"Black Sheep and White Soup" is a representative collection of works by Golden Sparrow Award winner Zhao Wenhui. All selected works have been reprinted in various selected journals and included in authoritative annual anthologies. He has won the 1st Henan Provincial Literature Award, the 2nd Du Fu Literature Award and the Bing Xin Book Award. The content of this book consists of two parts: the rural areas of northern Henan series and the catering people's notes series. These novels are well-written, firstly, they are rubbish, and secondly, they have stories. The author has a precise and accurate description of the current rural areas and catering industry in northern Henan. Each vivid character is ready to emerge, either so kind that people will be moved by it, or so bad that people want to pull them out of the book and kick them in the feet. Behind the hustle and bustle, we can read the bitterness of life from time to time, as well as the fragrance of local life and the happiness brought by hard work.

The Golden Sparrow Award for Short Novels is the highest award in China's short fiction circle and one of the most influential and important literary awards in the contemporary literary world. "Selected Anthology of Short Novel Golden Sparrow Award-winning Writers" selects outstanding works by Golden Sparrow Award-winning writers. The works are all short novels of about 1,500 words. Many well-known domestic publications such as "People's Literature", "Reader", "Youth Digest", "Youth Expo", etc. Have reprinted the articles. "Notes on Juqiu Mountain" selects more than 100 short novels by writer Xing Qingjie that reflect various situations in the world. The writer has been engaged in literary creation for 30 years and has published more than 20 collections of literary works. Some collections of works have been republished and reprinted many times and enjoy a good reputation among readers. The works included in this book unfold vivid pictures of life with the northern Shandong region as the background, telling unforgettable stories and depicting vivid characters. It is a novel with excellent readability and artistry.

"The Distance between Us and Evil" is a representative collection of works by Xiao Jianguo, winner of the Golden Sparrow Award. The book collects more than 60 excellent short stories by Xiao Jianguo. In the book, the author Xiao Jianguo uses a realistic creative tone to create characters while rejecting conceptualization and facial expression. The overall story is rigorously arranged, the plot progression is clear and layered, and the characters' speech and behavior are very individual. The creative attitude is sincere and touching, the writing rhythm is clear, and the twists and turns of the plot and the strength of the ending are emphasized. The story is suspenseful, meaningful, and burdensome. Between the lines, a high-spirited force of justice rises. The true knowledge of life and the world is expressed through words, which can resonate strongly with readers.

"Ancient Jade" is a self-selected collection of short stories by Lu Taosheng. Lu Taosheng is the winner of the Golden Sparrow Award for short novels, the Hundred Flowers Award and the Bing Xin Prose Award of Novel Monthly. His works are close to reality, pay attention to reflection and awareness, pursue the spirit of enlightenment, have ancient intentions, legendary stories, vivid characters, surprising plots, insight into the world and people's hearts, convey warm feelings, and have a steady writing style. Through the stories of the past, he expresses the philosophy of life and the true feelings of the world, and directly points to the people's hearts in the world. The book contains works that won the 2020 "Most Readers' Popular Award" from "Selected Novels". The award citation stated: "Lu Taosheng is an upright and sincere writer. In decades of literary creation, he has established his own unique and distinctive artistic language, and used the exquisite art form of micro-novel to defend the lofty value of human beings."

"Waiting" is a self-selected collection by Dai Tao, winner of the 9th Golden Sparrow Award. It contains a total of 92 short stories selected by the author. These short stories basically reflect the entire process of Dai Tao's short novel creation since the mid-1980s. Judging from Dai Tao's experience, he joined a team in the countryside, went to college after college, graduated as a prosecutor, went to work as a boss, and then became a lawyer and arbitrator. These experiences have undoubtedly contributed to the richness and diversity of his creative themes. As some critics have commented, his novels show us all kinds of human beings. And among the various characters in this world, whether officials or civilians, men or women, law enforcers or law enforcers, almost all have their own way of being a human being, either using humanity to warm the world, or sensing and accepting this warmth. As mentioned in the Golden Sparrow Award speech: Dai Tao's works have a warm atmosphere and idealistic color, which can resonate with people spiritually.

