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"The Poor Man" was published in 1846. It was Dostoevsky's debut novel and his famous work. It shows the writer's basic creative tendency and creative characteristics. It reflects Russia under the tsarist rule in the 19th century, involving political corruption, sharp social contradictions, economic distress and mental pain of small people, and created the two classic artistic images of Devshkin and Varenka. The epistolary description in the work cleverly takes into account the description of psychology and social environment, and at the same time enriches the expressive power and ideological depth of the article through the use of dual perspectives. "The Poor Man" was highly praised not only by Russian critics, but also by Chinese writers such as Lu Xun.

"Double Personality" is one of Dostoevsky's important works. It caused a huge response when it was published. It clearly reflects Dostoevsky's creative characteristics. The exploration of the human heart was advanced at the time and is still of practical significance today.

"The Gambler" mainly tells the story of Polina falling in love with the poor tutor Alexei. However, during Alexei's absence, in order to get rid of the family's difficulties, Polina became the fiancée of a French loan shark. In order to save Polina, Alexei fell into a roulette game. He eventually wins, but the passion for gambling has drowned out the tragic story of his love for Polina. The author uses his own experience as a prototype and criticizes the values ​​of market capitalism to write about the distorted consciousness that money has on people. "The Gambler" is a critique of market capitalist values. This novel not only explores the two major themes of love frustration and gambling, but also further analyzes the driving force of psychological self-destruction and creates a character model based on Alexei. More importantly, Dostoevsky himself was also a gambler, and he completed the novel quickly while being forced into debt. It contains elements of autobiography. Perhaps because of this, the psychological description in it is particularly praised.

I heard that the profession of exorcism is very popular now? Fang Jian was born in a Taoist sect and came to Jiangzhou City for two years. He thought he could start the great business of eliminating demons, but he seemed to be unlucky. Each opponent he encountered was more difficult than the last - the nine-tailed fox demon, the painted skin, the green snake, and Yazhen! Seriously, if you old demons in ancient times don't stay in your dramas, novels, and TV dramas, what kind of trouble are you running out to cause trouble? And that colleague who is an enemy on a narrow road, when will you move out of my house? Do you know that I can't even pay the rent myself? Sister Mu, wait, wait a minute, don't draw your sword yet, if you have something to say, please return my wallet to me first, and then I will go catch the monster with you...

The first super best-seller in the history of American publishing, it paved the way for all subsequent noir novels and noir movies. Camus bluntly said: Without "The Postman Always Rings Twice", there would be no "The Stranger". The novel is based on a murder of her husband that occurred in 1927. Thirty-one-year-old Ruth, a blonde beauty with "Scandinavian cold eyes", teamed up with her lover, the corset salesman Judd, to strangle her husband Albert with a hanging rope, and tried to defraud her of the personal accident insurance she had bought for him without telling her husband. Sex and murder, continuous media hype, and a large photo of Ruth sitting in the electric chair published in the New York Daily News made the case a national sensation. The plot setting at the beginning of Kane's novel is almost exactly the same as the real case, but the characters and events are made more typical and dramatic...

Winner of France's most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt. A fighting match of words, the spark of desire and the anger of life are "not the fate of class, but the law of species". A wonderful group portrait novel that bursts the soap bubbles of romantic France and describes the despicable life in fringe France. "The Children After Theirs" is the winning work of the French Goncourt Literary Prize in 2018. It tells the story of the growth of two teenagers in the Lorraine region of eastern France. Four summers and four moments, from "The Heart of Youth" to the 1998 World Cup in France, it tells the story of a life that is changing at full speed in this double-sided France sandwiched between the city and the development zone. This is not only a story about the growth of teenagers, but also a story of an era. Nicola Mathieu touches on the plight faced by teenagers in the era of globalization in an extremely subtle way, and at the same time exposes the lies about equal opportunities in the Western world.

"Killing the Enemy All Night" is a new collection of short stories by the writer Zheng Zaihuan. The book is divided into two volumes: "Youth in the Past" and "U-Shaped Stories". The content of the first volume mainly follows the "Sad Collection of Zhumadian Sad Stories" and includes recollections of childhood and personal observations of society after the boy ran away and entered the town. The background of the novel is inextricably related to the previous work. , Is more like a spiritual sequel to Zhumadian Boy; the content of the second volume adds more experimental creative content, such as "I am just a ghost, I can't do anything" praised by Zhu Wen, which was once published in "Novel World", and "Zhumadian Girl", etc. The author jumped out of the countryside and re-viewed the people and things in his hometown from the perspective of a returner, adding more unique experiences and aftertaste.

