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This book specially selects three small masterpieces from the early, middle and late stages of Gide's creative career: "Palude", "Pastoral Symphony" and "Theseus", in order to provide readers with a unique perspective, to experience the unique charm of this most complex and changeable master in literature, aesthetics and philosophy.

General Macbeth, cousin of King Duncan of Scotland, returned from serving the king in countering rebellion and resisting invasion. He met three witches on the way. The witch told him some prophecies and cryptic words, saying that he would be crowned king, but he had no heirs to inherit the throne. Instead, the descendants of his colleague General Banquo would be the king. Macbeth is an ambitious hero who murders Duncan at the instigation of his lady and becomes king. In order to cover up others' eyes and prevent others from seizing the throne, he gradually killed Duncan's guards, Banquo, and the wife and children of the noble Macduff. Fear and suspicion make Macbeth more and more evil and cruel. Lady Macbeth went insane and committed suicide, which was also a great stimulus to him. With all the rebels and relatives separated, Macbeth faced the siege of Duncan's son and the English reinforcements he invited, and ended up with his head cut off. As soon as Macbeth appeared on the scene, he had different ambitions, killed the king and usurped the throne. In order to consolidate the throne, he also brutally massacred the people, making the country a river of blood, putting the society in chaos, and trapping the people in fire and water. It can be said that he is the same tyrant as Richard III. Such a tyrant deserves his suffering and death.

This book is the most familiar love classic among Shakespeare's plays. In this play, Shakespeare highlights the sharp conflict between humanistic ideals of love and feudal concepts and feudal forces. He linked the fate of young people to the safety of the entire city where they lived. The bloody vendetta between feudal families not only caused the love tragedy of young people, but also brought disaster to the city. In the script, themes common in historical dramas condemning feudal disputes and themes common in comedies praising ideal love and friendship appear comprehensively. This is a tragedy, but the whole play is full of rich lyrical color and contains a lot of comedy elements. In the end, the young people's sacrifice brought about reconciliation between the two families and peace in the city. The parents also decided to build a golden statue for them.

Sonnets were introduced to England in the early 16th century. With the spread of Renaissance thought in Europe, they soon became one of the most popular poetry styles at that time. A large number of sonnet poets emerged in the Elizabethan era. Sidney's "The Star Lover and the Star", Spencer's "Little Cupid" and Shakespeare's "Sonnets" are known as "the three most popular sonnets in the British literary world during the Renaissance".

In the mid-1920s, David, a young American writer, and his wife Catherine went from Paris to the Mediterranean seaside of southern France for a honeymoon. They indulged in a romantic love life. David wanted to continue writing, but his wife only wanted to have fun in time. She went to a hairstylist to cut her hair short. After getting acquainted with a foreign girl, Marita, she even encouraged her husband to fall in love with her. The three of them got involved in a dangerous sex game. But the "good times" didn't last long. Because Marita supported David's writing, Catherine became jealous and resentful. She burned his manuscript and left a letter to leave. Under Marita's care, David's literary thoughts surged, and he rewrote one of his favorite short stories word for word, and returned to the "Garden of Eden". This is Hemingway's posthumous work published after his suicide in 1961. Although it was written in his later years when his body was declining, the whole book is full of vitality and love. It is a rare youth novel.

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"White Night" is one of the representative works of the writer's literary creation in the 1940s. It is a novella with a strong lyrical flavor. The novel describes the innocent girl Nastenka falling in love with a young tenant. The two agreed to meet on a bridge in Petersburg a year later, but the tenant did not show up. Although the girl was a little disappointed, her confidence remained. The protagonist "Dreamer", a poor intellectual from Petersburg, was deeply moved by the girl's affection, so he comforted her and waited with her by the river for four consecutive nights. At last the tenants appeared, and the "Dreamer" suppressed his newly rising love for Nasthenka and blessed them.

A large number of unknown objects fell on the outskirts of London, and citizens went to watch. Unexpectedly, a large number of aliens emerged from the unknown objects. They have technological levels that far exceed those of human society, and human heavy weapons can completely compete with them. Aliens used lasers, biochemical weapons, and giant armored tanks to carry out unprecedented massacres against humans. Human nature has also been challenged as never before in the battle. Just when all mankind was at a loss and the whole world was in a huge panic, aliens suddenly began to die mysteriously. It turned out that the aliens were unable to resist the bacteria and viruses on the earth. Can humans who narrowly escape death continue to survive better?