"Half a Bridge" is a self-selected collection of works by Golden Mahjong Award winner Dai Zhisheng, which includes 70 short novels. "Half a Bridge" has the author's obvious style and logo: it uses Jiangnan customs and old events as its material, pays attention to the fate of the lower class people, insists on promoting traditional culture, and creates a Jiangnan literary town with honest social customs. Yang Xiaomin, an advocate of short novels, said: "His writing is pure and his diction is smooth, which is reflected in each short novel. He is like a wanderer looking for traces of memory, wandering in the long river of time, searching for ancient times, and meditating. The old streets are mottled, the old trees are dense, the years are peaceful, the sunlight is fleeting, and things remain the same. The mottled years carve out the bones and texture of the articles, quietly, and highlight the historical heritage of regional culture."

"The Boy on Horseback" is a self-selected collection by Wang Ruobing, winner of the 9th Golden Sparrow Award for Short Novels. It selects short novels written by the author in recent years. Wang Ruobing's writings mostly take love as the theme: the love of husband and wife, the love of parents, the love of friends, and even all kinds of warmth and love in the world, to name a few. She deeply penetrates the visual life and inner world of ordinary people, discovers and excavates the truth, goodness and beauty in the world, expresses and longs for the true beauty and tenderness in her heart, seeks strength in sadness and suffering, and achieves breakthroughs in reality and ideals. She has profound humanistic care and compassion. As stated in the award speech: Wang Ruobing's works reflect the past time and nostalgia, and the exotic stories he writes are full of human warmth in life, and are real and touching. The writing is smooth and delicate, beautiful and poignant. The romance and sentimentality of love are permeated between the lines, and it touches people's hearts because of the perseverance of love. He is good at using certain props or images to complete the shaping of characters, highlighting the warm expression of human nature and human feelings, making the novel a comfort to people's spirits and souls.

A bizarre murder case: Tianjin in the Republic of China was not only an active place for entertainers in a no-nonsense area, but also a world where foreigners were rampant. The president of the Xinxing Chamber of Commerce held a banquet at his home, but a foreign doctor died unexpectedly. Facing all the forces mobilized for the murder, how will Haiqing and Balsam Gua break through the fog and find the real murderer? 10 Classic crosstalks: a crosstalk passed down from generation to generation in a book. It's classic and funny, but it also hides clues to the murder. When two cross talkers come to solve a case, they have to make people laugh to death in order for the case to be solved! 12 Rivers and lakes trades: Twelve rivers and lakes trades, commonly known as the "twelve rivers and lakes", each has its own rules and inside stories. Relying on their ability to tell, learn, and sing, and to cooperate with each other, the two of them traveled through the twelve doors and went deep inside to find out the real culprit! 48 Kinds of Jianghu passwords: These secret jargons in Jianghu are special means of communication between Jianghu people, and they are also cultural codes that must be mastered to travel in Jianghu. Only Jianghu people can take the lead and solve this Jianghu mystery...

"I'm scared because good people can be bad people." Elizabeth Short, the well-known victim of the "Black Dahlia" case. No one knew about it before his death, but after his death it became popular all over the United States. I didn't know her when she was alive. To me, she exists through other people. Looking back on the past, I see her as just a sad and insignificant slutty girl. I - "Bangle" Brachet, a former boxer and active police detective - investigated the "Black Dahlia" case with a righteous heart, but fell hopelessly in love with her. The dahlia seemed like a beacon of light from my dark past, illuminating the lies, sin, and pain deep within me. I want to have her, even if she is dead. The "Black Dahlia" case was a one-way ticket to hell. I asked Dahlia to repay my love for her by wishing me a safe journey.

"Tokyo Tower" is the author's autobiographical novel. It uses beautiful writing and deep emotions to tell his rough growth experience and his life of dependence with his mother. It is a touching family story and an inspirational legend.

