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When Laoguai came to Kanshang with his 5-year-old Qingguo, rapeseed flowers were blooming all over the ditches and ditches of Macun. That year, I was 7 years old. I spread my legs and blocked the wood door, stared at Laoguai and shouted: This is my home, I hate cripples. My mother grabbed my ear and said, call me dad... I said my dad was dead. My mother turned her head and glanced at me hatefully, then turned back to Laoguai and said, "The child is spoiled, and that's his virtue... Don't be angry." Lao Guai smiled innocently and said, "No, I don't care, I don't care," but his expression was extremely embarrassing. Looking at Laoguai's pitiful look, I felt very angry.

If there must be death in mystery novels, what is touched upon here may be a cruel and desperate situation! The novel "Laplace's Witch" transcends crime and sociality and focuses on a more core social issue: ethics. "I wanted to destroy the novel I wrote before, so this work was born" - Keigo Higashino. "Dangerous Venus" is a work that even Keigo Higashino himself cannot easily evaluate. After reading "Dangerous Venus", you will find that you have never understood Keigo Higashino before. Different from works such as "Malevolence", "Dangerous Venus" exhausts the complex side of human nature: everyone has the instinct to do good and the motivation to do evil; there is rationality and there are also irrepressible and crazy desires. "Platinum Data" has a depth worthy of repeated reflection, far beyond the scope of "mysterious novels". From one soul to another, it is self-salvation and a deep understanding of human nature. "Japanese Oscar" actor Ninomiya Kazuya starred in the original novel of the movie of the same name, and the Japanese version sold 1.7 Million copies. In the end, this book is still human after all. The question of sex. "The House of Sleeping Mermaid" - another comforting work by Keigo Higashino after "The Sorrow Store". It is both sad and warm. This is a story that makes us face life again. No mystery novel is as heartbreaking as this book, and there is no book that gives us the belief in "life".

"The Count of Monte Cristo" mainly describes a story of revenge that took place during the French Bourbon Dynasty. Dantes, the young first mate of the Pharaon ship, was entrusted by the captain to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party before his death. He was framed by two despicable villains and the insidious prosecutor Villefort, and was imprisoned on death row. Depriving him of the beautiful sunshine, love and future that should have belonged to him.

The eras in which the stories in "Yu Shi Ming Yan" were produced include the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. Most of them are old scripts from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, such as "Shi Hongzhao's Meeting of Dragons and Tigers with Monarchs and Ministers" and "The Four Dukes of the Song Dynasty Raised the Souls". A few are scripts from the Ming Dynasty, such as "Brother Jiang Xing Meets Again in Pearl Shirt" and "Shen Xiaoxia Meets to Become a Teacher". Others are adaptations of old works from the Song and Yuan Dynasties by the Ming Dynasty, such as "Han Wu Selling Love in Xinqiao City" and "Sima Maung, the Sima Mao, Breaks the Prison" and so on. Due to the different production years, there are certain differences in content, techniques, language, style, etc. However, because they belong to the same novel development system, and their themes are closely related to urban life, there are still many things in common between the novels. "Yu Shi Ming Yan" also includes and adapts some historical legends, such as "Yan Pingzhong killed three men with two peaches". In addition, most of the novels in "Yu Shi Ming Yan" are based on real life, with themes covering love, marriage, friendship, etc., Showing various social trends at that time.

"Walden" is a record of the American writer Thoreau who lived alone by Walden Pond, describing what he saw, heard and thought during more than two years. The first feature that distinguishes this work from previous literary works is its detailed description and extension of nature. The changes in scenery caused by the changing of the seasons, as small as the fight between two ants, are all vividly reproduced in Thoreau's wonderful pen, and the descriptions are not superficial, but have the precision of a naturalist.

"Journey to the West" was written by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist of the Ming Dynasty. It is based on "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", folklore and Yuan dramas. The Song Dynasty's "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty's Collection of Buddhist Scriptures" (original name "The Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty's Collection of Buddhist Scriptures") is the earliest prototype of the Journey to the West story in spoken language. Among them, the Tang Monk is based on Master Xuanzang. As one of the four classic Chinese classics and the first romantic novel about gods and demons in ancient China, the book profoundly depicts the social reality at that time and is a pioneering work of magical realism. It first describes the birth of Sun Wukong, and then meets Zhu Bajie, Monk Sha, and Monk Tang. However, it mainly describes the three people Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Monk Sha protecting Monk Tang as he journeys to the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Monk Tang endures eighty-one hardships from reincarnation to Buddhist scriptures, defeats demons along the way, and finally reaches the West to see Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints come true.