Li Ya's latest collection of short stories and short stories "Early Winter", with the title inscribed by Mo Yan, collects half a century of changes in Lizhuang, Bozhou, Anhui from a child's perspective, constructing the "customs" of his hometown from various aspects such as dialect, geography, etiquette, customs, etc.; At the same time, he describes the "geography" of Di'anmen West Street in Beijing, telling the weird people and events that emerge from daily life, and the writing has a unique modern style.

The debut novel of Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Literary Prize and France's "Contemporary Zola"; the French version of "Snowstorm", the winner of the Mystery Criticism Award; French socialist literature, wandering in the dark midnight of France's "Tiexi District", the intertwined light and shadow lives of two generations of "small town youth". In a world on the verge of collapse, both compliance and resistance are futile. Because in the end it will just turn into animal savagery. "Animal War" is the debut novel published in 2014 by Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Prize for Literature and known as France's "Contemporary Zola". The story revolves around a factory that is about to close down in the foggy Vosges Mountains in northeastern France, focusing on the lives of young and middle-aged people in the town. In the declining and depressed old industrial areas in the post-industrial era, the passion, dreams, and even anger that once excited life are extinguished. Two desperate workers are determined to kidnap a local gang leader in Strasbourg. A female inspector from the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate sees a naked girl running out of the forest one winter evening. The new generation of boys and girls in the town seem to have endless energy and desires that need to be vented. They want to leave, but have nowhere to go... Girl, Colt 45 pistol, a blizzard blocked the road, and finally, all the clues were connected... "Animal War" is a wonderful group portrait novel, telling the story of a world that is about to end and those who have lost their support and have nothing. Won the French Mystery Criticism Award, the TV series of the same name was broadcast on France 3 in November 2018.

The third part of the Era Trilogy: In 1975, "I" lived with my parents in Gongshui County, where I met Zhu Hongjun, Ding Xiaohai and other playmates, starting a decades-long friendship. As the times change, the three of them have embarked on different paths of destiny because of their respective personalities. Yingte marches towards: handsome and mighty, extraordinary and extraordinary. From Lu Jiuyuan of the Song Dynasty, "Records of the Ancestral Hall of King Wen Gong of Jing Dynasty": "The wise move forward and disdain the vulgarity."

The first part of the Age Trilogy: In 1969, Lao Tao's family, three generations of five people, old, middle-aged and young, were transferred from Nanjing to Sanyu by Hongze Lake in northern Jiangsu, and a story that lasted for more than ten years unfolded. The work unfolds from the perspective of a child, Xiao Tao. From the child's pure and curious eyes, he sees his parents' efforts to fear no difficulties in life, the beautiful rural scenery of Sanyu, the honest and somewhat shrewd villagers, and the relationship between people, nature, and animals.

The second part of the Era Trilogy: Luo Xiaofei, an educated youth, worked actively to fight for his return to the city, but was falsely accused and imprisoned. By some mistake, Luo Xiaofei transformed into a villager, Fan Weiguo, and began his seemingly ordinary life as an impostor, which was actually full of dangers. The story spans decades and uses plain and restrained language to write an extraordinary story with a touch of absurdity. In a harsh and hostile environment, people's tenacity and vitality flourish, which is moving.

Evangeline's life changed drastically a few months ago. After her father cheated on her, she had a big fight with her mother and moved out of the house. On the one hand, Evangeline has to begin to adapt to life with only her mother at home. On the other hand, she hates her father and no longer believes in everything, including family ties and the seemingly stable relationship between her parents for many years. Until one day she found a book called "Heartbeat Kiss" in the attic, and she became convinced that she was going to find a kiss. A spectacular, thrilling, life-changing kiss. A real kiss, a heart-thumping kiss, a true love kiss that may conquer everything and solve all problems. And in the process of searching for this kiss, everything got out of hand.

It tells the story of Wei Xiao, the female boss of an architect firm, who dislikes her lazy husband Shi Yuquan. On the occasion of their divorce, Shi Yuquan fell into the river and drowned while trying to save her. In Shi Yuquan's letter, Wei Xiao discovered how kind Shi Yuquan was to her. Wei Xiao, who went to Japan to attend Shi Yuquan's class reunion, actually met Shi Yuquan who had traveled through time ten years ago. When Wei Xiao happily ran towards Shi Yuquan, Shi Yuquan, who had been so considerate to her in the past, looked like he didn't know her at all. It was fate's joke. Is love reborn, role reversal, or repeating the same mistakes?

