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"Woman Dancing Under the Stars\u002F Book Series of Contemporary Chinese Powerful Female Writers" is written by Teng Xiaolan. It is a book series of powerful contemporary Chinese female writers and is edited by Liang Hongying, director of the Creative Research Department of the Chinese Writers Association. "Woman Dancing Under the Stars\u002F Collection of Contemporary Chinese Powerful Female Writers" selects 5 novellas published by Teng Xiaolan, a well-known contemporary female writer, in famous domestic literary journals, including national award-winning novels. The success of Teng Xiaolan's novels is that they are truly realistic and do not use "life" to fill preset clichéd imaginations. She is good at looking at reality head-on and looking at people and things in reality from a normal and equal perspective. She writes about ordinary people, but there is no ordinary spirit at all. There is an otherworldly feeling in her novels.

Daningchang, the "salt capital" with a rich history of more than 5,000 years, was once described as "white jade flows from a spring, and gold travels thousands of miles away" to describe its good prosperity. The moving story of the thousands of salt smoke rising from the stoves, the fantastic fantasy of the hanging coffin and the ancient plank road cannot be told in a short while or summarized in two sentences. Although there are many historical materials passed down from the glory along the way, we can still collect some scattered stories passed down by people. The story that happened in the Xianfeng and Tongzhi years of the Qing Dynasty is one of them.

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a work created by American writer Mark Twain in the 1870s. It describes the life of an ordinary American small town along the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century, and is also a microcosm of American life at that time.

This book is the continuation of the 70-chapter version of "Water Margin" written by Jin Shengtan. It was created during the Anti-Japanese War and was published as a single volume by Chongqing Jianzhong Publishing House in 1943. The book tells the story of the Liangshan heroes who gathered together to help the Song Dynasty resist the Jin invasion. The book has sixty-eight chapters in total.

This book is the continuation of the 70-chapter version of "Water Margin" written by Jin Shengtan. It was created during the Anti-Japanese War and was published as a single volume by Chongqing Jianzhong Publishing House in 1943. The book tells the story of the Liangshan heroes who gathered together to help the Song Dynasty resist the Jin invasion. The book has sixty-eight chapters in total.

During the Anti-Japanese War. Accompany the capital Chongqing. Dark and chaotic, ghosts are rampant. Mr. Ou has been studying all his life and has taught his four children to study hard and make a living using the knowledge they have learned. However, prices in Chongqing have skyrocketed, supplies are in short supply, and people are in dire straits, making it difficult to live on wages. As a result, Mr. Ou's third son abandoned Wen and drove a truck and made a fortune; his second son abandoned medicine and went into business and lived a well-off life; and his eldest son was still a civil servant and was in poverty. The friends, colleagues, neighbors, and relatives around him are all speculative and profit-seeking, working hard day and night to make money. It is truly "tight ahead, tight behind"!

This book is like a love letter to Manhattan, exquisite, elegant, humorous, fresh love and bread. Which one will you choose? There are no always right answers in life. In New York in the late 1930s, the Great Depression was coming to an end, and there was no threat of war. Under the peaceful atmosphere, a group of young people were looking for their ideals and love here. Katie Conten, a calm and wise commoner girl full of poetry, and her roommate Eve met a noble and charming young banker Tinker in a jazz bar. Katie fell in love with Tinker, but a car accident completely changed her life.

The story takes place in Chongqing, the capital of the Nationalist Government in 1945. Here gathered a group of people who were feasting, feasting, and living in intoxication. Everything revolves around money. Corruption of officials, speculation by businessmen and bankers, and women being swindlers have become a common trend. The novel uses the clues of Wei Duanben, a young civil servant, and his beautiful but vain wife Tian Peizhi as they live together and break up. It takes the opportunity of many characters to rush to buy gold savings certificates to make the country's hard-earned wealth, and unfolds a complicated story. When the Anti-Japanese War was won, everything for the speculators was in vain. The work directs criticism towards the ugly, humble world in the Kuomintang-controlled areas on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It reveals the loss and struggle in the face of human nature and money in a special era.

