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There are nine volumes of carefully selected mystery works by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, including: "Silent Night of the Lambs", "The Black Lady", "The Disintegration of Causes", "The Man Who Died Seven Times", "Scottish Game", "The Night She Died", "The Substitute", "Dependence", and "Pity the Devil". A deeply reflective work by the talented writer Nishizawa Yasuhiko, recommended by the God of Mystery Shoji Shimada as a must-read.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" The young Werther, who is good at poetry and painting, loves nature, is sentimental, and pursues freedom of individuality, falls in love with a girl named Lotte, who is already engaged to someone else. The setback in love made Werther devastated. The conservative and corrupt officialdom, the vulgar and submissive citizens, and the arrogant aristocrats all made him feel suffocated by the despicable society. Finally, he felt that his future was hopeless and committed suicide in order to find relief. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is an epistolary novel written by Goethe in his early years. The protagonist's unfortunate love and social encounters are not only realistic prototypes, but also blended with the author's painful experience. It shows the reaction of a generation of awakened German youth to a society with unhealthy hierarchical concepts and their strong demand for individual liberation.

Harrell is an upright writer who despises the lifestyle of modern society. He often stays at home and is extremely lonely. He falls into a schizophrenic situation. One day, he accidentally read a short book "Review of Steppenwolf". He woke up from a dream and thought that he was a Steppenwolf with both "human nature" and "wolf nature". Later, he was invited to a party and found that the attendees all had narrow nationalist views, and his anti-war remarks were reprimanded, which made him feel very lonely. Later, he met the bar girl Hermina and gained sensual pleasure. Jinghe introduced him to the musician Pablo and the girl Maria. He forgot all his troubles and worries in music and sensory enjoyment. But when he saw Hermina getting close to Pablo, he became "wolfish" and killed Hermina out of jealousy. The novel is rich in fantasy color and profound symbolic meaning, and is considered to have a "surrealist" style. Thomas Mann called it "the German Ulysses".

Twenty-eight-year-old man Kawai Joeji adopted the fifteen-year-old girl Naomi with the intention of training her to become a perfect wife. However, because he fell into a mysterious physical entanglement with Na too early, the training ended in failure. What's worse is that as an adult, Na Mi completely became a vain, arrogant, spendthrift and romantic woman. In order to satisfy her desire for money, she deliberately started hunting for Kawai Rangji...

The story took place during the turbulent French Revolution. French doctor Manette was imprisoned in the Bastille for reporting the evil deeds of the nobles, and was never heard from again. His wife was struck down by pain, and his orphan daughter Lucy was taken to London to be raised. Eighteen years later, Dr. Manette was released. After the grown-up Lucy learned about her father, she rushed from London to Paris, hoping to take her father to live in London with her. During the journey, they met the young man Dana and received his careful care. Darnay and Lucy accompany each other all the way, and their love gradually grows. However, Dardenne turned out to be the son of the powerful man who framed Manette. He hated his family's sins, so he gave up his family property and became a French teacher in London. For the sake of his daughter's happiness, Manat forgave the Dardenne family for what they had done and agreed to their marriage. At this time, the arrival of a revolutionary storm disrupted everything...

"The Plague" takes place in Oran, a small city in North Africa. It is an ordinary and peaceful city. However, the arrival of the plague broke this calm. One night in April, Dr. Rieux was walking out of the clinic when he stumbled over a dead rat. He didn't pay much attention at first. A few days later, tens of thousands of rats died en masse, and the drains were filled with dead rats. A wave of panic swept through the city. Immediately afterwards, Rieux discovered the first patient, who had symptoms such as vomiting, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes. He realized that this could be a highly lethal infectious disease. However, city officials deliberately concealed the epidemic in order to protect their power. Soon, the epidemic spread rapidly, and the government finally issued a plague warning and the city was locked down. This city has completely become an island. In Camus's works, in the face of crisis, different characters made completely different choices, but ordinary people led by Rieux always fought against the plague in their own way.