The first novel to focus on the self-rescue of local companies in the post-epidemic era. An orphan girl's touching confession of revenge and understanding, love and hate, the story of a small aviation company's rebirth and counterattack growth, and a footnote to an era when China's economy and civil aviation industry took off. In order to understand the cause of his father's death, Song Yang, a descendant of a civil aviation captain, joined Noah Air, a small private airline. He deliberately planned to get close to his enemy's son and boss Qin Yuanfeng, but he fell in love with his brother Tang Yueguang. Tang Yueguang chose to break up because he could not accept her revenge methods. At the same time, Song Yang witnessed Qin Yuanfeng leading Noah Airlines from being attacked from both sides to growing stronger and going overseas. He also realized his love for civil aviation and continued to mature in the workplace. Her contact with Qin Yuanfeng deepened, and she gradually gained his trust. However, just when Noah Air was going to sea, the epidemic suddenly broke out, and the civil aviation industry was hit hard. The relationship between Song Yang, Qin Yuanfeng, and Tang Yueguang also faced a turning point...

"Ghost Gate" is a long martial arts suspense novel written by Sichuan writer Liu Shenfu. The story takes place in Nanjiang County, a small town in Bazhong, Sichuan. It begins with a tax bank theft case and involves the rights and wrongs of various characters in the small town. Overall, it is an old-school story with a typical Chinese classical flavor, and has the characteristics of both popular novels and serious novels. Through the struggle between good and evil, pursuit of truth and greed for pleasure between Nanjiang County's canon historian "Shu Hou" and county magistrate "Wang Cunru", the author reveals more serious themes such as "what is justice" and "what is the truth", laments the reality of the loss of independent spirit under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and at the same time details the life world of a small town in Northeast Sichuan in the late Qing Dynasty. The author is deeply immersed in Chinese classical novels and is very good at describing the environment, including snow, dew, frost, rain, spring flowers and autumn moon. Every word and sentence can be incorporated into poetry and painting, and is connected with the characters in it, creating a unique aesthetic world.

Work hard and be diligent. Those so-called excellence and good fortune are all earned through one's own hard work...

"Robinson Crusoe" tells the story of Robinson living alone on an uninhabited island for 28 years. It is wrong to say that life is not right, survival is the portrayal of Robinson Crusoe. He started from scratch on the island, and through hard work, finally lived a self-sufficient life, but he was very lonely, with only parrots talking to him, and his neighbors were cannibals who occasionally visited. However, he firmly believed that as long as he used wisdom, he could create all the materials needed for survival; he firmly believed that the servant "Friday" he rescued was kind-hearted and worthy of dependence; he firmly believed that he would be rescued... It was this belief and courage that finally made him return to England. Defoe uses vivid and lifelike details to write fictional scenes that make people feel like they are actually there, giving the story a strong sense of reality.

The original work of "The Name of Ice and Snow", a key play with the theme of the Winter Olympics of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, is divided into the first part "Love of Ice and Snow" and the second part "Winter Olympics Dream". From the Northeast snowfields in the 1980s and 1990s to the 2022 Winter Olympics, the book takes "Forty Years of China and the Winter Olympics" as the theme, recording the ups and downs of forty years of hard work and pursuit of dreams, composing the youthful dreams of two generations of ice and snowmen, and showing the changes across the ages in the history of Chinese ice and snow sports. The novel witnesses the growth of the Ice and Snowman in different eras through the sports spirit of two generations of the Yan family who dare to explore their dreams and surpass their limits. On the ice where fate and dreams are intertwined, they turned their love into motivation and restored the passionate and energetic youth of the ice and snow people. Fight for a Chinese Winter Olympics dream with youth without regrets; build a monument of passionate competition in the name of ice and snow!

The first domestic detective novel that tells the story of uncovering an underground black boxing organization. Hard-core suspense, passionate competition. Killings and dumping bodies, underground gambling, lending and money laundering, life and death boxing. Sometimes, the truth needs to be fought with life. Super star boxing star Ah Le was framed for accidentally taking banned drugs and was suspended for five years. In order to earn money to treat his mother's illness and to find his kidnapped boxer brother, A Le had no choice but to start boxing. Every time you compete, you are risking your life. Also investigating the black boxing organization are police officer Cai Wenxuan and reporter Meng Jing. The three formed an alliance through constant testing to find criminal evidence of the organizers of the black boxing market. As the investigation continues to deepen, larger gang-related interest organizations have gradually surfaced...