"The Surprise at the First Moment" is a popular book with 40 short stories in total. It describes many fascinating stories in the form of a "parallel script" that is popular among the people, such as a businessman becoming rich due to bad luck, Scholars rose from poverty to fame; honest officials solved cases like gods, corrupt officials bent the law like tigers; villains committed adultery and sued, and swindlers engaged in intrigues; how young people pursued faithful love, and how feudal ethics created marital tragedies. The language is simple and concise; the plot is twists and turns, confusing, yet reasonable; the characters' inner thoughts are described in detail, and the artistic image is lifelike. It has always been highly praised.

"Awakening the World" is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty. This book collects 40 stories in different styles since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Some of these stories come from historical biographies, some come from notes and novels of past dynasties, and the most fundamental sources are directly from folklore stories and from the actual life of society. Through these storylines and characters, the social life and people's wishes at that time are reflected from different angles and to varying degrees. It is rich in content, some reflecting love and marriage; some praising feudal officials and exposing the darkness of officialdom; some praising chivalry and denouncing ingratitude. The plot of the story is bizarre and twists, the characters have distinctive personalities and are full of interest.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" reflects rich historical content. The names of characters, geographical names, and main events are basically the same as those in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The characters' personalities are also based on the fixed images left by "Three Kingdoms", and are re-developed, exaggerated, beautified, vilified, etc. This is also the routine of historical romance novels. On the one hand, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" reflects the true history of the Three Kingdoms and takes into account readers' needs to understand the true history; on the other hand, it exaggerates, beautifies, vilifies, etc. The characters of the Three Kingdoms based on the actual social conditions of the Ming Dynasty.

The rat in Pokémon, the cow in League of Legends The tiger in Kung Fu Panda, the rabbit in Guanghan Palace The dragon in Dragon Ball, the snake in One Piece The horse in Gourmet Captives, the sheep in Greek mythology The monkey in Journey to the West, the chicken in the prehistoric world The dog in Inuyasha, the pig in Naruto My name is Fan Qiu. I have the ability to constantly travel through time and space and change into the twelve zodiac animals. I have embarked on a path of no return... Book club group: 828919399

Dazai Osamu's semi-autobiographical novel, a collection of his core masterpieces "Disqualification in the World" and "Setting Sun". An evergreen classic that has spanned more than half a century, its sales are countless, and it has been adapted into films and animations repeatedly. Yukio Mishima, Haruki Murakami, and Wong Kar-Wai are all inseparable from his works, and he is a genius who has profoundly influenced the literary and art world. The high-quality translation is carefully polished by a senior Japanese literature scholar, with detailed annotations and a long explanation. Ten years ago, an anonymous man sent three notebooks to a small bar in Tokyo. In the note, the man revealed the quagmire and karma deep in his heart to readers who may not exist - "I have been said to be a happy person since I was a child, but my mood is like hell..." "I use the straw of comedy to maintain the relationship with human beings. This is a desperate struggle. , Service dripping with cold sweat..." "Although I am kind and humble to everyone, I have no true feelings for friendship... All interactions just make me miserable." It expresses the doubts of a soul hurt by innocence and the sorrow of the world. "Is pure trust a sin?" In the same year that the work was published, Osamu Dazai committed suicide. This book also includes Osamu Dazai's representative "female body" novel "The Setting Sun", which uses his lover Shizuko Ohta as the heroine. It describes the setting sun of a declining aristocratic family and asks where the spiritual "nobles" will go in the end when etiquette and music collapse.

"Sand Country Almanack" is the representative work of Aldo Leopold, the father of ecological ethics. Among them, "The Return of the Wild Geese" and "Think Like a Mountain" were selected into middle school Chinese textbooks. The classic translation version of "Sand Country Almanac" is based on the first edition of Oxford University Press in 1949. It was carefully translated by the famous environmental historian Professor Hou Wenhui. Susan Fried, chairman of the Leopold Foundation in the United States, wrote a preface and recommended it. It also includes a comparison of the Chinese, English and Latin scientific names of the animals and plants in the book. The book contains Leopold's unpublished preface in 1947, accompanied by 33 original English illustrations, vividly presenting the natural feelings of a naturalist. "Sand Country Almanac" is the crystallization of Aldo Leopold's lifelong observations, experiences, and thoughts. In this book, the author not only expresses his recollection of the harmonious life on the Wisconsin Sand Country Farm, but also records the lessons and pain he experienced in pursuing a scientific ecological view. He also discusses the relationship between man and nature, man and land, trying to reawaken people's love and respect for nature. The whole book contains his views on land health and land ethics. The language is fresh and beautiful, and the content is serious and profound. The author's meticulous observations are reflected between the lines, and he is permeated with his sincere love for birds, beasts, and exotic flowers and plants.