"Robinson Crusoe" (1719) is Defoe's masterpiece. It describes the businessman Robinson's unfortunate experience of being shipwrecked and living on a desert island, and his indomitable perseverance to improve the living environment. The novel praises the spirit of labor and the strong will of man to fight against nature, and the protagonist Robinson has therefore become a famous literary image in the history of world literature.

"The Sound and the Fury" is the most outstanding masterpiece of American Nobel Prize winner and 20th century literary master William Faulkner. It was published in 1929. This novel describes the decline of the Compson family, a prominent family in the town of Jefferson in the south of the United States from the late 19th century to the 1920s, as well as the experiences and mental states of each family member. The book is divided into four parts, each part has a character narrating the story.

It tells the weird and absurd love story between Miss Amelia, the criminal Marvin Macy and the hunchback Lemon in a small town. In a weird, mysterious and absurd way, it expresses a human theme as eternal as love - loneliness, and uses the absurdity of love to prove the inevitability of loneliness.

This is a novel that accuses the old German education system and has a strong autobiographical flavor. The protagonist of the story, named Hans, was born in an ordinary family. He has been extremely talented since childhood, diligent and studious, and is regarded as a child prodigy by everyone. Hans entered the seminary with excellent grades, but he was not good at socializing and was alone. Until by chance, he met Hermann. Herman was rebellious by nature, despised fame, and was not tolerated by the school. Although they are two completely different people, they have the same spirit and become good friends. When Hermann appears, Hans is lost. Her health deteriorated day by day, and her grades plummeted. The school blamed Herman for this and expelled Herman. After losing his friends, Hans became even more lonely and was often scolded by his teachers and ridiculed by his classmates. Day after day, Hans's mental condition became worse and worse, and he could no longer continue his studies, so he had to return to his hometown to work as a fitter to make a living. Social discrimination and frustration in life made Hans feel as if he had fallen under a ruthless and huge wheel...

This book is a collection of novels by the Austrian writer Zweig, including "Letter from an Unknown Woman" and five other masterpieces. The author's writing style is clear and delicate, with passionate emotion in the silence and pathos in the writing. "Letter from an Unknown Woman" was even evaluated by Gorky as "an astonishing masterpiece".

Koshien - an irreplaceable dream in the hearts of Japanese baseball boys. Every summer, Hanshin Koshien Stadium gathers Japan's top high school baseball teams for highly anticipated games. The girl Kawashima Minami's dream of Koshien seems a bit pale - not only does her baseball team have a poor foundation, but it can't even organize daily training, and the probability of entering Koshien is almost "zero". The miracle happened due to Xiaonan's encounter with a book. By chance, she read Peter Drucker's famous book "Management". It was this "encounter" that made everything incredible. "When a Baseball Girl Meets Drucker 1" is a best-selling work by Japanese writer Natsumi Iwasaki. It is not only a beautiful campus novel, but also an easy-to-understand entry-level management book. The author uses Japan's unique comic style and light novel writing techniques to transform the profound "Management" into an interesting story, which brings a lot of inspiration to readers in the contrast. When a baseball girl reads the works of management masters, what sparks will emerge from this cross-time, space, and cross-field ideological dialogue? Will this baseball team finally reach Koshien? On the way to the bottom team's counterattack, they have already achieved the most important thing.

