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Sudden silence fell over the earth. This is actually scarier than the noise. For a moment, nothing happened. The huge spaceship hangs motionless in the sky, covering every country on the earth. Before its demise, Earth was first transformed into the ultimate sound reproduction device, the greatest broadcasting system ever built. But what came with it was not a concert, not music, no opening number, but just a brief message. "Earthlings, please pay attention." A voice said. This voice was perfect, as if coming from a four-channel system, so perfect that it had such low distortion that it could make a brave man shed tears. "This is the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Committee. As you no doubt know, the development plan for the remote areas of the Milky Way requires the construction of a hyperspace expressway through your star system. Regrettably, your planet is one of the planets scheduled for destruction in the plan. The destruction process will begin in slightly less than two minutes of your Earth's time. Thank you for your cooperation."

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

"Heidi" (including "Heidi's Learning and Wandering Years" and "Heidi Applying What She Learned" published in 1880 and 1881 respectively) has been translated into more than fifty languages ​​and adapted into many film and television dramas and cartoons. The work tells the story of the growth of the young protagonist Heidi. Heidi is an innocent, lively, simple and kind-hearted little girl who loves nature and life. She was sent to the mountains by her aunt at a very young age to live with her grandfather, who was withdrawn and isolated from the world. On the mountain, Heidi gradually influenced her grandfather with her love and innocence, making him accept the people around him again. At the same time, Heidi also used her kindness and optimism to influence the people around her, including her blind mother-in-law, Peter who was tired of studying, and Clara who sat in a wheelchair all day. The whole story is full of warmth and inspirational elements, showing the kind and beautiful side of human nature, while also conveying profound themes about love, courage and hope.

"Red Flowers" narrates the three emotional upheavals of the protagonist Lennan, which occurred in the three periods of his life: "spring", "summer" and "autumn". What connects these three stories is the "red flowers" that frequently appear in the book - the red carnations that symbolize passionate love or strong lust. The story is both touching and sad, real and touching, yet unconventional, with beautiful language and elegant style. Although there are three romances, they are organically connected into one. Although it is a novel, the text is as beautiful as poetry. Mr. Huang Gaoxin is a great translator of English poetry and rarely translates novels, but he has a special liking for Galsworthy's small work: "Somehow, in my memory, no book seems to move me as much as it does."

"Dark Darkness" is a collection of Huang Jinshu's two early short story collections. The story mostly takes place in the small town of Jiaolin in Southeast Asia: Chinese immigrants to Southeast Asia are in an environment surrounded by wild beasts, racial oppression, colonial aggression, and identity anxiety, and face various forms of separation, disappearance, and death. Huang Jinshu actively uses meta-fiction (meta-fiction), satire, collage and other techniques to dialogue with the historical malaise, and presents Malaysian Chinese literature and the situation of Malaysian Chinese in a "possessed" way. Behind each piece of black text is the author's repair and reconstruction of the missing ethnic memory, as well as his introspection and thinking about the collective destiny of the Nanyang Chinese.

"Snow" is the representative work of Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. The work takes the four sisters of the Makioka family, a prominent family in Osaka, as the protagonists, and the story of the blind date of the beautiful and quiet third sister Yukiko as the main line, while also touching on local customs, social events, foreign exchanges, etc. The work is like a long painting with bright colors and elegant style, showing the whole picture of the life of the upper class in modern Japan's Kansai region. It is known as the best genre novel with a classical style. Sartre called it the highest masterpiece of modern Japanese literature. "Snowy Snow" is not only a novel describing family entanglements, but also a profound discussion of Japanese traditional values ​​and moral concepts. Through the emotional conflict between the sisters, it reflects the turmoil and changes in Japanese society in the process of modernization, as well as the complex desires and emotions in human nature, making this work a literary masterpiece with profound connotations and touching stories.

The script novel "White Night Breaks" exclusively includes the extra chapter "The Group Worship Conversation Drama Crossing the Angry River". A tragic massacre turned the originally carefree Guan Hongyu into a wanted fugitive. The twin brother Guan Hongfeng, who is the captain of the criminal investigation detachment, vowed to find out the truth. However, due to the principle of avoidance of relatives, he can only continue to participate in the investigation as a "non-staff consultant". "Advisor Guan Hongfeng" who appears in the police force day and night due to his "dark phobia" is actually played by two twin brothers. After several twists and turns, with the persistence of "Second Pass" and the help of their friends, they tracked down Ye Fangzhou, a former criminal policeman who was closely related to the Miemen case, but he was only a middle-level cadre of a huge criminal organization. At the critical moment when he continued to track down the mastermind behind the scenes, Guan Hongyu accidentally discovered that it was his brother Guan Hongfeng who framed him in the first place! This book is adapted from the [original] script that was completed in 2018. The detailed foreshadowing is different from the drama, but the human deception is equally shocking.