Yilin's "Audio Bilingual Classics" original version introduces English classics specially written by American education experts for students, and selects classic works that are close to the English acquisition level of Chinese students. The series of books selects high-quality Chinese translations, accompanied by introductions, introductions to the authors' works and illustrations, and employs senior college entrance examination listening test anchors to read English audio books. The audiobook playback platform is easy to operate. Just scan the QR code in the book to listen and download. The book series covers classic literary works from various countries, allowing children to improve their literary appreciation and English listening and reading skills during reading. The famous children's literature writer Huang Beijia recommends a long article introduction. "Pride and Prejudice" is the masterpiece of British writer Jane Austen. The book describes the love and marriage of several young men and women, vividly presents the social life and human emotions in British towns in the early 19th century, and reflects women's pursuit of independent personality and marital autonomy. It is an enduring classic in English literature. This classic work by Jane Austen tells the love story of the two daughters of the Bennett family. At a dance, the elegant new neighbor Bentley and his eldest daughter Jane fell in love with each other; Bentley's good friend Darcy was arrogant by nature. He was dissatisfied with the frivolity and shallowness of the Bennett family and refused to dance with his second daughter Elizabeth. Soon after, Darcy developed a liking for the intelligent and decent Elizabeth. However, Elizabeth was prejudiced against Darcy and rejected his advances. The relationship between Jane and Bingley also fell into crisis. Can they get out of their misunderstanding and gain happiness?

Yilin's "Audio Bilingual Classics" original version introduces English classics specially written by American education experts for students, and selects classic works that are close to the English acquisition level of Chinese students. The series of books selects high-quality Chinese translations, accompanied by introductions, introductions to the authors' works and illustrations, and employs senior college entrance examination listening test anchors to read English audio books. The audiobook playback platform is easy to operate. Just scan the QR code in the book to listen and download. The book series covers classic literary works from various countries, allowing children to improve their literary appreciation and English listening and reading skills during reading. The famous children's literature writer Huang Beijia recommends a long article introduction. Behind the dazzling four words "Great Expectations", there are some questions that are often ignored by people: How can we have "Great Expectations"? What standards must be met to be called "Great Expectations"? And, why do we want to have Great Expectations? Dickens is as sharp as Dickens, and by writing about the bizarre experiences of the young Pip and the people around him, he answers these important questions about "Great Expectations" for us. "Great Expectations" is Dickens's classic work depicting society and human nature. Pip, a little boy, wants to be a gentleman, and a mysterious benefactor helps him get promoted. Pip moved to London and received an education from the upper class. He wanted to change his background and marry the beautiful Miss Estella. When the identity of the benefactor is exposed, will everything be in vain? In this masterpiece of his later years, Dickens expressed his views on love, wealth and friendship.

Escaped from the quagmire of depression and emotional entanglement, May Sarto wrote the joyful chapter in her diary of living alone in the ideal residence by the seaside, in the solitude and tranquility she dreamed of. In "Diary of Living Alone", the once-suffering and struggling heart finally calmed down. In the good times of life, May Sato began her ideal solitary life in a quiet seaside residence. "The House by the Sea" records the joyful time in May Sarten's diary of living alone. Escaped from an over-involved and self-losing emotional life, May Sato spent time alone in her beach house, focusing on writing and thinking. She wrote down her thoughts on creation, old age, and death in a calm and frank style, and also shared with readers her daily life such as weather, gardening, cooking, and visits from friends without reservation. Even ordinary days appear so vivid and charming in her writings, which makes people have infinite love for life.

Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical novel. All happy families are similar, and every unhappy family has its own unhappiness. Because his relationship with a French female teacher was discovered by his wife Dolly, Oblonsky's family was completely in chaos. He had to ask his sister Anna Karenina to come to the house to deal with various difficulties and comfort Dolly. But Anna happened to meet Vronsky when she got off the train. Anna, there are no words to describe her special beauty and temperament. Her husband was a high-ranking official in Petersburg, the "famous Karenin." Vronsky, who is very rich, beautiful, smart and noble, had a passionate relationship with the girl Kitty before he met Anna. Everyone thought that he would propose to Kitty at the next ball. They just happened to meet in the famous passage in Part 1, Section 18. Everyone's destiny is written at this moment. And Levin, Tolstoy's shadow incarnates in the book. Did he gain spiritual peace and worldly happiness through his own choices?

Walking alone in the desolate streets of post-war London, Kay was dressed in men's clothing and aimless. The heroic spirit of driving an ambulance to save the world has disappeared along with the smoke. In a candle factory for disabled people, Duncan is young and healthy, but his dreams are gone and his life is like a backwater until an unexpected visitor brings him back to the wartime years he spent in prison. On the fire platform on the second floor of the marriage agency, Helen and Viv, who were smoking opposite each other, often wanted to open their hearts, but always hesitated to speak. How did we end up where we are today? This is the story of four Londoners with intertwined destinies, starting from 1947 after the war, going back to 1944, and arriving in 1941 when everything began.

"The Great Gatsby" is the masterpiece of Fitzgerald, one of the most outstanding American writers in the 20th century. Gatsby, a boy from the Midwest, went to the East to make a fortune overnight. He entertained guests every night in his mansion, just like a generous and absurd rich tycoon. He looked dreamily at a shining green lighthouse on Long Island, New York, looking for the woman of his dreams, Daisy. However, the cold reality cannot tolerate misty dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the world. When all the truth is revealed, Gatsby's tragic life makes Nick's dream of the glitzy celebrity life in the East shattered. Disillusionment is eternal.

"The Nightingale and the Rose" contains seven widely circulated and popular works by the British fairy tale master Oscar Wilde, including "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Happy Prince", "The Giant's Garden", "The Faithful Friend", "The Famous Rocket", "The Young King" and "The Star Child". Oscar Wilde's fairy tales are full of suspense and fascinating with gorgeous diction, vivid plots and twists and turns. Wilde's fairy tales are both beautiful stories for children and spiritual fables for adults. They were translated by Lin Huiyin, a famous talented woman in the Republic of China. The language is delicate and beautiful, the images are vivid, sad and elegant.

"Petro Goriot" is set in the French society during the Restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty. It tells the story of two daughters raised by Mr. Goriot who made a fortune in business. After marriage, under the influence of the upper-class lifestyle, they squeezed their father's property, damaged their father's dignity, and tortured their father's emotions until they had nothing and died of physical and mental exhaustion. Intertwined with this main line is the experience of the provincial young man Rastignac breaking into Paris's upper class society and recognizing all the temptations and dangers involved. The main characters in Balzac's masterpiece "The Human Comedy" appear one after another in this novel, thus opening the prelude to the "Human Comedy".

"David Copperfield" is an important representative novel by Dickens. It is a great crystallization of the author's personal experience, observations and rich imagination. This book is narrated in the first person, telling the story of the protagonist working as a child laborer, learning shorthand, interviewing congressional debates, diligently self-study, and becoming a writer. It has a lot of autobiographical elements.

"Faust" is based on the ancient German legend of an alchemist who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and youth. In order to seek a new life, Faust signed a contract with the devil Mephistopheles and mortgaged his soul to the devil, and the devil had to fulfill all Faust's demands. If one day Faust thinks he is satisfied, then his soul will belong to the devil. So Mephistopheles used magic to give Faust a strange experience. He tasted the joy and bitterness of love, showed his skills in governing the country, performed extraordinary feats on the battlefield, and wanted to build a paradise on earth on a beach... Just when he was intoxicated with the longing for a better future, he couldn't help but say that he was satisfied. When the devil was about to take away his soul, an angel came and saved Faust's soul. This work demonstrates the broad, profound and noble content of life, and praises the enterprising spirit of human beings' continuous self-improvement.

This book is one of the famous translation collections of world literary names. It is a collection of short stories and short stories by the famous French novelist Daudet. It was translated by the famous French literary researcher and translator Liu Mingjiu, including "The Last Lesson", "The Siege of Berlin", "The Flag Bearer" and "The City of Allais". "Girl", "Customs Sailor" and other famous novels. These works embody the characteristics of harmless irony and implicit sentimentality (also known as "tearful smile") in Daudet's novels, and fully demonstrate the artistic achievements of this outstanding French patriotic novelist.