"The Collection of the Prodigal Son Returns Home" has six texts in total: Narith's Explanation, Love Experiment, El-Aqian, Philocdande, Bai Shapei, and The Prodigal Son's Return. It is like a prose poem, a novel, and a drama, but the author collectively calls it a "monograph" (Traités). The translator, Mr. Bian Zhilin, feels that the translation as "explanation" is not satisfactory. The materials of the six texts are all taken from myths, legends or fables in Greece and the Bible, and the symbols are interpreted with symbols. There are books in books and paintings within paintings, layered and full of meanings. They fully reflect the unique aesthetic, artistic, religious and moral views of Gide, the most complex literary master of the 20th century. Each of the six texts has its own emphasis but complements each other. It can be regarded as Gide's most artistic spiritual autobiography.

Refusing to compromise, refusing to be mediocre, fiery love ignites the crazy soul, destruction or redemption? The original novel of the French film "Wild Rose of Paris"; an alternative interpretation of the "Beat Generation" in France!

In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, Nick, a poor clerk, breaks into the secret world of Gatsby, a lavish spender. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the other side of the river. In the bright shadow of the light, lives Daisy, who has always dreamed of him. 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 is like fireworks. The brilliance is only for a moment, and the disillusionment is eternal.

Nick Adams is one of the male protagonists in many of Hemingway's short stories. This unforgettable character grew from a child to an adolescent, a soldier, a demobilized soldier, a writer and a father - a process that paralleled the events in Hemingway's own life and clearly emerged as the first of a long series of incarnations of himself in Hemingway's works. All the male protagonists who appeared in Hemingway's novels later had Nick's history. This book contains a total of 24 articles, which is the first time that they have been collected and published in a single volume.

"The Black Sailor of the Narcissus" is one of the masterpieces of Conrad's famous "sea novels". Whit, the new black sailor, fell ill in bed as soon as he boarded the ship. He made no contribution to the entire voyage, but showed "irritability and cowardice" everywhere. In the end, Whit died on the ship. The sailors held a water burial for him. As soon as Whit's body fell into the sea, a strange wind blew on the sea. After that, everything was normal. The "Narcissus" arrived in England, and the sailors scattered after landing. This unique image of Whit has aroused great interest among critics. Commenting on "Narcissus" became an explanation of Whit's meaning. As a result, there were as many Whits as Conrad critics. In fact, Whitt is just the focus of the shadows cast by thousands of concrete social phenomena on land to the sea. Conrad "objectified" universal human suffering into Whit, thereby creating a unique character.

F. S. Fitzgerald, the author of "Tender Is the Night", is a famous American screenwriter and the most important representative of the "Jazz Age". Each of his successful works is the crystallization of the poet's sensitivity and the dramatist's imagination, and is the product of the perfection of his artistic talent. "Tender Is the Night" is Fitzgerald's most painstaking autobiographical novel. It is one of the 100 greatest English works of the 20th century selected by Modern Library.

André Gide (1869-1951) was one of the most important French writers of the 20th century and one of the most important figures in the history of French and even modern Western literature and thought. He won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "extensive and artistically profound works that express human problems and situations with a fearless love for truth and keen psychological insights." "The Counterfeiter" occupies a very special position in Gide's oeuvre: it is Gide's last and only novel, and is the product of his most mature period of thought and art. Gide admitted in his diary that he spent his entire life accumulating his efforts to write this work. It was the most important mission of his life. After writing it, he would die without regrets. Therefore, it can be said that it represents the highest and most comprehensive achievement of Gide as a thinker and artist. The works are profound and delicate in thought, clear and exquisite in writing, broad in vision and rich in content. It is not only a coming-of-age novel, an ethical novel, but also a psychological novel, and even a "meta-novel" that shows how to refine life and create art. It has a milestone significance in the history of literature.