David, a young American, is searching for himself in Paris, while his fiancée Hera wanders alone in Spain. David meets an Italian bartender named Giovanni in a bar owned by Guillaume. Giovanni awakens the desire in David's heart, and David enters Giovanni's room, which is cramped, disorderly, and far away from the city. From the beginning of the novel we know that David abandoned Giovanni, that Hera returned to the United States, and that Giovanni was sentenced to death for killing the bar owner. Baldwin moves freely through the timeline, and David oscillates back and forth between man and woman. With a keen and profound imagination, James Baldwin explores the abyss of love and creates a moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspeakable complexity of the human heart.

It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South Korea and North Korea, and a young French-Korean girl works at the front desk of a shabby guesthouse. One night, a rare guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. As the girl continues to defy society's expectations, break up with her long-distance boyfriend, and resist her mother's urging for plastic surgery, she develops a subtle and fluid relationship with the cartoonist. She agrees to accompany him on his search for the "real" Sokcho, and the two travel to snowy mountains and spectacular waterfalls, even to the border. But he had no interest in the Sokcho she was familiar with-the fancy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother worked. She had a secret wish to be like the person in his painting.

Junichiro Tanizaki's short story collection "Mermaid's Sigh: The Magician" consists of two stories: "The Mermaid's Sigh" and "The Magician". The story of "The Sigh of the Mermaid" takes place in Nanjing during the Qing Dynasty. The noble son Meng Shitao had a wealthy family, many wives and concubines, and lived an extremely luxurious life. However, he was tired of his current life and fell in love with the mermaid brought by the Westerners. For the sake of the mermaid, he decided to leave everything behind... "The Magician" tells the story of a man and woman who were originally in love, in order to prove their loyalty to each other, they went to watch the magician's performance, but were impressed by the magician's beauty and turned into a half-man and half-goat god. The two novels are Tanizaki Junichiro's early works. By vigorously describing the beauty of the senses, readers can feel Tanizaki's literary concept of beauty.

The protagonist of "Daddy-Long-Legs", Joshua Albert (later renamed Judy), is a little girl who grew up in an orphanage. She is an excellent writer and was sponsored by an anonymous director of the orphanage to go to college. Judy had never met this director, but saw him by chance, so she called him "Daddy-Long-Legs." As a requirement for funding, the director asked Judy to write him a letter every month, reporting every detail of her life in order to practice her writing skills. This book is composed of letters written by Judy to Daddy-Long-Legs. From it, we can see a girl's growth path of studying hard, finding herself, becoming independent, and finally realizing her dream as a writer.

"Liars in Love" is Richard Yates's second collection of short stories after "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness", which includes seven short stories in total. It perfectly demonstrates Yates's superior powers of insight and description. With this book, Yates once again proves the power of the short story. Yates, who is obviously more interested in describing "failed life", relies on his keen mind and unique perspective of observation, like a collage art, to present the "little people" and their life fragments in the United States three-dimensionally before our eyes: failed artists, single mothers with difficult lives, alienated family relationships, estranged marriages, rebellious daughters, fleeting love affairs, unreliable dreams...

Childhood abuse can last a lifetime. While physical wounds may heal, mental wounds are extremely difficult to repair. Abused children often fall into mental distress. Miyu often draws pictures of herself in a cage. She would put goldfish, newts and hamsters in bottles and boxes, with no memory of them afterwards. Masato always hides behind the curtains, ignores anyone, and is immersed in his own world. Takumi believes that the only relationship between people is "lose or win" and always wants to use violence to make other children surrender. Asuka longed to live with her birth mother even though she had suffered abuse. Because of her biological mother's irresponsible promise, she made things difficult for her adoptive mother just to "go home." Saori was abandoned by her biological parents and never received love from her stepmother or adoptive parents. When she became an adult, she was shocked to realize that she did not seem to know how to love her children... In the family-style care institution "Family House", children who were physically and mentally injured lived with agency operators who acted like adoptive parents and other children who had similar experiences to themselves, learning how to love and trust.