"Jack London Short Stories" collects Jack London's classic short stories. His works depict a cruel and merciless external world to readers, in which people live in extremely difficult and dangerous situations. Only with a persevering and tenacious spirit can survive in the world. Jack London's novels have distinctive characters, compact plots, concise and vivid writing, and are quite contagious. These novels embody his unique philosophy of life - remain tolerant while being firm, and remain perseverant while being tolerant.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is one of the masterpieces of the famous French writer Jules Verne. The book has a total of 45 chapters. It tells the story of a professor who discovers a piece of parchment in an ancient book. This mysterious parchment records a shocking story: a man once traveled to the center of the earth. The professor decided to make the same trip. He took his nephew from Hamburg and asked a guide to accompany him when he arrived in Iceland. The three people overcame difficulties such as lack of water, getting lost, and storms, and returned to the ground from a volcanic crater on the island of Strompoli in northern Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. The book records the dangerous experiences on the journey and various wonders underground in a compact style, showing readers the author's rich scientific knowledge and imagination.

This book collects a series of short stories and short stories by Hemingway such as "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "Hills Like White Elephants". "The Old Man and the Sea" reveals a brave and optimistic spirit and inspires human fighting spirit. It is a quality that was not seen in Hemingway's novels in the past. "The Old Man and the Sea" caused a huge sensation after its publication. Hemingway won the 54th Nobel Prize for Literature for this work.

"Madame Bovary" is a novel by the famous French writer Flaubert. The work tells the story of Emma, ​​a peasant girl who received an aristocratic education. She looked down on her husband Bovary, a rural doctor, and dreamed of a legendary love. However, the two affairs not only failed to bring her happiness, but also made her the target of exploitation by loan sharks. In the end, he accumulated huge debts and had no choice but to commit suicide by taking poison. The author describes the process of the protagonist's emotional decline with delicate brushstrokes, and strives to find the social roots of this tragedy. Emma's death is not only a tragedy for herself, but also a tragedy for that era.

"A Tale of Two Cities" is an immortal classic in the history of world literature. It tells the social life of France and England during the French Revolution. It describes the corruption and depravity of the aristocratic class, as well as their oppression and persecution of the middle and lower classes. It also describes the surging revolutionary wave positively, witnessing the destruction of an era and the birth of a new era in the bloody massacre.

Paris at the end of the 19th century was like a masquerade, and success favored the sanctimonious. The protagonist Duloa was originally the son of a poor hotel owner in a rural town. He used his beautiful appearance to seduce women and used his ability to flatter, step by step, to become an important figure in politics and journalism. The novel creates an image of an unscrupulous speculative adventurer, and makes a bitter satire and criticism of the gangster-like Georges Duroy's rapid fortune in a short period of time. The novel profoundly reveals the political and economic phenomena of French society at the end of the 19th century, and is worthy of being a classic French novel of the 19th century.

"The Decameron" (1348-1353) is the first realist masterpiece in the history of European literature. The work begins with a prologue, describing what happened to ten young men and women who took refuge in a villa in the countryside against the background of the plague in Florence. Each of the ten young people told a story every day, and a total of one hundred stories were told in ten days, hence the name "The Decameron". Each story is of different lengths and all-inclusive in content, and humanistic thought is the main thread running through the book.

"Sea Wolf" tells the story of a ferry that sank in the San Francisco Bay. The writer Humphrey was rescued by the seal-hunting sailboat "Devil" after drowning. The captain of the "Devil" was nicknamed "Sea Wolf" and was cruel and cruel. The captain found Humphrey and rescued him, but did not agree to send him back to San Francisco. Instead, he forced him to go to sea with the ship and forced him to do various hard work. During the voyage, the female writer Maude was rescued and drifted at sea due to a shipwreck. She and Humphrey hit it off. One day, the two escaped in a sampan and landed on a frozen island. Soon, all the sailors on the "Devil" betrayed the "Sea Wolf". "Sea Wolf" became blind due to illness and drifted to the island with the ship. Humphrey and Maude repaired the damaged "Devil", held a sea burial for the "Sea Wolf" who died of illness, and set sail for the motherland.