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"Crimes of the Father" is the debut work of Matthew Scudder, a popular character written by Lawrence Block, the master of American hard-boiled detective novels. The story takes place in New York in the 1970s. A young girl died tragically in a Greenwich Village apartment, and the whole bed turned into a sea of ​​blood. The boy who lived with her rushed to the street covered in blood, was arrested as a murderer, and then committed suicide in prison. The girl's father found Scudder, hoping to understand who his daughter was and why she was killed... "The Sting of Darkness" was written five years after the completion of "Sins of the Father". Matthew Scudder was still an alcoholic at this time and had not yet joined Alcoholics Anonymous. Nine years ago, a crazy ice pick killer stabbed several women in a row and then disappeared. Nine years later, the New York police caught this man by chance. He admitted to all other cases but firmly denied Barbara's death. Barbara's father seeks out Scudder, hoping to find out who killed his daughter. "Memory is a cooperative animal, very willing to please you. If the supply is not timely, it can often invent one on the spot, and then carefully fill in the blanks." In the book "The First of the Blade", Matthew Scudder walked into the door of Alcoholics Anonymous. He was entrusted to find a girl who had been missing for three weeks. There was no progress in the case. The girl disappeared like air. She keeps to herself, but doesn't spend much time in her suite. Where could she go if she was so lonely? Will she go to the park and talk to the pigeons? At the same time, Eddie, a friend of the Alcoholics Anonymous Association, was found hanging in his residence by Scudder before he could express his thoughts. This book won the 1990 Shamus Award for Novel. "Dance in the Slaughterhouse" Matthew went to the boxing ring to investigate a case. In the audience, he noticed a man with a little boy. The man inadvertently stroked the boy's hair with his hands, which triggered Matthew's memory: he saw on a video tape the entire process of a man and a woman brutally killing a boy. As Matthew pursues, the two cases actually intersect. "The Devil Predicts Death" A promising publishing lawyer was shot dead on the streets of New York in the dark night, and the murderer found by the police was a homeless man with mental problems who wandered the streets all day long. New York caused a panic and continued discussions. However, the suspect's younger brother did not believe that his brother, who was stimulated by the Vietnam War, could be the murderer, and begged Matthew to come forward as a detective to find the real murderer. Will, who claims to be the "will of the people" in "In Search of Evil," will first write a letter to Marty McGraw's column in the "Daily News" and then use lynching to deal with several villains who cannot be punished by law for the public. Among them are a child killer, a gang boss, a murderer who bombed an abortion clinic, and a black racist. Matthew Scudder's client this time is the lawyer who allowed the child killer to regain his freedom. He is being named by Will, and he is the next person to be executed by the "will of the people"... The end of Matthew Scudder's career in "The Flower Will End". As with all stories, Matthew, who decided to retire, agreed to take on his last case. The client, Louise, met a man she liked, but she always suspected that he was hiding something from her. As Matthew investigates the truth for him, danger is approaching... Matthew's wife Elena is threatened! In this last case, can Matthew successfully avert danger? Can he live a life of leisure with Elena? ..."A Drop of Spirits" Matthew finally decided to quit drinking. He put the filled glass on the bar and walked into the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. In Alcoholics Anonymous, he met his childhood friend Jack. The two of them had been on different paths. Soon, Jack was shot to death, one bullet in his mouth and one between his eyes. Participating in alcohol abstinence and atonement seemed to be the direct cause of his shooting. Matthew launched an investigation into this, but his own life was also threatened... How can a guilty person truly atone for his sins? "Grogan's Last Night" contains eleven short stories featuring Matthew Scudder. In "The Dreamer," Matthew Scudder, who has yet to leave the NYPD, investigates a card-game murder case. By "Outside the Window", he has become an unlicensed private detective, investigating the real cause of death of a waitress who fell from the 17th floor. "Night and Music", "Grogan's Last Night", etc. Seem to be tender songs written by Bullock for Matthew Scudder.

One day, Yu Xiaoan, a newly fired office worker, accidentally entered a strange chat group for cultivating immortals and accepted a commission to grow medicinal herbs. From then on, he became a farmer... However, the names of his customers were very strange, such as: Baidi Immortal King, Qinglong Immortal Lord, Zixia Fairy, Qingyun Taoist, etc. Then one day, Immortal King Baidi sent him a message saying: Little brother, you are the future of our world of immortality! (☆_☆) Yu Xiaoan smiled calmly: I am just an earthly person, how can I be the future of the world of immortality? Just kidding, boss. (?˙▽˙?) This is the life of an ordinary person who mistakenly enters the world of immortality.