An American middle school teacher spent ten years writing a story about his overnight fame. He fictionalized an island near Seattle with green cedars and strawberries, a small world closed by the sea, intertwined with love, war, racial discrimination and suspenseful murders... Two men came to the life of the Japanese girl Hatsue: Ishmael, a neighbor boy, was her first love, and they had the same breath; Miyamoto Kabuto, a Japanese classmate who had a crush on her and eventually became her husband, they were connected by blood. The Pearl Harbor incident broke out, and the contradiction between Japan and the United States intensified unprecedentedly. Japanese residents were deported to concentration camps in the western desert. Men take to the battlefield. The war rudely interrupted love and intertwined fate... Many years later, at the scene of a suspected murder trial, the three protagonists in a love story that could not seek justice reunited at the intersection of fate. The soul of an island and a Japanese suspect face the court trial together: the themes of good and evil, love and forgiveness, justice and prejudice, kindness and indifference are intertwined and played on the keys and strings of every unpredictable heart, forming a magnificent, subtle and soul-piercing symphony of humanity.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by the famous Austrian writer Zweig, including such masterpieces as "Letter from a Strange Woman" and "The Burning Secret". Zweig's novels have meticulous psychological descriptions, dramatic structures, and concise and beautiful language. The story tells the story of a lady from a distinguished family who had an unexplained adventure when she was forty-two years old. She was magically obsessed with the hand of a gambler in a casino and spent the night with him. This twenty-four-hour experience has been haunting her like a nightmare ever since, tormenting her until her later years.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is Goethe's early masterpiece. It tells the story of young Werther who was moved by the temperament and talent of the girl Lotte and fell in love with this girl who had the same soul as his. Lotte was engaged, and Werther could not suppress his inner love, and finally ended his young life in the melancholy of being unable to love. The story takes Werther's love as the main line, but it shows the broad social picture of Germany at that time. The protagonist of the novel yearns for freedom and pursues individual liberation, and is progressive and profoundly critical. The depression of young Werther's life, the melancholy of love, and his romantic and pure feelings have infected thousands of hearts.

The 2021 China Good Book Award-winning book, "Ping An Piao" depicts a history of the struggle of overseas Chinese merchants in Chaoshan and "going to Nanyang". Zheng Mengmei shoulders the mission of reviving her family business. As she approaches middle age, she travels alone in Southeast Asia. In a foreign country, "Safety batch" unexpectedly became his life's work. The "foreign-style" contracts and credits, written down with a brush, will beat the "Chinese heart" that attaches great importance to love and justice. During the Anti-Japanese War, Mengmei and her relatives and friends understood deeply the righteousness of their family and country, and resolutely devoted themselves to the torrent of serving the motherland... Using the Ping An batch as a medium, the novel integrates the changes of a century of world affairs, profoundly describes the spiritual world of the people, and writes a "Chinese heart" that values ​​love, justice, patriotism and hometown.

The 2021 China Good Book Award-winning book is a long military literary masterpiece by the famous military writer Zhu Xiuhai! "The White Horse Fading Away" is a weighty and thoughtful work of military literature. After interviewing many survivors who had experienced the Liberation War, military writer Zhu Xiuhai collected a wealth of creative materials. He used a white horse galloping on the battlefield as an introduction to the novel "The White Horse Gone Away". The protagonist of the novel, Zhao Xiuying, organized villagers to support the frontline many times during the Anti-Japanese War and led the villagers' labor teams to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army. Due to a misunderstanding in the chaos, Zhao Xiuying and the front team she led came to the battlefield of the Northeast Liberation War. The pain of leaving her hometown and missing her children did not shake the Communist Party member's heart. She gave full play to her organizational skills and experience in mass work, organized a grain harvesting team to help the 37th Regiment survive the difficult years of lack of food and clothing, and saved the entire regiment from hunger several times. On the battlefield, she bravely rescued wounded soldiers from the front line, and used her flesh and blood to set up the life-and-death line of battlefield communications during the enemy's bombing. After the victory of the Liberation War, she continued to adhere to the mission of the Communists and dedicated her life to the land and the people. This book is rooted in real historical stories, with the help of rich historical facts, and against the background of the Liberation War, a decisive battle related to China's future and destiny. It examines and writes about the complexity and truth of history, the kindness and sublimity of human nature from a sober and objective literary standpoint. The writing of war scenes, battlefield plots and details, and the depiction of the emotions and fate of many characters are all controlled and accurate. By juggling the two time-spaces of history and reality, with poetic style and passionate chanting, he successfully created a group of selfless, fearless, firm-faith, vivid and full images of Communists, which were shocking and touching.