"Si Ren Ji" tells the story of Liang Hanshan, a scholar, and Zhang Meixian, a female poet, who exchanged poems and got to know each other through poems. According to the meaning of "the capital is full of crowns, but the lady is only haggard", it describes the decadent life of the "shi" class in Beijing, the so-called best district during the Beiyang government period, "holding actors, visiting brothels, expelling them with wine and meat", and "playing with romantic literature and art".

The background of "The Thibault Family" is at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, and the content spans the First and Second World Wars. Through the depiction of two families with different beliefs, it shows the conflict between two generations, reflects the basic conditions of French society during the First World War, exposes the various tragedies caused by the war, and praises anti-war heroes like Jacques. The tragedies of the characters in the work are closely connected with history. The personal tragedies of the characters profoundly remind people of the conflicts of the time and many basic issues in social life. This anti-war novel had particularly important practical significance between the two world wars, making this masterpiece of great cognitive value.

The story of "Beauty's Grace" takes place in Beijing in the 1920s. The heroine Chang Xiaonan was born in a poor family at the bottom of the class and made a living by collecting coal cores. Once, he met the unemployed and down-and-out Hong Shiyi. He deeply sympathized with her fate and used his meager income from working as a substitute at a charity to support the Chang family. The two began to fall in love. The beautiful Chang Xiaonan was later spotted by the foreman of the Yangliu Song and Dance Ensemble. From then on, she changed her mind in love. She successively dumped Hong Shiyi and musician Wang Sun, and finally fell into the hands of the playboy Chen Siye, causing the Chang family to be ruined.

This book takes the "Little West Sky" of Xi'an Grand Hotel in the 1930s as the background, describes all kinds of people from all walks of life, and shows us a picture of northwest customs.

There are thousands of types of writers, and the simplest classification can be divided into two types: those who can tell stories and those who are not good at telling stories. This division has nothing to do with affirmation or negation (it is limited to the working habits of investors and managers). As a reader, I say this to tell you that Xie Zisheng is a writer who is very good at telling stories.

This book is a long emotional novel. The story adopts a dual clue narrative. The author uses a Leica camera that has been dusty for decades as a clue to connect two stories: one is the life of the middle and lower class people in a small city in contemporary society; the other is the life course of an artist and a bandit described in the novel written by the protagonist Lin Yiwei. Through unique and powerful language, the work organically combines supernatural phenomena and reality, art and folklore, life and death. The characters are distinct and their individual characteristics are ready to emerge. It shows readers a colorful picture of life and history.

Our campus is in a remote town far from the mouth of the county. When the acacia flowers are in full bloom, it is fragrant and white. The number of left-behind children in the special class was the first in the school. The desks and stools in the classroom were the only ones in the school at that time - the "double constellation", which linked the students together 1+1. The memories are beautiful, but also slightly bitter. We are the left-behind partners of the special class, tying the words of our hearts to the flying wings of pigeons.

Nanjing. By the Qinhuai River. Singing girl Mrs. Tang has two daughters, one is Erchun and the other is Xiaochun, both of whom are pretty and lovely. Xiaochun has an outstanding singing voice and becomes a singer. She is very popular. Yang Yuquan, a Shanghai money merchant, fell in love with Xiaochun and molested her many times. After being rejected, he harbored a grudge. He kidnapped and raped Erchun, and then gave Erchun to his prostitute Wei Laoba. Erchun waited for an opportunity to take revenge and finally killed Wei Laoba and injured Yang Yuquan. Unfortunately, he was shot to death. Yang Yuquan intensified his efforts and exerted all his lustful force on Mrs. Tang and Xiaochun, forcing the mother and daughter to suffer unspeakably. The people of the lower class along the Qinhuai River were so angry that they united...

This book is France's masterpiece, describing the religious struggles in the 4th century. The work is based on the famous ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria and the cultural life of late Greece. It tells the story of the holy monk Papnus who practices in the desert and vows to save the actress Taikisi. He ventured into the city, persuaded Taichi to change her career, and successfully sent her to a monastery. However, he was moved by Tai Qisi's beauty and fell in love. "Taikisi" is a masterpiece and a soul-saving story.