This book is the only short story masterpiece selection by William Gibson, the master of cyberpunk literature, and collects ten of his early science fiction short stories. The short and poetic debut novel "Holographic Rose Fragments" foreshadows the basic characteristics of his future works: coded memory, virtual experience, desperadoes, dreams, and sex; "Johnny's Memory" creates a cold style like film noir and detective novels, making it one of the iconic works of cyberpunk literature; "The Defeat of Koromi" created "cyberspace" and paved the way for the birth of the "cyberpunk bible" and "Neuromancer". In addition, novels on urban fantasy, space exploration, human-computer interaction and other themes are also included. These short stories reveal William Gibson's tremendous energy and talent when he shocked the science fiction literary world in the 1980s. He revolutionized science fiction literature with imagination that transcended the times and had a profound impact on later generations of culture.

This book contains 24 Neil Gaiman's classic short stories, describing the love, fear, jealousy, greed, suspicion and vanity of primitive human nature. When the sleeping Sleeping Beauty becomes a youth-sucking witch; when all the past tenants are sunk into the sea by your landlord; when the statue of a werewolf is found among the father's belongings; when a cannibal man accidentally eats his own child... I opened "High Energy Warning" and felt chills on my back this time, but at the same time, the original human nature was once again exposed.

Zhang Meng, the commander of a small Danqukou Post Pavilion, worked hard and was reused. From then on, he made great plans, surrendered Sima Yi, formed an alliance with the Western Qiang Kingdom, conquered Chang'an, moved the capital to Wei, took over Liangzhou, regained Luoyang... And finally became the most powerful general in the Three Kingdoms. Different time travels, different Three Kingdoms, different stories... All in this book.

Director Wu Bai has created another highly acclaimed masterpiece after "Anti-Gangster"! Song Jia, Chen He, Anita Yuen, Zhang Chao, Wang Yaoqing, Gong Beibi, Lin Yongjian, Li Chengru, the super star cast of the novel of the same name in the hit drama "Dress Up"! It will be broadcast exclusively on Dragon TV and Youku Video on February 6, 2022. In 2016, with the innovation of Internet technology, new media rose rapidly and traditional media was impacted. Fashion magazine "Dressed Up" unexpectedly faced a vacancy as editor-in-chief during its transformation. Deputy editor-in-chief Chen Kaiyi, who has a profound industry background, was complacent, but the group appointed Xiao Hongxue as the new editor-in-chief. She advocated that if the magazine wants to improve its communication power, it must first adapt to the market. The new direction of the magazine allowed advertising director Lu Binbin to flex his muscles, but the feature team faced many challenges in defending the independence of the content. Grassroots employees such as Zhao Xin, a senior editor who started his own new media side business, and Li Na, a "rookie" editor, are also exploring their own career paths. In order to expand its competitiveness and influence, "Dressed Up" is undergoing difficult exploration and transformation, achieving full media integration in continuous innovation. In the end, "New Dress" represented by Chen Kaiyi, a new media team represented by Xiao Hongxue, and an Internet Talent Agency represented by Lu Binbin were formed, each of which is facing the new development after the integration and reform.

At the age of eighteen, a thunderstorm fell on Mila's world: her father was imprisoned on suspicion of stock fraud, her mother seemed to be cheating on her father's colleagues, her brother was a life-sucker, and her aunts couldn't hide their sympathy... For a moment, the past life seemed like a lifetime ago. Mira became a notorious "sinner's daughter" and had to hide under a pseudonym. During this embarrassing period, she made close friends and lovers. In the face of public abuse, should Mira stand up and express her feelings? How to save the loss of idealism? Can a fragile young man still lend a helping hand to others? Mira guessed that maybe sociology saved her.

Cheng Mian is an adopted child, and the old lady taught him to call herself aunt. As the only relative around her aunt, Cheng Mian grew up from an ignorant child to a young man, and witnessed several incredible events related to her aunt - she could read words and make predictions come true. When he was 8 years old, Cheng Mian got lost in the park and saw his aunt in panic. She knelt down and grabbed his shoulders, staring into his face. She didn't seem to be looking at him, but something else. Failure in the high school entrance examination, death at a young age, unsatisfactory work, little success, broken love, boredom... If it hadn't been for too many coincidences, Cheng Mian would not have believed that his aunt really had the ability to see the future. That scene in his memory gripped Cheng Mian's heart. Looking back, he thought that if the mother had lost her child, she would have held him tightly in her arms the moment she found him. But my aunt just grabbed his shoulder. When he was a child, he wanted his parents and learned to suppress them when he knew it was impossible. Later he wanted to be a painter, but had to encounter more restrictions. As long as people have hope, they will inevitably be disappointed. As long as you have thoughts, you will encounter trauma. All the wrong paths come into existence and disappear in a single thought. People say that is called fate.