"Selected Plays of Shakespeare" is compiled by Mr. Zhu Shenghao. It includes five classic plays: "The Merchant of Venice", "Twelfth Night", "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet" and "King Lear". Basically reflects the creative characteristics of Shakespeare's plays in the early and middle periods. The language of Shakespeare's plays is completely poetic. It is as gentle as flowing water and as turbulent as the waves crashing on the shore. It is endlessly memorable. Shakespeare no longer belongs to a certain country or nation. He is a symbol of human civilization. His plays have been translated into many languages ​​and are loved by readers around the world. Since Shakespeare was introduced to China in the early 20th century, he has been deeply loved by generations of Chinese readers.

Robinson, who was born in a middle-class family, was unwilling to live a comfortable life and decided to go to sea to seek excitement. He was unfortunately in danger during a voyage and drifted to an uninhabited island, where he survived tenaciously for 28 years. During these 28 years, he experienced despair and regained hope and faith, making use of existing resources to invent and survive in difficult situations. He built a "country house" for himself, drank delicious mutton soup, and ate the baked bread that he dreamed of. After going through many hardships, he finally returned to his homeland.

This book is composed of Rabindranath Tagore's short fairy tale "The Fulfillment of Wishes" and the collection of poems "The New Moon Collection". Tagore's poems are full of philosophy in their childishness and bright in their thinking, and have become classics in world literature.

James Answell planned to visit his future father-in-law, Avery Hume, in London. Hume invited the groom-to-be into a sturdy room with metal shutters and thick wooden doors. This room contains trophies and arrows that illustrate Hume's archery hobby. As Hume poured wine from a carafe, the two chatted about archery. Before collapsing to the ground, Answell realized he had been drugged. When he regained consciousness, he found that he and Hume were locked in the room from the inside, and Hume had been shot to death by an arrow. In just a quarter of an hour, the young man became the only suspect in the secret room murder. Will the legal balance tip in his favor? Can legendary genius lawyer Sir Henry Merivale prove his innocence? What kind of ulterior conspiracy is behind this shocking and impossible crime? The hidden window of Judah slowly opens, and the wheel of fate begins to turn...

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" is Orwell's masterpiece and can be called the most famous anti-utopian and anti-totalitarian political allegory novel in the world's literary world. In his novels, words such as "Big Brother", "Doublethink" and "Newspeak" have been included in authoritative English dictionaries. Common words such as "Orwellian" and "Orwellism" have even been derived from his surname, which continue to appear in the writings of journalists reporting on international news, which shows the profound influence of his works in English-speaking countries.

Carson McCullers (1917-1967), an American female writer and a representative figure in southern American literature. His works include the short story collection "Songs of the Sad Cafe", the novels "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", "Members of the Wedding", "Image of the Golden Eye", etc. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", first published in 1951, includes the novella of the same name and six short stories published by McCullers in different periods, including her debut novel "The Prodigy" when she was 19 years old. Throughout her life, she has focused on exploring the unequal relationship between love and being loved, the impact of environmental opportunities on talent, and the enlightenment of people's understanding in a limited life. ... The novella "Song of the Sad Cafe" is McCullers' masterpiece. It tells the story of a bizarre love triangle in a wild town in the south of the United States, between the rich, talented but withdrawn Miss Amelia, the hunchback cousin Raymond with unknown origins, and the bad scoundrel ex-husband Marvin Macy, centered on a cafe transformed from a grocery store.

This book collects 18 wonderful short stories by the author, from which we can appreciate the overall creation of this great writer. The first novel, "Fall", is his debut novel. It is based on the love between an actress and a college student. The novel was greatly praised by people as soon as it was published, which gave the author more determination and confidence to pursue the path of literary creation. The novella "Tristan" is the author's mature work. It is set in a sanatorium and reflects the morbid life of the upper class in Germany at that time through the description of the ambiguous relationship between the writer Spinel and a gentle and beautiful wealthy businessman's wife. "Death in Venice" is full of poetry and beautiful writing. It is the author's favorite work and has been highly recommended by critics. It was co-produced by the United Kingdom and Italy and put on the screen in 1971, which has far-reaching influence. The finale, "Mario and the Magician," is Mann's pinnacle work. Because it is a profound political novel, it was included in the banned book list by the fascist authorities as soon as it was published. The novel not only has clear political content, but also has high artistic quality. The author has vividly described many scenes, making it exciting to read. Each other article in this book also has its own characteristics and charm.