General Zhao Sheng was a legend throughout his life. He was Sun Yat-sen's right-hand man, leader of the Yangtze Alliance of the Tongmen League, and commander-in-chief of the Huanghuagang Uprising. He had close friendships with Huang Xing, Hu Hanmin, Tan Renfeng, Zhang Shizhao, Wu Yue and others, and trained outstanding talents such as Chen Mingshu, Zhang Yunyi, Deng Yanda, Jiang Guangnai, etc. The famous "Anthem of Protecting the Country" was written by him. He died young and was posthumously promoted to general by Sun Yat-sen. This book restores the growth and struggle of a revolutionary, reproduces the encounters of those figures who played an important role in the modern history of China during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and retells the difficult road to republic in modern China from the perspective of a revolutionary.

The six stories based on ancient Japanese stories vividly show the ancient Japan written by the great writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke. When everyone only cheered for the moment when the hero ascended the altar, he offered blessings for every step of the hero's twilight years. He brought the dead bones sleeping in the dust of history back to life, and brought saints and villains to the stage at the same time. While laughing and cursing, his writing style was more compassionate than any preacher.

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

What would happen if Virginia Woolf, the greatest British female writer of the 20th century, reappeared in Manhattan, New York, in the 21st century? Best-selling author Angela Lamb is in the midst of a midlife crisis. She leaves her clingy daughter Angela in boarding school and flies to New York to study the manuscripts of Woolf's many works, but unexpectedly encounters Woolf herself. What kind of sparks will be created by the intersection of the masters of the past and the admirers of later generations, two female writers, and two centuries?

"A Dream of Red Mansions" is one of the four great classics in ancient China and the pinnacle of ancient Chinese novels. The whole book is centered on the daily life of Rongguo Mansion, with the love and marriage tragedies of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai as well as the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden as the main line. It also uses the history of the four famous aristocratic families of Jinling, Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, from their peak to decline as a hidden line, showing the decline of families and society in the feudal era.

This book is a collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson, the master of American short stories and queen of Gothic novels. It includes 21 of her most representative and well-known short stories. Many of his works have won literary awards, such as "The Lottery" (won the O. Henry Award in 1949), "Go Home, Louisa" (won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1961) and "The Possibility of Evil" (won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1966). In addition, many masterpieces such as "Come Dance with Me in Ireland" (1944), "Summer Man" (1951), "An Ordinary Day with Peanuts" (1956), "Slumber Party" (1964), etc. Have been selected into the "Best American Short Stories Annual". Shirley Jackson's novels often focus on the sudden falls that ordinary people encounter in gentle and familiar daily life, analyzing the dark side of human nature, and using irony to reveal the complex and sometimes chilling reality behind romantic fantasies.

"Giant" is the second part of the "Desire Trilogy". The novel continues the plot of "The Financier". Cowperwood leaves Philadelphia and goes to Chicago to seek development. This is the period of great development in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. He seeks business privileges, speculates on capital, and becomes a financial giant with hundreds of millions of assets. At the same time, his personal desires are also expanding. He used all means to seize wealth, became morally corrupt, and finally lost himself in desire.

"The Ascetic" is the third part of the "Desire Trilogy". Cowperwood, who failed again, was determined to make a comeback in London. Relying on the skills he had developed in the American financial world, he quickly established a pivotal position in London. But just when his career was at its peak, he passed away. The money, fame, status, etc. That he pursued throughout his life were all gone. His story makes the world realize that money and desire are so insignificant in the face of justice and mercy. Perhaps this is what the author ultimately wants to tell readers.

"The Financier" is the first part of the "Desire Trilogy". It focuses on describing how Cowperwood rose from a fledgling youth to a financier with tens of millions of wealth. Cowperwood is the son of a bank clerk. He understands that all living things eat each other for a living, and is inspired to become a giant. He is capable, bold, ruthless, and determined to do something big and become the godfather of finance. But just when his career was going smoothly, a fire plunged him into a desperate situation. After that, a series of developments finally caused him to go bankrupt and go to jail. But no one can change his path of desire, and no one can stop his financier's ambition.

