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This is a borderline novel, told in a way similar to the soliloquy of a depressed patient. It is more like a long essay, talking to oneself, and a running account of campus life. There is no ups and downs of the plot, and there is no setting for dramatic conflicts, only the passing years and the often inexplicable low mood in the season of youth. Perhaps, a few words in it will remind you of your gone youth and your gone university.

The novel tells the story of the protagonist Zhang Huaqiang's growth from a local youth to a soldier in the army. There is also a shadow of his own growth in the novel. Whenever I think of those lost years of youth, there will always be some emotion and indifference in my heart. In the novel, from the beginning of campus life to the working experience of entering the society, and then to the training of entering the army as a framework, emotional elements of love, family affection, and comradeship are added. The middle part of the novel incorporates the plot of the Wenchuan Earthquake, describing the touching story of contemporary officers and soldiers fighting earthquakes and providing disaster relief. "Bing Lu" has a strong youthful atmosphere, about growth, family affection, love, dreams...

The story revolves around the life of a little girl named Marigold. She lost her father before she was born. She has been living in the "Acupuncture House" under the supervision of her great-grandmother and grandmother. The two elderly people are both serious people with noble blood. Her mother has always lived a very depressed life because her family background is not as good as her husband's. However, Marigold was a happy child. She had the unique joy of children, and she also worried about many small things. She brought countless joy and happiness to the whole family.

"The Mayor of Casterbridge" is one of Hardy's masterpieces. This is his only novel not set in a rural setting. Henchard, an unemployed haymaker, sold his wife and daughter after being drunk. He woke up regretful and became angry. He became a grain merchant and a mayor. His wife returned with her daughter, but he soon had a quarrel with his partner. His wife died. The scandal of selling his wife was exposed. His career failed. His daughter was taken away by her biological father. He died alone in a hut in the wilderness. The author uses the story's various mishaps and dramatic conflicts to express the sentiment that "character is destiny" and "happiness is just an accidental episode." Among Hardy's fourteen novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" not only embodies Hardy's consistent creative style, but also creates unique artistic features, which also shows the essential difference between a great artist and a mediocre prolific writer. As for the content of this novel, it still has vivid significance today, both in terms of history and current social cognition.

In Victorian England, there were over a million more women than men. These "leftover women" are unable to enter into marriage and struggle hard for their social roles and moral status. This book represents the lives of women from different social classes, truly depicts the late-Victorian scene, and reflects the early feminist movement.

This book is an autobiographical novel "Addicted" published in 1909. It tells the story of the protagonist falling in love with the geisha Yoshimi while bathing in the sun during a summer vacation when he was 33 years old. The publication of "Addiction" established Iwano Aaki's status as a naturalistic literary writer.

In 1934, Tatsuo Hori wrote "Elm House". In this novel, a girl named Naoko and her mother are portrayed. After the novel was published, Hori Tatsuo kept imagining the life of Nahoko after she became a wife. It took him seven years to complete this work that the author was most satisfied with in early 1941. Naoko has lived with her mother in a village in Shinsu since she was a child. Playing tennis with Akira Tsuzuki, who is the same age, and hiking together on bicycles - unknowingly, they have spent their teenage years together, and there is a certain emotional foundation between the two. On this basis, if the two continue their friendship, they will definitely develop into love. The personalities of the two people differ as they grow older. One wants to pursue the girl in the dream, while the other wants to get out of the dream. These two completely opposite personalities lay the foundation for the tragic fate of the two protagonists in "Nahoko".

Komadai, a geisha who returns to her old profession, encounters Yoshioka, a client of her childhood, and captures his heart again. Yoshioka abandons the geisha he has kept for many years and intends to redeem Komadai's life. During this period, Komayo fell in love with the kabuki actor Segawa, and they had a secret tryst. He used Segawa's acting skills and connections to rehearse a dance for him to perform at the performance art show. Although he shined at the performance art show, he was jealous of Kikuchiyo from the same geisha house. At the same time, Komayo and Segawa's affair was also discovered by Yoshioka. Yoshioka abandoned Komayo and redeemed Kikuchiyo's life to help him establish his own business. The relationship between Komashiro and Segawa was not smooth sailing, and Segawa was not recognized by Segawa's adoptive mother. Segawa also felt tired of Komashiro always stressing that he was kind to him, and later he found a new love, Junryu, and abandoned Komashiro. Just when Komaro was desperate, the proprietress of the geisha house passed away. The boss learned of Komaro's tragic life experience for the first time and persuaded Komaro who was about to leave.