This book is China's most literary masterpiece of classical literature, the pinnacle of Chinese classical literature creation, and a cultural treasure for all mankind. The book takes the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue as the background, and takes the love tragedy of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the main line. It focuses on describing the process of Jia Jiarong and Ning's two houses from prosperity to decline, and comprehensively describes the human nature and various irreconcilable contradictions in the last days of feudal society.

Santiago is an old man who makes a living by fishing. He finally caught a huge marlin after 84 days at sea. The big fish dragged the boat and drifted on the vast sea for two days and two nights. But when he set out to return, he encountered a group of ferocious sharks. The old man fought with the sharks to the death. In the end, the old man only dragged back the empty skeleton of the marlin, but the fighting spirit shown by the old man was awe-inspiring.

[Immortal heroes and strange stories + love for a long time + influential figures] The dead return, Nirvana is reborn, the divine map is born, and it stirs up trouble again. The death of the Dragon King of Beihai seven years ago brought disaster to the Li family. At the same time, the mysterious disappearance of Tui Bei Tu also brought crisis to the world. Fortunately, a mysterious man rescued him. Seven years later, Li En, the only surviving descendant of the Li family, returned for revenge and met his childhood sweetheart Yuan Jueshang. The two came together for the same goal. After going through hardships, they discovered that everything was a trap that had been designed long ago, and they had been deeply trapped in it and could not escape...

[Crazy Boss + Sally Heroine + Sweet Love] Researcher Qin Yan x Boss Liang Jiuzhou, Mr. Liang, you have crossed the line! Everyone else wanted to live a long life and have children and grandchildren to take care of them. Qin Yan didn't think that far ahead. He lived one day at a time, what if he accidentally died tomorrow? But Liang Jiuzhou wanted to drag her into his comfortable life, kiss her, hug her and lift her up high, while thinking about the red sunset of love in old age. Qin Yan refused coldly: Mr. Liang, you have crossed the line. Liang Jiuzhou turned a deaf ear: Fall in love? I'm after you. Qin Yan turned around and left: That's another price. Liang Jiuzhou put the chips on the table, saying that he was really rich. Liang Jiuzhou was born with nothing lacking. Since Qin Yan didn't even have love, he gave her everything he had.

On Yan Luo's way home, she was asked by a strange man to let her save his life. As a young man in the new era, how could Yan Luo ignore death? The key is now that your life is in this man's hands! OK! When it's time to bow your head, bow your head! You saved the life of a strange man, but this man fainted? ! For Yan Luo, it is not a gentleman not to retaliate against someone! Taking the most valuable thing from that strange man was not enough! Then leave him in a dirty public toilet! The next day, a strange man woke up in the toilet, with his men waiting nearby. The man looked gloomy and ordered, "Find me the woman last night!"

Yao Miao's profession is a DNA analyst. At work, she saw so many things that were beyond ordinary people's understanding. DNA, a magical string of life codes, has become a life stage full of desires and reality. And a piece of paper contains all the dark and complicated truths in this world. Some people describe the profession of DNA analyzer as a "marriage crusher" and a mirror for human nature. At nearly thirty years old, Yao Miao never imagined that one day he would be the subject of DNA testing. A pair of people claiming to be her biological parents suddenly appeared, triggering an "eighth magnitude earthquake" within the family. At the same time, Ouyang Wei, the biological father's legal advisor, shines into Yao Miao's life like a ray of warm sunshine...

Lao Yin, a famous policeman in the capital, has been a policeman for decades and has developed a pair of sharp eyes, which makes criminals fearful. What's even more rare is that he actually recorded hundreds of cases, large and small, in his diary. Each case has twists and turns, just like a Sherlock Holmes detective story. Sasu, who loves to tell stories, found a treasure this time. He followed the clues and turned the old policeman's strange case in the capital upside down. Coupled with Sassou's vivid and Beijing-flavored interpretation, this collection of frontline police detective stories is suspenseful and exciting. There are weak intellectuals who have committed adultery and killed people and dismembered their bodies, there are "blind lone thieves" hiding on the No. 108 Tram, there are "qigong masters" who claim to have practiced martial arts since childhood and have unparalleled magical skills, there are gangs that dominate Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and run rampant in the countryside... The criminals are cunning and fierce, the police are resourceful and courageous, and the case is exciting. In addition to Sassou's witty and humorous narration, there are also authentic criminal investigation notes written by police officer Lao Yin. The story is bizarre but not outrageous, and the content is rigorous but not serious. It makes people applaud after reading it and cannot bear to put it down.