"Proud of Favor" is the representative play of actor, playwright, and novelist Jesse Eisenberg. The young protagonist appears to be extremely unpleasant on the surface, often making rude remarks and hurting others with harsh words; in fact, he has low self-esteem, is sensitive, fragile, and does not accept himself. He majored in directing, but was kicked out of graduate school because he had no works; he had no income and lived by chewing his old age; he bullied everyone around him, including his Nepalese roommate. When he discovers that his first love is going to marry a banker classmate, he sets out to destroy their relationship... The play focuses on the spiritual emptiness and disillusionment of the American elite white youth under the capitalist society. Through the mouths of other characters, it reveals the nature of interpersonal relationships after all disguises have been shed. In the year of publication, it was staged in New York and London respectively. The protagonist was played by the author. Other starring actors such as Kunao Nayyar also had masterpieces such as "The Big Bang Theory". The play won the Vision Fund Award from the Blanche and Owen Laurie Foundation and was recommended by critics in The New York Times.

"Bar Mystery" tells the story: A freshman girl named Shaya came to Daewoo Detective Agency and threatened to kill Wu Daiyu, a girl who grew up with her and had always bullied her, and brought Daewoo and others to the night bar. In the bar, Dayu and others witnessed Wu Daiyu being stabbed by her boyfriend Gui Tiansu. While investigating this bizarre wounding case, Daewoo discovered a larger conspiracy hidden behind the incident. Several groups of people fought desperately for something vital to their lives. In the end, Daewoo uncovered the most unexpected murderer. "Horror Reading Machine" tells the story: In the process of fighting wits and courage with Zhang Daliang, the little bully in school, Zhao Yong met a magical character-Little White Dragon. The little white dragon claims to be from the lake and is a real dragon god who can help others realize their most desired wishes. With the help of Xiao Bailong, Daewoo and others successfully passed the CET-4. But later, Daewoo discovered that Xiao Bailong frequently appeared near major examination centers in the city, and he realized that Xiao Bailong's identity was not simple. When Daewoo and his partners were investigating Xiao Bailong, they fell into Xiao Bailong's trap twice and became a super reading machine. In the end, Dayu relied on his extraordinary will and wisdom to defeat Xiao Bailong and bring him to justice.

By describing an old man's philanthropic deeds, he describes the story of finding relatives on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The content and theme of the novel are mainly expressed through dialogue, and the form is lively and full of life. The kindness and righteous deeds of the characters convey the fervent hope of one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait for the reunification of the motherland, and reflect the feelings of ordinary people for their family and country and their warm concern for others in the peaceful years. The protagonist Ma Zhonghe, an old man, took his illness to find long-lost relatives for compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Mr. Ma realized the importance of national unity from the simple idea of ​​​​making connections and helping others. Before he died, he asked his confidants to request the government to bury his ashes in an urn on the hilltop of his hometown. The mountain was named "Wangtai Mountain". When will the two sides of the Taiwan Strait be unified? When will the name of the mountain "Wangtai Mountain" be removed, the graves will be flattened, and the urns of your own ashes will be placed in the crematorium.

The novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" is McCullers' masterpiece. It tells the story of a bizarre love triangle in a wild town in the south of the United States, between the wealthy, talented but withdrawn Miss Amelia, the hunchback cousin Raymond with unknown origins, and the bad ex-husband Marvin Macy, centered on a cafe transformed from a grocery store. It explores the unequal relationship between loving and being loved, the impact of environmental opportunities on talent, and the enlightenment of people's understanding in a limited life...

In "The Narrow Gate", "I" and Alyssa are childhood sweethearts. In the eyes of "I", Alyssa is noble, gentle and dignified. "I" feel ashamed and have been reluctant to confess my love to Alyssa. "I" try my best to become a perfect person like Alyssa and then enter into a marriage contract with her. Year after year, time passed by, "I" and Alyssa misunderstood and missed each other again and again, which eventually became an eternal regret...

Novelist Alice moved to a strange coastal town alone, met blue-collar worker Felix on a dating app, and invited him to accompany her to Rome to promote her new book. In Dublin, her best girlfriend Eileen, fresh from a broken relationship, starts dating Simon, whom she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Irene, and Simon are all over thirty. They are still young, but life is gradually catching up with them. They long for each other, hide from each other, separate and reunite. They worry about love and sex, friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last room with light before dark, witnessing something? Can they believe that there is still a beautiful world?