This book tells the story of the protagonist, Shikichi Kishimoto, who was troubled by his love affair with his niece Setsuko (known as the "rebirth" incident in history), and tried to get rid of the predicament and purify his soul to gain a new life. Judging from the author's own situation, the protagonist is the author's own portrayal. This work writes about what happened in the seven years from the first year of Taisho, when he was forty-one years old, to the seventh year of Taisho, so it has a strong feature of self-confession. This is a work that exposes the incest incident that the writer personally experienced. It was published in a chaotic period before the incident was over. The publication of the novel promoted the development of the incident and achieved its final resolution. From the perspective of the novel's panoramic depiction of life and the completely reversible relationship between its plot and reality, it can be said that it presents the private nature of naturalism to readers in the most thorough form.

In the book, Anderson depicts characters in a small town, a group of people he calls freaks. The "freakness" of the freaks is not reflected in their appearance, but in their personalities. They all have "strange and beautiful personalities" and have a certain behavior or a certain firm belief that ordinary people do not have. Therefore, their actions or beliefs are incredible and strange in the eyes of ordinary people, and they are regarded as abnormal. What the book embodies is not optimism filled with praise for life and nature, but various difficulties and helpless emotions in life. This work consists of twenty-five short stories that are both independent and related to each other. The young journalist George Willard writes throughout the book. As one of the first American writers to write the subconscious into his novels, Anderson successfully combined the two techniques of realism and stream of consciousness in this book. It was with this work that he established his status as "one of the pioneers of modern American literature".

This book is one of the most popular novels in France, but it has never been mainstream in English literature: for nearly a hundred years, this strange, serious and tragic novel has been highly praised but has not had many readers. Henry Miller had great respect for the protagonist of the novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald also borrowed its title for The Great Gatsby (some critics believe that the narrator Nick Carraway and his lovesick friend in Gatsby were modeled on the main characters of The Promise). 2013 Is the 100th anniversary of The Promise. Although praised by many famous writers, the status of this book is in jeopardy. The plain words of the novel exude pathos and sadness, which makes many people fascinated; in the words of one critic, it is "like the mist on the wasteland."

In 1841, Dickens moved to Devonshire Lane and met the owner of an old antique shop, which he used as material to create "The Old Antique Shop". The book tells the story of the tragic experience of an old antique shop owner and his little granddaughter. In order to let his little granddaughter live a secure life, the owner Toronte unfortunately fell into the trap of a loan shark and lost his old antique shop. As a result, the grandfather and grandson were displaced. Dickens portrayed the innocent and kind-hearted little Nell with deep sympathy and love, which touched the hearts of countless readers.

The Borgia family, also translated as the Borgia family, is a noble family from Spain. Since the 15th century, the Borgia family has become prominent in Italy. Especially during the reign of Pope Alexander VI, the Borgia family was quite influential in religion, military, and politics. However, the Borgia family was also famous for greed, murder, debauchery, and incest. Alexander VI had many mistresses. His most famous son, Caesar Borgia, was known as the "Poison Duke" and was a ruthless careerist, the prototype of "The Prince"; his daughter Lucretia was a "beautiful woman" who had three political marriages. According to legend, she had an affair with her brother. The story of the Borgia family has appeared in countless literary and artistic works, such as the American TV series "The Borgias", the game "Assassin's Creed" and so on. This book is the first in Alexandre Dumas's "Famous Crimes" series, detailing the thrilling story of the Borgia family.

The snow is endless and the wilderness is vast. It was dusk, and the sun was like moonlight. The rising snow dust fell slowly. The earth continues to be white. The years have gone by. The cold wind blows continuously, making everything tremble. It's eternal winter here.

The oil city is rich in drunkards. Alcohol has given rise to people's lust and has also given rise to irreparable disasters for mankind. From this, under the guidance of wine, the oil city was vigorously born and died vigorously. People fished for life-saving straw from nature in the sea of ​​wine in an attempt to cure the declining male. Nature's elves, the wind and birds, announced the eternal impotence of the entire city amidst the cruel killings of humans.