The classroom turned into a secret room without anyone noticing, the books were borrowed every week, and the boy insisted that the anthology that should exist did not exist. And hidden in the anthology called "Hyouka" is the truth from 33 years ago - the "energy-saving" young man Oreki Houtaro, who tried not to get involved with anything, had no choice but to join the ancient book research club for many reasons. Later, entrusted by members of the same club, he successively solved the incredible mysteries hidden in daily life.

It seems that nothing good will happen to me in my future life. Therefore, the rest of my life is "valued" at 10,000 yen per year. I was very pessimistic about my future, so I simply sold out most of my remaining life, thinking that at least I could live a happier life for the rest of my life. Who knows that no matter what I do, it always backfires. Just as I was struggling in vain over and over again, "Monitor" Miyagi appeared in front of me. Unfortunately, when I finally realized that living for Miyagi was the happiest thing, I only had less than two months left to live.

Oreki Houtaro participated in the local traditional festival "Hina Doll Festival" at the request of Chitanda Eru, a member of the Ancient Books Research Society. The content of this festival is that "living dolls" wearing twelve singles parade in the street, but this year due to a communication error, it is unclear whether it can be held. In the end, thanks to Chitanda's idea, the festival was successfully held. However, she was curious about the "mistake" and decided to work with Houtarou to deduce the truth.

"I'm curious." Chitanda Eru muttered softly after watching the class-produced independent film to be shown at the cultural festival. At the end of that movie, a victim died in a locked ruins room. Who was the murderer? What was the modus operandi? The movie ends without any explanation at all. Chitanda, who was concerned about the follow-up, began to explore the ending together with her partner Oreki Houtaro and others.

The much-anticipated cultural festival has begun, but the ancient book research society to which Oreki Houtaro belongs once again ran into trouble - accidentally, they printed too many copies of the society's anthology "Hyoka". Just when the members were having a headache, a series of thefts suddenly occurred in the school. There are all kinds of things stolen, including Go pieces, tarot cards, and even water guns - then, let's solve this "case" in one fell swoop and let the reputation of the Ancient Book Research Society skyrocket! Our goal is to sell out the anthology! Oreki Houtaro was once again pushed to the stage by his friends who were in high spirits and began to challenge this puzzle...

If I Was in My Right Mind is a modern tale of loss, search, and fear. The author uses bizarre daily life to wrap up the extraordinary, delicately showing the grief of losing a child, the sadness of losing a friend, and people's fear of death. He also uses real emotions to explore the mental trauma of the survivors after the Japanese earthquake, and encourages parents who have lost their children to move forward.

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Regarding Shakespeare, Burgess wrote two works. In addition to the biography "Shakespeare", it is "Not Like the Sun", a fictional account of Shakespeare's love life. The title of the book is taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet 130: "My lover's eyes are not like the sun." Unlike "Shakespeare", which reproduces the writer's life completely fictitiously, "Not Like the Sun" is Burgess's attempt to enter the inner sanctum of Shakespeare's inner life. The dazzling language style makes it seem as if Shakespeare himself has merged into Burgess's body, creating in a unified way. The author uses his profound attainments in Shakespeare and classical literature, coupled with the novelist's unparalleled talent and imagination, to create a personal history of Shakespeare full of desire, betrayal, and spiritual and physical struggle, and from it reveals the true meaning of artistic creation. This book was selected into the "Western Canon" and Harold Bloom, the leading scholar of Shakespeare, praised it as "the most wonderful and powerful literary biography of Shakespeare".