This book was Mr. Zhang Henshui's most influential and popular novel during the Anti-Japanese War, and was also the best-selling novel in the rear area. The literary world praised the book as a "wonderful book"! The author uses the technique of "nineteen fables based on dreams", and the writing is smooth and free. The whole book is full of strange and mysterious suspense, covering the ancient and modern times, vertically and horizontally, and illuminates those issues that are indirectly helpful to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and those that are directly harmful to the Anti-Japanese War.

"The Kingdom of Heaven" is a work that Pontoppidan spent 10 years carefully conceived and created. In this masterpiece, the author's talent has been fully utilized. The protagonist of the novel was born into a wealthy bourgeois family. Influenced by progressive ideological trends, he was dissatisfied with the leisurely and comfortable bourgeois life and determined to go deep into the countryside to carry out reforms. In the trilogy "Kingdom of Heaven", the author uses an accurate and delicate style to create a complex image of a typical Danish youth, thus making the work reach a certain depth. The story of the protagonist unfolds in a huge picture of the Danish countryside, so the work has considerable breadth. The organic combination of depth and breadth makes "Kingdom of Heaven" a masterpiece of realism.

This book consists of four volumes: "Autumn", "Winter", "Spring" and "Summer". The author uses the changing of the four seasons as the background, uses a complete and harmonious structure, and solemn and poetic language to express the suffering life and heroic struggle history of Polish farmers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The novel has two interrelated main lines: one is the struggle between farmers and big landowners who are supported by the tsarist military and police, and the other is the family dispute of a big farmer. But it is the land that plays the main role, and everything is caused by the land. Therefore, "The Peasant" can be said to be an epic of land, an epic of how land dominated people's lives in the Polish countryside of that historical period and social system, causing a series of disputes, contradictions and struggles. The book "Farmer" not only vividly depicts various characters in the countryside, but also vividly describes rural folk customs, four seasons and beautiful scenery. The language of the novel is also full of life, and the long descriptive narrative language has the charm of beautiful prose poetry.

"The Great River Goes East" was serialized in Hong Kong's "National Daily" in 1940, and was rewritten in 1943 when it was published as a single volume. The novel describes a young soldier whose wife left him and his family was destroyed due to the war. The book also vividly describes the bloody atrocities of the battle to defend China Gate and the massacre of civilians in Nanjing by the Japanese army; it provides a vivid record of the bloodthirsty crimes of the invaders. "River East" may be the earliest literary and artistic work to reflect the Nanjing Massacre.

The novel tells the story of a group of self-reliant vegetable vendors and bartenders on Danfeng Street headed by Tong Laowu. They were not afraid of power, endured pain and hunger, and even went bankrupt, running around just to rescue the poor girl Chen Xiu who was sold by her uncle to Deputy Chief Zhao as his concubine. Underneath the poor and rough appearance of the protagonists, they all contain the spirit of a chivalrous man who is magnanimous, sincere, and committed to his work. These people live an ordinary life and live a vigorous life.

The continued production of literature also depends on the construction of the most basic parts of literature. This construction is to help new people emerge, to look forward to new works brought by new people, to bring new sensibilities, and to produce new ways of thinking and art of expression.

This book includes two classic works by Hemingway: "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms". Although the old fisherman in "The Old Man and the Sea" is old, unlucky and failed, he still persists in working hard. This novel expresses a struggling outlook on life. Even when facing the unconquerable nature, people can still gain spiritual victory. Maybe the result is failure, but in the process of struggle, we can become an upright man. "A Farewell to Arms" is a full-length novel with a strong autobiographical flavor. Based on his own experience in the war, Hemingway sings a sad and moving elegy based on war and love. He criticizes the hypocrisy of imperialist propaganda and is full of strong anti-war sentiments. The novel is divided into two parts. The first part is a farewell to war; the second part is a farewell to love.