Dude is full of affectionate and nostalgic tenderness, and uses simple brushstrokes and clear tones to depict beautiful and moving scenes of Provence: the quiet mountains and forests under the scorching sun in the south, the fields covered with grapes and olives, the charming starry sky on the Luberon Mountains, the wind mills all over the hills, the fireworks on the wheat field during the festival, the women's bodies The golden cross and lace dress, the crisp sound of mule bells on the road, and Daudet's famous mill that looks like a big butterfly resting on a green hill... All these pictures with a strong southern color are in the local scenery gallery of French literature, and they will always have artistic vitality with their elegant style and profound charm.

"Timon of Athens" is Shakespeare's last tragedy, written around 1607-1608. Timon, a wealthy aristocrat in Athens, was generous and charitable, and gathered some flattering "friends" around him. No matter the poor or the nobles, they were willing to become his entourage and diners in order to defraud him of his money. Taimen soon ran out of money and was heavily in debt. Those "friends" who had benefited from him immediately severed ties with him, and his creditors ruthlessly forced him to repay his debts. Timon became a cynic after discovering the ingratitude and greed of his fellow citizens. He announced another party, inviting past regulars and celebrities. These people mistakenly thought that Timon was pretending to be poor to test their loyalty, so they flocked to him and confessed their feelings to Timon falsely. Timon opened the lid, poured hot water from the dish on the faces and bodies of his guests, and scolded them. From then on, Timon left the city that he could no longer bear, hid in a desolate cave, ate tree roots to satisfy his hunger, and lived like a beast. One day he discovered a pile of gold while digging for tree roots. He distributed the gold to poor people, prostitutes, and thieves who were passing by. In his opinion, false "friends" are worse than thieves. He viciously curses humans and gold, and finally dies alone in despair.

"The Waves" is Woolf's work at the peak of her creative power and was published in 1931. This highly poetic, abstract and stylized experimental work does not have a story in the strict sense, but is more like a musical work composed of nine movements: each introduction is an exquisite prose poem, using the ebb and flow of the sun and waves to correspond to the ups and downs of life; following each introduction are the momentary inner monologues of six highly formalized characters without surnames in their respective life stages - from childhood, studenthood, youth, middle age to old age. The introduction and the main text map each other, opening up unprecedented and nuanced channels for the readers' senses, and getting closer to the essence of life, time, consciousness and feeling to the maximum extent. This is a work that occupies an important position in modern literature and palaces. To this day, it still stirs our souls with its exquisite text structure and poetic style.

Created during Shakespeare's most mature period of comedy writing, the content is lively, joyful, and philosophical. Compared to Shakespeare's other comedies. The characteristic of this play is that the scenes and language are closer to real life. Claudio fell in love with Hero, but was afraid of being rejected. As a result, his friend Don Pietro came to help and arranged a unique masquerade ball to bring them together. Just when everyone thought that everything would have a happy ending, Don John interfered and made Claudio mistakenly think that Hero had another love. The deeper the love, the deeper the hatred, Claudio vowed revenge, and thus, the love ordeal of a pair of mandarin ducks began...

"The Age of Innocence" is the representative work of the famous American writer Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The main plot of the book takes place in the upper class society of New York in the late 1870s and early 1880s. That was where Wharton spent her childhood and youth, where she grew up, entered society, became engaged and disengaged, and finally married Edward Wharton of Boston, where she spent her first years of marriage. Forty years later, as a novelist, she looks back at the society that raised her and restrained her. Her feelings are complex, with both cordial attachment and sober criticism. The writer compared the upper class society in New York at that time to a small pyramid. It was sharp and slippery, making it difficult to gain a foothold on it. At the top of the tower, there are only two or three families with real aristocratic blood: the Dagonet family in Washington Square is an authentic county family; Mr. Van der Luyden is the direct grandson of the first Dutch governor, and his family has married several nobles in France and England; and the Laning family, who has married the Count de Grasse. They are the highest class of the upper class, but they are obviously in a declining stage.