"I Love You, Loser" is the first work of Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the screenwriter of the animated "BoJack Horseman". It is also a short story collection that has received rave reviews overseas. It contains 18 stories of urban men and women clumsily falling in love. They are lonely, shy, kind-hearted, and are afraid of being hurt and hurting others. However, the eternal longing for love deep in their hearts brings them closer to each other. "Having Lunch with the Person Who Dumped You": Have you ever imagined having lunch with your ex? Is it to put aside the past grudges, or is the situation tense? Is it a reunion, or a nostalgia for the past? It doesn't matter, maybe after finishing this lunch, the real parting will come and your heartbreak will be over. "Auspicious Days": The trouble and complexity of holding a wedding drive people to collapse. I don't know why it is so expensive and boring to witness love, but it is in this chaos that the male and female protagonists feel the happiness of true love. "Science Guy": The seven-year itch arrives as scheduled. Science Guy crosses the "antimatter" door and falls in love with the opposite of his life, causing disaster. Which kind of life is better? Perhaps everyone has no answer, but we have all imagined: If we had been like this before, maybe we would have a better life now. "Missed Destiny - A Man Seeking a Woman": He was heartbroken on the subway but did not dare to ask questions, and the train kept running like this for sixty years, until the two of them were gray-haired and the other party finally got off... "You have a tacit understanding - you two are ordinary people, cowardly and weak ordinary people, who have been hurt and made mistakes. In the difficult daily life, you have made a difference. I have tried my best." Bob-Waksberg uses his dry humor, combined with real life feelings and wild imagination, to create a sense of "magic reality" for the new generation. On the road to ordinary life, in the moments when things are often messed up, in a life full of loopholes, don't we deserve love and happiness? Maybe there is a definite answer, that is: I love you, useless person. Even if we are washing the dishes and blushing at this moment, we must look up at the vast sea of ​​​​stars at the next moment.

This is a collection of short stories about "lust". It is a fairy tale written for adults by the famous children's literature writer Roald Dahl. Here, you will read: the priest who fantasizes about being eaten, the potion that makes people crazy, the husband who tricks his wife, the playboy's trip to the desert, the ugly scene of meeting his first love many years later, the man who severely punishes his girlfriend for listening to rumors, the tricks of the rat catcher, the secret of controlling the gender of cows... Ten fairy tales, revealing the "lust" impulse in human hearts at once: the more people want to control lust, the easier it is to be manipulated by lust.

"Missing the Wolf" is still the story of Shangzhou. "I" is a reporter who doesn't go well with anything he does. Once when I went to Shangzhou for an interview, "I" learned that Shangzhou once organized a wolf hunting team to hunt wild wolves. Now there are only 15 wolves left in Shangzhou, and they have numbered these 15 wolves. This story aroused "my" curiosity, so "I" began to look for these wolves. In the process of searching for wolves, "I" unexpectedly met my uncle, the captain of the wolf hunting team, and then they encountered a series of wolf-related things. During this period, people "transformed" into wolves, wolves "transformed" into humans, and 15 wolves were killed one by one, which triggered a series of thought-provoking stories.

"Sisters" is a novel written by Zhu Mo. Tao Jiang and Tao Ran are sisters. They are eight years apart and have very different personalities. The year their parents divorced, their lives had different foreshadowings. Whether to stay in your hometown or go to a big city, whether to get married early and have children or work hard for your career, whether to swallow your anger and take care of your family or be unruly and be yourself, whether to enjoy a sweet bond or pursue the freedom of loneliness... The dilemmas that women always encounter in life are also the issues faced by the Tao sisters. The two sisters chose different directions at every stage of their lives, and therefore lived completely different lives, each with its own scenery and its own price. They misunderstood each other and quarreled, but they never gave up on each other. The dozens of emails they exchanged were the mark of their growth and allowed them to finally understand each other's choices and re-understand the meaning of home. The experiences described by the two sisters in the first person are also the real lives of ordinary women. The psychological distortion caused by the preference for sons over daughters is passed on between generations, turning women from victims to perpetrators; independent single women, although successful in their careers, still face pressure from family and society in marriage and love... The author does not stop at describing reality, but seeks to transcend. The years-long correspondence between the sisters allows readers to see that there is not only jealousy and secret wrestling between women, but also firm support and protection, and more importantly - mutual understanding.

This book selects 35 representative works written by O. Henry in different backgrounds, including classic works such as "The Gift of the Magi", "The Last Leaf", "Love's Sacrifice", "Furnished Room for Rent", etc. O. Henry's writing is sharp and witty, and his works are all-encompassing and full of warmth. In these works, O. Henry uses his unique language to deconstruct the various embarrassments of existence, and uses the twists and turns of the ending to expand countless possibilities for life.