Now, there is also a Zhuzi Lane in the old city of Xining. Many old people there, as long as they are a little bit literary, will call themselves Nanjing when they mention their ancestral home, and call themselves people who migrated westward by the river. Qualcomm is one of them...

"As You Like" is the author's reflection on the collision between wild life and urban civilization. The colorful characters, the sad and desolate environment, the ignorant history, the turbulent soul, the pursuit of beautiful things and the disappointment and helplessness in the pursuit are all melted into plots that flicker like neon lights, giving people a feeling of being in a mountain vagina, overwhelmed by everything. The author seeks unity from changes, writes plots without being constrained by plots, writes characters without being obsessed with characters, and explores the time and space of the work with new novel concepts. The history and density of life covered in its limited space are astonishing. Among the current novel creations in our country, there are still few works that explore content-driven techniques like this.

Those who accompany us in difficult times are the light that shines into our lives. This is a story about courage, companionship and how to understand the world. In 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Anna was only seven years old. But the worse news was that Anna's father was taken away by the Germans. When Anna was in trouble and helpless, she met a mysterious "Swallow Man". Like Anna's father, he can speak multiple languages ​​and can even communicate with swallows. He performed a miracle to Anna and attracted the swallow to fall on his finger. This magical move made Anna forget her sadness. Yan Ziman decided to take Anna away, walking on the wilderness destroyed by the war, avoiding the war, and accompanying Anna to grow up.

Adungolo of the Koko tribe has always longed to become a hero beyond the king. When his son Baskandel was born, he placed this wish on his son. After he gave his son 100 male penises with heroic symbols, he died in a forest fire. The orphan Baskandel was adopted by the Vallepi family. When he grew up, Baskandel relied on his wisdom to conquer the Yeqian tribe, the Tabeng tribe, the Koko tribe, the Queen tribe, etc., And then became a bandit in the wasteland. When the entire wasteland people called him a hero, the Qilin Army stood in front of him again with guns and cannons. Facing live ammunition, how will Baskandel, armed with a broadsword and a spear, defend his title of hero and the sacred wilderness in his heart?

"Life Tracks (Revised Edition)" condenses the twists and turns of the Qinghai-Tibet Road, the history of the Living Buddha, the thousands-mile pack transport road to Lhasa, the unknown bumpy fate of the early pioneers of this road, and the rise and fall of the descendants of the camel workers. ... Reading "The Deeds of Life (Revised Edition)", I can't help but sigh at the fate of people in desperate situations: in the lofty world, people face the fragility of restricted areas, the strong brilliance of the human spirit, and the dimness of human nature in the changing times.

As a descendant of the "Bart Adam" Arab family living in Australia, Barney cannot yet understand the cultural differences between his family and the outside world. He has a Quran under his pillow, loves to play with Lego, and has an Elvis tapestry hanging outside his bedroom door. Seven-year-old Barney ignorantly observed the intricate relationships among the three generations in "Adam's House"; nine-year-old Barney was worried about threats from distant relatives at his uncle's wedding; eleven-year-old Barney watched his grandmother's death with sadness but joy. What happened in the tribe made Barney gradually understand that he was a generation who grew up in a multicultural background. He should explore the uniqueness of his nation and find his true self while recalling the historical changes of his family.

On the hot plains of central Spain, a priest who had just been accidentally promoted to a high priest and a former mayor who believed in communism drove a rusty Seat 600 car, heading towards Madrid... General Franco, the Inquisition, Marx and "Das Kapital", pornographic movies, Malaga wine, the Holy Trinity... In Green's modern parody of "Don Quixote", Father Quixote and Mayor "Sancho" debate various issues. With their beliefs being questioned and doubts secretly growing, where will their troubled journey ultimately go?

"I am a Cat" established Natsume Soseki's position in literary history. The novel adopts humorous, satirical and comical techniques, using the vision, hearing and feeling of a cat. It takes the daily life of the protagonist, middle school teacher Jinno Kusami, as the main line, interspersed with the conflicts of neighbor capitalist Kaneda who fails to marry a girl and plots revenge on Kusami, making it laugh. It explores the empty spiritual life of intellectuals in the Meiji era, and satirizes them for claiming to be noble but doing nothing; being dissatisfied with reality but unable to resist; being mediocre and boring, but denouncing the contradictory character of the world, and lashing out at the snobbish, vulgar, and cruel nature of Kaneda and other bourgeois figures and their accomplices. The novel has ingenious conception, exaggerated description, flexible structure and distinctive artistic features.