Proust is one of the greatest literary masters of the twentieth century. "In Search of Lost Time" is a voluminous volume and is one of the most famous and difficult works in the entire history of literature. The whole book takes the narrator "I" as the main body and integrates what he sees, hears, thinks and feels. It is not only a true description of social life and human relations, but also a record of the author's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. It can be said to be a novel tree with many branches derived from the trunk of a novel, or it can be said to be a giant symphony intertwined with several themes. "Swann's Love" is the only independent novella in "Reminiscence of Lost Time". The French call it "narration" or "narrative", and musicians call it "solo" or "solo". It is like the Wagner overture favored by Proust. In short, it can be published or performed alone. "Swann's Love" is originally a chapter of the first volume "At Swann's House", but it is the only one narrated in the third person in the entire masterpiece, and "I" (Marcel) is responsible for everything else. In 1913, Proust pointed out in a letter: "At Swann's House", especially the chapter "Swann's Love", is full of foreshadowing. It can be said to be a kind of "preface" and a condensation of the entire book "Reminiscence of Lost Time".

"Richard III" is a work by the British playwright William Shakespeare. It describes the short reign of Richard III. The play is believed to have been written around 1591. The play is sometimes classified as a tragedy (in the early quartos), but a more accurate classification would be a historical drama, as in the First Folio. The work begins with "Henry VI Part 3" and ends the series of historical dramas that began with "Richard II". This work is Shakespeare's second longest play, after "Hamlet". Since the version of "Hamlet" included in the "First Folio" is shorter than the previous quarto, "Richard III" is the longest play among them. The length of the script is often considered a drawback, as it is rarely performed in its entirety and unimportant characters are often omitted.

In 1903, the famous French writer Romain Rolland was deeply aware of the dullness and decline of European culture at that time. In order to let the world "breathe the breath of heroes", he began to use words to compose a majestic symphony of life: "The Life of Beethoven", "The Life of Michelangelo" and "The Life of Tolstoy" - these are the three works included in this book. Three geniuses who created the greatest art masters fought endlessly on the journey of life's troubles and difficulties.

In the classic love story "Love Story", Oliver, a wealthy man, bumps into his "unruly girlfriend" Jenny. The two fall in love at first sight, and their quarrels continue but the love grows deeper and deeper. However, this deep love falls into infinite desolation when Jenny's soul returns to heaven... The novel composes a love song as pure as autumn water, like a fresh grass, touching the softest place in the heart and plucking the deepest heartstrings, which is unforgettable. As soon as the book was published, it was immediately read by millions of Americans. Even the then US President Richard Nixon was moved to recommend it to people across the country. The book has been at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for 41 weeks. The hardcover version was reprinted 21 times within a year. It is published in 30 languages ​​around the world, with cumulative sales of more than 30 million copies. It was named one of the "Top 10 American Love Classics of the 20th Century" by Time Magazine. The film adaptation of the same name won the American Global Award and the Oscar Award, and has become a household classic.

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Mark Twain is a famous satirical humorist. The Diary of Adam and Eve, which is different in style from his works, is a model work that was created with his emotions, dreams and more than ten years in mind. The author starts from the subtleties of emotion and profoundly describes the process of Adam and Eve's relationship from the "germination" to the development of "love" and to Eve's death. The whole article is filled with exploration of life forms in nature and doubts, attachments and even misunderstandings between the sexes. The work is narrated in the form of a diary, in which detailed scenery, complex psychology, concise events and graceful and song-like care blend with each other, leaving people with incomparable artistic enjoyment.

The American TV series of the same name will be launched on May 16, 2022. A brand-new emotional novel; taking the ambiguity between men and women to the extreme, "Salinger in the age of social media", a surprise work that swept across social platforms! Young writers Zhang Yueran and Zhou Jianing, and young translator Chen Yikan are highly recommended. Frances, an Irish female college student, writes poetry and loves literature and art. In the summer when she was 21 years old, she and her girlfriend Bobby met the famous female writer Melissa and her actor husband Nick. In bookstores, gardens, cafes, and apartment buildings, Frances chatted with her new and old friends, making witty remarks, and the relationships between people were either getting closer or farther away. Unknowingly, Frances and Nick began an extramarital affair that they knew would never come to fruition. Life gradually gets out of control and values ​​return to zero. Frances ushered in a second growth in love and pain. She re-examined her own fragility and prejudices, tortured and learned the answers to a series of questions about friendship, love, marriage, money, religion, disease, etc. To understand the world and oneself, one must first experience life. Frances found that she could not always be an armchair person... "Chat Log" is a story told by a young poet. The language of the novel is clear and straightforward, but it deals with a series of moral dilemmas faced by individuals in modern society. Frances, or the author Sally Rooney, is like a little philosopher, bravely facing the confusion in life and sincerely thinking about the relationship between man and the world.