The novel is based on the feudal family of Beiyang warlord Jin Quan, Prime Minister, and takes the marriage between Jin Quan's son Jin Yanxi and the commoner woman Leng Qingqiu from love, marriage to estrangement and divorce as the main line. It reveals the empty, degenerate spiritual world and declining and decadent life of the feudal bureaucrats and their wives and children, and describes a living history of the rise and fall of the wealthy aristocrats.

"Night of Street Fighting" tells the story of the bloody battle between the people of Tianjin and Qianshan and the invaders in the face of the Japanese attack. It writes about an ordinary teacher who grew into a guerrilla captain during a brave struggle against the Japanese army and led the people to severely attack the invading enemies.

The novel is based on the feudal family of Beiyang warlord Jin Quan, Prime Minister, and takes the marriage between Jin Quan's son Jin Yanxi and the commoner woman Leng Qingqiu from love, marriage to estrangement and divorce as the main line. It reveals the empty, degenerate spiritual world and declining and decadent life of the feudal bureaucrats and their wives and children, and describes a living history of the rise and fall of the wealthy aristocrats.

This book was written in 1945. It is the first full-length novel that directly describes the famous battle of the Kuomintang on the front battlefield - the Battle of Changde. It is also China's first modern war history novel. The work describes how the 57th Division of the 74th Army, code-named "Hu Ben", was surrounded by more than 60,000 Japanese troops. They shared the same hatred and fought tooth and nail, "one against eight". They fought hard for more than ten days and fought bloody street battles with the Japanese aggressors. They were able to encircle the reinforcements and defend Changde. There were more than 8,000 people in the division, but only 83 survived. The whole story is so evocative and majestic.

The novel is based on the feudal family of Beiyang warlord Jin Quan, Prime Minister, and takes the marriage between Jin Quan's son Jin Yanxi and the commoner woman Leng Qingqiu from love, marriage to estrangement and divorce as the main line. It reveals the empty, degenerate spiritual world and declining and decadent life of the feudal bureaucrats and their wives and children, and describes a living history of the rise and fall of the wealthy aristocrats.

The novel is set in Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War and describes the difficult life in the education sector during the Anti-Japanese War. The professors in the cultural village had different choices and fates in the midst of hardships: Tang Zian continued to live a poor life as a teacher, Tan Boping passed away quietly amidst the struggle of illness and loneliness, Su Banyun Qingyun became an official, Professor Liang and Hong Andong gave up their writing and went into business, and Hua Aoshuang married entrepreneur Xia Shanqing after a pursuit of love.

"Five Sons Enrolled in the Imperial College" was serialized in the "Illustrated Magazine" of Peking's "Xinmin Daily" on August 17, 1947. The author did not finish the book due to illness and continued the book in 1956. The novel describes how after Japan surrendered, officials were sent to Peking, where they engaged in corruption, fraud, and lived a life of debauchery. The secret behind the "robbing" of "five sons admitted to the imperial examination" was revealed. The so-called "five sons" are: gold, women, cars, houses, and restaurants.

"The Life of Arsenyev" is an autobiographical novel by Ivan Bunin, which was written over a seven-year period from 1927 to 1933. This novel uses the protagonist Arsenyev's childhood, boyhood and youth life experiences as basic clues. It uses a first-person narrative method to focus on expressing "my" feelings about nature, hometown, family affection, love and the surrounding world, and shows the growth and mental journey of young intellectuals.

"Long Journey Into the Night" is an autobiographical work that describes the daily life of four members of the Talon family from morning to night. They complained, sarcastically, quarreled, talked and reconciled. It does not seem to have much drama, but its inherent tension makes the audience feel a sense of nervous suffocation, because the corrosive power of vulgar life on the good things in human nature is demonstrated here in a natural and thrilling way. He used his own personal experience and his family's misfortune as material, and relentlessly made the pain and the most unspeakable truths of his family public to the public. In his works, scandals and misfortunes in the family such as his father's stinginess, his mother's drug abuse, his brother an alcoholic, himself suffering from lung disease, his beloved son's early death, etc. Are all revealed in the play, showing amazing boldness and magnanimity.