Wandering between a paralyzed aristocratic husband and a healthy and destitute lover, Constance Chatterley fell into a huge marital tragedy and also ushered in a rebirth. Sex and love have nothing to do with depravity. She allowed them to spread wantonly in her body, and she also allowed the chaotic and disordered modern thoughts to grow wildly.

I've never known sadness, but now there's something wrapped around me like silk, separating me from everyone else in an annoying yet pleasant way. This is a novel by Sagan that is quite autobiographical. It tells the story of a neurotic and rebellious girl's growth story in adolescence. Seventeen-year-old Cecil is cute, narcissistic, and the epitome of unbridled amoral behavior. Freed from the constraints of boarding school, she spent a carefree two-month summer vacation with her new mistress in a beautiful villa outside Paris with her father, a handsome, promising young widower with wandering eyes. Cecile cherishes the free-spirited time she shared with her father while plotting her own erotic adventure with a law student. However, the arrival of her late mother's best friend intrudes into a young girl's world of joy. When a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cecile and her lover initiate a plan to separate them... With unexpected tragedy.

In the early days of China, Chi You ruled the entire China and enslaved mankind. Huangdi, the leader of the human race, accidentally got a strange volume called "Mountains and Seas". From it, he learned the power to fight against demons, defeated Chi You, and became the new king of China. From then on, the demon clan fell and was unable to recover. As time flies, each demon kingdom has become a ruin, and many ancient tombs of the demon kingdom are gradually discovered by tomb robbers... I woke up from the coffin of a demon tomb and lost all my memories. When I was searching for my memory, I discovered that my amnesia was closely related to "Mountains and Seas". In order to retrieve my memory, I embarked on a thrilling and strange journey of robbing demon tombs...

I was twenty-six years old that year. He has blond hair, a slim figure, a good job, and an apartment on the Upper East Side of New York. In the eyes of others, I may have it all. No one knew that I was quietly falling apart. I don't particularly want to cry, nor do I particularly want to laugh, and I no longer feel anything about the things around me. And every time I lie down and enter the dark void, the chaotic voices in my head stop immediately. It feels good, almost blissful. I began to fall into longer and longer slumbers. Use your cell phone less. Reduce online shopping. Stop socializing. Stop whitening. Stop brushing your hair. Stop plucking hair with tweezers. Shower no more than once a week. Stock up on endless old movies at home. Every time I wake up, I go to the grocery store on the corner to buy two large cups of coffee, and occasionally there is eye irritation. Once I get enough sleep, everything will be fine. My old life would be nothing more than a dream, and I could start over without regrets. Will I become a new person?

[Romance of the Republic of China + BE Aesthetics + Two-way Rush] [The rich lady VS the affectionate officer, the business boss VS the innocent socialite, the sober escort VS the patriotic filmmaker] Chen Yuzao's "Old Dream Trilogy of the Republic of China". Three old dreams of the Republic of China: one of life and death, one of farewell and one of fulfillment. "Old Dream 1913": I couldn't wait for a rain in the three years of the Republic of China, and I couldn't wait for the words "I love you" in this life. We got separated in troubled times, and we parted in a hurry and never met again. "Old Dream 1937": It is said that love in the Republic of China was tragic in nine cases, and it was not easy to achieve perfection. "Old Dreams: Looking forward to the return of spring": Have you ever loved someone who couldn't grow old together? The story begins with a meeting like a golden breeze and jade dew, and ends with a lingering longing for the frost and snow. Love is both deadly and life-giving. The passionate time spent together illuminated the rest of her long and lonely life.

"The Appearance of Officialdom" is a self-narrated chapter-length novel in the late Qing Dynasty. The book has a total of sixty chapters. The style is imitated in "The Scholars", and the characters are used to connect the stories. It starts from an ordinary scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam, and is connected to more than 30 relatively independent officialdom stories. "The Appearance of Officialdom" is a social portrait at the end of the feudal dynasty. It depicts subjects ranging from the empress dowager and the emperor, to frontier officials, to minor officials, traffickers, and even gangsters and prostitutes, covering all walks of life and identities. It is known as the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" in the late Qing Dynasty. The book not only exposes the individual misdeeds of the Qing government officials who were fatuous and corrupt, but also comprehensively attacked the dark decay of the entire political system at the end of the feudal dynasty from various angles, pointing out that the "official-based" system will naturally lead to moral decay and the darkness of officialdom.