This set includes: "Angel Looking Homeward", "God's Lonely", "Net and Stone", "Time and River", and "Nowhere to Return Home", a total of 5 books. American Vanity Fair during the Great Depression, a dazzling reflection after the fall of a genius; looking for the road to redemption in the swamp of human nature, a long posthumous work that blends sorrow and joy! Thomas Wolfe's novels are full of energy and can unashamedly rival our best works. Wolfe not only paid great attention to the natural world, but also often placed characters in nature, exaggerating the relationship between man and nature. Wolff is by no means indifferent to the perfect art form of fiction, but he firmly believes that strong emotions will generate an art form that matches it. This completely self-expression will eventually naturally become a complete and sufficient means of artistic expression.

This book describes the growth process of the protagonist George Weber: from a rural town in the south of the United States to the metropolitan New York to work hard, the novel he wrote with great pains was ignored by the publisher; he fell in love with Esther, a married woman, but was incompatible with the upper class society; he left Europe only to encounter the rise of fascism... What he experienced After a series of struggles and confusion, the author had the urge to return home, but he knew that his spiritual home was nowhere to be found... In this work, the author gradually shifted his focus from the inner world to the external world, and began to focus on describing the entire American society, but it was still full of sadness and confusion.

I have been running away, but you are a wound in my body that never heals unless I die. I wrote these words in a far away country, and wrote down my tearful longing for you.

The novel is set in the city of Shanghai and a small village in the south of the Yangtze River, and revolves around the heroine Kong Lingyue's bumpy life and her emotional entanglements with three men. An epic work of contemporary realism, worth reading - half a century of vicissitudes, ups and downs of human life, and social changes; decades of journey of heart, emotion and revelation of life! Empty breath, in vain compassion, constant regret, no circle...

Everyone has their own story. In the story, you can meet your good self and be your truest self in the story. The most heartwarming reunion after a long separation, and the most difficult time of getting to know each other. "Just Like a Lotus" is a collection of contemporary Chinese essays edited by Huang Ruiyan. Li Xin is the editor-in-chief of "Just Like a Lotus".

The novel uses "Kaiping Diaolou and Villages" in Guangdong, which was successfully declared as a World Cultural Heritage project in June 2007, as the background carrier to interpret the colorful and twists and turns of the southern overseas Chinese hometown for decades, focusing on depicting the vicissitudes of life and the emotional entanglements that touch the world in the context of the great era, making people sigh and lament. The protagonist He Fengyi was originally a lady and a gentle woman. Faced with the life tragedies of losing her mother in childhood, losing her husband in middle age, and losing her son in old age, she also suffered from humiliation and wailed, and she also wanted to ignore morality and just do it for herself, but in the end , she still adhered to her original intention, not only transformed into a self-reliant worker who actively donated to local public welfare undertakings in her hometown, but she was not knocked down by the ups and downs of life, and moved forward all the way, completing her 90-year life journey.

During the "Cultural Revolution", Sun Xiaoying, a female educated youth from Tianjin, jumped into the Great Northern Wilderness. Her fragile body and sensitive mind were constantly tempered and harmed by the harsh environment. Another female educated youth, Shu Di, is tall and strong, positive and optimistic, and full of vitality. Their friendship illuminates Sun Xiaoying's gloomy youth years. However, as personal destiny is wrapped up in the torrent of history, can the pure snow-like feelings between girls withstand the double test of nature and society?