A German writer went to Venice for vacation. He fell in love with a boy and stayed in Venice due to some chance. At this time, a cholera epidemic began in Venice, and the government suppressed the news. The writer was obsessed with the boy, and the long pursuit made him exhausted. At the same time, he ate strawberries that were too ripe and almost rotten, contracted cholera, and died there.

The protagonist Julien is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence and intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was working as a tutor in the local mayor's house. After the incident was exposed, he was forced to leave and enter the seminary. Recommended by the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris to work as a secretary to the dead for the Marquis de Larmore, a backbone of the extreme royalist party. He was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, Julien had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine.

Hans, a college student, came to the Alpine Lung Disease Sanatorium to visit his cousin Joachim. Unexpectedly, he also contracted the lung disease and had to stay for treatment. The people in the sanatorium came from all over the world, with different personalities and ideas. Hans was an ideal young man, but after interacting with these people, his thoughts became confused and his spirit became depressed. The Russian woman Clavgia made him even more fascinated. He forgot about his career and important responsibilities, and the mountain became a "magic mountain" from which he could not extricate himself. Seven years passed in the blink of an eye. His cousin died of illness, Clavgia left, and those close friends also went their separate ways. Life shattered his fantasies one by one, making him feel painful and lonely. The artillery fire of the World War woke him up. Looking back on the past, Hans felt that he had been sleeping on the "Magic Mountain" for seven years, so he resolutely embarked on a journey to the front line.

This e-book is a trial version, and the completed version of "Darkest Hour" will be released simultaneously in paper and electronic format in July 2019. An early access copy of the novel of the same name as the Academy Award-winning film "Darkest Hour"! In addition to the highlights of the book and comments from famous experts, the trial version also includes a specially produced "Darkest Hour" event book, which selects key time points and historical events, extracts the best fragments from the book, and pairs them with precious historical photos to show the turbulent history. The trial version also includes three famous speech clips from "Darkest Hour", presented in Chinese and English bilingual form, which is as close to the movie's reality as possible. On May 10, 1940, Winston Churchill, who was "unreliable" both on the battlefield and in the political arena, was unexpectedly promoted to Prime Minister. At that time, Hitler's army was sweeping across the European continent, the British Expeditionary Force was in danger, and the British Isles might be invaded soon. Churchill's position was not stable, and the wartime cabinet he formed was full of contradictions, and voices advocating for peace with the Nazis were endless. Churchill himself seemed to be wavering, and fell into deep worry and self-doubt - should he advocate peace at any cost or win victory at any cost? This was history's darkest moment, and Churchill's own darkest moment. In "Darkest Hour", author McCarten restores Churchill to an imperfect, flesh-and-blood person, focuses on Churchill and his wartime cabinet, demonstrates his leadership qualities in critical moments, and tells a turbulent history from the Norwegian Debate on May 7, 1940, to the completion of the Dunkirk evacuation on June 4, 1940.

"David Copperfield" is Dickens's semi-autobiographical novel and the author's favorite work. This masterpiece, which is more than 800,000 words long, centers on the open-minded intellectual David Copperfield. Through the daily life, studying and making a living, making friends and love, and travel writings of various people in the book, it fully expresses the humanitarian views advocated by the author throughout his life, and also portrays a series of unforgettable characters. : The gentle and intelligent ideal female Agnes, the perverse and eccentric Miss Troy, the simple and kind Peggotty brothers and sisters... Among all Dickens's works, "David Copperfield" covers the widest range of social life content, shows the most complex and rigorous story structure, and is unique in the history of world literature.

The dazzling British literature of the 19th century contributed a large number of famous works to the reading world. The masterpiece "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) deserves to occupy a very prominent position in this magnificent starry sky. Becky Sharp, the daughter of a poor painter, lost her parents when she was young, but she was extremely smart. After graduating from boarding school on a part-time basis, she started out as a tutor. She seized every opportunity, sharpened her head and got into the upper class society of the Victorian era, becoming a dazzling social star. The rise of this beauty, against the magnificent historical background of the Battle of Waterloo, presents the most successful artistic image of a female adventurer in world literature. Thackeray's words are sharp, witty and humorous, and his anatomy of life is subtle. For nearly 160 years since its publication, this book has been hailed as a satirical mirror and a cautionary book. This book contains a complete set of more than 40 illustrations hand-drawn by Sacret for the novel, which is of great collection value.