The has-been elite is forced to go to space to find a job. Unexpectedly, they are all swept out of the earth, and they have to rush to the regular meeting at eight in the morning! 27-Year-old Tong Yunkai was an engineer at a large factory specializing in machine instructions. Because he bravely exposed sexual harassment in the workplace, he was judged by the program to have affected the company's image and was fired. This labor dispute directly affected her job search success rate in big data, which dropped again and again until it reached zero. With no other choice, she could only listen to the AI ​​assistant's advice: leave the earth and go to space to find a job! Who would have thought that during the agreed three-month labor period, there was actually a risk of not being able to return to Earth! The people who came to the base one after another were divided into gangs and worked in their own camps. In order to compete for limited resources, they did not hesitate to secretly kill their compatriots... How did the behavior of Zhu Ma Luqie, who had reunited after a long separation, fall to this? The friend who took the trouble to rescue is actually an undercover agent of the base? Can she return to Earth and start over?

The cousin who went crazy due to an accident danced with wild bees in a cave; the unborn child visited his father and mother in the silent wilderness; at the childhood dinner table, was it me or my brother who ate the red potato? The night wind fluttered his clothes, and his uncle, who came to Beijing for the first time, was immersed in the blissful night... "Flight of the Bumblebee" contains six novels by the writer Zi He. The six stories are independent, but the narrator is Gan Songming, a young drifter from Beijing. Love, disease, marriage, death, hometown, on the yellow land where I was born and raised, there are many past events that make people feel sad and happy; and the urban life that I have become accustomed to has brought new value orientations. The body is in the city and the soul is in the country. This collection of novels is dedicated to the large group of urban and rural people like Gan Songming.

[Romance of the Republic of China + Wealthy Family + Reunion after a Long Farewell] It is said that love in the Republic of China was tragic in nine cases, and it was not easy to achieve perfection. Business tycoon VS naive socialite, the second part of Chen Yuzao's trilogy of old dreams of the Republic of China, a small reunion in troubled times! Jing Mingchen, the third daughter of the Jing family, was arranged by her family to attend a banquet and met Jiang Gubei, a business tycoon. Jing Mingchen was worried about the current situation and was absent-minded about the banquet. Unexpectedly, Jiang Gubei suddenly proposed to the Jing family to marry Jing Mingchen. It turned out that when Jiang Gubei was young, he sold bracelets to collect medical expenses for his sister, and got help from Jing Mingchen. Now Jiang Gubei recognized Jing Mingchen with the bracelet. Jing Mingchen rejected the proposal, but in the process of transferring the orphans of the martyrs, they lived and died together and their relationship deepened. Difficult times, Japanese bombings, spies around, and family pursuits... They were forced to embark on a wandering road to escape.

Can those girls who read Chizuru Ueno still get married? The latest masterpiece from the original author and screenwriter of "Mortal Song"! The first book with the most thorough analysis of invisible housework on the Internet! Women who have been oppressed by housework all their lives decided not to tolerate it this time! Lin Yue, a 30-year-old Northern immigrant girl, was about to marry her boyfriend from Beijing, but the marriage fell through due to repeated conflicts over the division of housework and other matters. Lin Yue's mother, Zhang Xuehua, 53, was a housewife. Her husband was angry and drove her away because of decades of Fu Ge's evil behavior, so she ran away from home and wandered around Beijing. Lin Ruiling, 70-year-old Lin Yue's aunt, almost collapsed after raising her children, but her children once again fought to let her have two children in the name of the right to bear the surname. Lin Ruiling, who was miserable, suddenly disappeared overnight, shocking the whole family. A hundred years ago, Lu Xun believed that Nora must have financial ability to be liberated after running away. A hundred years later, the new Nora's path to liberation is not only to be financially independent, but also to get rid of the fantasy of having a strong man to save her, to recognize her own bad nature, and to be satisfied from social competition rather than male love. From "Nora ran away" to "Mom ran away", from marriage difficulties to housework, how can women break free from the shackles and regain their autonomy in life? Open this book and see how these three generations of women practice their path to liberation!