This book is the last novel in the "Barsettshire Chronicle" series of novels. This book takes a check lost by Mr. Soames as the main line and the love of two young couples as the secondary line. It narrates a civil dispute that occurred in the small British town of Bassetshire in 1841. A poor priest was inexplicably involved in a theft case. This was a trivial matter, but Trollope made a detailed description of the life values ​​​​of the British society at that time around this trivial matter. Although the story is small, and the protagonists are ordinary, and some even have low status, the author uses such an angle and style to capture the readers' hearts. This little incident sticks closely to the British society described by the author, making anyone who reads it feel like they are actually there and resonate strongly with it.

In North London at the turn of the century, people's surnames and first names formed a tangled web that confused where they came from. Aji, a middle-aged white man who was divorced and attempted suicide, accidentally got married to a young black Jamaican girl. His Bangladeshi friend Samad, whom he met during World War II, also came to London with his wife to settle down. Aji has been mediocre in his life and makes decisions by tossing a coin; Samad comes from a privileged background, but can only work as a waiter in a small restaurant. As their next generation grows up, the personal crisis of faith evolves into the unfinished expectations of their parents. The conceptual differences between generations, the confusion and anger of misplaced identities, and the collisions and conflicts caused by different cultural backgrounds gradually condense in the northwest corner of the city, and finally erupt into a ridiculous accident on New Year's Eve... The intersection of Eastern and Western cultures shakes the origin of individuals, envelops the fate of several generations, and writes the desires and fears unique to our era.

"Member of the Wedding" is McCullers' most mature work. In the 1950s, she adapted it into a play that ran on Broadway for 501 consecutive performances. It was a huge success and became a classic in the theater world. Frankie, a 12-year-old girl, has been suffocated by a vague but strong dissatisfaction. Her dream is to attend her brother's wedding, go on their honeymoon with them, fly far away, and become one of them. But in this girl's world, "in that green and crazy summer", every lonely person is locked in their own inner space, unable to have any meaningful communication. In the end, she found that she had no relationship with her brother and her bride, and she was still alone...

The novel begins with pharmacy owner Malone being diagnosed with leukemia and ends with his death. Three characters surround Malone: ​​Judge Fox Crane, a former congressman in his 80s, the judge's grandson, Jester, a 17-year-old high school student, and Sherman, a black youth of the same year. Mr. Malone was diagnosed with leukemia, and since then his life has become a clock without hands; Judge Crane is still obsessed with the glorious history of the past South, and even fantasizes about restoring slavery; the judge's grandson Jester intends to find out the cause of his father's death, and the black orphan Sherman is determined to find his biological mother. This series of stories are intertwined. The novel is framed by the symbolic "clock without hands" and revolves around "death", deriving multiple themes about racial discrimination, growth issues, and intergenerational conflicts. McCullers attempted to combine the personal existential crisis of a dying man with the social crisis of the South stemming from racial conflict.

McCullers was only twenty-three years old when he published "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." This novel was a sensation in the literary world as soon as it came out. It is still a best-seller today. It is an important representative work of McCullers and is listed in the "Top 100 English Novels of the Twentieth Century" in the American Modern Library. The work describes the loneliness and frustration of five abnormal people in a southern town in the United States in the late 1930s - the deaf-mute Singer, the coffee shop owner Biff, the girl Mick, the worker Blunt, and the black doctor Copeland. This group of "small town freaks" compete and struggle with their inner world and real life all day long. They observe and watch each other, and sometimes they interact and attract each other; they repeatedly speculate and try, but they gradually drift away from their dreams. In this poor, dirty town, they were hit hard and bloody on the way to find a way out of life. Even with the deepest love, they could not escape the ultimate loneliness.