The pinnacle of hard science fiction praised by Hawking and Asimov, and the original work of the film history classic "Contact." Written by Carl Sagan, an astronomer, astrophysicist, Hugo Award and Pulitzer Prize winner who influenced the human world view, it is both a science fiction novel and a popular science work. It is based on his personal participation in the SETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence Exploration Project) project experience. It presents hard-core details at the scientific research level and affects a generation's scientific outlook. With scientific research-level technical details and timeless poetry, it presents mankind's grand imagination of extraterrestrial civilization. Ellie Arroway, a female scientist who lost her father when she was young, relied on her intelligence and perseverance to carve out a place in the male-dominated world of radio astronomy. While systematically detecting extraterrestrial radio information, she suddenly received a message with strict mathematical significance from the direction of Vega. After difficult deciphering, Ellie discovered that it was a manufacturing blueprint for a mysterious vehicle. After a fierce confrontation between scientists and politicians, the news was made public, and the world was extremely excited to invest in the construction of transportation vehicles. At the same time, contact with advanced civilization brought about the association of "miracles", and the religious fanaticism of the people was also aroused, and various conflicts and confrontations emerged in society. On the last afternoon of the 20th century, a five-member team composed of scientists from the United States, the Soviet Union, China and other countries flew to Vega in a vehicle as representatives of mankind. After witnessing a series of cosmic wonders, he landed at a transit station in the universe. The five members experienced personal and national fantasy experiences here. The novel truly describes the entire process of this adventurous visit, including receiving messages, making machines, and traveling through black holes to fly to the Milky Way. It explores the relationship between religion and science, and conducts profound speculation and exploration on human nature, scientific spirit, and extraterrestrial civilization.

Do you believe in fate? If fate has destined you to lose your love, ruin your dreams, and leave you tossing and turning in the darkness of midnight, do you need a light? I will give you my business card, Bu Yanchen, the chief destiny interventionist of Destiny. I am the most trustworthy light when you are stuck in the dark night. I will play your God. You no longer need to pray and say "mygod", because God is by your side. I am the drizzle of spring, nourishing your heart. I am the blue bird with wings spread, guiding you in a new direction. I will be your way to come and your return... You asked me how I became a destiny interventionist? It was a long, long story, a story about that...'Cold-blooded', 'tyrannical', pretentious, and the biggest bastard and bastard in history, that is, my master, Shen Mu.

In the year 2162 of the Chinese calendar, disputes arose among the Chinese kingdoms. Qi Shuxin, a wealthy businessman from Haicheng, smuggled porcelain in order to raise the ransom for his daughter Qi Zhihui's kidnapping. Unexpectedly, the freighter sank and the Qi family was on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to turn the tide, his son Qi Zhili asked Miao to come forward to take back the real estate "Yinhe Street", but he was besieged by the residents. Jiang Yanning, a resident of Yinhe Street, discovers that his teacher and Qi Zhili are acquainted, and by chance they go to Qiantang together, but by chance, they receive a letter from a stranger. At this time, the war spread to Haicheng, and there was a tremor. At a time when the countries of Zhuhua are in crisis, the whole country of Zhuhua shares the same hatred of the enemy, and all benevolent and lofty people are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to save the nation. The turbulent era, the appearances of all living beings in troubled times, Jiang Yanning who has nowhere to hide, the last cruise ship after the war... Where will love in these troubled times go...

This book is a novel for adults written by the famous children's literature writer Roald Dahl. A total of 9 short stories about greed are included. Among them, you will read: the poacher who saved the princess but received a strange reward from the king, the butler who easily defeated his hated employer, the story of two arrogant youths and a boy who was bullied by them, and the man who did not know the value of the tattoo on his back... These stories not only shock the soul, but also use fairy tale-like metaphors to persuade people to do good. Cruel thoughts hide in everyone's heart. Once out of control, they will have ridiculous consequences. One of them, "Skin", brought Roald Dahl his third "Edgar Allan Poe Literary Award" in 1980, and was adapted into a British drama, which gained a large audience.

These 10 irrational short stories are fairy tales created for adult readers by the famous children's literature writer Roald Dahl. You will meet a little boy who loves animals so much that he swims with sea turtles; a husband who is jealous of the domestic cat; a landlady who wants her guests to stay forever; a man who is led astray by his love for pork and a wife who has a morbid fear of being late... Careful readers will find that their madness all comes from a loss of control. In these ten surprising and unsettling stories, Roald Dahl explains what happens when we lose our minds. Among them, "The Landlady" won Roald Dahl the second "Edgar Allan Poe Literary Award" in his life in 1959. The article was selected by American teachers as one of the 23 English short stories most suitable for middle school students to read. The recommendation: "A masterpiece among the short stories of the famous children's literature writer Roald Dahl, whose unique conception has far-reaching influence." It has been selected into many European and American textbooks.