"Tokyo Tales" consists of five short stories: "The Accidental Traveler", "Hanalei Bay", "Wherever You May Be Found", "The Kidney-Shaped Stone Moving Every Day" and "Shinagawa Monkey". The famous Japanese director Daiji Matsunaga's new film "Hanalei Bay" is based on the original novel. Haruki Murakami personally serves as the screenwriter, as well as the producer of "Norwegian Wood", the photographer of "Shoplifters", and the soundtrack of "Mountains and Rivers", creating a beautiful and moving image poem. The full text was published in The New Yorker and won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. As always, Haruki Murakami is still quietly tearing down the fences between reality and unreality, or the world here and the world beyond. He is still hovering over the realm of the subconscious like an eagle, looking for a deeper and darker bottom. He is still trying to strip soul information and human subtleties from the ordinary worldly life.

"As You Like It" is one of the "Four Comedies" created by Shakespeare. The story mainly takes place in the forest of Arden, far away from the world. Created approximately between 1598-1600. "As You Like It" is based on the pastoral legend "Rosaline" written in the prose style of the 16th-century British writer Thomas Roach. This kind of paradise-style pastoral literature that sings about the pure and infinite love of shepherds is a long-standing artistic tradition in Europe. After the interruption of the pastoral legend in the Middle Ages, it flourished again in the Renaissance era.

"The Tempest" is William Shakespeare's last complete masterpiece. The play celebrates pure love, friendship and good relationships between people.

"The Merry Wives of Windsor" is a comic opera in three acts, also translated as "The Happy Wife". It was written by Mosenthal and composed by Otto Nikolai. It was first performed at the Berlin Palace Opera on March 9, 1849, and was conducted by the composer himself. It was a great success. However, after only conducting three times, he died of a sudden illness on May 11 at the age of 39. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on March 9, 1900. Nicholas wrote in a letter to his father: "My new opera has already created countless joys in the composition." In fact, he has poured all the experience he gained into "The Merry Wives of Windsor".

"The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's important early work and a highly satirical comedy. It was made around 1596-1597. The theme of the script is to praise benevolence, friendship and love. It also reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law and religion in bourgeois society. An important literary achievement of this play is to create the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking, ruthless loan shark.

"Twelfth Night" is the end of Shakespeare's early comedy creation. With a lyrical style and romantic comedy form, this work once again eulogizes the beautiful humanistic ideals of love and friendship, and expresses the beauty of life and love.

Hamlet is the longest of all Shakespeare's plays. This play is the most frequently performed play by the Royal Shakespeare Company, formerly known as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. One of the world's famous tragedies, it is also Shakespeare's most famous play. It has profound tragic significance, complex characters and rich and perfect tragic artistic techniques. It represents the highest achievement of the entire Western Renaissance literature. Together with "Macbeth", "King Lear" and "Othello", it forms Shakespeare's "four major tragedies".

"Antony and Cleopatra" is a Roman tragedy written by Shakespeare around 1607. It is derived from "Lives of the Greeks and Romans" written by the ancient Roman historian Plutarch.

"The Taming of the Shrew" is Shakespeare's early comedy work with a funny and interesting plot. It tells the story of a smart man who used ingenious strategies to successfully transform a grumpy rich girl into a gentle and virtuous wife. In the story, the characters' distinctive personalities and vivid dialogues are impressive.

"The Winter's Tale" is a work by the English playwright William Shakespeare. It was first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was classified as a comedy when it was first released, some modern editors classify it as a "legend drama". Because its first three acts are full of intense psychological description, while the last two acts are comedy and have a happy ending, some critics, including W. W. Lawrence, consider it one of Shakespeare's "problem plays." Despite this, the work was often very popular and was frequently adapted into different forms and versions by some of the pioneering theatrical experimenters throughout the history of Shakespeare's performance.