I think my favorite place in the world is the kitchen. Sakurai Mikage's parents died young, and after the death of her grandmother, who had always been dependent on each other, she became truly alone. In times of despair, Yuichi Tanabe, a classmate who had been cared for by his grandma, warmly invited Miying to move in with him. Yuichi's mother, Eriko, has a special identity of changing from a father to a mother who wears two hats. Meiying found a sense of belonging in this strange family and settled down. While getting along with Yuichi's mother and son, Miying gradually opened up her heart, let go of her ex-boyfriend, and accepted the reality of her grandmother's death. She was reborn in her heart and began to live an independent life again. After Eriko was killed by a guest, Mikage came to comfort Yuichi, and the two, who were neither relatives nor lovers, began to live together. Yuichi's confession was not accepted for a while. A relationship that is not understood by the world is misunderstood. Okuno, who has an unrequited love for Yuichi, comes to accuse and abuse Mikage. Mikage temporarily leaves Yuichi on a business trip, and Yuichi painfully chooses to escape temporarily.

"Lord of the Flies" is an important masterpiece by Nobel Prize winner William Golding. This novel uses the innocence of children to explore the serious theme of the evil of human nature. The story takes place in an imaginary World War III (future nuclear war). A group of British boys aged six to twelve were stranded on a desert island due to a plane crash during the retreat. They were able to live in harmony at first. However, as their evil nature sprouted and expanded, the latent beastiality in human nature defeated human nature. They killed each other, recreating the entire historical process that led them to this situation, turning the desert island paradise into a human slaughterhouse. The author makes abstract philosophical propositions concrete and allows readers to understand them through fascinating stories and exciting battle scenes. The characters, scenes, stories, images, etc. Are all deeply symbolic. The novel has since been recognized as one of the greatest literary masterpieces of the twentieth century.

Reflection in the Golden Eye is an important early work by McCullers. It inherits the legacy of grotesque literature and Gothic novels in the American South. It compresses the two themes of loneliness and suppressed desire into a limited and closed space - a dull and monotonous military post in the American South. - As a carrier, through a series of incredible daily events caused by these abnormal people who are required to be obedient and abiding by the rules, but almost all of them are deviant and even deviant, until an inevitable murder, in a fable and prose style but full of suspense and Gothic form, it twists and turns to show the deformed people under the squeeze of normal society and the tragic consequences that their long-repressed and unresolved desires may bring. In 1966, McCullers personally served as the screenwriter, and Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor performed the impossible love of this abnormal person on the big screen.

This book collects all of McCullers' short stories, 20 in total, fully demonstrating his unique and exquisite short story narrative art. Most of the works choose to look at the adult world from the perspective of a teenager: from the piano room with tight strings, the strange and abandoned orphanage, to the noisy bars, and the country bus heading south; from the restless and gloomy music prodigy, to the confused girl on the hospital bed, To the solitary woman who spies and is spied on, to the ignorant young man in the parade... These young souls who have experienced the world's astringency, the pain of growing up, and even the shadow of the writer himself are looking for the next exit in life amidst escape and abandonment, hesitation and loneliness. Its inspirations and themes intersect with McCullers's full-length works: the alienation of marginalized people, the subtle interpersonal emotions between different races, etc.

"War and Peace" is the representative masterpiece of the great Russian writer Tolstoy. It can be regarded as a masterpiece of world literature in the entire nineteenth century, greatly expanding the scope and boundaries of the novel. The novel is set against the background of the Russo-French War in 1812 and revolves around four Russian aristocratic families. More than 500 vivid characters are interspersed in it, comprehensively showing the broad picture of Russian society at that time. The vivid characters and the grand background of the times complement each other to form a glorious and magnificent epic work.

The "Collection of Works of Nobel Prize-winning Masters" contains representative works of fifteen Nobel Prize-winning writers, with a total of 19 categories and 20 volumes of works. Spanning a century and two world wars, Tagore, Romain Rolland, Thomas Mann, Hesse, Gide, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Hemingway, Camus, Pasternak, Goldin, Brodsky, Oe Kenzaburo, Modiano, and Kazuo Ishiguro will give you a window into the century-long history of the Nobel Prize. The set includes "Selected Lyrical Poems of Rabindranath Tagore", "Biographies", "Death in Venice", "The Glass Bead Game", "Dostoyevsky", "Murder in the Cathedral", "The Predator", "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Myth of Sisyphus", "Doctor Zhivago (Part 1 and 2)" and "Lord of the Flies" "Watermark: Souls in Venice", "Notes on Okinawa", "Respite" and five works by Kazuo Ishiguro, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature - "Shadows of Distant Mountains", "Painter of the Floating World", "Inconsolable", "Serenade: Five Stories of Music and Dusk" and "The Buried Giant".