This is a collection of short stories about "deception". It is a fairy tale written for adults by the famous children's literature writer Roald Dahl. Here, you will meet: a priest who tries his best to defraud people of antiques, a farmer who tries every means to hide treasures, a couple who cheats in card games, a bookstore that does not make money by selling books, a musician who pretends to be Chopin, a company that specializes in revenge, a murder weapon swallowed by the police, a drunkard who steals umbrellas for money, a southern man who is keen on gambling... Ten fairy tales reveal the truth about all the "deceptions" in life at once: the so-called clever scams are just illusions waiting to be exposed! Among them, "Lamb to the Slaughter" topped the personal book list of A. J. Fikri, the owner of the best-selling "Island Bookstore", and "Southern Man" was included in "Hitchcock's Suspense Stories" and was later adapted into a part of the movie "Four Rooms" by Quentin Tarantino.

"Happiness" continues the author's consistent focus on farmers and writes about the fate of farmers in the city - waste pickers in the city. It mainly tells the story of Liu Gaoxing, a farmer who goes to the city to scavenge waste, and several of his partners to survive in the city. It also involves various people at the bottom of the city, including beggars, migrant workers, prostitutes, etc. These people all have a common characteristic, struggling to survive in the city. The work not only sincerely writes about the living conditions of these marginalized groups in society, but also shows their spiritual world, their intertwined fates and spiritual changes through these poignant stories.

This is a collection of short stories written by Roald Dahl, which selects 14 creepy classic short stories, including "The Invisible Playmate" by A. M. Burrage, "The Ghost Hand" by Sheridan Le Fanu, "You Seek Mercy" by Edith Wharton, "The Corner Shop" by Cecilia Asquith and "The Telephone" by Mary Treadgold, etc. The best ghost stories don't have a ghost in them, at least they don't let you see the ghost. Instead, you see only the results of its actions. Occasionally you can feel it brushing past you, or make you aware of its presence in subtle ways. Just like the stories in this book are not limited by time and linger in people's hearts for a long time, each one is a masterpiece in the history of literature.

After the energy war, mankind entered a new world. [Sebuhai], which stands like an island, is a typical urban behemoth in the new world that is coerced by technology and becomes grotesque. [Saint Goethe], who also stands in the new world, is like a technological idol wearing a crown. Under the classical appearance is a sophisticated mechanical heart. Under the wash of heavy rain, the two lonely cities gradually reveal their inextricable intersections and secrets waiting to be understood. Everything ridiculous happened quietly. The perfect [Saint Goethe] is about to fall from the altar, the discord between this sad garden and [Sehai] is about to be discovered, all conspiracies will eventually be torn apart, and war is inevitable...

A collection of short and medium novels. The book includes Song Aman's four short stories including "Li Chuiqing, 2001", "Sipi Flowing Water", "Between the Embankments" and "White Noise" and a novella "Ah Goodbye, Friend". The characters in the novel walk through narrow passages. Sex and love, freedom and bondage, yearning and inevitable obligations constitute numerous life situations. However, these passages are not completely negative and sinking: rich flowers and leaves grow out of them. There is no exit in the passage of life, but luxuriant branches and leaves can be seen in the vertical direction. Song Aman weaves questions richly and then points out the path leading to the answer, half-covertly.

This is a collection of short stories and short stories by Yangzhou writer Tang Chengnan, which includes seventeen novels written by him in various periods. Whether it is the shoe repairman Lao Zhang in "A Big Tree Wants to Fly" who lost his son at the door of a department store in his early years and spent the rest of his life looking for it. Finally, he found out that his son had become a scumbag and was devastated. Or the farmer father in "Running Rice Field" who is still 50 years old and has a fairy-tale pursuit of his ideal of rice farming. Or the couple in "Winter on Gonghe Road". Hu Dajiang, the boss who cuts beef with his poetic hands in "Old Hu Ji", Wang Xiuying who likes to tell stories about "other people" to relieve her depression, and the literary young uncle in "We Still Have Fish Here" who is submissive and overwhelmed by life... Tang Chengnan's poetry in Jiangnan writes about the daily humility of these little people. Those worldly warmth mixed in chicken feathers, those joys, angers, sorrows and joys that are still longing for the light despite being forbearing, are the daily lives of ordinary people.