The famous work of "National Great Writer" Natsume Sakiki is printed on the Japanese yen! A classic unanimously praised by Lu Xun, Haruki Murakami, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa! This book was serialized in the "Cuckoo" magazine in 1905. It vividly reflected the thoughts and life of Japan's petty and middle-class bourgeoisie at that time, and sharply exposed and criticized the "civilized and enlightened" capitalist society of the Meiji era. As the epitome of the cat owner Kushaya in the novel, Natsume Soseki mocked the helplessness and ignorance of intellectuals in the Meiji era, as well as the ugly face of the supremacy of money. The cat's own world is also an interesting part of the novel. The funny scenes of doing the cat dance with the rice cake demon and trying to catch mice but ending up in embarrassment make people laugh. Cats' usual sports, such as "catch cicadas", "sliding on the pine", and "walking on the fence", are all reminiscent of the funny behaviors of cat people outside the novel world. The social life of cats is equally colorful. The bad cat "Heizi" from the coachman's family and "Sanmaozi" from the two-stringed harp master's family enrich readers' imagination of the world of cats. The world of cats also reflects the world of humans.

"The Smile of the Gods" contains a total of 6 short and medium-length novels by the writer Guan Shengli, all of which have been published in relevant magazines. Some short and medium-length stories have had a certain impact in the literary world after being published. Four articles, including "Light Floating in the Heart of the River", "The Smile of the Gods", "Another Skin" and "Windy Day", describe the work, life and emotions of contemporary urbanites. Most of the characters are cultural figures and ordinary civilians. The depiction of their life details, emotional problems and life pursuits provides a profound reminder of the spiritual world of contemporary urbanites.

The Confucian businessman Hu Henan has coveted a piece of land in the island city for a long time. To whom the land is given requires the nod of Mr. Zou, who is an official in Beijing. So he flew to Beijing alone with a whole box of cash, and decided to have a showdown with the "local leopard" Boss Li who was also eyeing this land. As a result, the two of them rushed to treat each other to dinner and give gifts, and even their lovers fought over each other. Just when Hu Henan was making steps and was about to succeed...

Jenny has always lived by her own rules. She likes nature and a free life, and often wanders in the fields with a mysterious white sheep. Until she met a boy who had been guarding the pile of stones on the top of the mountain for thousands of years and didn't know where he would be in the future. Fate intertwined them in an unpredictable way, changing the lives of Jenny and the entire family. What makes the boy protect the stone pile for thousands of years at the expense of his own life? Why does Aries want the boy to leave the pile of rocks? What is buried under the pile of rocks? When human life conflicts with the return of native nature, where should Jenny go? Where is their future...

This is a hidden rule and truth: the first life is just a dress rehearsal, the real adventure begins in the other world, the second life. Tonley Lockwood is an ordinary 17-year-old girl who was sent to the Prinn Asylum because she refused to accept the second life location chosen by her parents for her. In the past 13 months, Fujiri has suffered from the torture and torture of imprisonment. Until workers from the two kingdoms appeared in the second life... With their help, Fujiri escaped from the Pulin asylum. But during the escape process, she was trapped in the crazy pursuit of the two countries. They tried every means to gain control of her soul. In a desperate situation, she faces the multiple confusions of family, love and life. How should she choose the path ahead...

Adapted from real domestic cases, it comprehensively presents the weird life and brain-burning world of mental patients. The plot has ups and downs and the story is full of suspense: a woman from parallel time and space, a mysterious code from time and space, a world full of ghosts, the human body's soul switching program, a wormhole in the brain, a young man looking for the door to hell, and the invisible killer... After reading their stories, we can't help but ask, are they crazy, or is this world not normal at all? Loss of self-awareness, multiple personalities, sudden schizophrenia... Every normal person has a mental illness in his heart!

The story of a man who loses the love of his life and has no hope of ever being understood. In this life, I just want to love someone who is willing to love me. I just want to live freely for a moment. As soon as Rasmus graduated from high school, he left his closed hometown and went to Stockholm to pursue his life. The young and handsome man quickly integrated into the colorful nightlife. Benjamin grew up in a devout religious family. He met Paul through missionary work, but Paul said to him: "Do you know your true self?" This sentence was like a needlepoint piercing Benjamin's heart, and his response was like a confession: "In this life, I just want to love someone who is willing to love me. "That night, at Paul's Christmas party, Benjamin met Rasmus, and the whole city started to snow... Stockholm in the 1980s, an era deliberately forgotten, an undying love, a repeated dialectic of freedom and choice...

This is a healing work by a talented Irish female writer that comforts the whole of Europe. No matter how difficult it is, you must find an outlet for your loneliness and dreams. The husband betrayed, the daughter left, and the mother and daughter were at odds. For librarian Hannah Casey, the library is not a social place or an interactive heritage display institution. The library is the outlet for loneliness and dreams on this island, and it is her paradise. But one day, this paradise will be closed.