In a high-end retirement community in the British countryside, former agent Elizabeth refused to "grow old in diapers and in a wheelchair." She contacted the mystery-obsessed nurse Joyce, the worker Ron, and the psychiatrist Ibrahim who lived here to form the "Thursday Mystery Club", which met every Thursday to study unsolved cases and mysteries that the police had not solved for many years. Unexpectedly, a series of murders really happened around me. The builder of the community was attacked and killed; the number one suspect suddenly fell to the ground and died; unknown bones from 50 years ago were dug up in the cemetery... The case became more and more complicated. The four "easy chair detectives" with an average age of 77.5 Each show their unique talents: Elizabeth used her secret agent skills to dig out key clues; Ron, while constantly denying, screened out suspects before the police; Ibrahim and Joyce used their professional acumen to find breakthroughs in the case. Who is the real murderer? This new type of mystery novel (Cozy Mystery) leads readers to solve crimes while soothing their souls and searching for the ultimate happiness and wisdom in life.

Editor-in-chief Wu Jinglian, published by CITIC Publishing Group Co., Ltd., Founded in July 2002, it is an authoritative economics serial publication in China today. The publication adheres to the purpose of "transmitting concepts, thoughts and knowledge through comparison", widely adopts the latest theories and ideas of world-class economists, and introduces the program designs, policy suggestions and comments on China's economic reform from domestic and foreign academic theoretical circles in a targeted manner. Published bimonthly, published in even months every year.

Wu Yalun, a top student in the law school, was spotted by Zhao Minghui, chairman of Shanghai Shengshi Real Estate Group, and later became the group's legal director. With his professional knowledge and diligent work attitude, he saved the company several million yuan in losses, and was recognized by Zhao Ming as a confidant and entrusted with important tasks. As the business gradually deepened, Wu Yalun witnessed the intrigues among executives within Shengshi Real Estate, the corruption and greed of power and desire struggles within Shengshi Real Estate, and the social chaos in the real estate industry in which some officials outside the group took huge bribes regardless of the interests of the country and the people. Under the impact of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, the industry became increasingly chaotic. Shengshi Real Estate staged a life and death battle. Wu Yalun introduced his first love Qin Yue to join Shengshi Real Estate to share work. Unexpectedly, he was appointed by Zhao Ming as the public relations manager and was involved in a "land grabbing" power and sex deal. He fell in love with Li Huiyan, who was accidentally rescued. He never thought that she was also a victim of Zhao Ming's conspiracy.

The story takes place in the financial center of Shanghai. It tells the story of several young people's ups and downs surrounding stock market investment. Geng Zhixing, a college graduate, went to Shanghai to start a business with a dream in mind. He was betrayed and his partners withdrew their capital. At the time of life and death, investor Xia Han came to help. The two fell in love with each other but regretted missing each other. However, when Xia Han went to the United States for a job rotation, he happened to encounter a terrorist attack in Boston, and accidentally accepted the pursuit of Lin Yuncai, a manager of a certain fund company. On the other side, An Zhen, a Shanghainese, was unwilling to live a peaceful life. By chance, he broke into the stock market. Under the guidance of experts from the stock training class, he repeatedly made profits. So he further increased his investment leverage. Unexpectedly, the stock market crashed and he was unable to escape. He lost all his money and was on the road to death... At the same time, financial reporter Chen Jiahui tracked the changes in the stock market and followed the clues to uncover the truth about his colleagues who died in the line of duty a few years ago, setting off a domestic financial anti-corruption and anti-crime storm.

DreamMurder Studio ushered in a special case. The patient often dreamed of the death of others, especially abnormal death, and the scenes in the dream actually happened in reality soon after. Qu Yang, the head of the studio, decided to take the order. There were a total of 5 seemingly unrelated casualties. As the story progressed, it was discovered that there were extremely complex connections among them. In the end, an unbelievable major case was uncovered. I thought the matter would end just like that, but I didn't expect that a shocking conspiracy had just begun...