[Original film and television novel starring Bai Lu and Ao Ruipeng] [Smart and cunning girl Bai Shuo × indifferent and lazy demon king Fanyue] The pinnacle work of the best-selling author Xing Ling. Bai Shuo's lifelong ambition is to ascend to immortality. Her father, who was a marshal, asked her which muscle was causing her to become confused. Bai Shuo replied loudly: "I was born to save all sentient beings and illuminate the world." Her father glared: "Speak in human terms!" Bai Shuo hugged her father's thigh and smiled with a smile on her face: "My benefactor is in heaven, and I want to repay him." Many years later, Bai Shuo returned to the human world. In front of Marshal Bai's tomb, she poured three glasses of wine and kowtowed three times. The road to immortality is long, and the person she is looking for will eventually meet.

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style. The content mostly involves human affairs and personal relationships between men and women. However, under the cover of all kinds of frivolous jokes and vulgar words, there is no lack of penetrating satire and praise of beautiful human emotions. The translator, Shi Kangqiang, is a famous French translator and writer in China. In this book, Balzac uses Old French. At the request of Xia Wen, senior French editor of the Humanities Society, he translated this strange book in a style that imitates the Song and Yuan dialects. It is both faithful to the original text and consistent in form and tone. It is a rare translation masterpiece.

This is the masterpiece of Cheng Yongxin, chief editor and editor of "Harvest" literary magazine. "Humans are the survivors left behind in the world after disasters." The eighteen-year-old Luo Tuo tried his best to escape from home and sent himself to the seaside. Under the guidance of fate, he became a playwright. Times have changed quietly: his trilogy of plays was rejected by the theater company, and his lovers and friends left the country. Only then did he realize that he actually had nothing in the world. The soul of a long-dead person suddenly appears mysteriously. In theater auditoriums, city tour buses, apartment phone calls...

"Between Mermaids" is the latest collection of short stories by the emerging young writer Zhang Tianyi, including "Dance of Cinderella", "Between Mermaids", "Twelve Changing Mothers" and other representative works of Zhang Tianyi's short stories. The whole book uses the form of deconstructing classic fairy tales to reflect the universal laws of love, marriage, and family life. The text in the works is gorgeous, smart and humorous, with distinctive recognition and strong personal style. Through specific and subtle expressions, the writer shows people's self-struggle between reality and dreams, the powerlessness and struggle of human survival predicament, as well as the moving and beauty of lovers meeting, sacrificing for love, and gaining redemption.

"John-Christophe" is Romain Rolland's masterpiece novel. It reflects a series of contradictions and conflicts in real society through the life experience of John-Christophe, and promotes humanitarianism and heroism. The novel describes the struggling life of John-Christophe, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. In 1915 Romain Rolland won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Johan-Christophe". The translator of this book is Fu Lei, a famous Chinese translator, writer, educator, and art critic. The translation is beautiful and fluent. It accurately translates the author's descriptions of various types of music, and uses a vivid translation to present the author's high morale revealed between the lines.

The official novel of the same name for the movie "Wild Boys" is derived from the real-life incident of "Wild Boys", "The Wandering Brothers", the person involved, police officer Zhou Jiao, and the movie of the same name. Ma Liang, who was wandering alone in Jiangzhou because his mother ran away from home and his father was imprisoned, met Xuan Xuan, a child who also had no parents to care for him by chance. Their similar fate made the two lonely teenagers warm and close to each other. Together they built a small home on the wasteland, and the two restless souls found a home. However, because of a good deed of "saving a cat", Ma Liang continued to be blackmailed and coerced by the local gang boss, and even threatened to implicate Xuan Xuan. In order to prevent Xuan Xuan from falling into the hands of the black boss, Ma Liang decided to take a desperate risk. He wanted to save enough money so that Xuan Xuan could walk out of the darkness, have enough to eat, wear warm clothes, go to school, and have a bright future... There was no light in my childhood, but I want to shine a light for you!

On the Thames River at dusk, Marlowe told his crew friends about his experience of driving a steamboat up the Congo River in Africa to rescue a legendary explorer named Kurtz deep in the jungle. Along the way, he witnessed the desolate and primitive scenes of the African land, and also witnessed the various atrocities committed by the colonists against black laborers; when the mysterious white fog cleared, the steamboat encountered a sudden attack by a savage tribe. What kind of unknown and thrilling stories are hidden in the silent primitive jungle? What kind of shock did Kurtz's last words bring to Marlowe? All the answers lie in "Heart of Darkness".