"Bereavement culture" is popular, and "Disqualification in the World" has become a phenomenal bestseller! The spiritual monologue of a young man who has "lost his qualifications as a human being", a sad and sad story of despair that has a profound impact on Haruki Murakami. To be disqualified in the human world is to lose the qualifications to be a human being. This is the last work of Osamu Dazai's life and also his most important work. The novel is composed of the author's preface, postscript, and three letters written by the protagonist Oba Yezang. It describes the protagonist's continuous sinking from adolescence to middle age in order to escape reality. He experiences self-exile, alcoholism, suicide, and numbing himself with drugs, and finally moves towards the tragedy of self-destruction step by step. In the process of self-denial, he expresses his inner depression and desire to be loved... Osamu Dazai cleverly depicts his life and thoughts through the life experiences of the protagonist Ye Zang. This novel has always been regarded as his autobiographical work, and it raises the most real painful issues of being a human being. From the stagnant writing, you can understand the deep pain in his heart. After completing this work, Osamu Dazai finally chose to throw himself into the water to draw the final ending for himself.

The novel "Heaven and Earth Share One Spring" is set in the Wuling Mountains during the Anti-Japanese War, revealing the various social contradictions and the living conditions of the people in a minority ethnic area in southwest China during this special period. In the face of a national crisis, the Tujia and Miao compatriots, in order to survive, spontaneously organized armed forces to protect the territory and the people, and various uprising teams came into being.

When the Japanese invaded China in the 1930s, Ye Yu'er, a Manchu princess, came from a royal family and had great love for the country. In order to refuse to study in Japan, she fled with her family's male servant and was captured by the Japanese army. The Japanese army wanted to train her to become a geisha, but she would rather die than obey, which aroused perverted revenge from the Japanese army led by Yoshino. They forced her to be a comfort woman in the city's Octagon Building. Ye Yuer experienced the greatest humiliation in the world and escaped by chance to South Korea. More than sixty years later, in China at the beginning of the 21st century, the Octagonal Building, which once served as a witness to the history of national humiliation, has become a coveted place for real estate developers represented by Ye Yixiong in the city due to its geographical location and "good Feng Shui". Ye's lover Guo Jing is a journalist with a sense of social responsibility and morality. In order to let people never forget the history of national humiliation, she retains Ye Yu'er, who has become a Korean woman Li Manshu, and asks her to testify about the historical identity of the Octagonal Building.

A girl named Huang Rong is sensitive, intelligent, and has a heart that wants to fly. She was born in a small town in the north of Saibei. From childhood to adolescence, the environment was closed and harsh. She saw with her own eyes the unfortunate experiences of many women. The humiliation, tears and deaths of countless women around her gave Huang Rong strong stimulation and formed her psychological latent structure. She believes that despite advocating for equality between men and women, women still live for men. Men determine the appearance of the world and also determine the happiness or misfortune of women.

The author accidentally discovered a photo album in his mother's old suitcase. The old photos in it showed the author the charm of a woman. In this endless charm, the author guessed the history of grandma and mother. It was the story of the brothel and the story of Shanghai Beach. Whether it was the grandma who was a prostitute in the brothel or the mother who was good at singing and dancing in the Shanghai entertainment circle, they all gave the most precious courage and sincerity in the world to the love they were looking for, but what did they get? The old photo albums of grandma and mother gave the author an impulse to write. The author wanted to become a writer and shock the world with a work. The author is searching on the road to becoming a writer, but what he finds is unexpected gains. So the author sighed in his heart: Why can't the once distant and long fantasy come true?

The author of the world's top best-selling book "A Pilgrimage" is a new work with great reputation. The British media said that this book has established Rachel Joyce's status in the literary world. Readers in 30 countries are moved to recommend it! Don't be afraid of losing the courage to live, because it never leaves us for a moment. There are two stories here. 1972, Boy Byron. At the age of eleven, attending Winston Private School for Boys, his future was already planned, speaking with the right accent, learning the right knowledge, and interacting with the best people. Afterwards, entering Oxford or Cambridge; the beautiful but lonely mother Diana does what an ordinary housewife should do, but has a different self. Byron loved his mother so much, she was the only beauty he wanted to protect. A misunderstanding of time changed the trajectory of life. A tear-jerking story. Across two time and space, kind, anxious, imperfect but truly charming souls strive to make up for the damage in love, and will eventually gain strength and walk from darkness to light like a hero, thus reminding us: Don't be afraid of losing the courage to live, because it has never left us for a moment.