Mrs. Bennet's lifelong ambition is to marry her five daughters decently, so she always regards the wealthy bachelors nearby as a piece of property that one of her daughters deserves. So there were several ups and downs of the separation and reunification of young men and women: the slander and misunderstanding between the wealthy son Darcy and the clever and astute second daughter Elizabeth, the lingering relationship between the wealthy son Bingley and the virtuous and kind-hearted eldest daughter Jane, the scandalous elopement of the prodigal Wickham and the frivolous and unreasonable daughter Lydia... In the end, the hero and heroine put aside their own pride and prejudice and made choices that conformed to their own morals. The work fully expresses the author's own views on marriage, emphasizing the impact of economic interests and family status on love and marriage. The plot of the novel is full of comedy, the language is witty and humorous, and it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

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"The Divine Comedy" adopts the form of fantasy literature popular in the Middle Ages, and describes a story about traveling through the three realms of hell, purgatory and heaven. There are three volumes of poems, namely "Hell", "Purgatory" and "Paradise", with thirty-three chapters in each volume, and a total of one hundred chapters including the preface. The poet described how he lost his way in a dark forest in the early morning before Easter in 1300. Leopards, lions and wolves, which symbolized lust, power and greed, blocked the way. At the critical moment, the ancient Roman poet Virgil appeared. He was entrusted by the woman Dante loved in his youth, Bidelice, to come to his aid. Virgil guided Dante through Hell, which punishes sinful souls, and through Purgatory, which accommodates repentant souls. Finally, Biedlitze guided him through the nine heavens that constitute heaven, and finally reached the presence of God. At this time, Dante realized that his thoughts were in harmony with God's thoughts, and the whole poem came to an abrupt end. When Dante traveled through hell and purgatory, many of the souls he encountered were famous figures in history or at that time. The lines of the poem are full of meaning and have strong theological and religious overtones.

"Your Majesty" is Thomas Mann's second novel. The plot of the novel is very simple, even seemingly popular: the protagonist Klaus Heinrich is the prince of a small principality in Germany at the turn of the last century. Because his brother, Archduke Albrecht II, is weak and has no interest in governing, he is appointed as the ruling prince and can use the title "Your Majesty". The simple and kind-hearted Klaus Heinrich liked this duty, that is, attending various events on behalf of the Archduke, but sometimes he felt vaguely lonely and empty, until he met and fell in love with Irma Spolman, the daughter of an American millionaire. In the process of pursuing Imma and being constantly rejected by her, Klaus Heinrich realizes his true nature: a hollow man who does not understand real life and feelings, lives in a fictional "world of appearances", and whose responsibilities and work have no real meaning. So he began to change himself, learned to understand the feelings of others, and began to study economics, hoping to do something practical for the country. His change also made Imma change her attitude towards him. At the end of the story, the two become engaged, and Imma's father agrees to provide money to solve the financial crisis of the small principality. In his later years, Thomas Mann called "Your Majesty" the turning point in his transition to democratic thought. Although true democracy in the modern sense has not yet appeared in this novel, it still explores the significance of the monarch in a modern country. The monarch represents and guides the people, and the people in turn influence and help the monarch make decisions. This romantic political view can be said to be the prototype of democracy.

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A girl will always remember the first dead face she ever shaved. In her life, the only thing more embarrassing than her first kiss or losing her virginity is probably this... Caitlin Doughty, who is nearly 1.80 Meters tall and graduated with a major in medieval history, is a cool and weird girl in the eyes of others. When her peers are crazy about love, skin care, beauty and chasing stars, she plunges into the funeral industry and becomes a funeral worker, dealing with the dead every day. From embarrassingly shaving the deceased for the first time, carefully coming to collect the body with his companions, becoming more and more proficient in operating the huge crematorium, grinding human bones into powder, enclosing and embalming the body, to trying every means to fulfill the wishes of the bereaved, and carefully and accurately dressing the edema old man. The gorgeous costumes... Caitlin recorded her six years of working in the crematorium in a candid, truthful and interesting way, telling each specific and subtle life story, as well as all the details that everyone has to face but are unwilling to talk about, and also has a profound understanding of death and life. What is rare is that Catherine is not curious, evasive, or afraid. Like a modern little witch, she leads us to look directly at death and life.