One of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. Othello is a general employed by the city-state of Venice. He is of African Moorish origin and has a black complexion. Desdemona is the daughter of a Venetian noble, smart, beautiful and passionate. In order to sympathize with Othello's heroic experience and love his cheerful character, she married him without telling her father. Ago is Othello's old subordinate. This man has a loyal and honest appearance, but in his heart he is completely different. He hates Othello for not promoting him to be the chief chamberlain, he hates a black man for marrying a white woman, and he suspects Othello and his wife are having an affair, but the bigger reason is that he thinks from the bottom of his heart that only destroying the happiness of Othello and Desdemona is his greatest satisfaction. He used Roderigo and Emilia as his tools to fabricate false evidence of Desdemona's infidelity, making Othello jealous out of thin air. Jealousy breeds suspicion, forcing Othello to kill Desdemona for "just" reasons. Of course, the truth is revealed in the end, but the mistake has been made, and Othello has the only way to commit suicide. Argo's tricks and Othello's psychological and emotional changes, as well as other people's reactions, are the highest artistic achievements of the characters depicted by Shakespeare.

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"Henry IV" is the most successful and popular of Shakespeare's historical dramas, and is regarded as the representative work of Shakespeare's historical dramas. The main content of this work is to reflect the process of Henry IV and his princes' desperate struggle against the rebellious princes and nobles. Shakespeare breaks through the network structure of traditional historical dramas in which multiple clues intertwine and develop, and adopts a structure in which two clues develop in parallel - the clue of court life represented by Henry IV and the clue of city life represented by Falstaff. In the play, the relaxed, mediocre, happy city life full of mischief is in sharp contrast with the tense, complicated palace life full of bloody conspiracies, making the content of the work not only exude a strong flavor of life, but also have a certain historical depth.

160,000 years ago, as a demon king, she took on unwarranted crimes for her people and died to apologize. One hundred and sixty thousand years later, all the five realms have changed drastically. All the grudges, loves, hates, and grudges of the past have been unveiled. In my previous life, I dominated the wind and clouds, turning my hands to make clouds and turning my hands to make rain. In this life, I will continue to disturb your peace. If you let everyone shout and beat you, you will be infamy for thousands of years. I am about to become a demon. Not only that, I also want to practice evil heretics. I'm not quite as good as you want.

Luo Xingyun, who could have lived a happy life, everything changed after a big change in the Luo family. She was tortured and died with fear and overwhelming hatred. When she woke up again, she was in another world. She was picked up by the organization and trained as a killing machine, living like a walking zombie. It happened that in this dark underground base, she met a boy who was really good to her, but We agreed to escape together and travel around the world together. Why? Why did you abandon me again? After dying together with the base, she unexpectedly returned to the world she feared and hated in her memory. In this life, she will not sit still and wait for death. She will take back everything that belongs to her! But, what's going on with the large army behind her butt? Someone: Xiaobao is mine, don't try to snatch it from me

Goodbye, the same life! Writers recommended by Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, Mitsuyo Tsunoda, and Iroshi Ishida! The Japanese drama adaptation was nominated for the 94th Japanese Drama Academy Award. Okada Masaki, Kimura Fumino, Sasaki Nozomi, and Kaho are a luxurious combination, and Yuzuki Asako personally writes the screenplay. "Goodbye, Ito-kun" is a finalist for the Naoki Award, Japan's highest literary award! Say goodbye to the same life and you can go further. After seven years, this handsome man named Ito was finally molded into a scum in the true sense, unable to accomplish anything, not even give up. A man who shows off his power, five women with their own charms, and once again a warm and innocent love story. Goodbye, Ito-kun. Goodbye, the same life!

"The Story of World History: From the Birth of Civilization to the Rise of the Roman Empire" includes the first two volumes of the "The Story of World History" series, telling the history of early civilization before BC and the classical era. 01 Royal power descended from the sky (the beginning of civilization - the 7th century BC). Human civilization gradually emerged in the chaos of history. In the Mesopotamia, the earliest countries were formed. Later, the early countries of Assyria, Hittite, Egypt, India, China, Phoenicia, and Greece were born, and the earliest writing, religion, emperors, and cities appeared. Early civilizations experienced several rises and falls. 02 Civilization of the Axial Age (7th century BC - 1st century BC) Ancient civilization has gradually reached its peak after thousands of years of accumulation. The Macedonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Qin Empire, and the Roman Empire reached an unprecedentedly vast territory. The founders of great traditions such as Zoroaster, Confucius, Laozi, Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and Jesus also appeared at this time.