Perfumer Alice leads a carefree life in London, often entertaining friends at home, but the noise often causes dissatisfaction with her eccentric neighbor Daldry. However, on Christmas Eve, her beautiful life falls apart when a fortune teller predicts that Alice must go on a long journey, during which she will meet six people who will ultimately lead her to find the most important person in her life. Istanbul will be the place where their fates meet. This prophecy plunges Alice into a series of nightmares. Under the persuasion of their neighbor Daidley, they embarked on a journey to Istanbul together. What awaited her was the truth that would subvert her entire life.

In this collection of short stories, the author uses his consistent prose style and humorous and calm language to explore issues of power, ethics and justice, and explore the core of the meaning of human life together. "Letter from Love" tells the story of a not-too-distant possible future, in some kind of dystopian society, through touching letters between a grandfather and his grandson, awakening their responsibility to their ideals, themselves, and each other. The story of "Ghoul" takes place in the hell-themed part of an underground amusement park. The protagonist - Brian, a lonely and somewhat morally complex man, questions the things he takes for granted in life. In "Mother's Day" two women who love the same man face the dilemma of survival together at the center of a Fargo. In "Elliot Spencer", the 89-year-old protagonist suddenly discovers that his memory has been "cleansed" and he is the victim of a plan to transform all poor and weak people into political protesters... Joy and despair, oppression and resistance, weird fantasies and cruel reality... These nine short stories are like prisms, reflecting the common spiritual dilemma of mankind.

"The Three Musketeers" is a long historical novel written by French writer Alexandre Dumas in 1844. It describes the legendary life of knight swordsmen in the seventeenth century. D'Artagnan's youthful bravery, Athos' poise and sophistication, Porthos's boldness and recklessness, and Aramis's resourcefulness and grace are all vividly drawn by the author's vivid writing, ready to be drawn out. The work is based on the conflict between King Louis XIII of France and the powerful Cardinal Richelieu, interspersed with the overt and covert struggles of ministers and factions, and unfolds a series of thrilling, twists and turns and interesting stories around the secret history and anecdotes of the palace. 2024 Marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. This book was presented to the French President as one of the national gifts.

"Watching the Lighthouse" is one of the representative works of contemporary British writer Janet Winterson. The heroine Yin'er in this book is an orphan with no fixed place and was adopted by the blind man Puyou. Puyo is the lighthouse keeper of Las Point, his whereabouts are mysterious, and he tells Yin'er many travel stories across time and space. The stories revolve around Bobby Duck, a nineteenth-century clergyman who lived a life half light and half dark. In Yin'er's view, Dak's story is a map for her to travel through darkness, intertwined with her own story, and ultimately leads to love, creating a touching love story. This book uses poetic language and storytelling techniques to create a modern fable. This book was named "The Best Foreign Novel of the Year in the 21st Century" in 2004.

Xie Baofei, a Chinese-American young man, broke the world sprint record with astonishing results, shocking the world and winning the heart of Chinese girl Tian Ge. It was supposed to be a happy and tender life, but he couldn't help but repeat the tragedy of four years ago. Unprecedented victory, repeated mistakes, the source of everything turned out to be close family members who had kept secrets for many years...

The set contains 4 volumes, including "Humanoid", "Cancer Man", "Leopard Man" and "Sea Man".

Ramsay, the captain of the nuclear submarine, woke up from his 270-year long dream and suddenly discovered that the ocean race had already taken control of the world. The human descendants he had cultivated with his own hands had declined, and both races of life actually regarded him as "God." What mission will he undertake? Long-standing legends, cruel laws, the struggle of love and hate, and the memories that emerge like cocoons are intertwined into a moving song of life.

Zach Lightman is an ordinary high school senior and the sixth-ranked master player in the online game "Armada". At home, Zach has a doting mom, and at school, he has two gaming-obsessed brothers who fight alongside him. Suddenly one day, Zach saw an in-game combat spaceship hovering over the school playground through the classroom window, and his ordinary and comfortable senior year of high school ended. Thousands of ordinary players don't know what high hopes the Earth Alliance has placed on them...