"Petro Goriot" is the foundation work of Balzac's masterpiece "The Comedy Humane". Paris, 1819, the Napoleonic era has just ended. Behind the prosperity of the upper class, ladies are worried about lovers and debts, nobles are weighing wealth and love, and wealthy businessmen are planning speculation and business. In a low-income apartment in the lower society, various characters are inextricably linked to the upper class: the upstart old man Goriot was drained by his two daughters and died in a shabby corner; the mainland young man Rastignac was determined to rise to prominence and urgently needed to learn many rules of the upper class; the gang leader Vautrin was dormant in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to declare war on the secular society... The human relationships and world affairs of the society during the transition period were played out in turns in this human comedy.

Lao She's masterpiece "Four Generations Under One Roof" spanned five years of creation and is divided into three parts: "Confusion", "Stealing Life" and "Famine". It is one of the representative works in Lao She's creative career. It reflects the ups and downs of several families and reflects the roots and soul of China. "Four Generations Under One Roof" is Mr. Lao She's most profound and moving work. Every Chinese who is unwilling to succumb to fate will see himself in this work and awaken the sleeping hero in his heart.

In England in the sixth century AD, the war between the native Britons and the Saxon invaders seemed to have come to an end - peace had come to this land, and the two groups lived side by side and lived together peacefully for decades. But at the same time, a strange "fog of forgetfulness" fills the valleys of England, swallowing up the memories of the villagers and making their lives seem like a meaningless daydream. An elderly British couple wanted to find their son who was still vaguely in their minds before their memory was completely lost, so they hurriedly embarked on an arduous journey. They are eager to let the fog dissipate, eager to regain the loving memories of their lifelong companionship - but this quiet fog conceals a dark and bloody past, that is, a giant who was buried decades ago by King Arthur of the British people in a way that goes against ideals. A mysterious Saxon warrior comes to this seemingly peaceful valley with a mission. What secret motives are hidden behind his humble appearance? Will his mission bring to this country an olive branch of forgiveness or a sword and fire of revenge? Gawain, King Arthur's last knight, is determined to protect the king's legacy with his life, because protecting it means protecting the final peace. Memory and forgiveness, revenge and peace, the fate of the four people are inevitably intertwined, and there is only one ending.

"No Consolation (Work by 2017 Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro)" is the fourth work of "Kazuo Ishiguro's Work Series". It adheres to Kazuo Ishiguro's consistent style, with a light appearance and a strong heart. The novel describes the mysterious days a pianist experienced in a mysterious city. Sometimes he is a bystander, and sometimes he is involved. The people he sees are all passionate but obsessed with it; the things he encounters are all weird, absurd, and full of variables. In this city where people's hearts are dominated by bizarre artistic values, while trying to find the exit from his dream and seeking an explanation for all this, he gradually realizes that he is facing the most severe performance in his life.

"The Painter of the Floating World (work by 2017 Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro)" also uses the protagonist's meeting as the keynote, and vividly displays the protagonist's memories and thoughts with extraordinary novel skills. The writing style is implicit, euphemistic, and thought-provoking. The protagonist was once a prominent ukiyo-e painter. After Japan's defeat in World War II, he suddenly woke up from a big dream: it turned out that the entire Japanese nation had dedicated itself to an absurd and illusory ideal in the past, and his artistic ideal was as baseless and illusory as its name.

This is a memory full of mist, both real and illusory. After the war in Nagasaki, a mother and daughter who suffered a lot longed for stability and rebirth, but they could never escape the shadow of the war and their inner demons. At the end of the play, the remembrancer peels off his disguise, and the story is full of tragedy. "Shadow of a Distant Mountain (Series of Works by Kazuo Ishiguro)" is Kazuo Ishiguro's debut work that shocked the literary world. It is a masterpiece that is still being reprinted 30 years after its publication. The fusion and balance of "sentimentality and irony" are still memorable.