Count Yura Angyun is an isolated man who lives in seclusion in the "Bird City" near Baihua Lake. He is not only an expert on birds, but also a erudite Confucian scholar. The count married four times in the past few decades, and all four brides died mysteriously on the morning after their wedding. There seems to be no murderer, and there seems to be no time to commit the crime. Is it an impossible crime? Is the huge black crane standing in the study the Onmara ghost? The count is about to marry for the fifth time, and this time he is determined to keep his bride no matter what.

On a quiet summer night in Ikebukuro, there is a faint uneasy atmosphere stirring in the air in Nishiguchi Park. After graduating from high school, Mashima Makoto, who worked as a rice insect at home, became Kindaichi in the park because of the Strangler incident. In order to find the Strangler and solve the mystery of the death of his friend Rika, and was entrusted to find the gang princess who was loved by his classmate Monkey, he transformed into various characters and went in and out of black and white to "handle cases". In the end, he gradually solved the puzzles and restored the changed park to its original peace, allowing the red and blue gangs to shake hands and make peace. The process was extremely thrilling and he finally succeeded in outwitness. G boy, red angel, compensated dating girl, autistic boy... All the teenagers who have lost their coordinates in the secular society have imprinted their youthful colors in this park and discovered their own value. Ishida Iroshi truly presents the world of those fringe teenagers in a Japan that is experiencing rapid economic development but is experiencing bubbles - decadence, depravity, promiscuity, drug abuse, and pursuit of extreme excitement. Cyclonus is the least hypocritical group in the criminal field. It is a sensory mystery novel worth savoring!

"Dignity" is the 10th book in the IWGP (Ikebukuro West Exit Park) series, continuing the brisk style of the first nine books. "Spiders in the Database" is about the intimidation incident caused by the lost mobile phone; "The Killing of the Devil Mother" is about the hit-and-run incident that started with the bicycle craze; "Beikou Underground Idol" tells the struggle of street idols; "Dignity - PRIDE" exposes the evil hidden behind the poverty alleviation industry.

"Irregular Resistance" is the eighth book in the "Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park" series by Ishida Iroshi. It includes four stories: "Chikawa's Mother", "Ikebukuro Cleaning Team", "Retired Bulldog" and "Irregular Resistance". "Irregular Resistance Elements" continues Ishida Yiliang's consistent style, with twists and turns of the story and rich urban fashion elements, plus a cool and dark warm writing style, making it highly readable. "The story I want to tell this time is not the story in the United States or Central and South America where monopolies collude with dictators and wantonly exploit workers, but a real story that happens before our eyes. It is a story about transparent people who have been ignored by our society and formed a resistance army." The four stories in "Irregular Resistance" are all wonderful, and they all reveal important social issues. "Chikawa Yusei Mama" is about a single mother standing on the edge of a cliff; "Ikebukuro Cleaning Team" is about a rich man who leads young people in Ikebukuro to collect garbage; "Retired Bulldog" is about a punk girl and a retired policeman who were threatened with nude photos; "Irregular Resistance" is about temporary workers who rise up against giant human resources companies.

Encounters usually happen in the worst possible places. The ninth volume of Ishida Kira's "Ikebukuro West Exit Park" series is now available! Ikebukuro is a gathering place for street stories, where there are warm encounters, ruthless deceptions, and elements of violence. What kind of encounter did Makoto Majima, a fruit shop keeper and street magazine writer, encounter this time? A fraud group uses the dream of becoming a model to defraud girls out of their savings. How can they get the money they defrauded back from them? In the neglected park areas, the number of homeless people wandering has dropped sharply, and there seems to be an invisible hand behind it. A fat clerk who lived to the age of twenty-eight and has never had a relationship. Is the girl he meets in the "dating room" debauched or innocent? A seemingly simple contract affects the fate of hundreds of people and their families. Is it possible for the missing Chinese female trainee that everyone is looking for to control her own destiny? Faced with this series of confusing events, Mashima Makoto, as the troublemaker in Ikebukuro, once again exerted his unique sense of justice and judgment.