When Wu Zetian abolished the Tang Dynasty and changed it to the Zhou Dynasty, Tang Ao, who had passed the imperial examination, was framed and deprived of his fame. Tang Ao, who had no hope of an official career, took a boat to sea with his brother-in-law Lin Zhiyang and boatman Duo Jiugong. They passed through more than 30 countries and saw the strange people, strange things, customs and customs in overseas countries. After seeing the country of Gentlemen who prefers to give way to others, the country of Two Faces who hates the poor and loves the rich, and the country of crooked and partial breast-piercing countries, etc., And had a taste of reality, Tang Ao saw through the world and retired to Penglai.

This book is a selection of Andersen's fairy tales, named after his famous work "The Daughter of the Sea". The name Andersen is like an eternal monument, shining with the most brilliant light. He created countless beautiful fairy tales in his life: the poor and miserable little match girl went to another warm and beautiful world in her heart; the stupid emperor put on new clothes that did not exist at all; the little mermaid made selfless and regretless sacrifices for love; the ugly duckling finally turned into a noble white swan...

"The Sorrows of Young Werther", Goethe's masterpiece, tells the story of a love tragedy in which young Werther pursues Lotte, an engaged girl, but is unable to extricate himself due to hopelessness and commits suicide. The book has been a bestseller since its publication in 1774 and has been translated into dozens of languages ​​around the world. The bitter love story shown in the book has shocked the hearts of generations of teenagers. This is the Bible for young people. As soon as it came out, it became popular in Germany and the entire Western Europe. This is the epitome of the youth of an era, a bitter love affair destined to be fruitless! The sensational work of the world's literary giant has swept the hearts of tens of millions of young men and women around the world!

Two modern otakus stray into the wilderness of the 19th century American West. How do they get home? David Young, an ordinary programmer at a New York Internet company, "traveled" to the American West more than a hundred years ago in the company's tea room without warning. Fortunately, he met Wu Youjin, a Chinese who had also "traveled" in a place called Lord Town, and returning to the future became their only goal. However, in the wild western world more than a hundred years ago, they had no clues and had no way of finding a way back. The greater threat is that they are also forced to get involved in the struggle between white people and native Indians, the dealings between wild gold diggers and the police in the West, and even get involved in a huge life-threatening conspiracy, and behind this conspiracy is the secret of time travel. However, as they discover the secret and work to return to their own time, their identities and purposes are also discovered...

A cosmic disaster is coming, and human civilization has entered its darkest moment. Faced with a desperate situation, Chu Tianle, Yu Leshui, and Ji Renrui took the lead in establishing the "Friends of Le" foundation to lead mankind to find ways to save human civilization. In times of crisis, humankind has continued to make breakthroughs in science and technology, entering a splendid era of intellectual explosion. With the goal of the survival of civilization, a series of technologies far beyond imagination, such as "egg-born man", "infant universe", "second-order vacuum" and super-light spacecraft, have been implemented, and the magnificent epic of mankind's escape into the universe has begun. Where does the future of mankind lead? Can mankind gain a glimmer of hope in the face of annihilation? Is all this the end of mankind or a joke of God?

The "Sky" fleet, which has been sailing around the universe since the era of universe contraction, returned to the earth in a space-time splashdown. It was sad to learn that humans on earth have been exterminated by the G planet people who now live on this land. As the last batch of human beings on earth, the "Sky" fleet, with no way to take revenge, set off again and embarked on a journey to find the center of the hyperspherical universe. During the journey, the "Tian" fleet encountered a terrifying space "space rupture", and the "Tianma" spacecraft lost contact with the other two spacecraft. Ji Xingdou took over the task at the critical moment and led the "Tianma" through disasters such as double black holes and strong radiation, and put down the rebellion of the artificial intelligence "Yuan Yuan". After many hardships, the "Tianma" finally followed the second-order vacuum "ocean current" to find the center of the hyperspherical universe, where the human fleet also reunited. In the center of the hyperspherical universe, a "baby universe" is about to be born, and humans will also have the rare opportunity to evolve along with the universe...

The fifteen outstanding science fiction novels selected for this book are all winners of the "Galaxy Award", the highest domestic science fiction award. The authors include Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, He Xi, Zhao Haihong, Liu Wenyang and other well-known science fiction writers. The content covers the main types of science fiction novels. This book also invites five experienced special-level Chinese teachers to give appreciation. It features "Famous Teachers from Famous Schools Rewarding Masterpieces". It is a science fiction anthology that is very suitable for middle school students' extracurricular reading and teachers' science fiction literature teaching.