"The Path of Evil" is Deledda's famous work. Set in the countryside of Sardinia, it describes a young farmhand who boldly pursues his hostess Maria, and the two fall in love. However, due to the disparity in family status, the hostess changes her original intention and marries someone else, leading the protagonist to embark on an evil path. Deledda chooses a unique perspective, taking the conflict between love and morality, crime and punishment as the starting point, showing Sardinia's ancient civilization and rural life under the patriarchal system, and touches the readers' heartstrings with her soft and elegant writing.

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"Imago" is a novel by Nobel Prize winner Carl Spitler. The male protagonist Vader returns as the "judge" to "judge" his former lover, Imago, who is now a wife. After going through a series of painful struggles, Wade finally chose to leave and go to a foreign country.

This book is Romain Rolland's famous work and also his most famous work. This novel has a total of ten volumes and tells the story of the protagonist John Christopher's struggle in a society full of vulgarity and strife. "John Christopher" is not just a novel, but a great epic of mankind. It is a long novel that reflects a series of contradictions and conflicts in real society through the protagonist's life experience, and promotes humanitarianism and heroism. The novel describes the protagonist's life of struggle, 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.

This book is divided into three volumes: "The Bride", "The Mistress" and "The Cross". The novel takes the first half of the 14th century as the background, reproduces the history and social life of the Middle Ages, and vividly describes the heroine's passionate pursuit of love and happiness, as well as her tragic ending. The novel starts from several manors and the daily lives of people in the manor at that time, and vividly and delicately describes palace festivals, religious ceremonies, political conspiracies, plagues, fighting games, popular art, etc. It reproduces the natural features, historical events, customs, and cultural traditions of Norway in the medieval era, especially the daily life of ordinary people, which is vividly represented.

Susan and Philip grew up together. They were everything in each other's lives, but fate kept them apart. Susan, who experienced a family tragedy prematurely, has never been able to learn to live in peace with the world. Even when she is with the people who love her most, she cannot overcome her inner panic. As a result, she kept running away, traveling far and wide to help those who had lost their homes due to hurricanes. Susan knew that no matter where she went, Philip was her last resort and the only person she could trust with her life. This is their promise to each other, and this promise will bring unpredictable changes to their destiny.

Haruki Murakami's first novel in seven years ranked first among Japanese novels in 2017. The Chinese translation will be released on March 8, 2018! Lin Shaohua once again took charge of translation 10 years later. A stunning painting hidden in the attic connects the trauma of World War II with the paradox of reality! "I" am 36 years old and a portrait painter. My wife filed for divorce without warning, so "I" left the house without taking anything. My friend Masahiko let me live in his father's old house and introduced me to the job of teaching in Yamashita's painting class. "I" and two wives there became lovers. Masahiko's father is the famous painter Tomohiko Amada. Shortly after moving into that house, "I" discovered a masterpiece unknown to the world by Tomohiko Amada in the attic, titled "Assassination of the Knight Leader." After that, I was involved in a series of incredible events. The ringtone in the middle of the night and the entrance to the ancient temple, the mysterious neighbor Wataru Menshiki and Marie Akikawa, a female student in the painting class, the uninvited "Knight Leader" and the "Man with a Face", the real world and the metaphorical world... Murakami uses his good writing method of peeling off layers to lead readers to follow the many mysteries and lead them into a wonderful world. Faced with irreparable loss, he tells us to return to the cave and face the unspeakable evil.

This is a story about everyone and everyone, about the games and girls we were once crazy about; about our seemingly distant dreams and pursuits; about our fortunes and arrogance in those seemingly fleeting years. In fact, each of us is a member of the navy in the vast ocean of the Internet. Those shouts and anger, anxiety and uneasiness all tell the joys and sorrows in life.