They were the strongest swordsman group at the end of the shogunate, known as the "Wolves of Mibu"; their team rules were extremely strict, and if they were violated, they would commit seppuku; they adhered to their duties, but they became a conservative force that maintained the shogunate and suffered disaster. However, their last warrior heart has always persisted in the cracks of the changes of time. On the night of June 5, the first year of the Yuanji period (1864), Shinsengumi chief Isamu Kondo led only four soldiers into Ikedaya, a hotel near Sanjo Bridge in Kyoto, and started a fierce battle with more than 20 rebel ronin who were plotting here. After a thrilling night of swords and sword shadows, the Ronin were all killed and injured, and the Shinsengumi ushered in the dawn of its peak. On May 30th of the fourth year of Keio (1868), the young talented swordsman Okita Souji died of illness in the Senda Valley Uekiya Hotel in Edo. Until the last moment, he still didn't know that Director Kondo Isamu had been executed two months ago, the Shinsengumi had become history, and even the era of samurai was about to pass... The era was full of conflicts, and the unyielding faith under the banner of "sincerity" stood proudly!

This is a chaotic world full of high-pressure rule and transformed people - it is full of amazing magical wonders. Bath-Lage - a huge city-state that encompasses thousands of different cultures and races. New Clobusan, Bath-Lage's sinful city of power. It is the birthplace of all nightmares... A linguist who boarded the "La Dansere" to escape from New Clobusan, a spy who appeared halfway and was full of secrets. A sudden pirate robbery took all the passengers to Fleet City and sailed to the legendary place - Scar! In order to return to his homeland, a dangerous plan begins...

This is an underground jungle full of musical rhythm; this is a dark, dirty underground London; this is a kingdom that has lost its master, and the "Rat King" opened the door to this underground world... A sudden murder incident made Sauer the number one suspect of killing his father and was arrested and imprisoned. But he was unexpectedly rescued by a stranger who called himself "Rat King" and exuded a foul smell. They escaped from the cell together, but had to travel through the night to escape the Piper's hunt, seeking a way to survive and seek revenge. The "Rat King" learned about the way of survival of Sauer's rat pack. Unexpectedly, as time went by in exile, the mystery of Sauer's life experience surfaced, and the conspiracy behind the murders was revealed... The flames of anger, fear and revenge enveloped Sauer and drove him forward. The scattered and tired creatures are waiting for the new king!

They are ordinary lower-level warriors, but with the great righteousness of "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world", they abandon their homeland and go to other places. They transformed into assassins, hid in the dark, brandished their swords, and did not hesitate to stain their hands with blood, hoping to save the country from danger amid the surrounding powers. On March 3, the seventh year of Anzheng (1860), there was heavy snow. Naoki Ii, the shogunate who signed a trade treaty with the Americans, was assassinated by an assassin outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle on his way to the city to meet the general. Subsequently, the idea of ​​founding the country was drowned out by the voice of "rejecting the foreigners". The samurai came to Japan one after another, vowing to drive foreigners out of Japan. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Meiji (1868), Emperor Meiji, who regained power, declared to the world that establishing diplomatic relations with friendly countries was an international justice and needed to be handled properly. I hope all people will remember this. This move cut off the last hope of the warriors who were looking forward to "repelling the foreigners". They became miserable abandoned children. The light of the sword bloomed in the dark night, and the song of the warrior was heard!

In January 1486, a hopeless love affair ended, and Princess Elizabeth of York wore a blood-red wedding dress and became the bride of Henry Tudor. However, this political marriage full of suspicion was full of thorns from the beginning. The York boy who was rumored to have died suddenly appears overseas. Is he a conspirator with evil intentions, or is he the legitimate heir to England? There are internal and external troubles, disputes are everywhere, and war is about to break out. Family love, which one is more important? White rose, red rose, what choice will Elizabeth make? The War of the Roses, which intertwined the love and hate of several generations, finally came to a magnificent end...

In this storm-ravaged rocky country where no grass can grow, the destinies of four God-chosen people are about to intersect. A warrior who gave up studying medicine for his family but became a slave; a general who was loyal to his duty but hidden a shadow; an assassin who shed tears because of killing people; a female thief disguised as a scholar. Who will bring salvation? Who can commit grave sins? As the sun sets in the sky, the mysterious blade returns, and ancient magic returns. A devastating storm is coming. A tragic night is coming.