Does the sea exist outside human time? There are so many people, men and women, who have little interest in life on land, but are eager to dive deeper into the sea. What are they looking for? Rather than saying that the sea water cools the burn marks left by the land, it is better to say that the deep sea shows a philosophy that is impossible to obtain in life on land. "Dream Diving" contains 7 short and medium-sized stories, all with the theme of "diving", connecting all kinds of life in the city. It not only writes about adventure and passion, but also depicts the entangled fate of people. There are no different human beings, only different life sentiments and the cultural ethics behind those sentiments.

In 1947, the Alsatian girl Mathilde followed her Moroccan husband to the "land of the other". Here, she realizes that escape and running away are just another abyss, and she will always be just an outsider, a woman, and a wife. But even so, facing strangeness, poverty, violence and depression, she will eventually live again and again. "War, War, War" is a new biographical novel by Leila Slimani, winner of the Goncourt Literary Prize. It is one of her "Land of the Other Trilogy" that writes about the true fate of three generations of women in the family. The novel is set against the backdrop of the drastic changes in social life in French Morocco after World War II. It tells the story of a country in deep political identity crisis, an interracial mixed-race family, and how an exhausted woman finds her place in a turbulent world.

[Retaliation against the scumbag man + female protagonist starting a business + farming + little milk dog] At the age of thirty, he was fired, the scumbag man cheated on him, and he returned home to start a business. Do you think this is the beginning of a collapse? Faced with workplace discrimination, Yang Jiamei decisively resigned. At worst, it would be good to go back and get married. Unexpectedly, her boyfriend Chen Taifeng, who has been in love for nearly ten years, cheated on her with a school girl she introduced to her. Yang Jiamei broke up, and her boyfriend felt that she was making a fuss out of a molehill. Later, Yang Jiamei was pursued by the rich second-generation milk dog Li Hao, and Chen Taifeng became angry. Chen Taifeng: "He is playing with you! I am the only one who loves you!" Yang Jiamei hooked Li Hao's chin, "Really?" Li Hao: "I gave her 10 million to play with, and you said I don't love her?" When he returned to his hometown to start a business to help farmers, he was laughed at by his relatives, and the top students had no future as farmers. When the government commended Yang Jiamei, her relatives were silent. See how Yang Jiamei achieves both career and love.

The most influential fantasy and horror novel system in the 20th century! The "Cthulhu Mythos" was created by the American writer Lovecraft. He built an extremely grand world, filled with creations and existences that transcend human cognitive dimensions and are extremely distant in time and space. George Martin, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, the author of "American Gods", and the famous Japanese cartoonist Junji Ito are all loyal fans. The games "World of Warcraft", "StarCraft", "Hearthstone", science fiction masterpieces "Ultraman", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Alien" and "Batman" are all deeply influenced by it. This series is compiled by the well-known translator Qu Changxuan. The second volume is an eclectic collection of 12 classic short and medium-sized novels, including "Mountains of Madness", "The Beast in the Cave", "The Deserted House", "Occurrences from Another World", "Climbing the Wall of Sleep", "The Shadow Beyond Time" and "The Challenge of the Other Side". This book unlocks immersive reading and takes you into the world of horror! "We will transcend time, space, and dimensions, effortlessly gazing into the source of creation."

This is a documentary work of military history. This book uses more than 400 Japanese photos and maps collected by the author for the first time in Japan as clues. Through comparative analysis and textual research of Chinese and Japanese historical materials on the historical information in these photos, this book reveals the arduous and unyielding resistance experience of the Northeast Regular Army, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in the Northeast region from 1931 to 1945. However, it disclosed the little-known important figures and events that took place on the Chinese battlefield between 1931 and 1945, including the military forces of China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea. It also revealed the games and contests surrounding the Northeast on the secret front at that time, such as the Soviet Union, Japan, the United Kingdom, Chinese spies, Doihara, Yoshiko Kawashima, etc. The first exclusive declassification case: (1) The whole story of the aborted assassination plan against Puyi in Tokyo; (2) The mystery of the death of Colonel Tetsuo Tonomiya, the "Father of the Manchuria Pioneer Corps"; (3) Takeda Takeda as the fictional spy king; (4) Analysis of the prototype of the protagonists in the TV series "Invincible" and "The Cliff"; (5) Research on the "China National Salvation Corps", a Chinese spy organization fighting in Japan.