After graduation, we have all become people in the post-adolescence era - many people have pursued their dreams when they were young, and most people's dreams were shattered before they could cross over to youth. In the story, several college students have been picking up the fragments of their dreams, and they are at a loss every time they pick up a piece. Confusion is always the main theme at that stage. They graduate, find employment, lose their jobs; fall in love, fall out of love, break up... They have formed a Dota team and participated in the national selection competition. They are eager to succeed, but in the end they are just witnesses one after another.

"Charming Wandering" is a legacy work after the best-selling book "Night Flight West". It is also a collection of autobiographical short stories by the author Beryl Markham. It was published in mainland China for the first time. The background of the story is Africa during the prosperous period, and the story is full of charming customs and customs. She loved that era very much and can be said to be the recorder of African life during the colonial era of Kenya and the war period.

The masterpiece of a new award-winning British writer, a book of hope that moved the entire British Isles. Everyone has been stuck in the quagmire, but there are always people looking into the distance. Escape is never salvation, all we can do is make peace with ourselves. Would you believe it if someone claimed they were calling you from outer space? Gladys, an old woman over seventy years old, received such a call. At that time, her life was falling into chaos... Thomas was the first astronaut sent to Mars by the British Space Agency, but he was willing to embark on this journey into space with no turning back for only one reason: he wanted to commit suicide. However, he wanted to say a final farewell to his former lover, but by mistake, he called the seventy-one-year-old grandmother Gladys. Two people who have never met form an incredible connection.

This is a story about love, growth and the pursuit of freedom. In New York, USA, the girl Coralie grew up in the Museum of Miracles opened by her father. In this place, people with physical disabilities are exhibits that can make a lot of money, and she is the most dazzling protagonist "Mermaid" in this freak show. After his mother was killed, the boy Ezekiel fled from Ukraine to New York with his father. As time went by, he decided to leave his father and even changed his name to Eddie to express a complete separation from the past. While Coralie was swimming in the Hudson River, he accidentally picked up a drowning woman; Eddie accepted a commission from an old man to find his daughter whose life or death was unknown. The fate of the two people began to intersect, from getting acquainted and falling in love to relying on and accompanying each other, looking for hope in the cruel reality. Slowly, Coralie finally had the courage to resist his father, but the price was that they had to risk their freedom, love, and even their lives!

This book is the main work of the Swiss writer and poet Hermann Hesse. It expresses individualism and self-centeredness in a confessional literary form, and also implies the external reality.

This book collects four of Paul Heizer's most classic novels. The girls described in the book are all beautiful, kind and daring. They are often better than men and play a more important role in life. They always shine with the beauty and kindness of human nature. The content of this book obviously has an idealistic tendency. It seeks beauty and goodness in its content and is unwilling to describe the dark side of life. In terms of form, it also pursues harmony and completeness, with exquisite and unique conception and layout. The story plot is ups and downs, full of drama and romance; the description of natural scenery is also real and vivid, making people feel immersed in the scene.

Paul thought he was on the right path in life until he was accidentally arrested while traveling in the United States. Certain encounters in life may change the entire course of life. The American pastor he met in prison, the Japanese businessman he cooperated with after returning home, the strange old man who faced death, the fearless British girl, etc. They talked about cherry trees, dust and a mountain... After that, Paul admitted that fear had been like a cancer that had been invading his life for forty years. For a long time, he crawled... Until one day, he stood up, started walking, and started to really live.

This book is hailed as "a classic among Norwegian novels" and describes an ordinary story of a farmer. The novel has no fascinating plot, the writing is simple and unpretentious, and is very close to life.

This is a collection of stories about forest animals, consisting of several stories that are both independent from each other and related to each other in content. The book is filled with many talking animals with exaggerated shapes and different personalities, and they are all personified, such as the sleepy brown bear Barrow, the grumpy tiger Shere Khan, the black panther Bagheera, etc., And all of them have human names. Most of these stories feature an Indian child who was raised as a wolf child. He came to the wolf den as a child and lived a magical life among the wolves. Because of his wisdom and strength, he was respected by everyone and became the master of the jungle. In this book, Kipling used the power of his imagination to create many unforgettable animal images, thus becoming a master of showing human nature through animal nature. And this work has become an immortal work in the world's children's literature.