Edith Wharton is famous for her ability to describe New York's upper class society, so most of her novels are set in New York, with "Summer" and "Etan Frome" being the exceptions. "Summer" was first published in 1917. The setting of the novel is New England. A naive and ignorant girl from a humble background met an ambitious city boy, and the two developed a romantic relationship. Charity Royal is proud, independent, and honest, but she has been living in the shadow of the past, especially her passionate love affair with the well-educated and gentle Lucius Harney. Can passion trump genetics and environmental influences?

Sakaguchi Ango was also one of the many writers influenced by the "Detective Age" trend after World War II. He believed that mystery novels were "a high-level entertainment", a "decryption game" and a "wisdom competition between the author and the reader". "The Shadowless Prisoner - A Collection of Mystery Novels by Ango Sakaguchi" contains the author's most famous six mystery novels, "The Pitcher Murder Case", "The Shadowless Prisoner", "The Noon Murder Case", "The Psychic Murder Case", "The Election Murder Case" and "The Matricide Boy". Sakaguchi Ango, who was born into a wealthy family, has written works such as "Dr. Wind" and "Black Furukawa" that are highly recognized by the literary world. In his youth, he taught at the Department of Indian Philosophy at Toyo University. He lived a life of less than 4 hours of sleep a day in order to study Buddhism, and developed neurasthenia as a result. He once said that "in order to survive, you must fall", and his work was reviewed as "a model of Japanese post-war literature". Ango Sakaguchi died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1955 at the age of 49.

In 2013, a plague broke out in London, and strange epidemics also broke out in various states in the United States. For a time, the United States fell, and the streets were littered with corpses. The darkness and glory of human nature were undoubtedly revealed in the face of this disaster. The protagonist, Professor James Smith, survived several struggles and lived a tribal life with several survivors. Sixty years later, human civilization retreated into primitive society. As Professor Smith approaches his final years, he worries that he is the only person who has lived in the pre-pandemic era and is trying to pass on his knowledge and wisdom to his grandchildren. However, all efforts were in vain.

Lovecraft expert Donald R. Burleson called the story "one of his stylistically and conceptually finest short stories." He extends terror into the universe. The film of the same name starring Oscar winner Nicolas Cage premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2019 and will be released in the United States in January 2020. The story begins with an unknown surveyor from Boston, told from the first-person perspective. The surveyor came to Arkham to conduct surveys to help build a local reservoir. Later, through the narration of the locals, he gradually uncovered a dusty history and terrible secrets - about a place called the "Blighted Wasteland" that was avoided by the locals in Arkham. The locals are tight-lipped about the so-called "blighted wasteland". So the surveyor couldn't get any information from the townspeople, but he did learn that a man named Old Ami Pierce knew the details. So the surveyor found an Ami Pierce - he looked exactly like the local residents said, a crazy-looking old man. After hard work, old Ami Pierce told the surveyor a personal experience and the story of the farmer Gardner family who once lived on the cursed land. Ami claimed that it all started when a meteorite fell on the Gardner property in June 1882. But then, the color it brought not only took away the lives of the Gardner family, but also gradually caused nature to take on otherworldly and otherworldly tones. Under its influence, all bright and beautiful things became mutated, corrupted, turned gray and brittle, until they disappeared.

Why do we fight? In order to preserve the fire of survival, protect human beings and provide them with a safe haven. What price do we bear? The cost is irrelevant, humanity must survive. We are tasked with saving the nation, and all other ideas are just a drop in the ocean. The world is approaching destruction, the storm has reappeared, and the glorious knights who have abandoned their oath have no intention of saving mankind. And the servants who have been enslaved by humans for a long time are summoning another brand new storm. Xu Du, who possesses ancient power, is about to reappear in the world. Will human civilization end as a result?

A book of odes that describes the consequences of dystopia, a virtual future where collectivism has triumphed. "Carol" found no publisher willing to publish it in the United States, so it was first published in England.

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, probably written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This epistolary novel was Jane Austen's early completed work, but she never submitted it for publication. It describes the widow Lady Susan's plan to find a new husband for herself and her decision to marry off her daughter as well. The Watsons is an unfinished novel written by Jane Austen. She began writing the work around 1804 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. The work has 5 chapters. The Watsons is the story of a widowed pastor and his four daughters. Sanditon, also known as Sandand Sandition, is a work that Jane Austen began writing in 1817, but the author did not complete it, and the full text of the book was not published until 1925. It is said that Austen's original intention was to tell the story of a series of profound social changes taking place on the southern coast of Sussex, England, through the eyes of the heroine Charlotte Heywood.

This book is the sequel to Herland. In the sequel, the couple begins traveling around the world outside "her country", interviewing people, taking photos and taking notes, discussing history, religion, war, raising children, the role of women, how to treat immigrants, women's suffrage and more. Charlotte P. Gilman, a pioneering American feminist writer and social reformer, described an isolated female utopia in "Her Country". There, they reproduce through parthenogenesis. Their society is stable, free from wars and disputes, and free from domination and being ruled. In the story, three young male scientists found this place during an expedition. After experiencing various adventures, two of them were expelled, and the wife of one of them, a member of "Her Country", chose to follow him out. The three returned to the outside world.

The story mainly takes place in the town of Sweetwater along the Burlington Railway in the western United States. It tells the story of the heroine Marianne Forest's fateful twists and turns from one marriage to another. The smart, beautiful, noble and charming Mrs. Forest lives a prosperous life in Sweetwater Town with her husband, who is 25 years older than her. The guest Frank is her secret lover. When the national financial crisis hit, the family experienced a serious financial crisis, and Mr. Forest's health plummeted as a result, and he died of a stroke not long after. The young descendant Ivy Peters, who has coveted everything in the Forrester family for a long time, took advantage of the opportunity, causing Mrs. Forrester to deviate from the principles of life when her husband was alive, join in the vulgar people, go astray, and finally abandon everything here and leave Sweetwater Town. The novel expresses the dimness of the ancient pioneering spirit under the impact of material civilization and expresses the author's dissatisfaction with the increasingly materialistic and money-oriented western society. It is considered an elegy for the pioneering era.

This book is the second book in the End of the Line series. As a link between the past and the next, it not only details the appearance of Christopher, who adheres to traditional morals in the rear troops, but also details his personal emotional struggles and life dilemmas in the context of the First World War. Personal awakening, emotional collision, and the interweaving of fate are all clearly reflected in "The End of the Queue II: No Longer Queue". What is beyond words is a reflection on traditional morality and the old order. This is not only a literary work, but also a picture of the times, which is of great help to us in understanding the world and ourselves. The classic works of the founders of British modernism, Auden, Graham Greene, Julian Barnes, Anthony Gibbs, and Tom Stoppard are highly praised for their excellent works and were selected into the "Top 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century".

"The Five-Story Pagoda" is one of Koda Rohan's masterpieces, depicting an inhumane carpenter. Such an unpleasant little man overcame many difficulties and used his own craftsmanship to independently build a five-story pagoda and create a miracle. The storm scene described in the book is considered a masterpiece of Meiji literature. The protagonist of "To the Skull" encounters a beautiful woman who does not belong to this world in an isolated house in the mountains, and unfolds an incredible story. It is known as the leader of modern Japanese fantasy literature.

"Night and Day" is one of Virginia Woolf's novels, published on October 20, 1919. Set in Edwardian London, the story contrasts the daily lives and romances of two heroines, Catherine Hilbury and Mary Datchett, and explores the relationship between love, marriage, happiness and success. Unlike Woolf's later work "The Lighthouse", the characters' dialogue, psychological description and behavioral description occupy the same space in this book. The story has four protagonists: Catherine Silbery, Mary Datchett, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. They explore life hard, pursue the true meaning of love, and find their true selves. "Night and Day" mentioned issues such as women's suffrage, whether love and marriage can coexist, and whether marriage is a prerequisite for happiness. Themes that appear throughout the book include the stars, the Thames and the Shiner Walk. In the book, Woolf quotes Shakespeare's works many times, especially "As You Like It".

This book is a novel written by American writer Theodore Dreiser. The novel takes Jenny's tragic experience as the main clue and describes the encounter between Jenny, a poor hotel maid, and Senator Brand, who is in the upper class of society. Brand was infatuated with Jenny and promised to marry her, but unfortunately died before the marriage, leaving the pregnant Jenny alone. After giving birth to her daughter, Jenny worked as a maid for a wealthy family to make ends meet, and met Kane, the son of a wealthy manufacturer. Facing the opposition of the Kane family and carrying the secret of their illegitimate daughter, how will the love story between Jenny and Kane end? This book is a companion piece to "Sister Carrie". It is about the love-hate entanglement between a lower-class woman and an upper-class young man. What kind of unique flowers will Dreiser's wonderful pen produce?

"The Voyage" is Woolf's first novel. Woolf began writing this novel, originally titled Melymbrosia, in 1910. During the creation period, she suffered from mental illness. After a long period of deliberation and several changes, "The Voyage" was finally officially published in 1915. Many characters in the novel are derived from people around Woolf in real life, including herself. It is worth mentioning that the heroine Rachel Wenleith was twenty-four years old when she appeared, which was exactly the same age as Woolf when she started writing. The Euphrossini, called "her" in the story, seems to be the incarnation of Rachel Wenleith. The voyage from London to Santa Marina Island in South America is not only a journey in space, but also a journey of her own exploration. This inexperienced young woman was educated but grew up in a very traditional and conservative environment. During a journey to a foreign country, she experienced freedom and self, learned about the relationship between men and women, and tasted the taste of love. However, her life came to an abrupt end when it was about to be completed.

The story takes place on a small island off the coast of Busan, South Korea during the Taisho era. A "major incident" occurred in the seemingly peaceful coastal area. The protagonist Todoroki revealed the truth of the incident to his old friend Saiki who came to visit him. Power and financial interests are intertwined, let's listen to the protagonist slowly... Yumeno Kusaku (January 1889-February 1936), a famous Japanese fantasy literature writer and a master of change-style reasoning, is known as the "monster writer". His representative work "Hell in the Brain" (1935) is called one of the four wonders of Japanese mystery novels.

This book is one of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's important feminist works. Published in 1911. In this work, the author analyzes various unfair phenomena in society with an objective and fair perspective and writing style, as well as a common cause behind these phenomena. The book is divided into 15 chapters, which explain how excessive masculinity reverses the laws of nature and causes various abnormal and distorted phenomena in human society from the aspects of human nature, family, health, art, literature, sports, ethics and religion, education, fashion, law, government, crime, war, economy, etc. There is a serious imbalance in the status of the family and society. Men and women do not enjoy equal rights as a human being. Men, as the dominant gender, have long suppressed and distorted the development of women, which has greatly harmed women, harmed the true development of mankind, harmed the progress of society, and also harmed men themselves. We live in such a "world made by men" but don't even know it.

"The Years" is Woolf's last novel published during her lifetime and her best-selling novel. It spans more than 50 years from 1880 to the mid-1930s and tells the history of three generations of the Padgett family. Although it covers such a long period, the book focuses on some aspect of each character's personal life. Except for the first chapter, each chapter tells what happened on a certain day that year from the perspective of a different character. Historical events loom as the background, and the stories of three generations of the Padgett family become a microcosm of the external world, running through the author's thoughts on survival and the meaning of life.